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WHY? Wt*' leave for the evening shadows The duties of early day* Why grudge until bleak December The Kindness we owe in May? Tie time for the bud and blossom When skies are serene and blue; Who soweth in chilly autumn T> Ai kaoi>aff a f tor rn<* I Thy frozen or thy harsh unkin(fnt?39, As bitter as draught, of call. Mav 9tmg thee as scourgaof nettles Ere lowers night's sable';, pall; Beware lest thy tardy kisses Fall madly on lips of clay. Or heart thou this morn couldsfc comfort Be pulseless ere close of day. Be kind while life's morn still lingers; Thy love and thy helnlu! hands Shall be as the founts of water To wanderer o'er desert sands; 'A word from my heart, in kindness, May pierce the gray mists of pain, !And arch o'er the hills eternal The rainbow of hope again. VMary E. Killilee, in the New York THE TWO PHOTOGRAPHS. j By May BartonI In iWW HEX Miss Martia save Jack " ^ Elton her photograph, he TJTT little thought that it was JLIl one of those trifles which ^ sometimes so to make the tragedies of life. He put it in his pocket?the thin, tired ;face of a middle-aged woman?close to another which rested against his heart. That other was a bonny face?the face of the girl he loved, aud he was quits1 unconscious, as be thrust it away, that the photograph of the older woman had 'taken the place o? the younger. , "Well, you can tell her. Jack," said Miss Martin, "that I think you're a lucky man. I always liked Kitty Trevor. I knew her mother years ago. and somehow, when I saw you together, I hooped it would como to this. I'm glad of it, Jack.'" He turned away, whistling like a schoolboy, for the world was a peculiarly happy place to him just then. | But fate has a nasty way of playing man a trick sometimes, and an hour or two later, as Jack turned into Oxford street, fate played him one. He came face to face with a man, ;who stood still when he saw him, aud I/caught him by the arm. /_ "Jack Elton, as I live!" he cried. I" Jack turned and then held out his band. I "Captain Riley!'' he cried. "Why, I haven't seen you for years?it must be Are or six." "It's nearly six years," said the Caplain, "since I went away, and I suppose the world has changed a bit since then. What has happened to you?" Jack's hand traveled quickly to his breast pocket. "Everything,he said. "The best that could." He drew out a photograph?the one nearest his heart, and held it for an Instant in trie paim or nis nanu, ana his fingers closed round it as if it were a treasure. "I'm?I'm soing to be married,'' he said, hesitatingly, "to?to?lierl" ^ He lifted up his hand abruptly with the photograph lying in the palm, and turned its face toward the Captain !*vithout looking at it himself. His *yes were alight, and i? Captain Riley had looked at him he mi?ht have been ?ven more startled than he was. A? it was. he fell back sharply, with a queer gasp for breath. What he caw was a woman's thin face, with wavy dark hair parted in the middle, with lips grown bitter through disappointment, with eyes faded, perhaps wirh too much weeping. It was th.-* photograph of Miss Dirt I UUi 5 His bronzed face grew grey. ' "To marry?uor!'' h*? cried, huskily. "Good heaven, man, you can't mean itr Jack drew back the photograph hastily and thrust it into his pocket again. "I mean it," he iaid stiffly, "and why not?" ; "Well, I hope she'll treat you better than she treated me." he said, bitterly, and Jack started, and roue to his feet. "Treated you?" he cried, hoarsely. "What do ycu mean?" ; The Captain laughed, and then his lips set. "I mean." he said. steadily, "that I meant to marry hc-r once, and I thought^ 1 she meant to marry me. nut it appeared she didn't. She altered her mind?she lilted me. as I afterward heard she had I jilted a dozen men before me. But you may have better luck. You're better looking than I was. and?and " Jack looked at him with his face growing red and hard. "It's a lie!" he burst out at last. "It must be a lie! It's impossible! Engaged to you " "You'd better go and ask her whether it is a lie or not." he said. "Ask her* why I went away six years ago! Ask tier?0 Heaven! Ask her if she didn't once swear with her arms round my neck that I was the only man she ever really cared for. and ask her if a month late:* she didn't bid me go where I would! Ask her?ask her! I suppose she's sworn the same thing