The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, April 05, 1906, Image 2
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To 'rv Ijc?tfr that: the thing yon i-y lor.
To hope i> higher than the height attained.
To love is greater ;1 he love you sigh
for.
To seek is nobier than the object pained.
To "wrestle with the angei"? this avails.
Although the motive the wrestling
fails.
To learn is more essential than the kr.owi??P,
To know is deeper than the wisdom
found;
To live is grander than all life's bestowing.
To advance. more fruitful than the van
tajre ground.
To give is far more b'essed than receiving.
To tell tiie truth needs not to force believing.
To speak is voice eternal in vibration.
To blaze a trail is saier than hewn road;
To think is power cf infinite creation.
To trust is finer than to see your (?od.
To think?to act?these bridsre the world's
^ abysses;
To die! No soul has told a scu! what
this is.
?The Metropolitan.
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| Wht Happened
I || To Gloriana.
I jj r
A Rapid-F?re Romance of
2 | May, in the Manner
11 Peculiar to Chambers W.
J;:. * Roberts.
I A
ERRILY the little steamer
^ bobbed up and down, for a
O |y| O stiff easterly wind was
^ fc blowing across tbe lake.
'WOJC Most of the passengers bad
sought the refuge and seclusion
of the cabin, and seemed to
be engaged despairingly in praying
for death. Eut two still remained 011
deck.
They were Orlando G. Spoonamore,
capitalist and young man of leisure,
parity of the first part, and a handsome
young woman with fluffy brown hair,
party of the second part, and they I
happened to be sitting side by side.
She was absorbed in a copy of the
Philadelphia Saturday Evening Stake,
and he was reading the automobile
news in a daily paper?when he wasn't
glancing at his fair companion out of
the corner of his starboard eye.
The wind freshened and he proceeded I
X to button his light overcoat. But the
top button was unaccountably missing.
To the best of his recollection it was
there when he boarded the boat. The
PDreeze, or something, must nave torn 11 i
off.
Mechanically he detached 1he stickpin
from his necktie and pinned the
two flaps securely together. Then he
resumed his reading.
And his glancing,
v ; Presently, having finished the story,
Icf > the young woman raised her head.
looked around her with sudden surjj&v
prise, and started to rise.
Mr. Spoonamore felt a slight tug at
y r Lis chest. He looked down.
To his horror "he found that he bad
pinned the loose flap of her light gray
I[ wrap to his overcoat, and turned red
with anger and mortification.
"What does this mean, sir?" she demanded,
in freezing, indignant tones.
"I?I beg your pardon," lie stammered;
"It was an accident. I had
lost a button from my coat, and I supposed
I was shutting up the garment
: with a pin. I had no intentiou "
"But you haven't lost a button, sir!"
shei interrupted. For she could see it
plainly.
He looked down again.
"I see you are right," he said, his selfpossession
gradually returning, "but I
. thought I had."
g; "Will you release me, sir. at once!"
Her eyes flashed dangerously, but he
did not flinch.
"I fear you will have to sit down
again," he proceeded to explain. "These
two flaps are fastened together with
my stickpin, and it has a patent fastening
on the shank, for safety from the
light-fingered gentry. I screwed it up
tightly, and it will We a work of time
to unfasten it."
She sat down again, but stiffly, and
without a word.
"I never expected," he remarked, as
lie fumbled at the pin, "to form a sudden
attachment l'ke this?"
"Sir!"
"I'll have to suspend operations for
? mnmpnf. Here come two or three
persons hurrying to the rail, to look
at the water, I presume. May I ask
you to unbend a little and appear to be
engaged in an animated conversation
with me, purely for the purpose of
averting suspicion?"
"I will not! Such a position as this
is intolerable?unthinkable!"
"It is. It is impossible. But it ex
ists, my lords and gentlemen, like ths
human race?
"Besides," she again interrupted, re
laxing a trifle as the humor of the sit
nation forced itself upon her, "it isn'
proper for me to be engaged in conver
sa-tiou with a total stranger."
