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The Morgan Monitor.
VOL. II. NO. 28 $1 PER YEAR.
TURNING AND GRINDING.
Wo have our little falllngs-cut and argu- “And there’s very few so stupid that thev
meats and such, really couldn’t earn
And then we make It up again; they don’t Themselves an honest living If they’d just
amount to much. agree to turn.
But on one subject, anyhow, wo'ro all ef the By all means try for grinding but own It If
We same mind; you And
all of us don’t want to turn, and all do That you can do the turning but ain’t
want to grind. smart enough to grind.” ’
I’ve heard about a grindstone of a labor- When father talks, hesavwit. He likes to
saving kind- think things out.
It only takes ono person to turn it and to I see him smiling, sometimes, at the things
, You grind. he thinks about.
work a treadle with your foot, thosame When he oomes in from the plow-field he
as mother sews, don’t tell you how ho aches
And a follow don’t mind turning when he's He tells you something queer lio’s seen of
grinding, I suppose. birds, or beasts, orsnakes.
But ours is not that kind of one; it ain’t that It’s onlv in tho winters we have time to go
we’re asleep, to school,
But money’s scarce and hard to get, and el- But we dig at it, I tell you, and I hope I’m
bow-grease is cheap not fool. ‘
Mher t h 1 ^e d eIbOW9 a
ar o Sf%h\ a in s°5. “‘Se » m ° St “ b ° Ut ’ th °
Though mother puts on patches, I reckon, In a raoe that’s free to every one is wh.1t
, . every night. I'm coming to. ’
“Boys,’ father said, the other day, “ono Wo’ll koop our eyes wide open- If wo’ro
We tiling you’ve the got to learn, onlv flt to turn,
can’t all do grinding, for somebody We’ll look for the best way there Is anil
must turn. that’s the one we’lUoarn.
Of course I’d like you all to he ns smart as But think hoiv mother and father’d feel If
folks are made, they should one flay (lad
But it isn’t very likely that you will he, I'm That every single son they had was smart
afraid! enough to grind!
—Margaret Vnndegrlft, In Youth's Companion.
In Love and War.
s HEN Charles u r as
7/Xv thirty he decided
f'T-TvV t| that he had gone
to school long
e n o ugh. His
m father had arrived
at that conclusion
•i. % years before, but
1 the son’s indomit¬
r able determina¬
tion to conquer at
least the rudi¬
ments of his profession before he
should enter upon active practice made
him deaf to all paternal entreaties to
return home until one morning he
waked up to find that his thick bronze
board had developed several actually
gray threads.
ing Consequently, one fine spring morn¬
all Biissfield xvas electrified to see,
as it passed the quaint old Dayton
homestead, a modest, little gilt sign
bearing the simple words, “Dr. Charles
Dayton.”
He didn’t “take” at first. He wore
short coats in direct opposition to all
former ideas of the professional man’s
dress, and he didn’t seem to remem -
ber anybody whom ho had known in
his youth.
It wasn’t because he was proud, ho
knew, but he had been occupied with
graver things during his absence than
remembering who was the sister to his
Sunday-school teacher and who mar-
wed the youngest of the Barker girls.
But after a year or so of doubt they
began to understand him, especially
xvhen his superior skill had saved tho
darling of nearly every household in
town when the scarlet fever threatened
to fill the tiny graveyard on tho edge
of the hill.
Dr. Charles, as they learned to call
him, had an additional trait in his
favor; he knew how to neglect each and
every woman in Biissfield with equal
severity. Not that women enjoy being
neglected, but they always develop a
sort of respect for a man who doesn’t
stoop to them, providing Jie is consis¬
tent in his frigidity to all the women
in the place.
At the end of five years two things
had taken place in Biissfield. Dr.
Charles was the idol of the town, and
young Tom, the baby of the Dayton
family, was going to celebrate reach¬
ing his majority by taking unto himself
a wife.
It was an awful mistake, thought the
■whole household when the downy-
cheeked Tom stood up in blushing
bravado on liis return from his junior
year at college, aud persisted in liis
statement that he was never going to
school again. For that fall he was to
become the husband of the dearest lit¬
tle girl in all the world.
But reason settled upon them, and
the only stipulation was that a little
maiden should come for a visit to the
family of her future husband some
time that summer.
One morning late in July Miss Day-
ton and her younger brother set out
for the East, and returned a week lat¬
er with the tiny lady, who was in a
pretty state of nervousness at the
strangeness of the situation.
