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About The Morgan monitor. (Morgan, Ga.) 1896-???? | View Entire Issue (Aug. 13, 1897)
The Morgan Monitoh VOL. II. NO. 81. SI PER YEAR. SOME TIME. Some time wo shall know why Our sunniest mornings change to noons ol Anil rain; shadowed by why our steps aro so pain; lie And why wo olton On couohes sown with thorns ol caro and And doubt, thickly hedged about With why bars our lives are loftiest plans to that put our rout. Some time we shall know why Our dearest hopos aro swept so switt away, And why our brightest flowers flrst decay; Why Why clasping song lingers is lost in slip sigh. apart— ” so soon Estrangement, space and death rend heart from heart, Until from deepest depths tho teardntps start. The Dwarf’s Lattlk Brother. A GIRL’S ADVENTURE IN A MEXICAN'TOWN. HE* ISS STANLEY S/mm was a pink-and- white English l’ girl, very tall and shapely. The Mexican derC(1 out tllelr N~ESpf s ■alvt carriages had block if they a to go, used to look upon her with amaze¬ ment as she tramped down their steep streets with a fine, swinging, heel- and-toe gait. She was picking her way one day among the vendors in the plaza, stop¬ ping once in a while to give some Whining beggar or tattered monstrosity a centavo, when she felt her skirt pulled. Looking, she saw a tiny hand held out, and a childish voice piped the usual formula for alms. The little creature was no taller than a child of four. But the face! It was old and withered. The eyes were sunken and so old! Miss Stanley pulled back the rebozo—tho hair was gray, “A dwarf,” she thought, with a lit¬ tle feeling of repulsion, ‘ ‘How old are you?” thing. - “Fifty-four,” piped up the wee Then, true to her sex, “The priest will toll you fifty-eight, but I am not; I am only fifty-four.” She said her name was Bosita. Bosita, it appeared, did nearly any¬ thing for a living, begging preferably, although that is a somewhat over¬ crowded profession in Mexico. Some¬ times she sold chickens or vegetables on a commission. She had another source of income, being pensioner on the bounty of a young man—a centavo a week—but she confessed sadly he made her jump for the coin, and if ho held his arm out straight she might jump in vain, she could not reach it. “The brute!” said Miss Stanley. Bosita did not know the meaning, blit sho looked up, pleased. That V. i’i < good, the English lady was taking au interest in her, for the expletive sounded profane, and profanity from a feminine source indicated strong emo- tion, which sho construed favorably. The poor in Mexico are always hun¬ gry, and Miss Stanley, knowing this failing, took Bosita to a little one- room restaurant. Tho menu was con¬ fined strictly to Mexican dishes. Miss Stanley noticed that Bosita put half her dinner to one side, wrapping the came and frijoles iu tortillas. When she came to a dulce of some tropic fruit, boiled in a syrup of cane sugar, her little wrinkled eyes looked wistful. “How can I take some to my little brother?” she asked. Miss Stanley asked another ques¬ tion: _ “Is this food you have put away for your brother?” “Yes,” answered Bosita, in her squeaky him. voice, “I take all the care of We are alone, and I work for him. He is locked iu the room now, see,” and she held up the massive key peculiar to Mexican doors. “Why is ho locked in?” asked Miss Stanley, as she directed tho mozo to put the dinner in a couple of ollas for Bosita to take to her brother. “He has combats with the children in the street, aud I am afraid someone will get hurt,” she answered. Miss .Stanley watched her trot away, laden with the dinner for her brother. So little and so old, unlike many dwarfs not bulky—indeed, pitifully thin. It was not until she reached her home that Miss Stanley remcm- bored sho had not asked how old the “little brother” was. sometimes She^ often in mot the Boaita Jardiu, after that, where the roses nodded overhead, and violets bloomed underfoot, and tho band played softly and sweetly, as Mexican bauds do. Bosita would dart from the circling stream of pelailo into the inner circle, where tho quality walked under the trees or sat on the iron benches. Miss Stanley could seldom resist the little, dirty, badly worked square of drawn-work held out by the tiny hand. Constance Stanley had no father or mother, and, living with a brother who was endeavoring