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animation satisfactorily, they We're made
miners and given chambers of their own.
*
This long apprenticeship was passed
through by many a fairly well educated
young man, who knew that fair wages could
lie made by a good man, and that his faith
er's occupation offered him as good a field
Of eEdeavor as any other.
But about 1888 many more mines were
opened up mine labor became scarce. and,
the mine owners toresaw that wages would
probably rise to meet this condition, as well
as to meet tire Increasing cost of living.
Just at this time began the foreign invasion.
Almost imperceptibly at first came few
Bohemians. Then the Hungarians arrived.
but not in alarming numbers. But in a lit
tie while iocust-lke swarms of Russians.
LIthuanians and slavs swept over the coal
fields, just as of old their ancestors swarmed
over Europe. The Poles and Italians, too,
began to arrive in large numbers and set
tied around the mines
Now. indeed. there was no dearth of labor
to be had. The inevitable result followed
the less civilized race supplanted and drove
out the more civilized. 1t was the Russian
peril brought to the very hearthstones OF
the American miner
There IS nothing more COMMONPLACE in
the teaching of economics than that where
two commodities are offered for sale in
the same market at different prices the
consumer chooses the one of the lower
price. If other conditions be equal The
consumers of labor in the anthracite coal
fields are largely the railroad COMPANIES
controlling mines. With an overslippIy of
labor offered for sale to them they chose
the er-priced-the labor of the ncwcorn
ing peoples of the Slavonc races The
Enghsh-speaking miners accordingly, be-
ing compelled by their higher standard of
living to set higher price upon their labor
were slowly, but surely, forced out OF the
market.
Census statistics show that the popula-
ton Of foreign-born EngliSh-spea5ng races
in the anthracite coal regions fell from
"a per cent of the total foreign born in
1850 to - per cent in 1900, while the popu-
lation recruited from central Europe in
creased in the same time to &c per cent
DR.. Frank Julian Warne. research
worker in economics of Pennsylvania Uni
versity, tells of incident which graphl-
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ell, the foreigner has gotten things straight
ened out
Certainly the SIav women are becoming
less beasts of burden and Slays men better
looking and better dressed since the advent
of Mr. Mitchell, and the entire anthracite
country has a more civilized and more pros
porous air.
magazine writer published a story i'm n
recent issue of q popular periodical in which
he presented what was considered some
what oYerdraWn picture of the Slav miner,
drunk with power. He pictured the entire
anthracite country as united 10 crush. by
means Infamous, to say the least, every de-
parture from the precepts Of unionism. Per
haps the anthracite country is oveTeuthu-
siastic In its ''uuionism," but its enthusiasm
is aroused by its bitter experiences and the
comparative good which has come to il by
the awards Of the strike commission. This
is perhaps, the critical period the hour OF
trial, of the Slav mine worker. If he does
not lose his head it viii not be long before
the second generation-the Slav-Anerican-
will appear taught In our schools and edu-
Gated in our ideas. to live and act according
to the best standards OF American working
men.
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taken bound to a ship. and brought over to
England. To him was given the command
of the most seasoned division of the inVad-
ing armieS)
The French division was led by Lord
Wolseley in person, with Gen. Miles as sec
ond in command; 1t consisted solely of the
small standing army and the new leVies
from the United States; Australians and
Canadians combined followed Lord Roberts
to Cronstadt; and the Latin races of South
America were led by Sir Evelyn Wood into
the Bay of Naples
The same general system of tactics was
adopted by each of these armies-the tao
tics of Fabius; Ill armed, unsklled and ip-
coate, as were the hosts with which they
fought those hosts were still overwhelming
in number, desperate in temper. The idea
OF the white men was to wear them out
by CALLING sorties and swift retreats; to
demoralize and undermine them by stra-
tegic subtleties, harassing attacks and
untiring maneuverlng.
The campaigns, accordingly. were long
drawn. The setting sun of the century
was already on the point of disappear
ance. when, simultaneously in Lombardy
and at Moscow. the last armed mob of
yellow men in those countries scattered
10 the winds.