Dr. Charles was out in the country
at the bedside of a patient, and when,
after midnight, lie stumbled in, drip¬
ping, splashed with mud after his long
ride in the storm and sick at heart (his
patient had died in spiteof his efforts),
he had forgotten all about the expect¬
ed visitor till he caught sight of a lit¬
tle sailor hat and a pair of crumpled
gloves on the table in tho hall.
It seemed so very odd to find any¬
thing so young, so daintily feminine
in this staid old house that ho stood
long in tho dimly-lighted hall, absent¬
ly smoothing out the tiny gloves,
pressing each finger in place and not¬
ing with an indulgent smile that a
button was missing from the left wrist.
Dr. Charles slept badly that night
and awoke with the sun in spite of the
late hours of the night before. Some
way the first thing to come into his
mind as lie opened his eyes was the
rumpled, tiny, buttonless glove in the
hall below, and the more he tried to
throw off the memory the closer it
clung to him.
When he reached the lower hall lie
found himself again by the little table
with the little hat and gloves, and he
put out his hand with a touch almost
caressing. Just as his fingers met the
pretty feminine trifles he heard a fresh
young voice just behind him saying:
“I’ll take these, if they are in your
way. I forgot them last night ”
Dr. Charles wheeled about guiltily.
There, on the lower step, was a young
girl, looking straight at him from the
most the baby-like blue eyes ever lighting
face of woman.
Dr. Charles, later on, in analyzing
his feelings, realized that he had ex¬
perienced three distinct sensations at
the first sight of her.
First, that of the critic, in which he
was amazed to see here in the actual
flesh the girl whom he had always be¬
fore thought existed only in senti¬
mental novels.
frowned Secondly, as the physician, who
at the extreme slightness of
the figure, the frail wrist, the tiny
neck.
And lastly, as the man, who wanted
to take her close in his arms, to kiss
her, to love her and to call her his
own.
‘I really must beg you to forgive
me, but a young lady is 30 rare a
pleasure in this houso that I was over-
whelmed at my good fortune. ”
he Finally, gathering himself together,
walked over to her, and, taking one
of her bauds in each of his, he said,
gravely:
“l'ou ore to be my sister, I suppose.
I am brother Charles.”
Eloise was herself again and smiled
charmingly “I ns she said:
knew you immediately. I’ve
known you for a long time, I think,
for Tom talks of you all the time.”
She xvas most delightful, Dr. Charles
confessed, but some xvay it rankled
that she should accept him so much as
a matter of course. IltT xvould liax’o
preferred her to look upon him more
as a man to be studied rather than a
problem already solved.
What a fool he had been to call her
liis little sister. Ho didn’t xvant to
think of her as a sister; he didn’t xvant
her ever again to speak to Tom in that
familiar xvay, as though everything
xvas settled.
Then he deliberately drew her close
to him aud kissed her fairly on her
smooth, white forehead. She strug¬
gled axvay with a little cry, while her
face grew deadly pale. Then she said,
ith a nervous, hurt little laugh xvhicli
sounded pitifully like a sob:
“Of course, since you are Tom’s
brother.”
When he came down to breakfast he
found the family at tho tablo, but Tom
rose xvith a strange noxv prido to pre¬
sent his lady lox’e to his fine big
(brother. Then the physician said, in
a grave, calm tone: “I met Eloise in
the hall this morning. I kissed her. ”
If consternation had been in ber
midst before, it noxv rose to a terrible
pitch. Tom’s fingers clutched the
edge of the table, And he drew his
breath sharply, when little Eloise, with
that tact xvhicli heaven sometimes
sends xvomen in their times of peril,
answered:
“Yes, and he called me his little
sister. He isn’t much used to kissing
a girl, though, I knoxv, for he did it so
queerly, and—he kissed me on the
forehead, Tom, while you always
choose my lips.”
It xvas au awfully bold thing to do,
but then it is tlio lightning flash which
clears tho sky. The lover xvavored,
tried to speak once or txvice, at) d
finally ended by bending over and
saluting the little girl squarely on tho
lips.
“There, sxveetheart, xve’ll show him
lioxv it is done.” And the amazed Miss
Elizabeth ejaculated, “Mercy me!”
off so loudly into that the xvhole party xvent
a nervous but steadying laugh.
