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Show Closing Scenes in the Greatest Coal Miners9 Stride on Pecord. The great coal strike is at an end. the miners convention, held at Wilkesbarre, Pq0 W was agreed to submit their case to the THE LOST TRACK. arbitration tribunal and go to work When you have passed, and earth, grown black tiver at oace. No conditions were attached dark behind you, And, by the rocks I hear the whirlj this acceptance. Lies far upon the outworn verge of pools spin. President Mitchell told the conventime, Though heart and soul shall quail and tion what the result was going to be. When my hand, searching, may no tody quiver, I will wade In. longer find you Therefore he felt at liberty to make a Ip any clime. This r O Heart! beyond the tumult of the cress-- - personal request of, the delegates. vote was that unanimously. they If I but dream your step by hill or hollow ing Has left its echo falling on the wind, We struck as one man; like men If there should be no voles nor any I will arise and gird myself and follow trace. we have stood Shoulder to shoulder; Though I be blind. Only strange winds on leagues of grasses now let us end the strike with oo-- j tossing Or If clear sighted. I shall but discover And the wide space. voice, he v claimed. Then the queib That, in the dew at dawn, your foott!on was pal. A mighty chorus of prints lie Only Eternity with worlds to wander. A soul among the unknown souls of Where, through long fields, the whistling of the plover men. Comes like a sigh. And. O my heart, no clue, no footprint yonder. And should they lead me down to Deaths What then? What then? By unanimous vote of for hard work. The action of the miners convention has a deeper significance than the ending of the strike. It is even de per than the vindication of arbitration as societys last resort in putting an end to deadlocks between labor and capi:h- tal. The greatest and most far-rea them directly, but through others we have the assurance that they con ent to meet the issues fairly, that luey will not blacklist any man, that t ley are not vindictive, and that, as fai as possible, the men will be given their old places. It will take some time for work to be generally resumed, end some may not get work at all. You must understand this when you vote. Too Ambitious for His Means. A most unusual request was made to TVhat part did Michigan take in the battle of Gettysburg, the crowning victory of the civil war, and what wa her loss?' Of the seventeen loyal states engaged, her loss was the third -- h h e n A dangerous business too danger-sifor me! I wonder how these fire- men get the nerve to risk their lives like that? and the grocery clerk who had been watching a crew of firemen build a chain of ladders up the sheer, bald side of the blazing tenement house opposite, dodged to get out , of the way of a fire engine. Unmindful of the suffocating smoke and the flames, firemen were scaling the high walk By means of ladders, consisting of hickory sticks, , from which branched short pegs for steps on either side, with a hook at the end, to bang the ladder from the window sill above, they built a perpendicular staircase from the pavement to the roof. Then, climbing nimbly from sill to sill, they began the work of rescue. Tying ropes around the tenement dwellers, they lowered them swiftly, but safely, to the street, or, grasping children in their arms, they themselves sprang into the air, and by means of the life rope twisted around the hooks in their belts, they slid down to the street as lightly as a ball of down. Those who, like the grocery' clerk, wonder how the fireman gets his nerve, may learn the reason by visiting fire headquarters, in East street. - In the big yard to the rear, which faces in Sixty-eightstreet, the raw recruits who hope ' some day to wear the blue uniform and fire ax buttons of a New York fireman, are taught how to save life, and, most of all, how to get a fireman's nerve. The morning class was thus being put through their round of work one day recently, and one of the pupils bad fastened his scaling ladder in the top window on the sixth floor bf the Fire Headquarters building, on the rear of which the men are drilling, when Capt. Andrew F. Fitzgerald, who was instructing the class in the absence of the chief, shouted : Hey, there. No. 4, whats the matter? Afraid? The man had fastened his ladder and was climbing up to the window above with a cautious, nervous tread, as if he expected every instanf the ladder he was on would break and he would go crashing down into the life net below. No. 4 made no answer, but only clung to the ladder more timidly. Go ahead up! shouted the Instructor; use your hands, your ladder Is ail right. But No. 4 climbed still more cautiously, and . reaching the roof at last, slowly drew himself over . , the edge. That follow will never make a fireman, said the instructor, iu an underHe wants to do the work, but tone. he cant. He Cant get the nerve." Then, after a pause, tne captain said: Now watch this man and see the difference. This fellow is born for the business. Turning around to the class, he shouted: No. 5, build a chain. No. 5 leaped from hia seat, grasped a scaling ladder, hung the two-fosteel hook at Its end on the