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V 7- MES VOL XXL XQClSBURGrN. C, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1802. NUMBER 45. Highest of all in Leavening Power. .litest U. S. Gov't Report i ' , . - A STATEMENT According to iaw of the amount op kach accocjct claimed akd allowkd b't tbe boast wuan uuxuutslUREIW Or FRANKLIJf COCXTT, AXD TO WHOM ALLOWED, BEOrXSlMO OH THE FIRST MONDAY 15 DECEMBER 1801, AtCD EXDI3o THE FIRST M05DAT IS DECEMB1I892 3 83 Feb'y 6 92 T.S Collie 2 days committee on Treasurer's report TO P UBLIC SCHOOL TEACHERS, The Superintendent of, ; Public Schools of Franklin county will be in Louisburg on the second Thurs day of February, ' April, July, Sep tember, October and December, and remain for three days, if necessary, for the purpose of examining appli cants to teach in the Public Schools of this county. I will also be in Louisburg on Saturday of , each week, and all public days, to attend to any business connected with my Office. 1 -s: '-''r;-'- J. N; HARBisSupt. I'i-o femsional cards. C. M. COOKE & SON, ATTORNEYS-A.T-LAW, ;., LOCISBUBO, if. c" ' ' , " Will attend the courts of Nash, Franklin, Granville, Warren and Wake counties, also the Supreme Court of North Carolinp, and the U. S Circuit and District Courts. v Scriler s lame i EOK 1893. v PARTIAL PROSPECTUS. i in enti- K. J. E. MALONE. Office two doors Twlow Thomas .& Aycocke's drug store, adjoining Dr. O. L. Ellis. R. W. H. NICHOLSON, i PRACTICING PHYSICIAN, LOUISBTTB8, N. C. E. W. TIHBSRLAKE, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, LOUISBUBS, X.C Ofe on yash street V. S. 8PRUILL, ATTORNEY. AT-LAW, . LOUISBUR9, JT. C. Will attend the courts of Franklin, Vance, Qraovil'a, Warren and Wake counties, also the Suoreiae Court of North Carolina. Prompt atfe-nti-.m given to collections, &e. . . N. Y. QULLEY. ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, FSANKLraTOIT, k. a All legal business promptly attended to. rpHOS. B. WILDER, . ' .-ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, LOCISBUBO, K. C. - i Oflce on Main street, one door helow Eagle Hot 'L - f M. PERSON, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, . LODISBTJBS, H. C Practices in all courts. ; Office in the Court IS IT HAS IT DON CAN IT DO k7 Th? oriffinal and only genuine Compound Oxyphil Treatment, that of Drs. Starkey & PaWnisa scientific adjustment of the ele ments of Oxvsen and Nitrogen magnetized; niui the compound is so Tondensed and made portable that it is sent H over the world. it aaa bsen in use lor over twenty years; tii.vjsaiids of patients have, been treated, aul over one thousand physicians have u:d it and recommended it a very signifi cant fact. , ' Compound Oxygen Its Mode of Action Rn J Results," is the title of a book of 200 pne, published by Drs Starkey & Palen, which pives to all inquirers full information as to this remarkable eurative agent and a good record of eurprising-'cureB in a wide range of chronic cases many of them after being abandoned to die by other physi cians. Will be mailed free to any address on application. Dhs.'STARKEY & PALEN, -1529 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pit. : 120 Sutter Street, San Francisco, CaL Please mention this paper. N Coils aM Caste. FBAKCBS HODASON BUBWETT -will contribute the first serial to appear magazine from her pen for many years, tied "The One I Knew the Best of Alt1! will furnish a series of six sketches entitled "Jersey Street and Jersey Lane." Illustrated.