"O, yes it is. If it were not. tliej
wouldn't do it in those delightfu
stories you've read so often in tha
paper. It's quite the thing these days
To remove the curse, however, allov
we to introduce '
"But I don't wish "
"Pardon me, but let me ask you no
to be so cold and distant?esneciall;
not so distant. You'll excuse the na
+ lin flint hiitilc lie O
f "" " " V
j covered by looking at the printed tag
i on tint? paper, is "
She hastily turned the paper the
| other side up.
j "Too late. You are Miss Gloriana
! Goovius. I am delighted to meet you
i in this informal, unpremeditated way.
j and become so close an acquaintance
; in so short a time. Asking your parI
don for dropping into slang, I will add
J that I am decidedly stuck on *'
"I don't believe you are trying to?
! to separate us."
! "Fa'sied be the hand that would do
j such a thing! Still." he continued, tugi
ging with great apparent earnestness
j at the refractory fastening. "I am do|
ing the best I can. Suppose you see if
you can't help me."
A moment later their hands touched
| beneath the protecting flaps.
With a furious blush she drew hers
j away?with considerable effort, for Orj
Iando had a muscular grasp?and she
was about to become distant again,
when she remembered the necessity
for caution.
"Miss Gloriana?Goovius." he gasped,
as she hastily moved closer, and her
fluffy hair blew across his face. "I
think I can?get this thing loosepretty
soon?if you will just sit as you
are. ;lsid be perfectly calm! * * *
I'm afraid you will have to help me
again."
"I won't!"
"Well, ray hands are so?so numb
from this cold breeze that I shall have
to give it up. I suggest that we go into
the cabin, seat ourselves in some secluded
corner, and "
"Yes! Yes! Let us go at once!"
"But we shall have to move with
caution, and you will have to walk exceedingly
close to me, in order not
to " "
"I see."
Is there anybody so densely ignorant
as not to .understand that it was absolutely
necessary for Orlando to put his
arm protectingly around her lovely
form as they proceeded cautiously toward
the cabin? Think how the boat
was pitching! An
hour passed away.
They were still occupying a double
seat in a corner of the cabin. By a
joint effort, which took considerable
time, they had succeeded in extracting
.the stickpin, but they seemed to have
forgotten it, and were sitting close together
Hand in hand.
A jar shook the boat.
"Here we are. sweetheart!" whispered
the young man. "at old St. Joe!"
"But, Orlando, how dreadfully unconventional
it would be for us to go and ?
be married now on such short acquaintance!
The idea is absurd!"
"Not at all, Gloriana," he said, triumphantly.
"It's eminently proper.
That's the way all these stories end!"
?C. W. T., in Chicago Tribune.
Chine*? Harvests.
While hundreds of men are harvesting
the big crops of Oklahoma or the
Dakotas, a different sort of harvesting
is going on in Southern China, where
Wong Poy gathers in his wheat. Jack
Smith, of Oklahoma, is a great landholder.
with is 12,000 or 15,000 acres.
Wong Poy, too, says a writer in Everybody's
Magazine, is a great land magnate.
He owns and farms four acres.
His envious neighbors hold competences
of one acre or bare pittances of
an eighth of an acre; but Wong Poy
is lucky. His father before him was
a frugal man. as was his father's
father, and he himself is an only son.
He has even been able to afford a wife.
Two "hands" work for him in these
harvest days, at the panic wages of
twenty cents a day. The men squat,
Oriental fashion, at their work, chopping
down the stalks with swift stabs
of their little sickles. Mrs. Wong Poy
and her eldest, a daughter, follow behind.
and tie up the sheaves with wisps
of straw. The two cherished men children,
sole hope of heaven for WoDg
Poy, play through the stubble and
steal grains of wheat to chew. It is
a matter for corporal punishment if
they are caught at this, for in China
every grain is numbered.
When the wheat is all in, and has
been beaten ont on the thrashing-floors
and stored in the well-guarded granary
under Wong Poy's house, the family
1U1C VI. IMC IUUW M.4.V-C V.v those
persons is looking at us euri
ously."
Hurriedly she leaned a little neare
to liiin.
'"That's better. As I ivas about t
say, my name is Orlando G. Spoons
more. I move in respectable societj
and personally I am entirely harmless
? - ... ... M 1 J - ? Ml
1 don t loot i iKe a canniuai, uon
"X-no, but "
4 And your name, as I bare just dis
makes rejoicing:. There is a little mess
of fish for the pot. A punk stick and
a cup of rice are offered up to the
gods of grain, and before them Wong
Toy. his hands tucked in his sleeves,
bows to the ground while he recites
prayers.
