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BILL ARP'S LETTER. Matters Discussed By the Bartow Philosopher | HE WRITES VERY INTERESTINGLY 1 i | MucSi Good Reasoning and Practical Common Sense, Written in Cheerful Language. Atlanta Constitution. Goldsmith in a short and pretty preface to the "Vicar of Wakefield," sa\s: "There are a hundred faults in this thing and a hundred things might be said to prove them beauties. A ^ book may be amusing with many errors or ic may be dull without a single absurdity. The hero in this story unites in himself the three greatest characters 011 earth?the priest, the husbandman and the father of a family. Strange that the author could write such a charming story about the very three characters he knew least about, for he had no fitness for nor'experience in either. It is not recorded that he was ever in love or sought the com - * ln/llno vet nic pany ci viriuuus .juuu? iauuo, ballad cf the Hermit in the "Vicar of Wakefield" is admitted to be the tenderfst and most perfect love poem ever written. My father made me commit it to memory when I was young and there are at least a dozen verses in it that 1 can cry over now and it does me good. It is a comfort to weep over these sad, sweet things. Langhorn wrote a verse about a poor woman with a babe at her breast hunting over the battle field of Miaden for the body of her husband, and when she found him she knelt by his side and wept and the big tears fell upon the face of her child and mingled with the milk he drew. "A child of misery baptized in tears." A painting was made of it, and Walter Scott says the only time he over saw Burns he was looking at that painting and crying like a child. To read the lines and / imagine the painting is enough for me. But if I had been Goldsmith I would PPJ"* have set down the mother of a fam? ily as greater than the father. Evan Howell said he would not vote for a curfew, for his observation was that if the fathers would 6tay at home at night the toys would and that'song of "Where is my wandering boy :onight?" wc ulfl not have been written. But the fathers can't all stay at home at night. They are wanted at the store, the office, the counting room, for on them depends the support of the family. But many a tired mother can sing. "Where is my wandering husband tonight?" Alas, too many can be found at the club, at the pool room or the hotel, while the mother is straining her mind to untangle that hard sum. "If A and B can build a house in thirty days and B can build it in forty five days, how long will It take A to build it?" Take it all in all, it 13 the mothers who are the hope of the world?the , saviours of the children. They certainly save the girls, for nobody has yet sung. "Where is my wandering girl toright?" If the fathers would do their halt and save the boys it would be all right. Oh. but for the mothers and wives and sisters, what would become of us without them? Since I haye been sick sometimes away in the silenc watches of the night, when, as Job savsv "Deep sleep falteth upon a'man,'* it does not fall upon a woman, for I feej her gentle touch arranging the cover and feeling whether I am breath ing or not. Since I have been sick I have never caught her fast asleep and the other nieht she got hurt with me because I slipped out In the hall and called the girls down to make a fire and heat some water, for I was lick and suffering, and there was no hot > water in the boiler. It is just as Scott wrrfPrhen pain and anguish wring the brow. A ministering angel thou," And as Coleridge wrote: "A mother is a mother still; The holiest thing alive." I may have written it before, but will write it again, that one night I agree 1 to stay with two dear little girls while their father and mother went out to tea at aa neighbor's. This pleased me, for I am always happy in their company, and they in mine. When bed time came I undressed them and they knelt by my knees and said their praters; one of them was soon asleep, but the other lingered aad said. "Gran'pa, when papa comes home please tell him I love him." Yes. I will." said 1. "What must I tell your mamma?" She closed her eyes and said. "Nothingshe knows I love her." That express, cs it. That child's father loves those little girls dearly, but he keeps a drug store, and is the prescription partner. He goes to the store oerore nis cmiaren get up. He has but an hour with them at noon, and has to return to the store soon after supper. No wonder these little girls want him to know that they love him. Boys are very deferent, and when they get up in their teens