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g fflffl SI WOMEN.
^yi> daughters OF STRIK
•r> SiKE DEMONSTRATION.
r£RS PREDICTS EARLY VICTORY
(jdent of Federation of Labor Believes
Shiite Will Terminate Before
the of September.
tlie End
,-; ? ratcii from Pittsburg, Pa.,
5 : jke wives and daughters of the
, miners at DeArmitt’s coke
e«. rear Turtle Creek, took a prom
.{part in the demonstration against
working miners Thursday.
the morning a dozen or
" gathered at the
ie women camp,
ifith flags and banners inarched
the road leading toward the
Die. they met number of
their way a
bers going to the pit and greeted
L w ith yells and jeers. They de
L the miners who were working
|d ridiculed them in a manner which
bed many of them to hang their
Lds hie in shame.
women say they will make a
Lustration [perintendent every day hereafter,
S. C. DeArmitt and
nr deputy sheriffs commenced the
irk of evicting the families of the
am Creek strikers during the day.
letrork will be kept up until the
many has possession of all tlieir
ases.
If, lisers, J. Brennan, attorney for the
is preparing his answer to the
Ills [as of the New York and Cleveland
Coal Company in the proceedings
tainst the miners’ officials and strike
tiers tile, for contempt of court. Gus
who is in charge of the sheriff’s
fcputies at Plum Creek, that was under told the by
ie sheriff’s attorney
ijnnetion he could not interfere with
[archers who paraded with a band at
leir head. The only ones he can
op are those who are intimidating
ie workmen.
Gompers is Confident.
U President Gompers, of the Ameri
k Federation of Labor, gave his
Hiew of the present coal strike situa
■oa to the Associated Press Thursday
■s follows:
■ “The situation as I gather it from the re
Horts of our organizers indicates that be
Breen 60 and 75 per cent, of the mines in
Brest Virginia are now closed down com¬
pletely, A letter I have just received from
■he Cooper and Pocahontas districts is
■riming with confidence and says the work
pi that region has been 'reduced one-half in
■he last fortnight and predicts a general
■ellipse I very soon. Virgin! miners
“Solong as the West a eon
■lied operations there was, of course, little
■ope of an absolute victory for the miners
Beeanse West Virginia could supply the ur
■ffit needs of the market. But with the sus¬
pension in West Virginia becoming general,
lithe miners in the states of Pennsylvania,
|0hlo, Broken, Illinois and Indiana keep the ranks
as I am confident they will, the
fctrika must result in an absolute victory for
[the | men.
“Before September 15 the lake trade must
p supplied. The situation becomes daily
pore acute, and while I hesitate to fix a day,
I believe the strike will terminate by the end
k September and that a settlement will be
made in favor of the miners.”
When Mr. Gompers’ attention was
'tilled to the great destitution and suf¬
fering among the strikers he said that
Hie coal operators had taught the
miners how to suffer. They had been
tilled in hardship by the operators.
They would continue to endure their
hials a little longer in the hope of re¬
lieving Ike their situation permanently in
future.
hull TELEGRAPH FROM HEAVEN.
Joseph Fife, a Negro Youth, Promised to
Communicate With the Sheriff.
noted Joseph Fife, a negro youth, con¬
of attempted assault on Mrs.
Clarks, a widow, and who confessed to
other like crimes, was hanged in the
T«d of the city jail at Richmond, Ya.,
Thursday. He
ascended the gallows with the
stolid indifference about leaving this
*or!d which he had maintained from
fhe time of his sentence. His last
w ords to Deputy Sergeant Ralston
*ere:
“I will send you a telegram from
heaven on the I4th of March.”
HARRITY WAS OUSTED.
Seat I„ National Democratic Com
mittee Declared Vacant.
Ey a vote of 53 to 26 the Pennsyl
v ania state democratic committee in
^ssion at Pen/Vncr a 3mVed a resolu
tion declaring vacant the seat of Wil
F. Harritv, of Philadelphia, in
the executive ccnnmittee to consider
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SOUTHERN PROGRESS.
Industries Established in the South Du¬
ring; the East Week.
A review of the southern industrial
conditions for the past week shows a
most gratifying increase in business
and prices of all products are grow¬
ing stronger as the demand increases.
This is epecialiy trne of the iron aud
steel trade, advances having been
made in Bessemer pig, foundry iron,
gray forge, billets, bars, rods and wire
nails.
