FORT MILL TIMES.
VOL. IX. FORT MILL, S. C., WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 24,1!?00. NO. .!2.
WCTORY FOR STRIKERS
Readme'and Lehieli Companies Gran
the Demands of the Miners.
WILL ARBITRATE GRIEVANCES
TIi^DpcIkIoii Arrived ?*t After . ? T\v?
C'otiferenre of Opemtoi w in 1M.I1
:it<lel[>liin ? Ttie I in:in< ial l.ntw C'itil.i'il
! I.y the Strike l?10.?00.000 ? Number ?>l
Mm Who Went Out About 140,000.
I ?I. ;t..I. a' -> ?
. ? 1110 prom
Mrike of tlio anthracite mine workers
of lVunsylvnuia practically ended
Wednesday. when the Philadelphia &
Heeding Coal & Iron Company and
I ho l.ehigh Vnlloy Coal Company
agreed to :il*olisli tlio sliding soalo in
their rospootivo regions and to grant
an advance in tragos of ton pot* oont.
u.-t, tlio advanoo to romain in opora
thin until April I. 11)01. or tlioroaftor.
This notion moots tlio demands of
tlio Soranton Minors' Convoution.
Tlio derision was arrived tit after
a two days' ootiforonoo liolwoon reprosontat
iv? s of tlio individual coal
operators and tin largo coal carrying
companies.
? It is conceded that the rosuit of the
conference is a complete victory for
the men. All the demands of their
Convention are acceded to, and as one
of the individual operators put it after
the conference, the operators go a
little further in agreeing to maintain
tlie wage advance after Anril 1
Tlio Heading Company's notice
reads:
"The Philadelphia & Heading Coal
iV Iron Company hereby withdraws
the notice posted October It. 1000, and.
to bring about praetiea! uniformity in
i!m* atlvanee of wajres in the several
o.il regions, gives notiet* that it will
suspend the operation of the sliding
scale, will pay ten per cent, advance
on September wages till April l. lOol,
and iliercaIter until further notice;
: id will tak?* up with it> mine en:
i loyt s any grievances which they may
have."
The strike begun on September 17.
Pi ten days 1-in.ooo men and hoys were
nut. Soon afterward praclleally every
mine in the anthraeite region was
rinsed. The coal basins extended over
in area of I To square miles.
The cause of the strike was the refusal
of the operators to recognize the
miners* union, abolish company stores
and advance wages at least ten per
cent. Later at a convention in Scranton
the strikers modified their demands.
The militia was sent to the Shenandoah
district after a Sheriff's posse
had tired on marchers then*. The mil
ilia was also sent to the Panther
Creek Valley to disperse marchers.
The total financial loss is estimated
at SIO.eno.lHHl. as follows: Loss in
w ages. S l.tHiu.ooo; hiss to operators,
Sl.noo.tHK); loss in railroad earnings,
$",000,000.
WILLIAM L. W.LSQN DEAD.
('armor l'o?lirmstei-Ctcneral tiutl Author
of Wilson Turin' Kill.
Lexington, V:i. iSpecial t. -- William
L. Wilson. President or Washington
siii<i Leo I'nivtTsiiy and former I'ostUi:
-It r 'I ral. dit'tl suddenly of colt
-lion of (lie lungs. lie had lteen j
fading over since his return front Ari- ;
zona, lie was conscious until the last, j
William Lytic Wilson was horn in
IK}::, near Charlestown. W. Va. When
studying in the I'niversity of Virginia.
]Sf?1. the Civil War broke out, and lie
enlisted as a private in the Confeder- '
ate army At the close of the war lie
studied law, and later aeeepted a position
oi assistant professor of Latin
find Creek, wlileh he held till 1ST I.
Tn 1TS0 lie was elected a dc'egnlo T<
the ltenioeratie National Convention
and ele' tor at large for Hancock ami
IL'.glisii. After two years of law am
polities lie accepted the presidency of
tlte I'niversity of West Virginia. Init
in a few months ran as a candidate
for tiie Cony-eighth Congress, lie wat
elected, and tool; his scat in LHNd.
