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A FISHERMAN'S BOY.
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BT FRANK WALCOTT KUTT.
Down on t ii3 string-piece perhaps ;*cu'li
find him,
?<* Sturdy and brave and brown,
Leaving the world and its cares behind
him,
Up in the fishing-town;
Over and over his old hooks baiting,
Just for a flounder or two in waiting.
If he's not there, then he's in his glory,
Off in the outer bay,
Paddling about in a patchcd-up dory
-Halt ot a summer s day;
Proudest of captains and*crews together,
Gathering cargoes in any weatner.
Out before daylight in every season,
Down to the waterside.
Truly forecasting with sailor's reason
Weather, and wind and tide;
Happy, contented and glad sea-rover.
Living the days of his grandsires o\er.
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I I ISIDORE,
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I UNWASHED.
p | By William H. Osborne.
SIDOR SALIXSKY slept
^ _ jg in a batlitub, and. after all,
O I O lie might have done much
worse. Some there are
who cannot sleep at all;
some who lie wide eyed and restless ou
the silken couch of care. Some there
are who would sleep, but who have no
place wherewith to lay their weary
heads. Isidor Salinsky belonged to
neither class. He was a sleeper, and
he had a place to sleep, and accordingly,
he slept.
The bathtub in question was a sta?
tionary one, and occupied that portion
of the Salinsky kitchen just between
the stove on the one hand and the sink
on the other. Not only was the bathtub
a stationary affair, but little Isidor's
bedding, which filled it, was also
Kv , stationary. On no pretext was it disturbed.
The bathtub had not always been on
nana; Dut tne lancuora or tne tenement,
.who had some peculiar ideas about hygiene
and cleanliness, had, out of the
goodness of his heart, furnished each
family with one. And in all the house
there was no family who hailed the in|jp
* novation with such joy as did the Salinsky
family. The first niglit that it
,was there the elder Salinsky, father of
the younger one, grasped at once its
portent, for the instant he saw it he
stepped to where young Isidor slept
on the floor and dumped him, neck and
heels, into the tub. It was just the
proper length.
"A fit! a fit!" cried the older Salinsky,
who was employed somewhere
in the depths of the clothing trade; "a
lovely fit! What would we have done
&'. yvithout it?"
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.uuu c^jucr uu\>u iu a liutr pumi, lu
. what better use could the tub be put?
Otherwise it had been a mere ornament,
a useless luxury to be deplored
rather than admired. But now?it was
superb.
Isidore Salinsky lived in the Fourkm.
teenth Ward. In the Fourteenth Ward
there was a public school.
There was one public school in the
city where teachers were paid $10
more a month than at the other
schools. The Fourteenth Ward was
that school. It was situated "down
Neck," with all that implies. It was
on the other side of the canai. It had
^record. The teachers earned their
money". It might be said that tlTey
[iwere tillers of the soil, for in a very
large degree their charges were identified
with that particular article. They
did their work. They took rhe raw
material out of the gutter, and turned
it out at the end of a few years clean
and white and beautiful to look upon.
The record for dirt in the Fourteenth
Ward School had been held for some
6ix months by young Abe Abramson.
On the dirt question no one could approach
him?and no one cared to. But
that was before Isidor Salinsky entered
the arena of events. Miss Van
Steenbergh. a girl in her teens, had
charge of the third year at the Fourteenth
Ward School. This is two years
higher than the sand-playing claymodeling
class. Abe Abramson was
of this class, and it was into this class
that Isidor Salinsky impelled himself.
And the instant that he entered the
door Miss Van Steenbergh knew that
Abe Abramson's reign was over?
!??; . knew that Isidor Salinsky was the
champion of the world.
At the close of the day she took Isidor
to one side and interviewed him politely
on the subject.
"Isidor," she explained in as delicate
a manner as was possible, "you are,
oh, so dirty! You must wash your
face and hands and keep yourself
clean. You?you must take a bath. I?
