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6 THE'TIMES PHILADELTHIAV SATURDAY MORNING, OCTOBEE 22,1887. AMONG THE CHURCHES. way toward performing all the functions of seemed that Briar creek would mark tbe spot of another inglorious defeat for our beloved country, bat the men soon rallied, formed PLAIN BEAVER OVERCOATS MDOS ON A STEIKE. FOUR THOUSAND LEHIGH COAL AND NAVIGATION MEN STILL OUT. BEE 1ME Mi LIFE LN THE FORK OF BRIAR CREEK, DOWN IN GEORGIA.

BOOKS THATMENQ BOOKS HOW THE POPULAR WORKS OF THE PAST ARE TURNED INTO RUBBISH. Six Colors $10 $10 BLUE, BLACK, BROWN, GRAY, MODE AND SILVER GRAY We started the Season with FIFTEEN" HUNDKED AND EIGHTY THREE of this one kind of Overcoat. They are going like tax receipts. Do you want one? Come to day. Overcoats Overcoats Overcoats An extra force of salesmen to day in all departments.

A DOUBLE DOSE in the Boys' and Children's Department. Parents will "turn out" to day in large numbers looking for Useful Clothing for the Boys. We'll get a goodly share of patronage. $10 Itli, Sooth and Passyunk hi 7 Ivins, Hiefz Magee, CARPETINGS. TJR OPENING INVITATION of last week was very gen erally accepted and many complimentary remarks were made on the conveniences, light and general adaptation of our new warerooms to the requirements of the Carpet business.

Our display is now more elaborate than ever and includes the Choicest Designs in Axminster, Wiltons, Body and Tapestry Brussels, Ingrains, at prices that will bear very favorable comparison with any establishment in the city. Xvins, Dietz Magee Carpet Manufacturers, 1217 MARKET STREET. books that are books. To these belong me little volumes forming and to form the series called "English History ty uonrem Dorarv Writers" (G. P.

Putnam's Sons), two volumes of which are at hand. The first of these relates the story of the misrule of Henry ill, the extracts being irom tne writings of Matthew Paris, Robert Grosse leste, Adam of Marsh and others. The other volume tells of Edward III. and his wars, the quotations being from Froissart and other chronicles of the time. Another series of the same general character is The World's Workers" (Cassell which comprises brief biographies of noted men and women, who left the world better than tbev found it Among these is a little vol ume telling the life story of the late Earl of bhatteshury, who, as Lord Ashley, aw so much toward the foundation of the ragged schools of London.

Another volume contains three biographies one of Sarah Robinson the soldier's friend one of Agnes Weston, the sailor's friend, and one of Mrs. Meredith, the prisoner's frieud. Still another volume contains a biography of Mrs. Somerville, one ot the tew women who became eminent in science, and a sketch of Mary Carpenter, whose life was devoted to the rescue of the poor and degraded. These are all English, hut the latest volume of the series is devoted to Thomas A.

Edison and Samuel F. Morse, the two great American exponents of telegraphic improvement. Each ot tnese volumes comprises only 128 pases. The series ought to be a successful one. HENRY GEORGE LITERATURE.

Pamphlets on the Laml Theory and the Question of Taxation. A class of books that are not books is that devoted to the solution of great social and economic questions by syllogisms. This class may be described generally as Henry George literature. As a rule, these books are written to antagonizo the theories of Mr. George iu his Progress and Poverty." As a matter of fact, these so called books are only pamphlets.

They are merely part of the current discussion, and have no more permanent value or character than articles in the magazines aud newspapers on the same subject. While the purpose of nearly all of this Henry George literature is to de molish Henry George it somehow has the effect of giving continued vitality to theories that, after all, are only theories. Naturally the knights errant who are socager for a tilt with the author ot "Progress and Pov erty" only succeed in making a plumed knight ot Mr. George. One of tho books of this class is called "Henry George Versus Henry George," (D.

Appleton Co.) A review by R. C. Rutherford. Mr. Rutherford believes that the best way to dispose of George is to let George disposo of himself.

Ho believes he has found this an easy task. Georgo's work, he declares, abounds in contradictions, and no parts of it are in more pronounced antagonism than his fundamental principles. Then Mr. Rutherford proceeds to quote copiously from Mr. George's book, arraying George against George until he has piled up a mass of twaddle, and in the end he only succeeds in showing that his process of making Henry George dispose of Henry George is a dull multiplication of extracts without any practical result.

Another essay on the same subject, and avowedly an examination of the land theories of Henry George, is a pamphlet entitled "Ownership and Natural Right" (Hill Harvey), by the Rev. R. I. Holaiud, professor of ethics in Woodstock College. It is the special purpose of Professor Holaind's essay to deny that the equities of private ownership in land are where political economists of the George school assert they are on their side and to show that with regard to ownership equity and expediency stand together, with joined hands, beaming forth hope, if not gladness, unto all men and all nations that do not swerve from the path of Justice." It can scarcely be claimed for Professor Holaind's pamphlet that it docs more toward refuting the George theories than can bo accomplished by spelling justice with a capital J.

Still another essay on tho same theme and another attempt at the solution of the land question is "Tax the Area" (John W. Lovell Company), by Kemper Bocock. Mr. Bocock begins his essay with the question of the unearned increment, arguing that it is unearned by tho community and therefore ought not to be taxed. Instead, he would tax the area as the chief element in land reform by the substitution of specific for value taxes.

