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KLNOME THE P8ISIDIN1 Washinton Greets His Return With Enthusiasm. A REMARKABLE DEMONSTRATION \f- Crowds of Men, Women and Children Line the Route From the Railroad Station to the White House, Cheering Like Mad and Waving Flags and Handker chiefs-The President Deeply Touched Washington, D. C.-There never was an American President who, returning to the capital at the end of a summer's vacation, received such a welcome home as Theodore Roosevelt has just received. Tradition has it that Wash ington crowds are not over-enthusias tic, that they seldom cheer, but that was belled on the beautiful autumn evening when the President in his pas sage along Pennsylvania avenue to the White House received an ovation such as has seldom been witnessed in this city of pageants and ceremonies. From the time he left the train that caried him from Jersey City until the Executive Mansion was reached Presi dent Roosevelt found enthusiastic hun dreds on every side, cheering like mad and waving flags and handkerchiefs iwith a vim and warmth that he appre ciated thoroughly. In his characteris tic way he entered into the spirit of the occasion. and from the moment he left the station until the White House ,was reached he stood up in his car riage and waved his hat with an en joyment that was apparent to every body along the line. - It was as the peacemaker, and not merely as the head of the nation, that :the President was received by the peo pIe of Washingtor: No other man who has occupied the White House was paid such a tribute as was given to him. Official bound Washing ton, having its dinner at 5 o'clock p. m., and confirmed in its habit of reading the cvening paper after dinner was over, abandoned the habit of years and turned out in force to shout a greeting to a man whose face was familiar and who could be seen at almost any time. The cordiality of the reception and the size of the crowd were all the more remarkable from the fact that there were no spectacular or imposing fea tures to the President's homecoming. No bands were at hand, no uniformed military formed his escort. There were only a line of conventional carriages and a few mounted policemen. But the route over which the President pro ceeded to his official residence was lined with men, women and children., who forgot their hastily eaten dinner. and their hastily read evening paper in the sheer joy they felt of cheering and waving and making the most dis-, tinguished fellow townsman feel that. he was one of them. The special train which brought the President and his party froni Jersey City arrived in Washington at 6.18, o'clock p. in., about two minutes be bind the schedule. A larger party than, usual of Administration officers met the President at the station, among the: Dumber being Postmaster-General Cor telyou, Secretary of the Interior Hitch cock, Secretary of Agriculture Wilson, Secretary of Commerce Metcalf and* 'Assistant Secretary of State Loomis. !Mrs. Roosevelt's Manchester terrier, Jack, was there in charge of Charlie, the President's footman, and he rode up Pennsylvania avenue in the Presi dlent's carriage. Mr. Roosevelt paused only a minuteI or so .on the station platform to shake ,bands with the friends who dame to meet him, but hurried to the carriage. whic-h was in waiting near the place where the train stopped. The police arrangements had been made with almost as much care as if the occasion had been an inauguration. !The whole length of Pennsylvania ave nue from Sixth street to the White House had been roped off, and the crowd was kept back on the sidewalk. The President's carriage was driven slowly up the avenue, and Mr. Roose velt stood during the entire drive, lifting his hat and bowing in response to the cheers of the crowd. Four Secret 'Service men as~d plain clothes men walked on either side of the car riage, and mounted policemen sur rounded the carriage at a distance of a few yards. In an open carriage, im mediately following the President's. was Chief Wilkie of the Secret Ser vice . There was a big crowd around the rate at the emtrance to the White House grounds, and the carriage was stopped a moment while the President, with his hat in his hand, said: "Good night and good luck: and thank you v-ery much for the reception you have gtven me upon my homecoming." Mr. Roosevelt seemed to be deeply touched by the demonstration, so unusual for Washington. The carriage was then <iriven rapidlly up the driveway to the porte cochere on the north side of the mnansion. where the President and Mrs. Roosevelt entered the house. Strikebreakers Ousted. The New York subway stri!mbreak ers. imported by Farley, having served their purpose, will now be discharged b'y the Interborought Company. The In: rrboro:ugh has aisked the Brooklyn R Iapid