- ' ; bobebt skakt '.Vw- wil relate the further experiences of Fred and Josephine in "A sequel to The Reflections of a Married Man lliustr ated. : Will contribute a political novel of great pow er, eu iiuwj. iog vxpperneao. :. . BY TBB AUTHOB OF,"JT5BBT." Miss S. B. Elliott, the author cf "Jerry." will write a realistic story of life among the Tennessee mountaineers, "The Durket Sper- rec-" . : - - - - PBBSOUAL BEM1N1SCBNCES. , Some unpublished letters of Carlvle to Ed ward Irving anu others, dealing with a part of Carlyle's lif o far digorent from . that brought out in me reoeni uitraiure oi uariyie remi ms;ences. Reccollections of Lincoln and Sumner. By the lute Mirqais de Cham bran. aaiik arucios are im oi u-w matter. An Ar tist in Japan. -By Robert Blum, who has jast rstnrned srom a rtslaenco of cearly two yers in that country. Ahuulantly illustrated by th-i author Eistorivj moments, whi';h havs neen a future of the msgaUim ciu;ing 1803 wi u oe conunuiii r.y some p tnicuiariy stria ing papers, among thCtwerl by th-j gteat wsir correaponaents, w uiuia ti. iiussu, A '---n- Data roruts, sjia otnors. A Bcries of .Mask on rb.t- life work of wen in mstiy oailiTastiic vhir w vys ix-Jusiv j cf professions) m whica mm th-A? il7IVi hood. i THB WOL9'b CilCie:.-. j A BerlvS wil b pai lisue-i 1-tir Irj thu - vesr giviug the Uiipro:;iioi8 nviif. i;y the exhlMtior. upoa tuzvereut oLservi;r? of cot-. Airr-ir- ieun and foreigu: rani usury of thes.- orv era will be i3.3 fcrtJsts who wi'J itlattrate theb' own articles. - Further contrii-utlocs to tbi VoSr 5n gre-U Citiss. ilrs. Burnett's ina..trt"5d pr.p-r on the London pi-ua for Home f.i:l to invrliJ r til uren, etc. ; Of BfeciHl liitrist "Iso wili be Pr f Hcilpr iu'8 Ruthorit itive account oi the Ptry Relief S!xiedltion tiilustrst',) a vry intc f sting article by Octave Dzann-! on th;; eThii tlon of womta'j art sow eolsg oa in Peris, and articles upon wtiBtic suLJecta, accounns of travels, ets etc 7: ' ras IWTSTBATIOSS of the year will represent the work not only of the weii-kDown tluatmtors, but many drawings will also ?vpieHr uy artists who are best known ?.& painters. TERMS: ?3.0J a Year, 25c. a Number. SPECIAL OFFER. The numbers for 1392 and a subscription for 1893, 4 50. The fcime, -with bo-k numbers, bound in cloth, $6.09. Now Is the time to sub scribe. . . ' CHABLBS SCKIBXBE'S B0K3. 743 Broadway New York. 1893. HARPER'S MAGAZINE. 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P..T. .--.J.t t cl" t- CC r&yUjf . lvl crA f.-i.c ft.jor Cedar creek u ii;.t jail :-4T.:.-;!r ivtc. t 'f fur h'rr.c of aaed aud, infirm Ib'iiU, c forCSt: cr h.i o' riged and infirm ivS.r !.oar! ci Drieowf m Harper's-Msgaslne for 1893 will continue to maintanthe unrivaledstandard of excellence; which has ch.racterzed it from the tegining. Among the noteable features of the year there wui De new coveis ny a.. jonan Kyio. won Stance Fenlmore Woolson, and Willim Black Short stories will be contributed by the most popular writers of th-3 day, Incluaing Mary B. -W litins, Kicnra uaraing awvis, Aiargerct Deland, Brander Matthews, and many others. The Illustrated descrlptlvcpapers will embrace articles by Julian Ralph on new bonthern and Western subjects: by Theodore Child on In- ia; by Poultney Bigelow on Russia and Oer manp; by Richard Harding Davis on a I-on-don Season: by Col. T. A. Dodge on Eastern Riders; etc. Edwin A Abbeys illustrations of Shakespeare's Commedies will be continued. ! 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An are hereby notified - to come forward na pay tjje Ban, oncaA and all oersent nding claims against the said estate must Present them on or before October 7th, !?- or this notice will be plead in bar ; of 1 "r recovery. This Octtth? 1892. : -J. W. Stbamoe, Executor.- F. N. & CCMFCETABLE -; SSQ f:-f the mm. PRICES, $2, 12.53,3,:S.:':,- CONSOLIDATED SHCE CO, Shoes made to measure. FOB SALE BY - R. Z. EGERTON, 287 288 289 290 291 292 293 294 ft 296 297 29S 299 300 301 802 ' 303 304 305 306 v 807 308 309 310 311 312 313 314 315 316 317 318 319 320 321 322 323 324 325 326 327 -828 329 330 331 332 333 334 335 336 - 337 338 339 340 341.! 