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A Tribute to Rouget De Lisle.
London Morning Post.
Rouget de Lisle, the composer of the
"Marx '.liaise." in his old age. forgotten
by friends and often hard pressed by mis
ery. lived in a garret In Chotsy-leßot. His
kindness and generosity soon won him the
love of the inhabitants, and when he died
ev»-y one of them attended the funeral,
inarching ,wo by two. with heads uncov
ered. When the last clod had been placed
on the grave the mayor, national guard
and workmen all joined in singing the
famous patriotic song. It is sixty years
since then, and the good folk of Chotsy
have not forgotten the immortal Singer
of the Revolution. Not content with the
fine monument already raised to his mem
ory. they are to further honor his name
by erecting a tombstone at his last rest
ing place. It consists of a stela three me
tres high, whereon are a bronse medallion
of De Lisle, the words "let repose Rouget
de Lisle, auteur de la 'Marseillaise.' ” a
lyre crossed with a sword, the refrain of
the national hymn, and on the pedestal
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BITS OF KNOWLEDGE.
"Diere are now JOT newspapers in Japan.
Thirty years ago there was only one.
The sun’s flames spring at times to a dis
tance of SSgOOe miles from its surface.
Six thousand tons of obsolete shot and shell
■re being offered for sale by the British war
office.
Four narcissi blooming on one stem is a
•oral freak now to be seen in an allotment
garden at Wisbech.
One most potent engine of civilisation tn
Syria to the American printing office, which
occupies a handsome new building at Beirut,
and to the especial pride of the American
colony. .
Covington Star: Had Mr. Guerry been nomi
nated and an effort made to force a state pro
hibitory law upon the people, the prohibition
people would have taken a great rtok of losing
everything they have gained under local op
tion. because It Is now plainly to be seen that
the bill would have been defeated, and whether
they would have lost the 11? dry counties where
local option to now tn force or not. it would
have arrayed the friends of both plans against
each other In the bitter fight that would have
«nsu« 1. and the temperance cause would have
Jost ground by It any wav.
Gen. Chas. P. Eagan, the Bonanza King
HABLES P. EAGAN, one time
commissary general of the United
States army, has become General
Charles Patrick Eagan, retired.
Mexican coal mine owner and bo-
c
nanta king. It is unlikely that the matter
of beef, embalmed or otherwise. will
further worry him. It is certain that the
loss of the comparatively small salary
which was paid to him for active service
before his enforced retirement no longer
seemes important to him.
Financially. General Eagan has arrived,
and the story of how it happened to him
Is like a set of chapters from a book of
romance and adventure.
General Eagan's army record, so far as
fighting goes, was a good one. On the
field he was never known to shirk dan
ger or avoid work. In several engage
ments in the civil war he showed himself
to be an honorable and brave soldier, and
he did some very creditable work with
the Indians in the west in the interval
that elapsed between the civil war and
the Spanish-American struggle. But not
withstanding that he left Washington a
disheartened and disgruntled man. The
effect of the beef scandals upon his club
life there—and he was very fond of club
life and the niceties of social
distressing.
He started out to find new fields for his
energies and a new place for his home.
He Is not an old man, and he Is and al
ways has been a hard worker. For years
he had contemplated a trip to Mexico,
and he decided that this was the best
time of all to take it. He was not a
wealthy man then and the reduced pay
which came with his retirement was a
new distress.
It was something over a year ago that
General Eagan went through Arizona and
down into the territory of our southern
neighbor. He traveled rather extensively
and made the journey from Tucson. Aris.,
to Guaymas. a port upon the Gulf of Cali
fornia. He learned that not far from the
railway lines wore coal deposits which
were believed to be most valuable.
Mexico Is not a progressive country and
her natural resources have not been ex
tensively developed. This is especially
true of her mineral wealth, but for some
reason General Eagan waa vastly inter
ested In this coal bed. He looked It over.
It was located not far from the coast
of the Gulf of California and not much
more than three hundred miles from the
boundary line of New Mexico. He pon
dered deeply on the matter and finally he
came back to the statea and told some
friends about it. These friends were mil
lionaires and they had much confidence
In Eagan’s judgment. He Is a man who
throughout life has made strong enemies
and stronger friends.