Transit Comnany for thirty <-ompetent motormnen, and the Farley :rreation will be disposed of as uie:ly and quickly: as possible. A Victory For Arbitration. Arbitration is the keynote of the Nrwayv-Sweden dissointion treaty. Tested Eyes Before Fight. Surgeon-General S. Suzuki. of the Imperial Japanese Navy, addressing the convention of miiitar;y surgeons, at Detroit. Mich.. told how the Japan ese surgeons before every engagement carefully inspected the eyes of all gun nerz on the warships. Cigarette Law Upset. In a test case brought by an Omaha (Neb.) tobacco dealer, Judge Day de clared uncnstitutional the new anti cigarette lnw in so far as it relates to giving away cigarette papers. - Labor World. Nearly all of the flint glass factor'es et the country resumed operations re cently. Work has been resumed at the Stamn I'ord Merthyr Colliery. New South Wales. 'The West Australian Government has takena steps to reduce the amnount of labor carried on in the gold mines On SundaIy. Victorian Premier Bent says he is going to spend ?10.000 in various pub lic works to provide work for the un emninyeti CLUB CANAL WORKMEN Shipload From Martinique Frefer Death to Fanama's Terrors Baring Their Breasts, the Men Declare They Wilt Perish Before Working Under Deadly Conditions. Colon. Panama -Six hundred and fifty laborers from Martinique, brought here on the French steamship Ver sailles under contract to work on the canal, refused to disembark or to sub mit to vaccination, which is imperative under the American sanitary regula tions. The men clamored to be taken back to Martinique, asserting that they had been misinformed as to the conditions here before they embarked, and that later they learned these conditions were intolerable and deadly. How ever, 500 of them were with difficulty persuaded to land, and these were sent to points along the line of the canal. One hundred and fifty remained on board and declined to leave the ship under any consideration. These men were forcibly ejected from the vessel by Panama and Canal Zone policemen, but not until nearly every one of them had been clubbed and several were bleeding from their wounds. The French Consul at Colon, M. Bon henry, appealed to the men to listen to reason, explaining that they had left Martinique under contract with the canal zone emigration agent guar anteeing the payment of their passage here, and that while working on the canal they would have in addition to their wages the guarantee of free quarters and free medical attendance. The men, however, were not amen able to this reasoning. Before noon, at the instance of M. Raven, the agent of the company, and of the French Consul, a squad of Pan aman police went on board the vessel and told the men that force would be used if they persisted in their refusal to disembark. Seeing that the police were armed with bayonets and guns, the men again bared their breasts and said they preferred death rather than be taken ashore. The laborers at 2 o'clock were in formed that they would be given two hours to reconsider their decision, and at 4 o'clock three of them consented to disembark, the others still holding out Then the Panama police, armed with zlubs, approached the laborers, and on their refusing to leave the ship Degan to club them right and left. The zone police, a few minutes later, assisted in the clubbing, but with better judgment and less indiscriminately. About fifty :f the laborers leaped into the sea, but ill of them were able to swim. The 2aptain, hwever, lowered a boat, which picked them up. Neariy every man had received blows and several f them were bleeding from ugly wounds. Seeing that resistance was useless, the men yielded, came ashore and be an to eat the food which had been laced on the dock in sight of them for several hours. At 5 o'clock all the la orers, who were in a pitiable cor.dl ion, were placed on board a train, hich left for Corozal, where they will e put to work. ELD FORL KIDNAPING FARMER. Real Estate Dealer Accused of Crime to Gain $17,000. Kaukauna, Wis.-Wenzel E. Cavot, a real estate dealer of Green Bay. was rraigned before Justice Schwin on a harge of kidnaping M1. M. McCarty, a rominent farmer of Kaukauna, who has been missing since September 14. Not being able to furnish a bond for 1200, Cavot was committed to jail. McCarty lived alone. His real es ate and personal property is valued t $17,000. When last seen he said he as going to Green Bay. After he hd been missing about a week Cavot ppeared on McCarty's farm with a bill of sale and began disposing of the stock. The instrument is in McCar ty's handwriting and is signed by him, ut contains tlhe names of no wit esses. Proceedings against Cavot .were started by McCarty's relatives. Asphalt Trust Aided Rebels. Testimony was given during a suit in- New fors mnat ine Aspnlalt Trust aided rebellion in Venezuela. Witte Is Home a Hero. Witte, chief peace envoy of the Czar, as warmly welcomed home to St. etersburg by officials and people, ord than they were on earth. Boston to New Yoris by Electricity. The New York, New Haven and [ irtford Ilailroad's order for twenty e electric locomotives, it was said. means electrical expresses between wYork and Boston in the near fu ture. Fair Autoist as Slayer. ?