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be crushed in a moment. Yes, think,
Go back TO your own struggling days;
stand where he stands now. Night and
day he has been tortured by the thought
of what he might be today-by the fool
ish hope that he might be able TO take
your place for one night. Oh, no; it was
not professional spite-it was only hu-
man longing TO do himself justice. II
that is not TO he. at least you will let
him go as he came. and will answer for
the rest. One day-one day my husband
will succeed. know it-and then he
will thank you!"
And Hyde. stupefied. looked from one
TO the other of us, hesitated, and closed
his eyes. as II 70 shut out the sight OF
her close. imploring face. Then, draw
ign breath, he turned to me, without
the sneer. but incredulously.
And so you think that you could play
Julian-such Julian, mean. as would
Stir that crowd hurrying west at this
moment"
TRY himi" she put in, in q thrilling
whisper. Unconsciously she had said
the cleverest thing she could have said
II only because it spurred his curiosity.
quick" he said, suddenly glancing
at his watch. II have barely half an
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Possesses Great Influence.

About an hours railway journey from
Paris there is remarkable village, the
inhabitants of which spend their lives in
the tree tops. If you look for this Gu
rious spot on the map you will find it
spelt Sceaux. though 1t is perhaps bet
ter known among the Parisians as lie
Vrai Arbre de Robinson"
1t appears that some fifty years ago
NJ Guescenin conceived the idea of
building restaurant in the tree tops
He owned a bit of land at Sceaux, in
which stood a grand old tree In the
branches of this forest patriarch he
erected small dining rooms, which were
reached by rustic staircases- The view
to be obtained from these leafy heights
is unique. To celebrate the unconven-
tional delights OF feasts taken perched
among the branches NJ. Guescenin called
his tree Robinson" dropping the Cru
soc The fame of the tree and its din
ing rooms spread-all social, literary,
artistic Paris made it a point to break
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Miners Cabin in Winter.

than that same family would require in
the hard coal towns.
AS TO the appearance of the coal viii
lagos themselves there is but little diff
ference between the two regions, except
that in the bituminous district one sees
none of the mountains of culm that
characterize the anthracite field. Near
ly every ton of material that comes out
of bituminous mine is marketable.
A noticeable feature of the soft coal
miners is their eagerness for news.
Particularly is this true as pertaining
TO any information from the hard coal
mines nppular pastime of summer
evening or Sabbath is for scores of men
and boys to assemble on the green, p"
or commons, while one OF their number
reads aloud from late copy of news
paper. These assemblages oftentimes
develop strenuous debates. and a
stranger is surprised to hear with what
ease of expression and flow of language
some OF the miners discuss questions.
II is at such public gatherings as these.
as well as In their union meetings. that
many of the leaders of the bituminous
miners become proficient in oratory. 1t
is said of William b. Wilson, now one
of the foremost men of the United Mine
Workers. that his early experiences as a
lublic speaker was gained in congress
corners" on the Arnot common. Today
Mr.. Wilson Is one of the most forceful
speakers before the public.
OF the women of the bituminous
region it can be said that they are far
more familiar and better informed on
the trade conditions and politics OF the
day than are the average women of
Pennsylvania agricultural or social
centers. These women, like the men.
are great newspaper readers, and in this
respect they keep shoulder to shoulder
with their husbands. brothers and sweet
hpnrta
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Each Trip May Be His Last.

Every time he goes down on the little
elevator into that seemingly bottomless
Dit. he knows full well that it may be
, his last trip. He knows that hundreds.
thousands OF other poor unfortunates
have left their families in the morning
to go down on that frail little cage
to be horribly crushed and mangled by
an explosion or fall OF rock, or else suf-
Located by the deadly mine damp" that
! is likely 10 fill these subterranean cav
erns at any moment. He knows Of these
things-he has seen them many times.
Yet down into these death traps they
20, not only by the scores or hundreds,
but by the thousands. Covered from
head to foot with filthy coal dust, and
completely hemmed in by dangers and
hardships. these human beings labor in
these abodes Of horror day after day,
that their families may have bread to
eat and scanty clothing to keep them
from freezing in winter. Such is the
price men pay for a livelihood-and a
very poor one at best.
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Main Street in Soft Coal Village.

