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THE SILENT MARCH.
Yhen tho march begins in the morning Wh*n the march drags on at evening
And tho heart and the loot are light, And the color-boarer's gone
When the flags are all a-flutter When the merry strains are silent
And the world is gay and bright, That piped so brave iu tho dawn
XV ben the bugles lead the column When you miss the dear old follows
And the drums are proud in the van, Who started out with yon,
It’s shoulder to shoulder, forward, march! When it’s stubborn .in- 1 sturdy, forward.
Ah! let him lag xvho can! march!
Though the ragged lines are few.
For it’s easy to march to music Then it’s hard to march In silence *
XVith your comrades all in line, And the road has lonesome groxvn,
And you don’t get tired, you feel inspired, And life Is a bitter cup to drink,
And life is a draught divine. But tho soldier must not moan.
And this is the task before us,
A task xve may never shirk,
In the gay time and the sorrowful time
We must marcli and do our xvork.
We must march when the music cheers us,
March when tile strains are dumb,
Plucky And and valiant, forward, march!
smile, whatever may come.
For, whether life’s hard or easy,
The strong man keeps the pace,
For thedesolnte march and tho silent
The strong soul finds the grace.
—Margaret E. Songster, in Chicago Interior.
The: Lead Pencil.
F my wife lias a
..Yf failure it is lack
o f reverence.
HCS''’ vSP She doesn’t rec-
ognize those
iwlSx property rights
4 should
// inhere to the
9 - ^ personal belong¬
ings of a husband. I got the ex¬
pression at a meeting of the Spartan
Reform Club, and it struck me as be¬
ing good. If I remember right it
xvas uttered by a felloxv with a chronic
distaste for xvork, xvhose xvife sup¬
ported him by dressmaking. I didn’t
tell Millie where I got the expression
when I quoted it to her, but she im¬
mediately said;
“That sounds like Jeff Sinks.”
Then she laughed. My xvife has a
very musical laugh.
I think I xvas mildly reprimanding
her at- the time for mislaying the gim¬
let. I’m the most particular fellow
you ever saxv about keeping every¬
thing in its place. When I xvant a
tool of any kind I want to knoxv just
xvhere to lay my hands on it. It’s a
kind of religion xvith me, and it hurts
me terribly to find things in confu¬
sion. That’s xvhere my xvife’s lack of
reverence comes in. She has no re¬
spect for my eleventh commandment
—order is heax’en’s first laxv.
It- isn’t alone gimlets, it is hammers
and screwdrivers, and knives, and
Lord knoxvs xvliat all. Why, she has
even tampered xvith my razors!
I offered to buy her a razor of her
oxyn the last time she meddled xvith
mine, but she said she guessed xve
didn’t really need hut one in the
house. What can you do xvith such a
xvomau?
Well, noxv as you understand my
wife’s failing—I’ll admit it’s her great¬
est one—I’ll go ou xvith my story
xvith which it is connected.
One day last July, Jim Out-hxvick
came into the station just as I xvas
closing up to go to supper. Jim is
the paymaster at the Vulcan Mills,
and a right good felloxv.
“Hello, Joe,” he says; “all alone?”
“Yes,” I said; “what’s up?”
He flung a canvas grip on the table
and said:
“I must go doxvn the road to-night
to Ashville. There’s talk of a strike
among the miners, and I’ve got to be
on hand first thing in the morning.
I’m to offer to pay off tho disaffected
ones and make a big shoxv of my
money. That’s a bluff that generally
goes. The boys’ll make up their minds
the company can’t be scared, and
they’ll get into line again. There’s
twenty-six thousand dollars iu that
bag, Joe.”
I looked at the bag on the table aud
looked hack at Jim.
“What do you bring it here for?” I
says.
“That’s easily explained,” he an-
sxvered.
“I got word to start for Ashville
just half an hour ago. The money
xvas made up in a hurry and I didn’t
have time to go home. I couhln’tvcry
well stay at tlie mill, and I wouldn’t
go to the tavern. So I just thought
I’d come doxvn bore and got you to
stay xvith me until the night- freight
comes along. She’s due at nine-thirty,
isn’t she?”
“Nine thirty-five,” I answered.
“But I’m just off for supper.”