342 . 343 344x 345' 346' 347, 348 349 350 351 252 353 354 355 356 357 35H 359 360 331 3C2 363 364 365 366 367 368. 369 37o 871. SiVSiJ.: P'.SlKIUX CiG'T -M.S fuf PHUIrtrS &C 4 L ja kMM l jHi lir. :c-u!or tor bowe of ngnd nnd infirm TirV.a ie.-l v.-ite:- A i- ctate9 m Dattte Fall term 18C1'- jTWfiw;,- ' r , ' j "'V E.aji -?ii00 r?o1s fn? bomo of aged and infirm Uebr "r'rito! z .!ays coaiuiit'te on stock law feuce . Jiulas xvo.rnty 700 r:h for tock liw fence George Vrtancab!i for putting, up pi'lar at ChavU briJg Genrge V iuptou making road near Cnavi bridge W li HnuLr conveying John Alston to jail . - " v- Iviag. CMton & Co aruoTiut ol drug bill -:a N 11 Aity repiria? nro;k law fence - w- B. B ilufSPiiburg, (?.S U amount of account filed Ci W Browq :i oayo service to Board 3 li A '.lord 6 days coram i(ioner and 176 miles T S Coli'c 4- - " ICS. J A Burt u 174 " Geo '.ViDston ' " 108 B F SVilder " ' 06 " H C Kearney 5 days officer to Board V K Martin 4 days clerk to Board J Ss B:rrow Jt Son arnonnt of account W K Martin amount of account j C CaLer 5 days officer to Grand jury 11 C Kr-ursey, Sheriff amount of account filed W B Hunter and W P Tharrington conveying Orange Davis to jail II W Page, Sheriff of Wake. aat of occt expeuses of conveying Wel . don Hunter to jail . J P-Winston amount of account ' J L Jackson in part of hire of him at home of aged and infirm . Dr j Y jackson 1 month support Toney Eaton S E Pearee conveying Leah Perry to Jail , B B Massenburg. CSC fees jauuary court 1892 ' ' li C Kearney " " " j E Woodard solicitor's 44 . , . 300 3 Oi) 3 (K 8 00 900 4 50 6 00 1 O0 300 8 00 1 00 6 00 3 00 8 00 a oo 3 0O 600 1 (K) 3 00 6 00 300 6 00 5 OO 6 00 .1 0(1 8 00 3 00 6 0ft 11 8h it0C ,43 36 48 3b 12 10 2 00 12 45 72 00 S0 0i 8 (M ' se 4 45 a fo 20 70 49 72 2 10 17 7.-. 18 90 1 85 61 2- 415 17 34 ' ; 2 15 2C3 21 on 4 00 ' 7 00 f,r, R0 150 9H 2 01! I 75 4944 11 50 000 20 80 20 40 20 70 20 40 10 CO 10 00 OO 18 rj 3o 10 00 11157 80G j P (i ' witness " l u li t t tl A J P Harris F P Pcirce 0 L Ellis B 8 Foster W T WUder W H joyner RO Winn. Na-ucy Place john Place Phil Fearce K W Perry Alfred Crudup .. Frank lenton -NelsoB Perry ? Matthew Terre Geo Terrell j w Strange -j IIUszlo w B Hunter constable fees January term 1 892 it M .1 ( Edward Evans witness jack' Ayescue B w Wilson David wcldon jasper Griffin Ben TJpchurch j S Tirabcrlake w M Young " w E williaras " BT Ricks -V" Prisby Fuller J Geo Nicholson Ath Haithcoiek DallGay 7 Cellie Bunn do do do d . do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do . do do do do tdof- Apr4,' do w G winn '- const-able do ' D (' Tharrington witness do B BCarr do dp w P Tharrington do . do. w D Kearney constable do I G Stauhton ' witness do John wiuston do" do - Lee Green do ' do Isiah ' Howard ' do do j F Jeffreys " ; do do. Frank Denton do do jim Gill do - do R P Cooke do do CP Williams ' -do vZ do "iMary Yarboro . do - do G w Jones ; do . do ' Owar Milliard do , do Bicbm'd Hilliard do " do johu Place do do do do do do do : do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do . do do .do do do, do ...do do do do do dc do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do ;do do -do v do do do - do do do do do do do Hue a whelees repairing stocx law fence Cypress creek j A Clifton making and hanging gate Raleigh -road l. t j M 0 Hill making gutter and repairing roof to Court House , S F Harris repairing county fence ' - . , Merritt Batcheior do do . do - ' . ; ', Nichols ftilatthews do -do"-" do : .' - ; - Attes Cooper do .. do do.. "--. ' - George II Longcofun for Sol Perry., . --'-i.:' -j 8 Joytier.530 feet timber for bridge " " ' . E J Lanier repairing stock law fence s . jR Powell. do- do- Ho- . w P Neal Co amt of acct oats for home of aged and infirm Green & Yarboro hint of acct fof goods for home of aged aud infirm B R Masseuburg C S C amt of occt E Sykeo 2b days committee on stock law fence R D Pinnell board of prisoners &c - , yr K Martin amount of account .. . - w J Harria repairing stock law fence ' : li J Couyers registering votes for stock law election - T ft Collie 5 days committee on stock law fenc N j R Alf ird 5V4 do do , do . do BFwilder 8 -do do - do do , J A Thomas publishing CSC report - . . E F Glasgow conveyiug Henry Harris to jail " - B F wilder one day committee on stock law fence , - : -',.: ITO BC COSTiaCEDuJ - 10 90 50 40 CO 4 00 2 00 fi8 81 15 85 11 00 57 8 50 4 07 75 2 82 1 47 2 87 310 210 170 2 10 1 70 1 60 8 80 130 180 870 385 80 8 85 8 85 155 88o 120 1 20 175 1-75 1 70 175 310 190 130 ' a 50 2 50 2 05 3 45 3 55 3 45 i 310 3 60 2 20 2 60 105 ' 1 60 110 93 1 85 3 27 : 175 l 70 - 170 1 65 "6 00 2 00 540 C 10 13 OO 1591 2t7 . 3 80. 6 PH 3 6 25 XT 3 07 31 55 3 00 5 00 79 cr 46 60 3 50 168 10 oo 11 oo 6 oo 5 oo 2o 2 oo . CilAPTKR L Daring all October and half of No Yember no work was done la tba Clack Eagle min, except by tlio pnmp drain ing the samp. The "coal pool" a com bination of Anthracite mine owners formed to check overproduction and keep up the price of coal bad arbitra rily ordered a "thnt down." Snch stop page of labor at one or more of the numerous collieries in the anthracite fields was common, bnt the length of time prescribed for it in this case wts tmnsn&l and not without a purpose. A general reduction of miners wages was in contemplation, and the Black Eagle had been selected as the point at which the first blow-should be struck for its inauguration. In their best times the 300 men employed there, with their families, lived from "hand to mouth, and it was only reasonable to expect that the exhaustion of their scanty re sources by a prolonged "shut down" would leave them so close to starvation that they would be glad to get work at any rate. Then the" new scale, thus es tablished at one point, would be made general as rapidly as circumstances would permit. - The Black Eagle miners, however, displayed an unexpected obstinacy ia resistance to the pretty scheme. They actually refused to go to work tinder the new scale, and a "strike" was declared. That signified nothing to the "coal pool. which was helped by it in keeping down production, but was a terrible misfor tune for the 800 and their wretched fam ilies. Oold and hunger were in all their comfortless homes; bitterness and al most despair in their hearts. Neverthe less in dogged endurance they struggled through the latter half of November and three weeks of December, obtaining from workers in other mines sufficient aid to barely maintain life. Christmas eYe came, and still there was upon the surface no indication of a change in the situation, but a prescient impression began to be generally felt that a crisis was rapidly approaching. - The small and repellently ugly frame houses of the miners were scattered in an irregular double row along the rug ged road on the blesk hillside above the colliery. In one of them this Christmas eve, in the darkness, were to be beard two voices those of a woman and oi a child. Please, graa'ma, do light tandle," pleaded tle little one beseechingly. "Please do. It so dark. Ally hate dark.