Mr. Wilson succeeded Mr. Springet
as Chairman of the Ways and Means
Committee, and carried through tlte
measure known as tlte Wilson Tariff
hill. In the parliamentary struggles
over this ' .till Mr. Wilson's health
broke down.
ITe^ioen; tIn ml called him to
t1 * t'nbinot as Post master-! ietieral
At iin- expiration of Mr. Cleveland's
sirnml irnn as President Mr. Wilson
returned lo college life, accepting t he
pivsldemj ? !' Washington ami !,< ?.
University. Since then he lias led the
scholar's life.
I'romtmoil l'mrif.
Archibald Clavering Ciinther. the
(?a!ito'.iilit novelist getv $7."?,0(Hi of his
mother's estate by a will tiled at San
1 raneisco.
Until tlie I'rince of Wales and King
A let or Kninianuel of Italy have a nervous
affection of the muscles of the
face which makes the left eye blink
e instantly.
It seems that the young King ot
Italy, economically inclined though he
1 . in nil other respects, intends to in
d dge in good music and plenty of it.
llntli he and his Queen are passiona
rely fond of music.
The new French duel rode provides
ili.it lu the future no duel can end
without the shedding of blood, and no
account of the proceeding shall be
published ir the itisuli causing the
duel was not made nubile
THE NEWS EPITOMIZED.
W ASHINGTON ITKMS.
A rigid investigation of tlu? collision
between the torpedo boats Dahlgren
and Craven, off Newport, lias been begun.
The annual reports of the SnrgeonCeneral
of the Artn.v and the Superintendent
of the West Point Military
Academy were made public.
Secretary Long ordered that there
be no further proceedings in the court
of inquiry to determine the responsibility
for the grounding of the Oregon.
Confirmation has been received of
the execution of Chang-Ycn-TIoon.
former Chinese Minister to the Cnited
States.
The battleship Texas lias been placed
out of commission at the llrooklyn
Navy Yard, where she will receive ex
tensive repairs.
AllK'rt 1?. Creen. of the General band
Otlice. has been solocled :is chief of
the now division of forestry of the
Interior Department.
Baron I'mvm. I'.nlian Atniiassador.
presented his credentials front his
new master. Kins Hnnnanuel.
on; ai>oi*ti:i> ist.Asns.
Tliirteen I'nited States soldiers are
missing in Luzon. Philippine Islands,
and are helieved to have been captured
by insurgents.
The insurgents surprise1* a party of
American scouts at Takloban. Leyte
Island. P. I., killing three and mutilating
their bodies.
The I'nited States Supreme Court
advanced the cases involving the extension
of the Constitution to Porto
ltico and lite Philippines to the second
week in November.
Major Pram-is s. Dodge. Paymaster
of tite Division of Culm, is ill in Havana
with yellow fever.
A new modern pest oflice building
for the Philipnines is to be built in
Manila at an early date.
Two Americans were wounded and
twenty insurgents killed and forty
wounded in a light in Northern I'anay,
T\ I.
i5t?M I;STIC.
Severe earilnpiake shocks occurred
a! Kodiak. Alaska, and one life was
lost.
Masked men blew tip with dynamite
the safe of the Farmers' Hank, at
Nevada. Mo., securing
The attempt to introduce "Headings
frout the Bible Selected for the Public
Schools" into the Chicago schools was
ucicau'ii ny l vote ot T lltrieen In six.
lii i!. .1 W Fisher. n noted hriynde
i enmmamter in the Civil War. died a?
Cheyenne. Wyo.. aged eighty-six
years. He leaves a number of t-liil dren
ami yrainlehildren.
The niiislcrai season open
ed in New Jersey.
A 1>ill which will be presented at the
next meeting of ilie California Legislature
provides for the arrest of children
between the ayes <>f eight and
fourteen years, and forbids 'heir employment.
except ditrintr certan. nortiotis
of the year, by business Arms.