dauntless men, taking up the struggles.
and the heartaches and burdens laid
aside by the dead. and providing susten-
ance for the helpless families and chill
dren.
The recent terrible calamity at Johns
town is but recurrence of one of those
tragedies which dot the pages of his
tory. 1t was followed by the same
heartrending scenes-the same examples
of heroism, sacrifice, and devotion.
The world was appalled, for day by the
terrible mortalities. Then it moved on
with its work. and its wars. and its his
tory making, leaving merely a little cor
ner where the tragedy had taken place
to mourn its horrors and losses in
silence
In the Anthracite Region.
In the anthracite mining towns the
conditions of life certainly make ex-
istence thing little to be wished for.
The miners homes are for the most
part poor affairs and cheerless. Large
families of children are raised with lit
tie or nothing before them save the
career and livelihood of their fathers to
look forward TO from childhood. They,
as a matter of course, turn their foot
steps in the same old path-toward the
colliery and the ambitionless life to
which the end is all too frequently
death in one of its most terrible
forms. Unless he is of an exceptionally
hopeful turn OF mind, or one person in
thousand, there is little horizon for
the growing boy in the mining town,
save that which is bounded by the
mines and the confines of his native
town. There is little prospect in life
for him; be must do just what his father
and gran 1father did before him-live
their lives over again. with no breaks
in the monotony and nothing to look
forward to.
And since the strike in the coal
fields has been in progress conditions
have become still more miserable. Men
are without employment. and are man
aging to eke out a bare existence
merely upon the little stipend furnished
them by the United Mine Workers
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There is no rest for these men who
toll away their lives in the bowels of the
earth. 1t is barely daylight when they
descend the main shaft to take un their
days work. 1t is twilight or dark when
they come up to go to their homes.
Little or none of the time that they are
permitted to spend with their families
is passed in the daylight and amid the
sunshine. From morning until night,
and from night until morning. month in
and month out, their lives are passed al
most entirely in one continual round OF
darkness. They start TO work IN The
morning before their children are up,
and they come home just in time to
snatch bite Of supper and be with them
a very few minutes before they are put
to bed. Seldom does anything occur to
break the monotony of their lives.
Little to Stir Ambition.
Apparently there is very little Of con-
is very little to stir a mans ambition
very little for him to strive for; very
little TO gain. Life with these people is
at best bitter fight-that seldom has
but one ending. Every few weeks or
days the news is heralded TO the world
of some new and appalling disaster in
these subterranean caverns. Homes are
made fatherless, families made desti-
tute; whole communities and towns are
cast into sorrow and deep despair, and
the world reads of the catastrophy in
the newspapers and is shocked.
And out of this chaos of death and
shattered hopes and universal grief
there rises but one picture. 1t is the
picture that has been painted and pho
tographed in the eye of nations every
where ever since men began to mine IN
the earth and disasters arising there
from became known. 1t is the picture
of the brothers, sons. friends of the
stricken ones falling resolutely into line
with pick and spade to descend to those
worse than dreaded regions below to
fight their way through tons and tons Of
slipping and sliding rock to rescue the
living and bring forth the dead. 1t is the
picture OF the band of sorrowing but
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Association. Hardships which were all
but uncomfortable before are now intensi-
fed and made considerably more dis
tressing. What the ultimate outcome
of such conditions may be is purely
matter of sDeculation
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lCNCE the attention of the world
has been focused upon the strike
~ of the coal miners in this coun-
try, much has come to light re-
garding the homes and everyday life Of
these toilers Of the underground that
their more prosperous countrymen never
dreamed of or took the slightest interest
in.
To say that the life of the coal miner
Is one OF even comparative ease and
comfort would be to hopelessly attempt
to make facts fit theories. Indeed, when
viewed from the standpoint of the man
or woman of the outer world. whose
daily bread is earned by toll that is
more or less cleanly and done where the
sun shines, the existence of these thou
sands of poor miners and their families,
who rarely or never get beyond the con-
fines of the little towns or communities
in which they live, seems almost unen-
durable. During the time which he
works. the miner is below the surface
of the earth toiling with a pick or
shovel in the damp and dark catacombs
for ten or twelve hours without so much
as catching a glimpse of the light of
day His labor is of the sort that re-
quires the most strenuous physical ex-
ertion. He is cut off from all communi-
cation with the outer world. In heavy
trousers and thick flannel shirt, with
stout shoes and cheap cap to match.
he tolls away in the deep recesses of
the earth, completely buried out Of
sight of single ray of sunshine and
cut off from the pure air and cheering
sounds of the world above. He is vir-
tually a slave-a worm, ever digging,
digging at the black rock far below the
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Rear of a Row of Miners Houses