to you!" "It's a lie!" Jack cried. "But I'll ask lier. I'll go now. She's true as steel? I'd stake uiy life on her." Jack went as rapidly as he could forward his fiancee's house: and when he .was shown in to her. he strode forward impetuously, with his heart beating like a sledge hammer. i*TT /-kxl/vrl HT T-T* r\ r~\ 4-^ Ijtvii, uc '.uru, uucaiij , j. ? ant iu ask you something. It's a lie. T knowit's almost au insult to ask you, but I've just seen a man?a Captain Riley ?I met him in the street by accident, and he says?" He hesitated. Kitty had given a little start, and a color bad sprung into betcheeks. She gave a quick, involuntary glance out of the window. How odd: Only an hour ago Miss Martin liad been speaking of Captain Riley. If it should be the same! It' she could manage somehow to patch up the quarrel of ten years' standing, that had been renewed Six years ago, and had never been made up! If she?Kitty?cold somehow heal the breach now! She looked up at Jack with her lips parted. m '"Captain Riley?" 3ue asked, breathlessly. . Jack Tell back, 'Then it's true," he cried, hoarsely, ''and I called him a liar?I thought?I could believe " "But what's true?" asked Kitty. "I don't understand." "TT ? ! ? ~ mArtftAnA/1 now was 11 yuu uevtn. uicuuuutu Captain Riley to me?" he asked, coldly. Kitty looked bewildered. "But I?I?I couldn't," she cried. "It wouldn't have been fair?oh, I couldn't. I might have told you lattjr on, perhaps, but, oh, you know, I couldn't at once." Jack turned on his heel. "Well, if you can hide a thing like that, you can hide a dozen woroj things," he said, in a harsh, hard voice. "It's a good thing I found out before it was too late." Kitty darted after him. "But I don't understand," she cried, breathlessly. He slammed the door behind him, and Kitty, dazed and stupid because she did not understand, stared blankly before her. He surely did not mean to go because she had not told him Miss Martin's love story? He must be mad! His footsteps echoed on the pavement outside. He strode away quicklyback to the club, and tho fate that had thrown the Captain across bis path earlier in the day put him there again. He was in a corner of the club reading a paper, and Jack strode up to him. "I apologize." he said abruptly. "I called you a liar this morning. Forgive me. You were right, after all." The Captain looked up. His lips were set. "So you asked her?" he said, in a low voice. Jack nodded. His hand traveled to his breast pocket. He took the photograph and threw it down on the table in front of the Captain. "I've done with her!"' he cried, savagely. "I?I?I've done with lier!" He turned away unsteadily, and the Captain picked up the photograph. He looked at it, then started to bis feet. | "Here?I say, Elton, what's this?" he ' cried. Jack looked round. "I dou't want it," he said. "Tear it , up. I don't want to see her face again." Captain Riley went hastily toward him. "But this isn't Miss Martin!" he ' cried. "Who said it was?" asked Jack. Captain Riley thrust the photograph into his hands. "Then take it back," he said. "It isn't the one I meant. I never saw her 1 before in my life. The photograph you showed me this morning was the photograph of an older woman, of Miss Martin. There's a mistake somewhere." There was, and when it was clear to him what, he had done, he hurried 1 once more to Kitty. "I was an awful fool. Kitty," he said. 1 "It mitjlit have spoiled both our lives. ' I don't deserve to be forgiven." "No. you don't." said Kitty: "and I shan't do it again." "You shall never have the chance," ' said Jack. "I shan't make such a mis- 1 tako again." "And what about Miss Martin?" Kitty asked, present. "Couldn't we? 1 couldn't we manage somehow for her 1 and Captain Riley to meet? You know she told me just now it was all her fault that he weut away, and that he was the oniy man she ever really cared for." Jack stared. They were the Captain's very words?the words he thought Miss Martin had sworn falsely. "And, Jack, she?she told me that she was an awful flirt when she was younger, and that it drove him away. Then, six years ago, he came back, and she was foolish again. She thought that he had heard of the money that had been left her, and had come back because of that, and so she would have nothind to do with him. And yet here they are. Jack, both fond of each other ?oh, I'm sure we might do something if we