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The bee., 1902-03-06
DOWN IN THE MINES.


ent mines here.
Quite an interest was taken by the !
mining fraternity in the production
entitled "Miss Hobbs, rendered at
the operahouse last Tuesday night,
and much favorable comment is
heard on all sides.
Tally Gordon now has charge of
the mining machine repairs at the
Arnold mine. A good man in the
right place.
Charles Curtis is hustling around
trying to buy up mules to supply the
demand of the st. Bernard Mining
Company for use in the mines, and
considering the large number rem
dered useless by age, hard work and
accidents, he has no small job on his
hands.
The Empire Coal Company is to be
commended for the energy and de-
termination displayed in trying to
discover the assassins of n faithful
officer lately under their employ.
The Secretary Treasurer of district
No. %, United Mine Workers, makes
his report of money expended from
Oct. LIST, 1900, to Dec. 1st, 1901, a
period of fourteen months.
The amount of money spent on the
so-called Hopkins county strikes"
was $3.50, ,462.52. OF this 81 7,3G0.5O was
for legal services.
The officers and organizers got
SOS, 1855 in salaries and expenses.
The "strikers"G) and incidental
expenses" got $l29,59S.72.
OF course the Secretary-Treasurer
does not analyze the items Of EEK
pense" and incidental expense"
nor disclose the amounts spent IN
the saloons and places Of sport not
mentIoned-in Evansville, Hender-
son, Owensboro and Louisville.
He does not tell of the dwellings,
farms, bank stock, business houses
and loans that good union brothers
claim Wood and others saved out of
salaries of $50 a month.
He forgot to tell how much money
was spent for guns to "shoot out the
scabs of Hopkins county Mines" or
how much money is now invested in
dynamite and other explosives with
which "to blow up the mines
when mayhap certain organizers get
their courage up; said organizers
asserting privately that they have
enough stuff on hand to blow half
the county to h"
Whether Campbell's report salts
fies the dupes who put this money
into his hands or not, the non-union
men of Hopkins county have no
complaint to make.
The Hopkins county miners have
been working steadily while their
neighbor union miners of other
counties have been idle and many of
them camped in armed bodies as
near to the mines of Hopkins county
as they could get. The Hopkins
county miners have put their sur
plus earnings into the savings bank
while their less fortunate neighbOrs
have put their earnings into the
"strike" fund.
AS an index to the effect or Hop
kins county coal operations of the
expenditure by the unionists of over
$780, 900 in fourteen months, the fig
ures given below are interesting.
The production of coal has very
materially increased at the mines of
the st. Bernard Mining Company,
which figures only are available at
the moment of writing. These fig
ures however indicate the status of
the entire mining interests of Hop
kins county, as all mines are operat-
ing to the full extent of their ca
pacity.
The output of the St. Bernard
Mining Co. for January and Febru-
airy of the past three years is as fol-
lows, showing decided increase:
The bee., 1902-03-06
Judge Bailey Dead.

Judge John &. Bailey, the Oldest
attorney of the Dixon bar, died last
week at his home in Dixon. Judge
Bailey had been resident of Dixon
since the town was formed. He was
elected county Judge some years
ago.
The bee., 1902-03-06

A farmer near Urbana, n. y. found
80 mice which had made nests in the
fleece of his sheep. The sheep did
not seem TO mind the intruders.
The bee., 1902-03-06

1t is said that Fitz & Websters
newest, "A Breezy Time" which
will be seen at the Temple, Thurs
day. March 13, has a little more ex-
cuse for existence than most farce
comedies. 1t has a comprehensive
story, and although the story does
not take up, by any means, the time
occupied by the production, it fur
nishes n very good rack upon which
to hang clever specialties that the
various performers introduce.
The bee., 1902-03-06
Scenario.

The following is some of the spec
ial scenic and stage effects used by
the f. j. Carpenter "Quo Vadis"
Company, which comes to the Tenn
Pile, Thursday night, March %:
Peristyle in the House of Petro-
MUS.
The Statue Scene.
The Garden of Aulus Plautius.
Nero's Palace, Rome.
Interior of the Mamertime Prison.
The Coliseum.
The Roman Amphitheatre and
Arena.
Peristyle and View of Nero's Box
at the Arena.
The Burning and Destruction of
Rome, and the Death of Nero.
The Sign of the Cross and Dawn Of
Christianity.
This is a swell attraction and no
one should miss 1t. There will be
a special train from Mortons Gap.
Opium is produced in seven coun-
tries-India, Turkey, Persia, Algiers,
North A,,oarico Aucfralio and China
The bee., 1902-03-06

The st. Bernard employees drew
over half a million dollars in wages
in 1901. Estimated roughly on this
amount of wages the "strike assess
ment" of per cent, as paid by union
miners of Western Kentucky, would
have amounted to $25,OOO on the
wages drawn by st. Bernard en-
ployes alone. Instead of throwing
their money away these thrifty
miners have put their $4,000 and
more in the savings bank for the
benefit of their families.
The bee., 1902-03-06
Letter List.