The area, Mr. Bocock contends, is easily ascertained, for it is lying around where everybody can see it, and he believes a tax on the area of land could be as easily imposed and collected as a tax on window panes. Ho therefore wrote this littlo book to prove that the specific taxation of land is a great humanitarian scheme reducing the burden of taxation pon the agricultural classes whose improved land now bears more than its share of that burden, while the unimproved land bears less whether it is capable of improvement or not. There is in all this something like a tendency to embrace the George theory, but Mr. Bocock treats mainly of rural development, where vicinage and contiguity are comparatively inoperative, while Mr.

George directs attontion to city values, which are mainly due to surrounding conditions. But Mr. Bocock is not hopeful that his humanitarian scheme will be speedily adopted by tho ruling statcsnion of any of the States. "Any advocate of area taxation," he says, who expects to secure the enactment of a law introducing the system throughout any particular State, whatever its size or the nature of its surface, for a long time to come, will be likely to find himself deceived. The principle of specific taxation, however, is so reasonable and its application so simple when it is once established, that one measure after another in which it was introduced piecemeal could be put through without exciting appreciable opposition." Perhaps.

Mr. George's land theories aro certainly not tcnablo, but the Rutherfords would do well to study a text book liko "Tho Elements of Political Economy," D. Appleton compiled by Professor Laughlin, of Harvard University. Elementary study is tho only safeguard against tho twaddle of Rnthcrfordians and, untenable as George's theories are, a skill equal to his is needed to refute them. Books Kecelved.

Elocutionary Studies axd Nkw Recitations. By Mrs. Anna ltaudall Dichl. Edgar H. Werner, New York.

Scibsck and Immortal itt. Christian RegMcr Symposium. Ueorge H. Ellis, Boston. The Railway Question.

American Eco. nomlc Association Keport. Porter 4 Coates. Tub Anti Runt Visitation in New Yokk. By Edward P.

C'heyney. American Ken nointc Association Publications. Porter Coates. home Things An road. By Alexander McKenzle.

D. Lothrop Company, Boston. Thb Fire of Ood's Anoeb. By h. C.

Baker. Olllce of Words of Reconciliation," Philadelphia. The Missi no Sense. By C.W.Woodbrldgo. Funk agnails, New York.

The Gnostics and Their Remains. By C. W. King. G.

Putuura'i Sous, New York. The Genesis of the Civil War. The Story ol Sumter. By H.imucl Wvllo Criiw roru. unnrios u.

easier ft New Ynrlt. The Hundredth Man. By Frank It. Stockton, ('enttiry Company, New York. The New Day.

A Poem in Hones and Sonnets, liy Klrbnrd Watson Glider. Cen tury Company, New York. The Celestial Passion. By R. W.

Glider. Century Company. New York. Lyrics. By II W.

Glider. Century Company, Now York. Warren Hahtinoa. By Lord Macaulay. Cassell's Nntional Library.

Aw Ugly Diicklino. A Novol. By Henry Erroll. Harper's Franklin Square Library. Honosof Worship, for the Sunday School.

Edited by Waldo 8. Pratt. Century Com puny. Now York. aids to ommon worship, ueniury company, New York.

The Brownies: Their Book. ByPalmor Cox. Century Company, New York. No Longer to he Cullml Impossible. From tlie St.

Louis Republican. A man tins been sent to Jail In Philadelphia for robbing a hackmnu. When becomes out his countrymen should have a testi monial awaiting him. The man who can rob a hack man deaervlof ol the highest consideration. Adapted From Heine.

Renounce me not Although the thirst By pure, sweet drink was sated, Be yet. as when you mot me first, Wbeu Cupid's charms you mated. If then for aye love's hopes are doomed, Be It friend to me related. When love by lovo In all conMiincd, True friendship' but willed! Theo. in DUpalrh.

Tin system la olten so rapidly reduced by a seven attack of Diarrheal or other Bowel AITeo tlon that It would be better to keep by you Dr. Jayne'i Carminative Balsam, a sure curative for Aalatlo Cholera, Cramps, Dysentery and the Hummer Complaint of children. Interesting Mews Kotee Picked Vp In the Religions World. CATHOLIC On Thursday morning last tbe Month Mind services for tbe late Rev. Henry M.

Efferty were held in the Church of the Holy Trinity. A musical and dramatic entertainment for the benefit of St. Joseph's Sunday School will be given In Musical Fund Hall on Wed nesday evening next. Tbe eleventh public meeting of the American Catholic Historical Society will be held in i hllopatrlau Institute on Wednesday evening next. The free lecture course of the De Sales Association have begnn for the season.

Tbe Drat lecture will be given on Monday by Lewis H. Redner, the subject being "True The devotions of the Forty Hours' Adora tion were opened in the Church of the Annunciation on Sunday morning. METHODIST. The George Institute Woman's Christian Temperance Union will hold a series of gos pel temperance meetings in Fletcher M. E.

Church beginning this evening, when Col onel Ham, of Kentucky, will speak. An all day meeting of the Northwest Phil adelphia District of the Women's Foreign Missionary Society will be held on Thursday in Park Avenue Methodist Episcopal cnurch. Tabernacle M. E. Church, Camden, Kev.

J. Y.Dobbins. Dastor. was dedicated last Sun day morning by tbe presiding elder of the miiueu uisirici, nev. Minon iteiyea.

The anniversary of tbe Woman's Foreign Missionary Society connected with the Union Methodist Episcopal Church will be held to morrow eveniug. Rev. L. B. Janney, missionary from India, and Mrs.

Dr. Luther, ui uuaueipnia, will mane aaaresses. PROTEST ANT EPISCOPAL. The Rev. Phillips Brooks.

D. will speak on Foreign Missions next Monday at 8 P. M. at the missionary meetiug at the Church of the Holy Trinity, Nineteenth and Waluut streets. Work has just begun on the new French Church of St.

