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J.T WHICH srrt'K.lL SVHJICTS AKB
DIICOVUBD AEOCT.
Dr W. P. Thlrkleld Write* from on Alpin*
Pension—He I’orlraj, Wewtmlnater Ab
bey—A btroll in the Peeta’ Corner.
President Stauffer, of the New Orleans
Wholesale Grocers* Association, is an earn
est advocate of protection to the sugar in
dustry of his state, because of the immense
market which the other states of the union
find in Louisiana. ,
• W ould you believe it.” says he. that aU
most j3t*.'U».U» of supplies are imported into
Louisiana, some of it coming from almost
every sate in the union. We get■ Jron j
Pennsylvania and Alabama *I.2OT.OTM or
coal; from Kentucky. Tennessee. Indiana
and Missouri 53.10T.00T worth of horses and
mules; ft am Minne**ta. Missouri and Kan
sas in breatisiuffs. from Ohio, Il-
linois. Kansas. Nebraska and Texas $3.-
in meats; from Kansas. Missouri. 11-
ln ois and lowa H.BOT.OTO in hay, oats. corn,
etc.; from Ohio and Michigan Sl.'-'OT.OTO in
cooperage; from the Carolinas. Georgia and
Tennessee SSW.OTO in cow pecs, etc; from
Pennsylvania. Ohio and Alabama $30»,«<0 in
oils, paints and lime; from Missouri. Penn
sylvania, New York and Illinois $6,000,000 of
machinery, etc.; Item Massachusetts, Mis
souri and Illinois SI.SUV.OTO in boots and
slices; from New York. Illinois and Missou
ri RMOT.MW in clothing, and in sundries from
otht r parts of the union $l.jOT.<«W. Take
as ay these consumers and these other
sections will find their trade cut off that
amount. It is not alone necessary that the
fa-mer should have good crops. He must
have consumers to whom to sei* his pro
duce. The people of Cuba and Java do not
purchase our farm supplies, nor is any
kind of reciprocity with them possible.”
It must be confessed that the new tariff
biil. though the work of southern men. and
passed into law by the political parly which
ewes its existence to southern votes, has
■truck the great i«ort city of the south
balder than any other commercial com
munity in the union. New Orleans is the
hi me market of the American sugar indus
try. which has been set back to the ad
vantage of Cuba. Java and the Hawaiian
Islands. New Orleans is also the greatest
lumber market of the south, and that ar
ticle has been placed on the free list, to tile
advantage of the Canadian lumbermen.
The lumber output of the southern states,
which, in 1880. was valued at Sa,S43,OTa, had
Increased in POT to 5!2.473.«< or -*M per cent.
It may be stated here that the output in
Georgia, had increased from 5737.20 T to 53,-
&45.972. The 5,7X1 southern lumber mills em
ployed 71.63 V men and the total value of
<•r • The ri e crop,
also tributary to New Orleans, and yielding
1.50T.0TV barrels of rough rice, also fares
badly under the new tariff bill. The bill
a<lmits uncleaned rice at a low rate of dutj,
to the disadvantage of the government as
well as the American growers, who will
haie to witness the importation of that
cereal, graded uncleaned, but really subj« ct
to the manipulation of a few importers who
will rush in their cleaned rice through a
little baksheesh given to customs officers.
It is the combination of all these ills that
makes the community of interest between
the sugar planters and the business men of
New Orleans.
I am in receipt of a let’ r from Rev. M 11-
bur P. Thirkield. dean of Gammon school
of theology, much of which will be read
with interest to his friends in Georgia. The
doctor wrote from Zermotte, Switzerland.
It is in speaking a’rout Westminster abbey
that he touches an Interest which will be
deeply felt: "A visit to Westminster ab
bey is.” writes Dr. Thirkield, "at any time,
of r.b-orbing and inspiring interest. The
al bey is at once bout a po» tn and a history.