(rs. Edith M. B&iley, wife of a catlhb manufacturer, of Cleveland. hio. benerath whotse automobile Jos 2h Brorsstle was kiUt.. was held for ansu;hter. Safe Cra ekers' Successful Jlob. Burglars entered the private bank'of .B. Burneti- & Sons. :at Eldorado. I11.: vreked the vaiult und carried :away ween S400( and $10.000~ la currency :nd -:eld .Mary shots were exciihn.:ed )etween the burglars and eitizeas, but >boy* was hurt. Prince Yoe and Women. Prince Yoe, of Korea. was talking t Atlantic City about the outrageous ~athing dresses that young women rear at Ostend and Trouville. "But a mother, a young mother," aid Prince Yoe, "would never wear a ,athing dress of thai' kind out of re pect for her children. As I look at ie modest costumes of the women ~athers here I would think they were l mothers were not some of them o young." The Prince smiled. Then he re xumed: "It is a fact that little children have i unusual influence on young moth rs. I heard the other day of a moth rwho came downstairs in a very collete gown and then went upstairs Lnd took it off again. Why? Because aer little son when he saw her in it aid, ashamed: 'Oh, I'm going to write Lud tell papa.'" To test for cake. white paper shculd turn yellow in five minutes, if the vn Is the rkht temperature. BANK THIEF CONFESSES Young Leonard Says He Stole $350, 000 to Give Financiers a Lesson. Declares He Merely Desired to Snow Low Easy It Was to Commit Crime -Rubber Stamp the Clew. New York City.-With the arrest of Henry Ambrose Leonard, son of ex Sergt. John Leonard, of the Police De partment, the mystery surrounding the theft of $359,000 worth of securi ties from the National City Bank is cleared up. The prisoner made a corn plete confession to the police and P'inkerton detectives, and said, with a considerable show of pride In his achievement, that 'le hivd given Wall Street a good lessen in banking. All of the stolen securities have now been recovered. Within a few hours after young Leonard perpetrated his audacious theft he mailed part of his plunder to Dyer Pearl, senior member of the firm of Pearl & Company, the brokerage house whose name was forged to the check on which the thief obtained the stocks and bonds from the National City Bank. The securities disposed of in this way by Leonard were valued at '269.000. This left a balance of some $90,000 *:o be accounted for. The prisoner informed Superin':endent Dougherty. of the Pinkerton Detective Agency, and Capt. McAuley, of the Detective Bureau, where he had con ce: Led the $90,000 in securities. The missing stocks and bonds were found in a wardrobe at Leonard's home. Capt. McAuley, and Superintendent Dougherty met the prisoner's father by appointment at- Twenty-third street and Third avenue, and there he turned over to them the securities. It was the man from whom Leonard brought the rubber stamp with which to make the certification on the check that gave him away. He didn't know who Leonard was, but be knew enough to put the police and the Pink ertons on th ta'After that it wasn't the hardest thing in the-wo.d to get him. Young Leonard Is a puzzle to the police and the Pinkertons. He comes of a thoroughly respectable family and he had won the esteem of his employ ers by his ambition to get ahead. He even went so far as to study law at a law school In addition to per forming his work in the brokers' office. His famil; was absolutely amazed when he was accused of the theft. Leonard told the police that he robbed the bank to demonstrate the careless manner In which banking business is done and to show how easy It was to cheat an institution like the City Bank of some of the millions of securities daily passed in and out of its loan department. That was all he had in mind, he said. All through the neighborhood in which he lived nobody could be found who had heard anything bad about the boy. He joined the Y. M. C. A. on 125th street In order to get the advantages of the gymnasium. His family say that he does not drink or smoke, and he has always been a regular attendant at St. Jerome's Roman Catholic Church in the Bronx. GRANTS HUSBAND ALIMONY. Orders Divorced Wife to Pay Him $1000 and $10 a Week. Cincinnati, Ohio.