“Oh, that’s all right,” he said. “I
feel safe enough here. I’m armed to
the teeth, you knoxv, aud there wouldn’t
be any danger until after dark. But
you’ll come back and keep me com¬
pany, won’t you?”
“I xvill if Minnie lets me off,” I
said. “I’ni booked for cribbage xvith
her after supper.”
“You tell Minnie I’ll bring her the
prettiest cribbage hoard in Ashville if
she’ll lend you for a couple of hours,”
laughed Jim.
There was a stout old safe in the
corner of the office that had nothing in
it but blank xvay bills aud reports. I
Unlocked it and tossed the canx r as bag
inside.
“There,” I said, as I thrust my
bunch of keys in my Sack coat pocket,
“that makes it a little safer.”
I thought Jim looked a bit dubious
over this precaution, but he laughed
and said: “All right, my boy. I’ll
make myself comfortable until you
come back.”
Minnie didn’t want me to go out one
bit, but I told her Jim counted on xne.
I didn’t say a xvord about the money,
hoxvever: I knexv it xvonld xvorry her,
and, to toil the truth, it xvorried me a
little. I xvas sorry Jim brought it
there, and I didn’t like his talk about ;
precautions.
Well, nfter supper I went out to sec
if the dog was all right—I’ve got the
finest mastiff iu the State—and xvhen I
came back Minnie called to me from
the sitting-room,—
“Just a minute, Joe; I’m writing a
note for Hattie. ”
Hattie is the wife of the telegraph
operator, and I know that Minnie
wanted mo to leave it at the station,
where he could get it in the morning.
It was quito a number of minutes,
however, before she came out with the
note, and my vest and coat. It was so
warm I had left them off before sup¬
per.
“Hadn’t you better let the dog go
xvith you, Joe?” she asked, as she
helped mo with my coat.
“No, no,” I said, laughing, “he’ll
stay home and take care of you. I’ll
put the lamp iu the window, though,
so you’ll know I’m all right.” That-
xvas a great joke of ours, but Minnie
didn’t laugh as she usually did.
“Mind,” she said, “I’ll watch for it,
and if it isn’t there, I’ll come doxvn
after you.”
I’m station master at Y -. Our
road is xvhat’s called the old line, and
travel on it is light, mostly freight.
At night the station is deserted, there
being no business for either telegraph
operator or ticket agent. This leaves
the station practically deserted after
sundoxvn. It is only o fexv rods from
our home, however, and I feel that it’s
under my eye all the time. I thought
of this as I walked back to the station
and I didn’t half like the idea of all
that money being about.
I found Jim xvith his heels on the
desk, puffing away at a good cigar.
“Not an alarm,” he said, in his
joking way. “Not even a mouse.”
We chatted axvay for an hour or
more, when Jim suddenly put doxvn
his feet and yaxvnel heavily.
“Joe,” he said, “if you don’t mind
I’ll go out and take a little stroll.”
“Go ahead,” I said, “but mind
you’re not gone long. ” ‘
After he had stepped out I xvas sor¬
ry I let him go. The thought of be¬
ing alone xx’itli all that money xvas dis¬
quieting. I followed him to the door
and looked out. It xx’as a bright
night and I saw Jim slip around the
corner. I knexv he xvas after a drink.
That was Jim’s failing. That and
gambling.
I xvent back and sat down. The
more I thought about that money the
more I didn’t like the idea. What
business had Jim to go axvay aud leave
all the responsibility xvith me? Of
course, he didn’t leave it all xvith me,
but he left altogether too big a shax’e.
A I sat there grumbling a loxv tap on
the window overlooking the platform
attracted my attention. I looked up.
The side of the building xvas in the
shadoxv, hut I could see a man’s face
against the pane.
“Joe,” said somebody outside. I
supposed it might be one of the sec¬
tion hands and stepped across the
room.
“What is it?” I called.
“Open the windoxv, Joe,” said the
voice.
I pushed it up a little.
“Is that you, Jerry?” I called.
There was no response. I put my
head through the opening and looked
up and doxvn the line. Nobody was
in sight. Jut then I heard a slight
noise behind me. I drexv in my head.
Something seemed to crash into my
brain. A flash of blinding light blind¬
ed me. Then all xvas dark.
When I camo to I xvas tied in my
chair, my head xvas sore and wet, and
two men with strips of black cloth
across their faces xvere looking doxvn
at me.
