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THURSDAY. OCTOBER M, I*B-
It takes society belles to make the horse
show ring.
Hungary to having trouble with Ha
Diet again.
Let's nee. what is hard coal worth a
Rosen today?
In all of hia published picture* Baer
looks the part.
Somebody has thrown a kerosene brick
at the coal trust.
Even the price of coke Is now getting
to be a burning question.
With to many pretty women on hand,
will the home have a show?
Governor O'Dell seems to have gone Into
that conference loaded for Baer.
Maybe the mine operators will demand
neat that tne miners be arrested and put
back to work
A California exchange is authority for
the statement that that state to full of
prunes this year.
Th* speculators are evidently waiting
uutl! the farmers get rid of their cotton
before putting up the price.
W* are somewhat Inclined to believe
that th* presto ent to rather too strenuous
for a peacemaker, anyway.
Rear Admiral Evans to said to be having
a good time la China. But why ahouldn t
he; be can euaa in any language.
President Roosevelt may hare to send
an expurgated edition of hto Thanksgiv
ing proclamation to the coal miners.
Senator Dolliver thinks natural compe-
would smash th* trusts. Ye*, but
th* trouble to, th* trusts are onto th*
fact.
Secretary Moody admits that th* navy
has its faults It really ought to be put
the other way-the navy has its good
potato.
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A Boston jury has rendered a $12.00®
verdict against an automobile owner for
searing a horse. This to where the boss'
laughs
E. Never mind, the railroads are going to
even-up with the Hon. Joe Hill Hall next
week by making him pay "excess bag
gage" on hto hammer. /
A man went to sleep In a New York
hotel th* other night with flS.«® worth
of diamonds under hto pillow. Ther* to
no clew to th* thtoves.
Kaiser Bill has decided not to give an
audience to th* Boer generals. But It to
safe to say Bill wouldn’t act this way If
he had to run for re-election.
General Booth say* ther* has been no
marked increase or decrease In crime dur
ing the past twenty years. In other words,
we are just about average bad.
Editor Journal: "What is the most ap
propriate thing to wear to the horse
show? Algernon." Well, a set of har
ness would do for you. Algie.
Senator Vest to another statesman who
has fallen into the habit of seeing “trouble
ahead ' But what's th* matter with th*
stock of trouble that we have on hand?
Discussion of th* '•pension problem"
and the “school burden" in the weekly
press merely serves to remind us that the
next Georgia legislature is about due.
Mrs Corinne 8. Brown, a reformer, of
| Chicago, to lecturing on “Who Owns the
Earth?” bo It seems that there are peo
ple who have never heard of Mr. Morgan,
after all.
A Tennessee editor has been arrested
for giving a quart, of liquor to each sub
scriber. This to what comes of trying
to reverse th* natural and proper order
of thing*.
Those who ar* familiar with the presi
dent's impulsive disposition are wonder
ing what Mr. Baer would have received
if Mr. Roosevelt hadn't been afflicted with
a sore leg.
For the life of us. we can't see how
either side to to make political capital out
of the coal strike as long as President
Baer persists in asserting that h* to a
Democrat.
“Th* best thing we know of to break an
editor of the habit of giving advice to the
Georgia legislature to to elect him a mem
ber of it. W* have tried it. and we know.—
Dawson News.
A Tammany leader is about to move into
a s*»/•» residence in New York. But the
Missouri penitentiary. which a good many
St. Louis politicians are about to move in
to. cost more than that.
Mr. Van Alen, of Newport, says Eng
land to the only place for a gentleman to
live. If he intends this as an explanation
©f hto presence tn thia country, all right;
•therwtoe. it doesn't matter.
A good deal to being said about a Penn
sylvania man whose conscience caused
him to confess a crime after a lapse of
M year*. It to generally safe to confess
a crime after twenty years.
Consul Genera! Bragg, who has been
•ent to Hong Kong, would do well to have
hto wife burn hto letters about the Chi
nese; lest she make public some criticisms
aa she did about the Cubans.
Chicago has a preacher who has taken
the aide of the coal baronets and calls for
bayonets for the half-starved miners. The
Sermon on the Mount was evidently not
included in hto theological course.
Government experts are waging war on
the boll-weevil, which is destroying the
cotton crop in Texas. With the boll-weevil
destroyed, whatever will we do for some
thing on which to base predictions of a
short cotton crop?
One miner was killed the other day for
"loitering near a non-union man's house"
and another for "falling to answer a
guard when hailed." Such crimes as those
deaerv* speedy punishment—and they
•eem to be getting it.
MR. OLNEY’S GREAT SPEECH.
Th* speech delivered last Saturday night in Boston was one of th* most no
table that has been delivered in the present campaign. It is not going too far.
In fact, to say that it will probably attract more attention and produce a mor*
decided effect than any other.
No previous arraignment tn recent months of the Republican party In general,
and tn particular th* conduct of those wards of the Republican party, th* coal
barohs. has been at once so logical and so scathing.
Mr. Olney at the outset laid down the great principle that "th* vital prin
cipal aa well as the distinguishing merit of our political Institutions constats In
liberty regulated by law."