I want you give this note to your mother
when you go home. Will you
"She won't take a bath, what do you i
think?'' remarked Isidor all in one
breath. Then he added: "My father
says that maybe next summer, when it
gets warm again, maybe I can take a
bath. I don't know," he continued, reflectively,
"I don't know if I had one
. last summer or not. I fergit."
Miss Van Steenbergh shook her head.
"I know," she went on. "But you
must take a bath now. Haven't you
a bathtub in your house, or some soap,
or something? You must keep clean,
or we can't have you here, you know."
Isidore looked at her reproachfully.
"A bathtub!" lie exclaimed. "I stay
in one every night! Sure!"
The teacher smiled upon him. "I'll
tell you what to do." she said. "When
you go home, turn on the water in the
tub. and fill it full, and get in. It's
lots of fun?and there are quite a lot
of iittle boys who do it. You can
splash around all you want to. You'll
try it. won't you?"
He looked at her aghast. "But my
m
bed," he protested, "it would get wetall
wet. I could not sleep."
The teacher suggested the advisability
of taking out the bed just for
this once.
I sudor shook his head. "My mamma
would never let me move my bed?she
never takes it out. There it must
stay. But next summer." he adued,
doubtfully, "maybe I get a bath."
The teacher's note did some little
good, but Is id or si ill led the marchhe
still wore the laurels he had wrested
so completely from Abe Abramson.
The third year of the Fourteenth
Ward School was co-educational in its
character, and to this fact is due the
reclamation and redemption of Isidore
Salinsky. If Isidore Salinsky was the
dirtiest litiie boy in the class, it is
quite as certain that the little girl in
the third seat was the nicest and clean,
est. Her name was Sadie Mergenthab
er. She had light hair. She sat upon
the aisle that separated the little girls
j from the little boys. The nearest boy
| to her was Isidor Salinsky. And as
j Isaac of old had looked upon Rebekah,
and found her pleasing: in his sight,
! and as Jacob had looked upon Rachel,
so did Isidore SaJinsky look wistfully
upon Sadie Mergentkaler. But unfori
tunately for Isidore, it was a far cry
j to the converse of the proposition. And
t yet Isidore was not a bad sort of afellow.
The girls who sat over in the
coiner, and who could not detect the
actual cause of the added duskiness
upon the face of Isidore, these girls
glanced coyly at him. But not so Sadie.
She held aloof.
"Ain't you going to like me?" he inquired.
after he had been there some
three days.
. She did not deign to answer, and this
cooled his ardor for a while, but as
time passed he grew bolder.
One memorable day he thrust forth
his good right hand, and thrust it directly
upon the hand of Sadie Mergenthaler
as it lay upon her desk. She
gave a little scream and drew back,
and jumped up from her desk, rubbing
and rubbing her hand as she did so.
"What's the matter, Sadie?" inquired
the teacher.
'Sadie Mergentkaler made a face.
4<FTp touched me with his dirty, dirty
hand," she replied, pointing at Isidore
Salinsky, "that dirty, dirty boy."
Isidore looked at her blankly. Then
he looked at his hand, and then he
looked at hers. Hers was as pink and
clean as any hand could be. And his?
well. And then he understood. He saw
at once that he wasn't in her class.
He didn't belong, that's all.
The next morning a very young man,
apparently a stranger, entered the
room, and stepped up to the teacher.
"Teacher," he said, touching her upon
the arm.
The teacher turned to look, and gave
a gasp of surprise and joy. For it was
Isidore Salinsky with a clean bill of
health. FiS beautiful pink skin shone
resplendent. He seemed clean frcm
head to foot.
"Teacher," he confided to her. "I had J
a bath?a real one in the tub, with
real soap, good laundry soap mat you
buy. And every morning I shall wash
now." He started away, and came
back. "Every morning,' he added, in
a half whisper, "I shall wash down to
the cold shoulder. I told mamma so."