Dr, Charles took up liis medicine
case and hurried down the street tho
instant that the meal xvas over. He
stayed axvay for three days and nights,
but xvhen Sunday came he appeared
among them as usual, apparently as
tiny grave, Eloise as preoccupied as before the
came to Biissfield.
He did not accompany them to
church, but as he Welled her by T om’s
side, dainty in the snowy muslin
gowns she xvore so much, he turned
away xvith a mighty purpose in his
eyes. From that instant it xvas fated
that Eloise should be the xvife of the
man who didn’t know how to kiss her,
instead of tho gay-hearted boy whose
privilege it now was to claim her as
his own.
One morning, when Eloise had been
laughing with tho family on the shaded
lawn, a telegram xvas brought her an¬
nouncing the sudden death of her
father, and so Elizabeth and Tom.
started suddenly axvay from Biissfield
xvith their terror-stricken little charge.
Tom decided to return to college,
but he stoutly refused to go back to
his former school, xxhich was near
POPULATION AN D DRAINAaB.
MORGAN, GA.. FRIDAY. JULY 23- 1897.
Eloise’s home, but chose instead a
seat Finally of learning farther east.
arrived one February morning there
a short, unhappy note, in
which poor Eloise begged to come to
visit the Dayton family. “Mamma is
at sister’s, whose baby has the scarlet
fever, so they won't let me stay with
them, and it is so lonesome here in
this big house with no one but the
servants. Besides I want to talk to
you about Mr. Thomas Dayton.”
Dr. Charles’s heart leaped for joy.
This formal “Mr. Thomas Dayton”
spoke volumes.
And so the little girl came to Bliss-
field the second time, and reached the
Dayton home on another stormy night,
this time to be welcomed by the beard¬
ed doctor standing by the glowing fire
and holding out both his hands. Sim¬
ple Elizabeth the next day told him all
Eloise’s confessions of Tom’s neglect,
and added:
“She puzzles mo,. Dr. Charles. Slio
doesn’t seem to be half so broken¬
hearted as I expected. I really think
that her pride is hurt worse than her
affections. And I thought she loved
him so.”
The climax came when a whole week
passed without a letter from Tom, and
Eloise, setting her white lips and
blinking back her tears of mortifica¬
tion, wrote to offer to release him from
his engagement. The speed and eager¬
ness with which he accepted almost
took her breath away.
Dr. Charles was standing in the hall
in the twilight, before the grute,
where he had welcomed her the stormy
night a few weeks ago.
As his eyes fell on Eloise, half
broken, half radiant, there sprang iiyto
them such a light as made her drop
her own. She realized that Elizabeth
had told him the whole pitiful, shame¬
ful little story, even to sending the
ring aud back in its tiny white satin bed,
yet, somehow, she never was so
happy before.
“You are free again, Eloise?”
Ho had taken the little left hand
and turned it till the firelight showed
the bare third finger. And poor
Eloise could only say a little half¬
sobbing “Yes.”
“Then,’’ said Dr. Charles, solemnly,
“I may ask you to give up that free¬
dom again and to teach me to kiss you
as Tom did.”—Chicago Tribune.
WORDS OF WISDOM.
Some people consider it hard to be
poor, but the majority of us find it
dead easy.
Don’t get into the habit of vulgariz¬
ing life by making light of the senti¬
ment of it.
Selfishness is ofton so refined that
it is deeply xvounded at tho least re¬
monstrance.
If xve had no defects, we should not
take so much pleasure in discovering
those of others.
There is no man easier to be de¬
ceived than he xvlio hopes, for he apis
in his oxvn deceit.
A pound of water in the ocean tem¬
pest has no more gravity than in a
midsummer pond.
Our happiness in this xvorbl de¬
pends very largely on the affection xvo
arc able to inspire.
The feeble tremble before opinion,
the foolish defy it, the xviso judge it,
the skillful direct it.
Don’t express a positive opinion un¬
less you perfectly understand xvhat
yon are talking about.
True genius much resembles a mus¬
tard plaster. The secret of its smart¬
ness lies in closo application.
If a man tells us xvhat he thinks of
his neighbors, wo can generally tell
what his neighbors think of him.
Ho xvliose ruling passion is the love
of praise, is a slavo to every one that
has a tongue for flattery and calumny.
We are oftener more cruelly robbed
by those xvho steal into our hearts
than by thoso who break into our
bouses.