-For the first time on record here a husband has been granted alimony. Judge Sam W. Smith gave Mrs. Robert P. Newlin a decree of absolute divorce from her husband and the custody of their three children and ordered her to pay him $1000 and $10 a week. Newlin relinquishes all claim to any share in his wife's prop erty. Divorce was obtained for non support, and the alimony terms were arranged between the lawyers. Newlin is a dog fancier, and his wife 'wealthy in her own right. She has Leen supporting the family. They were married in 1804, and are promin ent socially. 19 YEARS FOR CARLTON. Judgr Aspinall Says Bigamist Ought to Be Sent to Electric Chair. .rooklyn, N. Y.-Frederic E. Carl ton, who was convicted a week ago on three charges of bigamy, and one of grand larceny, was sentenced to8 nineteen years in Sing Sing by Judge Aspinall. When he left the pen he was followed to the courtroom by a mob of men and boys, and again when he was led from the court to the train for Sing Sing. In sentencing the man, the Judge characterized him as a murderer, a villain, a swindler, and a thief, and expressed regret that he could not be sent to the electric chair. Girl Held Fast in Swamp Dies. The body of Lena Gill, eight years old, who had been missing for Ive days. was found in a swamp neaLr Prescott, Ontario. She was sent by her mother On an errand. Armed men searched the countr'y on a theory that tramps had kidnaped her. The body was found with the feet fast in th: mud, the indications being that the child had fallen from exhaustion i'md died of exposure. Ikothe~rs Drowned in the Potomac. Two hoys. Percy Dudley, aged te'n years, and George Dudley. sixte.:n ''nt old, brothers, wvere drowned in .a Potomac Rtiver, at W\ashington. The younger boy fell from a boat an the brother leaped .nto the water to satve himt. Both went down before assistance could reach themi. Five Children Burned to Death. Five children were burned to death InI a fire which destroyed the home of Frederick Adamson, Fort Dodge, Iowa. Trhe father had gone to work ana thb mlother was visiting a neighbor, leav ing the gasoline store burning. .Th children wvere playing iin their night gowns when the gasoline stove ex p)loded. President Pushes Rate Question. P'resident Rtooseveit has already re 'oed his campaign for railroad-rate lation. The Mississippi Launched. new Umnted States battleship ssippi was launched at Cramp's ard, Philadelphia. Pa., in the ice of a crowd estimated at over .Miss Mabel Clare Money, ier of 'he United Staites Senator, ned the hull as it began to slide the greased ways to dip into the are River. Miss Ghould's Big Gift. Heleh Miller~ Gould has :reedl $150,000 for a railronid Young bhristiain Association building 6HEAP INSURAN E LOANS President McCall, of New York Life, Makes Starthna Statements. MONEY SPENT FOR LOBBYING Investigator and Attorney Hughes of the State Insurance Inquiry Committee Makes Some Remarkable Discoveries Regarding Modern "High Finance" How the McCalls Benefited. New York City.-Something ap proaching a definite explanation of the mysterious legislative activities of "Judge" Andrew Hamilton, legislative agent of the Mutual, Equitable and New York Life companies, and of the hitherto inexplicable "yellow dog' funds came, when John A. McCall, President of the, New York Life, tes tified that three-quarters of the meas ures nroposed In Legislatures of the United States were "strike" or black mailing bills, designed to "bleed" insur ance companies. Following this frank arraignment of Legislatures Mr. McCall outlined in de tail the vast sums that have been handled by "Judge" Hamilton in fight ing hostile legislation at various State capitals in the last five years. From the New York Life alone "Judge" Hamil ton received $711,000 in this period, in addition to a single fee of $134,000 for counsel services. It will be recalled that testimony of Equitable officials revealed the fact that "Judge" Hamil ton's expenses were divided between the three great companies, and if he received equal sums from the other two his expenditures for "legislative work" against insurance legislation In the last five years would aggregate over $2,000,000. Mr. Hughes pressed home the probe into this form of insurance activity in a merciless fashion. He not only turned a flood of light upon the pro ceedings which permitted an official -f-tie New York Life to swear that the conps~p had made no campaign contributionsIu. year when it had ac tually contributed4 Q000, but he gave Mr. McCall a bad half-.ir explain ing the circumlocutions by wIi(c1 ernor Culberson and the Texas Staten officials were hoodwinked about this performance. Most striking, however, was the ad mission he wrung from the witness regarding the uses to which the vast legislative funds were put. In form. Mr. McCall continued his former dec laration that so far as he knew not a tent had been used corruptly to "in iluence legislation." In fact. he ad mitted that the money was turned over to "Judge" Hamilton to use in