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Iy* ? SOJiCi OF THE DKIFTWEED. Hero's to the homo that wis never, never ours* Toast it full and fairly when the winter lowers. Speak ye lew. my merry men. sitting at Harken to ?h> drift in the roaring of tbe sea*. Here's to the Lfc we shall nover live on earl It! Cut for ?H awry, awry, ages ore the birth. Set- the teeth and meet it. well, wind upon the shore; Like a lion, iu tlie face look the Nevermore! Here's to the love we were never meant to win! .What of that ? A many shells have a pearl within: Some are mated with the gold in the light of day: Some ore buried fathoms deep in the sea9 away. Here's to the selves we shall never, neve*he! We're the drift of ih? world ar.d the tangle t?i uir KIM. It's far beyond the Pleiad. it's out beyond the sun Where the i cellos shall bo rooied when the wander-year is don<?! ?Jessie Mackay. in Everybody's Magazine. -VFwe Ways to Travel/ aianotssraeflBBtai* ? <A TRUE STORY.) ? 4M SX9 ? OBSESS ? 8ZBK8 9BM m? ? ? By Annie Hamilton Donnell. ? ' The Jong train drew into the "Dinner Slntinn"' nnil hnn?rv nennlp hp gan to bestir themselves. Families and couples and single persona stepped briskly down the aisle and across the broad platform toward the Dinner. Frances and Bruce and Willie "Wisp were hungry people but they did not bestir themselves. Their dinner was in the basket in mother's seat and did not begin with a capital D?only splendid ones eaten at round tables, in great rooms with waiters flying about, began with capitals. "Oh, dear." softly sighed Frances, *'l wish we were rich!" "So do I," sigb.?d Bruce, but not softly. "Then we'd go 'cross there ! too, and eat our dinner out of plates and knives and forks." "And we'd step down out of our parlor-car?not this common-car? and when the conductor said, 'All -aboard!' we'd fold up our napkins like everything and run back to the parlor-car and sit in big, soft seats. T?roovoc twcro Txrictfnl oViwoa thinking especially of Loubelle Weir. Loubelle was in the parlor-car or else across there in the great clattery, ( <5hattery, station restaurant. They had seen her get on the train, stepping daintily in her beautiful white clothes. Her mother and a maid had walked behind her. Then the parlorcar had hidden her, and they them- ( selves had stepped up onto this com- . ^mon-car, with mother and the big basket behind. * "Dinner's ready!" mother called from her seat. She had a white tow- , el spread on the scat beside her, and grandmother's biscuit and cookies and little round tarts laid out on it She was smiling gayly. ( The three children crossed the aisle -and sat down facing mother. They . were hungry and grandmother's things tasted good, but there was a little bitter'flavor to them all, just as if grandmother had made a mistake and flavored' them with extract of envy instead of vanila. While they | sat and soberly munched, they were thinking of Loubelle Weir and her , dinner with a capital D. and of the parlor-car. "I wish we would travel 'risto- 1 cratic'ly!" hurst out Bruce at length, unable to restrain himself. "I wish we were in pavlor-car. I don't like traveling in common cars." "I don't either," Frances agreed, a little less tnmultuously. "I'd rath- \ er have a white dress on and sit in a lovely cushioned chair with plenty 1 of room.-' "I'd rawer, too?so'd I rawer," > chimed in Willy Wisp, eager to join , the majority. "I wanter travel in a cushion chair." "Then we'd be with the nicest kind of folks," Frances took it up again, "not -with all kinds like this. It would be lovely to be with the nicest x kind." "I know," Bruce cried, "we'd go on j L m flvor lhm or..4 flvt I ? mm j v* hivji uuu JUOb UJ . U VUJUil L ,wc go on a flyer, mother, if we were rich? "We wouldn't go creeping along this w&y, would we? No, sir!" "How would you like to travel at the rate of two miles an hour?in a cupboard?with the pigs?" The children turned like one child. The voice was deep and pleasant and came lrom directly behind. A kind old face, framed in white hair and beard, was nodding at them over the seat-back. "Well, how would you like that?" Tepeated the deep voice. "Because I know of three children that traveled that way. They were relatives of mine." Th.) people from the restaurant were drifting back into the car, but ' the children did not see them. They only saw the kind old man who said such remarkable tilings. His relatives in a cupboard?with pigs! And he was such a nice-looking old" man and did not look poor at all. It did not seem possible that his relatives "If you are througi with your din- j ner and your mother is willing, come j into my scat and I will tell you how ! it happened," the deep voice went j on pleasantly. As they went they had a glimpse through the window of Loubelle Weir j crossing the station platform toward* uer ])arjot -f;ar. i ne maiu fctepjeu daintily behind. "It was q-nfo a little v.hile ago? j about a linndred