to effect the drainage of “the richest silver mine in the world,” she wandered un¬ checked through the crowded, narrow streets of tho old town with a young criada her only safeguard. She had often longed to explore a dark streqt that plunged downward from the paved and civilized one. It was damp aud murky. A staircase of stone, with crumbling adobe walls, two and three stories high. Across the street’s narrow width fluttered strings of washing. The women, with their red petticoats and blue rebozos, made bright blots of color. The men loafed alxiut, lean and ragged. It reminded her of Naples. Tho doorways swarmed with babies aud dogs—poverty march- Some time wo all shall know Each other, aye, as wo ourselves are And known; see how out ol darkness light has And grown. He—who loves us so— Despite our willulnoss and blind corn- Will plaint— show us how His kind and calm ro- straint Can mold a human soul into a saint. • % 't ' 4 yx : . i -tome time our eyes shall see i The silver lining to the darkest cloud, While silvery echoes follow thunder loud. Bomo time our hearts shall bo Content, forgetting all our restless mood, And knowing everything has worked for good— The how, and when, and why be under¬ stood. —Lillian Gray. ing always side by side with those in¬ nocents. Down she went. The street made an abruptturn. At the corner she was startled by seeing, protruding from a hole cut in a squalid doorway, several long, black fingers. They were with¬ drawn, and she saw, as she passed the door, two blood-shot eyes peering out like beast’s eyes. “Nina, ninita! the good mother of God sent you, aud see what gain will beyours!” Turning, Miss Stanley be¬ held Bosita at ber beel. She had a plate to sell—a coarse, ironstone china plate, chipped and cracked. There was a look of intense agony on her old face, and her wee hands shook os she drew her treasure forth from under her rebozo. The plate was im¬ possible, and Constance, breokiug that fact very gently to tho little dwarf, was astonished to see tho tears gather and fall over her shriveled cheeks. “For two days, senorita, I havo not dared unlock that door,” and she nodded toward the mean portfal where the eyes had shone and the fingers protruded restlessly. “ ‘Little brother’ has nothing to eat, except the few tortillas the poor around here could give, and many of these go hungry from the sun’s coining up until the sun’s going down.” - Constance sent her servant and Bosita to the plaza for some cooked food, and, while sho waited, she talked in the doorways with Pepita and Lola and Juana. They told her how Bosita worked and starved.for her brother. “How old is he?” asked Constance. “Quien sabe?” they said. “Is he a child or is he big enough to work for her?” sho asked, impa¬ tiently. “Ah! ho is grandote, but also he is loco, mi maniatieo. See, that ia Jose now who glares from the hole iu the door.” Miss Stanley listened to them with that rapt attention we all give to tales of the mad. He dug deep holes iu the earth floor, burrowing like an animal, sometimes be escaped in that way and then there was fear in the narrow street, and the police, alter a bloody fight, would drag him shrieking back to tho one poor room Bosita called home. Sho had always put food through the door for him before ven¬ turing to open it. Once, for a long time, ho had not menaced the peace of the street. That was when he killed the sereno. A po¬ liceman had jeered him a3 he peered from the hole in the door, much as people tease a hyena snarling in a cage. Tho mad have memories, for Jose, one night when tho mooli was big, crept softly about the dark room, and, find¬ ing the key Bosita’s small cunning had hidden, opened tho door, crept again softly up the street to an adobe his doorway where was sleeping a sereno, head on his knees. The police havo a day and night shift, but 0110 cannot expect a madman to know everything. Bo it was an innocent man who had his neck wrung as tho cook does a chicken’s. They could only guess what then happened. There were only tho pulsing stars .looking silently down and the great, calm moon. However, it was evident he must have dragged anil worried and and teased that poor piece of clay for God knows how far or long. They found him asleep by the dead sereno, and, although too polite in the ‘ ‘Land of the Noonday Sun” to manacle or chain, they