This is a truth which we cannot keep too clearly In mind and which has
become woefully neglected and obscured In recent times. Mr. Olney states a
historic fact when he says that, with the exception of the two Cleveland admin
istration*. we have had for mor* than forty years a course of government that
has carried us far from the standards which were formerly considered salutary
and even necessary to th* safety of the republic.
He then proceeded to consider where it has landed us as respects liberty and
law. .
In view of these new and revolutionary departures of administration h*
declares that "th* signs of the times ar* that under the regime of the Republi
can party and through th* national government, forty years of partnership with
th* protected industries, we have come to a pass where public official* as well
as private cltixens deem themselves above the law."
Thto is a grave indictment to be made by a former attorney general of the
United State*. on* of th* ablest lawyers In the country, one of the coolest and
most conservative leaders of thought in th* country. But th* manner in which
Mr. Olney sustain* thto charge must convince th* impartial public that h« has
not exaggerated th* situation and its tendencies. It calls to witness the xealous
haste with which th* treasury rushes to the relief of Wall street speculators
by a novel and forced construction of th* national banking law. Witness th*
astonishing proceeding of the same department In its Instruction to subordinate
offices respecting the duties to be collected on coal. But the generally lawless
atmosphere in which protected Republicans reign has enveloped ua is even mor*
strikingly Illustrated by the recent presidential demonstration upon th* coal
strike. Ther* are those who say that as the president disclaimed any official duty
or relation to th* matter, he should not have Interfered. There to something
to b* said for that view. Though his office to charged with great functions and
Invested with great powers, th* president to a constitutional officer whose spher*
of action to strictly limited by law. * i
Within that sphere h* to well nigh absolute—without he to legally impotent
Whan, therefore, he goes without it the danger to that h* may fall and b*
defied and that hto great office may lose prestige and power and thus be less
capable of performing Its legitimate duties.
Mr. Olney pertinently inquires if it will strengthen the president’s hands that
some half a doxen private cltixens are found snapping their fingers in his face.
When he comes to description of th* attltud* of the coal operators he indulges
in on* of th* most powerful arraignments that has ever been brought against
th* Insolenc* of organised greed and lawlessness. He said with entire justice:
"For sheer audacity thto attitude of the coal operators could haMly be match
ed and nothing eould more strongly emphasize the disrepute into which the law
of the land has been brought by long continued Republican domination."
Th* lawlessness of which the** mea themselves are guilty who denounced
the strikers and pose as immaculate champions of law and order la expqped
completely by Mr. Olney when he says:
"Who are these who are ao insistent upon the suppression of lawlessness
in th* mining regions? Why. th* most unblushing and persistent of lawbreak
ers. For years they have defied th* tow of Pennsylvania, which forbids common
carriers engaging in the business of mining. For years they have discriminat
ed between customers in the freight charges on their railroads in violation of
the interstat* commerce law. For years they have unlawfully monopolized in
terstate commerce in violation of the Sherman anti-trust law.
“Indeed, the very best excuse and explanation of their astonishing attltud*
at th* Washington conference to that, having violated so many laws for ao long
and so many times, they might rightfully think they were wholly Immune from
either punishment or reproach.”
Mr. Olney proceeds to show how these monopolists have defied law and
placed themselves beyond th* pale of the consideration which they demand ae
their right.
He sets forth th* following crushing fact*}
“In 1894 receivers of a railroad were brought Into court on a claim that labor
ers ought not to be discharged because of membership of labor unions. Though
the court was a federal court, it sat in Pennsylvania, and th* petitioners gbt noth
ing from that court.
“But what followed? In a year or two Pennsylvania made It a criminal of
fense to deprive a man of work because he belonged to a labor union. In 1898
congress not only did the same thing, but in a statute providing for th* arbitra
tion of labor disputes, expressly made labor organisations parties to such arbi
tration. Thto was in addition to the previous legislation by congress ehcouraglng
and providing for the incorporation of labor unions. In ignoring them, therefore,
the coal operators simply ignore and condemn the law of the land."
We have repeated a large part of thto great speech which appeared tn The
Sunday Journal, but it cannot be reiterated too often. It cannot be made too
familiar to the people. It contains the soundest and most righteous political and
economic gospel that can be laid before the people at this time. It is a bugle call
for the defense and assertion of their rights, for the reslstence to those assaults
upon law and order which are being made by individuals and combinations who
pretend to be Injured Innocents whom the government should protect and encour
age tn their daring, defiant and nefarious schemes.
Mr. Olney's great speech will have a powerful effect in setting forth clearly
the issues that are involved in the coal strike and all the other troubles and dan
gers that have been forced upon the country by the prostitution of power that
has been made possible by the protective tariff.
COTTON COMPETITION.
For many years past we have been
fearing that the south was tn danger of
losing her supremacy in the production
of eotton.
In all thto time nothing has occurred to
give any substance to these predictions.
During the last few months the African
cotton scarecrow has been dragged forth
again and has attracted considerable at
tention.