legislative halls in such a way as "to produce results." "Producing results" from the insurance point of view meant nothing more or less than the stifling of inimical legislation, whether the ordinary "strike" form of black mail, or the recommendations of State Insurance departments. Following this line Mr. Hughes led the witness to the admission that while the New York Life officially dealt only with at torneys "Judge" Hamilton was free to employ any one who could do the work, whether an attorney or not. "Entire freedom" were the words with which he Aescribed "Judge" Hamil ton's power. Then Mr. Hughes took a forward step in the tracing of the methods of the great insurance lobby that has beenl so frequently described as ex isting at Albany and at other State capitals. By close cross questioning he obtained from Mr. McCall the ad mission that there were in many States men in a position to deal with legisla tive measures ini such fashion as to exercise pressure to the extent of pre venting the re-election of :nen acting counter to their wishes. Mr. McCall was not sure that those men could drive recalcitrant legislators out of politics, but he admitted their position would be "seriously strained." That the systtem reached to the national Congress Mr. McCall admitted in tes tifying to the employment of an agent to fight a Federal bill solely "because lie was a man of very large acquaint ance in Washington." .4part from the legislative phases of his .testimony, the most amazing sin gle feature of Mr. McCall's examnina tion was his admission regarding the hitherto unexplained loan of $50,000 to JTohn R. Hegeman, president of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, at a nominal rate of interest. Mr. Mc Call, apparently nettled by Mr. Hughes' questions regarding the rea son f'or the loan of this sum at a nom inal rate of interest, declared that he regarded the interest rate as all right. anid said with some feeling that he had obtained a similar loan from Mr. Hegeman at a similar rate. This ap parent "break'' was seized on by Mr. Hughes at once, and the fact shown that Mr. McCall, a director in the Metropolitan. had obtained a personal loan from this company of $75,000, $5(.,000 of it nearly three years ago. and that the rate had not been raised until after the insurance agitation had become pronounced. When Mr. Hughes attempted to emphasize an impropri ety ini this proceeding Mr. McCall dle clared wvithl evident sincerity that he would have taken the money at a lower rate of interest if he could have obtained it. The yearly samriy roll of the McCall family drawn from the New York Life was shown to be $137,500. Collections Improve. Mercantile collections improve as the season advances. STARVING IN CAUCASUS. Armenians. Fired Upon by Tartars, Cannot Till Land. St. Petersburg. Russi.-Private dis pattchles received here from Tiflis say that coiiditions in the Cauensus aire deplorable. Tihe Arinmi;:ns are si'r' ing and are :>handoning their properiy heeause it is imprs~i'i" f'o:- thec-m to cultivate their land on account of the mianner in which they are fired upon by the Tairtars. despite the eifor-ts of the troops who have been sent there to protect them. MANZANILLO SUFFERS. Mexican Port Badly Damaged by Storm. Mexico City. - Official advices re ecilved here state that a furious storm visited Manztanillo. doing great damage to ilhat ('ity and port. The new break water was demolished and the termi r;al railroad washed away. The high sea almost flooded the town. Another Cronstadt Strike. The dock laborers at Cronstadt have struck for more wages and shorter BAN~DITS HOLD UP 1RM~ Exoress Car on the Great Norther Blown to Pieces. POSSE SURROUNDS THE THIEVE' Scene of the Robbery Only Ten Mile From Seattle-Professional Despera does Got One Thousand Dollars-Tw< Boys Captured After Attempt to Rol Passengers-Express Safe Looted. Seattle, Wash.-The eastbound Greal Northern passenger train leaving Seat tle at S o'clock at night was held uii by a gang of bandits ten miles fron this city. The express car was blow! to pieces by three charges of dyna mite. The train was flagged near a brick, yard and as the engineer slowed up twc men in raincoats climbed over the ten der and presented revolvers at his head. When the train stopped the baggage and express car was uncoupled by z third robber and the engineer was in structed to pull ahead. which he d1 for several hundred yards, when he was again commanded to stop. Tw4 of the robbers then jumped off. mak ing the engineer and fireman do the same, and all marched to the baggage car door. The express messenger was com manded to open the door, and on hi refusal to do so a charge of dynamite was placed against it and exploded. The explosion tore the car almost tc pieces. The safe was then blown open. After securing the