Fun is the most conservative ele¬
ment of society, and ought to be
cherished and encouraged by all law¬
ful means.
It is an inevitable law that a man
cannot bo happy unless ho lives for
something higher than his own happi¬
ness.—The Southxvest.
The Cuckoo’s Note.
A curious criticism has been made
by a correspondent of the London
Chronicle of H. E, Krehbiel’s book,
“How to Listen to Music.” Tho cor-
respondent says that Mr. Krehbiel
seems to be under the impression that
all cuckoos sing the same interval.
“Either Mr. Krohbiel has not heard
the cuckoo very much or he has not
heard many cuckoos. I have hoard
tho cuckoo sing a rather sharp second
—sometimes a minor and sometimes a
major third. Last Sunday at West
Wickham he sang a fourth. Whether
tho same cuckoo X’aries his note or dif¬
ferent cuckoos sing different intervals
I do not know. ” To this it may be re¬
plied that probably Mr. Krehbiel re¬
ferred to tlio American cuckoo, which,
xvhilo closely related to tho English
cuckoo, has native peculiarities of his
own that may extend to a diftorent vo¬
cal method from his English cousin,—
New York Advertiser.
A(fri iultin-0 la Iceland.
Almost within the arctic circle, in
north latitude sixty-five to seventy de¬
grees, Iceland, with its poplation of
70, OfK), is warmed on the west coast by
tbo Gulf Stream, and can raise fair bay
crops and sparse root crops. About
sixty-five per cent, of the population
tle, are occupied iu rearing sheep and cat¬
which aro largely consumed at
borne, tbo first named imported in
moderate numbers to British ports.
Sheep are not shorn, but in early
summer the fleeces loosen on tho ani¬
mal, and the loose xvool is easily de¬
tached; most of the surplus goes to
England.
1 IP’S WEEKLY LETTER.
RARTOW PHILOSOPHER REGIS¬
TERS A LARGE, HEALTHY KICK.
MUCH WATER, BUT LITTLE LIGHT.
Hot Weather of tlio Past Month Bcmlnda
ilim of the Prediction That, tho
World is Drying Up.
T wonder if there is a town or city
in the world whose gaslight and water¬
works satisfy the people. I know that
it is chronic to complain of corpora¬
tions, but 1 am obliged to consider
myself an injured person. Almost
every night I have to go down town
to help nurse and comfort, a little sick
child who if very dear to me, and
although the street, has a gaslight, I
collide with something or somebody
or fall into a ditch every dark night I
travel. 1 ran against a big fat negro
woman the other ni, ht,, and she used
disrespectful language at mo. Last,
night, I had in my hand a bucket of
blackberries that my daughter gavo
me, aud I fell over a stepping stone
aud spilled them all and skinned my
aged shins and dropped my cane, aud
it, took me some time to find it. I’ve
a good notion to bring suit for damage;
and have a receiver appointed. That
so-called gaslight does not throw its
effulgent rays a hundred feet, and is
not, lighted more than half the time,
and now that lightning bugs have
come again, I think the company
ought to catch some and put them iii
a bottle and do away with the gas.
But I don’t see any sense in having
gas with the lamp posts a quarter of a
mile apart. We don’t want to carry
lanterns and pay for gas, too. That’s
all I have got to say about this gas
business, and my folks have hinted
that the fault, is more in my eyes and
my legs than in the dim, religious
light, but I know better. I am not on
the superannuated list by a good deal.
I work every day in my garden and
get all in a sweat of perspiration, and
then clean up and feel good and hon¬
est. The long drought hurt me pretty
bad, but the garden survived it, and
now we have vegetables abundant.
The waterworks man never caught mo
stealing more than my share of water
but once, and bo didn’t make much
fuss about it. He is a very con¬
siderate man. Up north tho com¬
panies put meters at every cus¬
tomer’s residence, and he pays for
what he uses, but we have got more
water here than the town can use, and
don’t have to be stingy. What a
blessed thing it is! Water, plenty of
water! Wat or in the kitchen and at
the back door and in tho front yard
and the garden, beside a bathtub
upstairs and downstairs. Pur© water,
fresh from a big spring that gushes
from the hillside. No rix’er nor pond
nor reservoir nor filtering machines
nor microbes nor bacilli. No ivell
rope to break nor xvindlass to got
loose and knock ono of the children in
the head. No cleaning out and finding
doftd chickens that xve had been drink¬
ing on. The fact is, I never knoxv tlio
comfort of water, abundant water, un¬
til xve planted our xvaterxvorks in Car-
tersville. Strange to say, they never
came until xvo abolished whisky—that
is, the saloons. A great English poet
and jurist says: “Its cool refreshment
drained by fevered iips gives pleasure
moro exquisite than nectarean juice,”
and Coleridge’s sum of human agony
xvas to have—
“Water, xvater everywhere,
But not a drop to drink.”