and fifty years," the | old gentleman began, his eyes twinkling down at them "My great-grandmother was about as old as you, 1 ehotild say," nodding at Frances, "and she had two brothers younger still. Her lather and mother moved from one little town to another There were no railroads, and they must go in cart*: <lsawn by gentle, plodding oxen --all the family and all the furniture too. "And the < hild> cn?the story has j come defwn very straight?did not r,o ! tVv/s nlvlni' Vlft ' tVMS :i JU iuv J/iM IU1 ?.U. - ------- ...... .. Vj., I old cupboard with a doer above and j a door b'.lcw, M'ito a partition bo- I I I * ' h v * . . .. . V ) , ,V ~ 1 -V tween the division?. It is In existence now. I have seen it many a time. Well, the children's father laid thi3 sreat cupboard down on its back in the ox-cart and proceeded to pack the three children in one of its compartments, and the pi.?s"?the old gentleman paused aran<aucau.y? ''the pigs in the other! "And that was the way they traveled all the way to the new home? jog-jog. jog-jog, jog-jog. They must have bumped about and the pigs must have squealed. How would you have liked thai? Not a very luxurious way to travel, was it? But, do you know, I rather expect those three little shavers thought it was great fun. Thought they were traveling in style, most likely! And the pigs?it must have been a great day for the pigs!" France and Bruce and the Willy Wisp went back soberly to their own seats. They had forgotten Loubelle and the maid and the dinner with a capital D. Back and forth across their minds jogged a great ox-cart with a huge cupboard inside, on its back, and in one end were three children and in the other end were pigs. They could hold their breaths j and almost hear the children laugh and the pigs squal. It was an interesting story that the deep-voiced, kind-faced, twinkly-eyed old man had told. "What a comfortable car this is!" Frances said, by and by. "How fast we go?most fly!" said Bruce. "And there are such nice folks in the car." "And nobody in the other end is squealing "?The Interior. JEWISH-GENTILE MARRIAGES. Increasing in English Speaking Conntrios?Danger to Zionist Movement. The growth of intermarriage between Jews and gentiles in recent years has moved the Jewish Chronicle of London to make a plea for "strengthening the historic religious conscience of our people." A well know Jewish lecturer in an inf-prvipw said the intermarriage of Jews and gentiles had first assumed i rotable proportions in Germany partiy as a result of the increased social intercourse of the gentiles and Jews which followed the intellectual emancipation of Jewry wrought by the popular philosopher Moses Mendelssohn and his contemporaries. Figures show that it has affected all English- speaking countries, particularly New South Wales and other Australian colonies. The figures are most significant because they apply only to marriages not solemnized in a synagogue. There are thousands of unions which are intermarriages in fact though not technically so regarded, because one of the parties accepted the Jewish faith before the ceremony, and the marriages are therefore betw'een persons of the Jewish religion if not of Jewish blood. In such caj;es the children are seldom lost to Judaism. But the consequences too often is that the parents settle their differences by ignoring religion altogether and do not' bring up their children as adherents either to Judaism or to Christianity. These facts are of course powerful' arguments in the mouths of Zionists and to some extent account for the rapid flocking of intellectual Jews to their banner. The Jewish people are beginning to believe, this authority says, that so long a9 they remain dispersed without territorial foothold the amenities of modern civilization are a greater danger to their existence than the confinement of the ghetto and the barbarities of the torch and the thumbscrews of the pogrom. ? 1Ua*to Tti unorl J.1IC n Vi ill vn A muscular Irishman strolled into the civil service examination room, where candidates for the police force ire put to a physical test. "Strip," ordered the police surgeon. "What's that!" demanded the uninitiated. "Get your clothes off, and be ruick about it," -said the doctor. The Irishman disrobed, and permitted the doctor to measure his chest and legs and to pound his back. "Hop over this' bar," ordered the doctor. The man did his best, landing on his back. '"Now double uj? with your knees and touch the floor with both hands." He sprawled, face downward, on the floor. He was indignant but silent. "Jump under this cold shower," ordered the doctor. "Sure, that's funny," muttered the applicant. "Now run around the room ten times +o test your heart and wind," directed the doctor. The candidate rebelled. "I'll not. I'll sthay single." 