- "Try and get used to the dark. dear. Yell have to get used to everything ye bate most when ye'ro older," replied The woman. Ally wants see pitty picture; please light tandle, granma." "Oh! damn, it s the last one we've got, and sapposin you'd be took sick in the night, what would we do then for a lightT "Ally won't be sick. Please light tan dle." "Well. ell, dear; it's a little thing to deny a child, the Lord knows. Qive it here oil the table." The woman groped about on the' floor for a twig from a bunch laid by the stove to .dry for kindling, poked it among the few coals still glowing in the stove, and when it biased lighted with it the candle handed to her by the child. By the feeble light it could be seen that she was sitting upon a low seat a bit of board laid across the top of an empty powder keg in front of the stove. 8he was gaunt and pale, her hair . was streaked with gray, and her thin calico dress was patched on the breast and arms. The child a little girl with curly golden hair-knelt beside her knees, and thrusting a fragment of paper in her hands said eagerly: "See, gran'ma; -pitty picture; tell Ally bout it." "It's Santa Clans." ""Who Baaty Tans, graa'ma?" covhbi t ArrucA pr3 asiV. rtcner and brr'v fJks f re, the better he like them, ami he's never tiro! drhi for them that don't need Lit help. Lj: he scorns the lilies cf ux." The tears pathtred la little AUrVi I eyes as she sadly regarCe-l the picture uf cruel, unsympathetic SanUClaua. Vh- but vaguely comprehended th bit:-? Hess of the old woman's fw !in, yr th spirit of it touched her and made life seem drearier than ever before. "Where did you get the picture?" "Found it Id rbad." And she threw It away. "Ally tired, graa'm k. Want go by by." "Oo along, dear, and may the saints give yoa sweet elp au l fiae dreams. Sure they're the . best things yell ever know." The child disappeared in a dark door way to the right after klving her grand mother good night. The woman sat still, with her elbows on her knees, her chin in her hacis and her eyee glowering at the little grat,where the' fire bad ceased to show. , . . "The kindest thin? he could brin to ner this night would be the coffin. God forgive me for saying it," she muttered through her teeth. The outer door was soddetily thrown open, and a man with a heavy burden in a sack' on his shoulder staggered in. lie aroppea ms ioaa oesiJe the slow with a "chuck" that shook the frail tenement. and blowing in his hollowed bands to warm them with his breath exclaimed: "Cripesl Bnt It's mortal cold. The fingers is nearly froze cS of me crab- bun under the snow." "Put yea feet up on the etove. They must be soakin," suggested the woman. rising and hastening to make up the fire with coal she took from the sack. - "That they are. I might as well be wearin fi&hln nets on my feet as them shoes. But what's the good of growLLa? Sure they Ye no worse than your own. my poor Lu;j "Ah! It's the bitter, black Christmas this is for ux." "I met Fogarty," remarked the das after a little pause. "The watchman?" "Yes." "I'd V thought you'd ahow more marks of it, and yon wake as yoa are wid the hunger,. Are yoa burted?" "We didnl fight." "Nor Til tell ye how it was. Us came on me unbeknownbt, while I bad my head down pickin among the culm, an the first thing I knew Le was standi a beside me. " 'Andy Corrigan, says he, dont you know it's ajin ordhers for theamk ' "WHO iASTT TACS, ORAJCma.?" '"Tie's a fine old gentleman who brings Christmas gifts to them he has a likin for; mostly to. children." "Oht Will he brin Ally anyfin?" "Indeed he won't. Ill go bail for that. Far enough hell keep himself from the Black Eagle colUery." "I dess I'm too little. He hasnt heard boutmeyeU" , ' "It'd make no differ if be bad. He isn't makin acquaintances of our sort, llake up yourmiud to that." "Will he nevejbring Ally anything?" "Maybe, when you're old and tired out, and heart sore, and learn to pray for it, he may bring ye a coffin." "I hate Santy Tans." , "Ye needn't child. . He's like all the rest. It's the way of the world, The ers to be let pick coal