mothers lose their influence. Some say it is bad associates. Of course that has something to do with it, but Cain didn't have any that we know of. and yet he killed his brother. Environment is a big word, but it covers everything that a boy inherits or that he gets from association. One day * a friend of mine, a Hebrew, said to me. uMajor. I polieve you does love your ^ childurn better dan a.vbody in Jctov n." ' Oh. no. I reckon not." said I. Don't you love your children?" "Vy, yes, of tourse: b it I pelieve you vouM die for your sbildrun better dan anybody in de town." "Oh. no. I reckon net." said I. "Don't you love your children?" Vy, yes. of course, but I pelieve you vould die for yours?" said I. He pondered a while. "Yes, I pelieve I vould: dat is. for all?except Frank." Frank was his bad boy and gave him troudle; but Frank turned out to be a good boy, and ish one of the best citizens of Atlanta. One of my best old-t'm* friends was ^ a Norwegian, and was killed during the war. He had some good, amiable I daughters, and had two sens, who were 4 bad. very bad, aijd, as I was mayor of f ' the town, they gave me trouble. Their | father was a member of the council, an i elder in my church, and I had favored his boys as much as possible; but one night, just before Christmas, they broltfe into a hardware store and stole a keg of powder and hid it in their stable loft. They had planned to blow nn tho / alnhnoRP The eitv marshal (old Sam Stewart) found it and arrested the boys and brought them before me for trial. I put it off until next morning. That night I went to see the father and mother. She cried, of course, and he choked up 2s she talked. "Mine poot friendt?I has been prayin' over ciis ting about mine pcys and it seems to me do goot Lord say mine poys is goin' to queet. Dcy take it all from me. I has been in de calaboose in Stockholm a hundred times, but von day I queet. I shost quect rigt off all a sudden, and I peiieve if you will try my poys one more time dey will queet." And sure enough they did quit, and grew up to a good manhood. One of them is the cashier of the largest bank in Memphis, and the other the head of a hardware house in Louisville, Ky. Sometimes I think that it is the halo of a mother's prayers that reclaims many a wayward boy. If the voung man would only stop and think?think of the watches of the night when he was a teething infant tugging at an empty breast for milk while the poor, tired mother changed him from side to side and longed for the morning. I have wondered how they survived it, and why they would go through the ordeal again. A man wouldn't, and not all of them will help and comfort the poor T'other when she feels for the first time her first born's breath. But we must not give up the May be they will, like the prodigal son, come to themselves and "queet." BILL ARP. 4,000 /"lore May Strike. Birmingham, Ala., Sperial.?If the j orders of the officials of the United Mine Workers are obeyed 4.200 miners in the employ of the Tennesee Coal, Iron & Railroad Company will be idle. The strike inaugurated several days ago on account of the failure of the company to deduct $1 from the minora* wages without a written consent from each miner, has extended to the Blocton and Blue Creek fields. The Tennessee Company will make an effort to begin work at Blue Creek Monday morning, but the result is problematical. LABOR WORLD. Kansas farmers offer as high as $2.50 a day and board for harvesters. All ihe miners in the White Oak district of West Virginia have returned to work. . Sewer laborers at Chicago have struck for an increase of twenty-five to fifty cents a day. It is said that the Southern textile mills employ 50,000 children under sixteen years of age. Farmers in Ontario. Can., find it difficult to obtain help, even though j $1.75 a day and hoard Is offered. The strike of the Chicago City Railway employes has been compromised, the men. however, gaining many concessions. French miners have voted to demand an eight-hour day. this to inoludb time taken for meals and in going to and from their work. Among the working women in Belgium there are 30.000 who earn less than thirty cents n day. Only 9000 earn more than fifty cents and only j 395 more .than eighty cents a day. The 'work of organizing the retail drug clerks of Baltimore into a union to affiliate with the Federation of Labor has begun. An eight-hour work (lay will be demanded by the union. There are now six cities in the Sheet Metal Workers' National Alliance, which was formed recently, as follows: Philadelphia, New York, Brooklyn, Pittsburg, Chicago