took tho precaution to tie with stout maguey rope Jose’s slumbering bulk before six of the largest policemen would venture to carry him to the carcel. Jose’s kind of jioople are treated with deference in Mexico. So, after some time, the man was sent back for the dwarf to feed anil care for, and Bosita’s face took on more wrinkles each day. By the time Bosita returned with the food, Constance, who understood Spanish very well, had heard much of the “little brother.” She declined to look through the peep-hole at him ravening over his dinner like a wild beast. Followed by Bosita’s wordy gratitude, sho climbed to the top of the street and there met Mr. Dysart. Mr. Dysart had but lately risen from the following letter; Dear Mollio: Toll father I am looking after tlio mining business in great shape. Mexico is rather jolly. I went to the Gov¬ ernor’s ball last night. Only ono English girl there, Miss Stanley, awful pretty girl. I knew her brother, Dick Stanley, at Trinity. Won a cup at tho three-mile. He’s a pretty good sort. Tell Bob if he can get that liver-colored dog of Oglethorpe for eight guineas to buy her. Look out for Tobin’s foot. Don’t let the pld duffer from the Clancarty “old stables fool with it. Tell all the folk” that Master Tony sent them love and wlsliin 5 them a good pratie crop. Love to dad and yourself. Tony. After Tony Dysart lia<l evolved this POPnX,ATIOKT AKTD I>HAINAGK. MORGAN, GA., FRIDAY. AUGUST 18. 1897. characteristic missive from his insides, he went out for a swallow of fresh air and to relieve himself of the strain of composition by a long walk. Constance was very lovely at the dance, in a faint-green brocade, with a crimson quantity of creamy old laco. round Some her poppies were twisted ivory shoulders. One or two more of the flaming flowers shone from her pale-gold hair. Mr. Dysart completely lost his head over her; as he had a lot of possessions in Ireland, among them a rich father and an ancient and hon¬ orable ancestry, he could afford to do so. He was thinking of her as she had looked the night before, when sud¬ denly she appeared, with her servant, coming up from a street dark and deep, like , for already it was getting dusk. On the strength of being at college with her brother, he began with true manly irascibility to take ber to task for her imprudence. But Miss Con¬ stance lightened up her soft-, haughty mouth and, giving him the rear curve of a tweed shoulder to study, led him a chase home. The house the brother and sister occupied had been Senor Lopez’s, but was with presented to Dick, together a mine worth millions, several black-eyed girls, and what other trifling property Don Felipe owned. However, Dick con¬ tinued to pay the rent regularly and gazed hanging-lamp on the girls from afar. The was lighted in the zagiuiu; and when themozo unchained the great double doors, a flood of melody and fragrance rushed out to greet them from the birds and flowers in the dim patio. Dick, in a smoking- jacket-, lounged out from the sala to insist that Tony, old boy, should take tea with them. Which he did. That was the first difference be¬ tween the brother and sister. Dick adored Tony, and every night they pumped out tho mine or rode to hounds over tho sala floor. But Constance detested him, and, con¬ trary to her usual reticence, said so. She tramped around the disreputable and filthy streets twice as much as be¬ fore, for she know it annoyed him. Sometimes she would see him follow¬ ing, and she resented his espionage. “Why don’t you like Tony?” Dick would ask. “You know my theory, Connie, that a sporty man like Dysart makes the best- husband.” “Oh, Dick! who is talking about husbands? I think that a man who 13 utterly doggy and horsey and takes Browning to be authority on pink-eyo or glanders is a very poor companion. To quote your ‘dear Tony,’ ‘we don’t trot in the same class!”’ Dick gave a contemptuous snort. This was one day at luncheon, and Constance, instead of the good cry she pined for, took a walk. She had not seen Bosita for some time, and she turned her steps toward what Dr. Dysart called “thosecut-throat dons.” She had never seen tho street so de¬ serted. All were taking a siesta, even the dogs. As she reached the sharp corner, she. heard a thin little shriek full of appeal. She recognized Bosita’s voice, and ran with her criada at her side into the low, open doorway she haif before so shudderingly avoided. There, snapping his teeth and roll¬ ing his bloodshot eyes, was Bosita’s “little brother” tied with strong ropes to an iron pin in the wall—but his arms were free, and lie stood there, a giant in size. He hail secured tho key and hstd almost pulled the staple from the wall, but Bosita was clinging to his arm and calling for help. To and fro he swung her as a wolf might a rabbit. He had the key in his black, cruel hands and he brought it down on her up-turned face. Then again, as Con¬ stance rushed forward with a scream, the key fell with a crunch on tho little, old, gray head. At that moment the pin gave way, for adobe walls are not strong. Con¬ stance turned with her hands thrown out wildly. Over Bosita’s body t-lie madman tripped with a crash to the earth floor; just as he fell, he caught Constance’s gown in his grasp. Slio fell with him, and, falling, knew the room had filled with a clattering crowd, and that Tony Dysart, smooth-shaven and blonde, loomed above all. Constance, with the help of her criada, got out in the street, where she listened, with beating heart, to tho cries, curses, and scuffling going on inside. There was one dominating, awful groan—then a sinister silence. A moment of sickening uncertainty for that unemotional young English¬ woman, and Tony Dysart, panting, his clothes torn, and blood-stains on bis face and hands. Ho walked firmly enough, to give Constance a helping arm up the stairs. Ho said Bosita was dead, and he thought the “little brother” would die also, for, while ho was struggling with him, a policeman had crept np and struck him over the head with a heavy iron bar. “Hero we arc at tho Casa Stanley,” she said, as they stopped before the carved doors. “Como in. Dick will want to see you. He can thank you better than I. ” “No one can thank me like you,” Tony replied. “Anil I must go to tho hotel. This arm of mine pains a little. No, not broken,” he answered, trying to smile, “but‘little brother’wrenched it a trifle.” Constance, however, would not ac¬ cept his easy assurance that it was all right, “You must come in, Dick will want you. ” “Do yon want me, though?” She did not answer that; but, as she Let tho knocker full, turned with tears in her eyes. “Will yon come, Tony?” “I will come,” ho insisted, “if you want me.” The big doors swung open. “I want you,” she clanged said, slowly. And the doors behind them, —Edith Wagner, in the Argonaut. WORD S OF WI SDOM. Who sings in grief procures relief. He loves thee well who makes thee weep. That which is lightly gaiued is little valued. A woman that marries for a homo pays big rent. Some of our happiest moments wo spent iu air castles. You can very often count yo w friends by your dollars. Only those can siug iu the dark who have a light in the heart. A man’s idea of a perfect woman ia one who thinks he is perfect. There is no jewel in the world so valuable as a chaste and virtuous woman. Even iu traveling in a thorny path it may not be necossary to step on all the thorns. He who seeks after what is impossi¬ ble, ought in justice to be denied what is possible. Marrying a man to reform fingers him into is equal to putting your a fire to put it out. When two souls have but a singlo thought, they should stop spooning and get married. A man’s cynicism is bounded on the north by bis vanity and on the south by his digestion. When you say “I don’t care,” try to see that your tone of voico doesn’t in¬ dicate that you do. It is always a mystery to a woman why her husband doesn’t seem to pity old bachelors more. Life is like a nutmeg grater. You havo to rub up against the rough side of it to accomplish anything. Every woman has an idea that she can judge a man by looking straight m his eyes—but can she?