Little Abe Abramson is again champion.
The cleanest, nicest little girl
in the calss is still Sadie Mergenthaler.
The cleanest, nicest little boy is?Isidore
Salinsky. And so they think
themselves.?Woman's Home Companiom
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Tale of a Typewriter.
"Hello! This is the firm that left a
typewriter at your office on trial, and
we think you've had it about long
enough. Are you going to buy it?"
These were the words that were
'phoned to a clerk in Allegheny City
Hall recently, and before be stopped
to get liis breath he yelled back thai
the machine was not much good anyway,
and he had decided not to buy it
"Then we'll send a man to-night tc
take it away," came over the wire.
The clerk said: "All right, come and
get the old thing."
Xow, the truth is, that some of the
City Hall jokers had planned some
fun, and it was one of them at another
telephone in the same building who
called up and pretended he was the
typewriter agent. Later in the day th?
wag sent a ycuug fellow, who was a
stranger to the clerk, to get the machine.
"I'm here after that typewriter." the
caller remarked, as he had been instructed.
Without hesitation the device was
placed in his hands and he lugged it
at once to wilere the jOKers were m
waiting. Next day one of the young
men telephoned once more and pretended
he was the typewriter salesman.
"The reason we have r.ot called for
that machine," he explained, "is because
we have been too busy, but
we'll take it away to-morrow."
Disguising his alarm over what
looked to him like a swindle, ihe clerk
gasped out. "Ail right," and then commenced
to worry. Some days later Detective
Jimmy McKay was pnt next to
the prank and asked to deliver the
missing property to the clerk and explain
to the victim of the joke that
some young fellow had been fcun<*
trying to sell the typewriter on thr
street. When thai clerk reads thir.
item a cobweb will have been cleared
from his bewildered brain.?Fitsbur#
| Dispatch.
The city of Glasgow makes ST.jOO t
year profit out of waste papei collected,
in the streets. Liverpool has now decided
to add to its income in the same
manner.
The passenger engines formerly cost
more 011 account of the embellishment.
Now the freight engines are more expensive
because they are heavier.
Charleston. The city has long been a
sufferer from excessive rates charged
J by the railroads and now that the
j steamship company has increased the
rates the merchants feel that the burden
is more than they can bear and a
strong fight will be made tor cheaper
rates.
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Two Brothers Acquitted.
! The summer term of the criminal
court for Laurens county was held dur- J
ing the past week with Hon. Frank B.
Gary, of Abbeville, as special judge,
presiding.
Probably the most important case
[ tried was that of the state vs. Broadus
| and Lonnie Lollis, brothers and well
known young white men of Dials town!
ship, on the charge of arson.
The trial consumed nearly two days,
over fifty witnesses testifying in the;
case. Five able speeches were made;
three for the state and two for the defendants.
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Cheraw Naval Stores Plant Burned.
The Cheraw Naval Stores Company s
plant has been burned with a loss estimated
at $12,000, partially insured.
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Carnegie Gives to Negroes.
Benedict College, a negro institution j
in Columbia, will have within a few |
months a library building for which j
plans have been drawn and which will
cost $5,000, the money having been donated
by Andrew Carnegie.
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Wealthy Farmer Dies.
j Hugh Price, a Marion county farmer j
| died a few days ago, leaving an es- I
! tate worth $123,000, including $23,000 j
cash in bank. He began life without j
a dollar after the war, and is said to!
have been wholly illiterate.
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Ancient Charleston Hotel Sold.
The Charleston Hotel, one of the j
oldest and best known houses in the J
south, which his been closed for the j
past year, was sold a few days ago;
under a receivership order of the court j
It was bought by local parties, who
will reopen it as a tourist hotel in the
fall.
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New Industries Reported.