“He’s all right,” said the shorter
man. The tall man nodded.
“Get the keys, ” ho said in a queer,
hoarse voice.
Tlio shorter man felt In my pockets.
“Not here!” ho cried.
“They must he,” said the tall man,
in his hoarse x’oice.
“I tell you they are not. Bring the
lamp.”
The tall man took the lamp from the
window ledge and came closer to me.
But their search was iu x’ain. The
tall man placed the lamp on the table,
xvhile tbe other man put a revolver to
my car.
“Come!” he said, “xvhere arc those
keys?”
My head xvas beginning to clear a
I saxv it all. My xvife had
taken the keys from my pocket be¬
cause it xvas her xvay, and because she
thought I had no further use for them
until morning.
“He must have left the keys at
home,” said the tali man hurriedly.
“Here, give him a sheet of paper and
let him xvrit-e a note to his wife, ask-
ing for them. The short man looked
up sharply,
“I’ll get them,” said the tall man.
They pulled the table up to me aud
POPULATIOKT AND DRAmAaB.
MORGAN, GA., FRIDAY. AUGUST 6. 1897.
spread out a scrap of paper. The
short man loosened the rope and let
my right hand free. I reached to my
vest pocket half blindly and drew out
ivy pencil. Still in a daze, I tried to
put my wife’s name on the sheet. The
pencil refused to make a mark. I
looked at it. It was dull and horribly
haggled about the point. I pride my¬
self on the line point I put to my
pencils. Again I comprehended that
my wife had borrowed that very pen¬
cil to write the note to the operator’s
wife. I tried to scribble with the
blunted thing.
“Curse you, hurry!” growled the
short ruffian.
I showed the pencil point. With an
exclamation of anger the short man
drew out a heavy-handled knife and
swiftly sharpened my"wandering the pencil. As he
passed it back vision
was caught by the lamp on the table.
Heavens! it was no longer in the
window! As this thought struck me
I looked towards the ledge and saw
there a white, scared face pressed
against the pane. It was my wife.
“Write!” growled the short ruffian.
My only thought was to gain time.
I knew my wife was there. I knew
she would bring help.
I took the pencil in my nerveless
fingers. As I did so a low growl
, caught my ear. It caught the ears of
the villains, too. The short man
dropped his knife on the table and
turned towards the door with his re¬
volver extended. The tall man drew
himself up agaiust the wall.
“It’s the dog,” he hoarsely whisp¬
ered. “Shoot to kill, Jack.”
I saw the door tremble a little, I
saw the short villian’s arm raised and
my fingers closed on the handle of
the knife he had just dropped. Then
ns the door slowly opened I drew back
my arm and thrust wildly at the man
in front of me. Something- yellow
flew through the doorway, there was a
wild scream, a heavy fall aud 1 lapsed
into unconsciousness again.
When I came wound I was in bod
at home, with Minnie bending over
me.
“It’s all right, Joe,” she murmured,
“they’ve got them both locked up safe
and sound, and the money is all right,
aud the mill directors have given you
one thousand dollars of it.”
“And Jim?” I asked.
“Jim?” she cried. “Why Jim was
tho tall man. It was all his plot to
steal tho money and throw the blame
on you. And if I hadn’t taken
your had keys—don’t scold—they’d have
the money, and if it hadn’t been
for the lead pencil I dulled—the man
you stabbed told the xvholo story—I
wouldn’t have got there in time with
Hector. Tho dog almost killed Jim
before I could call him away, but I
ain’t so sorry, because the little man
says they would have killed you if you
had by any chance suspected Jim’s
identity.”
I reached out and took Minnie’s
hand.
“That thousand dollars belongs to
you, dear,” I said brokenly.
“Well,” she answered, “if you take
it, Joe, you may rest assured I’ll bor-
roxv it sooner or later.”
Then she put her cheek against my
hand and laughed.
Then she cried.—Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
A Submarine Mystery.
A break in the cable laid between
tho Senegal coast of Africa and Per¬
nambuco, in Brazil, five years ago has
led to an extraordinary discovery, re¬
lated recently by Mr. Benest to the
institution of Electrical Engineers.