and Atlantic City. Unskilled laborers are very scare at Cincinnati, Ohio. The wages have gone up from $1.35 to $2 a day, and even to $2.25. The city is paying $1.75 a day of eight hours, and many jobs have gone begging. Workmen employed at the Cia de Construcciones Metalicas, at the City of Mexico, Mexico, went out on a strike recently. The strike was made because a demand for more wages and shorter hours of work was not complied with by the employers. NEWSY CLEANINGS. China will not secure mini experts from the United States. Japan has ordered a complete armorplate mill from a Sheffield tirm. The rainy season in Nicaragua has started, but is four months late. New Zealand has purchased one of the largest coal mines in that country. Major-General Corbin declares that the German Army is among the best in the world. A music trust is reported from Italy to do away with the great number of >ublishers. Since August .10 there have been ."235 cases of cholera in Egypt, with GG51 deaths. The French Government proposes In the coming budget to reduce sugar taxation by $8,000,000. The big lioness Sultana, of the Faris Zoo, has been successfully operated upon for appendicitis. An understanding has been reached by German steamship lines which puts an end to competition in Brazilian rates. A new rich scold field has just heen discovered in Northwestern Arizona, but lack of water hinders development. So many thatched roofs in the Transvaal were burned during the war that a boom in American galvanized iron is expected. The agricultural and pastoral industry of the Argentine Republic is iu a critical condition in consequence of ng-continued drought. The New Zealand Government has uvited tenders for a direct monthly freight, passenger and mail steamship service from New Zealand to South Africa. King Edward has approved the issue of a second' South African war medal, bearing his own effigy. It will be granted to troops which participated in the latter phases of the war. t } SOUTHERN INDUSTRIAL! A $200,000 Finishing Plant. Last February the Manufacturers Record announced particulars concerning the extensive finishing plant to b? established by H. N. Wheat, president pi Gatfney Manufacturing Co., and his associates at Gaffney, S. C. The construction work has since been in progress, and will bs pushed steadily to , completion. Nicholas Ittner of Atlanta, Ga., being contractor for the main building, a 100x250-foot structure. It has been decided that the Gaffney Manufacturing Co. will own and operate the new plant, and Its capital stock during the past week was increased from $S0&,)00 to fl,000,000 in order to pay for the plant. As was stated previously, this plant will contain equipment for bleaching yarns and piece goods, dyeing yarns, warps and piece goods, printing piece goods, and for washing, soaping, tentering, calendering and finishing cotton goods by the various processes in use. The Gaffney Manufacturing Co. operates 67,010 spindles and 1400 looms on plain print cloth, and when the finishing plant is completed will change its product to fancy dobby weaves, dress goods, waistings, etc., in accordance with announcement made last February. Messrs. Lockwood, Green & Co., of Boston are architects?and engineers for this finishing plant. Plens For 80,000 Spindles. The Manufacturers' Record announced last week particulars regarding contror?f a tVio Hon Riror Pntvnr & Manufacturing Co., for the construction of a $300,000 dam and power-house on the Dan river near Danville, Va. The contractors?the J. W. Bishop Company of Providence and Bostonare now preparing to proceed with the work, and will push it to completion as rapidly as possible. The Dan River corporation has now about decided as to the character and extent of the cotton-manufacturing plant to be built In connection with those water-power developments. It contemplates building for 80,000 spindles, with looms and other machinery in proportion, but has not definitely determined as to the character of goods to be produced. A $53,000 Improvement. The stockholders of the J. M. Odell Manufacturing Co. of Bynum, N. C., held their semi-annual meeting last week. Improvements were decided upon to require an expenditure of about $52,000, and new stock for that amount will be Issued. The capital thereby increased from $58,000 to $110,000. The betterments will be mainly the installation of 150 looms (so that the company can manufacture into cloth the product of yarn from its 6.000 spindles) and the construction of a new dam ten feet high to replace the present fourfoot dam. W. L. London