The men he saw and told about the coal
fields were Alvirsa Hayward and Charles
D. Lane, both of San Francisco. As soon
as they heard what he had found about
the coal fields they decided to investigate
the matter and to help him In the enter
prise if things turned out to be as rosy
as he thought they were.
Science Showed a “Rich Strike.” .
Shortly after his return to the states a
number of experts were sent to Mexico
to investigate his find. They looked the
ground over with scientific eyes; they
probed it with scientific rods; they weigh
ed and studied it with scientific instru
ments and they made up their minds that
General Eagan, late of the United States
army, had stumbled upon a great bonan
za. The experts said that there was as
much coal there as In the state of Penn
sylvania; that it could be much more eas
ily mined than most coal can; that trans
portation facilities could be provided with
out too great expense, and that, taking
everything together, General Eagan had
certainly “struck it rich.”
General Eagan’s capitalistic friends told
him to go back to Mexico and do those
things which it was necessary for him to
do In order to control that coal, with a
feeling of absolute certainty that he would
be financially backed to any extent that
the enterprise demanded.
At about the same time that General
Eagan had this assurance and started
back, William C. Greene, a one time Ari
zona prospector, and now the operator
of the copper field* at Canans, also heard
about those coal fields down in Mexico,
and started to get the right to work them.
Mr. Greene is a man of great determina
tion, and the fact that he Is known as
the “Copper King of Arizona" shows that
he is*also probably a man of enterprise
and fertile resource. In speculation be is
said to be one of the cleverest men that
ever turnea a deal In mining stocks, ana
he has a good reputation as a fighter.
The fields were located in Conors, and
General Eagan, on his return, and Mr.
Greene reached there at about the same
time. Here was trouble brewing. Each
claimed priority of discovery and with
every passing day the apparent richness
of the fields increased, so that each was
most eager to sustain his claim.
General Eagan claimed right to the
lands under a purchase from the county
of Sonora. The price which he had paid
was S4O 000. Greene based a claim upon
the fact that he had bought the Interests
of Carlo* Johnson, the actual owner of
the land. Johnson waa the original own
er of the soil under the Spanish grant.
War for Possession Begun.
Eagan rushed machinery down by car
loads. So did Greene. In all, the holding
includes something like 2,600,000 acres—a
vast domain. General Eagan's ownership
of this would make him one of the great
est landed proprietors in the world. The
territory which both men claimed so ea
gerly embraces practically all the good
coal land In the section, and so compro
mise and division was quite Impossible.
Greene and hts machinery got there first.
When the ex-commlesary general arrived
with his, he found the land pre-empted
and operations under way. This was dis
concerting. General Eagan carried the
matter to the courts. The courts In the
vicinity at once declared that Greene was
a trespasser and ordered him off the land.
Then Eagan took possession.
By this time Greene had had some op
portunity for lawyer's work, and just as
Eagan was about to begin operations he
was served with a notice to vacate and
charged with being a trespasser. Greene
had gone to another court
Both sides then had machinery on the
ground and had engaged laborers. The
fight in the courts was in dead earnest,
for both had spent large sums of money
and were feeling more and more certain
every day of the value of the land. Greene
had spent $40,000 and had commenced to
survey for a railroad to run from Naco,
Artz., to La Cannes, and thence to San
Marcial, where the land Is situated. He
had also surveyed another line running
to the Pacific coast, a distance of 300
miles.
General Eagan then went to Guaymas
and secured the backing of the local
judge, the prefect of the district and the
president of the town. Matters at once
became serious for Greene. Two of his
experts and all their employes were taken
to court. General Eagan began to show
his military training and his Irish blood.
He armed his laborers, engaged a number
of other Mexicans to patrol the property
with rifles and took possession, beginning
work again at once and very energetically.
Shed Blood for the Mines.
This by no means discouraged the oth
er party, and at this point things as
sumed a phase which was serious In oth
er matters than financial. At some dis
tance Greene gathered a crowd of cow
boys and armed them. All night they
rode desperately, reaching the scene of
Eagan's operations at about dawn. There
was a fierce contest for the land, with
some bloodshed, but Greene's men tri
umphed and drove Eagan's men away, in
the meantime securing an order against
Eagan as a trespasser.
