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GREAT COAL STRIKE I Sunday Was a Quiet Day Amnog the | Miners cTnirn 4r.fti'4DTrDv nF-SFRTFfl JIIUJ1L l!LAUyw/inii.nj i President Mitchell Sper.t the l)av in Hearing Iveports on the Progress of the ilovement. Wilkesbarre, Pa., Special.?Strike headquarters of the anthracite coal miners were very dull Sunday and presented a deserted appearance. There were no mine workers about the place excepting President Mitchell and his secretary, Most or Mr. Mitcnen s time was given up to hearing reports from his men in the field. He said he has nothing of any importance to make public, his information being of a satisfactory nature. Among the reports sent in were several to the effect that additional engineers had stopped work and that several fire bosses who had | taken the places of strikers also had ' quit. At a meeting of engineers at Pittston. Saturday night, 30 engineers who had not obeyed the strike order decided not to go to work Monday. The few union men who are still at work, Mr. Mitchell says, will be out during this week. Most cf the general superintendents of the big coal companies were seen but as a rule they had nothing to say on the subject. They admitted that a good many companies are working pretty hard for competent men to run their engines and pumps. Any number of volunteers have come forward, but the men desired are net so plentiful. The coal companies have been favored by a long spell of dry weather. A heavy rainfall might overwhelm many pumps. President Mitchell was in telpphonic communication with National Secretary-treasurer W. B. Wilson, of the United Mine Workers, at Indianapolis, over the situation in the West Virginia soft coal fields, where a strike began Saturday. Mr. Mitchell said there was j nothing to be given to the public at this time, because he had not yet received ful particulars of the situation in that region. Mr. Wilson, he said, did not know any more than himseif. The national president also talked over the long distance 'phone with persons In different parts of the West. These conversations, he said, related to general business of the organization and had dc bearing on either the West Virginia cr Pennsylvania strike. Monday began the fifth week of the suspension of anthracite coal mining and the settlement of the dispute seems to be no nearer than it was when the strike be g2n. May 12. The house-to-house canvass of the miners' committees in an endeavor to bring out those who nave refused to strike and also those who have taken (the places cf strikers is still being vigorously prosecuted. Many of the men who aio still working complain that their houses arc stoned almost nightly. The police department of this city today ordered the removal of all effigies that have been strung up since the strike began. A large number had been removed, but the police managed to find IS of them in the city. Twenty of them were seen in the region above "Wilkesbarre as far as Pittson. A new method has been found for holding up to ridicule those men who refused to stop work. At Fortyfort and at Miners' Milfs mound were built in imitation of a grave and on them were placards containing these incriptions: "Death to scabs." "Here lies the remains of the cards giving the name of the man held up to ridcuh Refuse to Handle Trains. Hazelton. Pa., Special.?At their meeting at Freeland, the employes of the Delaware, Susquehanna & Schuylkill Railroad refused to handle any trriDS cariving special officers, deputies or non-unionists. The following resolution addressed to Luther C. Smith, superintendent of the road, was adopted. "Resolved. That owing to the strike of the anthracite miners, we, the employes of the Delaware, SusqueL hanna & Scuylkill, will refuse to hanL die any trains carrying deputies, coal nnd iron * olice or non-unionists during t'i<- continuance of the present, tr-.uI-" ^ Lynching Prevented. Cnooiol An O f _ naiiivsuuig, .moo., ? <>u uvtempt was made by a mob late Saturday night to attack the county jail here, in which was confined Walter Blankhead, a negro, charged with having attempted to assault Mrs. Garner, a white woman living near Hattiesfcurg. A company of military ordered out by Governor Lcnglno, dispersed the mob. Further trouble Is feared and additional troops have been dispatched to relieve the militia on duty. At the request of the Governor a preliminary trial will be given Blankhead soon. Death of Dr. Brantley. Macon. Special.?John F. 