But through all that space of plain
from Waterloo to Quatre Bras the con-
flict between the small army. now an
army of veterans, and the large army.
now not large, was still at issue. And
In the fiat lands round Stralsund. Will
helm with his English, was hard put to
It to maintain footing.
1t was here that the great browning
event of. that world drama of the yellow
deluge transacted itself the 25th of
August 1900.
It was toward in the afternoon; a
dull. hot day. which made the outposts on
both sides rely rather upon their ears
| than seek to penetrate with the eyes the
| marsh mists that enveloped the plain.
| The kaiser, in harmony with long tried
tactics, had organized that morning re-
~
| from the wings of his army. for the pur-
pose of hurting it in well-tlmed sally
| upon the advance lines of the Chinese.
| The division consisted of the Seaforths,
| the LIST Royal Dragons, the Royal Irish
class; cavalry and infantry being sup
ported by nine batteries of Horse Gun
ners. The corps rested till the afternoon
| on the seward slopes, somewhat toward
| the left of the line of Notifications The
| rank, chill mist thickened from hour to
| hour.
| The division consisted of not more than
! 10000 infantry and 5000 sabers, body
not too unwieldy for agile movement and
ready retreat yet large enough to leave
llotiouless behind il ten times its number
pigtails.
| ever the plain. 1t was commanded by
| Lieut.. Gen. Henderson of the Bluffs.
The Chinese army at this time was not
without discipline of kind; 1t had seen fire,
| and stood 1t. and returned ii with effect. II
| had become genuine instrument of war.
rhe alarm that the white men were upon
| their center was no sooner given than the
! advance ranks put themselves in position
| to receive the onset of the English; and
| when o hot fire from all arms came pouring
1 into their midst they only wavered slightly
by the time the white infantry had come
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cally illustrates the results OF the foreign
invasion:
Prior to the inauguration of the strike
of 1902 he says, Il witness to
eviction scene In one of the mining patch
es of the hard coal region of Pennsyl-
Fania A patch is small group of houses
situated near a colliery, and used as resi-
dences by the mine employees. The houses
in this instance had been occupied up to
the time of the eviction by members of
EngHsh-speaking races engaged in the
mining of coal. Through the harsh opera
ton of Industrial forces they were in ar
rears for rent to the mining company
which owned the houses, and their belong
ings were being put out on the public high
way by the constable and his deputies
One particular house had been the
home of the families of d Scotchman and
his son. These two men, with their wives
and their three small children of the
younger of the men, occupied the four
rooms-two on the first floor and two on
the second. OF the seven members of the
household the two men were the only
wage earners All their household effects
on this eviction day were piled along the
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CHAPTER XXXIV.
The Black Spot.

With tie death of Hardy the mInuter de
tell OF our chronicle must end.
The results Of his malignest act OF enmity
against the yellow race-results far surpass
ing In horror and vastness those of any
Of his other acts-he did not live to witness.
II Is certain that he could never have ex-
pecied so widespread a result from the dis
tribution OF the injected Cinnamon about
the European aoasss. for the simple reason
that he did not know of Yen How's inaugu
ration OF the Yellow Gods at Paris which
Inauguration was the chief cause of the
universality on the continent of the new
black death.
As soon as an idol-less Chinaman was
grtped by the Inalady. even saw the
black spot on a neighbours cheek, his first
instinct was TO rush toward the one place
of hope-the temple at Paris. And he
rushed he went spreading far and Wide that
winged plague, that more putrid cholera,
designating 1t among thousands, who, In
their turn. rushed TO infect wide millions.
Within three weeks Europe was a rotting
charnel house
But there came check 10 the spread of
the malady. 1t was effected partly by the
bullet and partly by fire. From every army
headquarters troops were drafted abroad
by the japanese generals. with the mission
OF shooting down every plague-infccted per-
son. Entxe towns were surrounded by
armies and then burned with all they con-
tanned over Europe these great holoeaust;
mixed the solemn flares OF their funeral
hreS with the running shrieks OF massacred
millions. China had turned her glutted
sword upon herself; and on the earth was
heard the walls, and seen the smoke, of
T9Phet
Yet ia the course OF some FIVE months the
plague was over. the flames died down the
nassacres ceased: and stiIl the white races
found themselves confronted with the long.
enormous task OF clearing out of Europe
over hundred million yellow men
The work was only made possible by the
fact that Immediately on taking possession
Of a country. each Chinese army of occt-
patton had. as have explained split
itself up. become demobilized, and filed
the towns and villages like ordinary set
tiers, after slaughtering those of the inhab-
itants whom they found there.