contents of The safe the three men started off in at easterly direction. News of the hold-up reached here by a telephone message sent from a resi dence at Spring Beach. A trackwalker who escaped from the scene declared that a number of persons had beer killed and wounded in the melee. Details of the hold-up were received here. Meanwhile two boys who had been riding on the blind baggage slipped off and went through the train, attempt ing to hold up the passengers. They had no guns, but took advantage of the timidity of the passengers while the shooting, which injured no one, was going on outside. They were capture( by trainhands. The boys, who gave their names as Frank Alfred and Rol and Gibbs, are now in jail at Everett. They said they had no co-anection with the other robbers and that the idea of holding up the passengers only oe curred to them after the explosion. Two of the bandits were on the blind baggage when they got on, they ex plained, and the third man boarded the train at Ballard. A reward of $5000 was offered by the Great Northern Express Company for the capture and identifieation of the robbers. The Sheriff and his deputies found an abandoned horse and wagon a mile and a half north of the scene of the hold-up. The horse showed evidences of having been driven haird. The offi cers believe this is an cutfit reported as having been stolen net.r Kent, twen ty miles from Mile Post. Deputy Sheriff Scott said that, so far as known, only about $1000 was taken from the safe. MORE AMERICANS LOST. Drowned With One Hundred and Nine Others in Typhoon in Philippines. Manila. P. 1.-The interisland steam ship Canlabeni, 1007 tcns, was sunk~ in the recent typhoou of Ticao Island, one of the Visayan group. Apparently all on board were lost. She carried five Americans. one Span ard and eleven native ar.d Chinese pas. sengers, and a crew of nlinety-sCeen men and officers. SIX PERISH IN FLAMES. Two Women and Four Children Burned to Death in Home. Edgington. W. Va.-Six persons-two women and four children-were burned to death in their home here at night. The husbands of the women escaped. Those burned were Mrs. J. Algo and her three children and Mrs. .Joseph Oardelli and one child. Their charred bodies were recovered from the ruins. NEW $10 COUNTERFEIT. It Appears in New York City-Longer Thani the Genuine Note. Washington, D. C.-Chief Wiilkie, of the Secret Service. annances the dis covery of a new counterfeit ten-dollar United States ("Buffalo") note. It is of the series of 1901. Cheek letter B. Lyons. Register; Roberts, Treasurer. Fright Killed Patient. Fright oler an operr.tion which he was about to unidergo is believed to have caused the death of Andrew Peebles. fifty-seven ;'ea :s old. in Grace Hospital. in Chicago, 1ll. While the physicians were preparing their in struments the patient died suddenly. Russian Vicc-Cons~ul Fined. Prince Engalitchelf. Russian Vice Consul in Chicago. Ill, was fined $1 and costs by5 Justice Caverly on a earge of violating thec city's automo bile speedl ordinanec The prince waived his ri:;ht :as a mnember of a foreign consulate. Baronl KomInra Sails. Baron Konmura sailed from Vancou ~er- on the Empress of India for Yoko a ma. New African Tiroubles. . ndrew Ise Wet, a nephew of the BorGeneral. is said to have been ar restka at Windholt. ch irged with plot ting ~to aid the rebell-ous blacks and estaish81 a Boer repubile in Southwest Africt,1 To '-Rtain Army i .i Far East. Advces\' from St. Petersburg. Russia, say that i Russian :.rmy' of five to vigi i n the jFstr . 0F BITSKF NEWS WASHINGTON. President Roosevelt, it was said. found demoralization in nearly every executive department on his return to Washington. Secretary Hitcheoek has intimated that the next alleged land conspiracy case to receive the attention of the Government probably will be that of W. N. Jones, a big lumberman, of Port land, Ore. Secretary Bonaparte has advised Brooklynites that he will not take up the matter of the sale of the frigate Constitution until Congress meets. He says the matter is one for Congress to decide. Secretary Shaw declared that the remedy for the non-elasticity in the currency system lies in the authoriza tion of additional national bank circu lation. OUR ADOPTED ISLANDS. The losses in life and property caused by the recent typhoon in the Philip pines are heavy. The coast guard cut ter Leyte was wrecked, eleven Amer icans were drowned, and army posts in the Southern islands were destroyed. The loss on hemp plantations is esti mated at $1,000,000. All Honolulu drunkards have been officially blecklisted, so that they may be refused drink in the saloons. A cor respondent states that "nearly all on the list are steamship men." Jap spies are studying the defenses of the Philippines, a Spanish correspond ent at Manila cables. Felizardo, chief