But Egan's experience In government
matters stood him in good stead. He
went to the City of Mexico and declared
that the peace and good government of
the province was disturbed and that riots
were »•» ——ress. He called for the aid
THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. ATLANTA, GEORGIA, MONDAY, JtINE 16. 1902.
of the federal government and demanded
the assistance of the rurales.
The rurales are as picturesque as any
body of mounted police In the world. In
deed, they are better called soldiers than
po-.ce. They are heavily armed and mag
nificently mounted. They are trained in
the maneuvres of bushwacking, and carry
carbines, revolvers and sabres. They de
scended on Greene and his cowboys and
a battle ensued, in which there is be
lieved to have been considerable loss of
life. How many were actually kßled Is
not known.
Still Greene was not discouraged, or,
at least, would not give in. His cowboys
drew away, but did not entirely, leave,
and for a month there were occasional
skirmishes between them and the rurales.
Not long after this, Eagan and his men
were again ousted from the property. At
about toe same time Eagan was assaulted
b> Mexican bandits, but not seriously In
jured. His side announced that the ban
dits were backed by Greene's men; but
this has not been proved. So bitter did
the controversy become at about this
time that Eagan was challenged to fight a
duel by Colonel W. P. Horlow. of Nogalez.
who Is one of Greene's attorneys. The
duel has not yet been fought, but It may
be before the bitterness engendered by
the trouble dies out.
Two of the Greene experts. Johnson and
Fenner, have been arrested and locked
up. They were captured by the rurales
at a time when they were separated fronj
their friends, or the attempt to arrest
them would probably have meant another
fight. This arrest was a surprise and a
blow to Greene and his contingent, and
after that they waited, without furtner
hostilities, for the action of the court,
which has just been rendered, leaving
General Eagan In possession of a property
rich enough to put him forever beyond the
necessity of bothering with embalmed
beef.
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NOT KILLED BY LIGHTNING.
NENT the recent disturbances of
Mont Pelee. In the Isle of Mar
tinique. much conjecture • has
been raised by the report of the
press associations that 1,708 peo-
A
pie met their death by lightning In Fort
de France and other adjoining towns to
the ill-fated St. Pierre. In nearly every
volcano eruption which has ever been
observed vivid flashes of lightning have
been noticed, coming rapidly and appear
ing to drop from the clouds hanging over
the crater of the flaming mountain.
Many laymen have advanced reasons
for this, but none have been satisfactory.
Mr. J. B. Marbury, local forecast offi
cer of the weather bureau here, has made
the following explanation to a Journal re
porter:
"In the outset, I wish you would state
that the Atlanta weather bureau entirely
discredits the press dispatches that 1,700
people met death by lightning. Os course,
the lightning flashes were observed, as
always are, but I cannot credit the state
ment that 1,700 persons were killed.
"The cause of the lightning flashes ob
served at volcanoes is easily explained.
In the tropics there are always a large
number of thunderstorms accompanied
by lightning. The sun's rays are more
direct and last longer, and the air is
consequently much hotter. As is well
known, hot air rises and the rapid rise of
the hot air and the inrush of other air to
take Its place produces the well known
tropical thunderstorms and tornadoes.
"When Mont Pelee began its eruption
the air was greatly heated. Then when
the heated lava and gases began rising
from the mouth of the volcano the heated
air began rising even faster than It ever
did in the hotteet summer day. This con
tinued for a short time, and then the
clouds began to gather. The air
was made still hotter by the awful flow
of gases and lava from the burning moun
tain, and the moist air In the vicinity
was drawn into the vacuum caused by the
heated air rising so rapidly. In this way
thunder clouds were drawn into the vor
tex, and the thunderstorm, greater than
is ever seen save in the case of a vol
cano like this, began. The lightning
which always accompanies a thunder
storm began to make itself seen, and
the great storm caused the lightning to
increase in rapidity until forked flames
of Are seemed to literally fling them
selves upon each other, so fast did they
come.