Sauveur, Rev. C. Mlel. D. rector, Twenty second street and De Lancey naoe.

BAPTIST. On Sunday morning Dr. Beckley, of the Beth Eden Cburcb, occupied tbe pulpit for tne nrst time since bis sickness. Mrs. B.

Griffith, president of the Baptist Orpnannge, and Its secretary, Mrs. J. B. Bobrman, make an appeal on behalf of that deserving Institution. The orphanage as yet nas no endowment whatever, 'i de managers are wholly dependent upon the continuous gins ui iue cnariianie.

ine cost oi eaca cniia ror ono year, including food, clothing, proportion of exnenses of house mother. school teachers, fuel, everything, is about PRKSBYTKHIAN. The Rev. Charles W. Nevln will be or dained and installed as pastor of Calvary Presbyterian Church of Rlverton, N.

on tne evening of October 27. Ground has been purchased on the south east corner of Broad and Federal streets to erect the Holland Memorial Church. This lot has been paid lor and 88,000 subscribed for the building. Tbe pastor is Rev. Will iam M.

Paden, who has Just completed his fourth vear. During this time 354 members have been received Into the church, W0 of mese oy coniession. The present memoer shlp is 623, nearly three fourths of these neing young people. Ueslclcs contributing 810.0U0 for church siiDoort the conercfiratiou has in these fouryears given to outside oenevoienees ana nas raisea auove toward bulldinff a church. Rev.

Dr. Wills, pastor of tho North Tenth Street Presbyterian Church, is delivering a course of Sunday evening lectures on the Bible. "Tho Bible as a Classic" ia the sub ject for next Sunday evening. HE WASN'T DREXEL. But He Could Knock Out a Fresh Dnde All the Same.

From tbe Pittsburg Dispatch. Last evening a seedy Individual, wearing a long gray beard and careworn look, crossed Smltbfield street toward City Hall. When he bad reached the middle of tbe street he gazed In the direction of tbe city clock long and anxiously. Three dudes stood on the holel steps, aud one of tbem, dressed In tbe latest fashion, spied the old man and Immediately addressed his companions In this manner: "Say, fellows! there's an old guy; now watch me have some fun with blm." Tbe dude then walked out to the curb, and as the old man reached tbe pavement he was stopped by the would be humorist, who accosted him thusly: "Hello! Mr. Drexel, what's your hurry? Are you on your way to the bankers' ban quet at the Monongabela House? Can we goalong? Say, you had better fix your hat straight." And as the young scamp said this he crushed the straneer's hat over tils eyes and began pulling his beard.

The old man snld nothing until after lie had ad Justed the crushed bead covering. He then calmly remarKea: "Hoys, you shouldn't mane a rool out or a weak old chap like me when I'm not looking. Now, youug fellows, my hat Is just resting on the top of my head. Just knock It off aud yon will see some more fun." The dude attempted to do so, but tbo weak old man's fist caught tbe dudo fair on the nose. Tne claret now ana the owner of the damaged nose attempted to strike back, but he was not quick enougn.

as tne old man gave blm another stunning blow which knocked him sprawling as far as the car track. One of the fallen man's friends attempted to Interfere, bnt was knocked down In a Jitiy, aud Drexel" was master of the situation. Detectives Shore and Gumbert hearine tbe squabble ran out of tbe Mayor's olllce, whou the feebleold man rushed down Virgin alley aud out of sight, thus escaping ni rest. The squelched dudo went to a neigh Poring uaroer shop lor repairs. needier in Tears Over "Mars' Chan." From the New York Telegram.

A lady who met tbo late Henry Ward Beecher at a party of friends In London told a Telcfram reporter to day a story which strongly Illustrates Mr. Beecher's boyish enthusiasm. Said she: "Among tbe features of the evening were readings by a talented lady amateur who was present. Mr. Beecher enjoyed tbe readings very much, bis expressive features reflecting tbo emotions of bis mind.

A boy could not have expressed bis pleasure more Ingenuously. Tbe lady read the pathetic story 'Mars' descriptive of negro slavery, and which Is a stock favorite with readers. She read It In a touching manner, with natural pathos and without any attempt at dramatic effect. Mr. Beecher's feelings with regard to slavery were well known.

He was one of the most ardent of Abolitionists, and soon the attention of tbe audience, which had beon spellbound by tbe reader, was arrested by Mr. Beecher. As the story proceeded his eyes filled with tears. First one big tear rolled down his cheek and then another, but be was all unconscious and quite surprised to find bo hud been weeping when the story was over." Drinking Sperm Oil for His Ilealth. From the Lynchburg News.

Tbe Norfolk and Western employe who has charge of the sperm oil used In lamps lately discovered that more than tbe usual quantity was removed, and unon Inquiry learned tbnt one of tbe men was drinking It. "Why aro you drinking oil?" he asked. "Why? Because It Is Just tbe best drink I have ever swallowedbeats coffee or whisky aud will cure anything," was tbe reply. Jake Is In the Stay Business. From tliePlttshnrs Chronicle.

"Mrs. Jacob Sharp does not need to buy corsets," observed tbe Snake Editor. "No," replied the Horse Editor, she can get all tbe stays she wants from her husband." What They Do With Bosses Ont West. From the Atlanta Constitution. In Colorado when a man becomes too prominent In local politics they bang blm.

This seems to be a very good Idea. Absolutely Purer This powder never vnrliw. A marvel of purity, xirenptli nnd wholesninennss. More economical than the ordinary kind, and cannot be sold In competition with the multitude of low lest, short weight alum or pboapbat powdar. Sold etWyM can, ugYA.i SAamu rowiuui un, themselves into battle array, swept grandly forward and goon tbe bold, bad snake was writhing in untold agonies.