It to undoubtedly true that efforts are
'being made in Great Britain and in Ger
many to encourage the cultivation of cot
ton in the African colonies. It to also
true that there to In Africa an Immense
area which seems to be well adapted to
the production of cotton, but only expe
rience can prove whether a serious rival
ry of the south in her most important
agricultural interest is to develop in that
quarter.
The production of cotton In Egypt has
increased greatly since the agriculture of
that country has teen revolutionized un
der the wise and humane rule of Great
Britain, but tnere is no considerable ri
valry between the staple cotton of the
south and that of Egypt. Even our sea
island cotton does not seem to have been
seriously affected by the advance of
Egypt as a cotton producer. Egypt can
not increase her cotton crop indefinitely.
The area for agriculture in that country
to limited and much the larger plrt of
the land capable of producing cotton to
already under cultivation.
A cotton expert who has been studying
the cotton situation in Africa and its pros
pects writes to the New Orleans Picayune
as follows:
“In speaking recently before the Liver
pool Chamber of Commerce on the efforts
which are being made tn this line. Sir
Alfred Jones sa.- that he had forwatded
one hundred tons of cotton seed to the
West African colonies for planting pur
poses, and the reports which had been
received were highly satisfactory. In
proof, he exhibited a sample of cotton
grown in Sierra Leone, which had been
gathered three months after the seed was
sown. The fact that cotton can be pro
duced In three months may seem great
to some people, but the fact counts for
little in reality. What the world wants
to grade, and thto does not seem to have
been mentioned by Str Alfred Jones.
There are other products which Africa is
said vo be capable of producing in un
limited quantities, and it is true that
success has been gained here and there,
on u»oq ssq ejaq) tnq oaj|oo ui Xfqstou
concentrated effort anywhere. In the case
of the present movement, thto effort seems
apparent, but whether the rosy dreams
of the promoters of becoming independent
of this country will ever prove true is for
the future to prove. In the meantime the
world's markets seem able to absorb
more of the southern staple than we can
give iaem."
The world has for generations looked
to the southern states as its main de
pendence for cotton, and there is every
reason to believe that these states will
for an indefinite time to come continue
to hold thto position.
THE PROTECTION OF BIRDS.
Through the efforts of kind-hearted in
dividuals, private organizations and the
United States department of agriculture
much is being done for the protection of
birds tn this country.
The slaughter of birds has gone on so
rapidly that many species once abundant
in the United States have either become
TTTE JOURNAL, ATLANTA'S GEORGIA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16, T 902.
extinct, or so scarce that they are very
rarely seen.
There Is now hope that the species
which are left to us may be preserved
•nd even become something like as num
erous a sthey were once. TJ>e progress
of this work is due largely to the oper
ations under the Thayer fund. Th* bird
laws of several states have recently been
made much more effective and thto reform
movement to spreading steadily.
The report of the committee on the pro
tection of North American bird* for the
year 1901, which has recently appeared in
print, contains some interesting inform
ation relative to the efforts in Georgia for
the promotion of thto cause.
The report says:
“During the visit of your committee It
was discovered that already there was in
Georgia a very considerable and growing
Interest in the subject of bird protection
and bird study. One noble and enthusias
tic woman and bird lover, Mrs. Julius L.
Brown, of Atlanta, had. unaided, secured
the pledges of over 3,000 of the best women
of her state that they would not in the fu
ture use the plumage of wild birds as mil
linery ornaments. Besides this, through
her efforts, over 2,600 of the school chil
dren of Atlanta were subscribers to a
pledge not to harm or annoy wild birds.
Mrs. Brown is also a regular contributor
tfi the Georgia press of articles relating
to the preservation of bird life. The no
ble example of thto woman is* commended
to the women of other sections of the
country, with the earnest hope that many
more may be found who will do what
they can In thto most laudable and im
portant work."
The praise thus bestowed upon Mrs.
Brown is richly deserved. She is an ac
tive influence for the support and ad
vancement of many good cause* and has
done more than can be told for th* pro
tection of birds.
The number of women enlisted for this
object is increasing rapidly in Georgia, to
the honor and practical benefit of the
state.
A PROSPEROUS NEIGHBOR.
The people of Alabama are justly proud
of the showing that their state made in
the last census and the manifest evidences
of her progress since that time.
They are just beginning to realize the
vastness and variety of the sources of
wealth with which nature has blessed
them.
During the decade from 1890 to 1900 a re
markable advance was made in the devel
opment of these resources.
The twenty-five great Alabama iron
and steel companies turned out in 1900
products to the value of $17,392,483 as
against $12,544,227 in 1890. Alabama has
become the sixth state in iron and steel
products, being surpassed only by Penn
sylvania, Ohio. Illinois, ji'ew Jersey and
Indiana. Alabama is fifth in pig iron pro
duction. She to one of the four states that
make more than a million tons a year
of that article. The other three are Penn
sylvania. Ohio and Illinois. These four
states contributed more than 84 per cent
of the country’s total iron and steel pro
duction in 1900, and their proportion of
this product is increasing steadily. Ala
bama is the fifth state tn the amount of
capital employed in this industry. Only
Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois and New Jer
sey are ahead of her in this respect.