The cable was as fine a one as modern
methods could devise, yet after three
months it broke about 150 miles from
tho African coast; it was repaired and
broke again. It xvas then found that at
the place where the break occurred
there was a great deal of vegetable
growth resembling river weed; that
the color of the sea xvas a dirty brown¬
ish green, indicating tho presence of
fresh water, and birds’ feathers,
pieces of orange peel, scraps of carpet
and bits of drift xvood were drawn
from the bottom of the ocean. The
phenomenon xvas purely local, as the
nearest river xvas seventy-five miles
away and discharged its xvaters in a
different direction. It xvas surmised
that it meant the sudden breaking
through of a submarine river, and the
cable xvas moved to a distance; after
two years it broke again, and xvas
moved once more, and engineers are
xvaiting to see what xvill happen. Sub¬
marine rivers nre known to exist in
other parts of the ocean, off the mouth
of the Congo and the Gulf of Carpen¬
taria, for instance. The explanation,
however, does not account for the car¬
pet and the orange peel.
Public School Telephones.
The Kansas City Board of Educa
has made a contract with the Missouri
and Kansas Telephone Company for
telephone service in all tho public
schools. A switchboard will be placed
in the Secretary’s office aud private
lines run to all the school buildings.
This service xvas decided upon by the
Board for the sake of convenience aud
for use in case of fire in any of the
school buildings, or to gix'e the alarm
to teachers if a heavy storm ho ap¬
proaching. Tho city has had somo
lively experience xvith cyclones and
parents like to get their children homo
out of the xvay.—Philadelphia Record.
About Cables.
Cables have their adversities even
on the bottom of the Atlantic. Ice¬
bergs passing over sometimes cut
them * : iu txvo. Volcanic eruptions
sometimes injure them. A few years
ago three Atlantic cables xvent doxvn
at the same lime and in about the
same spot. No other explanation 1ms
been found But volcanic disturbance.
Near shore the risks multiply. One
of the commonest is the anchors of
fishing smacks, a whole fleet some¬
times riding on a cable at once. The
rocks and breakers near the coast are
also dangerous.
GOVERNOR DETERMINED TO BRING
THE GUILTY TO JUSTICE.
HBS CLEAR EVIDENCE IS TO THREE
Five Hundred Hollars Each for the First
Two Convicted; SI00 for Each Addi¬
tional Conviction Secured.
The governor of Georgia has offered
a reward for the Ryder lynchers and
the names of the most of them are in
his possession. He has clear evidence
as to three, and it, is likely that evi¬
dence as to the others will develop on
the trial. The governor offers rewards
as follows:
Five hundred dollars for the first
two lynchers of Dr. Ryder arrested
and convicted.
One hundred dollars for each sub¬
sequent lyncher of Dr. Ryder arrested
and convicted.
Two hundred and fifty dollars for
each person arrested and convicted of
felonious conduct in preventing tho
arrest or detection of parties guilty of
this crime.
This action was taken without hesi¬
tation, after an hour’s hearing with
Dr. O. A. Ryder of Gainesville, and
Prof. R. A. Rydor of Columbus.
The brothers are determined and
will exert every effort to convict tho
men who were concerned in tho Talbot
county lynching.
Governor Atkinson waR askod for an
expression of his views, and said:
“I am determined to do all that is
possible for tho executive to do to
bring tojustice the men whoaro guilty
of the murder of Ryder,
“There are two lines upon which wo
must proceed in order to rid our
country of this practice which is injur¬
ing alike the character of our people
and of our civilization.
“One is for the press, the pulpit and
all enlightened and patriotic citizens
to exert themselves to make such
offenses odious until right views aro
recognized and conformed to by all
people.
“Those who cannot he reached in
this way must be reached by being
made to feel the force of the strong
arm of the law. They should ho
given to understand that when they
attempt to take a prisoner from the
hands of officers their own lives will
he forfeited by their effort, and that
in case of a successful effort they will
be punished by the courts.
“There has been much said a’ out
the delays of the law, and yot to one
who fully comprehends our system and
its results this point will receive little
consideration. Wo have now in our
penitentiary and county chaingangR
over 4,000 convicts. NVe have had a
large number hung during my admin¬
istration, and where there is nil occa¬
sional instance where a case is kept in
court a great while, it is a rare excep¬
tion and not the rule.