'Single?" asked the doctor, surprised. "Sure," said the Irishman, "what's all this fussing got to do with a marriage license!" He had strayed into the wrong bureau.?New England Guide. A Chance For Hens. A new use has been found for the domestic hen. The shells of the diurnal egg can be used as a mantle foi the Hame of acetylene. A French inventor, Emile Louis Andre, has proved by experiment that the shell does not shatter or break, but is s serviceable mantle, and emits a pleas ant, soft light All that is needed is to perforate the shell at ?ach end and insert the burner. Where is the hen that will lay <^gs with shell thin < nout;h to serve as a substitute for JiiH crdinar;/ gas; mantle??Rochester I Post Express. l>rnams of the Healthy. There has been much <liscussion as to whether one dreams only on falling to sleep and during the act of waking ; )), ?;r whether dreams tafco iilnc .it any time during sleep While not definitely determined as yet, the evidence seems to be rathei in favor of the views that one may dreams at any time during the night, or the whole night through. Dream in^' is common to perfectly healthy persons:, n11tl in KkcII iv no rvulcncq, ol disorder.?Harper's Magazine. New York City.?The chemisette effect is always a pretty, attractive and dainty one with the result that waists including such are sure to be in demand. This one is very simple and includes the surplice fronts that are so well liked while it is adapted both to the gown and to the odd waist. In the illustration soft finished white mesh pique is trimmed with bands of the same ornamented with flat pearl buttons while the chemisette is of embroidered muslin. Such a simple blouse as this one, however, can be made from a great many materials and as there is a choice allowed of three-quarter or full length sleeves it is suited both to afternoon and to morning wear. All the many and attractive washable materials are in every way appropriate for immediate wear while a little later, or even for traveling or the mountains at the present time, such materials as taffeta, light weight flannel and the like would make up most attractively and satisfactorily. The chemisette being separate, can be of any contrasting material that may be liked or several can be made to wear with one waist, so providing change without difficulty. The blouse is made with fronts and back. The back is tucked for its entire length and there is a trimming band that finishes the neck and front edges, the extensions on which conceal the shoulder seams and combine with the box pleats in the sleeves to give the long line so necessary to correct style. Whether the sleeves are long or short they are laid in box pleats at their lower edges and are finished with straight cuffs. The pointed belt is held by two large buttons. The quantity of material required for the medium size is three and onehalf yards twenty-seven or thirty- v two or two and one-eighth yards forty-four inches wide with three-quarter yard eighteen inches wide for the chomisctte. The Short Skirt. In spite of the fact that skirts were predicted longer, there are very many fashionable skirts built in a vory short walking length. Many of the skirts are very near the ankles, and there are a few daring ones that boldly display the shoe tops. The English walking dresses are particularly noticeable in this respect. There are dresses made for fashionable *7 n* T nn^nn concnn v* vl J IWli Vi IU JJIj, CllVi liVHUVi. WV.HMI/U that arc short and so full that they rsring clear of the ankles, frankly displaying a very handsome pair of shce tops. Snow White. While this is by no means a white asan, as many of its predecessors bavo boon called, the white gown and the all-white toilet are in strong eridpnee among the most fashionablo sets. But tho white gown with col or?d accessories, such as a Iiat, para-! sol, girdle and often coat and scarf or ruff, Is more prominent. Rose yhades, khaki color and the golden browns and soft dull blues are popular tones for such combinations. ~ ft1* T ' ./ - /. - r^-^g?ffTiyi?sr?Egrr" .'Lt^aSag^ Charming Gowns. TalHnsr aHvanfapo nf thfi simMarlfT of line that characterizes house gowna and evening gowns, some resourceful women are converting their old evening gowns into very charming negltgees. \ Silk Scarfs Needed. Long silk scarfs, to be lightl7 thrown about the head and shoulders for such slight protection as is needed in the early twilight, are to be found in the most delightful tints and in beautifully drapable textures;t they are coquettish, picturesque or demure, according to the style of the wearer. Linen Parasols. Linen parasols in all colors are seen this season and there are parasols of fine materials never used before for the purpose. The fluffy white affair, consisting of a dotted cover over a silk lining, is also seen, and there is the parasol that is a mass of lingerie ruffles. The making of these is not at all difficult, providing one has the frame and the material upon which to operate. Over Blouse With Girdle. Each new variation of the