—The South- West. The Age of Trees. It is a widespread idea that the rings of the section of a tree give data as to its age, the concentric rings be¬ ing of tbe same number as the years that have passed. It is known, how¬ ever, that tho data thus furnished are only approximately exact. Can any other information bo obtained from them? An English botanist has re¬ cently caused some surprise by calling which attention to a peculiarity of a tree of a section exists in the British Museum. This section is that of a Douglas fir which was felled in 1885, and was more than five hundred years old. An examination of tho specimen shows-that a part of the annual rings, corresponding to the end of tho first century of the tree’s existence, pre¬ sents an abnormal appearance. Twenty of these rings are very close together and form a zone of special aspect, and widely separated from tho external and internal zones. It is evident that these layers have formed during twenty years under defective condi¬ tions, or at least abnormal ones. Wliat are these conditions? The gentleman above mentioned is inclined to seek them in numerous cataclysms—earth¬ quakes, inundations, droughts, etc., with pernicious vapors coming from thousands of abysses, and such as pre¬ ceded the groat epidemic known in the fourteenth century as the black plague, which was attributed to such cata¬ clysms. Value of Change of Diet, A sudden aud complete change of diet is a means of regulating the hu¬ man machine whose importance seems to be too litttle considered. Dr. Angel Money, of London, states that it finds most application ill chronio disease, often of nervous character, and not uncommonly in affections of the mu¬ cous membrane. Tho substitution of broths, fish and flesh for milk and farinaoea will often correct the condi¬ tion of tho mucous membrane that en¬ ables thread-worms to develop. Chronic catarrh will often yield to similar treatment, and asthmatic at¬ tacks may sometimes bo made to cease for long periods, Convulsions in children are frequently ulleviated in like manner. A dilated stomach or flatulent dyspepsia may he treated by withdrawing sugar aud starch from the food and replacing them by pure proteids with salts, extractives and water, the merits of sweetbreads, tripe, calf’s head and feet, unsweet¬ ened jellies anil many vegetables be¬ ing too little appreciated in such eases. The main secret of the success of such foods is tho absence of liability to fer¬ ment and generate gases. Experience proves that most of the benefit of a eomplote change of diet is obtained during a short period only, and, in¬ deed, the therapeutic value may some¬ times be in nothing but tho change. Daring Soldiers. During the Peninsular War two Eng¬ lish soldiers were standing together, when their attention was suddenly ar¬ rested by a bombshell thrown near them from the enemy’s camp, This was a moment to show “cool courage.” One, therefore, knocked the ashes from his pipe, refilled it, and ex¬ claimed; “Jack, I bet tbee a ration that I light my pipe at that fuse,” pointing at tbe same timo to the shell, the fuse of which was evidently far spent. “Dune,” cried the other; “I bet thee.” The challenger accordingly walked up to the shell, lighted his pipe, and then deliberately stamped his foot upon the fuse to extinguish it. His comrade, who was close at his elbow, burst into an amazing fit of passion, blaming him by all tho saints in tho calendar—not for winning tho wager, but for putting out the fuse before he had lighted his own pipe.—London Telegraph. ENGLAND IS NOT YET READY TO ADOPT BIMETALLISM. WILL GIVE ANSWER NEXT OCTOBER. IVily ttritons Want Time to fonder and lioltoet Over tho Proposition Pre¬ sented tty Our Commission. The British government lias inform- ed the American bimetallic commission poaals **,* ot the commissioners *» on «*• behalf of the United States in October. The commissioners have been wait¬ ing in London sineo their conference with the cabinet. Desiring to know the exact position of England before oponing up negotiations with other the governments, cabinet they wrote Thursday to inquiring when they might expect a decision, as they were anxious to arrange their future programme. Friday Senator Wolcott received a reply from Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, chancellor of the exchequer, in tho course of which the chancellor ex¬ pressed a foar that the British govern¬ ment was not yet in a position to re¬ ply to the proposals of the envoys of the United States and the French am¬ bassadors on the question of an inter¬ national agreement. Sir Michaol Hicks-Beach said; “It is due both to tho choico of tho subject and tho manner in which It has been brought before the English ministry bythe represen¬ tatives of tho two countries that these pro¬ posals should bo vary carofully oxaminod and considered; and this process must bo somewhat prolonged, owing to tho timo