of Pittsboro, N. C., was elected secretary and general manager to succeed Clarence P. Emorj, lately deceased. Textile Notes. Anderson (S. C.) Cotton Mills held i Its annual stoekholde.s' meeting last week and declared the usual annual dividend of 8 per cent. This action was taken notwithstanding the fact that about half of the company's machinery has been Idle since last spring because of the destruction of the dam that had been fnrpishing power. This dam is, hawever, about rebuilt and the mills' j full complement of 61,000 spindls and 1,864 looms will be in operation next month. Tennessee Woolen Mills Co. of McMlnnville, Tenn., reported last week as incorporated, etc., will expend. about j $3,000 to put in condition for operation | the plant It acquired. The work is now in progress, and manufacturing is ex-, pected to begin next month. All the : machinery and supplies needed have ' been purchased. The company is rAnltflH7A/? Qt AAA \f T T*aaa V*oa veen elected secretary and treasurer. Mention was made last week of a report stating tbat Thos. Hirst of Vine- \ land N. J., was looking for a site at Petersburg, Va.. to establish a rug factory. The report has been confirmed, and Mr. Hirst intends to establish such a plant if he can .mtain a suitable location. Mr. Hirst is connected with the Hirst Smyrna Manufacturing Co., operating a plant of 300 looms at Vineland and capitalized at $250,000. Messrs. H. E. Fries and Thoma3 Maslin have purchased the Twin City Knitting Mills at Winston-Salem, N. C., and will organize company to continue its operation. The plant has been in the hands of a receiver for some time. It has twenty-four knitting machines, uses electric power, manufactures underwear and dyes Its own product. It is reported tbat the Liberty Silk Mills Co. of Paterson, N. J., will build a large branch mill at Norfolk, Va. A movement is on foot for the establishment of a cotton mill at Marshall, N. C. Local investors have subscribed $28,000, and a proposition from a North Carolina manufacturer to furnish additional capital is now being considered. Messrs. Chas. B. Mashburn, J. J. Redmon and J. R. Swann orr> o nnmrnitt^P in The Victor Cotton Mills of Charlotte. N. C., will meet, as was stated last week, on September 29 to consider plans for enlarging the plant This will be a special mee-ctng of stockholders to consider the erection of a weave shed and the installation of 400 looms. It is understood that the improvements will be voted. It is rumored that J. L. Erwin, of Newport. Tenn.. and associates will establish a cotton mill at Murphy. N. C. Royal L'ag & Tarn Manufacturing Co.. Charleston. 3. C.. will build and equip a schoolhouse and tender instructions free of charge to the children of its operatives. This company just completed several months ago its ?223,C00 plant for spinning yarns, weaving bag cloth and manufacturing seamless bags. In referring to the report mentioned last week that the Lane Mills of New Orleans intended to add a 20,000-spindle plant, the company states: "The announcement is somewhat premature, nd we are not ready as yet to give any information." Mik iik \ PALMETTO NEWS BRIEFS. Items of Interest Gleaned From All Farts of the State. Found a Baby Boy. Chester, Special.?There was great c-Mfitement in the neighborhood of th.j Southern depot early Saturday morn ing occasioned by the finding of a nicely dressed, apparently six weeks old j white ha by boy. It was found lying on the warehouse platform last night 9 o'clock by Ellen Price, an old darkey living near the depot. She was passing along by the warehouse and heard its faint and lonely cries in the dark. She was overcome with excitement at the time, but summoned u.) courage enough to care for it, and take it into her cabin for a night's lodging. Early this morning she reported the matter to police headquarters, and all day people of both races have gone to the Price house to look at the baby stranger without home and parents. The baby was comfortably wrapped up and supplied with three changes of clothes and the following note was left beside it: "This child I leave in the hands of some dear one, trusting that it will be cared for, as I am not able 10 care for itmyself. I leave it here in the sight of the Heavenly One. Christ Jesus." Unless the city authorities can find some home for it here It will be sent to the county poor house. The police are working on the case and are trying to find whence the child came. The supposition is that it was brought tiapo. r\r* r>T\a nf fho nnrtVi hrmnit trains of the Southern railroad. How He