During the late long heated term in
June it xvas alarming to read from tho
weather bureau Hint tho xvorbl xvas
slowly but surely drying up, and the
rainfall xvas decreasing evory year.
What an awful calamity is to come to
somebody some time! God grant that,
it may not come iu our day, nor our
children’s nor children’s children!
God grant that it may not come at all!
But (he scriptures do say that tills
world shall be burned up, and I heard
Professor Proctor, the great astrono¬
mer, deliver a lecture on the “Birth,
Groxvth, Maturity, Decay and Destruc¬
tion of a World” that made the hair al¬
most stand on end, for he proved that
the world bad passed its meridian and
xvas now on a rapid down grade of de¬
cay. “Rapid, rapid, did 1 nay? Yes,
rapid for a planet, but it may lie a mil¬
lion years distant.” That lets ns down
easy, and that night the young people
danced and the sports played poker as
usual. Just postpono tho judgment
out of sight and human nature will
take the chances.
But the blessed seals that, hold the
rain in the heavens have at last been
opened, aud once more nmn and boast
and nature rejoice in a temperate at¬
mosphere and a moistened earth. It,
was distressing to read of the sun¬
strokes and the suffering in tho great
cities, and to think of the little inno-
cont children anil the invalids in the
garrets and croxvded rooms of the
tenement houses. Oh, when xvill the
good things of this xvorbl lie equally
apportioned? Many of us have far
more than our share, but xve are still
ungrateful and long for more. My
opinion Is that, independent of all
revelation, there is obliged to be an¬
other life in another world just to
equalize things. “Hon, remomber that
thou in thy lifetime receivodst good
things and Lazarus evil things, but
now Lazarus is comforted and thou
nrt tormented.” That is a good text
for us all to ruminate about once or
twice or thrice in a while. I tell you,
my friends, it is a fearful thing to be
rich and selfish. I’m afraid to
risk it. But sometimes I do
catch myself wishing that I had a rich
old bachelor to die and leave me a pile
of money to frolic with in my old ago.
Or that Mrs. Arp would realize her
part of that Holt estate in England,
flood gracious I She should have a car¬
riage and a pair of Kentucky bays before
next Sunday to ride to church. But it is
an old proverb that if wishes were
horses we would all take a ride. And
there is an old Persian fable that tells
how au old man was always wishing
for something and one night as he aud
his old wife were brooding over their
poverty and wishing for different
things, a genus came in and told them
they might have three wishes, aud he
would grant them. Of course,they were
happy beyond expression, and as the old
man was hungry pudding. he wished right away
for a plum Immediately it was
set before him in a silver platter, and
this foolish wish made the old woman
so mad that she exclaimed: “I wish
that it was hung on your nose.” Pres¬
to, quick the pudding jumped up and
was fastened to the old man’s nose.
They had but one wish left,and the old
mau had to use that in wishing the
pudding loose again. And so the good
genus left them as poor as they were
before he came, I suppose that
fable was designed to teach its that it
is better to trust, the Lord and be
content with our lot. Nevertheless,
most of us would try the genus if ho
would come.
Once moro let me write of John
Quincy Adams aud bis beautiful poem.
I have received it from just a score of
good friends, but only two of them
have the full poem of twenty stanzas
of eight lines each. Some of them
have fourteen, some twelve, and one
only eleven. Ono from Mrs. Hollo¬
man, of Eatonton, has not tho last
stanza, beginning—
“These are the wants o' mortal man,
1 cannot need them long.”
But has instead a stanza that, I do
not find in any other copy. Which is
tlie revised version 1 do not know.
The poem is romnrkablo not only for
its thought and felicity of expression,
but because its author, “the old man
eloquent,” was tho only president who
over wrote a poem or even a verse, so
far as we know.
As some of those lady correspond¬
ents have suggested that Goldsmith
was the author of the lines,
“Man wants tint little hero below,
Nor wants that little long.”