"The volcano had absolutely nothing
to do with the lightning. The great thun
der clouds drawn into the vorter came
in contact with each other. Some were
charged with positive and some with
negative electricity, and the lightning
was the result. As fast as one cloud
was bereft of Its electricity it rose still
higher and others were drawn in to take
its place. I do not believe, however,
that anything like 1,700 people were kill
ed by the flashes."
On “Loving a Lord.”
London Spectator.
Looking at the question as a whole,
we can see only one answer, and that is
that the majority of Englishmen—or, at
all events, enough to make a proverb
sufficiently true to be generally accepted
—do undoubtedly "love,” that is, instinc
tively, a title. If you try to see why that
is, you must go back to the days when
men got their names from what they
could do; when, that is, a man was judged
by and respected for his capacity for in
flicting trenchant " wounds—when men
were called Miller, or Taylor, or Hogg, or
Pigg because they were renowned for
milling (1. e.. fighting), or cutting with the
sword, or hacking, or piking. After a
while, the men who couldn’t fight best
got further distinctions, the capacity for
knocking down other men, in early stages
of the history of a community, being, as it
were, the yardstick by which each man
was measured. Later, the necessities of
the community enlarged, and men were
able to gain distinction, and were ennobled
for other services and capabilities than
those of fighting, the names which were
given them being the outward and per
petual signs of their achievements.
Today, however, a great deal of that has
changed. When titles were first being
given there were not very many of them
altogether, and the distinction they car
ried was proportionately greater. Today
they are large in number. Indeed, and the
meaning of many of them has been quite
obscured. Still, the habit of respecting
the possessor of a “name” has become so
ingrained in succeeding generations that
an Instinctive homage is paid by the aver
age man to the holder of a title. It is an
unreasoning homage, perhaps, but it is
Instinctive, and the proberh that an "Eng
lishman dearly loves a lord” would be
just as true If Instead of the word "lord,”
meaning lord of men, whether titled or
not, there were substituted the word
"title," which need not necessarily con
note superiority In any attainment what
soever. It would be true of Engllsmmen,
but also of all nations in which has been
established the principle of conferring
hereditary distinctions.
Woman in Aphorism.
A red headed woman may have the sweetest
temper in the world, but it 1s not always wise
to rub her fur hte wrong way to see If she
has
Women would love each other devotedly If
there were no men on earth.
Women with pretty feet hate overshoes and
love wet weather.
Eve hadn’t been in the Garden of Eden fif
teen minutes until she had discovered that the
smooth surface of a pool was a mirror.
The women capable of the great sacrifices
are not the women who are suffering in mind
because women haven’t equal rights with men.
A good women is heaven’s best gift to man.
as a bad woman is the worst.
Bet your money on the pretty women In a
short race, but the one that isn’t \so pretty
will win in the long run.
A woman who is not neat is a misfit.
An idle woman is the devil's workshop.
A roiling woiruti gathers no husband.
The Spartan Wife of the Mine Worker.
'PON the women and children falls
the greatest suffering that at
taches to a strike. The men can
take care of themselves, and the
u
women and children in Hazleton, TA llkes
barre and all through the coal regions
are crying for food. Want presses hard
upon them, and already the cry has come
to the ears of the leaders, and ‘ relief
committees” are being formed to do what
they can for the miner's family.
Hungarians, Poles, Russians, Slavs, Ital
ians and people from most all the Euro
pean countries are the men who delve
in the heart of Pennsylvania.for the hid
den wealth of coal. They are suspicious
of the intentions of Americans and deny
admission to a stranger. Let him but set
foot within their little settlement and the
street becomes deserted. Children run
before him, startled Into leaving their
play by the warning voice of the watch
ful mother, who peers out at the window,
showing only her eyes.
The Slavonic tribes and the Magyar
Hungarians, as a general rule, live in the
same settlement. The Italians live by
themselves. All are In abject poverty,
living in rude shanties which they have
thrown together upon the company’s land.
If there Is any difference in the degree
of poverty, the condition of the Italian
miner is the more pitable. He is to be
found over toward Lattimer, near where
the striking miners met the deputies four
years ago and many of the miners were
killed.
The principal mine In that direction is
the Pardee mine, owned by Calvin and
Ariovlstus Pardee, of Philadelphia. The
miners have made homes for themselves
back of the mine. They built their
wooden huts at the edge of the culm bank,
of such timber as they could find, dis
carded from tunnel shores or lying un
claimed along the road.