About $20,000,000 Is now invested in the
Alabama iron and steel industry. Jefferson
county alone, the county In which Bir
mingham to located, turned out in the
census year no less than 1,061,540 tons of
Iron. The blast furnaces of that district
employed 5,084 iron workers and paid them
in wages $1,203,017.
Alabama stands first In the production
of foundry Iron, exceeding Pennsylvania
by 26,736 tons at last accounts.
Os the 399 stacks In the United States
Alabama has 45 and Ohio Is uie only
state that has a larger number. The Iror
and steel Industry in Alabama is in fine
condition and la increasing steacuiy. With
her practically unlimited stores of iron
and coal Alabama has about the strongest
possible foundation of material wealth
and power.
J. P. MORGAN AND HIS COAL.
The dispatches which first announced
that J. Pierpont Morgan had purchased
BO.COO tons of coal in England to be sent
to New York at once for distribution
among the poor of that city were rather
vague. Consequently a difference of opin
ion arose as to whether Mr. Morgan would
give this half a million dollars' worth of
coal away or sell it.
It will be disposed ©f In the latter man
ner. Mr. Morgan is not responsible for th*
misunderstanding of his purpose by many
newspapers and the laudations of his
“princely charity" in which they indulged.
He is not a man who seeks praise, and
the fact that he had bought this coal for
"distribution" in New York probably
leaked out before he intended that it
should. However that may be, Mr. Mor
gan has done a thing that will benefit
thousands of persons in New York, prob
ably a thing that will save many of them
from actual suffering.
He has bought 50,000 tons of anthracite
coal at $lO a ton. and will sell it to the
poor of New York at actual cost, which is
one-half, or less than one-half, the present
price. By the time the Morgan coal can
be delivered In New York cold weather
will probably be on, and coal may be
much scarcer and higher in that city than
it is now.
To procure coal there then at $lO a ton,
or a little more, may be a privilege that
will be very largely sought.
If Mr. Morgan had his 50.000 tons of coal
in New York he could make an enormous
profit on and is not the slightest
probability that coal will fall to anywhere
near $lO a ton before thto lot arrives in
that city.
A SMALL JOB NEARLY DONE.
At last we ar* to have the little Danish
islands, St. Thomas. St. Croix and St.
John.
After much dickering and dealing all
th* difficulties in th* way of this tbana
action have ben about removed.
The treaty of sale was ratified by th*
senate last winter, but opposition to th*
deal sprang up suddenly in Denmark, and
at one timl seemed likely to bring forth
some sensational developments of cor
ruption In the negotiations.
On* house of ui* Danish parliament
went so far as to reject the treaty, but
th* flurry soon passed away, as it had
little foundation.
Th* question was submitted to the peo
ple and they declared for th* treaty by
a very decisive majority.
The Danish parliament will formally rat
ify th* cession whew it reassembles some
weeks hence, and bur geographies will
have to be changed again in a matter uiat
concerns the worH-very little.
The little islands In question have de
clined greatly In market value since dur
government first bbgan to bld for them.
We are to have all of them now for
$6,000,000, whereas we offered nearly twice
that amount for them about thirty years
ago, soon after the senat* ratified the
treaty for the purchase of these islands
the West Indian volcano convulsions oc
curred and the idea that we had been bad
ly bitten In the bargain became prevalent
in thto country.
The sum to be paid by our government,
however, is small, and there Is no reason
to apprehend volcanic disturbances In
either of the islands we are about to take
in.
With the construction Ox the Panama
canal these islands will become valuable
to us for naval purposes.
We shall surely have a naval station on
one of them that will be worth at least
as much to us as tbs -nree will cost.
There are Republicans who hold that It
will be best for their party to lose the
next house, while there are Democrats
who contend that it will be better for
Democracy if the Republicans win. AH
of which only goes to show that it is pos
sible for people to differ on almost any
thing.
Preliminary to hto effort at beating a
sense of duty into the head of those mine
operators. President Roosevelt had a
choice between persuasion and a pickaxe
as the best means for accomplishing his
purpose. He chose the wrong weapon.
It to estimated that the Democratic
gubernatorial campaign in New York will
cost $300,000. Why should it cost more to
run a Democrat for governor of New York
than »t does to try to find the north pole?
As indicating how the ranks of the old
soldiers are being thinned, it is noted that
a G. A. R. parade can now pass a given
point in less than five hours. But the pen
sion list grows larger all the while.
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
Chicago Dally News.
When a woman doesn't lace ifs a sign she
doesn’t have to.
Beauty may be only skin deep, but ugliness
Is bone and marrow deep
Some men are so mean they wouldn't give a
drowning man a drink of water.
There are not as good fish in the sea as
some people say they nave caught.
A woman’s grace is what the Lord makes
it; her shape what she herself makes it.
The queer things that a bachelor doesn’t
know are no fault of his women friends.
No, Cordelia, the porter on a sleeping car,
isn't ceiled a quartermaster, but he is.
The easiest mark on earth for anybody is
the Idiot who thinks he understands women.