sill of the second story window, and then, lightly as a cat hb climbed up its peg steps. Reaching the second story sill, he fastened the- - hook at his belt into the ladder and then threw back his body till it hung at an angle of thirty degrees to the. wall. Here he waited until a comrade from below reached up to him another scaling ladder. With his body still hanging by the hook. No. 5 quickly hung the ladder handed him, to the sill of the third story window, and then, unfastening half-craze- d . self-relianc- & . -- MICHIGAN AT GETTYSBURG different positions held by the different organizations. The infantry regiments monuments cost each $1,350, the sharpshooters, $500 each, the battery $1,000 and the cavalry brigade, one monument, cost $5,400. The First in numbers and the first In the proporMichigan monument is located on tion to the numbers engaged. The what is known on the battlefield as following Michigan organizations, The Loup; the Third Michigan Innumbering 4,834 men, were engaged fantry in the Peach Orchard; the at the battle of Gettysburg: First Fourth Michigan Infantry in the Michigan Infantry, Third Michigan In- Wheatfleld; the Fifth Michigan Infantry, Fourth Michigan Infantry. fantry on Cemetery Ridge; the Sixaye rolled through the theater. Not SevFifth Michigan Infantry, teenth Michigan Infantry on Little one man responded in the negative. Sixenth Michigan Infantry, MichiRound Top; the Twenty-foutwas The with a glad hailed result teenth and gan Infantry in Reynolds Grove near Michigan Infantry shout by the delegates. They cheered Twenty-fourtMichigan Infantry, Willowby Run; the Sharpshooters on again and again. Some of them threw Companies C, I, K and B, Berdans Little Round Top; the Battery Monuth41r hats in the air. The long fight ArSharpshooters; Battery I, First ment on Cemetery Ridge; the monuwas over. After five months and nine tillery; Michigan. Brigade of Cavalry ment of the Cavalry Brigade located under the gallant Custer, consisting of on Runnels Farm, about three miles days of idleness 140,000 men and boys the First Michigan Cavalry, Fifth east of the village of Gettysburg. The were to return to work. John Mitchells splendid leadership Michigan Cavalry, Sixth Michigan monuments were dedicated on the is again triumphant. Not only has he CavalSeventh and Cavalry Michigan 12th of June, 1889. They are a credit had ry, Michigan had killed, wounded to our noble state, and the people of secured the result for which he been working, but be has secured it and missing, 1,131; killed, 192. Many Michigan can take a just pride in her amidst general satisfaction and good died afterwards from wounds receivvolunteer soldiers who fought in this feeling. His was not an easy task. ed. glorious battle and the grand monu- These miners are full of the spirit of In 1887 the legislature of Michigan ments erected to their memory on They Independence and appropriated $20,000 for monuments the battlefield of Gettysburg. D. G. do their own thinking, and are not at to be erected on the battlefield In the Crotty, in Detroit Free Press. all backward about speaking their minds. But Mr. tlitchell knew how to handle them. He gave them full A MONTANA BLUFF opportunity 10 express themselves. Every man had a Chance to voice his What is regarded as one of the tall- on toward the enemy. The natives sentiments. He knew how to let them est "bluffs on record furnished Capt fired and fired, but for gome unknown run of their own free will and how to Edgar Russell, chief signal officer in reason did not hit. On and on went pull them up at the critical moment. His generalship was unsurpassed. the quartet, disdaining cover.' the Philippines during the insurrecHe met all the inquiries of the disAt as was he tells which a with a to there story, last, shout, and, tion, our utter astonishment, we beheld the contented in frank fashion. He held an example of western nerve. "We were outside of Manila in seventy-fivFilipinos Jump out of out no false hopes. He made it plain some little scrap, said the captain, their trenches and take to their heels that if the convention accepted arbinatives were in mad flight The nerve of the Mon- tration some of the men must expect and about seventy-fivlying in a trench ahead of us, shoot- tana troopers was too much for them. to lose the jobs which they formerly When they had all fled, throwing held. After a few minutes reflection ing away merrily, but not hitting anytheir rifles away as they ran, the the men wrere in a mood to accept the body. By and by I noticed a little dis- troopers came back, their arms full of advice of their leader. President Mitchell walked to and turbance in our front. Presently four guns. That is what the army has Montana troopers trotted out of our come to call a Montana bluff. Its a from the convention hall and was loudlines and started straight for the Fili- sort of nerve that lets a man open a ly cheered by great crowds in the streets. Upon returning to his .office New pinos. Everybody looked at them jackpot on a pair of deuces. he first sent a telegram to President with wonder, and waited to see them York Tribune. Roosevelt giving official notification of all killed. Bullets whistled all around them, but they never halted. Nothing Is so great an Instance