The Chattanooga Tradesman reports
the following new industries in this
state for the past week: Summerton,
$5,000 hardware company; Sumter, col:
ton gin; St. George's, wagon works;
Benn'ettsville, ice factory; Dorchester,
implement works; North, aluminum
mines; Columbia, $51,00Ci knitting
mill.
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McDow Found D?ad in Bed.
At Charleston, Cr. T. B. McDow, who
sixteen years ago shot_and "killed Captain
F. W. Dawson, editor of The t
News and Courier, in tfie doctor's of-!
only partially covered by insurance, j
Lafayette hall, once the home
of de Lafayette, of revolutionary fame,
was one of Camden's historic old buildings,
and its destruction "is deeply regretted
by the entire community.
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Bit Off Opponent's Ear.
An altercation occurred a few days
ago between two well-to-do citizens j
of Liberty, in which one" man bit the ;
other's ear off even with the temple. I
It is said when the men were sepa-i
rated both were saturated in blood. I
As the men grappled on the ground
neither made an outcry until one man,
who lost his ear, cried out": "Let go ny j
ear." He was too late, for that organ
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was in the other's mouth and he was
reaching for the other side of the
wounded man's head trying to get hold j
of the other ear.
This is the first case of mayhem reported
in the state uetween white people
in years.
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Lieutenant Clement Dead.
A dispatch from Trieste, Austria'
says: Lieutenant James Wilkinson j
Clement, of the United States battle-;
r, L i ^ tpna tit o o l^tr oro ITi t
iiliy ivcai&aigc, v? n &o ign libit ;
the hospital wuen Rear Aamirai Rar-1
iter s squadron sailed, has died ot ty- j
piioid lever.
meuitnam Clement was a native of
Soum Caronna. Re was taken in soon
cuier tne arrival ui tne batue^nip nee;
at ineste, anu wiien nis concilium ueeunie
serious no was removed to tne lo j
cm nospitai. it sausiactory arrange- j
ments can ue mane his remains will
ue urougnt 10 tne United states tor j
interment. Re had been in tne navy!
s.nce Septemuer, liiSo^
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Charleston Kicks on Rates.
The recent raise in tne scale of
freight rates by the Clyde line between
Charleston and New York is causing'
general dissatisfaction among the merchants
oi' Charleston. The freight bu-'
reau has taken up the matter ani a!
special committee, representing the'
various business interests in Charleston,
headed by Manager H. R. Jack-,]
son, of the freight bureau, will leave,
for New York to confer with General
j Manager Eger, of the Clyde Company,'
I relative to the increase in the ocean :
j rates between the two points,
j The increase in freight rates was
i made only a short time ago, and it is
I working a hardship on the shippers of
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fice, and tried to hide the body in an
alley way, was found dead in his bed i
one morning recently, mere were no
signs of disorder, and physicians declared
that death was due to heart
failure. The house in which he died
was the scene of the tragedy of sixteen
years ago.
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Historic Building Burned.
Fire ,at Camden, a few days ago,
destroyed the Lafayette hall, -a large
and popular commercial hotel. The i
building, owned by E. C. Von Tresc-!
kow, was valued at about $10,000, and j
was insured for $6,000. Most of the
furniture and furnishings were consumed.
which loss falls heavily upon
Scott Brown, the Dronrietor. who wa.s
Alter deiioeratmg about two nours
the jury returned a verdict of not
guilty. The defendants were charged
with burning the barn of Mrs. M. E.
Owings last November.
The barn was located in close proximity
to Mrs. Owings' dwelling and
was burned at night, thereby endangering
the residence and jeopardizing
the lives of the occupants. According
to testimony the tracks which were
traced by bloodhounds to the Lollis
home a few hours after the fire, corresponded
in every particular to those
of the acused. Broadus Lollis has a de-i
formed foot, on which he wears a fine,
coft shoe., of smaller shape than the
one usually worn on the other foot,
and for this reason it was testified
the tracks were easily identified. *
The young defendants, however, succeeded
in establishing an alibi, proving
that they were at fhe home of a
neighbor on this particular night, giving
a little musical concert, and re
turned home at 8 o'clock, ^f&ir-Sour
before the fire broke out. They heard
shooting, but did not investigate the j
cause, which they learned next morning
was a fire alarm.