necessarily occupied in communicating with tho government of India.” The chancellor of the exchequer adds that he cannot say with certainty how long these communications will take, but be hopes tho cabinet will be ready in to meet the envoys again early October. While this postpoument of Eng¬ land’s decision delays the work, the American envoys do not consider it discouraging. Britain’s They think Groat interest in the question justifies them in expecting that tho In¬ dian mints will bo opened. They be¬ lieve that The Times in exposing the reopening of the Indian mints does not represent the government, but rather the city financial circles, which are opposed to any change. The re¬ port made to the government from tho mint is understood to be favorable to to silver. The headquarters of the commission will remain in London until October. Senator Wolcott may visit Austria, in the meantime, and pave the way for negotiations with tho Austrian gov¬ ernment. FOREIGN COUNTRIES ADVISED. Text of Our Now Tariff ttill Communicated To Thom. The stato department has sent in¬ structions to the United States ambas¬ sadors and ministers abroad accredited to countries with which we have trade relations that would be affected by tho enactment of the Dingley tariff bill, directing them to communicate to tho foreign offices at their respective posts the text, of the act and to call attention to the sections of the new tariff which provide for retaliation, reciprocity and similar arrangements. This is done in order that there may be a proper basis for tlie institution of negotiations looking to the consum¬ mation of some of the reciprocal agree¬ ments contemplated in the Dingley act. ' RIG SUGAR COMPANY’ FORMED. Tho SpreckolM Organization ISogiiiH With a 1*5,000,000 Capital. Articles of incorporation of the Spreckels Sugar company havo been filed at San Francisco. The capital is $5,000,000. Of this amount the or¬ ganizers of tho company, J. D. Spreck- els, A. B. Spreckela, A. E. Morrison, M. H. Weed, A. D. K. Gibson, have each subscribed $1,000,000. Producing beets and manufacturing sugar therefrom is to bo the primary object of the company, aud incident¬ ally they will engage in agriculture, Will build, equip and manage factories and refineries, deal in real estate,con¬ struct railways, build ships and do all other things necessary. SHERMAN IN WASHINGTON. Secretary Suyw Sew till YVuh Not luHtriieted to KHt»l>1igh Proteetoriite. Secretary Sherman arrived in Wash¬ ington Friday afternoon from a rest on Long Island. He appears to have im¬ proved. Secretary Sherman denied recent statements from Bun Francisco that, Minister Bewail had inrtructions to establish a protectorate over Hawaii in the event the senate failed to ratify the annexation treaty. Secretary Sherman said that tho United States would not guarantee the carrying out of the terms of arbitration between Hawaii anil Japan if the decision of the arbitrators were against the former. That was a matter between tho coun¬ tries interested. COTTON HATES TO STAND. Georgia Kail road Commission Decided Against. Their Deduction. The railroad commission of Georgia, by a vote of two to ono, declined to grant tbo petition for a ‘25 per cent, reduction in cotton rates. Chairman Trammell aud Commissioner Crenshaw voted to sustain the present rates on the ground that the railroads are not in a financial condition to stand a loss iu revenues, aud Judge Allen Fort fa vored a reduction and filed a dissent¬ ing opinion. T. P. GREEN, MANAGER. TO GET STRIKERS DRUNK. Whisky anil lleer Ar« Sent Into TIu-lr Camp tty Designing Enemies. Pitts-! Dispatches of Friday from ,mrg ’ 1 ‘“” s !' at ® t J mt t’ 10 JP r0 P O80! | 1 campaign , agaiust the , of mine owners Westmoreland county and the opera¬ tors of Central Pennsylvania, which has been delayed, is now an assured fact. The strike leaders decided on it definitely at a camp conference, and a, days. big movement will bo made in a few The whole, affair will be considera¬ bly on the order of the famous Ooxey “commonweal” tour. The plans propose a direct, march through tho whole territory whore Hlil!ea wo being operated till Clear- at Cannonsburg, at Bunola and any other place that may seem necessary to keep the mines closed, which appears before tho crusaders. Tho leaders estimate that, with what will remain behind in the camps