We cannot forg* t how this stately and
splendid i-i:fiee stirred the imagination of
our own Irving, and to walk through its
aisles, chapels. transiepts, cloisters with
Dean Stanley was to read over in archi
trave and column, in storied monument or
simple slab or in marble bust, the history
of church and state in England for a thou
sand years. Here lies enshrined much
that is w orthiest and some that is meanest
in the annals of the mighty little island.
“If to walk through this historic abbey
b neath its lofty, vaulted roof, through its
aisles and among Its memorials, when all
is empty and still, is a memorable expe
rience, what must it be when
the nave and choir are crowded
with worshipers, ana the mighty organ
■ends forth its pealing notes, filling the
great spaces, and when the surpiiced choir
of many men and boys, and the clergymen,
canons and dean, with their vestments, file
in through the aisles into their places? It
Is certainly most impressive even to one
unaccustomed to an elaborate ritual or
stately ceremonial in public worship. As
he hears the responsive chanting of the
psalms taken up by singers on opposite
sides of the choir his mind sweeps back
over the centuries to the great temple at
Jerusalem, when thus in antiphonal form
these inspired songs first found voice in the
public worship of God.
“It was at an aft« rnoon service in July
that Archdeacon Farrar was announced to
preach in Westminster. In visiting the
great cathedrals in the north and east of
En land the seats were generally found
empty, though the full service was ren
dered with fine music and elaborate cere
nion al. But knowing that a voice was
to sound f.-rth in the abbey and not merely
the • .-h' of s.-ng and ritual. I knew’ that the
people would be there, and so, to get a
favorable scat. I went early. My seat,
n« ar the pulpit, was under the great tower,
that, resting on mighty Hu ted pillars,
sweeps on up and beyond the lofty spaces
of the vaulted roof. Before me was the
superb r. e win <>w with its fine tracery,
illumine l by paint. I glass emblazoning in
living color s< enes of scripture. Below
this were the twelve long-painted windows,
■ll ablaze with color, illuminating with
historic views the massive wall of the
tran.~ • nt. The eye folio w.-d the great pil
lars with flowered capitals and the gothic
arches that led up to the closed story of
cart'-! stone above—all opened into the
choristory with its great windows that let
tn flow Is of light.
“No one sits waiting for the service to
b* g<n; his eye falls on the ’poet’s corner,’
I Was Weak,
Tired and nervous, my Pkhl did not dtjreM
•asily In sari I was in poor health generally.
,o sleep
propped up In bed to
breathe easily at
Difcat. I had the
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a cough. I
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J Hood’s Sarsaparilla.
V* t f I have taken seven
'fA I bottles and can ent
A / what 1 please, sleep
soundly and feel
rested unless I over
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y° un ß 35 dnl at 16
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*Blent In my daily ex
* Mrs. I. E. Wallace ercise. I cannot be
gin to express my thanks sufficient for such
s gre;.: soothing, health restoring medicln*
Hood’s
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River Association of Baptists. Calvert City. Ky.
Hoort*■ Fills I’ve universal eattsraetton.
fij G L Hood & Co., Loach, Maes.
under the Illuminated windows above men
tioned. Dull and spiritless must he be
who, with indifference, can gaze on these
memorials of those who, by their song
have enriched our tongue and glorified our
thought. Here now lies Tennyson, who in
his Tn Memoriam* has made all life and
human relationships more sacred and im
mortality more real, leading many a doubt
ing soul to reverent faith in
•• ‘That God, whoever lives and loves,
One God, one law, one element.
And one supreme, divine event.
Toward which the whole creation moves.’
"And here, too, now rests the mighty
Browning, a fresh wreath upon his grave,
and fresh hoi>e has be breathed into many
hearts by that simple song, ending in
” ’God's in His Heaven,
All’s right with the world.’
"Just round to the right from the ’Poets’
Corner’ is seen the memorial to John and
Charles Wesley, for which, not Methodists
only, but the Christian world, are.indebted
to the broad-hearted Catholic Dean Stanley.