Jewelry worth sjn.oou was stolen
frinn the Inune of Mr. and Mrs. Charles
rtizer. near Hcrnardsville. N. J.
Vice-Clianeelior Pitney, in Trenton.
X..!.. in is judicial capacity, intimated
that there are no trusts.
State it-imps turned hack 21)00 strikers
who had inarched into the Panther
Creek Valley. Pemi.. to try to elose the
collieries in operation there.
Lisbon Fallows wrote to the Rev.
Anson Phelps Stokes, at New Haven,
j i (>nn.. suggesting lie devote part of
| 1:is inherit:;nee to a fund for worr
| out ministers of the tSospel.
i n?- wimei iin-Htiui'iiicniN mr Tiie
mail service to the Yukon and Atlin
districts in Alaska will l?p tin* same
us those prevailing tin* winter
of 1 SOt 1-1! KM).
Ii is reported at San Francisco that
the nvw of til" nessing ship lymslng
hail mutinied. killed Hi" captain and
deltlcil on an i.*. ml in the South Seas.
There lias hcon a heavy fall of snow
In the Uio (1 ramie valley in Texas.
The Flench Fine steamer I.a Lorraine
arrived at New York City having
broken down at s< a and repaired
her own engine.
Falwin Fletcher, one of a family of
steeple climbers, fell seventy-two feet
from a chimney at Attlchoro, Mass.,
and was killed..
Coventor l'in.grec's bills for a poptthf
vote on a Constitutional amendment
to tax railroads at aetnnl value
and for the repeal special charters
have be,?ii passed liy the Michigan
Legislature.
.lames Adams, of I'.erkeley Springs.
\V. Va.. who went to the Klondike
three years ago. lias amassed a fortune
which he estimates at S.Tim mi,'too.
roKKK.N.
Queen Yieioria has prorogued the
Itritisli Parliament until early in I?e
eemiier.
Cenernl Linares has been gazetted
as Spanish Minisb r of War. and (Jenera
I Asscarraga as President *?f the
acnair.
Itnssia announced that because of
success in Manchuria it will act with
miii' ind ".n n<h ncc of the I'owits in
China.
ltepresentat ivos of all the nlli"d
Powers met in j'ck >. <'hina. to he
pin nepnt in ions upon tin* l?asis of the
French proposals.
President l.ouhet. of France, pave a
baiuptrt at the Klysoe Palace at
Paris in honor of Kinp Leopold of
Pelpintn.
(>? neral Koherts lias issued an or
I der rentovlnp the restrict ion on exj
ports from the Transvaal and the
Ornnpo Hirer colonies '
MOTHER RACE FOR COP.
Upton's Challenge Accepted by the
New York Yacht Club.
MATCH WILL OCCUR IN AUGUST.
The Ntiur of Sir Thomas'* New Yacht
Will 15c Shamrock II ? Condition). ot
IiaccH Same us Prevailed in I.ast Contest?
Speculation ok to Who Will Defend
Trophy Against tho Challenger.
New Vork City (Special). Sir Thomas
Liptoif>; challenge for the America's
Cup was formally laid before the
members of the New York Yacht Club
at a special meeting la id for that purpose.
Without a dissenting voice the
challenge was voted a hearty acceptance
by the hundred or more members
that thronged the famous model room,
where the meeting was held.
Speculation was not wrong when it
decided that the new challenge would
not differ in its terms from the former
one sent by Sir Thomas. In the dates
suggested for the races alone is there
variation. The challenge, which conies
through the Koyal I Ister Yacht flub,
names, according to the requirements
of toe deed of gift. Sir Thomas I.iptou
as owner of tIn* challenging vessel;
Shamrock II.. a cutter-rigged yacht
measuring Sb.o feet oil the load water
line as the challenger: August 1!0. 'J'J
and '21 of next year as the date for the
races, and requests that the starts,
courses and other details be left subject
to the same conditions a- governed
the races between Columbia and the
lirst Shamrock last year.