Fortunately a young woman who marries an
Old husband never knows how she got cheated.
When time relegates an ugly piece of furni
ture to the antique class people rave over Ita
beauty.
In dealing with women the wise man will
back a pearl necklace against all the logic of
the ages.
Women don’t have to be acquainted more than
ten minutes before they will show each other
all their new underwear.
If a man doesn't get sick his ayfe falls to
worrying for fear she won't have a chance to
show her devotion to him.
Astronomical Calculator.
Baltimore News.
“And you want to occupy our chair of as
tronomy?" again queried the college presi
dent.
"I do,” frankly replied the applicant.
“What do you know about astronomy? For
instance, how would you fix the distance be
tween the earth and the sun?"
“That's easy. I'd guess half way and multiply
by two. Gimme sump'n hard!"
It Is not improbable that the celebrated Dr.
R. Koch will be among the visitors to the
World's Fair. A letter from him to Dr. George
Brown, of Atlanta. Ga.. expresses his willing
ness to come as the delegate from Germany if
that government decides officially to take part
In the Tuberculosis Congress at fit. Louts In
1904.
MR. DOOLEY ON THE COAL STRIKE.
IT’LL be a hard winther if we
don't get coal,” said Mr. Hen
nessy.
“What d’ye want with
coal?” said Mr. Dooley. “Ye’re a
mos’ unreasonable man. D’ye think
ye can have all th’ comforts iv life
an' that ye mus’ make no sacryfice to
uphold th' rights iv property? Ivry
body will have plinty iv fuel this win
ther. Th’ rich can burn with indig
nation, thinkin’ iv th’ wrongs inflict
ed on capital, th’ middle or middlin’
class will be marchin’ with th’ mil
ishy, an’ th’ poor can fight among
thimsilves an’ bum th’ babies. I niv
er‘ thought iv babies befure as com
bustible but they ar-re. At .wan
sthricke ye can keep th' baby warrum
an' th’ rest iv th’ family comfortable.
Befure th’ winther is over, I expect
to hear ye callin’, ‘Packy, go out to th’
woodshed an’ bring in a scuttle-full
iv little Robert Immitt. Th' fire is
burnin’ low.’ They’ll be nawthin else
to burn. Th’ Bible, th’ mantelpiece,
th' plumbin’, th’ bills fr’m th’ butcher,
th’ phottygraft album, mother’s
switch, an' th' dog will all go into th’
furnace. If ye say a man has mon
ey to burn, it’ll mean he’s too poor
or to mean to get coal. As f’r me
with nayther babies nor money. I can
keep warrum be jus’ thinkin’ iv th’
situation. I can get up th’ clrcylation
tv me blood principally in me neck
be readin’ what me frind th’ out
spoken, oft-spoken, janlal, tolerant,
thruthful an’ religlqus Prisidint Baer
has to say. There's a thruly great
man, th’ first prisidint we have raaly
had that come up to me idee iv what
a prisidint ought to be. He’s a gr-reat
| llthrachoor, a gr-reat dayfinder iv th’
hearth rtgain’ hard coal, th’ protlctor
iv chill-blaina an’ croup, th’ inirny iv
prlckly-heat an’ arnichy. List, will
ye, to what Baer, th’ gr-reat Baer.
Ursa Major as Hogan calls him. has
to say iv th’ hlsthry iv th' wurruld
an’ th' ways iv Providence as revealed
to him wan day as he was readin' th’
scriptures on th’ ticker:
" ‘Years ago,’ says Baer, 'nature de
cided that some day, afther she’d had
a long peryod iv practise an’ got her
hand in be makln’ th’ stars, th’ moon,
th' sun, th’ stock exchange, an' other
COAL OPERATOR PRAISES MITCHELL
AND SAYS BAER IS IN THE WRONG
* _
Chicago Record-Herald.
J SMITH TALLEY, president of
the Indiana Coal Operators’ asso
ciation and the largest operator
in the state, unequivocally
indorses John Mitchell in the anthra
cite strike controversy, says he deserves
to win, and believes he will win.
Mr. Talley has been president of the
Indiana association since it was first
organised a doxen years ago to deal with
the labor question. For several years only
about one-fifth of the Indiana miners
were in the United Mine Workers’ union
and wage contracts were not binding over
the state. Mr. Talley held his operators
together in the hope of better things, and
after a few years an annual conference
and contract carried an obligation over
all Indiana. In these negotiations he has
had close relations with Mr. Mitchell.
PRESIDENT AND THE COAL STRIKE
THE majority of the newspapers
seem to be In sympathy with
President Roosevelt because he
/ failed to harmonise the mine
owners and mine operators, but some are
twiddling theft- thumb* on editorial noses
and flinging sarcasm at his excellency.
"The lion and the unicorn
Fighting for the crown.
Up jumps the little dog
And knocks them —"
No, no, the little boy gets knocked down
and the lion and unicorn are still going at
it like hammer and tongs, according to
the critics of our president. As a rule it
is a thankless task to meddle in other peo
ple’s business. Most of us remember that
ancient yarn about the stranger who
came upon a man who was beating his
wife and no quicker did he pull off that
belligerent spouse than the woman fell
aboard the stranger and drubbed him out.