STRIKE LEADER ARRESTED.
Police "Shut Up" President of Teamsters'
Union in cfricayo.
At Chicago, Friday, George F. Golden,
of the Teamsters' Union, turned
strike picket, defied police inspector
Nicholas Hunt and met a Waterloo.
The inspector, with his club whirling
in ihe air, ran up a Sight of stairs
leading to Golden's office, near ihe
stock yards, and seizing the labor leader
by the arm, marched Golden to the
street. The teamsters' pre-.ident was
put in charge of a sergeant and sent
to the stock yards police station a
prisoner. Thus for the first time a
chief of the striking thousands was taken
into custody.
Golden discovered a wagon owned by
Terry Co., being driven past his
office. Putting his head out of the
window, he called to the teamster:
oro vrm crninsr'"
"Anywhere I please, so long as 1 attend
to my own business," was the leply,
whereapon Golden ordered the
driver to turn back.
The ir.spector heard the command
and reassured the teamster, telling h'm
to go cn about his business. Then
came a war of words, Golden pav'ng
his compliments to the inspector
Hunt, shaking his club at the strike
leader, declared there would be an !mmediate
arrest if Golden did not "shut
up." He did not "shut up." so the inspector
shut him up, constructively at
least, at the station.
HOLD UP AND MURDER.
Paymaster and His Driver Waylaid by
Robbers and $3,0C0 Secured.
A dispatch from Johnstown, Pa.,
says: Charles Hayes, a driver employed
fcy the Puritan Coal Company,
is dead and Patrick Campbell, the
company's paymaster, lies perhaps fatally
wounded at the Altoona hospital,
as the result of a brutal hold-up and
murder on the township road leading
from Portage, this county, to the mining
town of Puritan, at about 10:15
o'clock Saturday morning.
The iwo were in a buggy taking a
satchel containing about $3,000 w;th
which to pay the coal company's employees
at Puritan from the Adams exnyaoe
at Portage to the coal
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town, when at a point about threequarters
of a mile out of Portage they
were suddenly fired upon by three
men armed with shotguns.
Hayes fell to the bottom of the bugtry
pierced by thirty-seven buckshot
wounds in his neck and breast and J
died about half an hour later. Campbell
was hit in the shoulder and fell
from the buggy. The highwaymen
came out from their pl3ce of hiding :'n
the woods to the right of the road, secured
the satchel of money and escaped.
Seven Italians have been arrested on j
suspicion. ,
assassin is identified.
Russian Paper Gives Name of Murcijrer
cf Von Plehve as Prozel.
A St. Petersburg special says: The
name of the assassin of Interior Minister
Vun Plehve is given by The
Bohrse Gazette as Prozel, but this
is not confirmed by the police, wtio,
if satisfied that they have established
the iden'.ty of the murderer, are careiully
guarding the facts, perhaps to
allay suspicion of accomplices.
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!DEG!S!VE BATTLES
Waged Between Russians and
Japs in Manchuria.
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RESULTS ARE AWAITED
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j Czar's Troops Claim to Be Holding
Their Own, Though to Great DisI
advantage ? Prominent Russian
Officer Killed.
A dispatch under date of August 1. J
to a London news agency frOm Tokio,
says there is reason to believe that
after two days' fighting the Japaneseoccupied
Simoucheng. thus cutting off
General Stakelberg from General Kuropatkin.
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I gust 2, says: A report from an apoaI
rently reliable source late Monday
j night was to the effect that General
' Kuropatkin's main force had been rap
idly moving north for several days.