It was nearly seven feet in length and carried eleven rattles and a button. Each sunrise found the hoys at Cannon Lake ready for business. The general sen timent seemed to be to have those cannons or die. Cannon to right of them, cannon to left of tbem, cannon in front ot tbem re sounded and rung. Rocks to the right of them, rocks to the left of them, rocks in front of them were grappled and torn.

Messrs. Percy Haddon and Jules Arnett, two ot the best divers in the Mate, were em ployed, and there was but one impression on the faces of those present when, instead of the expected gun. a large piece of rock of cylindrical torm. an embalmed gator, ana a semi fossilized cypress log were at intervals slowly pulled to the surface, and that expression was disappointment in its most rabid lorm. THE CANNON ABE THERE.

Mr. B. H. Brannon, a septuagenarian resident of the neighborhood of the Fork, believes that there are plenty of cannon at the bottom of the creek aud lake, but that they are now so deeply imbedded in the soil that their recovery is very problematical. Mr.

Brannon says that whon he was a little boy, upwards of sixty years ago, a very old settler had told him he had seen brass cannon lying in the bed of the stream at low water. The Sylvania Rifles have made several attempts to recover tho pieces, and are still sanguine of ultimate success. Their object is to mount one as a figure head for their corps. They have every known apparatus for raising the guns when the latter shall have been located by the divers. MODERN MARK TAPLEIS.

The Kind of Progress That Satisfies the Clauis Down East. From the Boston Transc ript. A Western gentleman who has been spend ing some time in Nova Scotia and beyond carried with him there his disposition to keep track of the material development of the country, and asked thesurprlsed natives a great many questions about tbe growth of their towns ana such unheard of considera tions. At Halifax he was assurred that the city was growing. Wruy.

certainly tt was growing. Did be see that group of a dozen bouses over there? Well, fifteen years ago there wasn't a bouse there I As one accus tomed to see cities arise, reach the apex of their development, decline aud disappear in less than that time, the gentleman from the West was not. Impressed. At ouo pleasant little town ofil.OOOor 3,000 people, the Western man found resident who was very proud of the town's development. "Why," said he, "this town had doubled in population since I have live hero." "How long have you lived here?" "Only thirty four years," said the man.

One day tho Western man missed a rail road connection away down the coast some where, and ascertained that by driving dozen miles or so he could get a train that would take him to Halifax without waiting twenty four hours. After considerable el fort be found an old farmer who, under the iiitlueuce of a bewildering financial inducement, agreed to go ami hitch up his team and carry liiin over. By and bye tbe native appeared with his equipage. It was a crazy conveyance, without springs, aud with a quantity of bay thrown into the bottom to sit upon. The old farmer got on bis kuees at tbe dash board, and with a btg stick pre Eared to urge on an aged, haggard, bony orse.

When the Western man was comfortably installed In the hay the procession moved. They had scarcely got. away from the station when the road passed Into a thick wood from which there seemed to bo no emerging. The Western man began to engage the native In conversation, choosing his customary topic. How long have you lived In these parts be asked.

Bless you, since I was born, sir," said tbe old man. Father born here, too?" "Indeed, bo was." "Grandfather, too?" "Ob, no, sir!" The old man began to brighten up. "My grandfather came here from England," said he, "and when became there was nothing at all but woods iu these parts." The Western man looked around him. Ho could see nothing but woods as far as thecye could reach. Nothing but woods, eh," said he.

Well, I don't see much besides woods now." "Oh, well, at that time it was a regular forest; the trees wero great deal bigger than they are now." Tho Western man laughed consumedly. "So tbe only chanse Is tb.it the trees have grown smaller, eh?" said ho. "Then your country has gone back." TEARING IT STREETS. Why It Makes Them Worse Every Time It. Is Done.

From the Boston Post. The grumbling about the way in which the streets are torn up here in Boston, to which I believe I bavecontribnted afewcomplnints not loo severe, increases as the work goes on. Walking down Washington street yesterday with a civil engineer of my acquaintance, he called my attention to the Irregularities which have already begun to show them selves In the highway. Wherever the exca vators have passed, the replaced pavement refuses to take on Its former smoothuess, despite the care with which It Is reluid, but gullies aud humps itself in a most unseemly fashion. My friend explained to me tne Impossibility of relaying tho block pavement of our streets with new sections of freshly turned earth next to portions which huvo been solidified by many months of pounding by wagon wheels and horses' hoots aud retaining a level surlaec.

Indeed, now that it Is pointed out to me. I reeocnlze the can hi; of what I have considered a shockingly bad condition of some of our most traveled high ways. tuaea successive aigging nas lett lis traces In a misshapen roadway, which. In the season of snow and slush now approaching, promises to give us worse streets for travel thau wo have heretofore had here in Uosion. Life Worth Living Once More.

From the Boston Transcript hero was a hush la the sick man cham ber, broken only by the whispered Instruc tions ot tne physician to the nurse aud the suppressed sobs of the wife and children, who felttbatin a few short hours, perhaps In a few moments, they would be widow and orphans. Everything tbnt medical knowledge and professional skill could do bud been done, and tho doctor bad said that be could do no more. "Keep blm comfortable," he said. that Is nil we can do for blm now." Suddenly there enmo a shout through tho open window. Immediately perceptible tremor raised over tho uying man.

Another shout. The sick man opened Ills eyes. j(0 listened. Again came that voice trom the street. It was a newsboy crying his wares.

Ha!" exclaimed the rmtictil. (lirouiiiir dhck uie cioiues, jumping out oi ueu and turning a douliio back soincrsaull, "Don't you hear hlin?" he exclaimed. "He nays the base ball season is over. I've cot snmo thlng to Itve for now. Give me my clothes, please; I'll take run down town." A Bank Has a Streak ol Luck.