'Brantley, D. D.. LL. D., died here Sunday. He iwas for 35 years professor of languages in Mercer University. His father was a Baptist minister in Philadelphia and in honor of his brother, the late Wm. T Brantley, Baltimore pamed a Baptist church. Dr. Brantley spent his entire life teaching, and was one of t>e most accomplished liDguie's In the South. THE SUMMER SCHOOL Important Announcement From the itate Superintendent. The following announcement maio by State Sueprintendent of Education Mehlahan about the State summer school soon to open at Hock Hill will be of special interest. The entailment in the State summer school this year is not yet as large as many people suppose. Letters come to this oiiice asking is there Gtill :oom. I have impressed the fact, however. that we wish only the serious -i a ?.l/~. work IlllUUi'U, v. i:u liiuuii iu uw and stay to tlie end. As Wintitope has increased her domitory accommodations there will probably be room for all that wish to attend. Application from the teachers in many of the city schools are just beginning to come in, as they have been waiting for their boards to elect and also to determine finally the question of giving financial aid. Appropriation for financial assistance of the teachers attending the summer school h3S been the policy of most of the graded school boards, but this year a slight increase is made in many cases. Supt. H. P. Archer has just written to me that the Charleston beard on the 4th inst. "voted $15.00 to every teacher who will certify to the State superintendent that he or she intends to attend the sessions of the summer school from the beginning to the end, and to take advantage of every .opportunity for improvement; and. also, voted an additional sura of $5.00 to every teacher who may make 90 per cent, as an average on the subjects taken up." This additional $5.00 is an increase on what the Charleston board has heretofore given. Moreover, the Charleston board has closed its schools a week earlier, in time to permit the teachers to attend the State summer school?the Charleston schools having heretofore continued their session until the end of June. In Sumter, which last year gave its teachers $15.00 each, the board has this year given $20.00. The Laurens graded school, which last year did not aid its teachers, is this year giving them $5.00 each. Chester last year rendered assistance by raising the salary of each teacher who attended the summer school $3.00 a month ($27.00). This year, upon the same condition, the salary is raised an additional $2.00 ($l$.C0i. These are only a few instances of what is a general movement throughout the State to encourage more substantially than ever ' the attendance of earnest minded teachers upon the summer school. In Columbia, which led off three years ago with the policy of giving its teachers their actual expenses, the board this year voted an unconditional raise of salary of $20.00, with the mere reminder that its teachers would use their own judgment as to whether or not to attend the summer school. It is recognized that the teachers who have tested the benefits of summer school work will be eager of their own motion to continue the enjoyment of its benefits. Many of the Columbia teachers are going to the summer school of the south at Knoxville. which will draw considerably on their own purses. One former summer school student writes me from the country in Marlboro: "The prospectus of the State summer Rnhonl is like n snort dinner. Thousrh I have marked certain subjects, one would like a bite at all." Out of the 259 students classified the enrollment in certain classes may be j of interest: ' In Miss Annie Bonham's observation and practice work 70; iu Prof. Pattison's draw'ug S6; in Supt. Evan's' Frye's geography 40; in Prof. Snyder's poetry of the south 34; in Miss Mary Leonard's methods in language training 34; in Supt. Hand's school supervision 31; in Prof. Snyder s normal i.terature 29; in Prof. McCain's literature for third to sixth grades 26; in English composition 25; in Prof. Bain's Beginner's Latin 14. The representation of some of the colleges by their graduates in this summer school is thus far: Winthrop 41; Due West Female college 15; Converse 9; Erskine 7; South Carolina college 7; Furman university 6; Greenville Female college 6; Wofford 6; Peabody Normal 4. Two county summer schools have opened. The reports the first day were that the Sumter summer school had enrolled 24; the Horry school 40. Another Lynching. Walterboro, Special.?Cain Ford, one of four negroes implicated in the \ t murder of Railroad Section Master W. W. Jones' wife, at New Road, on April 21 last, and who from the day after the commission of the crime has been confined in Walterboro jail, was lynched about 2 o'clock Saturday morning. riore Pledges Filed. _ The pledges of candidates for State offices, the senate and congress are now being rapidly filed with State Chairman Jones, each man of course sending in a check for his assessment along with his pledge. The following additional pledges were filed Thursday and it is now settled that Mr. Ansel will make the race for governor: For the United States senate, A. C. Latimer Anderson; for congress fifth district, D. E. Finley; for governor, M. F. Ansel, Greenville: for lieutenant governor, Cole L. Blease, Newbsriy; for secretary of state, J. T. Gar.:, Spartanburg; for railroad commissioner, H. J. Kinard. Greenwood. * IS A GREAT SERMON] Bill Arp Reviews Some Humor of Lens Ago. _ A FLATDOAT PREACHER'S TALK i i ?'An/1 H.. UPnvoil on rt H.irn flf a ThfiU? I sand Strings -- Spirits of Just Men