Darlington, KY, March ..
Brown, ThOs Brown, Minnie
Bishop, Lou Bailey, Minnie
Charder, Lucy Clements, Matte
Epley, Boyd Garrett, Dotha
Miller, Wesley Bobison, Bette
Smith, Chas l. Todd, Allen
Wesery, Charlie Wright, Bert
Wilson, Elmer Miller, Walter
Massey, Nancy Hanson, Willis
Howes, Bell Hodge, Emile
One cent due on all advertised
letters.
The bee., 1902-03-06

Opium is produced in seven cOun-
trles-India, Turkey, Persia, Algiers,
North America, Australia and China.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-09-11

to work their crops to advantage, and
so have rcaped an abundant harvest.
But they have learned something more
In recounting the failures of this peo-
pie Mir. larger says that the Kansas
man first ascribed his failures to the
money power to the per capita cir
cuation,'. 10 Providence. and to nearly
everything else that was mysterious.
but one day he awoke and discovered
that the fault was with himself. and
suddenly the path cleared. From that
time he sought to adapt himself to his
environments and then began the debt
paying. the Improvement OF his home,
and the realization Of years OF hope;
then came the sense of happiness and
the accession Of those good things OF
life that arc summed up in the pleasant
word Of Prosperity.
There came with all this something
else. There came a change in political
sentiment AS soon as the farmer learn
ed that he was to succeed by his own
efforts rather than by the aid Of govern
ment prosperity came, and from the time
that prosperity came. Mr.. Harger says
that the orator of the subtreasury and
fiat money felt his power wane and to-
dav his firm hold on Kansas is gone.
Here is a simple recitation Of fact, but
there is wholesome lesson in the
theory. A few years ago political agita-
tors stirred up this country from end to
end and made the people believe thai
there was something wrong in the gov
eminent. and that there could be no
prosperity until the government should
make more money and distribute 1t to
the people There was prevalent be-
lief throughout the United States that
prosperity could be brought back by leg
islation, and the Republicans are now
pretending that they did bring it by legis-
lation. It is all bosh and nonsense The
only possible credit that the Republican
party can claim that it kept us from
changing our monetary standard As
soon as the fight on this question was
ended confidence was restored and with
the restoration of confidence money re-
turned to the channels Of trade and pros
perity came in the natural order Of
Things Away with the false idea that
legislation makes prosperity or that 1t
can make prosperity. Prosperity comes
though the intelligent effort of the peo-
ple and the less the government inter-
rercs the more stable our prosperity viii
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-09-11
PSYCHOLOGY OF LOVE.

The Virginia Pilot, that bulwalk of Nor
folks liberties and the apotheosis of all
that's good and true and beautiful upon
the littoral of Hampton Roads. has been
having a good time over our Sunday
morning dissertation upon the sentiment
OF love Others, too, want to KNOW" but
the N-P. is elaborate in its bantering
comments. Well, the V.-P. may cackle at
The Times and it may apostrophize the
rauon and it may call upon the little shirt
less god 10 twang away softly yet we
shall remain serene and unshaken. be-
cause we confidently believe that in the
secret soul of that corporation its sym
Iathies. which are large, are all with US
in this tender mood Yes. we are glad
occasionally to steal away from the hur-
ly-hurly of politics, the cares of the bus
iness world. 'fergit' the latest scheme for
hunting the octopus TO his lair and
discourse of love" and We are free to
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-09-11
WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH kAN>
SASo