from the culm pile?" . "Bad luck to them that gev the or dhers," interjected the woman fervently. "Anient 'Bat, says I, 'it's froze to death the chfidher will be, to say nothin of ourselves if we don't be lot, "Wid that, says be, Tve nothin to do. Ordhers is ordhers, and them's ordhers. " The woman, with a quick clutch at her beck hair, let it fall in a looe, strag gling mass on her bony shoulders, and raising her bands above her bead in aa attitude of imprecation exclaimed: "May the curse of the needy and the hopeless fall upon "Uowld on, woman! nowldoa wid your cur&lal Bide a lit till you get the right of your meatge to the dirfl. It's mighty free with your curses yvo are," "Sure It's all we have left to give. "Maybe not. Hear me out. 'Now, says ha, rm on my round, and I wt be back this wsy for two hours, and I don't want to find yon here when I come again. - Ood knows I hope you wont, fer I'm nigh froze already, and the sack is bf full. Wld snow, I suppose, says he, wid a grin, and oil he winU' "Sure," exclaimed the woman, with a grim smile, "it was the same as tollin ye to take what ye neededH Thst'a how I understood it, and that's what I did." "The Ueesia of the saints be on Fo garty. Sure it's a good heart he gut. "uranmai us so loiaj caned a little whimpering voice from the next room. Andy Uorrigan quickly took oil his jacket, and his wife carried it in to the child, whom she could be beard soouuiig wiiiie wrapping tne garment about her. "There, dear; lie still now and soon ye u oe warm as toast. Try and go to sleep and dream about the acgris. This is Christmas eve. and tby U be all around ye tonight. . "Is Hugh in yetT asked Andy when iuly retorced to bis side. "lie's not breu borne since morula." Ah, the poor boy! It's to lave us hU share of the meat he stays out, It's nearly all gone, but it?" "Yes, but there's enough to last over Chrutmas. . CHAPTEa n. Mr. Corrigan was right, Hugh knew by experience a thouMiDds tf coeJ miners bvivAn compelled to lcam that a scanty brt-akft of cornmtal mush dily would kerp Lim alive, sod that was all be proposed to take from the family's member supply until the hard times should be over. But something else kept hira abroad just now. Strange, revolutionary idea floating about filled blxn with snxiety, The rights of labor have too loujt been igrtored. li justice is not t4?cr- ! fully accorded by cai-ital. It xact b - .. . - - . c4 EaoO Warner a litt erejfa Lcl, blue eyed German micer. who ha. I brra on the Black Ei!e nils tor at least a Cnvn yean pit. TTlgliarrieeAiaziiMTrrerl!v " did not take kiadir to Lis Una. bet they were accepted as gnepel ty the Iiusgariaca and vs. whose lasrturw be spoke and to whom be bad endaarrl fcirnaelf by many acts of kindness. The strikers executive cocamlttr?. oorapo-ed cf David Evana. PaUey Oer- rity and Daa Cornell a WeUhmaa. aa Irishman and an EcglUbmaxt. as thvr - names tudkated were tact a tittle sat. loos about what -the fareirwrs'mijfbt do and the txmdUe coceeooencM lr- volved. Ia the here of curUcr Wir net's pernicious tagutuce they sura.noce.1 him before a genera tnetisg of the mea on Christmas eve. The scene of the meeting was an impressive one. UaTtag no room large enough to bold them, nearly all tbe 800 miners assembled ia aa open space ia the woods, where they bad stationed entries U keep swsy spies. Their only Eght was that cf th mooo, fitfully bright, which accentuated the paleneae of their ragged, camron faces. Emil Wagner, being called upon to explain himself, said to them: "Your contest must fail If not carried on upon a plane where yoj and your antagenists are equal, which is certainly not that cf resources. The destitution and misery ia your wretched been should have convinced yoa of that by this time. Where, then, are