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VOLUMEV CHIPLEY WASHINGTON COUNTY FLORIDA SATURDAY OCTOBER 2 1897 NUMBER 16j

THE STORY OF ULLA

>ld at the Edge of the Northern Sea andWritten for This Paper-

BY EDWIN LESTER ARNOLDCHAPTER VI-

wlLJjust at dusk that evening theera Sky was streaked with crimsonblack the white mist was lying inwreaths along the purple riverowe tho landrails Were croaking

10 fern and tho night Tara churning10 oak the little stare wore twlnk-In the smooth heaven and the paleent of the moon was adip upon thehen a thin curl of smoko rose fromhatch of a but In tho fishing village-

the burgh A minute after at tonaue of flame shot up and af alarm roso from Inside the stock

Surely somo careless housewifelet an ember fall among the thatch

thought and the great oak gatesed upon their hinges and out toitlngutshlng rushed In their loososkin cloaks two luckless hordeey passed the portal an arrow speds the grass and plunging deeptho chest of the foremost he

ded half his height into tho airfell with a heavy thud Into the

and wont rolling and kicking andming down the hillside At the

minute an unseen hand from bowith a single sweep of a good

fray ax severed tbs head of tho-r from his body as ho stood glaringr his comrade and now tho starlighttwinkling on tho weapons and mallurrylng Norsemen and whllo the-o cry of Odin dial went up toblaik sky and the dusky crowsoil from their roosting pluses

eel dismally about between thei a long low wall of fear and terrorfrom the hundred corners of thated citadel

Dd the gamo was ours from tho be-

Ing Numerous and strong fiercebloodthirsty as bloodhounds on tho

we rue d for tho open gAtos andrd tho first one and swept round

tray between under tho unguardedadcs wh ro a dozen men mighthold us at bay and so to tho Inner

all whero wo stabbed a bravo Oldo who tried to ehut It In our facethiro the place had fallen the

es wer In tho foilad wild work we made of HI As we-

ed tho entrance tho English chiefrushed out of tho middoor of hisin his nlghtwoar for ho had aly gone to bed a naked sword inend and by his side a fair youngwith curly yellow hair By Thor IId not have boon tho wild fowl oneghborlng marsh wben that comelyras hungry 11 o shot so close andght although the light was poor for-ting that there been a dozen

it would have gone badly Indeed-us At the first aloft lie piercedorn through the wrlAt and the sec

wounded stalwart Svelnko In thothen ho shut one in the throat

moth r In the stomach and kept1 at bay until his last arrow wast and thin died far down on tho-

r bloody Uagsons bear spear likefitroo young cub he wee As forother although ho was stouth of heart yet his limbs were

Knis SIDE A FAin rotmo nor

Bd old and my merry fellowsHprt work with him and ho lay

alight OB they left him palo-y across his threshold all the-

o shut the gates to keep theWffwomen in and lit a stack or

us and to fell on But-I try to tell you all wo did

ng Why should I try toH wild fierce hell of lust and

d rapine that raged withinFMNy shambles under the mildiMPght And if I had a hundred

lid not tell each incident as ItMM If I did you might not careHTv If I had a hundred pens I

Hvrce recount how one onedragged the men from theiraces and how some of them

desperately while some subullenly but whichever way it

killed them Or how tho womenBed and struggled In the arms of

W rovers and crlod for mercy and-e yellow beards of their new

r laughing masters and were senthades the old and lean ones

mow the other the pale fair girlsfearbright eyes and long loose-

d bare feet all In their torn dlftllod night peir were bound hand

toot and lashed to the pillars In thog ball or bow the little ones

pied and walled and hid behind thedeal and strove to wake with

m petulance thoso who would neverle again or often with their charId playthings looked tightly withinIT arms crept Into wondrous comersI hid from usask me no smaller doL for I could surfeit you with horrorscompassion < dimmed your cyoj and