liked." Jack looked down at her eager face. "Perhaps we might." he said. "Perhaps if they met?it might be all right." And a little while afterward it was. The woman whom Captain Riley had been all around the world to forget became his wife at iast.?New York News. The Coutilrv Town Gamblers. I In almost every country town a little | gang of fellows congregate, who are i not really gamblers, but they go by | that name. They are just robbers, or- ( ganized to rob, and not even giving 1 their victims a chance in the game they draw hhn into. The boy from the | country with some cash who has come into town to have what he imagines is ( fun; the smart Ales in town who has a business, salary or cash, is their mQQf Soma nf n rrnvrrl r>f so-C.l'.led gamblers pretend to be bis friend, but are really only cappers and decoys. He is drawn into what they call a game, but is in reality a trap that is laid for him, and he is fleeced to a finish. It is all the same to them whether the money they get belongs to theit victim or not. It is theirs as sure as he allows them to get around them Gambling is bad enough, But this robbery which is glazed over with a I pretense of gambling in as bad as sneak thieving, burglary, or highway holdups. The courts ought to handle 1 it as other forms of robbery are 1 handled by them.?Douglass (Kan.) Tribune. 1 A Youn<r Hunter's "Bur." i Daniel McGillicuddy is a sixteenrunr-.o'il Ahprtlppn hnv who has won a name for himself at Gray's Harbor for his intrepidity as a hunter. This year he has killed two large bears in the foothills of the Olympics and expects to tackie a cougar at the first opportunity. He attacked botli animals at the foot of cedar trees, in which they had their cubs, and killed each with one well directed shot into the brain. The cubs were carried thirty miles to this rity. the tramp including an allnight journey through the dense forests which lie between here and the Olympic Mountains. The cubs cried nearly all the way. but young McGillietiddy got ihem safely through. They are now on exhibition in one of the store windows of Aberdeen. The pelts of the bears hang in the barn at his home. The accounts of .McGillicuddy's prowess have brought him many let ters from all parrs or tue coast ana tne East, maiuly offers of money for ihe hides.?Tortlaud Oregoniau. Moscow is situated almost in the geometrical centre of European Russia. ' PUERTO BELLO, BELOW CO MNIMA CAHIL PR06HESS. Chief Engineer Wallace Says San: tary Work Is Now showing Positive Results. Mr. John F. Wallace, chief engines ?f the Isthmian Canal Commissioi said recently that there are now pra< tically tive thousand men engaged ur der his direction on the engineerin and construction work of the cana The work of installing an America plant at Culebra is going forward a fast as the machinery and supplies ca be obtained on the isthmus. Whe Mr. Wallace left there were sis Amei lean steam shovels at work in th Culebra excavation, and arrangement had been made to install additions machines at the rate of two a month The health of the young American on the isthmus is particularly gooc and the employes from the Unite States have been remarkably free froi fever. The Sanitary Department is begir ning to show very positive result! The water supply for the city of Pai aiua will be available by July 1. Wa ter supply systems also are being ir stalled at various points along the lin ?f the canal work. Several large he tels for the accommodation of th Americans are nearly completed, an Mr. Wallace states that it will be onl i matter of a few months now befor life on the isthmus will have practi lally all the comforts and convenience that are obtainable here on a larg work of this character. In answer to a question as to th oecessity of an immediate decision b. the commission on a plan of construc tion, Mr. Wallace said that it woul< require about two years to manufac ture and install the necessary rnachir ?ry to complete the excavation for canal at a sixty-foot level?work whic! would be necessary in any event. Dut ing this period ample time will be ai forded for investigation and thorougi analysis of all the elements or factor that go to make up the problem as , whole. In the meantime the excavation o the central Culebra cut, which is th controlling element, both as to tim i Trnmammmmm ONE OF THE CAMl'S ALONG ind cost, will be pushed vigorousl; with