Both sons of the Church of England; both
sons of God, well may the prophet and poet
of nMdern evangelical Christianity And
fitting memorial here. John Wesley is
represented in the marble bas relief as
standing on tiie tomb stone of his lather’s
grave preaching in the churchyard to the
multitudes, because the doors of the church
had been closed against this earnest and
intrepid evangelist, who preached the sim
ple doctrines of grace and salvation. Two
of his great words stand out in the inscrip
tions: 'My parish is the world,’ and the
words of trust uttered on his deathbed:
’The best of all is. God is with us.’ Truly
the children of those who stoned the
prophet have risen to build his monument.
“But it was my purpose to tell you of the
prophet in the abbey and not of West
minster itself. \\ hile we have sat medi
tating a vast throng has gathered. The
seats are all tilled. The aisles are crowded
with people, standing. Truly the genuine
messenger of God draws men to hear h.m.
Bishop Newman was wise in that recent
utterance in London when called upon to
speak on the subject of ‘Empty Churches.’
He said the chief trouble was that the
pulpit was empty. As a general rule it is,
’empty preachers, empty churches; full
preachers, full churches.’
"The service of prayer and song over
the preacher enters the pulpit. His face
is pale, the outlines clean cut and marked
with power. His general bearing is stamp
ed with earnestness and genuineness. There
is a ’sad sincerity’ in his countenance. He
feels the buruen of his message. His voice
is clear and resonant and utterly free from
cant »»r drawl on the ’holy tone.’ He speaks
as one terribly in earnest. He has a manu
script, but his ringing voice and impassion
ed manner set his manuscript on lire, in
his zeal he beats his hands together.
Again, as he enforces the lessons of the
old prophet and draws tne startling paral
lel in the church and social life of today,
his clinched list rises and falls. His fine
eye flashes tire. His countenance glows.
Men 'see the God within him light his
face.’ He is a prophet of God with as
g-nuine a message to his generation us
Hosea had for the people of his day.
"He has taken his text from the Prophet
Hosea, and like a prophet he speaks on.
'O, Israel, thou has destroyed thyself’—
Hosea, 13: 9. He points out the danger of
the merely formal, conventional and unreal
in life. This unreality kills life and de
stroys power, t’nless preachers jealously
watched their words the inevitable ten
dency of their sermons, as of all other
religious exercises, would be to become
empty, hollow and conventional. They
would lapse only too easily into recognized
shibboleths and customary texts. In the
last century, when art had become as
stereotyped as everything else, a well
known painter, looking at a friend’s land
scape, said, ’lt’s all very well, but where do
you put your brown tree"’ It had become a
recognized trick -a regular rule—to put a
brown tree into every landscape painted, al
though no one pretended that there were
always brown trees in nature. Still, they
were expected in pictures. So far had art
degenerated from the truth of fact and na
ture. So, too, might sermons easily degene
rate from the truth of Christianity. Theo
logy tended to become unite full of brown
trees, and he, for one, did not wonder that
so many of their churches were empty, that
so many men held aloof fr<>in them; that
they did not care for the endless iteration
of formulae and dogma, which seemed to
produce so little effect on the minds of
those who preached or of those who listen
ed to them. Perhaps the mass of men
would believe more in the worth and good
ness of sermons if they could see a more
marked difference between the life of pro
fessing Christians and the life of ordinary
men. As it was, they had preached Christ
for centuries, until men had almost learnt
to seoff, so few seemed any better for the
prea hing. The old cry, 'Christ has come,
but when cometh salvation,’ was ringing
more sadly than ever from many earnest
hearts. They had multiplied services, but
where was the proof of more gaining holi
ness. They had multiplied Eucharists, but
what sign was there that they had pro
du eed in the religious world more of the
love that was the fulfilling of the law.