The movement in southern iron is
active. The furnaces are shipping
their product as fast as it is turned
out and several furnaces will probably
be put in blast at an early date.
Among the new industries reported
for the week are canning factories at
Green Cove Springs, Fla., and San
tuck, S. C.; chemical works at Lynch¬
burg, Ya.; an electrict light plant at
Whitesboro, Tex., and a $50,000 light
and power plant at Paducah, Ivy.;
flouring mills at St. Florian, Ala.;
Conway, Ark.; Ringgold, Ga., and
Mount Calm, Tex.; grist mill at Mon
crue, N. C., and Suffolk, Ya., and
foundry and machine shops at Mid
dlesborough, Ky. The Maguire Coal
Co., capital $35,000, has been charter¬
ed at Beattyville, Ky. ;the Blue Springs
Lead and Zinc Co., capital $15,000, at
Chattanooga; the Southern Gold Min¬
ing Co., capital $100,000, at Gaines¬
ville, Ga., and the Georgia Gold Min¬
ing Co., at Lexington, Ky. A soap
factory will be erected at Westlake,
La., and cotton gins at Decatur, Ala.;
Oliver, Ga., and Ganado, Tex. The
E. B. James Lumber Co., capital
$50,000, has been organized at Apa¬
lachicola, Ela., and the Morgan Lum¬
ber Co., capital $10,000, at Clarendon,
Tex. Other woodworking plants will
be erected at Florence, Ala.; Haralson,
Ga.; Louisville, Ky.; Crowley, La.,
and Concord, N. C.—Tradesman
(Chattanooga, Tenn.)
MORE COTTON MILLS START UP.
New England Factories Resume, Giving
Employment to Idle Labor.
Operations were resumed in the At¬
lantic mills at Lawrence, Mass., Mon¬
day, after a shut down of four weeks.
The mills will give employment to
about 1,200 hands. Work was also re¬
sumed in the weaving department of
the Methuen company’s mills at Meth¬
uen. Nearly all of the 450 operatives
employed in these mills are now at
work.
At Providence, R. I., the Harris
mills started after a shut down of two
weeks. The mills employ about 300
hands.
The Great Falls Cotton Manufact¬
uring Company’s mills at Somersworth,
N. H., resumed operations on full
time, after having been run forty
hours a week since May.
The Lawrence cotton mills, in
Lowell, Mass., also started Monday
morning after a shutdown of four
weeks. This is the last mill in the
city to resume operations, and in all
of them it is said sufficient orders
have been received to insure a pros¬
perous season.
CHICAGO FIGHTERS FOR CUBA.
A Keport That Two Hundred Will Go to
Tho Stone of Action.
According to the Chicago Times
Herald, two hundred Americans and
three carloads of ammunition were sup¬
posed to leave Chicago Monday night
for Jacksonville, Fla., to board the
steamer Soledad, for some point in
Cuba.
The Americans composing the Chi¬
cago Cuban contingent are made up
mostly of the unemployed. They have
enlisted for twelve months and are to
receive a salary of $20 a month.
A Jacksonville dispatch says: The
report that the steamer Soledad, of
this city, is to take a party of Chicago
filibusters to Cuba is entirely errone¬
ous. The steamer has been undergo
ing repairs for some months.
PRINTERS OBJECT TO CUT.
Employees of Franklin Publishing House
At Atlanta, Walk Out.
For the second time within two
months there was a general walkout at
the Franklin Printing and Publishing
company at Atlanta, Ga., Monday
morning. Last June the men struck
because of tbe fact that the officers of
the company notified them of a
general reduction which was to have
taken place the next day. This strike
was compromised, however, the men
returning to work at a reduction of
$2.50 a week, but working only eight
hours a day instead of ten.
FALLING WALLS KILL FOUR.
Disastrous and Fatal 1U«« Occurs at
Fittsbur*, Fa.
Fire at Pittabmg Pa. TTiursday
evening caused the death of two fire
men, th death of wo boys, the loss
of $165 O 00 worth o f property, injury
to twh firemen and created a panic in
subdued aud the firemen were coup-
1 Soft uadetthe
sss watching the
Two boys, who were
firemen work, are also supposed to ba
under the fallen walls.
BILL ARP’S WEEKLY LETTER.
ETHNOLOGICAL FACTS REGARDING
INDIANS AND WHITES.