But in each of the old European countries
a nucleus OF the great nomad hosts had
been ordained by the forethought of Yen
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boxes sung across their backs. The wom-
en-, of whom there were but few. carried
with seeming ease huge bundles. one on top
of the head and one under each arm, and,
like the men, represented beast-of- burden
adapta bility TO the most eXacting physical
labor. Eight men and one woman took up
their quarters in the house in which the
families of the Scotchmen had resided. The
cooking utensils of the newcomers were in
djcati of their hard necessities, being
meager in quantity and of poorest quality.
Chairs and bureaus were conspicuous by
their absence; nor were beds carpets
among their household effects, the new oc-
cupants being content with rolling them
selves in resembiances of blankets and
sleeping upon the uncarpeted floor. Their
supply of clothing was limited to the gar
ments they wore"
DR.. Warne's picture is not overdrawn, at
least. those who have lived in the coal
glon declare. The newcoming races earned
much less and spent much less than the
English speaking miner. 1t was necessary.
II American standards were to be preserved.
TO convert this raw, un-Americanized ele
ment to the realization of his power as a
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~ 80 ANY persons hold the opinion that
IA "a tHe hard coal miners in the an
! az 4 Juragitc region OF Pennsylvania
/ v ii. are always striking. Frequently
uu the streets Of the city, COM
fortal.y Dire. sed men. who so to work at ,
am. and quit at 80 pm. are heard to
strongly Geprer8tc the position of the min
eis iu demanding that they be required to
work ro more than eight hours day under
the earth for the average OF $50 a month
These who have studied the situation de-
clare that the problem before the miners
OF tle anthracite region IS not one of wages
solely THE battle-for thus it IS designated
is the battle Of the American skilled work
man TO maintain the American standard
Of living, to- which lie has grown accus
toned, tie standard which makes him pre-
eminent among the workmcu of the world
and which the Slav invasion has so notor
ousiy injured. This miners union is not,
as many suppose. a combination of foreign
crs who do not know where the limit of
demand should be placed. but it Is a com
biuatUH formed by the English speaking.
America n-horn miners. controlling by then
voice and influence the foreigner, that de
mauds for the miner and the allied branches
OF mining labor adequate wages. hygienic
homes and conditions Of work, safeguarding
against accidents. the abolition of chic
labor ana other things which are given to
most American woTkmcn as a matter OF
course.
Twenty years ago the population of the
Lackawanna and Wyoming valleys was
made up largely OF Irish Welsh English
and German settlers; men who had come
to the InineS before the civil war, who
built homes and raised their children ac-
Cording TO American standards of living
Some of these children are today eminent IN
many other walks of life and professions
Others followed the pursuit Of their fathers
went into the coal breaker first perhaps,
and picked the slate from the coal before
the latter was crushed. Then. probably.
they tended Il vcntilating gate in mine.
and later drove Il mule. became driver"
or maybe boss driver From this they
may have become mine lsborers, loading the
coal into the ears after the miner has blast
Cd it down. and then. II they passed an ex-
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possessor of the right TO demand adequate
wages, and this the work accomplished
by the union of which Mr.. John Mitchell is
the head. Today there are no more stauch
union men than these very same foreigners,
and the remarkable freedom from violence
of the last coal strike shows how well these
unusually turbulent and heddstrong people
have been disciplined by the miners organi-
"a alton. Already the effect is seen in the
miners communities The Polish people,
especially. seem disposed to buy and i'm
prove their homes. to dress neatly and send
their children to schools. Churches are
springing up all through the newer mining
villages, some surmounted by the Roman
cross, others with oriental towers and the
triple cross of the orthodox Greek rite.