of the action of the convention, and then he wired his wife at Spring Valley Slowly, just at a trot, they Jogged ill manners as flattery. Swift. that the end of the long struggle had come at last. Instantly congratulations began to pour in by wire from GIRL MADE GOOD SOLDIER all parts of the country and many peoA story Is told that while the Union mustered out, and next enlisted in the ple called to shake the hand of the rrmy was at and near Chattanooga, Third Illinois, where her sex was not modest, manly leader. Mr. Mitchells work is not done. Col. Burke, of the Tenth Ohio, ex- discovered. In that regiment she UDder a great strain for many Though but most a of a excellent record, changed large number prisoners made months, he must now prepare his case v ith the rebels. The colonel noticed being wounded In one of the engagea particularly natty young soldier ments, she was again discharged and for submission to the commission. in the Upon this task he is already engaged, among those he received. The soldier sent home, only to gave the name "Frank Henderson, and Nineteenth Illinois. She served in all and he will he ready. The coa! opersaid he belonged to the Nineteenth the battles of Col. OMaras regiment ators are likely to be surprised at the Illinois. It developed that this soldier and finally was taken prisoner at completeness of his case. He w ill not content himself with general state- was a young girl, and that she and Holly Springs. her brother at the outset of the war, The girl soldier was taken to Atlanhad enlisted in the Eleventh Illinois. ta, Ga. There in attempting to escape The pair were orphans and were she was shot in the leg, but even in devoted to each other. She could not her confinement to the prison hospital bear the thought of being separated her sex was not discovered. After from the brother who had been her recovering from the wound inflicted only companion from babyhood. At by the prison guard she was sent to the expiration of her enlistment for Graysville, where she was exchanged. three months in this regiment she was She was sent to her Illinois home. ElStas ments or any appeal for sympathy, but president of the United Mine Workers will present facts and figures, includ- has done all he can to learn the attiing several thousand pay envelopes, tude of the companies toward the men which will tell the tale of small wages on strike. Ws cannot negotiate yith MITCHELL ADDRESSING CONVENTION. Ing lesson of the hour is this: The workers 140,000 mixed and of this region must be treated fairly and handled skillfully, or they will make trouble. They have caught the modern spirit of organization and the universal American demand for better conditions of living. A union they have and are going to have. That they can stand together during a long siege without desertions and without flinch- self-relia- FEATURES the Old Age Pensions Commissioners An in Victoria, Australia, recently. elderly man residing in Ballarat ob- tained an old age pension some time ago. The other day his son appeared before the commissioners and asked that his fathers claim be withdrawn as he was willing to- - support him. When asked what his weekly earnings amounted to, the son replied. Six dollars. The commissioners nai OF THE COAL MINES? STRIKE. 154 djys 183,500 105,000 235,000 $511,500,000 443,500 197,390,000 Strike began May 12, 1902, duration Mners and other thrown out of work ..i Number of women affected Number of children affected..., Capital invested in coal mines Operators daily loss in pries of coal Total loss caused by strike a e DETAILS OF TOTAL COST CF THE STRIKE. : Loss in miners wages. I. oss of operators Loss of merchants in mining towns..... Loss of mills and factories closed Loss of merchants outside district Loss of railways l.oss of business permanently Cost of troops in field. Cost of coal and iron police Loss to railway men in wages Cost of maintaining nonunion men 7 Damage to mines and machinery - $29,350,000 68.830,000 22,750,000 7,320,000 16,030,000 34,000,030 8,000,000 1,850,000 3,500,000 275,000 545,000 5,000,000 ing they have conclusively shown. urally held that tais amount was bareto support the son Thrt the majority of them are intelli- ly and refused to grant his request. men, who want only gent. a frlr chance and decent wages, withGerman Oarsmen Do Well. out making exorbitant demands, is apBecause of the brilliant performance parent to every observer who attended at the international regatta, at Cork this convention. Our picture shows President Mitch-e- i of the Berlin Rowing Clubs racing addressing the convention when he boat, Preussen has been rechristened Cork. The affair took place In the struck the keynote of the controversy He said: clubs boathouse, which is the largest 1 desire to inform you that the in Berlin. him-seif- g CROWD AT TAMAQUA, PA.. WATCHING TROOPS LEAVE. not-tak- , a. When the news reached Washington in April, 18S1, that Fort Sumter was under fire, John Dillon, an expert watchmaker, then working for the firm of M. W. Galt & Bro., was repairing the president's watch. When the work was done, he scratched under the d:al and on the plates of the watch the words: First gun is fired! Thank God we have a president who at least will try to save the Union!" A