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The lied Xian, Though Being Rapidly
Decimated, Is "Well Fixed aud
Happy Withal.
Not long ago some writer from the
west told us that white people were
marrying Indian girls more frequently
than ever before. “Indeed,” he said,
“the dusky maidens seem to prefer
tlie pale faces to their own race aud
color.”
This provokes me to write a letter
about Indians for the special pleasure
and benefit of our young people. Bovs
and girls like to read about them, I
know, but most of the stories that ap¬
pear are more romantic than true.
During the war our brigade camped
one night on the Chickahominy river,
about thirty miles below Richmond,
and we were shown the very stone ou
which Captain John Smith laid his
head for Powhattan’s club when
the beautiful Pocahontas rushed
wildly in the circle and threw her¬
self upon liis bosom and saved his life.
About the stone I have my doubts, but
it is historically true that Powhattan
lived there, and that his daughter, a
lovely lass of fourteen, did save John
Smith’s life, as lie in his letter to the
queen of England says, “at the minute
of my execution she hazarded the
beating out of her own brains to save
mine.” She afterwards married John,
Rolfe, with her father’s consent, and
from that union came the Randolphs
of Virginia, and a little strain of that
same Pocahontas blood flows in my
wife’s veins, and slie is proud of it,
and loves to tell the story to her nu¬
merous aud lovely offspring. That
little strain isn’t bigger than a cam¬
bric needle, but it has never lost its
strength. She would make a right
good Pocahontas now if anybody that
she loved was in danger. In fact, she
has some Indian traits still lingering
in her bosom, and should have been
named Indiana when she was chris¬
tened.
But it seems that ever since Poca¬
hontas married a white man the In¬
dian maidens of all the civilized tribes
have been willing to do the fame
thing. It is well known that the
of the Creeks and Chero-
kees in Georgia always said yes when
a good-looking white man proposed
marriage; but such unions were not
hasty nor deceitful; they had to be in
earnest and from honorable motives.
If an Indian maid was betrayed by a
designing white man, he could hardly
escape for the whole tribe became
avengers of blood. Her virtue was
her dearest ornament, and if she lost
it the third finger of her left hand was
dismembered at the second joint, and
that left, her shame always visible.
Now it seems to be settled by the
men of science that the Indian belongs
to the Caucassian or white race, or
else he is aboriginal and is a race of
his own. He is neither Mongolian,
Malay nor negro. He was first found
here ou this continent, jnst as the
negro was first found in Africa. As
the elephant was found in Asia, the
kangaroo in Australia and the llama
in Peru, so the Indian maybe a native
of the manor born, for geologists say
that this continent is the oldest by
several thousand years. But where
he came from or how he got here is a
question too deep for me. The exist¬
ence of Aztecs in Mexico is still an un¬
solved problem, and who were the
mound builders is a matter of doubt
and speculation. One thing, however,
seems certain, that the race is doomed
to extinction. The command “be
fruitful and multiply” does not belmig
to them. According to the Lmted States
census reports, in 1853 there were in
in 1880, 3H6,543;‘in 1890,’ S4*!m
Of these 58,806 are classed as civil
ized The Cherokees and Creeks were
sent from Georgia to the Indian Ter
ritorv about sixty years ago. The
former then numbered near 15,000;
they number less than that now. What
is the matter with them? They have
fine lands, both for pasturage and cul
tivatkm, and the bounty of the gov
eminent would nearly support them.
They have good framed houses to live
in and have as good sclioolnouses and
churches as our country people Lave
in Georgia. They are classed as civil
i ze d, and dress just like white L.!k*
and cook and eat as nourishing food
we do. What is the matter? I
apke(1 one G f their educated ministers.
‘*Qod knows,” said he. I mingled
their people aud talked with them.