Senator Hanna undertook the role of
pacificator in the same business, but he
backed out and said he could do nothing.
I feel sure the president acted from the
best of motives. He is a person with strong
feelings and acute sensibilities. He dreads
this coming winter wth a coal famine
on hand. There is no doubt but he relied
largely upon the immense but silein force
which attaches to the executive position,
for it was entirely natural and a probable
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
Chicago Dally News.
Hermltz are not the only torpid livers, t (
Men are the architect/ of their own misfor
tunes. ,
Most aristocrats are victims of Inverted her
edity.
The king can do no wrong—if the other fellow
haa four aces.
Worry is the interest mankind pays on the
debt of nature.
For every wise thing In law some lawyer
has a fool reason.
If dirt was worth $2 a load Chicago would
have clean streets.
Women are not very thick when they can see
through each other.
If wishes were sawhorses beggars would have
nothing to wish for.
Some men are as ready to do an injury as
they are to apologize for it.
Fools never attempt to take care of their
health until after it is gone.
The man who makes useful sacrifices is able
to dispense with useless ones.
Fame is but a bubble. The laurel wreath is
less strenuous than a barrel-hoop.
Some men are of no more consequence than
the thermometer on a pleasant day.
Amoitlon never grows old; In fact, it seldom
gets beyond the age of Indiscretion.
Paradoxical though it may seem, the right
end of a check to indorse is the left end.
Did it ever occur to you that the average
man]* Intelligence is below the average?
There was only one Peter the Great—which
goes to show that history doesn’t necessarily
re-Pete Itself.
Good qualities that descend from father to
•on seem to grow weaker, while the bad ones
always grow stronger.
When the receipts of a church fair are less
than the expenses there is something wrong
with the feminine attractions.
His Brutal Wit.
Chicago Post.
“He has a good ear for music, don’t you
think?” remarked the woman with oper
atic aspirations.
“I doubt it,” returned her brutal hus
band.
"Why?"
“He listened to you for thirty minutes
without making a protest.”
BY F. P. DUNNE.
Copyright, 19Q2, By Robert Howard Russell
divine wurruks, she’d compose me,’ he
says. ‘lt was no aisy task an' she had
to make a lot iv preparations f’r me
arrival. There mus’ be wurruk f’r me
to do whin I come. At that peeryod,
th' state iv Pinnsylvania, which was
thin no state at all, was covered over
with high threes an’ through these pri
mevial forests stalked sthrange ani
mals an’ sfhranger men. Wan day
nature bumped all th’ threes over,
knocked thlm down with her mighty
hand. “Why d’ye divastate th’ land?"
she was ast. “I'm iayin’ it bare f’r
Baer,” says Nature with a jocose
smile. Thin she shot thunder an’
lightnin’ down on th’ popylation an’
mingled its bones with th’ threes.
"Gunnin’ f’r Baer.” she says. An’ she
piled mud an’ rock on th’ timbers an’
washed thim with th’ floods an’ cuked
thlm with fire an’ left thlm to cool, an'
through long clnchries she wint fr’m
time to time an’ patted thlm an’ said:
“Afther awhile a man with whiskers
will come along an’ claim ye. Don’t
laugh at him.’ That’ll be Baer.” Thin
she mannyfacthered a lot Iv dilicate
people that had to keep warrum or
die an’ she taught thim how to burn
hard coal an’ thin I come. I call it
Nature,’ he says, ‘but ye know who
I mean. I am th’ agent iv Divine
Providence in this matther. All this
coal was enthrusted to me be Hlvln to
look afther. Some say ’twas Morgan,
but I know, better. I’m th’ agent iv
Providence—Providence Coal Comp’ny
Limited. George Baer, agent. In th’
manetime I stand as th’ riprislntative
iv vlsted inthrests. th’ champeen iv
ordher an’ th’ frind iv th’ rights iv
property. Gr-reat inthrests are at
stake, as th’ southern lyncher said at
th’ burnin’, t’m a wondherful man.
An’ funny, too,’ he says.
“So what ar-re ye goln’ to do about
it? If thim la-ads on’y got to own tn'
coal be th’ same way that I own th’
part iv this house that ain’t got a
morgedge on it, an’ ye own ye’er hat
an’ shoes—because a lot iv fellows
•ome together in th’ leglslachoor an’
decided ’twas a good thing that a man
who had shoes an’ a hat shud keep
thim—’twud be diff’renL But seein’
that th’ Lord fixed it there’s nawthin’
f’r us to do but-pray. Lave us pray
that Hlvln will go out Iv th’ coal busi-
"From the start th* Pennsylvania op
erators have been in the wrong and mak
ing said Mr. Talley today.
“Th* first mistake was in not accepting
Mr. Mitchell’s offer to continue work
while the differences between miners and
operators were being settled by arbitra
tion. Mr. Mitchell has been oauservative
throughout the controversy, though firm
ness has been characteristic of his leader
ship. His fairness was shown in offering
to submit the controversy to arbitration
and to accept either the president or men
named by him as arbitrators.