TO be sure, the Slav sometimes make the
mistake of telling the county Judge when
applying for naturaliza ton papers, that John
Mitchell is President Of the United States
but since Mr. Roosevelt's visit to Wilkes
barre last fall. when he addressed a meet
ing from the same platform with Mr.. Mitch
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highways bureau, stove, straw ticks,
several chairs, rag carpet or two with
here and there cheap painting or lftho-
graph scattered among boxes, kitchen
utensils, separated parts of beds, etc
These and other belongings We're such in
quantity and cumbersomeness to make
necessary the employment of a wagon with
horse and driver to remove them from the
roadway. This description would apply
equally well to the scenes presented at the
other miners houses In this particular
patch on this eviction day.
THE houses unwiiingly vacated by the
E,nglish-speaking mine workers later be-
came the abodes of representatives OF the
Slav races, which nationalities have been
pouring into the anthracite-pr producing coun-
ties in large numbers the past twenty-five
years and more. These Savs came not
along the highway, with their household
effects in wagons, but by trail across the
mountains from the railway station at Ha-
zleton, with their belongings, few In mum
Der. I'm blanketed bundles and trunk-like
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English Libel Suit
Due to Printers "Pi"
Special Correspondence Of The Star.

npecIal Correspondence Of The Star.
LONDON, March % 1896
Libel laws in England are enforced with
great severity, and accidents of the kind
that will happen IN the best regulated
newspapers occasionally have to be paid for
just as though they were the products of
yillainy and malice aforethought. An in
stance of this occurred the other day which
has caused a Surrey newspaper to be
mulcted in $50 damages. Going to press
in q hurry. two stories got mixed up, one
relating TO a womans suit for divorce and
the other to police court case.
The transition from one to the other must
have baffied good many readers. 1T had
been held in Il very old case" ran the re-
port, that when the donor remained in
possession, deed of gift that the persistent
annoyance and blackmaii would not be al
lowed to go on. Witness had her under
observation. But newspaper readers are
hurried people In these days, and probably
many gave up the sentence as uninteligible
and saw nothing improbable in the eventual
fact that 'she'-the wrong she
bound over in $50 TO keep the peace for six
months. But having failed to get divorce,
she here q brilliant chance to obtain
financial solace for here disappointment.
Accordingly she brought suit for damages.
and In vain the editor and foreman of the
COMPOSING room endeavored to make a
such a blunder might happen, and how
impossible ii was under modern newspaper
conditions to take such precautions as
would prevent 1t
Meanwhile the French courts have just
decided that the use of geological meta
phor, rejecting the mental capacity Of a
student at school, is not libelous. A
schoolmaster In the department of the
Ariege. sent boy home with this inscrip-
ton on his exercise book. This pupil is ;tn
ass" The indignant father promptly sum
moned the schoolmaster before the jude
de paix" He commended that the use OF
the word ass constituted libel not only
upon the boy, but upon his relations. since
If the pupil was donkey his whole family
must logically and zoologically. be donkeys
too In fact the application of the term,
counsel argued, constituted grave refee-
ton upon the genealogy of the recipient.
The Judge took that view of Ii, too. and
gave a verdict against the schoolmaster-
The schoelmaster however. appealed to
the court of cessation which reversed the
verdict. holding that the word lass APP
piled to schoolmaster to a dull pupil
should be construed aphoricaily and
literally The decision has caused great re-
joicing among French pedagogues. who al
ready suffer from the disadvantage of be-
Ing prohibited from using corporal punish
ment
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1906-11-19

The Zoroastrian faith acknowledges
Ormazd, Ahura Mazda, Lord Wis.
dom," as the supreme god, with six
archangels, Amesha Spenta, and q
company of angels, Ynzata, about him
to rule and guide the world. The in
fernal host of fiends and archfiends
who war against heaven and strive to
destroy the future life of man Is led by
Anra Mainyu, the evil spirit. In dis
cussing with these Zoroastrians the
subject OF tie origin of evil I found
that they look upon the supreme being,
Ahura Mazda. as comprising within
himself the two powers of good and
evil-namely, Spenta Mainyu, the holy
spirit. and Anra Mainyu, the evil spir-
it. This Is similar to the monotheistic
view held by the Parsis of India in
opposition to the statement frequently
made that Zoroastrianism is pure dual
ism. They believe also in the resurrec-
ton Of the dead, which their faith has
taught them since early times, and this
doctrine is connected with the belief
that there will come saviour or mes
siah, called the Saoshyant.-A. V. VIII
liams Jackson in Century.