A committee was appointed, with
power to accept the challenge for the
club, and to arrange the terms ol* the
match. This committee will later in
the year meet a similar committee
from the Itoyal lister Yacht flub,
and full details of tlie sailing of the
races will then be agreed upon.
After tlte meeting the question of a
new defender was discussed. Various
suggestion of more or less plausibility
as to the defensive cauqinign went the
rounds, lty some It was said, with no
quotation of authority, that at least
two defenders would be 1 suflt. and that
a local designer would furnish the
boards for one of the new yaelits. The
owners of the latter yacht were hinted
at as a syndicate composed of three
or four yachtsmen who have boon
prominent in racing off Newport.
As to the owners of the first yacht,
all *liose who didn't know repeated
the gossip that has been current since
the news of Sir Thomas Upton's intention
to challenge became known.
Harry I'ayne Whitney and Herman
K. Duryea. it was said, would lie the
owners, and Captain "Nat" ilerreshoIT
the designer.
EIGHT LIVES LOST AT A FIRE.
A ICjnn shackle Trnnnrnl In Now York
City n IlcHtlitrnp.
Now York City (Special).?Highi persons
wore burned t<? death by au early
morning tiro in a three-story frame
Imnsr in liestpr street. which was entirely
extinguished within a half hour.
Almost an entire family living on the
third floor was blotted out of existence.
One woman was roasted to
dentil on the landing of a tiro escape
scarcely fifteen feet front the street,
while scores of spectators looked on
helplessly. The other victims were
killed by blasts of fiame almost before
they left their heds. or they fell in a
brief struggle through a labyrinth ot
antiquated passages and hallways.
The dead are: Meudt I Strauss, eighty
years old: Samuel Strauss, a son.
twenty two years old: Mrs. Sarah
Fnss, thirty-six years old; Samuel
Fuss, thirteen years old: l.ena Fuss,
nine years old: Morris Fass. two
years old: Mrs. Kosa 1-cwis. sixty-two
years old and Mrs. Horowitz, fortysix
years old.
The police are working on the theory
that tin* building was tired by iiu- n
diaries.
The building is a ramshackle, tumble-down
affair, and as inviting a lire
trap in the opinion of the police am]
firemen as could be found in all New
York City.
The entire loss is placed at ?(V0O0.
PRAISE FOR THE APACHES.
(irnernl Mcrrinm It?-j>ort? 'I hov Kiijjnso
Siit-ooRHfiilly in Agriculture,
Washington, I>. C. (Special!.?Therwere
110 Indian troubles in the Department
of the Colorado last year, according
to General Merriam. and the
only dinicnlties between white men
and Indians were individual, arisln*.
from cards and wldsky. The white
men, says the General. were the aggressors.
The General speaks with commendation
of the excellent progress being
made toward civilization by the
Apaches, under the management o.
Captain Nicholson, Seventh Cavalry.
He s:iys: "1 found tliem largely and
successfully etiguged in agriculture,
and saw large numbers of men, as
well as women, at work in I lie field*,
wlildi is most unusual for Indians. In
view of these facts, and of the assurance
by.Captain Nicholson of the absolute
loyalty and elllrieney of his Indian
police, I recommended the withdrawal
of all the troops from San
Carlos Agency, instead of repairing
that post."
Filipino General Cnpturrrl.
Under cover of a stormy niirht. Captain
Klllott. of the Fortieth Infantry,
surprised the Filipino headquarters
near Orequletn. Island of Mindanao.
I'. I., and captured without lighting
General Alvarez, with his stall and
twenty-five soldiers
GIRLS OBJECT TO SLANG.
Chicago College Professor Taken to
Task For It.
t'|?-to-I)f?to l)ri*rrl|itlan< of Ancient HI*lory
Mori Willi Tliclr WrMtiMi
Disapproval.