few Years ago a great calamity cry
came out OF Kansas. The people de-
ciared that they were unable TO make a
living that they were about to be eaten
UP by debt, that their property was fast
slipping away from them, and they
blamed the government and the money
power for ii all. To-day Kansas is one
of the most prosperous States in the
Union. In five years ending with the
crop Of 1901, Kansas raised 3eS116,4Gi
bushels of wheat and 6Sl, 1896 bushels
OF corn. The average total value of the
wheat and corn crops during the past
ten years was over $4,000, 600; the ave-
rage total product of farm and ranch
Tor twenty years has been s142, Ss1,3so
annually.
The State banks had on deposit in
December, 1886. sl4,55sooo; in September.
1901 they had S4o,oon,0pa while the ma
1ional banks had si5,DO0.0o0 more. For
the past I'VE years, besides reducing
mortgages and laying UP sSO.0a0.ooo in
Increased bank deposits. the State has
made progress In its public finances,
refunded S5,9D0.NDD Of bonds at a saving
of / to 2ls per cent. In interest rate. In
1886 a man from Kansas Went to Chicago
TO sell per cent gold county bonds.
A financial paper noting the incident
said that the man might as we'll try
to sell stock IN an rrisating scheme on
the planet Mars as to dispose of securi-
t,n;,, =, 80
Kansas In less than three years from
that time seven bond houses had sala-
rled representatives travelling from
county TO county in Kansas cndeavor-
srs 10 secure rcfunding bonds at 4 and
per cent.
These interesting figures and facts are
gathered from an article in the Atlantic
Monthly by Charles N. Harscr, who
says that it is usual TO ascrbe all this
to the good crops OF the last few years
but that this is not entirely fair. Dur
ing all the dark days from the burst
Ing OF the boom in 1857 until the clouds
lifted a decade later says he, there
was in most homes a pinching and
saving of which the outside world knew
nothing. Those who Went through il
kept up stout hearts. They acquired a
hatred OF debt in every form and made
many VOW OF restraint TO be fulfilled
in that longed for blessed era when
their creditors should be satisfied" In
short, they learned in adversely the les
son of economy and thrift, and SO laid
the foundation of success and prosperity.
He tells us also that they learned how
TO diversity their crops. learned how TO
adapt their crops to the Kansas soil
and conditions OF climate. learned how
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-09-11
TIE CASE OF JOHN KING.

Jchr NJ. King. on trial before Justice
crntchacd for accepting brioe "mie
a ,esaber OF the Board Of Aldermen, was
yesterday adjudgcd TO be guilty. and ms
punishment fixed at twelve months IN
sail and fine oe one hundred dollars.
il was in evidence that King, as a mem
her of the Street Committee. approached
a certain contractor, who was bidding
70, city paving and demanded a percent
,rn of the money to be paid for the work
70, contractor thought, 10 use his own
-4zsression that King was in command
OF tie situation; that he could at least
delay action on the bids which had been
submitted and that it was cheaper to
purchase the obstacle and get it out OF
the way 1t was further in evidence that
q deaf was made with King; that King
did withdraw his opposition; that the con-
tracts were finally awarded and that King
received his pay Another interesting fact
that came out in the evidence is that
three contractors, who were supposed to
be in competition and who were supposed
to be submitting competitive bids to do
tie city's paving, were in fact in sort
of combine, and each knew Of the others
bid before the bids were handed in. And
sc, while some OF the bids were lower
and others higher. each contractor man
aged to get his share Of the work, and
the combine got ali the work-at its own
price.
It was in evidence that King knew Of
this combine and that instead Of expos
ing and denouncing it. he dickered with
IT and traded with it and got his share
of the spoils although he was q mem
Der OF the Board Of Aldermen and under
oath to protect the interests of the city.
II King did this outrageous thing, tho
punishment imposed by Justice Crutch-
geld was very light. King was elected TO
n position of trust and Of honor by his
fellow citizens, and if he betrayed it, he
dict Arnold. The public official who bar
tiers away the rights and interests Of the
people for his own gain, commits high
crime against Democratic government
ana american society, dllt OeStlNeS 10
be punished to the full extent of the
law This is a matter with which We
cannot afford to trifle. Apart from the
question of public morals. the safety of
our institutions depends upon the honor
and honesty of our public officials. If
our Lawmakers can be bought for a
peice. then is our form of government
worse than a failure and the public in
terest is in jeopardy every hour.
King claims that he is innocent, and
that the contractors who testified against
him have sworn falsely One of them did
confess that he had made different
statement before another tribunal in or
DER to protect King. Therefore, King has
appealed his case to the Hastings Court.
and. of course, we shall not pass judg-
ment upon him until the verdict of the
jury shall have been rendered.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-09-11
EDUCATION IS DYNAMIC"