stayed your readingtor an hour the place was full of tin

guttural shouts of men and the shrieksat women tho scream of the maiden andcry of the mother losing her Ilttio onothe wall of the captive and the moan ofthe dying down In tho shadows andmen ran hero and there struggling withwhiteshrouded forms or bynoel or ha r strange shapes Into duskcorn rs and tho urea blazed and thosparks fell and then presently bocause there wero no moro to kill thenoise died down until presently silencerel ned broken only the laughingand shouting of my men and thus we-

nt bared in tho hall roUt tho lampsbra ihej off the remnants of tho earlioievening supper and laid out for ourselves all the best We could put ourhands on And fierce wild revelry myfellows made of It Tho hot blood olrapine and pillage had got into theirveins and they heated it higher with thestrong abundant drink from that Brit-ish

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chieftains hiding places until theywore morollko a tawny handsome bondof furies than mortil mongadsl Ithink I never brought suob a crow ofdevils to that shore before They madethe rafters ring with their wild paganhymns they dancod and shouted andate and drank while the palo captlvogirls stood hudd Ing In the shadows orwattedtrombllngon them and tho winoand alo went streaming down tho flooramong the blood and litter and thotorches flared and the dogs howled out-side

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Oh it was strange wild revelryand wont on for half tho nighttime

It must have been near the dawn andmost of tho maidens lay swooning uponthe floor between weariness and terrorand halt the rovers wore drunk asswine when they fetched in tho deadchieftain setting him pale find bloody-In b s chair and putting a cup Into hishands while the rlbaldost tellow theremade a song and sung it to him Thennext a cry arosewho started it I knownot but may God forgive himfor theEnglish fiankllne daughter Wo hadnot seen hershe was not among thocaptives and now a hundred buxomfellows wore on foot hunting with torchand lamp high and low in every crackaud corner of the burgh to find herUnhappy damsel they hunted futlMyeverywhere until thoy came to thosmall round tower on the cliff vergethere tho strong oak door was barredand abut from within and a wild yell ofdrunken pleasure tod their quarry wasat bay

What was it that made me just thouso sick of all that rovolry and eat like ablack foreboding on my soul I knownot but I turned and weary of thoglare and tumult slowly left the burghand walked down to the bench wherelay my strip Just as the men wero mak-ing

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a taJ mound of sticks and heath andtimbers about the door of tho doomedtower that held the s lent princess

Climbing on board I gave orders tothose who had stood by the Wolf tomake all ready for the sea then threwmyself down listless strangely sad andchilly as ono in ague by my place atthe tiller to await tho com nR or thepillagers And presently one by ono

sons of tho creek came reeling downthe path singing as they stumbleddown tho darkness and carrying bundlesand bags and furs and cups andweapons In sheafs and dragging falter-ing

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slaves and surly snarling dogs Inlotteries and so at last when they wero111 on board but ono that ono came run-ning

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down the path and before he hadtot ha f way to us the burgh was allIlluminated with a rosy light and look ¬

ing Up We saw that tho laughing villainhad fired It in twenty p aces and notonly tho dwellings but also the greatmound of fuel his friends had builtagainst the tower door-

CUAITER VIIcame our anchor and out we

lurched upon the waves once mow Voset sail and drifted slowly down underthe cliff where stood the castle and aswe cam the fire raged furiously untilwhen we wero below that beetling browwe were sailing on a heaving molten seaof blood and all our spars and cordagewere shining copper red and all the up ¬

turned faces of the vlklntts vere Rushedand hectic in the shine and thenohbow can I write Itjust as we camethe nearest a white womans formstepped frantic out on top of the toweran her hands acroes her eyesand hid her face and wept And Ioht-he fiercest strangest gust of agonyand Joy sprang up within my heartIgasped and glared and all forgettingstrangeness of it In the horror ofthe moment dropped the tiller andleaping the clanking bulwarks staredanother moment and then out of mydeepest heart out of the hot Inspirationof my very soul burst a fierce wild cryof QunnaP

And In I1n Instant that white form wason her foot and staring terrordazed atus and then she saw mo by the shroudsas I sood limned in gold with all myskip against the black setting of thenight and gazed down steadfastly upoil me for a minute then clapped herbonds upon hor bosom and stretchedthorn wildly to me and above the hies ¬

ing of the flame and tho thud of thewhite surf upon tho rooks I heard hercryUllal