"Now, as of old, the deadliest peril to
Christianity arose from the unreality of
Christians. He had long been convinced
that many of their opinions and principles
in these days differed enormously from the
simple gospel which Christ preached. They
much mure resembled the dead Judaism of
priests and Pharisees; while in the world
self-seeking, worldly torpidity, and the
semblances of religion prevailed among
trimmers an 1 half-and-half people, or peo
ple who were nothing at all except in
church. If these were bitter truths, it was
their duty to speak truths, however bit
ter, rather than soft platitudes and silken
euphemisms, lie saw but little hope of a
revival of the true Christian ideal until
God in His mercy raised up amongst us
some prophet like Savonarola or Luther or
John Wesley—some saint like St. Paul or
St. Francis, who was a saint indeed. Arch
deacon Farrar went on to say that in
every religion there must be doctrine ami
principle and a basis of doctrine on which
our life must be built, but that doctrine
did not need vast tomes of sacerdotal and
scholastic theology for its exposition. The
Lord's Prayer, the Ten Commandments, the
Apostle’s Creed would give us more than
ail we required for the salvation of our
souls, and unless we saw that these were
revealed to us for one and one only object,
namely to make us good men and good
women, we missed their most rudimentary
conception. Christ came to show us that
God's will was our sanctification—'only he
who doeth righteousness is born of God.’
He knew nothing that this age, this na
tion, that church needed more pressingly
than the lesson; Get sincerity, get reality,
simplify your lives, simplify your religion,
return to the simplicity which is in <»hrist
Jesus, burn up the ecclesiastical super
structures of wood, hay, straw, stubble
which were built upon the one foundation.
Cease to oppress or to try to oppress our
intellects and our consciences by teaching
for doctrines the commandments of men;
fling your worthless idols to the moles and
bats; learn that the gospel means to believe
in the Lord Jesus Christ, and, because you
believe In Him, rely not upon saying, ‘Jx»rd,
laird.’ but do the things which He says.
Whatever our belief may be, whatever our
worship may be, unless we keep Innocency,
and do the thing that is right, we have
missed the one thing, and the only thing
which will bring any human being peace at
last.
• • •
"Behold the accumulated rottenness almut
us! See the vulgar religious semblance
about us. The gospel was meant to save
and to uplift our life here. The reason
that the church had so little influence on
the masses about us is because men see
so much of the levitism of a godless Chris
tianity. written through and through with
the curse and blight of unreality. Men
seek peace and hanpiness. Happiness is
not of the world. It is from within. Be
your own palace, or the world’s your jail.
"O Israel! thou hast destroyed thyself!
In me is thy peace! Today Christ stretch
es out to us the hand that, for our sake.
He permitted to be nailed on the cross.
He alone will lift us up. like Peter, out of
tlia Quod about us."
■ MORAN.
THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION: ATLANTA. GA.. MONDAY. OCTOBER 1,1894.
SARGE PLUNKETT.
A WORD Os PRAISE FOR THE SOUTH
AND ITS COTTON CROP.
The “First Bale” Cheers the Farmer and
Makes Happy Homes—A Day with
the Circus lieu- Their Troubles.
•
For The Constitution.
The fields are white and the whir of the
gtn is heard in the land—money will soon
be plenty and the farmers are smiling.
Cotton is money. No other crop so rep
resents money as does cotton. This fs the
fascination in raising the staple. There is
no having to run around to find a buyer
when you drive into town with cotton. They
will watch for you, hunt you up and follow
you around to buy your cotton—nothing else
is so. When the pile of cotton begins to
grow in the cotton house —for it is not ev
ery one who can have a ginhouse—the old
man of the family begins to raise his head
and step high, the children get a livelier
move upon themselves and the good wife
begins to think up a little list of what is
to lie bought with the first bale. Already the
first bale has been promised away by the
old ina.v> When the first lick was struck at
chopping time pretty pictures of what they
were to have in the fall catne to the chil
dren's minds, and these pictures have stim
ulated them all through the hot
months, and now as the realiza
tion draws so close the dance
of happiness limbers the limbs and flowing
merriment runs romping through the hum
blest homes. Ked-top boots, a new wool
hat, a single-barreled gun, a two-bladed
knife —these are the sorts of things that
dance before the boys from 'the emptying
of the first “lap” In the morning till weigh
ing time in the evening. And the little girls
are among the “pickers,” too. Rainbows of
ribbons fringe the ends of rows and make
their little hands fly fast to reach the goal.