Lot mo say that Young preceded
Goldsmith forty-four yearH, and his
expression is, “Man wants but little,
nor that little long.” Goldsmith only
added a word or t wo to make tho
measure fit his ballad.—Bm Abp, in
Atlanta Constitution.
Much conthmiray has arisen regarding
the Investigations of Dr. G. S. Hall, Pres¬
ident of Clark University, on things
Which most produce a state of fear In
people*. Of these thunder and lightning
take the lead. But there are many things
not Included or mentioned in the list sent
to Dr. Hall which are much more fatal.
Statistics of the United States Weather
Bureau show that for the four years.
the dealhs fr ° m Hehtnlng num-
bered 784, or 196 each J-ear. H. Now York
City a.one over 200 are drowned every
year, 150 arc burned to death and 500
meet their death by falls of various kinds.
Compared with this record for one city,
the total of DO deaths from lightning in
the xvholo United States goer™ small.
’Die risk of lightning Is live times greater
In tho country than tn the city. Tho
metal roofs and well-grounded pipes and
network of electrical wires prove a pro-
tection. Of 212 recorded cases of peoplo
struck by lightning only seventy-four
were killed. Perhaps the cause of this
special fear is that many nervous peoplo
are affected hours before the approach of
a thunder storm and have little power to
stand the strain during an eleclrltal
disturbance of the atmosphere.
Musical Ride on Bicycles.
Here is a new idea for church fairs
and charitable bazaars, At an ama-
teur entertainment given under royal
patronage, in aid of a fund to pay off
the debt on the schools of Ht. Peter’,,
London Docks, a number of young
ladies gave a series of performances on
bicycles. The chief number on the
programme xvas the “musical ride.”
Ladies rode their bicycles with ring
tinkling and other musical perform¬
ances, to tlm admiration of a vast,as¬
sembly. It is said their performances
were graceful throughout, and occa¬
sionally clover. And xvith practically
no expense a considerable sum xvas
realized on behalf of the school debt.
Tho New York Tribune projects Its edi¬
torial glance Into the next century, and
predict* that tbo year 1906 will bring
about, marvelous changes In tho physical
and Intellectual character of northeastern
Asia. Ono of the most Important of
these changes will bo wrought by the
completion of tho great Siberian railway,
whfch Is now In progress. This gigantic
line will he 6,000 miles In length, an,d Its
terminal point will be at Vladlvostock, on
the coast of Asia. Still another change
will ho In the establishment of branch
naval headquarters In that portion of
t)ie globo by Itossla. The Russian Gov¬
ernment within tho next few years con¬
templates the expenditure of $400,000,000
In warships, and with the completion of
tho Siberian railway quite a number of
vessels will lie transferred to Asiatic
waters, there to remain permanently.
But aside from tho chang<« which Rus¬
sia will bring about In the character of
northeastern Asia, the Tribune shows
that the Japanese Government Is working
upon a plan of naval expansion which
'bids fair to yield substantial results
within the next few years. If this plan
succeeds, Japan, In 1906, will possess six
first-class battleships, ranging from 12,000
to 16,000 tons each; one second-class bat¬
tleship; six first-class armored cruisers,
six second-class armored cruisers, six
third-class armored cruisers, twelve
fourth-class armored cruisers, 115 tor¬
pedo gunboats, one torpedo depot-ship,
eleven torpedo-boat destroyers and twen¬
ty-live g-unboaXs. With these various
changes tho condition of northeastern
Asia will bear tittle resemblance to Its
present aspect.
T. P. GREEN/MANAGER,
BRAND THEIR HUSBANDS “COW-
AR1)S” IF THEY FAIL TO FIGHT.
HUNGER IS A FACTOR IN STRUGGLE
The Unemployed Miners Will Make an
Effort to Stop Those Who
are Yet at Work.
The events of Sunday in the Pitts¬
burg coal mining district indicate that
there is trouble ahead.
Tho strike lias been on for two
weeks, with no cause for alarm in any
quarter, but now the pangs of hunger
and nnitteiiugs of discontent have
taken tangible form, and 1,000 miners
will inarch on Cannonsburg, the ob¬
jective point being the Boone and
Allison mines.
A few days ago tho operators of the
mines made a requisition on the sheriff
of Washington county for additional
deputies. It is supposed that there
are at least, thirty deputies at each
mine, well armed for any friction that
may take place.