Some time ago The Times quoted 4
distinguished teacher in this State as
having said that Education IS dyna-
mic
Our esteemed contemporary, the Char
1otte Gazette is rather disposed to make
fun OF the assertion. It says:
Not remembering the application of
the word in any Of the processes of cdu-
cation. and knowing that electricity was
used for lighting purposes, we considered
how the method of generating electricity
could be applied to the development of
mind. We are an old 1ogy and cannot
be supposed familiar with all modern
methods. Was there a process by which
a child could be subjected to the action
of dynamo and the infant mind could
be pulsed to quick and successful ac-
tiv1ty. Eureka,
The trouble with our contemporary is
that it he's given to this term a COM
mercial definition, which is its secondary
and not its primary meaning. The word
dynamic comes from the Greek word
meaning power. Pertaining to mechan-
icaI forces not in equilibrium; opposed
to static That is the definition given
by the Century Dictionary, and by ex-
tension it means casual, effective mo-
tive, involving motion or change. Dy
manic imlIas evolution, development, and
that is just what education is or should
be-
Education is process of growth.
Education is the means of teaching the
young idea how to shoot" In olden
times teachers had an idea that educa-
ton was a process of stuffing, he Of
flee of the teacher being to put some
thing into the boy by word of mouth or
by the application Of the rod. An old
Virginia lawyer said some time ago that
when he was boy the only board OF
education that his school knew anything
about was a pine single, and that while
it might not have made the boys learn,
1t certainly made them smart
But education cannot be poured in, or
beaten in with pine single. 1t is just
as the Virginia, teacher said-it is
dynamic The office of the teacher is to
train the mind of the student. The ac-
QUESTION of knowledge is merely Incl
dental to education. the prime object be-
ing to develop the native talents and
moral instincts. This is all implied, by
the way, in the very derivation of the
term education. It is a leading OUT
process and that's what education means.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-09-11

admit that we arc not lacking of inspira-
tor when the occasion arises.
The writer OF the v.-P.,s Interpretation,
st any rate, betrays himself. All the
world loves a. lover. and he is undoubt-
cdly like us a lover Of love. But our con-
Temporary Is puzzled with our physioloS-
ical references. however readily he may
comprehend the psychology OF the gentle
rassion Really. though, recent investiga-
ton has made the discovery that the first
impulses of primitive love are distinctly
t:aceable to a couple of little lobes at
the base OF the brain. These may be agl-
tated by any number of highly favorable
mental Impressions in either man or
a woman, until, as we hasten to add the
heart is suffused so thoroughly that 1t
burns out all lesser fires. Here is where
our remarks about the eyes, the windows
Of the SOUL come in.
And yet, after all, they say that love is
blind, so it would seem not to make any
difference whether the lover looks at his
sweetheart from the front or the back of
his head. He loses his head anyway.
Yes. he loses his head and loses his heart,
and yet we hear that he gets In return
for them a. better half. Really, it is all
a very puzzling business, isn't it, V.-P.:
Yet sweet age
"swceter still than this, than these, than
all.
Is first and passionate love;
It stands alone like Adonis' recollection
Of his fall;
The tree of knowledge has been plucked,
all's known,
And life yields nothing else worthy to re-
call"
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-09-11
MR. BRYAN TALKS SENSE.