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How to Keep Plants From Freezing

How to Keep Plants From Freezing.
I'm placing plants for the winter sea-
son should try to get window with
a southeasterly exposure, where they
will always have plenty Of light and
most Of the morning sun, and put them
about six inches from the glass, so that
during the severe weather they will not
be close enough to the glass to become
nipped," says a writer in the New York
Telegram. "On especially bitter days
a piece Of paper wrapped around them
might protect them and prevent chill
that would retard the growth. II a
plant should be frozen. the best treat
ment Is ice water applied with industry
continuously from twenty to thirty
minutes. when it should be wrapped in
heavy cloth previously wrung through
cold water and put In cold, dark
room, preferably the cellar or an out
door shed, where 1t can be laid on the
ground. Little by little the cloth is
made warmer and the plant Is allowed
more light, SO that ut the end Of a week
1t should have entirely recovered and
be ready to resume its natural course
Of living. Yellow leaves or dead ones
should be removed, SO that they will
not sap the life of the plant. l believe
In cutting them off with a sharp knife
giving the instrument a quick upward
movement that will result in a clean
cut"
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How to Tighten Mourning.

The rules concerning deep mourning
says the Philadelphia Ledger, are not
as strict as they used to be, particu-
larly for young women. After the first
month you may wear very plain white
ruching. 1t depends very much upon
the feelings Of the individual when
white may be introduced. but after
wearing very deep mourning with a
long veil, according to strict etiquette,
the mourning should be first lightened
by wearing a short veil and less severe
garb. The rules for deep mourning are
as follows:
A widow for a husband: The full pc,
Rod is two years. Black trimmed with
Grape during the first year. During the
second year black Is worn for nine
months and half mourning for three
months.
A daughter for parents: Grape six
months, black for three months and
half mourning for three months.
For sister or brother: Grape for
three months. plain black two months
and half mourning for one month.
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HOQUlAM.

Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. n. ScammoDs OF
Westport, are spending the week in Ho'
GUAM.
Mrs. Nose Freeland was taken sud.
denly i'll Friday night with fainting
spells caused bv heart trouble.
TO. Clark OF Seattle is in the city on
a business trip. Mr.. CLARK is the guest
OF Mr.. Rockwell at the Pomona.
Mrs. VIM. Kelley, who has been suf-
fering from an aocess in her side, is re-
ported very low. Her sister in Tacoma
was sent for.
Harry Heermans and wife returned
I Thursday night from Olympia. They
we're accompanied by A. G. Little, OF
Raymond.
Lucas Hall and wife returned from a
trip to Iowa Thursday. They report
cold weather, and are glad to get back to
Hoquiam, and have no desire to go East
for some time to come. Mr.. Hall is a
brother of &. T. Hall.
Thursday afternoon, John Roberts, an
employe at the shipyard, received mas
ty fall while crossing the railroad track
at Seventh street. His head came in
contact with the rails rendering him I'M
conscious. A number of men who hap.
pened to be near. came to his assistance
and one OF them, realizing the unfortun'
ate mans perdicament, fastened for q
wagon to take him to his home at the
Arlington hotel, while another caught
up some water from the river and bathed
the mans head to revive him. Mr.. Rob-
ert's scalp was badly cut and he was
consider ably weakened from loss OF
blood.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes professed to
have a profound respect for the Dutch,
possibly on account of what he used
to call 1.-The European aborigines OF
America" being Dutch. He gave an
aspect Of slyness to his respect which
inspired the idea that 1t was not I'M
tempered by humor, but he maintained
that the Dutch. In spite Of their stolidi-
ty. had great deal Of humor them
selves. For instance" he would say.
1.-THE trumpet story has Dutch orr
GIN" what Is the crumpet story?'
people would ask. And he would tell
them that it had many variants, but
the one with which he was familiar
was about a man who was going to be
hanged and was asked whether he had
any last request to make and said he
would like to have a dozen hot crum-
pets, very buttery, because he had new
er dared to eat more than ono before.