the aid of raoderu American ea :avating machinery. The investiga tions being conducted include diaiiiom [lrill work along the entire line of th canal, the character of the formatioi being revealed in this manner to i lepth of forty feet below the surface These borings will give absolute ic formation as to the character of th material to be encountered in the cana work. In addition, shafts are bein sunk at certain points to reveal mor fully the character of the formation. NEW MACHINE FON THE CARPENTE In methods hitherto employed fo repairing well-worn stairs, such as ir laying new boards or other materia the removal of that portion of the ste to be replaced is a difficult and tin some operation, the work being usua ly done with a chisel and mallet, al'te which the Inlays must be fitted i place. The machine here shown pre vides a means for cutting a piece o the same shape and dimensions frot each tread, so that inlays of even siz may be used for the steps. The cul UUg lb UUUC Wl 111 a UUITU oan, U1UUUI ed upon a revolving frame for makin; vertical circular cuts of an equal depti the wood between the'cuts being aftei ward removed with an ordinary fla chisel. The illustration shows the uj per stair ready for the insertion of th new wood, the next stair with th MEANS FOR REPAIRINQ .WOODEN 8TAH sawing completed, and the machine : in position on the fourth step for cu ting the worn portion out of the thiri * *?? ? * nAt? ro acoi 1 TX7 pall AlIQUbl* IUC C"til C uvuiui^&viat vm> of India, with its population uf 300,(XX 000, Is said to be In the hands of lei khan 90,000 persona. \ . - 'r , f I- h'-r, I.ON, ON THE PANAMA CANAL. SEAL FOR TELEPHONE i- TRANSMITTER The invention shown in the accompanying cut relates to certain new and ,r useful improvements in telephone at3t tachments* the primary object of j. which is to provide means adapted to j. be attached to a telephone receiver for jr engagements with the telephone transI, mitter whereby the latter may be n closed or sealed against sound until s the device is detached from the tranen mitter. a It is frequently desired by those using the telephone to converse with e others in the office relative to certain s p- ? , il S ^ S~^EL a e p SEAIi FOR TELEPHONE TBANSMITTEB. y matters, and oftentimes It is not ded sired to have the person at the other end of the line overhear the conversai tion carried on in the oflice. Under a these conditions the person speakLng h .1A nnt- f a uti Hia m/ifti rar Li UUcS iiUL ULOllC IV U'lUlU IUC - to its hook, for the reason that the line would then be cut off. Neither is li it desirable to allow the receiver to s hang^dependent from its wires, and in a case it is desired to close the transmitter it must be done by holding the f hand over the same or by some like e inconvenient means. e It is the purpose of this Invention THE PANAMA CANAL ROUTE. ] 1 f to overcame these defects and provide . > means for closing the transmitter and i* also supporting the receiver while it < i is detached from the hook. i e This is brought about by the use of j u a device somewhat hood-shaped, which i a is secured to the receiver, and when s. it is desired to seal the transmitter i- against sound the liood referred to is e placed over the mouth of the transLi mitter, and thus is afforded a convenig ent resting place for the receiver on e such occasions as is alluded to above. DEVICE FOR REMOVING SNOW. R The apparatus illustrated herewith has been designed as an effective , j method of clearing the streets of what < ! soon becomes a menace and source of discomfort. As a common mode of 1 s ridding some cities of snow is to earl > [_ it to the river, to be dissolved and car- 1 ried away by tbe current, the inventor J ' -j a? ! MELTED AND FLUSHED INTO SB WEB. e t e helieves that time and money can be l saved by discharging the snow, direct- 1 ly into the sewer, instead of carting 11 '< long distances through the city. For this work there is provided a hopper mounted on a metallic frame and fitted with wheels to roll it along the street < as the snow is taken lip. The laborers 1 shovel the snow into the hopper, where \ it is melted by a stream of water, from J the hydrant, and flows thence through the bottom of the hopper into a hose leading to the sewer. c A Great Troth. 1 13 "Yes," said the man who occasional!