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/- s <s— The Morgan Monitor. VOL. II. NO. 30. $1 PER YEAR. 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.