From the Detroit Free Press. A Bauk Who had Stolen $50,000 from the Bank and skipped out to Cincinnati Went to a Lawyer and said How can I Fix so as to be safe from the Law?" I will Arrange to have tbe Bank Settle for Half tbe Amount," was the Prompt reply. When this had been done the Thlof Ex pressed his Great Pleasure and Satisfaction, and Inquired: "Ana now wnat shnll 1 1 ay you for vour Services "The Other Half, sir!" was the Calm reply. mohal: It's a Wonder the Lawyer left so much for tho Bunk. Faith Dollars Not a Legal Tender.

From the St. I'nul Cilohe. The fallh euro doctor took tho hand of his patient and, looking Into his eyes, said: I can cure you." Patient. "Aro you suro?" Very sure. All you've got to do la to be lieve.

Just believe you're cured. That's all." "All right; I'll try It. Good day." Hold on a minute, my man; didn't you forget something nniT "The fee. I charge a dollara visit." nh. Well, helleve.

All vnii'i to do Is to believe that I've paid you and it'll bo all right." Criminals Afraid of Quaker Jurors. From the West Chester P.ecord. James Spenkmnn, formerly of Kennett Square, but for several years past, a resident of llosklus, Iowa, was ono of tho Jurors In attendance at tbe court where the men who murdered Itov. Mr. Haddock, an active Prohibitionist, were tried.

When Mr. Kpeakman's name was called he was asked bis religion wnen no replied that he belonged to a society known In Penusvlvanla I a I u.na nrnmt.flu a aa Friends. He was nrnmntlv i.hi,llann and aot aside. Alter me adjournment of court one of tho counsel Informed Mr. Stipule mini that.no guilty man wanted a Hunker on thejury to try him.

An International Crisis at tloinn. From the Detroit Free Press, Mrs. High Jinks (very English) Bridget, me If the brotiirliiim (broom) Is at the door." Iiiidgel An' what would ye be waullu' wld the broom, mum?" Mrs. It. I nm going out to ride." Hrldget (sotto voce) "Och, number, It'a a wltcb she Is, to be rldin onion a broom I I'll be either lavln' at once for service wld a daceut family." The Drift of Events Not in Favor of the Workinsmen.

An Unconditional Surrender the Only Thing That Will be Accepted by the Company. special telkorak to the tikes. Lanrfobd, October 21. The names of more than four thousand employes appeared upon the August pay roll of the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company, whose main offices for this region are located at Lams ford, a thriving borough in Carbon county with a future dependent on the coal trade. Whether adequately paid for the work they did or not, they still contrived to force their monthly earnings far into the thousands, and the local business men anddealers did a thriving trade among them while looking hopefully toward the future.

Every wheel in the two valleys the Panther creek and the Nes quehoning was then in motion, and the ca pacity of the breakers was frequently strained to fill impatient orders for the prospective fall trade. There was some discontent, of course, for there is more or less of that wherever men behold others more prosper ous than themselves, but, the main, it was thought better to work steadily at such wages as the company was payiug than to strike six months for an advance of a few per cent. Singular as it may appear in the light of the fact that every man of the num ber mentioned hits siuce laid down his tools and struck, the great majority of the workers were opposed to striking, though they did want an increase of wages, and if left to their own inclinations they would probably havo been working now. DEMANDING THE INCREASE. The manuor in which the demand for an increase was mado was the same as that employed by the 1 1,000 men now out in Lower Luzerne, except that while the Luzerne men had one representative on the demand committee those in this immediate vicinity had none.

That committee, as it appears on the original circular demanding the advance, was composed of John H. Davis and M. li. Smith, of Mount Carmcl James Broderick, of Milnesville M. J.

Shields, of Heckschers ville; R. Thompson, of Middlcport, and Frank Terrell, of Mahanoy Plane. Only one of these men, Mr. Thompson, was employed nuder President Harris, and he worked, not for the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company, but for the Alliance Company, in Schuylkill, ot which corporation Mr. Harris is also president This was tho fault not of the navigation company men hero, for there were plenty of them capable of argu their own case had they been given a etiance to do so.

It is a matter of regret among some of tbem now that they did not take matters into their own hands. It is idle now to discuss at any length whether this was a blunder or not. The strike is ou and its outcome is the main consideration. Here, as in Luzerne, almost every employer, great or small, holds that each employer should have been waited upon by his own men, while a majority of tho strikers insist that this was out of the question. The most outspoken of these say that it should not have mattered what particular individuals made the demand, siuce the latter were but representatives of the real demanding body, the men, and had been authorized to act for them in the matter.

The unanimity with which the operators took tho opposing ground, however, shows that they had carefully snrveved the field long beforo the strike was ordered and that they felt confident of receiving at least a portion of the pub lic support in their refusal to meet any but their own men. THE EIOnT TO ORGANIZE. No Knight in this vicinity admits that there is the slightest doubt as to the true significance of the struggle. It may have been a strike for increased wages at the start, but it is ono for the right of organiza tion now. Underneath the false issues which they claim the companies have wickedly forced upon them they profess to see a monstrous organization of corporate interests, whoso vast profits, and even capital if need he, will be spent in breaking up tho labor assemblies, though it should take until winter has come and gone and another cold season has boguu.