over I blouse seems a bit more attractive than the last, and here is one which Is grace itself and which can be utilized for a whole host of lovely seasonable materials. In the illustration it is made of marquisette in one of the beautiful new apricot shades and is trimmed with applique and with velvet, but while thin wools of the sort are greatly in Togue and there are a great many light weight silks to be worn throughout the warm weather, there are also innumerable materials that can be made in this /ay and which are exceedingly charming and attractive in color and in design. Again, the inner edges of the waist are straight, and it consequently can be made from bordered material with singular success. The postillion back is a feature of the season, and it gives a smart touch whenever becoming, but it is not obligatory, and the plain girdle can be made the finish if found more satis factory. Beneath the waist can b6 worn any guimpe that may be liked, and one of its many advantages is to be found in the fact that it is suited both to indoor occasions and to the street. The waist is made with two ovei portions that are pleated at the shoulders and gathered at the ends and that are joined to a foundation girdle. Over this foundation girdle the draped one is arranged and the closing is made invisibly at the back. The postillion, which is optional, is separate and when used is arranged over the girdle at the back, attached to position with ornamental buttons. The quantity of material-required for the medium size is two and onehalf yards twenty-one, two yards twenty-seven or one and one-eighth yards forty-four inches wide with two and one-half 3'ards of applique. ES lilt Mil JEM INJEIM Miss Agnes Maguire, of Brooklyn Drowned at Hopatcong, N. J. CORONER CALLS IT SUICIDE Says She Was Not Attacked?Father Insists Muiiler Was Done?Disappeared During a Stonn?She Was a Schpol Teacher. Lake Hopatcong, N. J.?The body of Miss Agnes Maguire, the pretty Brooklyn school teacher who mysteriously disappeared during a storm at Lake Hopatcong, was found in the lake by Chief of Police Christie, who had been dragging the lake all night. It was found directly in front of Camp Lookout, at Nolan's Point, not far from the station of the Central Railroad of New Jersey. It was near tiiere tnat miss Maguire was last seen. James Garrison and William Snyder, of Paterson, helped Constable Christie to bring the body ashore and carry it into the boathouse of Allen's Hotel. After viewing the body Coronex Hitchins and Dr. Sabater, a New York physician, decided there was no sign of violence, and declared that in his opinion Miss Maguire had committed suicide, as it was not probable, he said, that the girl could have wandered into the water accidentally under the influence of fright. Despite the Coroner's decision the dead girl's father refused to believe that his daughter had taken her own life, and demanded that a thorough investigation be made by the authorities. The news of the finding of the bod> quickly spread and parties of campers began tD set out for Nolan's Point in laifnches and boats of every description. Soon a big crowd had gathered at the boathouse, but only a few persons were permitted to see the body. Miss Maguire and her cousin, Chas. Maguiro, of Dover, had driven tc Camp Look Who's Here, near Nolan's Point, in a buggy and were about tc start for home when a thunder storn? broke. , Maguire* left his cousin in the buggy while he ran to the camp to get a suit caste, and when he got back a few minutes later she had disappeared. The only person who saw th6 young woman after her cousin left h$r was Mrs. Lockman, a guest at the camp. Mrs. Lockman says $he saw Miss Maguire leave the buggy, but did not see which way she went. The young woman was greatly afraid of lightning, and there were several terrifying flashes just before she disappeared. Miss Maguire had been in an extremely nervous condition for a long time and had been visiting her uncle's home in an effort to regain her health. It is believed that after hei cousin left her she became terrified by the) lightning and that when she got out of the buggy she ran to the lake shore, and. not knowing where she was going, fell into the water and was drowned. Miss Agnes C. Maguire was twentyseven years old. She i4ved with her parents at 27 Second place, Brooklyn and was a teacher in Public School 58. John Maguire, the father of the girl, is a tea merchant in business at 269 Columbia street, Brooklyn. SHOW LION SEIZES WOMAN. Escapes Into a Pittsburg Crowd and Fatally Hurts Victim. Pittsburg, Pa.?Mrs. Annr. Hucke. an aged woman of this city, was fatally injured and 1500 other persons were thrown into a panic when Cedar, a Hon at Luna Park, escaped from his cage and charged a crowd composed mostly of women and chil dren. After a figtit lasting nrteen minutes four policemen killed the "beast, over fifty shots being fired at him. The lion show has been at the Park only a short time, and Cedar, whc was three and one-half years old, had only recently been placed in captivity. RAILROAD EARNINGS ENORMOUS Gross Increase in 1906 $234,442,516 Over 1905. New York City.?The gross earnings of the railroads of the United States during 1906. according tc the fortieth number of Poor's Manual, made the enormous Increase over 1905 of $234,442,516. The net earnings increased $104,723,224. 