As is usually the case during the heated season, the stock of coke accumulates, and many car loads can be seen stacked up ready for the big winter demand. On account of the falling off of orders in the summer, the St. Bernard never decreases its production, but has a big winter supply on which to begin. A big coal miners’ strike has been averted in Missouri by both sides in the controversy conceding some minor points. Like it is with the mine operators in this county, the steel magnates claim there is nothing to arbitrate. It is simply a question of who shall operate the works, a gang of agitators or men of sense and means who have investments trusted to their care. The idle U.M.W. boys now employ a portion of their time jumping freight trains and stealing rides. They have ceased to work in the mines and have become violators of the law, another proof that idleness always begets crime. Secretary Hall, of the Oakhill Coal Co., made a business trip north last week. He is out after business and is determined to show the poverty producers that his mine will continue to run in spite of threats and intimidation. Agitator Wood certainly underestimates the intelligence of our Hopkins county miners, when he thinks that a sop thrown out to them in the shape of a free barbecue will entice them to join the ranks of the U.M.W., who have nothing but misery and poverty to promise them in return for servile obedience. An eastern judge has the proper conception of what constitutes abusive and offensive language, as will be shown by his decision here given: “The scabs have come to town.” He was promptly arrested, although he had not spoken in a loud voice or to any crowd. Davis was fined $50 and costs—$62.50 in all—by Judge Bryant in the city court. “And I want to add,” continued the judge in imposing the fine, “that if any one else comes before me on the charge, I will not only fine him fifty dollars, but send him to jail for six months.” Davis’ fine was paid by subscription. One William Blakely, a member of the U.M.W., who is evidently paid to write articles which will place that organization always in the front regardless of the facts in the case, has lately written to a labor journal an account of the trouble between Gabe Stokes and Agitator Rooney, wherein he shows his usual love for prevarication. The statement made that Gabe Stokes and Roy Blanks showed the white feather by quickly leaving is entirely false. The writer was present and can testify so far as he saw that they beat no hasty retreat, but stood their ground like men when they were outnumbered two to one. It seems that the only fact stated by Blakely is that Rooney shot Stokes in the face when Stokes was some distance away from him and not going towards him. If cowardice was shown it was when a party of U.M.W.s implicated in the trouble ran and shut themselves up in a house when they were heavily armed, and begged to be allowed to surrender. * * * * *