If the operators have the right to combine for corporate intorcsts the men want to know why they are not to be allowed the privilege of organizing for simple protection. Tho weakness of their position, if it have a weakness, lies not tho obvious right which they claim for themselves, but iu the equally clear right which the opera tors possess to refuse to recognize the Knights if they so elect, and to hire other workmen if they can. It seems to be a freer country than cither side realized at first, but the newly discovered freedom will not aid the cause ot the men, deserving as it is when stripped of the blunders of the leaders. TROUBLE AMONG THE MEN. As the strike continues and its privations become more severe, it is apparent that a large number of the strikers are dissatisfied with the situation, and that many of them will return to work at tho earliest possible opportunity.

The outside assistance which was freely promised before the men quit work has not been received in anything like the amouuts that were expected and tho men begin to fear that it may not come at all. Those who have drawn upon the rolicf committee have beon held down to their actual requirements, but many are too proud to accept this aid. This class, as a rule, pre fer work at the old wages, and some of their protests aro finding expression in local print. The nows that Messrs. Pardee and Coxe have been able to run sevoral of their breakers has also had a discouraging effects and though thero is no open talk of surrender, the drift of eveuts is iu that direction.

PRKl'ARINU FOB THE WINTER. Dcspito these facts both sides arc prepar ing for a long and bitter struggle. Tho company has suspended all unnecessary ope rations and will mine coal enough only to keep its pumps going. Owing to the uncer tainty enveloping tho future its agents in the various centres of trade have been in structed to refuse all orders that may be oflurcd now, and unless the situation changes nono will be accepted for months to come. The mules have been hoisted out of their dimly lighted quarters in tho rat inhabited mine and given a chance to wink at the sun and stars, for tho first time in many mouths.

Many of them have been sent into the country to graze on such grass and stubble as the October fronts have not entirely destroyed, and still others will follow during tho courso of the next two weeks. A little timbering will be done by men who are willing to work, but owing to the scarcity of these, no other improvements will bo attempted. Along the line of the railroads men, women and children may he seen gathering their winter coal, the refusal of President Harris to grant any increase of wages now, even if asked by tho company's own mon, having warned the latter that nothing but an unconditional surreudor will he accepted. Why Female Full Dress Is So Called. From tbe Minneapolis Journal.

Mr. and Mrs. Montgomery were at a very swell roccptlon tbe other evening. "Kergy dear," asked Mrs. Montgomery, after a lull In the conversation, during which she gazed at her ample charms, "why do they call this full dress?" "dive It up," replied Mr.

Montgomery, as ho looked at her very open countenance, unless It Is because It's full of hiatuses." "Nonsense, whut do you think li really the reason "oh, con Mr. Montgomery nnd stopped short. I suppose," lie continued. hat 11 Is because no sensible person would wear one unless they were full." r. Montgomery got no breakfast the next morning.

A Anvernment's Gracious Coneesslon. From the Boston Post Mr. France de Laune, of Bhorstod Court, County Kent, has attracted to himself tbe admiring eyes of the British nation by successfully raising and harvesting a crop of tobacco. It Is said to bo the first ever raised In F.nglnnd. The government has graciously given consent that he shnll go on with his experiment, but Insists that he must pay duly on bis crop, the same as tuough tho to bueco wore Imported.

Hulls mid Hears ns Lean a Lamb. From the JuctM. First Broker." Fearful difference this from tbe good old times." Hecond Broker. "Yes, Indeed. In those days only our customers patronliod tbe free lunch." Divers Hunting for Cannon Sunk More Than a Century Ago.

Diet of Hog Meat Upon Which Negroes Grow Fat and Whites Get tbe Malaria. SPECIAL COBBESPONDRNCK OF THE TIMES. Savannah, October 20. Scriven county is one' of the most historical counties of Georgia and that triangular position of it known as the fork of Briar creek is the most historical part of Scriven county. Though virtually isosceles, the triangle is nearly equilateral.

Its base is the boundary line between Burke and Scriven counties and is some thirteen or fourteen miles wide, while the folding arms of the Savannah river and Briar creek are each some fifteen miles long, as the crow would fly, although the tortuous course of either stream would make its actual length three times that distance. Briar creek is a creek only in name, In reality it is a turbulent, boisterous stream of goodly proportions, which comes washiug down sometimes within its bounds, sometimes far out of them, according to the amount of rain with which the np country has been favored from the highlands above Augusta, to join the yellow, Tiber like waters of the Savannah river, midway between that city and Savannah. Along what are usually that is, in fair weather the confines of the river and creek' alike are swamp forests, dense and deep, reeking with every kind of semi tropical vegetation, trom the immense and weird cypress to tho fairy like mimosa, from the mighty oak to the most delicate of thorns. But a rainy season of a week or two will convert these forests into lakes extending often several miles from the ordinary bed of the parent stream, thus rendering their redemption, for purposes of agriculture, an impossibility. And these self same forests form a home for all kinds of wild animal life.

The bear is to be found here; deer and wild cat in immense numbers wild cat tle whose ancestors once peacefully chewed their cud in the farm yard, but which wan dered away from homo to form a distinctive class of wild Georgia kine; legions of wild hogs and tui kevs: rattlesnakes, moccassms, water rattlers, cotton mouths and last, but not least, myriads of alligators, from those of crocodilian proportions to the foot loug baby 'gator ust emerged from the parentegg. A BAD LOT. It may be thus inferred that what agri cultural and other pursuits are possible in the fork of Briar creek are performed mid way between the two intractable streams that partially bound it. Along toward tho northern boundary of the fork its base along tho Burke line are not a few pro gressive and well to do farmers, whose re claimed lauds and system of working tho same would do credit to their more favored brethren of the North. But the further south the traveler proceeds in tho peculiar locality in question the more unsatisfactory the scene becomes.