‘Tn addition to that,, permit me to
say that the men who lynch aud take
the lives of their fellow men in their
own hands are not the men who are
usually found on the side of law and
order, and if lynching be apologized
for on the ground that the law does
not conform to the views of everyone,
then there will never ho a stop put to
it.
“This being true, let apology for
lynch law cease, let it he condemned
in unmeasured terms, and whatever is
to he said about changing the law, let
it lie said to the general assembly, and
not for the purpose of palliating a
crime lynchers arc guilty of.
“I am satisfied that the good citi¬
zens of Talbot county fully realizo the
enormity of this offense and I expect
from them that hearty co-opcration
which every good citizen owes to the
officers of tho law under which ho
lives.”
VIRGINIA POPULISTS ADJOURN.
Captain Silmnnd K. Cocke Nominated
For Lieutenant Governor.
The populist slate convention ut
Roanoke assembled again Thursday
morning. Major Gaines xvithdrew from
the race for the nomination of lieuten¬
ant governor, and Captain Edmund
It. Gocko xvas nominated by acclama¬
tion and accepted. Tho convention
then adjourned sine die.
MINERS BECOMING DESTITUTE.
Four Hundred Famllien Are Without Any
Mdhiih Whatever.
Miners in the Danville, III., dis¬
trict are in destitute circumstances.
Ox’cr 400 families arc reported without
means. Citizens and many of the op¬
erators are contributing liberally with
provisions and money. There is no
evidence that the strikers contemplate
giving up.
A Chicago dispatch says: Provisions
for the relief of the suffering miners
of Illinois are coming in rather slowly.
The relief headquarters bare been
open two days, but nothing beyond a
fexv cash contributions from labor
unions lias been received.
GREECE’S POPULATION GROWS.
Our Slat© Department Has Advance FIr-
ur©H of Coining C'eiiMm.
The United Btatos minister to Greece
has supplied tho state department at
Washington xvith some advance figures
of the Greek census taken last October.
They show u total population of the
country of 2,433,806, as against a total
oj' 2,187,208 in the year 1889. There
were 1,266,810 males and 1,106,990
females.
AGREEMENT TO ARBITRATE.
Japan ami Hawaii To Settle Their Dif-
foruiiues Fenceably.
A. Washington special says: The
Japanese government has accepted the
offer made by Hawaii to arbitrate the
dispute between the two countries.
Tho state department has been inform¬
ed of the offer and the acceptance.
The subjects for arbitration will in¬
clude not only the difficulty over the
landing of the Japanese immigrants,
but also will include other disagree¬
ments between the two countries, the
most imposed important of which is the tax
upon the Japanese liquor,
largely imported and consumed by tko
Japaneso in Hawaii.
The acceptance of the offer of arbi¬
tration, a brief synopsis of which has
been telegraphed to the Japanese min¬
ister here aud given the state depart¬
ment, states that the Japanese govern¬
ment. accepts arbitration in principle
and is prepared to enter upon the
terms for a settlement of pending dis¬
putes.
The formal letter of acceptance has
been sent, to Hawaii and the conditions
of arbitration will be contained there¬
in. These conditions are not known
.here. Pending the arrangement of de¬
tails, all other proceedings looking to
a settlement, will ho discontinued.
Tko sake tax, of which the Japanese
complain, is an increase of the duty
gallon. on this liquor from 15 cents to f 1 per
This tax was passed by the
Hawaiian legislature and vetoed by
President Dole on the ground that, it
of was unconstitutional, and in violation
the treaty with Japan, who had
rights under the most favored cause.
Tho tax was passed over his veto
almost unanimously, only one vote
being cast, to sustain tho president..
Tho pressure for taxing sake xv as
from the saloon keepers and the inan-
ufacturers of liquors, as the Japanese
m-o this liquor almost wholly to the
exclusion of other beverages.
TEXAS DEMOCRATS ACT.
At ji C til loci Conference! They Affirm Univn-
vering A Hog in no© to the 1'avl.y.
Over a thousand Texas democrats
attended a conference at Waco Friday,
called by Chairman Blake of the dem¬
ocratic state executive couimitte.
The most important action taken,
was the adoption of resolutions affirm¬
ing unwavering allegiance to the prin¬
ciples of the party as expressed in its
recent platform, state and national,
and appealing to citizens who desire
good government to stand as a unit
for its support.