They did not seem .o be sad or dis
bnt that the mature died faster than |
T .sir:
j n( ]j an maidens. These unions were j
prolific of children who were healthy I
ami haudsome, ami always bred after
the mother, having her cinnamon
color, her straight black hair and high ‘
cheek bones. There is no apparent
mixture of blood as that which appears
in the mulatto who is the half breed of
whites and blacks. But these Indian
types weaken in succeeding genera
tions of quadroons and octoroons, and
if ever the tribes are saved from ex
tiuction, it will bo by this increasing
amalgamation with the white race,
These unions do not seem to shock
the sentiment of mankind as do the
•"'mis of whites with negroes. Even
Yassar college would not be horror
stricken at the discovery of an octo
roon among her pupils. Indian stn
dents may be found in many of our
colleges and are not rejected at hotels
or boarding houses or theaters or
churches or ou railroads. In some of
the tribes, as in the Creeks and Cher
okees, their features, their beauty and
their traits of character approximate
the Anglo-Saxon. Schoolcraft, who is
the highest authority, says their feat
ures are regular, their expression no
ble; they are taciturn and stoical to
the last degree, cunning and watchful,
persevering in the pursuit aud re
vengeful in the destruction of their
enemies, hospitable aud grateful for
favors, a close observer of natural phe
nomena, his temperament poetic and
imagination, and his simple eloquence
of great dignity and beauty of expres
sion. Many of tbe women are really
handsome, and tlieir skiu is tliinner,
softer and smoother than is the white
race’s.
Boudinot was a very handsome, im¬
pressive man even in his old age. I
met him at Fort Smith some years
ago. He was educated at Princeton,
He was a Cherokee and was born in
Vann’s valley, near Rome. His mother
. b . rt , ll,U , ... ‘‘“‘“fT ,, , , ,
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Cave Spring. When , but a lad he was
“ken weal vat , the tribe m 1837 Not
long after that he »•.« sent to 1 In a
delplua to school and was adopted by
Elias Boudinot, a wealthy philanthro¬
pist and took his name. While lie
lived he stood high as a learned and
eloquent advocate, and was the agent
and ambassador of the tribe in all
matters connected with the United
States government. But now these
tribes do not have to send their chil
dren so far away to get an education.
What our government does is always
well done, aud handsome school houses
are found all over the territories. In
1877 the policy of educating them
was organized and $20,000 appro¬
priated. In 1880 it was increas¬
ed to $75,000; in 1885 to $992,000,
and in 1890 to $1,304,.>08. I reckon it
is two or three millions by this time.
And besides this large amount, the
different religious societies of the
United States give largely to tie
cause, the Roman Latholic chinch
giving near half a million annually
and having charge of more schools
than all tbe other denominations put
together. Then, again, jnst thiuk of
the land they have got—1(50 acres to
each head of a family, 80 acres to each
child 18 years old and 40 to those
younger. Just think of all the old and
decrepit ones being supported by tiie
government and all the young ones ed¬
ucated free. Why, it would seem that
with all this fraternalism aud private
benefactions a child is fortunate to be
born an Indian. The wards of the na¬
tion, whether red or black, are having
a good time.
There was an old song that was sung
by a lazy vagabond, and it said:
Oh, I wish I was a goose
All forlorn, all forlorn;
Oh, I wish I was a goose,
Eating corn!
But now the song for our thousands
of tramps to sing is:
“Oh, I wish I was an Indian.”
It used to be that in our college
text-books that population increased
in proportion to the comforts of life
that the common people enjoyed. This
theory J fits the southern negro pretty
+ },„ v f.nn tin no to multiulv
Vabbits, in spite of all tbe barbari
f th;lt the j> ostoT1 Transcript accuses
• not fit the Indian
reu lj, ‘8.1; aiH never V'V bos mote"hail twoohiM^
^Har ford, Writ the estate But
’d Conn. Times knocks the
O””” k ’ au u 14 , oes further in defense
, nanar ~
° 0 sou 1 iau
and preachers. v .. ,, »re are manv
e '
„
mmds.-B . Ai- .
men of many ile in
Atlanta Cons i u ion.
SPAIN M AKES „ x-yw" At .w l. yntv tx. .
, t to ,7LL»w Won«y For Navy
improvements.
lvi from MaJrid Bta te that the
i„h eovernment is arrangiu" a
J “ cre ^ dit with the view of strength
tL„ tax has been pledged
r ; fv f or the loan
* :jj i mediatelv
® ^' ; t m
t a on i arge f ironelad and six
‘
f fpoln 6 )00 to 7,000 tons to
nor th* k.oht shade.
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^ S”
kiu;S tljat Deve r tan, aud guesis will
„
tbink we associate with people who stay
in town all summer.”
AGRICULTURAL TOPICS.
Bnrdovk Leaves for Horses.