The quantity of arable land decreases, the crops appear to be less successlul, the dwelling houses of the good country people are less prettily kept up and a general air ot lalssez taire is manliest. Even thedarkieshaveevidently fallen into thesame unsatisfactory condition. By reason of their unusual raggedness and general unkemptas pect, their appearances are the more piC' turesque, but their demeanor is less respectful and the aspect of their countenances more sinister. It is not difficult to detect that they have no use whatever for the white man and that they regard him with fear and hatred. These negroesin the south of tho fork are a bad lot.

Their honesty anu morality are at tr.o very lowest ebb and they strenuously resist all attempts at regeneration. There are a few good ones amongst them, of course, but very few. To them the many incorrigible ones is directly due the unsatisfactory condition of the country. Tho climate agrees with them, but is ruinous to the health of every white man whoso lot it is to labor in the open air. Tho stvle of living of the hitter is also opposed to all possibility of nealtn.

Mis staple diet is hog meat fat hog meat for breakfast, fat hog meat for dinner, tat hog meat for supper, the year round the effect of which, under a tropical sun, is a disordered liver and its attendant chills and malarial fever, than which nothing can more undermine the human constitution. Hence a race of sallow men unfit to work, while the negroes remain strong and hearty, but so intolerable iu their every ac tion, that wore the wholo colored race as pestiferous as those of its members in the south of tho fork of Briar creek, there would be no alternative but to put tho negro from oil' the face of the country or under it. And this is tho prevailing sentiment in tho locality iu question. THE HISTORICAL FORK. The historical part of the fork of Briar creek is in its extreme corner, at the con flucnce of tho two streams, where the only sound that now breaks the stillness is the baying, at times, of a few hounds, the occa sional shot of the hunter and the bellowing of hoarse throated alligators.

The spot in question is the property of Mr. S. II. Had don, and it was hero that on the 3d of March, one hundred and eight years ago, there resounded the fierce clatter of arms, the rush of horsemen, the roar of cannon aud tho sharp rattle of musketry. Fiercer huutcrs were after larger fame, and the swamp ran red with human blood.

Although the fight, as chronicled in history, is not one of which Americans aud Georgians are apt to feci proud, on account of tho total discomfiture of our troops, resulting either from the treachery or inefficiency of the American commander, yet this fact will never consign tho spot to oblivion, for justice must bo dono to tho memory of those who made a gallant and heroic resistance and fell fighting bravely iu that swamp for liberty and home. Savannah was in the hands of the enemy, but they had recently evacuated Augusta aud their most northern camp was at Hudson's Ferry ou the Savannah river. The Americans had a large force distributed in several camps along tho river, among the most important of which was that commanded by General Ashe, which consisted of upwards of 2.000 men. General Lincoln, who had a force of 3,000 men at Purysburg, S. had determined to cross the river at Black Swamp and marching down join forces with General Asho.

The British commander, fearing this coalition with the Americans, determined if possiblo to scatter tho troops at Briar creek. Accordingly Lieutenant General Prevost with 1.000 men and five pieces of artillery made a circuitous route through tbe centre of Scriven, crossing the creek probably where Bryan's bridge now stands, and theu bore down upon the unconscious Americans, who littlo dreamed that there was a British soldier nearer to them than Hudson's Ferry. Asho vainly attempted to form his troops into three divisions, but tho confusion was too great and many of them so shamefully fled, the Goner at full speed leading the way. But General Elbert, who commanded tho left wing of the little army, mado a stubborn resistance. His troops fought long and valiantly and it was only when all hope was gone and his men were being mercilessly mowed down that Elbert ordered tbem to ground their arms and surrender as prisoners of war.

The American loss was 340, many of whom were drowned in the river and creek, while the English loss was trilling, being only sixteen killed and wounded. A large quantity of cannon is believed to have then been thrown into tho creek from oil' tho old bridge or into tho lake adjoining tho creek. HUSTINO FOB THE CANNON. It is with tho object of recovering theRe cannon that tbe Sylvan ia Rifles a military company recently formed at the county capital have been sounding the lake and creek in question. Their first attempt at recovering these long lost field pieces was made early In September.

Thirty men of their number, each with thirty different opinions as to the most opportune manner of carrying out the work, camped on the historic old battle field for two days. Tho nights wcro pleasantly spent around the catnp flres and, save for the occasional flit tings of some British ghost and tlin meanings ut times of the restless spirit of some slaughtered American, passed away without any warlike adveuturo, save the killing of an inquisltlvo monster rattlesnake, which made a night attack on the camp and threw the American boys for a while into the most inextricable confusion. For time It Doomed to Obscurity "Pen Portraits of Literary Women." Other Books. Some of Tbem Good Books, That Fall Within Charles Lamb's Definition. When those two active literary workers, Helen G.

Cone and Jeanctte L. Gilder, quoted Charles Lamb's dictum relating to books that are no books "court calendars, directories, pocket books, draught hoards, bound and lettered at the back, and generally all those volumes which 'no gentleman's library should be without' "they were perhaps unconscious that in making their book in its two volumes, "Pen Portraits of Literary Women," (Cassell Co.) they were relegating a good many other books to the category of "books that are no books." Such, at least, will be the effect of their series of "Portraits," for the average reader is not likely to care to know more of such ladies as Hannah More, Fanny Burney, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, Mary Lamb, Joanna Eaillie, Mary Russell Mitford, Harriet Mar tineau, Margaret Fuller, and even Marian Evans (George Eliot), than is told in these happily constituted volumes. There is in them all that is worth remembering of seventeen literary women looked upon as sybils in their day, but who are now only names to intelligent readers. With these two volumes ou the book shelf most of the books that were written by these literary women, as well as all the books that were written about them, may be stowed away among the mass of rubbish that comprises the books that are no books. To David Garrick, Hannah More (1745 1833), was "Nine," or "Her Xineship," deriving the title he facetiously conferred upon her from the Nine Muses.