The paragraph in regard to iinahee
is as follows:
“That we hail as an advance sign of
the return to the principles upon
which the prosperity of Ilie country
cun alone be achieved, tho disposition
of the people in other states, as ex¬
pressed in tho recent elections, to the
time-honored doctrine of bimetallism
and to the use of both gold and silver
as the standard moqey metals of tho
country, and to a system of fair and
just taxation, opposed to 1 lie trusts
and monopolies, and to the principles
contained in the last national demo¬
cratic platform adopted at Chicago in
1890.” The resolutions conclude with
a denunciation of the republican party.
NEW PLACE FOR ANDREWS.
Dopogwl l*r©Ki<l©nfc Will A&Miinio Cbargo
of Anotlifif Uni verbify.
A Providence special says that
President Andrews, of Brown uni¬
versity, xvill in September assume the
head of the university projected by
John Brisben Walker, the New York
millionaire journalist, along absolutly
unique lines. Mr. Waiker is also a
silver man.
The university xvill at first resemble
tho Chautauqua movement. It will ca¬
ter to the masses of the common peo¬
ple, and there will he no cost or ex¬
penses whatever to the student. Even
the textbooks xvill he free, and work
will be conducted by correspondence.
The institution xvill he liberally en-
doxved.
President, Andrews xvill be assisted
by an advisory hoard of ton of the
ablest minds in the country Presi¬
dent Andrews, in speaking of the mat¬
ter, said;
“The course of studies xvill he work¬
ed out with reference to the real needs
of men and women in tho various
xvalks of life, and xvill ho designed not
only to produce broader minds, more
cultivated intellects and give greater
fitness for special lines of work, hut
to make better citizens, better neigh¬
bors, and give a happier typo of man
aud xvomanhood,”
CHARTER FORTY STEAMERS.
Twenty Million liunhelx of Grain to lie
Exported to Great Britain.
The Philadelphia Record of Friday
contained the following:
' * Forty steamers were yesterday
chartered to load cargoes of grain at
Philadelphia, New York, Baltimore
and Newport News for ports in the
United Kingdom and Europe, making
a day’s record which, it is claimed,has
never been equaled. All of these ves¬
sels xvill require over 4,000,000 bush¬
els of grain.
“During the past two weeks fixtures
for steam tonnage to carry over 20,-
000,000 bushels of eoroals abroad have
been ordered.'
CYCLONE KILLS SEVEN.
An IUinoi« Farmer'll Ilona© anil Barn De*
inollttlied By BorIhr Wind.
At 7:30 o’clock Friday evening a
cyclone struck the farm of A. O. Mc-
Doxvell, two miles north of Han Jose,
Ill.,his house and barn xvere destroyed
Beven people wore killed and three
severely injured. The killed are: A.
C. McDowell, A. G. McDowell’s
grandson, xvifo of Bamucl Brownlee,
three of Brownlee’s children, Miss
Bessie Groves.
T. P. GREEN, MANAGER.
MARCHER WITH BRASS BANDS.
Mlnern Swoop Down Upon T>eAvmUt
Armed with Walking Sticks.
Oak Hill, in the vicinity of Turtle
Creek, Plum Creek and Sand Creek,
of DeArmitt, was invaded after mid¬
night Wednesday by an army of strik¬
ers who were on hand to attend the
great mass meeting held near the
mines Thursday morning.
It is estimated that by daybreak
there wore several thousand miners
encamped upon the lulls surrounding
the New York and Cleveland Gas Coal
company’s property. They came from
every direction, headed by brass
bauds, and nearly all of them carried
heavy walking sticks, and some were
armed. -
There were no threats of violence,
however, and no indications of drink¬
ing. Many wore supplied with food
enough to last, two days.
Immediately upon reaching Oak Hill
the strikers prepared for camp. In the
valley leading up from Turtlo Creek
to one of tho Now r York and Cleveland
mines the company bad a powerful
searchlight. It was kept shifting about
in hopes of flanking any movement of
the strikers to creep within reach of
the mine unknown to the deputies,
who guarded every approach. Long
before daylight the strikers were up,
and after eating their frugal meal,
prepared for tho day’s work. The
intention was to see as many of Do
Armitt’s men before they got into the
pits as possible.