And now the strength of twenty jailswas In my heart I tossed off as thoughthey were baby fingers the strong grip-of two stout fellows who thought tostay me and In a minute was in the surfhad striking out bravely for the landThe great frothy pillows of tho tideboiled for a space underray c nltnd-

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now I was deep down Ina hummingblade sea valley and anon mast highupon a curling crostof spume and thenall In tho black shadow of the cliff thublock waters seemed to dissolve Into ahell of ghostly chaos and whlto thunder-and my feet touched tho pebbly bottom-I lauded somehow out how only thepalo Norns can scrambled up acheep track the boldest of my mon hatsaid In daylight was Impossible cameto tho palisades and claubcrci overthem and rolled into the fort on top oftwo mangled Lo lies and up again andnow in the golden shine of the tirorushed to the great hall

There In his chair ot state was thodead chief Just as my robbers had lofthim with mouth wide open and fliedeyes staring grimly down his hall andgolden wine cup clinched within blifingers and bloody night sear wrappoiabout him while on streaksot pain and anger twitching with ahideous mockoiy ot life as the smokecurled ond the tlarncs wentsonrlnjc over ¬

head In rosy eddies To right and letwas wild disorder tables overturnedand benches east about broken flagonsand squandered victuals bout swordsand cleft targets and costly stuffs puledInto shreds und dead men asprawl upontheir faces and brood and dirt end litter anelovlr ll the 1 ro was humming Itstierce song as it mounted from point topoint in the root und shed Hroa burningHakes and embers on us below Butjiothlng 1 cared for blooJ and litter but

a foot of wind and a heart hotterthan the flames above rushed through-the banquet place and brushing rudely-by the scowling king got out to theinner court and so readied the portal ofthe tower

Over a rod path of cinders I flow andwith my bare cast tho flamoro e i

doorway into red ruins and up metwining oaken stops I racedscarce

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WAS IN inn son ANn STIUKIBO OUTBUAVELV

noticing that thoy foil to ashes as Imassed and In another moment In amoment of wildly mingled feelings Iwas out upon tho burning parapet andthere upon her knees loaning against-the outer valla and seeming asleep wasthe whlto maid whoso fair taco hadhaunted my forest path and shone uponmo through tho rook ot tonyears storm and battle

Down I went upon ono knee anddeep strong love and gentlo compunc-tion

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welling up in my heartmaidens head upon my shoulder andher hand in mine and In a minute shegave a great shivering gasp of pain andfear und opened her oyoa and looked up-

By sweet Bkulla hoi self it was nearly-worth the Interval of pain to st e thoglad light of pleasure that was lit with-in them as mine to ftol thowarm clasp of hor hand ond toknow unspoken that our heartsWere one and our troth unbroken Itwas a harpy moment Jut all too brieffor I knelt and framed tho hot wordsof love and courage and drew hersweet yielding form to my bosomand raised my long garnered kisses onher dear palo face I felt tho oakenplatform whereon we stood heave andtremble and with a gasp I lookedabout and saw tho cruel name hagnawed through every joist upon thatturret and the whole platform wascrackling and blistered and hanging bya thread while down below hungry-for Its fall was tho great roaringsoothing fuuoial of the lunar tower

Qunnn I cried my own thereIs but ono way Lookl koUl Thestairs are gono the platform rocks anddown below the courtyard Is cruel hardGunna my mel comequleklthere-Faand hde your taco denp down tom I wolfskin folds And as she fled to-

me and leapt into my arms I hid her-ftce In my cloak and stepped oft on tothe narrow rim of ruggedparapet Just as the platform fell intoruins and went thundering down intothe and crimson caldron under-neath

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For ono grim minute I poised myselfupon that narrow giddy shell of black-ened wall with the howling flame roar-Ing behind and tho dark vortex of thesea thundering in dim dreadfulness twohundred feet below upon the other then

wrapping my sweet burden still doorto my bosom and muttering between my

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INOW roe OnCEil BALDZHSniD OLD