} thinks aloud, "that's whj; so many ^ marriages are failures." ^ "Why is it?" queried the party with the rubber habit :h "The average youns man thinks a girl would rather be loved and pitied 38 than dressed and fed," erplained the j JLnolsy thinker.?Oolumbug jPigpatch. i ROOSEVELT AT CHICAGO M Hrtlrt nrnllftn /\4 i n rr T fll m _ Ill GC13 UGlCgCUIUII Ul iJllirMllt^ I tainsters and Makes Speeches. CROWDS CHEER THE EXECUTIVE Police Guard the President's Party to ana From Railroad Depot?Striking Teamsters Show Some Violence During the Day?Hamilton and Merchants' Clubs Addressed. Chicago. III. ? The committee appointed by the labor -unions obtained an interview with President Roosevelt late in the afternoon and came away with a rebuke for the way in which it referred to the United States Army in its protest and with a declaration from the President that Mayor Dunne and other authorities would be upheld in every attempt to suppress mob violence and maintain law and order. President Roosevelt, after a busy twelve hours in the city, left at 12.10 o'clock at night over the Pennsylvania line for Washington. D. C. The labor unions' committee was sent to lodge a protest against the employment of the Federal troops for which, the unionists alleged, it was the plan of the employers to ask. The members of the committee were Cornelius P. Shea. President of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters; Charles Dodd. President of the Chicago Federation of Labor: Joseph O'Neill. Vice-President of the Chicago Federation of Labor; T. P. Quinn, a member of the Canvassers' Union, and T. Rickert. President of the Garment Workers' International Union. The committee. President Roosevelt, and Secretary Loeb were the only persons at the conference. The account of what passed was given out by Secretary Loeb: Mr. Shea, acting as spokesman, said: "We are here as a committee to present to you a statement of our position in this controversy between the Employers' Association and the Teamsters' Association. We have understood that they had asked your aid for bringing Federal troops to Chicago." The President took the petition, read it. and 6aid: "I have read the petition, the conclusion of which is a request for a hearing before any action be taken by the President relating to the Chicago strike situation. As yet no suggestion of any kind has come to me from auy source that I should take any action. Of the merits of the case I am wholly ignorant. I have no knowledge of what the situation is or of what steps should properly be taken to end it. I feel, however, that in view of one statement. or series of statements, in your letter I ought to say this: "I regret that you should in the letter have spoken at all of the use of the Federal Army, as you nave tnere spoken. No request has been made to me for action by the Federal Government, but at the same time, Mr. Shea, as you* have in this communication brought up that matter, I want to say one thing with all the emphasis in my power. In upholding the law and order, in doing what he is able to do to suppress mob violence in any shape or way, the Mayor of Chicago. Mayor Dunne, has my hearty support. I am glad to be able to say this to you, gentlemen, before I say it to another body. "Now, let me repeat that I know r.othing.of the facts of the situation. I know nothing of the right or wrong of the points at issue. What I have to say is based partly upon what I regard ns the unfortunate phrasing of a letter presented to the President of the United States. "I have not been called upon to interfere in any way, but you must not misunderstand my attitude. In every effort of Mayor Dunne to prevent violence by mobs or individuals, to see that the laws are obeyed, and that orier is preserved he has the hearty support of the President of the United States, and, in my judgment, he should iiave that of every good citizen of the United States. Now, gentlemen, it lias been a great pleasure to see you, ind I am glad to have had the chance to say this to you." The arrival of President Roosevelt here was celebrate by rioting, in which George S. Pierce, a union teamster, was shot and killed and several non-union workers were severely inlured. Two were shot and five stabbed Ji a fight begun by union teamsters. Great crowds lined the streets here :o get a glimpse of President Roosevelt jn his way home from his hunting trip. The general esteem in which the Chief Magistrate of