Association. Hardships which were all
but uncomfortable before are now intensi-
fed and made considerably more dis
tressing. What the ultimate outcome
of such conditions may be is purely a
matter of speculation.
Where Better Conditions Prevail.
But there is a vast difference between
the life and habits of the soft and hard
coal miners. The soft coal miner of
PENNSYLVANIA is not the restless fellow
that his brother of the anthracite field
is. Social conditions are not the same
in the bituminous region as those In
the hard coal district. 4 dollar Will
go much further there than 1t does in
the anthracite towns. Then, too, the
habits of the people do not run to eX-
travagance there as they do with ma
jority of the families of the hard coal
field. Food, as a general thing. is not
so high priced; house rent is lower.
and the grade of clothing-though COM
Portable and respectable-is not equal IN
COSt 10 tue SlyIe "HiSh PiS'"ii ." 'i-N
anthracite fields.
As rule the bituminous towns are
at the edge of farming communities,
thus having a tendency to lessen the
cost of farm products Five dollars a
month pays for a first-grade tenement
house large enough to comfortably ac-
commodate a family of six or seven. The
average miner in the soft coal field,
working as have the miners for year
or more, earns s65 month. His fuel
costs him not more than 81 ton-some
places rs cents and the hauling. The
item OF clothing and shoes, as compared
with those worn out by the hard coal
miner. is considerably less. as the btu
minous or soft coal is not nearly so
destructive 10 cloth or leather. An an
thracite miner requires pair of boots
or shoes every month, a soft coal digger
oftentinies wears his three months.
Have Their Own Gardens.
feature of nearly every family, and
from these the household often raise
sufficient potatoes to last all winter. be-
sides having, in season, good crops of
all kinds of garden vegetables. 1t is
a matter of fact. too. that the amount
of whisky and beer consumed-except by
the Hungarians and Italians-in the
bituminous field of the State is consid-
erably smaller than that which finds
sale in the anthracite region. These are
some of the reasons why a family in the
soft coal fields lives for leas money
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of fire as ever. She is slender of figure.
and has white hair. a wrinkied face.
keen eyes. prominent chin, high cheek
bones, Coarse voice and vigorous
manner. She is full of facts, figures, and
fight, and her strong, warm handshake
is that OF the walking delegate.
Possesses Great Influence.
Her constant association with the
horny handed son OF toll has made her
somewhat like him. Her personality is
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The Lot of the Men and Their Families IN
the BtuTninous Fields Much More Pleas
ant Than That of Those in the Anthracite
RegioR--Tdke d Keener Interest in Life,
Are More Nearly Abreast Of the Tines
Women of the Coal Countries--- "Mothe"
Jones, the Famous Leader of Men =. r.
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His Days Arc Days Of Toll
and His End All Too FIRE.
quentIy Comes in Most
Terrible FOrn-TdRcS.
Ills Life In His Hand Zach
Time He Drops Into the
Great Hole in the Ground
TO Earn His fleager WOge
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-16
SRI
A Country Judge In New York cIty.