Chicago (Special!. Young women atrending
English history lectures in the
Cniversity of Chicago have submitted
ii protest r-ainst the use of slang by
Professor Oliver .1. Thnteher. leeturer.
Mates of important hnpponings like
the aeeession of Charlemagne ami
the victory of Charles Martel. the girls
lieelare are lost to them forever been
use they have to translate Professor
Thatcher's speech into English.
The phis insist, also, that Mr. Thatcher
neglects their family names, with
the usual polite prefix, in favor of
"Von. there." "Ah. there, now. >ou in
till* illicit ..ml " ?1... u'....-t
.... ...... wi lilt- .11111
inon? startling "Yon."
t'hiet'est of all Professor Thatcher's
pet phrases. according to his students,
is the combination. "the whole thing."
It" on<> king fools a little bigger than
other moil ho is salil to liavo a "swelled
lioad." When telling ahoiii a kiiic of
Kticlnnd who was shot whilo hmil Inc.
Professor Thatehcr's version was:
"Somewhat of a knisht had a sorap
with his attendant, cm : drop on the
king. ami put liiin oat of the rlnc."
Tlien when the son sal on the paternal i
throne lie "had no kiek coming." for i
lie had "a mortgage" on the rotters of !
the realm, and "the bulge" on all eoinllere
is what the girls handed to ill"
Professor: \\*? . the utidorsigii"d.
memhers of your rla-s in niedlaeval
history, do hereby expivs our disapproval
and dislike of your excessive
siuiik m your iccuirrs. We |
hereby respectfully roipiost that you
refrain from the use of iho ooinmon
nul inelegant expressions. whieh seem
lo us out of plneo I!? ? elnss room.
Wo : )>o susars that you learn the
n isuo of iho member- of your class. ,
<o :is to iiso Ihem. Jiuil not l?o com- !
poiloil to tlosmitale whom you tooan
hy po ntine voiir linir?-i* an?l shout int;
'hoy. there" yon*' ami other such
lornis."
TFN SLAIN F03 A CRL'S LOVE.
\ Series ?.r Fierce Itiilriiorli'ii in it Mi \icuii
Minim; <'iir.iitmtill>.
1.1 I'aso. 'IV- (Spcciuli. Ten nioii
were hutclioroil in a succession of
lierec encounters over a j;irl near the
I>olo.-es mine, in Mexico.
The feilil lie:ran llhoiit throe moillhs
mo. wjn-n three Mexicans fouirht over 1
he trii-1. Two of the men wore killed.
m?l the thinI stole Iho trirl ;in,i |(1cik
Iter lo a cave near hy. when* lie k?*pt
her prisoner for a month.
Three men then wont oat to rescue
her. A hattie ensued, ami the man in
lie e.-ve ami two of his assailants
were killed. The remaining ru(lian I
nok possession ami kept the irirl a
irisniier for two months.
Another attempt to reseiie the unforunite
woman resulted in the death
if four men. The eirl iv;>< l-.^t > ..
dored to her parents at tli" camp.
DUAL TRAGEDY IN HAVANA.
tlnjur I'rJiTKOli lllci of t cIIiih I'rvi'r ami
IIIh W if.- Kills ll. is. ir.
Havana (I?y Cablet. Major l'cter?o:t.
i !n> Chief Commissary of Cuba.
1 i? ?1 from yellow lover. ami an hour
si tor his wife, who arrived from ('in
iimaii three days before to nurse
aim. shot herself through tin* head
with a revolver, lteath was instantaneous.
The bodies of Major Peterson and
his wife were interred with military
honors The ting; at 1*1 Morro and on
ill the public buildings were at half
mast. The tragic oeeurn^ico has
greatly depressed the whole military
'otninuuity in Havana.
NEW SENATOR FOR VERMONT.