I According to this report no troops
| proceeding to the front from Russia
I had gone past Harbin in the past three
I days. They will be de-trained there
and every available piece of rolling
stock will be rushed south empty far
r the removing of troops at Liao Yang
! and ether points to the northward,
leaving a skeleton fcrce to conCest the
Japanese advance on vital positions,
j The report of Lieutenant General
Kellers death is confirmed at St.
Petersburg.
He was killed July 29 while resisting
the preliminary attack of General
Kuroki's army on the Yinazee pass,
thirty miles east of Liao Yang.
The general was standing near a
battery, which was subjected to a terrific
fire when a shell burst close to
him and he fell mortally wounded, dying
twenty minutes later. Before he
expired General Keller had the satisfaction
of knowing that ?he Japanese
attack had been repelled.
General Keller was the first high
Russian military commander to lose
his life in this war. He resigned the
high and lucrative position of governor
of Akatoritonoslaff to go to the front
and exchanged with General Zassalitch,
who may now resume command
A * cihorfnn flrmv corns. The
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loss of General Keller is deeply felt
in court circles. He was a personal favorite
of the emperor^
CAGOES FOR THE SOUTH.
Sons of Italy Wanted to Take Up Agricultural
Lands in Dixie.
Frank P. Sargent, commissioner general
of immigration, had a conference
in Washington Monday with the representative
of a big transportation company
regarding the coming to this
country of immigrants who shouid
take up agricultural lands in the south,
particularly in Texas.
A scarcity of labor in the south, particularly
in the cotton raising stafcs,
has induced some of the trans-Atim
tic transportation lines to investigate
the matter of diverting a part of the
immigration to this country to :he
cotton growing states. Mr. Sargent
said that the immigration bureau had
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nothing to ao wun ine p-rt ui i-ic ?
country into which immigrants should |
go, but he had heard of the proposition
to establish a steamship line between
Italy and New Orleans, the object
being to supply Italian immigration
for the agricultural regions of the
south. The conference he had Monday
related to the establishment in Texas
of colonies of Italians who would begin
their pursuit of farming .Mr. Sar
gent expressed the belief that des*>able
immigration into the south would
be of immense benefit to that section.
IMMIGRATION BILL GLIMMERS.
Document in Sum of $75,000,000 Placed
on Record in Georgia Counties.
The immigration bill, as passed by
the Georgia senate is dead. The work
of the committee on general agrcul
ture in reporting the bill unfavorably
j by a vote of 5 to 11, means that rhe
measure stands practically no chaurc
of passage at this session.
REPORT ON CASTRO'S ACTION.
Minister Bowert Cab!es State Deonrtment
Anent Affair in Venezuela.
The first official account of the action
of the Venezuelan government in
respect to the seizure of the properties
of the New York and Bermudez
Asphalt Company reached the state
department Monday in s. cablegram
from Minister Bowen at Caracas. Mr
Bowen says that suit was brought by
the Venezuelan government against
the asphalt company on the ground
tnat it naa ianea to carry out certain
portions of its concessions, and 'he
property was seized, pending adjuuiea
tion of the matter.
SEABOARD FILES MORTGAGE.
Document in Sum of $75,000,000 Placeo
on Record in Many Georgia Coun
Through its Atlanta attorneys *he
Seaboard Air Line road filed a $75,000.000
mortgage to the Continental Trust
Company, of New York, in the superior
court at Savannah Monday. The
mortgage was filed simultaneously in
thirty counties.
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PACKERS CLAIM VICTORY. -
Plants Are Running vvitn Gre2tly Incrested
Forces and Almost a Full
Quota of Live Stock.
Declaring the strike broken and that
the working force had beeD recruited
by more than 1,000 men and women,
many of whom had deserted the union
cause, the Chicago packers Monday
began the week's operation with the J
largest receipts of live stock that
have reached the stock yards since j
July 12, when the strike began. There .
were 915 cars carrying 25,000 cattle,
35,000 hogs and 17,000 sheep in the ?
day's shipment from the west, and
with this supply the killing gangs in
the big plants were busily occupied.