In their harvesting China and the
Dakotas have this, at least, in common,
that when the crop is in every J
! one makes holiday. While the Chinese
[ is making sacrifices to his gods, the
American farm-hand amuses himself
with more materialistic pleasures. The
' j holiday of harvest-home is observed
I alike by the peasant of Tyrol and the
"j farmer of Kansas. The red Indian.
? j when his corn was husked and shelled
j and packed into baskets, danced under
the harvest-moon in gratitude to Man*
itou. the Giver. Under that same mocn
Chinese peasants sacrificed long before
" the Aryans came out of their inountair
fastnesses.
I
j Great Singer Careless of Wealth.
i. Caruso, the great tenor, says stage
kisses are like kissing cold cream,
cold starch or vanilla beans. He earns
a great deal of money. Recently - he
II saug three sougs and got for his work
I ?nnn-i I.. Kill. TJ? vi/.n t'll'PQ
f Jll 11V lUrtUv vn? v.
. of the portraits of them and left the
f originals on the table to go out and
j. drive, forgettiug entirely that the origl
inals were money. His secretary says
; that it was not forgetfillness but habitual
negligence?scarf pins, rings,
o watch?he leaves anything anywhere
to be picked up by the servants.
?. The Paris of Academy of Medicine
offers a prizt every year for rl.e discovery
of an absolute cure for tuber?-j
eriosis. So tar, uo one has won it.
L'oaera Geography Like a
Fail of Romance.
Its Roll Call 01 Fascinating: 1
a Necessity to Every Read
KOGRAPHY means more
than it <Iiil in the school
O ? o days of any one past
ft U tliiriy. It is accepted now
that it deals with "all the
relations between the earth
f.nd its inhabitants"?which is wide
score indeed. Aside from autobiographies
anil newspapers. there is not a
more interesting species of first-hand
reading than the journals or records
of geographers and their subordinate
classes of explorers and travelers,
what a roli-cail of fascinating personages
that provides, from Polo to Peary
and to (Miss> Peck. From Columbus,
De Gama. Drake. Franklin. Living
stone. Stanley ami the rest to Xanseii.
Abrazzi ami Scott, and the Prince of
Monaco.
"Ceogrnphy is not only prehistoric,
it is prehuman.*' As primitive man
had to become familiar with his environment.
and learn, for his subsistence
and existence, where to find
food and water, where to tind shelter
in cave or thicket, what roots and
fruits were nutritious or harmful, vliat
animate were available for eating. and
what animals he had to guard against
if he would live?so the birds and
beasts had to do likewise, and learn,
in their way. what we call geography
nowadays. To understand what this
science is nowadays, glance over the
latest periodicals of societies devoted
to it. Nothing that deals with the
depths of the sea, the heights of the
mountains, the run of tides, the danger
of the plains, climate, excavations
of ancient cities, the races of mankind,
vegetable life and organic life, migration?nothing
that deals with these is
outside geography, which once seemed
the easiest study of young days.
As the late hydrograpber of the BritIcli
Vow etiirl in tin orl/ll'ACC lllfil
printed after liis death, "to read the
daily newspapers requires either a
geographical knowledge or constant
reference to maps," and the mistakes
made by those responsible for the conduct
of public affairs "by waut of the
most elementary knowledge are innumerable."
It is not all in understanding
a map. though that in itself
is not a common facility. Let us remember
that it does not end with the
charted outlines of the worid, or the
relief of lands, or even of sea depths.
Its field has been stated to,be "the face
of the earth." yet that, too, is far within
what this most human science is
parent of. It has to do with tests of
atmosphere, and the profile of the
ocean's bed and what lives there.
flow irregular coast lines make a
difference in people on the land; how
man. superior to plants, has overcome
mountains; how different he becomes
in these altitudes from wbat be is in
A DEEP BORING.
Facta of Intfrent Gle?n*<l Uironch n
, Half Mile Well.