Escaped. Florence, Special.?Amos Singleton, a negro convict, escaped from the gang about 2 o'clock on Tuesday morning, having filed his chains while the guard was sleeping. It was reported from Sumter today that while fleeing he shot Policeman A. D. Owens there Saturday night. Singleton was sentenced to five years on the gang for the shooting of Truluck, at Tjmmonsville, about two years ago. He had served part of hi3 sentence. He was a bad darkey, and Owens, whose life has paid for his fidelity to duty in trying to arrest the escaped convict, had been warned against trying to take him. The story as told the State's correspondent was that the policeman saw the negro and called to him to halt, but the negro ran behind a house and the officer followed him. Just as he turned the corner the negro fired, the ball taking effect instantly. The negro had turned as soon as he got behind the house and was waiting for his pursuer. His home was in Sumter and after his escape Superintendent Powell of the gang went over there to look for him, but returned yesterday, reporting that nothing had been heard from h:.m. Evidently the negro was lying in concealment until Mr. Powell left. Anderson's New Road. Anderson, Special?The secretary of State of Georgia has issued a charter to the Tennessee, GeQrgia and South Carolina railroad. This is the new road which is projected to run from Charleston, Tenn., to this city. It is learned here that there has been a delay in securing the charter in this State. The South Carolina law provides that no charter shall be granted to a railroad unless at least one of the corporators is a resident of the State. This requirement was overlooked in the application for a charter recently made to the secretary of State, and the defect will be remedied in another application ? i ? ? a- t? j- if- tit n wmcn is soon 10 dc maue. irir. w. jd. Frink of Chi:ago, who is one.of the promoters of the road, has been in correspondence with Anderson parties and writes that he will be here during the latter part of this month, and that he is anxious to meet Anderson people and explain his scheme fully to them. He declares that the road will be built, and says that work will commence on securing the rights of way, making surveys, etc., as soon as the charter is secured. A New Railroad. Melbourne, Victoria, Special.?The South Australian government has intioduced a bill for the construction of a railroad from Adelaide to Port Darwin, on the land grant system. Three months after the bill passed tenders are to be invited from Europe and America. Those persons sending in tenders are to designate the area they require. The bill limits such area to 75,000 acre* for a mile. The Boat Line. Columbia, Special.?Those who are chiefly interested in the establishment of the boat line on the Congaree have not found the takers of stock among the smaller merchants that was expected, but one of the chief men concerned in the formation of the company stated Saturday afternoon that this would have no effect; that thcv had determined to establish the line and it would be established in accordance with previous announcements. There will probably be important developments in the matter on Monday next. Declaration cf Peace. Washington. Special.?A dispatch received at the Colombia legation from j Bogota, announces an official declara- ! lion of peace in four of the depart- j n.ents of the republic. Preparations are ; making in Columbia for the election of a Congress to deal with the Panama Canal and other Important subjects and the official announcement of peace is a preliminary step to the election of members of Congress. % s LIVE ITEMS OF NEWS. Many Matters of General Interest la ~">nori raragrspus. The Sunny South. "Tom" Clark, a negro who confessed to several murders, was burned at the stake at Corinth, Miss.' Rer. J. Wm. Jones, of Chapel Hill, N. C., has been elected secretary of the Confederate Memorial Association, vice Gen. John C. Underwood. Application has been made for : charter to build an electric railroad from Cleveland, Tenn., via Benton to Ducktown, Tenn. Estimates are made that it will cost $400,000. Pine Bluff, Ark., Special.?Walter Sullivan, a young negro, was lynched Wednesday at Portland, Ashley county. Sullivan was' charged with shooting D. J. Roody, a white man, in the back. The stockholders of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad were called to meet in Louisville, assembled in the rooms of President Smith at noon. Without transacting any business, adjournment was taken until November 5. None of the Eastern directors were