Assertion that the stride is broken
were scouted by the strikers as being ,
manner u j tiudaiu.
Swift & Co. declared that nearly all
their old millwrights and car workers
had returned to work, and further asserted
that the firm never intends io
take back striking teamsters or barn
men, the claim being made that the
packers had learned to do without wag- V
ons. All shipments to Chicago
branches will be made by railroad.
Retailers will take their wagons to
the branches for purchases.
Among the toilers who reached the
stock yards during the day were 100
negro women who were taken to LIB- ^
by, McNeil &. Libby's plant, where
they will do scrub work in the- place
of the charwomen who went on strike.
A session of the Allied Trades beld
Monday morning resulted in a decision
to delay appealing to President
Roosevelt till all other resources have
been exhausted. The decision was
reached on the advice of Homer D.
Call, who, as a republican, declared
he was averse to embarrassing the . 1
president at the present time or till ?
other means had failed. There was
much discussion on this subject, it is
said, seceral delegates declaring that
they did not care who was embarrassed
so long as the strike, was Brought
to a desirable termination.
"I don't think it right or advisable,"
said Mr. Call, "to bring the president
into this fight at the present time.
He has troubles enough and too many
people are trying to put a heavy burr
den upon him than any human bdlng
can carry # It is not his fault that 4
this strike was forced upon us. Mr.
Donnelly brought the resolution to me
asking the president to step in, and I ,
have thought it over long and thoroughly,
but I am convinced we should ; (
wait. "We must be patieht if we
would win."
Kansas City Plants Busy.
With heavy receipts at the yards
Monday all the five packing plants at
Kansas City resumed operations on an
increased scale. .*
The strike presented no new feature
Monday. The strikers remained
away from the plants in most cases
and everything was qufet.
Several hundred strikers, by far ibe . \
greatest number that has yet applied
for thei^ old positions, presented themselves
at the different plants. Many .
were discouraged because of he nonr t
arrival of strike benefits from Chica- j*
go. It Is estimated that "between two
and three'hundred of the applicants
were re-employed.
A MATTER OF LOCAL OPTION.
Ballot Reform in Georgia to Rest With
the Various Counties.
The Australian ballot bill was passed
by the Georgia senate Monday
morning with an amendment which leaves
the question of adopting '.he j
law to each county in the state. If ?
at the next general election the various
counties in the state, by a madfcrity
vote adopted the Australian
system of elections for that county,
then that system shall be used in that
county, but if the county should vote
against the adoption of such a measure,
the county can use whatever elec- x
tion system it sees fit.
It is understood that the measure
will be adopted by the house as
amended by the senate. If the house
passes the bill with the amendments, *
it will forever settle the Australian
ballot system of elections in Georgia
ior men it win oe just use ua wau?ky
law, entirely local option.
ANOTHER BIG STRIKE PENDING.
Miners in Pennsylvania Ccsi Regions
Have Grievance to Settle.
The executive board of the Wyoming
and Lackawanna district mine *. *
workers, representing 80.000 men, went
Into session at Scrantcn, Pa.. Mon . "*
day. The board is to decide what ac?
4
tion shall shall be taken to force tr?e y
operators to observe the check weighing
and check docking "boss" decision
of Carroll D. Wright, and has
been given the power by a convention
of district miners to order a >
strike a: every colliery where it is %
not enforced.
EXCURSIONISTS HELD UP.
Bandits Make Raid on Illinois Centra!
Train Bound for St. Louis*
Monday night five robbers held up
an Illinois Central passenger train between
Fossmore and Matteson, about
twenty-five miles from Chicago. Several
of the passengers were robbed,
and it is said that one person who resisted
was seriously wounded by the
robbers. The train was a special
bound for St Louis with excursionists. "!