IV. 1'. iHllillffViam ricctt'tl to Siinrptl
S. .Morrlll*>
Moiitpelier. Vt. (Speeiall. Former
(iovernor XV. P. Dillingham was eleetd
1 niled States Senator by the l.egis
liiture of Vermont, succeeding former
'hief Justice Jonathan Koss. who held
by appointment of the (iovernor in
place of tin- late Justin S. Morrill.
t'. A f'rotity, one o' the four Hepublie.au
candidates, having with
irawn. and the Democratic memhers
who previously had voted for Senator
Ila'/.lelott having decided to support
1 nllinvham. flu* latter was elected on
the ?hird ballot.
TRIPLETS IN TWO FAMILIES.
flu? Mothers Were Twin Si?ter? ami the
lat Twin Itrotlicrv.
Huntington. West Vn. (Sperm It.
Mrs. Walter .1. Swansoii gave birth to
triplets here, aim an hour later Mr>.
Howiinl K. Swnnson .similarly surprised
i.cr In? diand.
T1h? eireuniNiaurex art* surprising.
Less than a year ago Dorothy an I
Part henin Freeman. twin sisters, were
llio belles of Ih'eeileu. West Va. Tiny
had many suitors, and filially tliev
chose Walter .1. and Howanl K. Swan
oil, young tin:her men, ami also twins.
I'rife of Milk in Chicago Uaisrii.
The Mill; Shippers' T'nion. in Chi
ago. litis fixed the prices of milk for
the six months beginning November ^
is follows: For November and December,
$1.15 for an eight-gallon ran;
for January and February. SI .Hi; for
Mareh, 115 rents, and tor April, '.hi
cents. The increase involved in this
schedule will make milk cost the
housewife 7 cents instead of 5 cents
a quart
4RP LOSES TEMPER.
# fliat
Is When lie Reads Some Northern
Papers.
SAY TI1FY STILL HATE IS
liill (iets So Mad at Sonic of the
1-liugs at the South and (Iocs to
Work.
As Patrick Henry said. "It is useless
to cry pen e when there i- no
peace." Henry (irmly never loved the
nation into peace more than about a
week. Better lake that inscription off
his monument. What alarms me is
the fact that the Notthern papers that
are most hitter against us are the
most popular with their people. This
is a had sign. The N? w York Pre :
boasts that its eireulation is twiee a.
great as that of all the Hcpuldiciu
pipers of New York and Brooklyn
combined and it is increasing every
lay. It is ably and bitterly edited.
Not a dailj issue lint lias some Ming or
slander against the South. I wouldn't
care for what an editor said if his
readers didn't approve and enforse it,
and it is reasonable to suppose that
the million Northern rcachrs of the
Press hate us as e>rlia Iv as the editor.
I can't account for tier, antipathy,
for we are not doing anything to them,
la last Sunday's p:.p-r th<> Press say
that we "should build a m ilium* nt ' ?
Paul Sloan, the deputy sher'fl of Bake
Charles, l/i.. because he lost his li.o
trying to protect a negro from a mob.'
That is not so had. hut he continues
his remarks and siys we "should set
lip his statue ill pla ill' one <>t' thos->
< .< eled to Calhoun and Taney ami
Davis. whom their i.ini followers admit
\\i rr im uralily wroni; in every
<i'estion of their :i po :i ill the Northern
mind lead Paul Sloan's title to a
monunn nt : 8 pie trl' as John llrown's "
What the iihi* of tryii p to k< ep
rail" and serene under sii li provoe itions.
Chief Jtisti o Tanej. and John
Calhoun weir ih d 1? fore our e'vil
war and I did not know Hint any reFveetahle
eitizen of the lTnited Statis
would dare to di honor tlnir er. at
li.:imi . They m i re statesmen, not
politicians, and h> tributes and eulogies
paid to them l?y northern nvn
were lull of praise and overllowiisp
with national lamentation Kvn Daniel
Wi hster spoke with inn li emotion
in his beautiful eulogy on Mr. Cilhonn.