In 1S.17 for some reason it was
thought profitable and possible to sesure
an artesian weil in the State
House yard. The geology of Ohio as
a science wa.s still unwritten. In fact,
the first volume of the Ohio Geological
lteports contains Uc written record of
tLis boring.
Down feet?over half a mile?
the auger was sent by the slow and
laborious process of the time, and
nearly a year was spent in the work.
The boring was commenced on November
4, 1S57, and stopped October 1,
IfcoS. No artesian water was'found.
'I be boring was made in the eastern
nr.vf of the grounds. Its site was
pointed out to the writer some years
. iso, and it is now probably covered by
the cement walk extending out to
Third street from the Judiciary building.
Water was struck and plenty of
it?fresh, salt, sulphur, magnesian,
etc.. but none of it came to the lop.
Professor Theodore G. Wormley, the
professor of chemistry in Starling
Medical Coiicge, embraced the opportunity
to secure the te nperature of
1 this deep boring. With a thermome!
ter placed in a specialty prepared irou
j case, and left at the bottom of the
boring twenty-four hours, he found the
temperature at the bottom to be SS
degrees FaureuheP. Making deductions
for the distance below the
surface at which the heat of the suit
ceases to be felt, he computed that the
temperature increased one degree foi
every seventy-one feet of descent. At
that time European scientists wlic
were carefully studying this branch ot
physical geography had estimated that
the temperature increased in such conditions
one degree for every sixty-sis
feet.
There is no rectrd of the cost ol
the bo"ing. but it must have been con
slderabie. as the facilities and appara
tus were primitive comparer witl
tliosi In use now. Though- failing ol
its principal purpose, tlm Stale seems
to have turned it to account througl
its geologists. ?o that it was not whollj
money ..*asted.--Coii mbus Eveniiu
Dispatch.
Importance of JLIreM.
Dress is no longer the pre-oceupaiioi
of the shallow-niinded. It is reoog
lilzc.I of infinite importance by evei
the brainy and intellectual of woman
kind, who now frankly acknowiedgt
the obligation imposed on them t<
look their nicest.?The Gentlewoman.
J-l.ectric CatUeoral.
Dei-Iin's new cathedral is not oni;
lighted throughout by electricity, bo
. the same-power is used for ringing tin
- i ?f 1.<.!!< o,i/l ll>t> nro-mi i?i nnt*r
1ji^cd ucn?'j aiiu --J
flted yy a uiue Lcrse power motor.
airv Tale,
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, Marvel an:? Beep Interest.
Personalities; It Has Become
[er of the News of the Day.
. -i.- i {., nrm
lilt" pwuiia, nu? luc jl iiuciiii:i>.iLia m vrw
J I). C. circumnavigated Africa, and yet
how the Japanese, whose legends, not
to mention history, do not go back further
than that same 600 B. C? believe
that their islands originated from the
drip of the God Izuaga's sword (which
j he dipped into the sea'; how this last
mentioned nation is derived from a
mixture of Korean and Malay blood
-and it got its language and religion
and art from China and Korea, and its
present civilization from the West;
how the Victoria Falls, discovered iu
1860, may now be reached in comfort,
and how Siberia and Newfoundland
may be crossed by yail in ''sleepers,"
and "diners"?all this concerns modern
geography.
It is part of geography how the
Black Hills of Colorado, rising suddenly
from a plain, produce rainfalls
there, which in turn produce forests
and wash away the surface soil, exposing
ore. and thus attract population.
It is part of geography when the 4.~>0
miles of ice mass as high as the tallest
New York building has receded
fourteen miles toward the South Fole
since 1841; or when it is found that out
^ r?-.i C? ?4. O
01 I lit: Ilt'tl I UU9 ill IUC UUUUUl .1
current more rapid than that which
runs in at the top. So also when Canada
erects two new provinces, or
Alaska reveals gold, or removes its
capital from Sitka to Juneau, or when
it is demonstrated that the moon does
not foretell the weather. So. likewise,
when Norway chooses to be a kingdom
instead of a republic (and elects a
king!) and when 400 miles of telephones
are stretched up the Congo, or
telegraph poles are, as they will be
next winter, set across Sahara Desert.