From the New York Evening Post.
 Judge Lambert deserves the high praise which has been accorded him for his con- duct Of the latest trial Of the Molineux case. He has got 1t to the jury in the merest fraction of the time consumed be- fore. And his expedition has not been achieved at the cost of justice. The rights of the defendant he has scrupul- ously safeguarded- Nor has the prose cution been limited in it's efforts to prove Molineux guilty, except as the rules or evidence and the decision of the court of appeals have been vigorously enforced by the presiding judge, to exclude irrele- vancies and to prevent anything like a fishing excursion. Judge Lambert has, in fact exemplied in the happiest way the Anglo-Saxon idea of the judicial charac- ter Impartial as the light of day, and without one touch of the hectorfng fash ions of a 1uge d'instruction, he has been clear in his interpretation and application of the law, the enemy only of verbosity and irrelevance, and relentless in com polling both sides to save time and come to the point
 This wholesome lesson trial justices in this country has been read by a country judge. Judge Lambert Is a ''hayseed. " He comes from the bete noire of MT. Coler, ''up the state" Yet he Is only typ ical of the class of men whom the rural voters are Tn the naplt ol placlnB upOn the bench. The truth is, that they know more and care more about judicial fitness than do people in the city. The country and district courts still hold much of their old place in the life of the interior of the state. The leading lawyers of the local bar are watched and sifted in actual trial of their powers. They are talked about on the street corner and in shop and home. Judges, too. in the nice points of their conduct of cases, are discussed and weighed as, 1t Is safe to say, no occu- pant of the bench in this city ever is. The result is a finer sense Of judicial qualification, more ready Jealously in resenting anything like tampertng with the judiciary or lowering it's standards and the election of judges, who are on the whole, of a robuster and of more ath- letic type legally speaking, than their metropolitan brethren. It is one more in- stance of the sounder political ideas of the despised rustic.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-16
General Youna's Speech.

Washington, November 15.-The speech upon the army in the Philippines which Major General Young was credited with having prepared for delivery at the Cham Der of Commerce banquet here Thursday night but which he did not deliver, was not intended for that occasion. General Young was at the banquet during the early part of the evening but left to full fill an engagement with the Mems club of the Church of the Epiphany, where he delivered the address on the army.
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IseIln at Shipyards.

Bristol, R. l., November 15.-C. Oliver Iselin, managing owner of the proposed new sloop for the defense of the Amer ica's cup, visited the shops here today and held consultation with Nat Heres hoff. the designer. Before leaving for New York, MT. Iselin stated that mat ters are being rapidly shaped for begin ming the construction of the new craft. Should there be no delay in obtaining the plating material, MT. Lselin said he looked for an early launching
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MAY BE THE FIRST LYNcHINo.
A Story That May Account for the
 Origin of Very Irregular Verb.

From the Charlotte CN. CD Daily Ob-
 server.
 Readers may perhaps remember the story published in the Observer of how Mrs. John H. Drake of Nash county, saved her family from the ferocious at- tack of the Troy Major Beard by the judicious use of a jug of old Nash brandy. They will recall that Major Beard was severely wounded, captured and finally hanged in Franklin county.
 According to Wheeler this incident re- suited in the introduction into our language of word now in the vocabu- lary of every man-no other than the word '1ynch"-or the expression lynch law" If we may accept Wheeler's au- thority on this. point the word owes it's origin to the following circumstances:
 After Boards capture he was taken to the camp of Colonel Seawell on the bank of Lynch creek in Franklin county A drumhead courtmartial was at once organized and Beard brought before it. As they proceeded to trial some one brought in the report that large band of Tories were on their way to rescue Beard The court was thrown into a panic and after nasty consultation decided to swing Beard without trial. This was accordingly done. Soon after HlOT6 duInenllC news came that the ported pursuit was a fake, and the mem- bers of the court martial recovered their presence of mind. With this restired calmness came the suggestion that Boards execution, being carried out be- fore judgment, was illegal. In order to ease the tender conscences of the judges. the court was reorganized, the body cut down, the trial proceeded, the prisoner condemned, judged, and, no doubt, much to his satisfaction, re-hung The tree on which the body was hung stood on the bank of Lynch creek, and it soon became a common saying in the county round about, when person was accused of crime. that The ought to be taken to Lynch creek" Hence the term Lynch law"
 For the sake of accuracy we may note here that Webster's Unabridged Diction- ary says in regard to the origin of the term. "The term lynch law Is said to be derived from a Virginian named Lynch, who took the law into his own hands. But this Is very doubtful Wheeler says that the incident was re- lated to him by the Hon. B. F. Moore who had the story from the Drake family, 1t is by no means improbable.
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REMARKABLE SUCCESS
of a New catarrh Cure.