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teeth Now for green Baldersund or oldalhallaP leapt bravely out into tho

nightThis la nlti This is the story of Dlla

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tho viking Ulla tho Tho lampWBors to Its endingtlie Ink Is dry

When the clansmen picked us up themaid was deed and so was tho light andtho loving of Ulla For throe days wostaggered back across tho melancholyridge and furrow of tho black North Seaand then wo burled hor horn under agrassy mound by the white of theocean In Enhlcrsmul And grief dulland abiding sat In my heart and nonecould assuage It At last attar manyyears there came ono barefooted a-

cross and A staff In his hands from over-seas and whispered comfort Ho poured-tho unction of tho new faith into myheart and tho baptismal water on myhead aud bid me forgot and arise anewAnd I took the cowl of him learning toread and write and built mo a hut bytha groan mound I loved and strove bypenance and privation to do as I wasLIIlUut can I forgot Can the sharpthong and the mean faro purge the hotfrro loving spirit In my blood Attimes It shakes off the shackles of sweetInsipidness anl then II old Ulla Er-

linFeonwhile tho tflreupon dark summit of my

mound and ho black sea booms dismalIn the black night distance go out uponthat dear shrouding turf and cast myself upon my face and tear my whitehair and mock the wild wlnt and waveswith my Btlll wilder grief

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WE have noticed that when unyocna crowd has a bit of scandal to re-

late It Is not until tho speaker athrough talking and nIl havo hadtheir curlotlt appeased tint someono says something about issli liifb lng so Improper

EMPLOYMENT which Galen callsNatures physician is so essential to

human happiness that Indolence Isji stly considered tho mother of mhcry

A Question OT Education-I was sitting on a keg of nails in a

West Virginia mountain store watching a native dickering with the marchant over a trade of a basket of eggsfor a calico dress After some timea bargain was closed the native walkedout with the dress in a bundle underhis arm and I followed him

It isnt any business of mine Isaid but I was watching that tradeand was surprised to see you let theeggs go for the dress It

What far ho asked in astonishinput as he mounted his horse

many eggs did you havoBasket fullHow many dozenDnnno Cant countThats where you miss tho advan-

tages of education With knowledgeyou might have got two dresses forthose eggs

But I dont want two dresses mister he urgned

Perhaps not but that was no reas-on why you should hove paid twoprices for one The merchant got theadvantage of yon because of his edu ¬

cation He knew what ho was aboutHe looked at mo for a minute as if

he felt real sorry for mo Then hogrinned and pulled his horse overclose to me

I reckon he half whispered cast-ing

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furtive glances toward the storeIlls education aint so much moren

nine ez you think it is He dontknow how many uv them eggs inspiled an I do and he rode awaybefore I could argue further BostonHerald

A Venerable YewTree-In the churchyard at Dnrley Dale

England is tho most venerable yewtree in the world Many authoritiesclaim for it a fabulous age making itas much as three thousand years oldIt is thirtythree feet in girth but itstrunk has suffered not a little from themodern Goths and Vandals who havocarved their names in the bark andemployed other methods of mutila-tion The tree is now fenced round-to save it from further insult andwhatever may be its precise agesays Rev Dr John Charles Cox

there can be little doubt that thisgrand old tree has given shelter to theearly Britons when planning the con-struction of the dwellings that theyerected not many yards to the west ofits trunk to the Romans who built upthe funeral pyre for their slain comades just clear of its branches tcSaxons converted perchance to thetrue faith by the preaching of Bpiuma beneath its pleasant shade tothe Norman masons chiseling theirquaint sculptures to form the firsttone house of prayer erected in itsvicinity and to the host of Christianworshippers who from that day tothis have been borne under its hoarylimbs in womens arms to the bnptis ¬

mal font and then on mons shouldersto their last sleepingplace in the soilthat gave it birthLondon PublicOpinion