This scarcely begins to indicate whal
the new georgraphy comprises, or how,
with the growth of communication
among the human inhabitants of the
earth?with the invention of steam,
the printing press, electricity, Marconigraphs
and the indefatigable enterprise
of explorers?the old limitations have
been extended. In a few years 100C
miles more of coast line have beer
mapped toward the South Pole; few
places in the ocean, which used to have
"unfathomable depths," remain unsounded;
the sacred and impenetrable
city of Lhasa has been penetrated:
Korea has been deprived of an immemorial
sovereignty; Mexico's "free
zone" has been abolished; seven and
one-half feet high gorillas have beer
shot on the French Congo; the origin
of the horse has been settled in out
own West, and the discovery of the
birthplace of civilization is believed
to be on the eve of fulfilment by a
Carnegie Institute expedition to Tur
kestan, Under sand drift brought oj:
by the receding of rivers and the windi
of time.?New York Tress.
Japanese Jncjlsn.
The marvellous performances of tte
jugglers of Japan have been widely
known ever since the isolation of the
Island Empire was broken. More thar
thirty years ago Bayard Taylor, the
American traveler and literator, told
this story:
*I was witness to some astonishing
specimens of illusion. After a variety
of tricks with tops, cups of water and
paper butterflies, the juggler exhibited
to the spectators a large open fan
which he held in his right hand, ther
threw it into the air, caught it by the
lianefle in his left hand, squatted down
fanned himself, and then turning hie
head in profile, gave a loud sigh, dur
ing which the image of a gallopiDj
horse issued from his mouth. Stil
fanning himself, he shook from his
right sleeve an army of little men, whe
presently, bowing and dancing, van
isked out of sight. Then he bowed
closed the fan and held it in his tw<
hands, during which time his owr
head disappeared, then became visible
but of colossal size, and finally reap
pea red In its natural dimensions, bin
multiplied four or five times. Thoj
set a jar before him, and iu a shori
time he issued from the neck, rose
slowiy in the air, and vanished ii
clouds along the ceiling."
The Two World*.
Golden memories are undying. Pnr<
love is immortal. The bud of friend
ship that begins to bloom on earth
bears precious fruit in heaven. Holj
| remembrances call the assembiei
. liitlier. Death, the silent key that un
locks life's portal to let earth-eotfine<
. spirits up one step higher, severs n<
I sweet attraction. Sympathies betweei
| the two worlds are as natural as be
. tweeu the two continents. The trans
lated mother looks down lovingly upoi
, her weeping child. Happy each glory
| bathed soul who cherishes the whlspe
accents breathed from those auge
dwellers upon the shadowless shore
. of immortality.
Trout'* Narrow E*rnnr.
1 A correspondent of the Field relate
that he shot a flying heron that lia<
> been fishing :u the Kiver Collie at Us
bridge, and as the bird fell ther
dronned out of its mouth a trout neat
, ly one-half pound in weight. The tis,
. was alive, though scored cn the baci
, A keeper procured a live bait can. filie
. it with waver, and put the trout int
it. After a minute or to the fish gaine
j strength. In a few hours it seeine
quite resuscitated, and apparently nou
j the worse for itif narrow escape froi
jdeaih. It was accordingly returned t
r the river to recover itself fully.?Lo:
* don Standard.
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The Church of England has an k
come o- $73,000,001) a year.
CONFERENCE AT AN END.
Hobnobbing of Representatives of the
Powers Over .Moroccan Question
Resuts Satisfactorily.
Advices l'rora Algeciras, Spain,
utnro nftnr ? nlensrv session
lasting untii 6 o'clock Saturday evening,
the conference on Moroccan reforms
registered a complete accord
ar.d appointed a committee to embody
this accord in a formal protocol. The
consummation of the work of the conference
was announced in the following
official communication:
"The conference has terminated its
labors and accord is established on
all points. It has" adopted a definite
text of the remaining articles, concerning
the state bank and customs.
The final article, regulating the distribution
of police at ports, was adopted
from the Russian draft By it
France will police four ports, Mogador,
Saffi, Magadan and Rabat, and
Spain two, Tetuan and Larche. France
and Spain together will police Tangier
and Ccsa Blanca, subject to an
inspector of police. The Dutch delegate
announced that his government
declined to appoint an officer. The
conference. has appointed a special
committee to revise the texts of thf
agreement. This committee will meet
at once to consider the final formali
ities of the protocol."