The miners of the Millers and Tom
Bun district held massmeetings. The
men employed in the slope and llridge-
ville mines, Essen Nos. 1 anil 2, and
Steens mines met at Bridgeville. Cecil
was the soeno of n meeting of Laurel
Hill Nos. 2 and t, Greedmore and
Bishop mines, and tho diggers em¬
ployed in the Standard and Ellsworth
mines in Millers Hun, also held a
meeting.
Women Urging I lie Fight.
The gatherings were attended by
men, women aud children, ’The wo-
men did not lag in the. interest taken.
Many of them openly branded their
husbands as cowards. They argued
that they might as well fight as starve.
The men said the victory could lie
won providing every coal miner em¬
ployed in the sections where the lake
trade is supplied would join the gen¬
eral movement of the idleness.
Elans for bringing out the miners at
work in tho Boone and Allison mines
were discussed. Special committees
were sent from one meeting to the
other.
It was decided to march on to Can-
nonshurg mine Sunday night. The
Beissing brass band, and the Cecil
drum corps were engaged for the oc¬
casion .
A miner who xvas very enthusiastic
over the plan said there would be at
least 1,000 men in lino.
It was learned that the scheme had
beeu iu process of formation several
(1 It was talked of several .lavs
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f»° ,l “‘ 1 , . to . 1,10 «“ rB of .... the °P era -
t,,r S ,lf tL 1 ? f , annonsburg mines, . henco
Lli< ir decision to increase their force
of deputies.
Home of the most conservative of
the leaders claim that there will be no
, r(mb , 0 Tl „ v that when the
ol ! \ 1 . »>‘g ■ demonstration . . ..
(' ll ' rH ««« "hat Hl l 11 ’ ) they " term peaceful
1,1 * llvor 0 a
battle for bread, they cannot enter tlio
milieu arid retain their manhood,
Every effort xvas made to keep the
movement a secret for fear tlio force
„f deputies at the mines would bo fur-
j be ,. reused
The men are knoxvn to bo in a con¬
dition of semi-insanity on the strike
question.
They have been goaded on by suffer¬
ing wives, daughters and sweethearts,
and it appears as if it is the beginning
of the end of the strike.
GLASS WORKERS RESUME.
Manufacturer* Accept the Same Scald no
Operated Hat Past Year,
Noxvs is received from Director Geo.
Branin, of tire Green Glass Workers’
association, that the manufacturers
have accepted the same xvago scale as
last, year.
This means an early resumption in
the green glaso industry throughout
the country.
RYDER AGAIN ON TRIAL.
Murderer of MIkh Owoiih Taken Hack to
Talbotton.
Dr. W. Ti. Ryder was taken from
the Muscogee jail at Columbus, Ga.,
Sunday afternoon where he has been
for the past few months and carried to
Talbotton, xvhere lie was placed mi
trial for liis’lifc Monday. Judge John
<!. Hart and the attorneys xvent over
to Talbotton on the same train.
CHICAGO TO AIO STRIKERS.
IIi'Ai-uiKi’h Uniformity Ulan Denounced
b.v l.nlmr Unions.
All unions affiliated xvith tlio Chi¬
cago Federation of Labor will con-
tribute to the miners’ relief funds.
At a meeting of the federation Sunday
afternoon, W. I’. DeArmitt and bis
plan condemned. of true uniformity were severely
The following resolution
in part was adopted:
“The Chicago Federation of Labor
extends its sympathy and support to
tho striking miners of the United
Slates, and we call on all affiliated
bodies to aid to the utmost extent the
struggling of these unfortunate men
for a living American wages.”
IVAS AN INSULT.
Organized Y.ahor Not Plea#eil at Pow-
derly’a Appointment.
The Central Labor Union of Nexv
York, after a long xvratigle at their
meeting Sunday, adopted the follow¬
ing resolution:
"Resolved, That the appointment
of T. V. I’owderly as commissioner of
immigration is tlio greatest official in¬
sult ever offered by the federal gov¬
ernment to organized labor.”
THROUGH GEORGIA.
There will be a reunion of the Sev¬
enth Goorgia regiment survivors at
Grant park, Atlanta, on July 21.
The adjourned session of the federal
court was to have convened at Ooinm-
bus Monday, but was adjourned over
until September 13th, by Marshal
Walter Johnson. This was the new
marshal’s fiist official visit to Colum¬
bus.