Made Perfect." (Uill Ai p in Atlanta Couetitution.) I have had an occasional request to reproduce and save from oblivion a sermon that went round of the southern press some fifty years ago and was known as the ""Iarp of a Thousand S:rings." Not long ago I quoted a paragraph from it and a friend writes me from East Foliciane. La., and says that the author of that quaint old sermon lived and died in thai parish and his daughters and grandchildren live there now and are his near neighbors. Strange to say, the aut lor was a minister of the gospel, serious, solemn and devoted to his calling and for a long time it was not known that the humorous writings over the signature of "Zedekiah the Scribe" came from his giften pen. But some preachers can't help seeing and enjoying the ludicrous side of human natur?. Sidney Smith, the famous English divine, was as solemn as the grave on solemn occasions, but he inhaled a great deal of merriment without a smile He provoked others to the most convulsive laughter, but gave no sign save in the twinkle of * ' T?' T V>o onii. ills eyes, juu^u Luii^snccb, ^uv v**?- . nent jurist, the learned preacher, tto ' dignified president of two colleges and a university r.nd the author of "Georgia Scenes," was similar type. I met him often during my youth, and do not recall that he indulged in a humorous anecdote. The last time I met him was during the war in the office of the Columbus Enquirer, when he indulged in bitter sarcasm against some Georgians whom he called traitors abstrnetionists. I could hard';;.' imagine that he it was who molded the inimitable characters of Ned Brace and Ransey Sniffle. Johns Hooper was not a preacher, but always a sedate and very dignified gentleman. He was secretary of the embryo confederacy that assembied in Montgomery and there was no sign of "Simon Suggs" or "Taking the Census" in his solemn deportment. My observation has been Ciat the best story J tellers and convei. tionalists have the least inclination to write or publish their own scintillation. It was common to say of my old partner, "Oh! rare Judge Underwood," but I could never induce him to put pen to paper in that line. He said that good story or a flash of wit and humor lest its relish by writing it. for the tone of voice, the accent, the piquancy, the facial expresho ropnrflOfi DiUIld IUU1U nwc WW When the Rev. J. T. Lewis wrote this sermon it was not uncommon for amateur preachers to perform up anil down the western rivers and thus advertise their business, which was principally flat boating and peddling their produce. Lorenzo Dow took continental journeys from Maine to Texas, but he wag a pretty good orthodox preacher. These Bat boat preachers were a rough and tumble set and tangled up the scriptures awfully, but they could draw the crowds and their whiskey was a good card. It was an ortnoaox pruuact iucU and preachers and the people were as fond of it as old Father Noah, who was a preacher of righteousness. Rev. Mr. Lewis does not give this preacher's name, but his scrr-ion has been sent me by my friend and I give it to your readers as it was given to me. When it first came forth we thought it inexpressibly funny. It is not so funny now to the old people, but the younger generation are more easily amused than the veterans and for their sake I append it. A pretty school girl recited it last week at the commencement exercises of our public school and she did it well and brought down the house. This sermon was said to have been preached at Port Hudson, where the amateur divine had "tied up" for the double purpose of observing the Sabbath and selling whiskey. I may say to you, my brethering, that I am an edieated man. an' 1 am not one of them as believes that edication is necessary for a gospel minister, for I believe the Lord cdicates His preachers jest as He wants 'em to be edicated; an' although I say it that oughtn't to say it. yet in the state of Indianny where I live, thar's no man as gets bigger congregations ncr what I gits. Thar may be some here today, my brethering. as don't know what persuasion I am uv. Well, I must say to you, my brethering, that I' a Hard. Shell Baptist. That's some folks as don't like the Hard Shell Baptists, hut I had rather have a hard shell as no shell at - " inilav mv hrpth all. lou see ue uuc ring, dressed up in good clothes; you mout thiuk I was proud, but I am net proud, my brethering. and although I have been a preacher of the gospel for twenty years, an' although I'm capt'in of the flat boat that lies at your landing, I'm not proud, my brethring, ah. I am not gwine to tell edzactly whar my text may be found; suffice it to say it is in the leds of the Bible, and you'll find it somewhere between the first chapter of the book of Generations, and the lost chipter of the book of Revolutions, and ef you will go and search the scriptures, you'll not only find my tex thar, but a great many other texes as will do you good to read, and my tex, when you shall find it, you shall find it to read thus, ah: "And he played on a harp of a thou sand strings?sperits of jest men mad< perfeck." My tex, my brcthering, leads me t( speak of sperits. Now, thar's a greai many kinds of sperits in the world?ir the fuss place, thar's the sperits some folks call ghosts, and thar'3 the sperits of terpentine, and thar's the sperits as some folks call liquor, anu I'v< got as good an artikel 0? them kind cl -?