J present. Atlanta, Special.?After one of the ! most bitterly contested campaigns in this city's history Evan P. Howell received the nominating vote for mayor in the city primary. Mr. Howell was one of the founders of The Atlanta Constitution. His opponents were former Mayor James G. Woodward and Alderman Harvey Johnson. Representative W. B. Berry, of Coweta county, Ga., Is very ill at his home at Newnan, and it is hardly prob- | able that he will be able to take his place in the legislature when the session meets here next month. He was taken suddenly ill several months aga and has not been able to leave bit bed since that time. At The National Capital. The Secretary of the Treasury has issued a circular identically the same as that given out Tuesday in New York, with this addition: "The other satisfactory securities referred to must for the present be the State or municipal bonds of the character permitted to be accepted by savings banks under the laws of such States as have legislated on the subject" I A second operation was performed on President Roosevelt's injured leg, the abscess falling to heal as successfully as was expected. The total sum paid In government pensions from the Revolutionary War to and including the war with Spain is placed at 12,900,854,302. At The North. Seven thousand men are engaged In the elaborate army maneuvers at Fort Riley, Kansas. A special from Sylvangrove, in central Kansas, says that place was visited last night by a snow storm which developed into a fierce storm of sleet. William Cotter has been appointed manager in charge of operation of the Missouri Pacific railroad company, St. Louis and Iron Mountain and Southern railway and leased operated and independent lines. He will make his headquarters in St. Louis. An attempt was made to wreck a Philadelphia and Reading express train late last night at Broakes crossing, a short distance below Pottstown, Pa. W. H. Truesday, president of the Delaware. Lackawanna and Western, is himself a sufferer from the coal famine, say6 a Greenwich, Conn., dispatch to The World. He is said to have offered a wholesaler in New York $1,500 cash for 100 tons, and was re From Across The Sea. Turkish troops killed 52 and wounded 112 Bulgarian revolutionists in Macedonia. Captain Sverdrup's Arctic expedition received a great welcome on its return to Christiania, Norway. Edmund Jellinek, the Vienna bank officer who embezzled $1,150,000, has been found dead. United States marines continue to preserve free transit on the Isthmus of Panama. Manila, By Cable.?The American column under Captain Persching, which went cut against the Maciu Moros .in Mindanao, has attacked the enemy' and captured three of their forts. The Moros stood but a short time against the American artillery fire. Twenty Moros were killed and many were wounded. There were no American casualties. A section of French opinion favors help by the Latin race to South American Republics which may be menaced by the United States. Surgeon J. C. Perry, at Manila, reports to the War Department that cholera was introduced into the PhilipDines in Chinese vegetables. MisccI'an~ou? Atstters. Members of the American Federation of Catholic Societies are signing a petition to President Roosevelt to use his good offices to end the strike. The American coal strike already has made an impression on the British coal market, and if it continues for another six months householders in London will have to pay $20 a ton for fuel, says a Tribune dispatch from London. After vain efforts to find some language which could be understood by the unknown man who was recently taken from the Bowery to Bellevue hospital, where he was treated for! malaria, the doctors have decided the patient is insane. He was taken to I the hospital on September 1st, and all efforts to get him tq talk have failed, although fifteen languages were tried. John Mitchell, in another statement for tho miners' side of the coal strike, answers arguments of George B. Baer and Abram S, Hewitt ? , )* .-?