the sUrv iug miner and the arrogant mine owner equal? Before the king of terrors--Death. Let your masters know that tf you must starve yea will not die aljce; that those dear to you shall ct die aa avenged. Make yourselves feared, If you would be rtepected, gm, if yv yourselves wia to live," "Who would you want TriDedT garped tbe English cocimitteeman.quiteahjt. . "I wsnt nobody killed, but it seems to me the neoaesities of the sitasTion la dude nalag'Supcrintesdent Brattle aa a Warning." . "Why? What baa be ever dona to you?" demanded Garrity. "To me! Nothing whatever. Acl evrn If he bad done me personally evtry posmlble injury, not oo my own acooout would I wub his life taken. But be ii tbe representative cf the power antag onizing na, and Lis fata would warn vvr tnaeters that their slaves are ia deadly earnest." ' " W hat's the martyr," shouted a ilrtlt. "with touching capital where It Is tro- dereet ia its pocket? Barn the breaker! Flood the trine r And destroy the field of your em ployment for months to come," rsepoaJ ed Wagner rroiapUy: "burtis- your selves worst, sine the 'county would have to pay all the damage." The citcuarioo was long and crew Lot. Finally CLairxoaa 'DsTid Evans "sal down" on Wagner, as be bad all along La tended to ca "It ill lucernes a mas. old and Isul- ligent a yen are, Mr. Wsgner,"saU hA. , - "to talk ia that ta uric rocs way, a&d we want to hear no more of it," That was the general sen ti meat of the English . speaking strikers, but whra Evans' words wens trrauialed to the brutal and obstinate Kate they scowled and walked away ia rrtra sLVaca. Hof h Corrigan. though too Toanr tt take any rvomiaent part, fe'.t a vtvit intrrtst ia the proceedings and M lively tpprtciation of the perCous qaal- ity to tae torcc umil Wsgner had set ta motion, lie knew that Mr. Brattle's danger was very real and not to be charmed away by the Welshman's serrative rebuke, And If War-sex otlr looked epen Mr. Brattle aa a sr-vrtn-tendrnt tt was sltogtther as amaa llcr thought cf Lira and conceived it his duty to warn bixa.. Oa Lis own accocxJ sclelj? W1L hardly. But Mr. Brattla Lad. daughter Mary who, ia the young man's quite unbiased and critical eetimatloa. wee beyool all question the swteteet aal pretueet girt ia the world. That de cided orsuioa bad beea arrived at Iv Lira la the short spoe of two bears cpoa a memorable af ternooa six months ago, when b acted as .guide for M1m Mary Brattle and three or four cthrr visitors throogii the; Intricate depths tf the Black Eagle mine. Clearly it was aa imperative raecee- sity that be should, for her sweet eek. warm her father against the murdertjc Slavs. He did tu shut bis eyee to tie . fact that a striker who mU Msoeelf la anywise prvcaJoeat, even by the doing cf a ccpkxoualygood deed, was pret. certain to be a marked man and made to sufer fur it when the strike wee ended. . . JTLe road be took was a rough and daa gercos path over the mountain, but en abled him to reach the soperiateeleote boue, which, lay about half a mile be yond the breaker, with but little ruk cf being seen by any one who migat take exception to his t&ueida. There were no liahts La Mr. Brstfie's windows whea lloh rched there. tf the hour ws late, but bis first thnU Uji with the bra knocker on tbe ducr brought as aa lmne!iAte reeponee the demand la a fetntuiar rt4ce from a wi dow cpered behind closed bliada: "What ka wanted!" ' He reouKtizd tbe tweet vcice, and k'a own trembled a little as he repld. "Is Mr. Brattle at heme?" "No: Mr. Eru!e ts net at home," ac I the rpeker sHgttly oprTisg the sla-'s ta perp out excUlmed. OU its yoa. U i, Mr. CurrLraxJ' DellihUd aAtotilfcrneiit at that reeri-1 tlon so overwhelmed the young tu-e 4hat he cool! not exactly take ia ' -t - - . -