the Nation is held tvas visible throughout, the line of f,*?rvnr? fha rnJIpnnH O^tinn fn thp iotel. The address of the President it the'midday luncheon at the Merchants' Club, and his later speech to the members and guests of the Hamlton. bristled with such sturdy American sentiment that even his political )pponents. who had come to criticise, ivere forced to give him the full meed )f praise for his patriotism. Chief of Police O'Neil preceded the President's procession in a carriage utd personally supervised the arrangements and saw that the streets were ;lear. In the advance of the line of 'arrlages were fifty mounted police, :he pick of the department. Behind he President's carriage rode eight letective sergeants in two carriages. L'hey were the President's personal bodyguard. To irrunf of Hrnw Tn/linn Affpnov. *-0 VI. ?t o r Major S. G. Reynolds is the agent >f tbe Crow Indian agency. Big New York Police Shake-Up. Police Commissioner McAdoo, of S>w York City, retired on pensions :wo inspectors, ten captains and fortyive sergeants, the board of surgeons laving reported all as unlit for further ictive service. Mrs. Maybrick's Mother Here. Bareness Caroline von Roques, moth>r of Airs. Florence May brick, arrived n New York City to testify in her .?3o.XX) suit against Lawyer I). W. Armstrong and others. Individualities. David Moffatt, of Denver, is the rich >st man in Colorado. H. F. Wattson was the sweet potato sing of Oklahoma last year. Archibald Forder is in the United States in the interest of the poorer fews in Palestine. F. T. F. Lovejoy, the Pennsylvania steel magnate, will erect a "palace" in Jolorado Springs, Col., that will cost lbout $ 1,700.000. Henry E. Hnntington. ,the "trolley cing," of Southern California, baa jiven a $15,000 lot in Los Angeles t? -ha I cochF ? - EXPRESS HITS DYNAMITE l. Train on the Pennsylvania R. R. Wrecked Near Harrisburgf, Pa, Bodies Blown Into Atoms ? Wreckage Barns For Hoars While Many Vic Urn* Are Pinned Under Debris. Harrisburg. Penn.?The Eastern Express of the Pennsylvania Railroad, going west, ran into an east-bound freight train at 1.10 o'clock In the morning in South Harrisburg. Two cars of the freight were loaded with dynamite and three terrific explosions folfowed. Both trains were piled in a mass of wreckage, which immediately took fire, and many smaller explosions occurred. The fire resulting from the wreck was so fierce and the explosions were so frequent that the firemen could not get near to the burning wreck. The force of the explosion was so terrific that the passenger train was demolished. Many of the people on the train were blown to atoms and no trace of them will ever be found. Many of those who were not killed outright were caught in the burning debris of the wreck and their bodies were cremated. Owing to the fierceness of the fire and the frequent explosions it was with difficulty that aid could be given to the surviving passengers. All sorts of vehicles were pressed into service and the injured were at once camea to iuis cny aim iu&cu to the hospitals. The disaster occurred about three miles south of here. It is said that the locomotive jumped the track and plunged into the freight cars. The wreckage was ablaze and unapproachable at 3.30 a. m. Many'of the passengers and some members of the train crews were pinned in it, and small explosions occurred continually. When the first explosion occurred bodies were thrown clear out of the berths in the sleeping cars, many landing down the railroad embankment and some even being hurled into the Susquehanna River, which parallels the railroad in that locality. All the physicians of the city procurable were summoned. A fire alarm sounded and the firemen arrived, to find themselves practically helpless in the work of rescue. The Harrisburg Hospital soon became overcrowded. A special train was made up and' brought injured and dying to the Union Station. Many of the injured were taken to private houses. The Harrisburg Traction Company ran out a number of cars from its South Harrisburg barns aud used tbcm to bring the injured to the hospital. TWO KILLED ON ELEVATOR. Clerk, Apparently 111, Falls Before Train?Motorman Crushed. New York City.?Two men were in : stantly killed in separate accidents on the elevated railroads. Elijah Jones, Jr., of 937 East One Hundred and Fifty-sixth street, a clerk in the Cotton Exchange, fell