The streets are not streets, but little,
narrow alleys. It would be Impossible to
drive a horse and wagon through them.
The houses are all one story high and of
the most primitive construction. A re
spectable farmer of Pennsylvania would
hesitate before Intrusting his hogs to
them.
It Is the custom of the Italian, so It is
said, to sleep on the floor of. a friend s
house when he first comes over. His
travelling paraphernalia consists of a new
suit of clothes and a blanket. After he
has been at work In the mines for a
short time he begins to collect all the
wood In the shape of boards that he can,
until he has accumulated a considerable
pile In front of his neighbor’s door.
When the wood Is sufficient he selects
the nearest unoccupied site and builds
upon it a house with a single room and
a dirt floor. Then he sends to Italy for
his wife or his sweetheart, and the house
shelters a new Italian family. As the
family increases the house grows, too.
A room is added at this end or at that,
until it resembles a rambling shed. Most
of them, however, have but two rooms.
In nearly every one of the homes of the
Italian miners there is a family of at
least five children. That Is the average
and many of these sheds shelter as many
as twelve children.
I spent a day with the miners In their
homes. Owing to their extreme suspicion,
I was compelled to enlist the services of
a Magyar Hungarian, who enjoys their
confidence and acted as interpreter.
Starting from Hazleton, we drove over
to a settlement called Scatnmel. It Is
a Hungarian settlement, about a mile
back of Audenreid. The road wound over
the tops of desolate mountains, devoid of
trees and bristling with broken rocks.
The only signs of life to be seen In this
"valley of silence” were the black
“breaks,” the tall wooden buildings which
dotted the surface of the mountain In
that section like giant chess men at rest.
We passed many mines, but they were
completely idle; not • miner near them,
not a sign of white Steam escaped from
their exhausts. The village of Audenreid
was crowded with Idle workmen, who
smoked their pipes peacefully upon their
doorsteps or lounged at the door of the
country store and poetoffice.
There are no roads leading to Scammel.
It was necessary to tie up the team and
walk along a dusty path, strewn with
coal and slate.
If Audenreid was full of men, Scammel
was empty of them. But the women and
children were there in plenty. While
their lords and masters Idled the time
away, talking over the success or failure
of the strike, the women worked. Whether
the mines were In operation or not made
no difference as far as the women were
concerned. Their work of keeping the
mouths of the family full went on just
the same.
No Welcome for Intruders.
The crowning glory of the Italian village
was Its goats. At every turn In the street
one met the Inevitable "nanny” goat. The
milk makes one of the principal forms of
diet for the children of the blue skies—
that and mangoes.
But the goat is regarded with dislike
by Hungarians. They will not have the
animal near them. On the other hand,
they keep geese. Flocks of them were to
be found In front of almost every house.
They hissed angrily at the stranger, and,
like the geese of ancient Rome, notified
the inhabitants of the house they guarded
of the approach of an enemy. We fought
our way through them to the gate and
were met In the yard by the woman of
the house with a small child In her
arms.
She was a Hungarian woman of the
better class. The guide said she was a
Magyar woman and that there were only
about six or seven suph families In the
coal regions. The Magyar people, he said,
were the original settlers of the heart of
Hungary. They located in Budapest and
along the Southern Danube and have still
preserved their tribal traits and dialect.
Being the oldest tribe In that country,
they are looked upon with much respect
by their Slavonic neighbors. And even
In the coal district they preserve a
certain amount of that hauteur which
goes with blood.
The woman was fine looking, healthy,
strong and straight. On her head was the
typical handkerchief of her race. It was
a canary yellow piece of cloth, with a
running border of red flowers around the
edge. Around her shoulders was a yellow
shawl, and the child was wrapped in it.
so that nothing but its head and eyes
appeared above the top;
After a grunt of recognition and greet
ing to the Hungarian guide and a glance
at the stranger with him, the woman re
sumed her work. She was baking bread
in a primitive sort of an oven built in
the yard, similar to the ovens that are in
use among the Pennsylvania Dutch. Her
fuel was wood gathered from the under
brush nearby and spilt from cast off ties
of the railroad.