Pretty "checks” and flowered calico festoon
the "patch,” and pretty dolls are every
where. These are the delights of the youth
ful southron as the old red hills begin to
clothe themselves in white and proclaim to
aU the world that “I am the source, the pa
rent of the king of kings—King Cotton.”
I think that everybody most has noticed
the small country boy as he drives into
town, sitting with his feet hanging over tho
end of the cotton bale. Just buck of him,
with their tails in the split of a hickory,
there ‘s> more than apt to grin a 'possum or
two. A bag of walnuts lies up by the 'pos
sums, and a bow basket sits tied with a
string to the bale. Thera ’possums and
walnuts will rattle some money in that
boy's pocket before he leaves town, and in
that bow basket is some of the sweetest
pone bread, the brown fried chicken, cold
ham, some little cakes and cold potatoes,
with the syrup oozing from them— this is
their provisions for the trip, fixed up and
covered with a nice clean cloth by a
thoughtful and kind mother. Ih they are to
camp out at night you will see some loa
der and corn in the wagon when the cotton
is unloaded, and some fat lightwood is more
than apt to be there, too, and certain you
will see some good old-fashioned quilts for
a pallet at night.
If you will watch till that cotton Is un
loaded, the team driven in some out-of-the
way place and fed, the dog tied to the hind
axle of the wagon and the wheel locked,
you will see that father and son make a
start to "do” the town. If the town should
be Atlanta, Folsom’s restaurant is the first
plate to seek, and Jake Johnson soon iias
“ ’possum” on his bill of fare. It is not
long after that till the boy is stepping high
in a pair ot red-top boots. If you will keep
your eye on that boy you will see that he
never takes one hand from ills pocket. The
money "Jake” paid him for them 'possums
is clinched in that hand, and .'■tumble as he
may from having too many tilings to watch,
he will cling to that money till it sweats
under the grasp, and nothing but ammuni
tion for the new gun he ir soon to have
could ever persuade it away. You would
not lose anything by going the whole round
with this father and son and see how care
fully he unties his pocketbook and counts
the money for his purchases; but I had
much rather be with them as they drive up
to their home once more. This is the cli
max. Every child has been watching and
listening for the rumble of the wagon on
its return. Many times even the good moth
er has gone out and taken a look up the
road. The children have gone down the
road and wait, restless and expectant. At
last “they are coming,” for the rattle of a
wagon is heard away off. Every little heart
bounds, and eyes are strained, and bated
breath. It happens to be some one else—
"not our wagon"—and the waiting begins
again. It comes, though—“our wagon”
turns round the bend. No mistake this
time; the blaze In the face of the old horse
is plain, the little son is driving, and he
whips up the team as every child runs fly
ing to meet him. All the hard licks of
summer are paid for in this pue meeting.
Al! the luxuries of all tiie kings never
brought a happier household. God bless the
south! and God bless cotton! and God bless
the youth who Is brave enough to labor In
turning our fields into sheens of whiteness!
From now on the work on the farms will
be the gathering in of the fruits of indus
try. Peas play almost as important a part
in the matter of “picking" as does cotton.
It is a smart farmer who has his farm well
covered with peavines for they have cost
him nothing in production. Gathering corn
will be a frolic, for many a corn-shucking
will enliven the nights between now and
Christmas, and the children enjoy swinging
on the coupling pole from the field and have
a line time riding back when the corn is
unloaded. The big yellow pumpkins are
gathered with the corn and will sweeten for
the pies of winter. If we try we can find
fully as many delights in the life upon the
farm as could be found in any other call
ing, and cotton has a right to a prominent
place in the list es delightful things.