of the outlaws in the Province of Cavite, was surrounded near the Batangas border and jumped over a cliff to his death. The absence of a line of freight-car rying craft between San Francisco, Cal., Guam and Manila throws all the trade of the islands into the hands of Japanese. The commander of the Government forces at Guam urges the necessity of a system of water works in order that bad sanitary conditions may be im proved. The public school system is well established and attended with gratifying results. The aggregate custom collections at Manila for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1905, were $6,814,910, and for the entire Philippine Islands the total col lections were $8,263,444. _ The Governor of Guam recommends theestablishing of two lighthouses on the is--lond. Commander G. L. Dyer, Naval Gov ernor of Guam, in his annual report, says the natives are well pleased with the sovereignty.,of the United States and that there is no sentiment among them for independentgovernment. DOMESTIC. Secretary Shaw, addressing the Ohio Bankers' Association, at Cleveland, urged that a more elastic currency system be adopted. The second tube of the New Jersey tunnel under the Hudson River, at New York City, was finished. About 200 delegates, representing Massachusetts councils of the Royal Arcanum, at a meeting in Boston voted to take legal measures to prevent en forcement of the new rates of assess ment. John D. Rockefeller gave $10,000,000 in cash to the General Education Board. A Coroner's .iury found that Cornel ius A. Jackson, towerman, and Paul Kelly, motorman, are criminally re sponsible for the wreck on the "L" train on September 11, in New York City. President Roosevelt will visit New Orleans, La., October 26, returning to Washington on a wars'?ip to avoid quarantine. Judge Tayler, in the United States Circuit Court, Cleveland, Ohio, ap proved the report of a referee cutting down the fees of lawyers who ap peared in the Cassie L. Chadwick bankruptcy proceedings. John D. Rockefeller has boosted the price of oil in Chhnute, Kan., and Pitts burg. In Pittsburg all grades were raised, with one exception, from two to ive cents a barrel. Professor L. Eddy, the oldest teacher at the Kentucky State School for Deaf, Danville, Ky., dropped dead while in the schoolroom. Professor Eddy was seventy-five years old. He was noted as an astronomer. Bishop Potter frowned on the at tempt of a clergyman in the Diocesan Convention, New York, to pass a reso lution condemning those blamed -for insurance scandals. FOREIGN. deiany and France have come to n agreement on the Morrocco ques tion. regulating police and financial re forms, but affairs on the Algerian fron tier are to be under French control. A thoroughly modern electric light and refrigerating plant was put into use in Panama. It cost $250,000. The wreck of the Chatham in the Suez Canal was blown up. No harm was done to the canal. Fifteen persons were drowned, in luding two engineers, by the destruc tion of a Chinese coasting vessel which was blown up by a floating mine in the China Sen. For insulting the President of Nicar gua, William S. Albers. representing a hicago mining company, has been sen tenced to three years' imprisonment by tile authorities of that company. Albers will appeal. Advices from St. Petersburg say that alarm is shown regarding the new trety of alliance between Japan and Great Britain. There was more riotIng at Budapest among university students, and the hostility of the Socialists to the coal ition plans is expected to provoke fur ter outbreaks. Walter Vaughan Morgan was elected to succeed John Pound as Lord Mayor of L~ondon, England. The failure of two leading operators in the French sugar market was an ounced at Paris. The Swedish Riksdag met In extra ordinary session, and the Government submitted a proposal to put into force the agreement made at Karlstad. A meeting of the Chamber of Comn merce of the Jahpanese Empire was tbe gun in .Tokio to consider the revival of traido and industry now that the wair is over. Notwith1standhing tile silence of th~e Governmnent, tihe fact is disclosed tha:t Japan made peacee at Portsmoutha from fear ., a tinaincial breaikdowni. The war prove.d more costly than had l'een caluhted. Jlapainese Gov.Wrnmenlt ofmcials said tha~it plans had been comnpleted to in crease comercial facilities. but de tails will not be made public until the tmnre oe has been ratified. HIIN [DEAVO NOTES OCTOBER FIFTEENT!