Andrew J. Carmichael, through his
attorneys, lias filed suit against Peni¬
tentiary Company No. 3 for $20,000
damages. While serving a term for
burglary Carmichael claims to have
been permanently injured by a falling
rock. He claims lie was forced into n
position of peril by the whipping boss.
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Georgia made a splendid showing at
tho international gold mining conven¬
tion held in Denver, Col., the past
week. The idea of making a great
mineral display had to be abandoned
because the state’s gold exhibit at the
Tennessee exposition could not bo ob¬
tained, But individuals sent speci¬
mens of gold ore from Georgia mines
and many of the nuggets wove unusu¬
ally handsome.
Columbus warehousemen find them¬
selves in au unusual position for this
season. It is estimated that there are
not now more than about sixty bales
ot saleublo option in the local ware¬
houses, practically all the stock hav¬
ing been disposed of. Usually at this
time of the yoar there are several
hundred. A day or two ago the Eagle
and Phenix mills bought 370 bales of
middlings cotton from Pope & Hood,
agents, for 7 1 cents per pound.
When the special term of the Tal¬
bot court, at which Dr. Byder’s case
is to come up, convenes, Judge Hart,
of Union Point, will probably be on
the bench. Judge Hart and Judge
Butt may exchange duties this sum¬
mer a while, and if the exchange is
made, Judge Hart will preside over
the special term at Talbotton. While
definite arrangements have not yet
been concluded, Judge Hart will
probably lake Judge Butt’s place on
that occasion.
Ono of the neatest publications of
the year is Tho Commercial History of
Georgia, xvhicli xvas recently issued by
the Georgia division of the Travelers’
Protective Association, and xvhicli xvas
dedicated to the merchants, manufac¬
turers, bankers and railways of the
stato. The history is illustrated and
sets off the advantages of this stato in
a neat and becoming manner. It is
not only a book that will live, but it is
calculated to do tbo state a great
amount of good.
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Judge Marcus IV. Beck postponed
liis decision in tho Taylor Delk caso
in Jackson a day or two ago. He con¬
sented to xvait until the defense could
present additional evidence in regard
tn the alleged incompetoncy of juror
J. J. Leo. The final argument will
take place at Jackson next Friday,
xvhen Delk’s attorneys will make a
strong effort to get a nexv trial. The
hill of exceptions which has been pre¬
pared in the case attacks the compe¬
tency of Judge Bock to sit in the case.
His warm friendship for Sheriff Gwyn,
whom Delk is alleged tp have killed,
is said to disqualify him from trying
tlio old man.
The Blalock committee of tbo stal.i
legislature hasten investigating the
capitation tax of the different concerns
throughout the slate. They spent most
of the day last Monday ascertaining if
the railroad companies were delinquent
in their payments and tho result xvas
something startling. It xvas found
that many of the roads in the state
had not paid this capitation tax for a
whole year, and some had never paid
it at all. A foxv companies have com¬
plied xvith the law, but the majority
have not. The committee is making a
full list of those xvho have paid and
those who have not paid, and will pre¬
sent the same to tiie legislature.
Many nexv’ lines are noxv in the
course of construction hy the Western
Union Telegraph Company, and when
they have been completed the network
of xvires in the south xvill be materially
increased in number. Many thousands
of dollars are being expended by tho
company and by October it expects to
be in a condition to better serve its
patrons. Besides putting up nexv linos
the company is erecting in two cities
now offices, which are expected to be
completed by the time that all of tlio
wires have been put in place. The noxv
lines are being run from Atlanta to
Macon, Atlanta to Chattanooga, and
from Mobile to Nexv Orleans. All of
those aro being constructed of nexv
copper xv ire, which is said to have a
decided advantage over the old stylo
conductor.
Tlio Thirty-eighth Georgia United
Confederate Veterans xvill hold their
annual reunion at Stone Mountain on
July 28. This promises to be an un¬
usually large gathering for the famous
old regiment of the sixties, For the
past few years the ranks have been
diminishing faster than ex T er before
and one more grand reunion is desired
by tlio members of the regiment be¬
fore it shall become extinct. The vet-
oraus of this command aro scattered
over several counties bordering on
DeKnlb, and a number live in that
county. Stone Mountain as the most
central point xvas chosen so as to make
it as easy as possible for the largest
number to attend. Arrangements
have been completed for tho en-
tertainment of the vets and a num-
ber of prominent speakers have been
invited to address the gathering.