The noise of the geese had aroused the
household and troops Os little children
came timidly out of the house —one, two,
three, four, five, six, seven, eight. They
stood with their fingers in their mouths
or with their hands behind their backs
and stared with very wide open eyes.
After they were out there came another.
He was only three years old and scarely
able to navigate.* The family dog, a big
black mongrel, was helping him, with his
teeth in the little one's dress. They came
out backward, the child screaming at the
top of his voice.
“Tell her we would like to spend the
day with her,” I said.
“You are welcome,” she replied when
this was translated, "if Jonas, my hus
band, finds no objection when he comes
home.”
She turned her head and left us to take
care of ourselves.
Behind the house was a struggling little
garden. In it were planted potatoes, corn
and beans, which found it difficult to grow
in the rocky soil. The house v.—s like all
of its neighbors, but a story high and
built of boards discarded from the mine.
The roof was of shingles, but they leaked
badly in places, and were reinforced with
strips of sheet iron, also from the mine.
In front of the house was a dovecote,
built on a tall post; the post and the
dove house were the work of the miner
father during his leisure hours on Sun
day. It was a nicely built fc trd house.
Painted yellow, red and blue, tne favorite
colors of the race, it presented a marked
contrast to the unpainted home of the
human beings beneath It. Paint or even
whitewash seems to be an unknown quan
tity among the miners.
Plain, Bare Home of Poverty.
The woman, finding that her bread per
mitted her to leave It unattended for a
moment, ushered us Into the house. There
was only one door to the house and that
led to* the kitchen. A little shed roof
over the doorway protected it from rain
and permitted the family to keep it open
for ventilation in all kinds of weather.
There was no paper on the wall. The
boards showed in all their nakedness.
The pots and pans of the housewife hung
from nails on all four sides, and that was
the only decoration, if decoration it can
be called. Against one wall and built
Into It was the family dining Pack
ing boxes with carpet tacked on one
side served as chairs, and the only other
furniture in the room was a small cook
stove.
Two doors opened into this room from
different sides. One led into the family
bedroom and the other Into the .miner’s
tool house. The beds were simply mat
tresses resting above the floor on home
made wooden frames. The room was
about ten feet square, and In it slept the
husband and wife and their family of nine
small children.
In spite of the crowded condition of the
room the housewife had found room in
one corner for the family altar. It con
sisted of a crucifix, on a table, surrounded
by pictures of the Savior, the Madonna
and Child, St. Peter and others of equally
sacred significance. By the side of the
cross were the candelabra, which were
lighted on certain fast days. The pic
tures were cheap chromos In imitation
gilt frames, but they were held sacred
by the mother of the house, and. morn
ing and night she led her small offspring
up to the home altar and taught them
to pronounce an "Ave.” Most of the
Hungarians and the Slavs belong to the
Greek Catholic church; the Italians are
Roman catholics.
About the time our examination of the
house was completed the father of the
family came in. He was a tall, fair
haired man, with a stern, strongly marked
chin but a soft blue eye. His chest and
shoulders were powerfully developed, and
he walked with the unconscious grace of
an athlete.
With him was his eldest son, a repro
duction in every way of his father. Both
had worked side by side in the mine for
years. Father and son were dressed in
their best clothes. And there was a
reason for that, which was soon learned.
Dinner was put upon the table shortly
after the lord bf the household entered.
He drew up the largest packing box for
himself and sat down. The children
grouped around him and cried for their
share of the food.
The father paid no attention to them,
but ate his fill and departed to a place
outside in the sunshine, where he smoked
his pipe in stolid silence. The woman
then helped the children to what was
left; they took the food with their little
hands from hers as If they, too, were
kings and queens by right and she was
their humble slave whose only joy In life
was to serve them.
The meal consisted of a small piece of
boiled pork, a few boiled potatoes satu
rated with pork grease, and bread which
was still hot from the oven.
After the crying mouths of the children
had been stopped with food, they, too.
ran out of the house to finish the meal,
and. perhaps, to share their bread crusts
with the hissing geese.