Mr.. William J. Bryan said in his
speech at joplin, Mo, that the consti-
tutlonal amendment President Roosevelt
is now talking about is not meant for
the regulation trust, but to take the
power to control trusts away from the
States and so protect the trusts
Mr. Bryan is right. President Roose-
ye!t's idea is TO make a strong govern
ment and let the national government
take as much as possible Of the power
of the States away from them and con-
centrate it at Washington.
Harper,s Weekly, discussing the same
SUBJECT, says that Mir. Roosevelt's pro-
posal is revolutionary, and makes the
same point that The Times made soon
after the speech was delivered, that his
proposal is more centralizing than any
measure ever suggested by Alexander
Hamilton. In a word, says Harper's
Weekly, the path upon which Mr..
Roosevelt entered in his Providence
speech would If, with unfiinching logic,
he should pursue it to the end, lead
him straight to Socialism, for only in
Socialism can be found the efficient in
strument of coercion which he seems to
covet''
70 tortlty its argument Harper s
Weekly quotes from the speech of Judge
Rose. of Little Rock, Ark, before the
American Bar Association. in which he
directed attention to the enormous
NJr oapcavait'c frnnOSnG
constitutional amendment would i1npart
to the lobby at Washington. He said
That inperilled corporations would then
have a tremendous incentive corruptly
10 influence legislation, and the con-
sciences of legislators would be exposed
- ,emrtations unprecedented, if not ir-
rcsistible We have time and again
said in discussing the subject that if
Congress should have the power of ex-
elusive control over the great corpora
tons of the country the corporations
would control Congress.
we have also said that the great dam
ger of corporations is in their control of
legislation. SO long as the people rule
and so long as the people have honest
and courageous men in their legislative
bodies corporations will not run rough
shod over .he land, bit if corporations
once get control of the law-makinG
bodies we shall then indeed be a trust
ridden people 1t would be reckless for
the individual States TO reiinquish their
right to regulate corporations within
their own borders and delegate that
mower to The Federal Congress That
would make it so much the easier for
the corporations to control legislation,
and we might soon have in Congress,
as there was IN the Legislature of the
state of Missouri an oath-bound clique
of rascals who for a price would trade
with corporations and give them what
they desired.
When president Roosevelt was in the
South the other day he modified his
statements and made his plan as ami
able and plausible as possible, but 10
matter in what honeyed words he couches
1t. it is the same dangerous plan and
the people should beware Of it.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-09-11
With a Comment or Two.
The Henry Bulletin just about hits ii

'''ii' {. OOitIllC'il VI W.
The Henry Bulletin just about hits the
nail on the head when it says:
And lastly. if you are a respectable,
law abiding white man, you need have
no fear of being refused the right to reg
lister. "-Richmond Times.
That may be the general rule, but there
are fredericksburg Free
Lance.
The editor of the Free Lance, we be-
leve is one of the exceptions. having
changed his residence in the last twelve
months. There are others.
The chestnut crop in the mountain
regions OF Pennsylvania and Virginia is
said to be unusually large this year. And
the show season is just opening.-Macon
tGa) Telegraph.
But unfortunately the clowns and end
men in the shows are not availing them
selves OF this years crop. They are still
Using an aged growth.
To the young folks this is an eventful
day witnessing as it does the opening
of the public school session.-Roanohe
World.
Yes, one of those days, the events of
which the young folks will delight TO
postpone.
Won't somebody please come to the
front and tell what other members of
the CITY Council had gas money in
their pockets ?-Clcveland Leader.
And so rirtuous Cleveland has caught
the prevailing disease.
fay
board Of trade could get But the trou
bic lies in the fact that we hav2At the
board of trade.-Roanoke News.
Where is your Chamber OF Commerce
that once did such wonderful things for
the Magic City?
The Richmond Times has a long and
delightful editorial on love and the ana
Iysis thereof. Is it possible that the light
ming has struck some member of the
Times staff?
Maybe so and maybe not. Anyhow We
are not going to give anybody away. Ger
tainy we should be happy to congratulate
a brother if it was sympathy that led
his imagination to peep between the
lines.
Norfolk is a dreadful city 1t smells
bad, 1t is noisy and its people hustle
much after the manner of New York
people, but the smell! is depressing, and
we felt relieved when we got out of the
place We went from Norfolk to New
port News, and there we enjoyed our
selves. Editorial Correspondence, Cliff
ton Forge Review.
Now for a renewal of the rumpus be-
tween Norfolk and Newport News
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-09-11
THERESIDENCE CLAUSE,

In commenting on the ruling OF the
Fredericksburg Court that under the new
Constitution a residence of two years IN
the State and one year in the county,
city or town is necessary as q prere-
uuisite to registering. the Newport News
Iimes-Herald says that this is just one
of the provisions in the new Constitution
that is hardly what was intended by it's
makers.
If our contemporary will question some
of those delegates who had most to do
with framing the suffrage clause Of the
Constitution, it will discover that this
provision was we'll understood, and was
intended to apply as the Fredericksburg
Court has ruled. Major William a. An
derson, who was a member of the Suf-
f-age Committee, says that every soli-
tary plan which was considered by the
committee contained this provision. Mem
l,erS, of the convention had satisfied them
selves that this was necessary in order
to get rid of the shiftless, floating vote
among the negroes. The Constitution Of
Mississippi, the Constitution of Louisiana
and the Constitution OF South Carolina all
contain similar provisions. Major Ander-
san saws that this has done more than
almost anything else in those States to get
rid of the undesirable negro vote.