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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.
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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
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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.