We went to the circus last week and
found that these showmen, whose business
it is to make sport fur the world, have their
share of drawbacks and find plenty of room
for grumbling. It takes lots to run a show,
and there are just as many chances for
them to fail of success as there are for the
farmer to fail in his crop. The item of
beef fur feeding the animals runs far ahead
of what I would have expected. Everything
costs connected with a show, and the
clowns, even, have their moments of mel
ancholy. We folks who are given to grum
bling with farm life could find comfort in
the investigation of troubles in other busi
ness, and there Is no other class better able
to impress you than show people that all
that glitters Is not gold, and that often a
sad life has all the appearances of cheer
fulness. When wagons begin to blo"k the
streets, loaded with cotton, everything iooki.
up. Prosperity comes with the coming of
cotton, no matter how we may grumble
with the work it takes to produce it nor
how low the price. After all, when we
get pay for the seed, which the farmer*
of old times could not do, the prices are
balanced up with times past, and makes
the south ahead of all other sections.
Say what you please about cotton,
It's the fife of the dear southland;
And say what you please about farming.
There was never a happier man
Than he who has corn in his crib.
And of meat a little for sale,
Peas, turnips and “taters” a plenty,
And driving to town his “first bale.”
SARGE PLUNKETT.
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A I.awlees Gang.
Montgomery, Ala., September 26.—(Spe
cial.)—A state of lawlessness prevails in
Randolph county in the community in
which Whaley, the government informer,
was murdered two weeks age. Whaley has
two brothers who live in the same neigh
borhood. Almost every night guns are fired
around their houses, rocks are thrown into
their windows and an attempt was made to
burn one of their houses a few nights ago.
Several families in the neighborhood hide
out every mght tiuuu*b Xear of visitation
from this gang of desperadoes. The com
munity is terrorized and intimidated to
such an extent that no evidence against
the gang can be brought out. They have
witnessed the fate on the informer in the
past. The newspapers and officer* in the
community are rallying the citizens. A
fund is being raised to contribute to the
arrest and conviction of the gang.
“Hitch your chariot to a star” was Em
prson’s adylce. The star of all the baking
powders is Dr. Price'?. _____
DEFENDING DEUS.
His Counsel Charges Pullman with the Re
sponsibility of the Strike.
Chicago, September 28.—1 n an intensely
eloquent and dramatic speech, which held
si , ell-bound a large crowd in the United
States courtroom this morning. Attorney
W. W. Erwin made the closing argument
for the defendants in the American Railway
Union cases. Mr. Erwin said in part:
"On account of the feeling in this case,
I feel called upon to say something unus
ual and not ordinarily permitted by judges.
I want to say in plain words, before a
plain people, that whatever the outcome
of the case, you have been fair. My col
league, Mr. Gregory, struck the keynote of
this matter when he said that the act of a
strike was one consistent with civil and
religious liberty. I say there was no re
dress from the Pullman horror, although
there are many who say otherwise. What
could they do? Declare war? .No. Break
the public peace? No. Then what may
they do? Anything that the God-given con
science prompts them. That is the liberty
of this flag. Isn’t it a deplorable state of
affairs that while the press rang out, while
the pulpits roared against the iniquities at
Pullman, no power in the law of this coun
try stepped forward to stop them? These
people were starving, yet not a flag was
raised, not a drum beat, not an officer of
this government stepped forward to raise
his hand in behalf of them. The French
revolution was cited here yesterday. M hat
was the French revolution? It was an up
heaval by the finger of God to get refuge
from religious persecution. This case will
not be viewed in the candle-light of the
Milwaukee or tho Santa Fe road, but under
yonder sun—God’s lamp. This case is the
beginning of suits, our friends on the other
side tell us. To us it is the end of defensive
suits.
Crucifixion of Labor.