removal of the dial, which, of tourse must be dune by a watchmak-r- , will reveal the scratched words. Jt is a gold hunting case watch of English make, and, as Mr. Dillon was told and believes, it was the only watch that Abraham Lincoln ever wore. No doubt it la stfll preserved in the Lincoln family, with the scratching, above given, under the dial. You can interpret mens actions much better than you can read their thoughts. Trouble always ljes just ahead of everyone, and it Is (he vise man who ivolds it. imnnir lowing For the kit .Medici earnest runs i tame relict, sad at tetter twenty T. H. Mr. r In-h- , 'better every! tine I to eve to use Ilartr be gn Mr. Cans: tad c said me. Mam g ws tver At Firemen Ueing the Scaling Ladders ta Get From a Window to the Roof, ' Over a Cornice. come here 6ald the Instructor. "I dont believe in endangering the lives of the men. I work them higher u they develop nerve. All these met are what are called probationary an. After m&klBg out an application fori position on the force, they are given a mental and physical examination, and if successful they are sent hew for instruction. After the three weeks of work here, learnirg to handle selling ladders, to te knots, and, most of all, to get nerve, the probationary man Is assigned to ' a fire station, where he learns the alarms, the apparatus of trucks, engines, harness and all the various appliances of firs machinery. After he has shown his fitness here he gets' his uniform." , How many of inesa probationary was askei men get their uniforms? was the answer, Nearly all, These fellows have made up their mind to be firemen before they make application. They have a pretty good Idea of the work. Although, they do not, perhaps, realize fully the hardships of the life, they know it is no barkeepers job. They corns to the training yard and see what a course of sprouts they will be put through, and the cowards quit betore they start. A few like No. 4 show sooa nerve, and that they cant get out from sheer drop fright The outsider says - that we risk our lives. Well, we do sometimes; but, as the life Insurance companies will tell you, there is , no greater percentage of deaths among firemen than in the average trade. And that is became we hove confidence in ourselves, la other words, we get nerve. They follow this life because they love it. New York Exchange, No Official Rain in Eerlin. In Berlin, it seem It never rains according to city regulations. In the wettest weather, the water carts atlfl ply their task. The policeman is an important civil functionary, respected and feared. But he has his trials. While the rest of the world hastens to take shelter from a sudden downpour, It is his duty to remain immoas circuvable, and as impassive mstances will allow, at hi3 post or crossing. After the storm has passed over, he is still to be found, rigid to the Uut, his feet planted in the center of a perfectly fry circle of asphalt corresponding exactly to the geometrical proportion of his rotundity. x ABRAHAM LINCOLNS WATCH Majo in Cav Money Needed for Charity. D. C. Potter, chief examiner of accounts on institutions for the city of New York, declares that unless great additions shall be made to the support of charitable institutions most of them will soon be in a critical condition. This is partly because of inmade on such demands creasing places, but chiefly on account of the unexampled increase in the cost of Present rates all necessaries of life. of payment per capita - for hospitals are sixty to eighty cents, and Mr. Potter recommends that they be raised to from seventy to ninety cents. of 1 r 22 r frightened, looked over the ground, returned, saluted, and asked, Where will you have the boxes put, colonel? The colonel rose in his wrath and told the sergeant he was a blankety blank fool. The sergeant saluted again and said: But where will you have the boxes put, colonel? Steedman roared: Take them away, man, I dont care where; take them to hell To this the imperturbable sergeant replied with a salute, Excuse me, colonel, but wouldnt they be more out of your way and less likely to trouble you again If I took them to heaven? Steedman was amazed, but he turned hlg back on the sergeant to laugh in the face of his adjutant as he murmured, Take him away. zation. It consisted of seventy-siregiments of infantry and nine batteries of artillery, who bore their colors to the front on many a hotly contested field. The states represented in the corps were as follows: Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Missouri, Kansas and Wisconsin. The three divisions of the corps were commanded by Major Generals Devld S. Stanley, Philip H. Sheridan, and Thoms s J. Wood. General Granger soon gave place to Gen. O. O. Howard, and Sheridan to Gen. John Newton. If h THE FOURTH ARMY CORPS One of the most famous organizations in Washington on the occasion of the Grand Army encampment was the Fourth Army corps. The corps was distinctly a fighting machine. It was born of a great battle. It obtained its name and splendid birthright from the consolidation of the Twentieth and Twenty-firs- t army corps, which had been reduced in numbers on account of disease and battle losses, after Chicka-maugNo body of defenders of the Union saw and bore more of