at least 8,000 men will bo kept constantly in the move¬ ment, A military code for tho government of tbe army will bo formulated before the movement is started. President Dolan says that with any kind of sys¬ tem he can keep everything quiet aud tho men peaceable. Efforts are being made to order beer and whisky at Camp Determination by outsiders. This lias been going on for two or three days, and some of tho strikers have been taken down to East Pittsburg and filled up on all tho beer they could drink. The danger of this to t-lie miners’ cause is fully realized by the labor leaders, and a sharp lookout is being kept to find out who is responsible for the efforts to get the strikers intoxica¬ ted. Thursday night a barrel of whisky was shipped to the camp from Braddoek. It had been paid for at tho otlior onil, and all of tho freight charges hud also been settled. When the whisky was delivered Captain McKay ordered it taken bock to Braddoek as quickly as possible. It was shipped back. Tho strikers do not know who sent it. NO TENNESSEE CONVENTION. Tho Moveinont Pofentiul In Popular Election Ily Declolvo Majority. A Nashville dispatch says: Returns received from various counties through¬ out tho state show that the vote in tho election held Frid "7 to determine whether a constitutional convention should bo held in Tennessee was very light and that the majority against the convention will be about three to one. Tho fight has been waged for soveral weeks, the friends of the movement claiming that Fast Tennessee required a revision of the constitution in order to make it tho manufacturing section it promised. The friends of the move¬ ment found arguments for it, they claimed, in every branch of the state government. For instance, in the executive department, it was argued that tho governor was restricted in authority given other governors in the south; it. was claimed that Tennessee paid entirely too much for criminal prosecutions, by fault, of the present constitution. It was fought mainly on the ground that the .convention would cost the state extensively and be of little benefit. NEGROES’ IKON FOUNDRY. Five Moulder* Will Hcgin BiiHlnua# For Tlii*i»iHid vom Iii CJmttuuoogo. Five enterprising negroes of Chat¬ tanooga, Tenn., have applied to the state for a charter for tho pioneer negroes’ iron foundry. Tin y havo some moans and sevoral gentlemen, interested in the question as to whether tho negro can of himself successfully conduct a business of this kind, have assisted them. They have secured n suitable site and have bought machinery sufficient to start their plant on a small scale. They are all moulders and have worked in several of the shops of the city. They say they already havo or¬ ders ahead, and that by reason of tho fact that they can turn out work cheaper than foundrymon, especially in Hie cheaper graded, they expect to do well. Another of A ml roe’s Pigeons? The Gaulois (Paris) says that a pigeon, bearing information regarding Professor Andreo’s balloon expedition across tho north pole, has been cap¬ tured at, Gradi,sea,near Goritz, twenty- two miles from Trieste, in Austria, Hungary. A SWEEPING INJUNCTION r»Hiii'il liy .JuilifB 'Vitf-kHiin to Restrain D«l>* and Ills AMftotdaUvft. Judge Jackson, in tho United States court at Parkersburg, W. Ya., Wed¬ nesday afternoon, granted a sweeping injunction restraining E. V. Dobs and his associates from in any way inter¬ fering or molesting the management or their conducting of property of the Monongahelu Goal company or its employes. Tho text of tho writ covers every¬ thing that can possibly bo construed into an infringement of rights of cor¬ poration und practically prevents all future agitation in tho vicinity of the Monongahola mines. TAKE NO RISKS. Inmiranoo Companion Will Have Nothing To Do With Klomlyk© Kxplorom. An Indianapolis dispatch says: The determination of the leading life in¬ surance companies to carry no risks on Klondyke explorers lias fallen with dampening effect upon the co-operation companies which have been iVrrnen and upon a number of men who are preparing to start for Alaska during the coming winter. WHITE WOMEN REFUSE TO WORK WITH COLORED HELP. FOURTEEN HUNDRED WALK OUT. Textile Workers Will Take a Hand In tho Fight and Will l ush the Mat¬ ter i,o t.lu! End. Because twenty negro women were put to work in the Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills at Atlanta, (la., Wednes¬ day morning, over l.iOt/ men, women and children employed in tho mills quit their machines and walked out.' The strike was started by the white women employed at tho mills, who refused to work with negro women. The women and children struck at 8 o’clock in the morning and the men walked out at noon. The mills were promptly closed down ami it maybe weeks before they are operated again. The strikers after quitting work lost no time in organizing. A mooting was held at 3:30 o’clock in the Feder¬ ation of Trades hall. Committees were appointed and the strike was given a good shove off by the other trade unions, Tho big strike was entirely unex¬ pected by the operators of tho bag and cotton mills. At the regular morning hour for beginning work, the entire force of nearly 1,5(51) hands were at the factory and nothing unusual could be noticed. The woniwi hail been told on tho previous evening that the negro women would lie put to work iu tho folding department Wednesday morn¬ ing, and it seems that some of them had already discussed the matter be¬ fore going to the factory. But for tho promptness of the police there would have been a serious riot and there would have been bloodshed bad there been a leader of the strikers. Instead of that it was a spontaneous determination on the part of the women ami girls employed in tho fac¬ tory and mills to resist the employ¬ ment of negro women at tho name work. There was rio lender aud the incipient rioting was quickly sup¬ pressed, Two boys who had led tho incipient riot were arrested and carried out of tho crowd. Some of the strikers wanted to rescue them from the offi¬ cers, but wiser counsel prevailed, aud the boys were sent to the police bat- racks. They were afterwards released on collateral furnished by strikers. Tho management claim that they were compelled to employ the negroes as they could not secure a sufficient number of white laborers to curry on their business. NEW WAGE St ALE SIGNED. Whole l'rice I Ant In Governed hy n One Out Uvu-U Uitlfi. The new amalgamated association wage scale was signed at Youngstown, ()., Tuesday afternoon by Iff ‘sideiit Garland, of the Amalgamated Asso¬ ciation of Iron, Steel and Tiuworkers, and Secretary Janies H. Nutt, of tbe Iron Manufacturers’ Association. The whole scale ih governed by a 1-cent card rate, which means J cent per pound, selling price, for bar iron. When the selling price of bar iron goes up, everybody’s wu ;c:i go up, but wages cannot go any lower than they are now, now matter how low the sell¬ ing price of bur iron gem MINT RECORD BROKEN. Tlirco Million* of (iold l!< eflived sit Suit Franfilnio l»v Oiid Divy. All mint records were broken by ilia receipts at Ban Francisco 'Wednesday when $3,750,000 ill gold was d-. po: il cl for coinage. Of this amount $75,000 was tins property of the Alaska Commercial Company ami the balance was ilepo- il ed by various mines and smelting companies. FOURTH GEORGIA REGIMENT To Hold Aiimml Ki’iiisioJ; u< I Grange on tho 17th Ingtiiiit. The Fourth Georgia Regiment, C. S. A., will hold their thirteenth an¬ nual reunion at LuOrange, Ga., Aug. 17th inst. It is important that ail comrades should expecting to take LaGrange part in t.lm reunion arrive in on tho afternoon of the 16th. BELONGS TO ENGLAND. Tlio Klondyke Gold FJeldn Own«r»hIp I* Not Disputed, A Washington dispatch says: In¬ cited by the newspaper publications recently, tending to throw doubt upon the ownership of tho Klondyke gold Holds, somo of the high government officials who would naturally be ex¬ pected to ileal with the question, if it comes to a practical issue, have been quietly looking into the matter with a view of preparing themselves for any controversy thut may arise. Their viows are in substance that there can bo no valid objection ad¬ vanced to the title of Great Britain to this territority. OVER THEIR DEAD FATHER. Two South Carol him lioys Quarrel and Then Fight With Pistols and Knives. A Columbia, 8. C., special says: Wicher Smith, ah old resident of New* berry county, died Monday. Tuesday night bis two sons, Walter and How¬ ard, trid to decide where they would bury the body. They acmld not c^ee, blows follow¬ ed words,then knives and pistols were drawn. Walter was stubbed seven times and Howard severely shot.