Tt is a practice of some farmers we
know to let a few burdock plants grow
so a3 * 0 f ur ni s h a green bite for horses
during the early summer. The horses
a re almost crazy at this season to eat
something green, and the slightly bit
ter taste of the burdock leaves does
not prevent, them from eating them
greedily. This will not interfere with
eating dry feed as green grass would
do. In fact, some horsemen regard
the burdock leaves as a valuable tonic,
and declare that horses eat more
heartily and do more work after they
have been fed thus.—American Culti
vator.
Grow Medicinal Plants.
Many medicinal plants can be grown
with profit, as the demand for some
kinds is increasing. Absinthe (worm
wood) can be raised as far north as
New Euglaud, and this country im
ports it from Europe, baftron, which
sells for $8 per pound, may be grown
* u nearly all sections. Peppermint
spearmint find ready sale, and
S!l S e > which is well known to every
farmer, is imported, frequently selling
a *' $150 per ton. Then there are hoar
hound, boneset, mandrake, blood root,
pennyroyal, etc., which are regarded
80 weeds in some localities, all ot
"’Inch are l flr K®ly used and have a
vft ‘ vie m market,
Care of Milk Can#.
At a convention in Minnesota, J. Iv.
Bennett said,among other things: In the
care of cans, they are to ho kept clean
H' eo f rom rusL They should be
washed as soon as possible after being
used. Rinse first with cold water,then
s«ub thoroughly with a brush both m
ft ud outside, using warm watei.al
most hot. or better a good soap suds;
it often anyhow. ' Give particular
, tteniion , h „ eamB „„ a , wt tOTget
j( , Vo „ k „,„ v the i«
jo juilg8 j by the outside. Fini.U
with scalding water. Turn your cans
En'to’right
side or on their sides in the fresh
air, and you will have clean, sweet
cans. It is a very common error to
leave them over a stake, oron a board*
This ifJ ft serioU8 mistake,us invariably
the cans wiU BOU1 . thereby. The hot
ftir or gteam r i 3e8 and has no escape,
conaequen t)y condenses in the .cans
and 80lir8 Much milk otherwise well
i care q for i H often tainted from no other
reason. A rusty can should not be
used, as it imparts a foreign flavor to
milk.—Dairy World.
summer Care of Berry Hushes,
A] , be bushea Bhou ja ho protected
fr om summer heat aud drought. This
be done in two way8 . First, by
f reauen t cultivation and hoeing, thus
j orm j n g an earth mulch, which pre¬
venbs th e ra pid escape of moisturo
from tho 8oib Second, by covering tho
„ roun< j uroutl d the hill with coarse
manure, straw and other material,
which prevents evaporation and re¬
tains the moisture about the roots.
One of the best and cheapest mulches
for the farmer is green clover, cut in
blossom and applied same as manure.
It is easily applied, retains moisture,
enriches the soil, keeps the berries
clean and contains no germ of noxious
weeds. A good muloh well applied is
one of the great necessities in success¬
ful fruit growing. When new canes of
the blackberry and black raspberry are
eighteen inches high, nip the top off
about two inches; this will cause sev¬
eral new laterals to grow, which should
bo trimmed severely in the spring.
The pinching back of new growth is
important. It largely increases tbe
bearing surface, keeps the bush low,
itrong, well formed and less liable to
rijury from severe storms.-—M. A.
Thayer, in Nebraska Fanmer.
K11Un * R .®* e
A. Greenfield (Mass.) subscriber .
writes: “I have several peachtree.
which at the present time are full of
Willie thinning them I found
that many had holes in them and oth
ers were being eaten by the common
rose bug. Sometimes the bugs were
r »t W.MC, i» tb.y wer.
^ n f haT * Je Te “°^ot‘ c8 a (t before?
there anything that cau be done
to prevent it? This year there are so
many more peaches than the tre* can
bear that I am not sorry; but another
year it may be different* Peaches are
now about an inch long and one-lialf
^ three-fourths the other way.”
years when the rose beetles are
abundant in a locality it is not unusual
to find them eating the fruit of peach,
8 PI>1® cherry trees. They are
vei T destructive to bearing grape
viQes > eating the blossoms as well aa
tlie leaves. Their first choice seems to
he white roses and grape blossoms, but
greenapples andpeachesarevery ac
rentable. No better method than
hand-picking has yet been discovered
?or com 8ating this insect. They are
m°st eaaily caugW by homing a dish
J , ^ ^toucWnVthem with th^
drop into the water Soapy water
~ rgs
or a few small trees this is cheap aud
Cheever » ia >ew Eag *
farmer.