About 4 o’clock 1,500 strikers as¬
sembled at Turtle Creek and headed
by throe brass hands, with flags and
banners flying, marched by the houses
occupied by Do Armitt’s men. Tho
strikers hooted and yelled and then
inarched to tho mines, where they
planted themselves before the pit,
thus compelling DoArmitt’s men to
run the gauntlet to get, to work.
A short time later, Sheriff Lowry,
who had been wired to for assistance,
arrived from Pittsburg with fifty depu¬
ties, armed with winchesters, The
strilcors quietly withdrew and the new
deputies were placed on guard.
When the mooting was called to
order at 10 o’clock Thursday morning
tfero wore 3,000 striking minors in
attendance, and before it, was well un¬
der way there were 5,000 people in the
Vicinity.
The demonstration had no effect
upon the meu at Plum Creek, and all
wont to work.
Tlio strikers used all their powers
of persausion upon the diggers, hut
none were molested and no threats
were made.
I'resident Dolan was made chairman
of the meeting, and in a short speech
ho accused Do Armitt of insincerity.
He said if De Armitt’s men did not
come out, there would be n sympathy
strike all over tho United States.
M. P. Garrick was next introduced,
and lie said that workingmen all over
the United (States were interested in
this strike, because it will have a ten¬
dency to raise wages everywhere.
“II you men of the DeArmitt mines
will not come out now, we will march
110 , 01 ) 1 ) men hero ami compel yon to
come out, not by force, but, by slmmc.”
When Eugene V. Debs was intro¬
duced there was great enthusiasm,
ilo said in part:
“I am here not to encourage passion
but to appeal to reason, You are in
the midst nf the greatest contest the
world has over known, Whether you
succeed or fail depends upon your¬
selves. In order to win, you must re¬
main absolutely sober until this con-
testis over. Whisky clouds tho brain,
robs you of your money and makes
you brutal, aud also makes you do
just what your enemies wiuut * you to
do.”
After tlio meeting the Sandy Greek
miners returned to work, and the
strikers went into camp and had lunch.
PENSION RULES REVISED.
CImiiKi'B Will Millie Many Mixltlliaulniw
In Present PrftpfieoM.
A thorough revision of thorulosgo v-
erning tho adjudication of pension
claims under the second section of tho
act of June 27, 1890, has been made
by Assistant Secretary of the Interior
Webster Davis at Washington, and
sweeping modifications in the present
practices are the result.
'1 he changes arc embodied in in¬
structions to the commissioners of
pensions, it in stated that representa¬
tions were made that, the present rules
render tho administration of the laxv
dilicult and embarrassing,
Tho new rode, it is s;dd, will fur¬
nish a safe, speedy and uniform sys¬
tem of adjusting this class of eases.
MINES IN ILLINOIS RAIDED.
Strikers Swoop Down Upon Them ami In-
i!ii«’(» Operator** to .Stop Work.
Four hundred miners from Mkonk,
Winona, Toluca, King,ley and Btrent-
or made a raid on the mines at Roan¬
oke, 111., Thursday morning. They
arrived at 3 o’clock and camped out¬
side the town.
A 'conference xvith the mine opera-
tors xvas held at (i o’clock, the latter
agreeing to close the mine and keep it
closed until tho end of the general
strike.
Tho visitors were orderly except that
they seized a Santa Fe train and de¬
manded transportation to Minonk.
This was refused.
APPOINTMENTS FROM CHAMPLAIN
TIkiurU tlm Pmldcnl is Away from WurIi-
i hr to n II© Ih Not Idle.
A Washington special says: Quite
a big batch of consular appointments
dent xvas announced Thursday. Tho presi¬
and Secretary Porter took xvitli
them to Lake Champlain several ham¬
pers of papers, and up there, away
from the heat and the office-seeking
crowd, the president is milking ap¬
pointments. His decisions are sent Oil
to Washington to be announced.
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION OFFI¬
CIAL WRITES HOT LETTER.
BROUGHT OUT BY SEAL FISHERIES.
Elliott Claims That Special CommlBHioner
Foster Ha* Misled Secretary Sherman
in His Reports On Sealing Matters.
Professor Henry W. Elliott, of the
Smithsonian institution, lias given out
the complete text of his recent sensa¬
tional letter to Judge Day, assistant
secretary of state, regarding tho seal
fisheries. It reads as follows:
Hon. W. R. Day, assistant secretary
of state. Washington:
Dear Sir—In the Morning Recorder,
of Lakewood, Ohio, appears the text
of a letter to Lord Salisbury, dated
May 10, 1807, and signed by Hon.