“I have known John Mitchell ten years,
and hto conduct ha* been no more than
those who know him Intimately expected
of him. He deserves ultimate success,
and I believe he will have it.”
Mr. Talley say* that each year it is
easier for the operators’ organisation of
the states in the interstate agreement to
reach a settlement with the miners’ or
ganisation. The men at the front in the
BY MR3. W. H. FELTON.
conclusion under the circumstances. Now
he looks very much like the little boy the
calf run over after the coal barons re
plied: "No, slrree, we are owners; we are
a trust machine; we have been in this bus
iness too long to be scared by owls or
katy-dids. Get out of my suashine,” as
Diogones said to hto critics, and if coal
goes high we will not object if we get
considerable money for a little coal. A lit
tle money for a great deal of coal has
given us much trouble in the past."
President Mitchell to the only man who
appears to be heart whole and fancy free.
With the bow of a Chesterfield he said:
"Mr. President, If you can settle it. all
right. We will appoint an arbitrator and
they may appoint an arbitrator and we
will then leave tafill to you as the third
man. We are quite ready for fair arbitra
tion. We want nothing more and nothing
better on our side. Our people want pay
for their work. They want an honest liv
ing with food and clothes for their depen
dents.
“We are obliged to work, but want hon
est weights in coal. Meat is out of reach;
everything we buy is high and scarce;
coal brings a fine price, Mr. President, but
they not only charge us with lawlessness,
but they are not even willing to increase
our pay when their profits are immense.
A crisis was bound to come. Even a worm
will turn when trod upon. But we are not
seeking to do these mine owners any
harm. We only want living wages and we
7EXAS OIL LOR FUEL.
New York Tribune.
IN THESE trying circumstances the
owner of a steam plant may well con
sider the expediency of using petrole
um in place of coal. So far as the gen
eral feasibility of liquid fuel is concerned,
there has been no room for doubt since it
was employed to run the power station of
the Columbian exhibition in Chicago nine
years ago. When this fact is supplement
ed with another the use of oil on some
thing like a hundred big steamships today,
it will be seen that discussion must be
confined to minor and incidental features
of the scheme. One of these is the style
of boiler required for oil. If an entirely
new plant Is being designed, perhaps
smaller and shorter tubes than are in
troduced where coal.is burned might be
preferable. Yet Prof. Denton conducted
a two-weeks’ trial of Texas oil in this
city last winter with a furnace and boiler
formerly run with coal, and he secured
highly satisfactory results. The experi
ment not only demonstrated the excel
lence of the product of the Beaumont
wells, but also the simplicity of the appa
ratus which it was necessary, to attach
for feeding and burning the oil. The cost
of this was probably less than SSO. Even
were it two or three times as great, it
would pay for Itself in a few days with
coal at present prices. It has been found
that 3 1-2 or 4 barrels of oil, costing 75
cents a barrel, will develop as much
steam as a ton of coal. With the latter
selling for $4 of $6 a ton, there would be
an enormous saving In fuel bills, to say
nothing of the reduction of labor. Stok
ing would be almost automatic, and there
would be no ashes to remove.
The most vital of the remaining ques
tions -o be considered relates to the pos
sibility of getting a steady supply of oil.
Ample assurance on this point is already
afforded. Within the last few days the
Tribune has specified the vessels which
are now bringing petroleum from Texas
as well as those which are expected to en
gage in the same traffic within the next
few months. Independently of these re
sources, however, the metropolis al-
ness an’ that It won’t get into th*
Beef Trust. I hate to think iv waryin’
over to th’ stock yards to say me
prayers.
“But I’m with th’ rights iv property,
d’ye mind. Th’ sacred rights an’ th’
divine rights. A man is lucky to have
five dollars; if it is ten, it is his jooty
to keep it if he can; if it’s a hundred,
his right to it is th’ right iv sllf-day
finse; if it's a mlllyon, it’s a sacred
right; If it’s twinty mlllyon, it’s a di
vine right; if it’s more than that, it be
comes ridickilous. In anny t case, it
mus' be proticted. Nobody «nus* ln
therfere with it or down comes th’
constichoochion, th’ army, a letther
fr’m Baer an’ th’ wrath iv Hivin.
“If I own a house I can do what I
plaze with it. I can set fire to it anny
time I want, can’t I? Ye may have
foolish sintimints about It. Ye may
say: 'lf ye set fire to ye’er house, ye’ll
burn mine.’ But that don’t mine anny
coal with me. ’Tis my bouse, give me
in thrust be th’ Lord an’ here goes f’r a
bonfire. What’s that fireman comln’
down th’ street f’r? How dare he squirt
wather on me property? Down with
th’ fire department! I’ve some gun
powdher in me cellar. I’ll touch a
match to It. I'm uncomfortable in sum
mer. I’ll take me clothes off an’ go f’r
a walk. Th’ sign above tje
longs to me. I’ll loosen it so it will fall
down on th’ top iv ye’er head. Te
want to go to sleep at night. I’m go
in’ to have a brass band sur’nade me.