I tut now at this late d ty the
sane old fanatical civ is heard tin t
caused New Knpl .ml to send John
Drow n on his m ili ions and do i'ish
i nanil The same malignant howl
that inspired John (!. Whittiir to
write of Webster:
",-'o fallen! .co lost! the light with
drawn wliirh one" he wane
The glory from liis pray liiits pone
foreverinore.
All else is pone; from those pi eat eves
llw> II.. I
Winn faith i- lost an 1 honor dirs, the
man i dead."
And this because lie honored Oallionn
anil in hi. old ago dared to snv
in liis ypp cii tit Capon Spring; that
a i-tiit" had tin- right to sort-do from
tin- I'nion win a tht- otnp . t was hrok?-n.
My father was from Massachusrtts
and honon-l Mr. Weh-ter above
all men and was intensely indign nit itt
Wliit tier's f tn:;t sil puri< mical \ rsos.
That triuniverate Webster Clay and
Calhoun wan iiis ith al of gnat men,
patriots and statesmen, and it is mine
to-day. My contempt for o'?l \V1 i-ti-r
is very great and none of hist si inib-ron
< (Tusions shall fnd a plaet- In
iny colb-etion of peeais. ! was stirpi
s (1 to fitnl a lot of tlio.rs in William
Cullt-n Bryant's rolbofinn.
But I am going to quit reading su.di
newspapers as destroy my serenity. I
have to liurry out Into mv garden :tn<l
dig too hard and toi> often this hot
\v ither to keep my i holer down. I've
In t-ii building a woodshed, and a chicken
coop with two appartments. one of
which is for the Christmas turkeys
when the time ootm s ()\1 Cnele Satn
did die sure enough, an 1 I am now emphatically
the le y b'lt I reckon if s
good for me. My wife yy it s. I'v
worn out inv forkol hoe digging 111>
tin- lard ground in the lios beds fir
the worse I am ii ulted the harder I
dig. 1 don i uride-stnnd some tilings.
(Jeneral do don ami <; ti r:l Wheelei
arm some < f our or; tor - and preachers
go up north and mix up with tho e
,t ankers and come hack loaded down
and ay: Oh, they are all right; they
are harmonious, hut I not lee that the
( rand Army wants to regulate our
s< boolbooks, and the editors dictate
how we shall mating- our m^Vees. I'm
doing my best to barinon-y.e, but when
1 re;?d theii editorials I want to hire
a i u^sin'. man on<- that can't lie
hi like of it -ami Ml give 1.1: 1 ?2 a day
to use huiKU.i:. on that t di'or. Mo
.vouldcnf mini % '.g oils d afar >ff
and ni:t>!?* it would relieve my feeling/.
Hi- knows that ova ' y follower
of Taney ami Calhonn still glory in
their i on titntlonal teachings. 11
l(nows that l)r Andr ws, who is the
honored head of the pubic v hoola of
>'* ago. dcrlnred in a pulilio address
th.t every principle the south maintained
and fought for had been decided
in f.nr favor by the supreme
mart of the t'nitod .States hefor? the
w >r and has been since the war can
tinned by the present (ourt lie knows
ill t and he knows all about i'nna
mi kron and New York city's trentui
ut of the nemo, and in face of n'l
; hs h? dares to spit out his venom
Mt vis. I don't understand hira nor
what manner of man he is nor how he
cnn sleep In peace or enjoy and digest
his daily food.
But we will get even next month
and then you will hear a howl. Good
gracious! What a consternation? 41
what weeping and wailing and gnash - ?
ing of teeth Bryan and Stevenson!
Both names end with a big N and that
combination has never failed yet.
Well, I am working on that bonk
now. and my friends arc sending tne
names of their favorite poems from nil
over the south, it is already Interosling
and curious to note the ones tii.it
arc most popu'ar. I snail piiDiisn a
list of them before long n the order in
which they -land.
And now about that scriptural enigma.