TOO MODERN TOR flirtThe Children Tell us a fairy tale

grandpo-pQrandpopOh pshaw children I

I dont know anything about centuryruneSIAMID IV YOU DO AND BLAUED IF

IOU DONTHow I dislike the word econ

mylOn what grounds f-

It ie inch queer thingthe worldcondemns ns if we dont practice it-

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TTIMAN GETS DAILY KEFOttTS

Surgeon GeneralKeepe yell Totted OnYellow rover Situation

Surgeon General Wyman at Wash ¬

ington has received tho following fromDr Lindsley executive dicer of theTennessee state board of health

Our board has state inspectors at thefollowing points Memphis Grand Junc-tion

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Itaymer state line ChattanoogaCleveland and Ducktown Have orderedall to cooperate fully with your servicePlease instruct at once your men accord-

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Orders were immediately given themarine hospital forces to cooperate asrequested

Information Las been received atthe marine hospital from Dr JohnGuiteras that the two cases of yellowfever at Cairo Ill have been isolatedand every precaution possible takento prevent spread Ho says that thecases are very mild and have causedlittle alarm in Cairo-

LONGSHOREMEN ARE OUT

Strike at llrnniwlck Anniuci ft tienerntand Serious Phase

The strike is now general among thelongshoremen and all dock laborers atBrunswick Go

The strikers are asking for higherwages claiming that some shippers onthe Mallory lino and Brunswick Ter ¬

minal company have recently reducedwages Employes of the Mallory askfor 20 cents per hour The cottonlaborers wish 85 per day The strik-ers

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are circulating petitions amongbnsinesr mon protesting against theimportation of foreign labor

Seven or eight cases of violencecommitted by strikers have boon re¬

ported Should foreign laborers bebrought from the north trouble is an-

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and the city authorities aremaking preparations to proteot per ¬

sons and property

LATTIMER STRIKERS HOLD BACK

Hnncarlani Intimidate Miners Who At ¬

tempt to WorkThe strike situation at Hazleton

Pa again assumed an uncertain phaseMonday morning An attempt toresume work was made at Pardee andLattimer mines but only SOO out of1800 minors returned to work Thesewere mainlyItalians with a few En ¬

glishspeaking monDuring Sunday night the Hunga-

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paraded through the settlementbeating tin cans and kettles and rais-ing

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a big racket This was done tonotify those of their race that theymust not go back to work The warn ¬

ing was observed and Monday morn ¬

ing n band of Hungarians led bywomen were massing and threatening-to march on the mines later in theday The Thirteenth regimentis keep-ing

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a close watch for further trouble

PERPETUAL INJUNCTION

Against Eugene Debs and Others GruntedBy Jadee Jackson

The featu re of interest in the opening session of the September term ofthe United States court for the dis-

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of West Virginia at WheelingMonday was the application of exGovernor A D Fleming of Fairmont-to make the injunction against Eugene-V Debs and others perpetual-

The governor was acting for his cli-

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tho Monongahela Coal Co and asthere was no appearance for any of thedefendants the injunction was madeperpetual

Inthe course of his remarks in mak ¬

ing this decision Judge Jackson saidthat if alike case were presented tohim now he would would make tbosame kind of order ho had made atParkersburg where the temporary in-

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was mode recently

NEW ORLEANS FEVER LIST

Monday Broke the Record In Number ofCases Reported

The largest number of cases report-ed

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on any day since yellow fever firstmade its appearance in New Orleanssome two weeks ago was recorded onthe books of the board of health Mon ¬

day evening ot 6 oclock although atthat hour not 5 single case had provedfatal during the day

There were eighteen cases in allIncluding nine by Dr Joseph Holt allof the latter having been duly flaggedand put under quarantine regulations

The most sensational incident of theday was the announcement from DrJoseph Holt to the board of healththat he had discovered nine oasesamong his practice