I own a gun. I think I’ll shoot me prop
erty into ye. Get out iv th’ way f’r
here comes property, dhrunk an’ raisin’
Cain. An’ if I’m an Eyetalian sthriker
with a stick iv dinnymite, I can ex
plode it where an’ whin I will. If it hap
pened to go off undher an excursion
thrain full iv women an’ childher, so
much th’ worse f’r thlm, but they must
be no resthrictfon on th’ right iv a
man to do what he will with his own.
I ownded th* dinnymite an* I wanted to
’ hear a noise. Hurrah f’r property
rights! Property rights an’ baby in th’
base burner! It’s a gr-reat Issue to
lay befure th’ American people whin
th’ coal gives out.” »
“D ye think th’ sthrike'll be settled?"
asked Mr. Hennessy.
“Iv coorse," said Mr. Dooley. "If IL
ain’t, hell’ll break loose an’ we’ll all
be warrum.’’
union, he says, are of better type than
eight or ten years ago; they are conserva
tive and intelligent.
“In our wage contract which we sign
officially aa operators,” says Mr. Talley,
"and their officers sign officially, there
is a provision for ar Oration and it stip
ulates that no matter what the grievance
work shall not be suspended pending ar-;
bitration. We don’t have as much arbi
tration as we used to have, because most
of the grievances are settled and an of
ficial of the operators' organization tak
ing up the grievance and disposing of it.
“There is a great rush toward arbitra
tion now because a good many people be
lieve it is an infallible solution of the la
bor problem. It is the best thing we.
have, but it Is not always right; usual
ly it is a compromise, and one side or the
other has to yield too much. It Is like
our jury system. We know juries are not
always right, but we accept them and be-.
lieve In trial by jury,"
1 will serve them well If they pay us.
"We believe you will do right, Mr. Presl*
dent. Anyhow, we agree to abide by what
you decide upon. Good or bad. hard or
scft, old wages or new wages, if you and
the other man decide we must face the
winter with low wages we will go back to
work, but Mr. President, we must settle
this dispute; we must know if a human
being has the right of protest tn the
United States. It is a coward or a slave
who cannot protest and demand fair treat
ment. We will lay our case before you,
supreme ruler in America, and if you
say go back to old wages, we will go.”
Mr. Mitchell’s speech was a ten strike.
It eliminates the strikers and the issue is
now between the coal barons and the pres
ident. The president doubtless feels It
If I was a politician and wanted the la
bor vote, and it is votes that count I'd
ring the changes on the lack of confidence
shown the president, who, wisely (ot
perhaps unwisely) said “come up both ot
you naughty children and make a settle
ment and save the country from panic or
anarchy.” *
The barons smiled and said “excuse us!”
The miners bowed and said “Selah!”
Now. what is the president going to say
to the country? What reply will he make
when the cry goes up from a hundred
thousand homes. “Save us from freezing
or we perish!” Blessed are the peacemak
ers, when they can provide a peace, but
what about the present situation?
■.. ' - '
ready haa at !ta disposal the residuum
left at the Standard Oil refineries after
the distillation of crude petroleum for il
luminating and other purposes. This re
fuse is equal in heating power to the un
refined product of the Lone Star state,
Residuum is extensively employed as fuel
by steamships on the Caspian sea and
elsewhere. If the Tribune is not mistaken,
it is also employed at the Morse Iron
works, in South Brooklyn, in place, of
coal. Only a little inquiry is needed on
the part of interested persons to satisfy
them that oil in abundance is already
available and at prices which render it
distinctly cheaper than coal.
PERSONAL NOTES.
Mm*. Patti and Mme. Nordic* met by chance
the other day at St. Morita, Switzerland, and
renewed acquaintance of bygone days.
Kasper Feltlnson, nominated by the Demo
crats of the Tenth lowa district, for con
gress. is the owner of several lowa news
papers.
Dr. D. C. Gilman, ex-presldent of tha Johns
Hopkins University, and head of the Carnegie
Institution, has just returned from a #’•
months' tour of Europe.
Dr. Florestans Aguilar, of Madrid, is In
Chicago, to invite dentists and physicians of
that city to attend the International Medical
Congress to be held in Madrid, next April.
A committee of prominent men, of which
General Stewart L. Woodford is president has
sent out an appeal to the public for aid in
erecting a monument to the late General Frans
Sigel.
Mr. Andrew Carnegie, who is collecting many
rare books for his library at Sklbo Castle, h .
it is said, recently given a large order to »
Paris firm for some choice and very costly
bindings.
George M. Yankovsky, a young Siberian, of
wealthy parents, is touring this country, »>»k
ing as a farm hand and general utility man m
stables, stock yards, ranches and other
where he may gain a knowledge of stock rais
ing and agriculture.
Count Castellan** rebuked a minister at
tached to the French war department for
having shaken hands with Dreyfus. But
there is probably some hope for him, aa
long as he doesn’t make a habit of shak
ing hands with Boni.
At the end of fifty-four years only «.000
the 111. coo American soldiers In the Mexican
war are alive.