Mr. White, the American delegate
is of the opinion that the result is a
satisfactory one, not only because
the immediate future of Morocco fc
1 secured, but because the manner ol
the settlement is satisfactory bott
on/1 r* o r?Y"0 onv OnH TOTTinVP?
tu r iciiV/C auu vjv/i muuj , uuu A .
the causes for friction and restore;
, international relations to normal. Th<
, principles for which Germany con
tended, the integrity of Morocco an'
; equal commercial and economi*
, rights, Mr. White thought were rec
i ognized, while the special positioi
claimed by France also was acknowl
> edged.
Others of the leading delegates cor
! firm Mr. White's opinion and emphs
| sizes the good effect the result;
should have on the European situs
tion. They say that the agreemeii
, was in,no small measure due to th
, efficacy of the mediation on the par
, of the United States through its chie
; representative.
With reference to the effect of th
> conference on Morocco the delegate
I were reserved in their opinion. The
1 admitted, however, that the operatio
1 of real reforms will be impossibl
without the good will and sanction c
! the sultan and his advisers, and fo
that reason the last act of the confei
L ence will be to authorize that the r<
form program as adopted be submi'
ted to the sultan by the Italian mil
ister to Morocco, who is dean of th
diplomatic corps at Tangier, with th
intimation that it is the unanimou
wish of the powers that it be put int
! operation immediately.
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TWO DIE IN THIS WRECK.
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Collision on Southern Results in th
I
Killing of Fireman and Brakeman.
, In a collision at Broad river trestle
>
r on tlie Southern railway Saturday
I Fireman J. W. Leiper of Green vlll<
I S. C., and Brakeman J. A. Kane c
, iDanvtlle, Va., were killed. Engines
i 0'. L. Wooten of Toccoa, Ga., was h
i taHy injured.
' The accident was caused by si
* cars breaking from a train at Black'
burg, S. C., a distance of four mile
j from Charlotte, where the wild cai
} ran into a southbound freight train.
I MRS. COBB NOT GUILTY.
> Woman Charged With Killing Hu
i band is Exonerated by Jury.
, The trial of Mrs. Amanda Cobb s
? Lavonia, Ga., was closed Saturda:
t l After deliberating an hour the jur
T returned a verdict of not guilty.
Mrs. Cobb was accused of the mu
- der of her husband, Professor W. I
? Cobb, by shooting him through
window of their home, while he wc
standing in the yard. It was stated <
4 the time that Professor Cobb was su
' * A twi'ffi o rt
picious or tne couuuti ui UiO VTAJkV mm
was watching the house.
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REPORTS ABSOLUTELY FALSE,
I
> Reunion of Confederate Vets Wi
i Take Place on Dates Named.
Reports in circulation in varioi
" parts of the country that the annus
1 reunion of United Confederate Vete
ans, scheduled to take place in Ne
j Orleans April 25, 26 and 27, migl
be declared off for the want of su
ficient funds, were announced Satu
day by Adjutant General William 1
Mickle to be absolutely without foui
8 dation.
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e HOTTENTOTS SLAY GERMANS
n Disaster Betans uetacnmeni 01 i rww|
in Southwest Africa.
l* An official dispatch received in Be
0 lin, Sunday, from German Southwe
j Africa confirms the reported disastc
e to a German detachment consistic
n of an officer and sixteen men.
0 The dispatch says that on March 5
i. the Hottentots attacked a convoy <
empty wagons, and killed Lieutena:
Keller and ten troopers and burn*
l* the wagons.
1 STRIKE KOT CALLED
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No General Order Issued by
Board of Mine Workers.
;s
MANY ARE SIGNING SCALE
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Officers of Coal Diggers Are Author- .
ized to Si^n Wherever Operators
Are Willing to Pay o?d 1
Figures.
No general striae order was issued
by me national executive board of
tne united Mine Vveinera as a result .
oi tne an-Jay nieeuug ot mat uody
in inUiauapox^s a.atUiU-.y.
The meeting w?u> nciu tor the purpose
or cornice... i-au^exnenUi to
carry out tne pone/ coirrimuea to the
board during me nat.onai cunvenuou.