-i'" " "> rn?' Iinit na PVPr WAS njJL-mo un iii, ...... foch down the Mississippi river: but thar's a great many other kinds o) sperits, for the tex says: "He played or o v.m-n nf n t-h-o-i:-s-nad strinns. SDcrits of jest men made perfeck." Anc thar'3 a great many kinds of fire in the world. In the fuss place thar's the common sort of fire, and then there'? foxfire, and camphire. fire before yci are ready and fire and fall back am! many other kinds uv fire, for the te> says, "He played cn the harp of 3 thousand strings, sperits of jest mer made perfeck." But I'll tell you the kind of fire as i.c spoken of in the Bible, my brethren, is Hell Fire! and that's the kind of fire a? a great many of you'll come to of you don't do better nor what you have beer doin'?for "He played on a harp of a thousand strings, sperits uv jest men made perfeck." And that's the kind of fire you can't dodge, my brethring, ah, for it's the fire that won't bo quenched. You may fly to the mountains of Hepsldan, where the woodbine twlneth and the lion roareth and the whangdoodle mourneth for Its first born, but you can't hide from the unsquenchable fire, for It is the fire of hell and damnation, ah! And he played on a harp of a thousand strings?sperlts of jest men made perfeck. Now as there are many kinds of sperits and many kinds of fire, ah! in the world, ah! jes so there are many kinds of Christians, ah! In the fuss place we have the Piscopalian, and they are a high-sallin', hlgh-roostim, naraiutin set, ah! and they may be likened unto a turkey buzzard that flies up into the air, ah! and he goes up, and up, and up. till he looks no bigger than your finger nail, and the fust thing you know, he comes down, and down, and down, and goes to fiuin' himself on the carkiss of a dead hoss by the side of the road, ah! and "He p ayed on-a harp of a thousand strings, sperits of jest men made perfeck." And then thar's the Methodis, ah! They may be likened unto the,squirrel runnin' up into a tree, for the Methodis beleeves in gwine on from one degree of grace to another, afinally on ^fontinn orrl thp ennfrrpl eoes UD. ty l/tl iV/W 11VLL, UU\t w?-~ we. d up, and up, and lie jumps from .imb to limb, and braich to branch, and the fust thing you know he falls, and down he come3 kerflumix, and that's like the Methodist, for they is allers fallin from grace, ah! "And he played on a harp of a thousand .strings, sperits uv jest men made perfeck." And thar is the Presbyterians, my brethering, with their long frock coats and high shirt collars and dismal swamp faces, but they never cleared no new ground nor burnt no brush nor deadened no timber, nor killed no bars. They always waits for us hard shells to do that and settle up the widlerness and then they will slip in and go to plantin' and put on heavenly airs and claim to be the only people that are elected and shore of eternal salvation?and they play on a harp of a thousand strings?sperits of jest men made perfeck. And then, my brethring, thar's the Baptists, ah! And they have been likenn/1 ? 'nnocnni /-in o cimmtlTl tTPP find cu tu a yocu&u vu U the thunders may roll and the earth may quake, and the lions roar and the whangdoole mourn, but the 'possum clings thar still, ah! And you may shake one foot loose, and the other's thar, and you may shake all feet loose, and he laps his tail around the limb, and clings and he clings furever, ah! for "He played on a harp of a thousani strings, sperits uv jest men made perfeck.' Evils of Pleasure Seeking. Pcughkeepsie, N. Y., Special.?In the baccalaureate sermon at Vassar College. President Taylor spoke of the "Deac'ing effect of pleasure-seeking on all the higher activities of life," and expressed the opinion that all that is good in our live3 is threatened by the pleasure-seeking spirt of the present age. Many students, he said, feel that the best thing to be gotten from colicnro is thr> chance for a good time. Thi3 spirit undermines the physical vigor and dulla the mental power. Refuses to Serve. Denver, Col., Special.?The annual convention of the Western Federation of Miners adjourned sine die, shortly after midnight. Saturday night. Edward Bcyee refused to serve as president. and Charles Moyer, of Lead, S. D., was elected in his place. The other officers elected follow: Vice president, E. D. Hughes, Butte, Mont.; secretarytreasurer, W. D. Haywood, Silver City, Idaho. A Lynching In South Carolina. Charleston, S. C., Special.?Jim Black, a negro implicated in the murder of the wife of J. K. Jones, a section master of the Atlantic Coast Line, was lynched late Wednesday night by a mob of men who secured him from a posse of officers while en routo to jail. Black committed