A large and constantly increasing ma iority of the American people are catarrh sufferers. This is not entirely the result of our changeable climate, but because modern investigation has clearly proven that many diseases, known by other names, are really catarrh. Formerly the name catarrh was applied almost exclu- sively to the common nasal catarrh, but the throat, stomach, liver, bladder, kid neys and intestines are subject to catarr- hal diseases as well as the nasal pass ages.
 In fact wherever there is mucous mem brane there is a feeding ground for ca- tarrh
 The usual remedies, inhalers, sprays, douches. or powders, have been practical ly failures, as far as anything more than temporary relief was concerned, because they simply dry up the mucous secretions without having the remotest effect upon the iblood and liver, which are the real sources of catarrhal diseases
 It has been known for some years that the radical cure of catarrh could never come from local applcatons. but from an internal remedy. acting on the blood and expelling the catarrhal poison from the system.
 A new internal preparation, which has been on the market only short time, has met with remarkable success as a genuine, radical cure for catarrh.
 It may be found in any drug store. sold under the name of Stuart's Catarrh Tablets, large, pleasant tasting lozenges, composed principally of antiseptic ingredi- ents, Bloodroot, Red Gum and similar catarrh specifies.
 pr. Ainslce in speaking of the new ca- tarrh cure says: T have tried the new catarrh remedy, Stewards Catarrh Tab let's. upon thirty or forty patients with remarkable satisfactory results. They clear the head and throat more effectu- ally and lastingly than any douche or in- haler that have ever seen, and although they are what is called a patent medi- cine and sold by druggists, do not hesi- tate to recommend them as know them to be free from cocaine and opiates, and that even a little child may use them with entire safety"
 Any sufferer from nasal catarrh, throat or bronchial trouble, catarrh of the stom- ach. liver or bladder will find Stuart's Catarrh Tablets remarkably effective, pleasant and convenient, and your drug gist will tell you they are absolutely free from any injurious drug. sss
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-16
WILL INVITE LoUBET.
Suggested That He Go to New Orleans
 On French Warship.

Paris, November 15.-At banquet yes- terday of the Industrial Commercial and Economical society, Deputy Deloncle said that as an outcome of his recent visit to St. Louis he had received infor- nation that the exposition commission had decided to invite President Loubet to visit America
 The programme suggested was that the President go to New Orleans on a French warship in June, 1904, thence be escorted and received by President Roosevelt and after crossing the United States embark at New York on United States warship and return on her to France. During his stay in America entertainments would be organized in his honor as a token of gratitude to France at the cession of Louisiana It was proposed, M. Deloncle added, to include the French senate and chamber in the invitation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-11-16
Insurance Against Surgical Operations
From Harpers Weekly.

From Harper5 Weekly.
 In England people of moderate means are beginning to insure themselves against surgical operations. The plan is that subscribers who pay an annual fee shall be entitled either to free admittance to a hospital or nursing at home and a free operation or to a fixed sum paid down to defray the cost of an operation if one becomes necessary. In England, as here, the cost of surgical repairs to the human body has become progressively great to persons who just manage to pay their way. People who are obviously poor get great deal of excellent surgical and medical treatment in hospitals and elsewhere for nothing, but for the next class above them, a serious illness-espe- cially if 1t involves an operation-is al- most ruinous. It would seem as if the time was near when societies for insur- ance against specialists might be profita- bly, organized in the larger American cities. The specialist has come to be a
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very important-indeed an Indispensable institution, especially to families in which there are children. The office of a family doctor has now become simplifed to the task of coming in and telling the patient which specialist to go to. It Is not that specialists charge too much. for their honorable services are above price. It Is that landlord, butcher, baker, grocer,
 milkman, coalman, dentist and trained nurse do not leave you money enough to pay them appropriately. To subscibe
 considerable sum annually and have all