' oi me miners wu.cu ciosed Friday \
aitemoon. ims w.u be made enec1
live oy aumonzing tne district and
bUDdibirict oincc.b to s>ign coutracCA
wherever the opeiators sisiiny uxeir
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willingness to-\puy tne i?v/U scare,
wmcn provides lor an increase or o.5a
1 per cent in wages.
it was reported- unofficially at the
national hea^quaiters oi tne minora
baturciay mat opeiators representing^
' tne totai tonnage ci iowa nave sxgoi- *>2
L ned me.r w.ii.n^uoos to sign tne rsOd
scale. ? . -||g
5 lhe signing of contracts by the op^
erators in western Kentucky is ac1
cepieu by me miners' omcials as an - t ~ S;
' indication oi wnat may be expected
0 eisewnere. Application was received >
" at the national headquarters of the ; ygf|
" United Mine Workers Saturday for
"tne signing of all the miners in that*
territory and the authority was trans-,
mitted at once by telegraph. . The ;'vSpP
| 3,000 miners in this region will con- '.JjJgj
tinue at work. . " ^
Bennett Brown, representing sev- ggk
eral large mines in southern Illinois, < .yM
j made personal application to Presi- !^|||
t dent Mitchell Saturday to be allowed
t to sign the new contract He was ftij
e told that the papers would be in read-1 jjl
A iness for him on his arrival atSprng- .||i
field, and that the district officers.
there have power, to act in the mat- .
e ter and order the men back to work.
s It was said also at national heady
quarters that all the mines in Indiana, ||H9
n south of the Baltimore and Ohio
e Southwestedn railroad have made application
to be allowed to sign the MgjM
ir new scale. The owners of these - J
r. mines are not members of the operata.
ors' association in the central com- J
petitive field,
j. President John Mitchell refused to ;||jj
e discuss the outlook, and would not
0 uicl&t? <XXiy "3ullcm^iii a uauq - tuv8
declaration in convention that 50 per I
0 cent of the central states mines will f rS
be signed up within ten days.
He was closeted with the national
executive board all day, while his sec- %> ': %
retaries prepared for his trip to New
e York to attend the meeting of the ^
subcommittee of anthracite miners. v?i?S
?> and operators.
? SOUTHERN TRAIN WRECKED.
,r Chicago and Florida Limited Ditched *
t- Near Holton, Ga.
Southbound passenger No. 6, Chix
cago and Florida Limited, over th* , ^
3- Southern railway, was wrecked Saturi3
day afternoon one mile north of Ro*- J
s ton, Ga., while rounding a curve. A. , '
combination club and smoking car
were dashed to splinters. A porter,
William Smith, of Atlanta, was fatally
injured. Baggagemaster E. C. Phils'
lips of Atlanta, was badly injurecL * :f9y
The passengers were bruised and jolt- ' 7 ~
it ed, but none was seriously injured. Sg
7. The cause of the accident was the '
y breaking of the trucks under the tender
aer.
r
I. To Try Packers in September.
a At Chicago, Saturday, Judge Hum- .
is phrey set the trial of the packing cor- *
it porations, which were denied immun
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s- ity at the hearing ended a lew aay*
A ago for the seccnd Monday (n September.
AGAINST REVIEW.FEATURE.
Tillman Announces Opposition to an w
" Amendment of Rate Bill.
Senator Tillman, who has charge of
is
jj the railway rate bill in the senate,
r- said Sunday night that he was not
w satisfied with the rate review amt*idment
to the measure which was
f- agreed on Saturday at a conference
> between President Roosevelt, several w _
2. republican senators who are support) /. !
n- ing the bill, and memoers 01 me 10terstate
commerce commission. Ithe
senator said he would oppose it on
the floor o? the senate.
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)# POOR old dowie relegated.
Fake Elijah Repudiated by Wife, Sort
' and 5,000 Adherents.
' At a meeting in Chicago, on Sunday >
'r last, some five thousand adherents cf
s the church at Zion City, of which -
John Alexander Dowie is the founder --"if
' and first apostle, Dowie's authority.
was repudiated, and Wilber Glenn
^ Voliva, who, for some time, has been
conducting the affairs of the church,
elected in his stead.