the crime some weeks ago and escaped but was captured near Savannah and was being brought to Ravenel for confinement when apprehended by the mob. The negro confessed his crime, naming another negro as an asseccory. : OPPOSED THE GIFT. ) I Unmlinao HUlnrinA in Droconf i ii.mi muuocid uurcucu iv iiwovu* to Lord Kitchiner ; WILD SCENE IN THE PARLIAMENT I . | The Government Leadeas, However, Were Able to Carry Through the \ Appropriation. : London, By Cable.?In accordance with XiDg Edward's message to the ; House of Commons the government i leader, A. J. Balfour, in the House, i asked for a vote of ?50,000 ($250,000) to Lord Kitchener. Mr. Balfour, in. ; supporting the motion, referred to | Lord Kitchenor's rapid promotion. He i said it had been given to few public servants to compass so much work for 1 their country in so short a time as 1 Lord Kitchener. Lord Kitchener had to meet with unique difficulties. He had erected no fewer than 4,000 miles of blockhouses, and in the conduct of the campaign had shown the fertile range of his recources, boundless courage, energy and resolution, and to these qualitltr, Gieat D.iinln awafl Via tarm in nHnn r\f thft war. The Liberal leader, Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, who seconded the motion, paid a warm tribute to Lord Kitchener as a soldier and statesman. John Dillon, Irish Nationalist, led the opposition in behalf of the Nationalists. Mr. Dillon said he and hif friends absolutely objected to the vote because they were opposed to the poli icy of the war in South Africa and thf conduct of the campaign which volved wholesale devastation of the country, the burning of farms and sacrifice of life. Henry Labouche also opposed the vote. William Redmond, Irish Nationalist, caused a scene of great discord by remarikng that Lord Kitchener would go down in history as a general who had "made war on women and children." This remark called forth loud cries of "withdrawal," and appeals to the chairman to call Mr. Redmond to order. The chairman said the expression used was not disordeerly, but a majority of the House refused to listen any further to Mr. Redmond and interrupted him with all kinds of shouts. After a quarter of an hour speent by Mr. Redmond in furitless endeavor to gain a hearing the closure was mover. The closure was adapted by 273 to 138 votes and the grant of ?50,000 to Lord Kitchener was carried by 380 to 44 votes. The minority consisted of Irish Nationalists and two or three Radicals. When Mr. Balfour vose to move a vote of thanks to the officers and men of the army or Soutn Airica, me upruai was renewed by the Irish Nationalist* as a protest against the treatment on Mr. Redmond. * Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman seconded the motion, which was adopted, 382 to 42. Boy Shot By Guard. Wilkesbarre, Special.?The spirit of unrest that has been manifesting Itself more or less in this city and vicinity during the last few days broke out in earnest at two places in this city and as a result a boy was dangerously, if not fatally, shot by a guard at the Stanton colliery and a considerable portion of the property around the colliery was destroyed by fire. Several nights ago a part of a fence surrounding the place was burned and also a small frame building on the clum bank. Since then other attempts jvere made to fire the fence. The guards as a re| suit kept a close watch, while Chas. | McCann, aged 13 years, was walking along the field outside tne rence, u is said, a guard on the inside fired a revolver or rifle at him. The bullet struct the boy in the back. The shot was heard by the people in the vicinity and it looked for a time as though there would be serious trouble. The boy was quickly removed to the Mercy Hospital and the police notified. The guard was arrested but the crowd on the outside was so great and threatening that the police did not dare to take him from the place. Shortly after the shooting the crowd sought vengeance on the company's property and some one sel fire to a trestle work. The fire department was summoned and with considerable difficulty put out the fire. At the Murray colliery, also operated by the Lehigh & Wilkesbarre Company, in the eastern nart of the city, a crowd of boys succeeded in burning about 400 feet of a b gh board fence that surrpunded the company's property. The fire department extinguished the blaze. Terrell Wins In Georgia. Atlanta. Special.?Incomplete returns received from the Democratic primaries held throughout this State Thursday nominated the following ticket for Governor and State officials: For Governor, J. M. Terrell; for Secretary of State, Philip Cook; for Comptroller, General, W. A. Wright; for State I Treasurer, R E. Park; for Attorney General, J. C. Hart; for State school commissioner, W. B. Meerritt; for commissioner of agriculture, 0. B. Stevens; for prison commissioner, Thos. Ason; for associate justices of Supreme Court, A. J. Cobb and Samuel Tumpkin; for United States Senator, A. S. Clay was renominated for the six-year! ' term.