before a north-bound train from the station platform at Eighth avenue and One Hundred and Fortieth street directly before a train at 8.30 o'clock at night. The two persons who saw him fall' say that he appeared to have been stricken with a sudden illness. John Walsh, thirty-five years old. of 214 West One Hundred and Fifth street, a motorman, was crushed between a shuttle train and the platform | at Third avenue and One Hundred and J Twenty-ninth street in the afternoon. J ~ J ' SUES HER UNCLE FOR ASSAULT. Cleveland Girl Seeks to Recover $300,000 From Mortimer J. Lawrence. Cleveland, Ohio.?Mortimer J. Lawrence, a millionaire of this city, was made a defendant in a suit for $300,000 filed by his niece. Hazel F. Lawrence, eighteen years old, for alleged criminal assault. On March 17 last an indictment was returned against Lawrence for criminal assault. This action was taken by the Grand Jury on complaint of the plaintiff in this later action. For some time Mr. Lawrence has been in Florida. The warrant for his arrest has never been served. He is about sixty-five year3 old. SUBMARINE CREW MUTINIES. Decline to Test the Grampus Under Ensign Woods' Command. San Francisco, Cal.?The submarine boat Grampus was scheduled to be tested in the bay the other day, but the test was not made because the crew refused to go down in the boat unless another officer was substituted for Ensign Stanley Woods. A* ?? Jnfnpmnl /mnrf nf IflfMlirV tllf* crew declared that on a former occasion Woods Lad lost control of the boat in comparatively shoal water and that they would not risk their lives under his command. CHINA TO BOYCOTT OUR GOODS. Movement in Retaliation For Exclusion Started at Shanghai. Shanghai.?A number of influential Chinese merchants met and protested again the American exclusion treaty. It was unanimously resolved to boycott American goods until the treaty should be modified. Rojestvensky's Baso Discovered. Pncci* hniifrht n lnrse tract of land ou the Mekong River at the outset of the war, stocked it with coal and other supplies bought from Japan, and Rojestvensky has been drawing upon this base in Indo-China. it is reported. All Quiet in Manchuria. Advices from Feng Hua-Sien, eighty miles north of Tie Pass, said that all was quiet on the front. The Japanese movements on the east were closely screened. ' A 11 7 A rrflcftt/1 .fliwejjeu ^ujuc/./.ici Francis II. Palmer, cashier of the Peconic Bank, of Sas Harbor, L. I., wbo had escaped prosecution by the officers of th? institution for an alleged shortage oL' $41,000. was arrested at the instance of tbe county authorities. General Porter Honored. General Horace Porter, former American Ambassador to France, receive! a gold medal from Americans In Paris as a tribute for bis work in recovering tbe body of John Paul .Tones. 1 FUTURES NOT GAMBLING Chicago Board of Trade Wins Suits in Supreme Court ?oatice? Harlan, Brewer and Day DlMeat ?Opinion in Brief of Chief U UJUVO AIUlUUUVl Washington, D. C. ? The Supreme Court of the United States decided the cases of the Board of Trade of Chicago,. III., against the C. C. Christie Commission Company, of Kansas City,' Mo., and the Kinsey Company, of Chicago, 111., involving the right of the private concerns to use the continuous quotations of the board, in favor of the contentions of the Board of Trade. Bothij concerns resented the designation of; bucketshop, and it was charged that the transactions of-the board are of as nature to justify the characterizattoaj of the board as a bucketshop, a majority of them involving no physical transfer of the property supposed to bej transferred. Summing up the points! involved, Justice Holmes, in delivering: the opinion of the court, said that the* board supplies lt3 quotations to the tel-{ egraph companies under a contract not to deliver them to bucketshops, and the| cases were instituted to prevent the^ use of the figures by private houses! without contracts with the Board oft Trade. He added that a majority of| the court was not prepared to say that! the transactions of the board consti-1 tute gambling, and the decision was:' that the injunction should be granted! as prayed for. Justices Harlan, Brewer and Day^ dissented. In his opnion, Justice Holmes characterized the Board of Trade as a; "great market whefe, through its 1800 members, is transacted a large part ofj the grain and provision business of