LEE CONFERS WITH PRESIDENT

Ccminl Hevlewed the Sltaatlo In Cuba itLength-

AWaehington special says GeneralFitzhugh Lee had a long consultationwith the president at the white houseSaturday It was tho first time GeneralLeo had seen Mr McKinley since thoarmors return to this country about

fortnight ago He saw the president-by special appointment and all visitorswere excluded during the progress of

he conference except Secretary AlgerThe conference was a long ono losi-

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almost two hours General Leocarefully reviewed the situation inCuba and explained at length all thepoints on which the president hadasked for information

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THE OHm STRIKE ENDED

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IUTCHFORD SAYS AN AMICABLE

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SATISFIED WITH THE RESULT J

Thlara Will Be Serene From the FreMnt j-

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MD Baohford president of the jUnited Mine Workers of Americagave out tho following authorized

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statement to the Associated Press Tuei w

dayToday will eee about 70000 min ¬

ers resume work in the bituminouscoal fields of tho central state Thestrike generally ends today This isthe middle of the twelfth week outsduration It was brought to a close-at our convention held at Columbus jOhio on the 8th to the 11th of thepresent month tho ten days time be-

ing given to allow miners and opera-tors

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to come together in Illinois andWest Virginia to meet the price fixed

05 cents a ton in Pittsburg CO cents-

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Ohio and Indiana and the same to I

continue until the end of DecemberThe mining situation is not likely to j

be disturbed again until the beginning j

of next year when they hope to be s-

able to settle the question amicablyand without tho necessity of a strike-

I nm well satisfied with the agree-ment

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reached and feel that it is the ugreatest victory gained by trades tunions in yews While they have t

done the striking trades unions and t

organized bodies have supplied the 9

necessaries without which the minerscould not possibly succeed It was avictory for organized labor and notfor any particular trade and we wantour friends who have helped us tofeel that it is their victory as well anours I feel very grateful for the as-

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given us by the AmericanFederation of Labor and by thekindly disposition shown at all timesby Mr Gompers and the members ofhis executive committee ss

Mr Ilatchford was asked as to thesituation in West Virginia and Illinois Ho said

The greatest difficulty in the wayof an advance in the Illinois district-is the fact that contracts were takenlast spring based upon a low miningrate as thoy were in Pittsbnrg and ielsewhere lint this is a matter that >4ywo cannot be responsible for it is a j

matter of business to the operator him-

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No man has a right to sell amans labor ono year in advance with ¬

out consulting the laborer 1While we have always deferred tothe claims of men along those lines thetime has come when no further consid-eration

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can be given them becausethe wages paid to the miner is below J1the living point and the preservation-of

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life takes precedence over businessaffairs

My advice from West Virginia areto the effect that our miners who arestanding firm are well pleased withthe agreement reached and evince adetermination to fight their battle tothe end Their purpose is to bringthe miners and operators ot the statetogether in a joint convention that auniform mining prico may be fixed andpaid for the same vein of coal and afair relative price for other veins with ¬

in the state In short fix a mining-rate that will give to West Virginia-fair

rcompeting opportunities and

nothing more <

Fixing a mining rate that will givefair opportunities is the object ofminers organizations everywhere-We are working to bring operatorsthe several states together with this endin view Though our efforts have beenfutile we will continuo to advocatethat policy believing there is such away to keep down strikes aud disputeswhich are of advantage to neither sideand that is for the miners and opera-tors interested from tho various states-to

Jmeet annually mutually fix prices

for each district that are fair and justand each party to the agreement to ob-

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it faithfully until a subsequentagreement takes its place During theeight years this system was in voguestrikes and disturbances of a generalcharacter were unknown and thecauses which gave rise to them cannow be removed so that the operators sinteested will see their interests inthis light

BIG TIRE IN COLUMBUSn-

L vte Factory and the Southern FreightDepot In Aibci

One of the most disastrous fires frofliwhich Columbus Ga has sufferedsince the burning of the Rankin house lablock twenty years ago occurred Mon ¬

day night when the lumber yardsash Jblind and door factory of Butts tCooper together with the Southernrailway freight depot went up insmoke-

In addition to the factory anddepot tw6 Louisville and Nashvillefreight eau loaded with cotton wereconsumed The loss will aggregate

50000 it is estimatedi

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