John Sherman, secretary of state, on
tho fur seal question. This letter is
prefaced by ail account of the great
embarrassment, which its publication
lias caused tho president, and that it
has been hold up for several days at
the request of John AY. Foster, who
now fears tho effect of his own work
» few weeks earlier.
“Inasmuch as I have a closer per¬
sonal knowledge of this present ques¬
tion than any other man living, and
vastly more extended, and inasmuch
ns I am the author of tlio modus viven-
<li of 1893, which is th,o only credible
step taken by our government toward
settling this seal dispute since it, be¬
gan in 1890 up to date, I desire to say
that after a careful perusal of the let¬
ter of May loth, above oiled, the
president has reason to feel greatly
emlmrrassod, because it lays the state
department open to a crushing reply
from those not, of Iho Canadian office,
and you will bo in tlie same mortify¬
ing fix that Blaine found himself in
iH'JO, when fbo Canadians simply
crushed his contra bonis mores letter
by tho date which they promptly fur¬
nished iu rebuttal.
“Inexperienced and ignorant men
should not write such letters dealing
with data about which they know no
more than so many parrots. Johu W.
Foster is utterly ignorant of the truth’
in regard to the sajjioft featiujus of this,
seal question on the ait islands; that letter
of May 1.0th is.like ether prepara¬
tions from his hand on this subject—
full of gross errors,
‘ His dullness in making up the
American case in 1892-93 cost us that
shameful and humiliating ' 1 feat which
wo mot with at Paris ,4 ,i 1893. Had
ho been bright n.ij.y’ nick witled, ho
never would have life, with such dias¬
ter.
“I nking this commonplace man up
now, after this record of flat-failure is
stamped all over his anatomy, and
putting him in charge of your sealing
question will only thrust you deeper
into tin' miro than lie and your prede¬
cessors have been placed before by the
bright num over tlm line at Ottawa.
“1 am moved to write you on this
point because a senator of tho United
Btatos recently said to mo that Foster
bad assured tho president that tho
information which I gave the British
in 1890 caused the defeat of tho Amer¬
ican ease at Paris in 1,898. The liienn-
ness and untruth of this charge will
bo quickly seen by your turning to
my report, of November 17, 1390,which
contains this information.
“Mr. Foster and ki.’l stupid associ¬
ates tried to suppress this report be¬
cause it contained tho proof of my au¬
thorship of tho mo-ins viveudi of
1891-93, which lie meauly stoic from
me— plagarized in fact, 1ml he was un¬
able to suppress it. And now that ho
comes forward again to figure in this
question, I intend that ho shall be re¬
quired at the proper time and before
the proper tribunal to give a full ac¬
count of his wretched record as tho
agent of the United .States before tho
Behring “This sea tribunal at Paris in 1898.
whole sealing business, from
tho day the trouble began in 1.890-91
up to date, has not been in the hands
of a competent man for one moment.
It lias been and is now the sport of
Canadians, and tho languid contempt
of the British queen’s council is all
that it receives when it comes up
there. Very truly yours,
“Husky W. Elliott. ”
GOAL SYNDICATE SUCCESSFUL.
A BIr Deal In Tennessee lias Been
Practically Consummated.
Mr. Henry Taylor, the representa¬
tive of tlio English syndicate xvhieh
lias an option on most of the coal
mines in East Tennessee, has practi¬
cally closed tho deal. The price ap¬
proaches five million dollars and
the properties employ 3,000 miners
and have an output of about three
million tons of coal annually.
The capitaltists whom Mr. Taylor
represents are partly from Boston and
partly from England. The stock has
already been taken and the bonds sold.
Extensive improvements are contem¬
plated in tho mines and a railroad
from Jellico to the sea is projected.
DEMAND OLD PRICES.
Many Hundred Iowa Miner. Will Respond
To a Cull.
At a mass meeting at Greenville,la.,
which lasted all day Friday, tho minors
of the low field coal district of south¬
ern Iowa,700 to 800 in number, passed
resolutions demanding the 1892-93
prices and if acceded to they xvill
continue work unless they should be
called out for a general suspension. It
is believed the operators xvill grant
their demand.