-. Cettcr Work Our Society Shou!.I 00. tieb. 6:7-12; 13:20, 21. Erery noble endeavor of yours aaz. stored up a happy thought of you, a pleasant memory, in the mind of God. Two qualities above all others the Christian worker needs--for the fu ture. faith, and for the present, pa tience. We are not to make ourselves per fect-but the Perfect One is to make us perfect Let us have only one test of our work-not what men think of it, nor even what we ourselves think of it, but whether it is well pleasing in the sight of God. Suggestions. If the society's work is not grow ing better all the time, it is growing worse. Hunt new tasks; they will give new zest for the old tasks. No society can hope to do much better unless it learns from societies that are doing better. Have a wide awake information committee. Better wor of the society means better work of the individual mem bers--of me. A Few Illustrations. No merchant can know whet?.er his business is succeeding or failing un less he keeps accounts. The young poet thinks his first. draft of a poem Is perfect. Tenny son polished his poems with each new edition till his death. Who get promoted in a store? Those that do better work. It Is thus in our Father's business. "Something to Say." Do not expect something to say in the prayer meeting. without -taking some time to think before the meet ing. Though you give another's thought in the meeting make it your own by prayerful meditation, and say it in your own words. Carry with you a prayer-meeting note-book, with the topics for six months ahead, and spaces for writing down the thoughts and illustrations that will come to you if you watch for them. The book will soon be full. A reference Bible will always help you to "something to say," for the best commentary on Scrlpture is Scripture. The best time to get something to say on next Sunday is this Monday. The best way to get something to say is to try living out the Bible por tion, and report the result. [P~ETI[EAOE LEONS SUNDAY, OCTOBE. Better Work Our Chapter Should H-eb. 6. 7-12; 13. 20, 21. The author of Hebrews shows, in our first selection, the difL'erence be tween two soils, one fruitful and the other barren. The fruitful Is blessed, but the thorny ground Is cursed. But the better of the two is the thing that Is hoped for concerning those written to. The application Is obv'ious. Bet ter work and better results are to bea expected from the League. God will faithfully do his part; now the ex hortation Is that we do ours. It is an individual matter. If each mem ber of the Epworth League will do better, the organization will. But it all rests at last upon the individual member. The second selection Is a prayer that this may be accomplished, and we thus become "perfect" that is, symmetrical and complete, in every good work. And it will be a wise study for each chapter to see how and where they can do better work for Christ. The Epworth League that is con tent to just keep up the organization. to hold Its meetings and fill Its of fices, is no help to the church. That League only which is studying to do better to improve in all its depart ments, is the growing and profitable chapter. There are many reasons for this: No Growth Means Decay. We can not stand still. We grow or die. We are doing better or we are not doing so well. We are demoralized if we are not getting better. True in the experience of the individual, it is true of societies. We only maintain our ground by getting on to higher ground. If the League has been helpful In the past it ought to be more help ful In the future. New departments and new methods mean new spheres of usefulness. The devotionial meet ing, once the only service held, has now led to the Bible study class, the mission study class, the Morning Watch, the multiplied local guilds and forms of service in each community. But Is this the best? By no means. We are to study how better to reach and save the "boys," the "lapsad classes," the unreached and un churched masses of our cities and larger towns. The Epworth League has not yet begun to measure up to the possibilities of its usefulness. In the hands of the young p-eople rests' very largely the future of our chrch. Can the church meet the de mands of a changing future? Yes, if the Epworth League will learn to do better work. Absurd and Perijous. Congressman Landis desired to I!. lustrate the absurd and perilous post ion of a boodle politician whose dis honesty had been exposed. "There, before the crash came," he said, "the man stood tottering and swaying, pale and scared; and, though I pitied him. I had to laugh at him be cause his position was so ludicrous. "He reminded me of the Indianap ols barber who got drunk one busy Saturday afternoon. "This 'carber, heavy with eighteen large, cold glasses of beer, lurched into his shop at the end of the ball game, put on his white coat, seized a razor, and began to shave a patron whom the apprentice had just lathered "As the barber shaved away he held onto the patron's nose. "'Hang It!' the patron said, 'What are you about, anyway? Let go of my nose, will you?' "'Let go?' said the barber. 'Not a bit ofit. If I didI'd falldowa.'"