*vv ^ jks i i ? ? RIOTS IN NEW YORK Strike of Street Car Men Threatens Serious Consequences. ? . - y NATIONAL GUARDSMEN CALLED OUT . Street Car Windows Smashed and Non-Union Conductors and flotormen Stoned. ' Glens Falls, N. Y., Special.?As & re- ' suit of new activity of the striking motormen of the Hudson Valley Electric Railroad Company, soldiers of the National Guard are again guarding the peace of this town and, though Sunday -* has seen no rioting, an uneasy feeling prevails. The militia company of this place, which had been dismissed to its armory Thursday last, was called out again Saturday night, and is now pro- . tecting the power house and othei property of the railroad company at Glens Falls. A squad also is guarding a bridge at Sandy Hill, having bee i J sent there following a report that one 1 of the canal bridges was to be blow;i ' up. The riotious mob which held possession of Glens Falls for four hour* was composed of sympathizers of the I ctrlborc .mil the nnllfp fnrCP WAS TJOW orless against it. A mass meeting called by the labor I organizations to express sympathy for the strikers was the origin of the disturbance. It was planned to hare the _ | mass meeting in Bank Square,* and when permission was refused ill-feeling resulted. Headed by a band the strikers and labor leaders formed in a parade throught the principal streets,, the ranks of the paraders being augmented by sympathizers and boya who at the first opportunity created disturbances. The riot was precipitated by the arrest of a man who made insult- ' Ing remarks to one Of the non-union employes and each car passing was the object of a demonstration. At Cool*a Switch, four cars were stalled at one ? time. They were soon abandoned, che non-union motormen apd conductors placing themselves in the hands of tho police for protection, or deserting to the strikers. The car windows were smashed and a fusilade of bricks and ^ stones thrown at the cars. Conductor Currier, of Brooklyn, was so badly,Injured by rough handling and being hit ^ in the head with missiles that he is in the hospital in a serious condition. The last car from the north which came Into town about 11 o'clock car-'" rled mall sacks, which were removed to the railway offices. About this time a company of the National Guard un- . der Captain Mott made its appearance, and, marching to the jail, took the motormen and conductors under orotection. In marching to the carsdemam mnHp QnH thp mill tia used the butts of their guns and threatened to shoot several times. Under heavy guard of soldiers the seven stalled cars were run down toward the ^ power house, followed by a mob. Hi the outskirts of the city riotlous demonstrations. were made, and stono V throwing indulged In, to which the soldiers responded by volleys of bulleta, > e-Vir>r>tlncr In thp air however. DI1VUV1UC) ?" vw w ?? ? ? Against Child Labor. " Chicago, Special..?J. Hampton Moore of Philadelphia was elected president of the National League of Republican clubs by acclamation. The league platform as adopted endorses President Roosevelt's administration, upholds the protective tariff, deplores the coal strike and urges a speedy adjustment, condemns combinations of capital , whose purpose is self aggrandizement at the eipense of workingmen of the public or to increase the cost of the necessities of life. The platform says: "We depreciate the employment of children of tender age at prolonged and exhaustive labor in mills, factories and mines and in all unhealthful vocations as an evil which calls for such legislation by the proper authorities as will protect the young in their morals, health and growth." Railroad Track Blown Up. Tamaqua, Pa., Special.?At an early hour Sunday morning a section of track on the Silver creek branch of the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad was hiown un with dvnamite. The exDlo aion shook the houses in New Philadelphia and Silver Creek. When the workmen's train reached the scene of the explosion this morning, a farce^ of 50 deputies were on hand to escogipP them to the colliery. T' Will Not Name Delegates, * Philadelphia, Special.?Mayor Ashbrldge has declined to comply with the request of Mayor Maybury, of Detroit, to appoint a delegation of citizens to attend a conference to be held 1U IUUI uu vv-iuuti lU UCV190 ways and means for obtaining a reasonable supply of coal from the mining regions of Pennsylvania and West Vir- , ginia. The mayor's reply is as follows: "Governor of Commonwealths, clergymen and citizens are actively working for settlement of strike in coal fields in this State. My judgment is differences will be adjusted and work resumed before date of conference named." ' V To Succeed Cummlngs. New York, Special.?Conventions were held in the old Tenth congressional district to nominate candidate^ for the unexpired term of the late % Amos J. Cummirtgs. The Republicans nominated Henry Birrell, who is also the candidate nominated in the new Eleventh district, which includes a great part of the old Tenth. The Democrats nominated Edward Swan, a lawyer. Wm. S. Devery*^rc3idcd over the ,Democratic convention. li / i J*. ; *) - ..