the* world." Speaking of dealings in fu- ? tures he said: "People will endeavor to forecast the, future and to make agreements according to their prophecy. Speculation of this kind by competent men is the selfj adjustment of society to the probable: Its value Is well known as a means ofj avoiding or nitigating catastrophes,; equalizing es and providing for pe-^ riods of wa?.t. * * * When the Chicago Board of Trade was organized! we cannot doubt that it was expected! to afford a market for future as well a? present sales, with the necessary Incidents of such a market, and while thej State of Illinois allows the charter to* stand, we caunot believe that the pits,) merely as places where future sale# are made, are forbidden by the Law." . He said that agreements made oni the Exchange are in the nature of con-' tracts, and continued: i "The fact that contracts are satisfied! by set-offs and by the payment of differences-detracts in no degree from the good faith of the parties; and if the m parties know when they make such; contracts that they are very likely to have a chance to satisfy them in that way and intend to make use of it, that fact is perfectly consistent with a se rious business purpose and an intent that the contract shall mean what it says. * * * It seems to us an unlikely and an extraordinary proposi* tlon that the dealings which give its character to the great market for fu-' tare sales in this country are to be regarded as mere wages, or as pretended; buying or selling, without receiving and paying for the property bought, or of delivering the property sold, withinthe meaning of the Illinois act. * * *j The sales in the pits are not pretended, but are meant and supposed to be binding. A set-off is in legal effect a delivery." , Even admitting, the Justice said,1 # ' % that the Board of Trade does maintain a place where unlawful transactions; are permitted, it does not follow that it should not be protected in this suitJ The board has "the right to keep the work which it has done or paid for doing to Itself." 1 .1. | n a i? nnm r*Ty.\TTi?.r? wns" jvt a vnntrsm I Asked For in Order to Remove Doubt . of Her Competency as a Witness. . | Washington, D. C. ? Ambassadon Choate lias notified the State Department that the British Home Office has again refused to grant a pardon to Mrs. Florence Maybrick. She is merely ox* , ticket of leave, and there is little likelihood of her ever receiving a pardon, j This latest application for pardoni was made for the purpose of removing any possible doubt as to the competency and credibility of the evidence* she is expected togive.in a suit brought by her mother and-herself to recover! their interest in about 2,500,000 acres' of land (or the value thereof) lying in? West Virginia, Virginia and Kentucky.' The case is pending in the Chanceryj Division of the courts at Richmond,: arid a question as to the competency, of Mrs. Maybrick as a witness has been raised. Mrs. Maybrick's mother, the baroness von Roques, has arrived here from; New York City, where she landed theday before from Havre. Mrs. Maybrick did not accompany hor, beiug detained in New York City by a fractured LT va^f President in Denver. President Roosevelt stopped in Denver. Col., ou his way back to Washington. D. C. He made speeches at several places in Colorado, and was cordially welcomed. In Memory of Schiller. The 100th anniversary of the deathof Schiller, the German poet, was celebrated by German societies in Newj York City and Philadelphia, Pa. , , Kuropatkin Loaves the Field. A dispatch from St. Petersburg, Russia. to the Matin, of Paris, France, says General Kuropatkin has been finally relieved of the command of the First Manchurian Army and recalled to St. Petersburg. - "V General Davis Leaves Panama. Governor Davis sailed for New York Ciry irom raaamu. coioiuh viu;sa.s, chief sanitary officer, will be acriug Governor pending the arrival of Chas. E. ilugoon. General Davis' successor, f Promineut People. Sir Thomas Lipfon has invaded Paris. He Ins opened a store in the Place da 1'Opera. ; Pope Pius X. has an only brother* who continues ta till (lie role of village* postman. During the coming summer Paris. France, is to hare a visit from the Shatt of Persia. Herr Michelsen, the new Premier of nua a uicuuaui hi years aso. The Czar gets up at 7 o'clock and; breakfasts on tea and loast and works until 11 at nighfi'