“I have now said all I wanted to. So far
as I am concerned I am willing to leave
tills case to your own plain decision. 1
would rather leaveAt to you to decide than
to decide it myself. If you should deem it
wise to decide against these men. it would
be more like a crucifixion of the cause of
labor against capital rather than a pun
ishment of these defendants. This is no
time to indulge in diatribes against the
general managers, but they are here—these
monsters are here in Chicago. Pullman
set his foot on the neck of the poor and
the general managers allied themselves
with him. If the law does not do it, God
will give these people justice; He will pun
ish the general managers.”
Edwin L. Walker "ardse to make the
closing argument for the government and
the final one in the case. He said he would
attempt to prove to the court before he
finished his argument that the American
Railway Union was nothing more than a
huge trust, organized for that purpose
and. therefore, it came under the Sherman
anti-trust act of 1890. In regard to Mr
Erwin's intimation that cars had been set
on fire at the instance of the general man
agers, Mr. Walker said the whole matter
had been investigated by a grand jury,
and no witness had been brought forward
to prove the truth of the charges. Mr.
Walker continued:
The Administration Approves.
"The learned counsel who preceded me
said a special prosecutor should be ap
tainted to prosecute the general managers
I will say that if you will get one ap
pointed, 1 will be the first to endorse him.”
The special counsel for the government
then went into the law in the ease, replying
to arguments made for the defendants. Mr
Gregory interrupted him to ask if the
president approved these proceedings. Mr.
Walker answered:
“The administration fully approves all
the proceedings now being t< ken in Chicago
to make these defendants obey the law.'
Mr. Walker confined himself to an argu
ment on the evidence and the facts rather
than to a rhetorical demand for the punish
ment of the defendants He said he could
see no logic in Mr. Erwin's speech, and
that nobody had ever denied the right of
men to strike, whether descended from
Jehovah or obtained otherwise.
They Will Arbitrate.
Massillon, 0., September 28. —At 3 o’clock
this morning the conventions of botii min
ers and operators of the Massillon district
adopted resolutions declaring their willing
ness to place the questions at issue in the
hands of a local arbitration committee, to
be selected in the ordinary manner, and to
resume work in the mines at once pending
the result of the arbitration. Everybody is
jubilant over the settlement of the strike,
which has lasted five months.
The main guestion at issue is a deffcren
tial scale of 15 cents per ton, which, up to
last May, was allowed to the Massillon min
ers on account of the thinness of the veins
and the difficulty of mining. This differen
tial was abolished by the operators last
spring, and a strike resulted. Most of
the Massillon strikers are Americans. They
are industrious and thrifty, and own their
own homes.
Indictments Against Strikers.
flt. Cloud, Minn., September 2S.—lndict
ments have been found against P. L. Bord
rea, L. B. Foster, W. R. Brohan, Lloyd
and Harry Egbert and George Amo, all of
this city, for taking part in the Great
Northern strike and hindering the passage
of the mall trains. George Aino and Harry
Egbert have left for parts unknown. Bro
han and Lloyd Egbert were arrested and
were taken to Fergus Falls last night.
Foster will be arrested today.
Death of A. L ehnian.
New York, September 29.—A. Lehman, of
New Orleans, died in this city last even
ing. He was on his way home from Europe.
Lehman was the head of the largest dry
goods house in the south. He was sixty
years old, a native of Gomersheim—Rheln
palz, Germany. He went to New Orleans
forty years ag*o, a poor boy, became a
peddler, and finally established himself in
the dry goods business, which he built up
Immensely. It was the largest in the
south. He was president of the Touro in
firmary, and prominent in all the Jewish
charities of New Orleans.
Indictments Against Gamblers.
Chicago, September 29.—The grand jury,
which has been investigating gambling dur
ing the past few days, reported to Judge
McConnell this afternoon that true bills
had been found against forty-six gamblers
and against twenty-five prominent owners
of proi>erty on whose premises it was
charged that gambling had been carried on.
The grand jury also recommends that the
Investigation of gambling be continued by
a future grand jury.
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