To George Eliot, who was once one of her disciples, she became "that most disagreeable of all monsters'a blue stocking." To read ono of her poems, as "The Search After Happiness," or "Sir Eldred of the Bower," would now be next to impossible, and either of her plays, "Percy" or "Fatal Falsehood," would be unendurable. Fanny Burney (1752 1840), is a more interesting figure as a woman than Hannah More, and her contact with such men as Dr. Johnson and Sir Joshua Reynolds, affords opportunity for interesting extracts, but neither "Evelina" nor "Cecilia" is readable nowadays. There is little in the life either of Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin (1739 1797) or of her daughter, Mary Godwin Shelley (1797 1851), that can be called literary. It is not the fact that she was the author of A Vindication of the Rights of Women," but her marriage to Godwin that entitles Mary Wollstonecraft to a place in these volumes.and Mary Godwin's elopement with Shelley, not such forbidding books as her "Frankenstein," performs a similar service for her.

Except that she killed her mother in a fit of frenzy and that she was the sister of her brother Charles, Mary Lamb (1764 1847) also would be excluded from the category of interesting literary women. Maria Edgeworth (1767 1849) was certainly literary in her day and the few extracts relating to her are worth preserving, but nothing that she ever wrote is worth reading. These remarks will not apply, however, to Jane Austen (1775 1817), because her novels are to English literature what Fielding's and Thackeray's are links that mark its evolution. The tragedies of Joanna Baillie (1762 1851), and Mary Russell Mitford (1787 1855), are as insipid now as those of Hannah More. Who would be able to read any one of the many books of Lady Blessington (1789 18 19) or her memoirs? Harriet Martineau (1802 1876), George Sand (1804 1876), Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1809 1861), Margaret Fuller (1810 1850), Charlotte Bronte (1816 1855), and her sister Emily and George Eliot (1S19 1S80) all allord material lor interesting chapters, but chapters that of themselves will help to relegate the books of some of them to the category ot books that are no books.

There can be no greater fallacy than that books that have been famous for more than twenty years ought to be read, except by specialists upon whose studies they bear. The well informed man in literary history is not the man who has read the masterpieces of English literature from Chaucer to Tennyson, but the man who has read about tbem. Among general readers it would be next to impossible to find one who has really read the Canterbury Tales or Paradise Lost." There is no reason why anybody should read cither and the same thing is trne of such poems as Moore's "Lalla Rookh," Byron's "Childe Harold," Wordsworth's "Excursion" and Keats' "Endymion." The man of average intelligence should know of them, hut all that is really worth knowing can be learned by the perusal of a few pages judiciously selected for the use of those who aspire to be well informed. These considerations make books like Pen Portraits of Literary Women" valuable at the same time that they relegate the works of their subjects and the elaborate rubbish of the memoir writers and biographers to the shelves of the great libraries. THREE ADDITIONAL SPECIMENS.

Big Books That Are Not Hooks and Little That Are. There are books that are no books from the moment that they leave the bins of the publisher and others that even at the outset are no books to the many, while for the time being they are really books to the few. In the former category must be classed "The Life and Times of John Jay" (l)odd, Mead by William Whitelock, and "The Revolutionary Movement of 1818 9 (G. P. Putnam's Sons), by C.

Edmund Maurice. In the latter category como the two ponderous volumes, Recollections ofaMsnistcr to France" (Charles Scrihner's Sons), by E. B. Wash hnrne. These three works comprise in the aggregate 1,550 crown octavo pages steady reading for a month for an industrious man.

The substance of the four volumes might have been told in twenty pages, and yet all of the three authors must have expected to command tho time of industrious men for the perusal of their big books. John Jay, it must be conceded, is a fit subject among American statesmen for a brief biography, but he was not a man of such prominence that any writer should undertake to write his life" and "times." To show what a small part of his times John Jay was it is only necessary to mention the fact that In two successive chapters of Mr. Whitelock's book Jay's name does not occur at all. Besides, Mr. Whitelock has not the literary skill that would warrant him in writing "tho life and times" of anybody.

His style is stilted, and even his uso of ordinary words is inexact. When he means to say that a lot of schoolboys wcro questioned, ho says they woro "catechised." When he tries to say that a fact was proved, lie says it was testified." Such diction will not do for the life and times of any American statesman. Besides, Mr. White lock's book lias no Index. Had it been worth making at all It would have had one, for the qualities that fit a writer for such a task would render it Impossible for him to forego a guide to the contents of his work, In relating the story of the so called revolutions of 1848 9 Mr.

Maurice thinks it necessary to begin with the condition of Europe in 1815. Five chapters, comprising nearly one half tho volume, aro necessary to bring the reader to the first mutterings of the storm." Mr. Maurice's purpose in writing this book was to link together the revolutionary movement of 1848 9 in Franco, Germany, Italy and Austria, As they had no connection and led to no important results, bis self imposed task was unnecessary. All that Minister Washburne had to tell that la worth telling in regard to the siege of Paris and the Commune, he had already told in his papers In ficribnrrt. It is unnecessary that his recollections should be amplified as they nra In theso two big Volumes.

Mr. Washburne's admirers may care to possess them out of respect for their author, but for the rest of the world they must be books that are no books. On the other hand, there are books that scarcely pretend to be book that go a long TAS no place in our business. We dislike the word as we despise those who adopt it as a makeshift to work off their old stock. One firm slings the English gag, another the reduction expedient, a third tries the greatest show on earth dodgo, and all for expediency sake.

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