1 have received sevra1 letters
about it. and but one coriect answer
and so 1 will have to give the solution
as sent bv the Mississippi p rls:
"You have heard, no doubt, the oft-told
tale
Of Prophet Jonah and the whale.
ins living smn was kp|h wunin
Till ho ropontoil of his sin.
When tho whale dies its oil wives
light
Dispelling darkness from the night."
? mil Arp in Atlanta Constitution.
Di111K?TOI1H to 11??*
All readers of history know how
dangerous to the liberties of the people.
how burdensome and what an
invitation to national aggressiveness,
a big regular army is. And the ten
deney is to eonstantly increase the
force. The principle or policy once
admitted the gradual increase is easy
enough. And the army once authorized
it must ne recruited to its
strength by every means possible. If
voluntary enlistments fail to accomplish
the end. conscription, or the general
imposition of military duty upon
all males between certain ages, must
lie resorted to. It is idle to say that
there need be no fear of conscription.
If we must have an army we
must have it. and if young men won't,
volunteer they will lie forced to serve
that's inevitable. Houston (Texas)
Post.
Cannot lllilo tin- Knctn.
It takes a good deal of nerve for
the nominee of the Republican party
to throw out of his message the suggestion
of prohibitory or penal leglsi
lation against trusts.
The Republicans have had control
of all branches of the (Jovermnent and
vet the Prcsiilmit iw n?>? ni?i.?
to :t single action l?y bis party looking
i?i tin' repressing or restricting of
I ho iiusis. There Ims boon absolutely
no move of I be Republicans wliieli,
by the widest streteli of the imagina
tion. could be construed into n desire
to in any way hamper the trusts.
The trusts are for the Republican
candidate and the Republican party,
and the Republican party and the Republican
candidate are for the trusts.
No amount of high sounding phrasing
can hide these two facts.
'I'll* Constitution itml tin- King.
If the Constitution does not follow
I lie ting, what does the ting symbolize
when tlie Constitution stops and the
Hag advances alone? Not the republic.
for tlie Constitution is the bond and
seal of the republic?tear off the Constitution
and tlie republic, with its
tlag. sinks into fragments. Not certainly
the <Jovernment, for the (Jovernniciit
is but the Constitution executed.
The Hag is only the emblem of the
( overniuciit as tin* tJovernment is only
tlie embodiment of tlie Constitution.
The tlag is the sign, the Constitution
is the tiling signified. Let us have
done with the treasonable folly of trying
to sever them. The flair without
tin* Constitution?wluit would it ho?
Tito phantom flag of n pliantoui republic!?Philadelphia
Keeord.
All lOeiil Hole I cir II>itimi.
If tin- time should ever come, which
heaven forbid! when the interests of
my portion of our people were believed
to re?|ttire ;i little more bending
of the Constitution in order, say.
to keep some tunii in the Presidency
for life, so 11 in t these elections so disturbing
to business might be avoided.
Mr. Ilanna would be an ideal man to
manage the campaign. The manager
who can protest with a straight face
that there is no possible political issue
involved in the Porto Kican law. or
ill the bloody romplest of the Philip
pines, would be just the one to tell
the country that a law. or an edict,
making some future indispensable per
sonage President for life, was no possible
occasion for a difference of opinion.
Springfield (Mass.) Republican.
Two lilgautlc KvIIn.
Imperialism is a great issue, but side
Ii.v side with it stands the issue of
tin" trusts. As imperialism is tin- foe
of tin* liberty trailitions of the repute
lie tin- trust power is the foe to the
home ami to individual endeavor. The
< ommereial travelers will vote against
usnrpation and capitalistic greed,
whatever they may say. They are
thinking ami the fruit of their thought
will ripen at the ballot box.
A It u I Moling UlnfT.
The dTlnratlon of manufacturing
concerns usually the beneficiaries of
big tariff bounties?that they will
"suspend If Bryan is elected, is tiie
meanest kind of political intimidation.
Most of these would-be bulldozers are
Selling goods eheftper to foreigners
than to home <j?usuincrs. and are simply
trying to preserve tueir license to