the brunt of the great struggle than this organi I Good work, No. 5. No. 7 chain, and another man started ,1 repeat the feat. After the work !l building chains of ladders, teams I 1 two men each were put to "standing on the sills, and thus man would stand on the sill of a wl dow, and hook a ladder into the ?l dow above, while his comrade wow I I stand Inside and hold fast to his In this way two' men, with a si JL I ladder, would quickly mount to ell roof. The feat of straddling sills followed, where a man wutCI I the help of a comrade within, to a window and hooked hia 'ladl into the casement above. I wouldnt order any or them tj 1 do that kind of werk when they Sixty-sevent- WHEN STEEDMAN LAUGHED Among the Ohio Democrats who were in the army early," said the captain, was Gen. James B. Steedtran, ar.d he has a monument at Toledo. Steedman had been a canal contractor and a 49er, and was given to rough usage of men, and when his regiment, the Fourteenth Ohio, was organized, the boys did kindly to their colonels rough language and ready profanity.' On one occasion he ordered a sergeant on duty to remove a pile of cracker boxes from a particular spot in camp and to do it as quick as the Lord would let him, as he had decided that his own tent must stand just where some infernal Idiot had placed the boxes. The sergeant, irritated, but not !0 through the whole performance Na 5 had taken his seat, when A Religion of Laziness. Russian papers give particulars of an extraordinary religious community In Kiel!, whose chief tenet Is idleness. They are known as the Malevantchina, from the name of their founder, Malevaning, who was released from a lunatic asylum in 1872, and straightway began to propagate his strange sect. Basing themseAes upon the parable of the lilies which "toil a not, neither do they spin, the reject afl work except that of the household, wear coarse, somber garments, and restrict themselves to a diet of bread and cheap fruits. Cor-rad- o Male-vartcbln- Voluntary Life Imprisonment,. , The victim through an accident of a ghastly disfigurement, a wealthy Parisian made a vow never to be seen again by man. He kept to a special suite of rooms in his house, where he was waited upon by two blind servants, who were the intermediaries between himself and the other members of his household. No exception was made even In the case of his wife and children,-who- , from the day of his accident to that of his death, never again set eyes upon him. well-traine- d Colors of Flowers. The same species of flower never shows more than two of the three colValue of Rain. Japanese Dressmakers. Rain after a drought in Australia There said to be excellent open- ors, red, yellow and blue. Roses, for was once valued at $25 a minute in ings for American dressmakers In instance, are found red and yellow,-bu- t never blue; verbenas are red and women one district, while earthquakes have Japan, where all the high-clas- s been assessed in Japan at 100 guineas are donning occidental dress, with blue, but not yellow; pansies are yelwhich the native modiste struggles low and blue, but never red. per tremor. helplessly. The California Redwood. The Planet Vesta. Most Wonderful Echo. Vesta is the only one of the small Three hundred and twenty million A wonderful echo can be heard in a planets which can be seen with the feet of timber are cut annually from the Californian redwood forests; yet room in the castle of Simonetta, near naked eye. Her diameter is but 300 It Is estimated that they will last for Milan. A loud noise such as a pistol miles, and her surface, therefore, but 150 years. shot. Is repeated sixty times. that of Europe, one-nint- h Hawk Who Reasoned. strange Instance of sagacity in two peregrines is reported. They bad 1 A often been seen following trains Croatia, Hungary, without any pi an at Ion suggesting itself. One after1 noon the train suddenly put up covey . of young partridges. Dow swooped the hawk at the covey, and carried off one of them, and this gave the answer to the riddle. The bird had surely noticed, whilt a Using and Scaling Ladders, soaring for his pleasure, that the cois hia hook, he nimbly climbed up to the of the train often put up game, and next story. Again he hooked himself this gave him the idea of making u fast, caught another ladder, hooked of the train as a beater for his espeIt into the next window and so, quick- cial benefit ly and apparently without the least fear or shrinking, mounted to the roof The Pleasures of Polo. with a dash and a spring, which made James H. Proctor of the Myopia the crowd of children who were watch- Hunt club, Boston, treasures a union ing him in Sixty-eightstreet, give a souvenir of his last game of polo. B mingled howl of terror and admira- recently received a terrific' blew to tion. With the same confidence in the mouth from an opponents club. himself. No. 5 descended from his The Jaw was broken and one tooin left Ifty perch, unhooked the ladders, deeply Imbedded in the head of to tassed them down to the men below mallet This piece of ivory In H . him, and finally leaped to the ground wooden setting is now one of to with a broad smile on his face. , most Conspicuous trophies in The Instructor had not said a word collectio cub-tin- Life-Llne- . h r St |