Then the woman ate. But she did not
sit down. She ate the scraps from her
lord and master’s plate, and sang a Hun
garian melody as she washed the few
dishes that were to be washed, and per
haps she dreamed of her girlhood days
beside the blue Danube.
Then the eldest son, the image of his
father, came from the bedroom with an
Imitation black leather grip in his hand.
The grip told the story. The boy was
going away. Like thousands of other
miners, he had found work at another
trade In another section of the country.
This was his first time to go out of the
sight of his mother since he was born,
nearly eighteen years ago. He had been
talking about it for weeks, and now he
was going.
Without a word or a look at his mother,
the youth dragged his heavy grip through
the narrow door and joined his father.
Without a word, both started down the
path that led to the gate and the world
beyond. But before they reached the gate
tney were arrested by a wall or a shriek
behind them, and the woman fairly flew
down the pathway toward them.
Her arms were extended, her eyes full
of tears. She threw herself on the breast
of the boy and lay sobbing In his arms.
He dropped the satchel and stroked the
long black hair softly with his rough
hand, looking at his father In away that
showed that he did not understand why
his mother should cry.
The father folded his arms across his
breast and looked at the blue sky. Then
the woman, drying her tears with the
corner of her yellow shawl, kissed her
boy first on one cheek and then on the
other, and went back into the house and
to her work.
A half hour later we found her standing
before her family altar, praying softly to
herself that the strike might soon end
and that her boy, her first born, might be
kept from all i.arm in the great world.
A miner's home would be a hovel Indeed
but for the love of the woman.
Painting and Architecture Contrasted.
London Standard.
At the eighteenth annual dinner of the
Society of Architects Sir Wyke Bayliss, in
proposing the toast of the evening, “The
Society of Architects and Architecture,”
said he counted It a happy thing for arohi
tecture that the control of the profession
should be no longer in the hands of the
painter, but In the hands of the architect
himself. Architecture as a fine art had al
ways suffered when It had been controlled
by painting. The Parthenon was not con
ceived by the mind of a painter, nor was
Westminster Abbey. The painter thought
in planes in two dimensions of space, the
architect thought in the round, that was in
three dimensions of, space. The palette of
the painter was set with colors of his own
choosing, which were, or should be, at
their best when he had finished his work.
The palette of the architect was set by
the chemistry of nature, which began
when he left off. Chartres cathedral was
more beautiful today than It had ever been
before. Nature had been painting her for
600 years or more. This was not to say
that one art was better than another. It
was to say that the two arts were differ
ent, and must be treated and judged dif
ferently. The architect had something to
say worth listening to. The architect had
something more to do than to hop over a
sheet of paper with a pair of compasses,
like a creature on two sticks. He carried
something more than a two-foot rule. So
Michael Angelo built St. Peter’s at Rome
with the measuring rod of the seventh
angel who In Paradise measured the walls
of the new City of God. Was the angel
with the measuring rod seen by St. John
really Michael Angelo, who, having serv
ed his apprenticeship on earth, found em
ployment In heaven, or was Michael Ange
lo himself the angel, the messenger who
built St. Peter’s?
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What Happens to the Advance.
Experiments In Austria from 1596 to 1899
show that at 1,500 to 2,000 paces a line of
108 men In single rank loses In three min
utes 50 per cent of Its effective, from a
company firing five cartridges a man, and
that sections of a company forming a line
of skirmishers advancing over flat coun
try can be completely annihilated tn three
minutes by two sections of the enemy fir
ing abf'Ut five cartridges a man; and yet
the drill book, under the head of field
maneuvers, allows single mounted men to
approach to 600 yards of the firing line
In the open and pack mules to 500 yards.
If cavalry approach within 800 yards of
infantry they will be held only to have
suffered severely. Closed bodies of troops
without cover, when opposed to well con
ducted sendee rifle fire, can only get up
to 800 yards.
The experiments In Austria and the ex
periences In South Africa both show that
at least 800 yards should be added on to
the distance given in our drill book. That
)s to say, troops advancing to the attack
will be under a severe fire for at least
1,600 yards, or for say fifteen to twenty
minutes; they cannot rush them over the
zone of effective fire In three or four
minutes, as they could In former days;
they must take it quietly at the beginning
so as to reserve their energies for the
final rush.