111 lb xxcia uuu? iu apiic ui a ucavj increase in operating expenses due to higher wages and increased cosl of material. Over 71,000,000 more people traveled by rail in 1906 thar in the preceding year, while the railroads moved 1,610,099,829 tons as compared with 1,435,321,74S tons iu the preceding year. Nelson Morris, Big Fackcr, Dead. Nelson Morris, the well-known multi-millionaire packer, of Chicago, died after an illness of several weeks. He was a victim of kidney disease and heart trouble. Mr. Morris was born in Germany in 1840, and he came to this country when eleven years old, landing in Philadelphia without a cent. uovernor uienns warning;. Governor Glenn returned to North Carolina after telling the Southern Railroad's representaties that they are wasting time and money in the hearings in New York in their fight against reduced lares. Arrested Fop Swindling. After being warned by ihe police to leave the city, J. Overton Paine, of Newark, N J.,.was arrested in his office on charge of swindling, and paroled in the custody of his counsel. He Is known as ?. "stock tipster." The Field of Sport. S. M. Rowland won the lawn tennis championship of Maine. S. C. Hildreth purchased the twoyear-old colt Uncle from J. E. Madden for $30,000. The American motor boat Dixie won trio uriusKi lncernacionai cup at Southampton, England. David Shaw's Alice Pointer won the $10,000 purse for 2.12 pacers at the Buffalo Grand Circuit meeting. Miss May Sutton has decided not to defend the lawn tennis cup whicbt | she won last yea.-, at Newcastle-ouTyne. " ' v * : / ?.r ' CHILD'S BODY JfiUTILATEO Margaret Kuhlewind Killed by Automobile, Victim cf Ghouls. Coffin of Eight-Year-Old Profaned at Bernardsville, N. J.?Body Dug Up and Reburied by Vandals. Bernardsville, N? J.?Through the exhumation of the body of Margaret Kuhlewind, one of the victims of the fatal automobile wreck near Bernardsville ten days before, it became known that within a few hours after the interment a fiend had desecrated the grave. The body of the child had been dug up and mutilated. When he had finished hi3 ghoulish work the brute threw the body back into the coffin and cast it into the grave. But in replacing the dirt and flowers he did not arrange them as they had been left, and this led to the exhuming of the body. The child was killed on August 14 while riding in the automobile of Grant B. Schley, the broker. Thomas Clark, Mr. Schley's chauffeur, had picked up a party including the little girl to give them a rids. He ran into a telegraph pole and the child was thrown out with the others. Her death was instantaneous. Clark was also killed instantly and Ralph Hazelton, another occupant of the car, died the next' day in a hospital, while Miss Adelaide Pepper, of Brooklyn, and Miss Anna Kuhlewind, a sister of little Margaret, were seriously injured. Three days later the body of the child was buried in St. Bernard's Episcopal Cemetery, where for years the dead of the parish have lain undisturbed. When the last word of the funeral service had been spoken the superintendent took the many floral offerings and placed them on the grave. He banked them higher at the head of the grave than at the foot. While making his rounds the following morning the superintendent saw that the flowers had been displaced. He looked, and the banking of the grave, which he had attended to, did not seem the same. He becamesconvinced that some one had been meddling. While there was no proof that the grave had been actually o.pened, he reported the matter to William R. Bonfield, one of the Cemetery Committee. Mr. Bonfield decided to do nothing until Richard V. Lindabury, a lawyer, of New York City, who is chairman of the Cemetery Committee, returned to Bernardsville. Mr. Lindabury arrived and ordered that the grave be opened. The aged father of the little girl was asked to be present, as was the undertaker, Isaiah Bower. When the outer box of the coffin was reached it was apparent that the grave had been disturbed. The box had been securely fastened by the undertaker, but the lid was now found to be loose. Then the coffin was taken out, and it, too, showed signs of a ghoul's work. It was not, however, until the coffin was opened that the whole horror was unfolded. The little body was found to have Koon thrAmn horlr into tha onffln wifli UVV/U VU4 V II U UUUU iUVV VUV Will U H1VU the shroud nearly torn from It. No care had been used, and the casket, large for the child, had been tossed back into the grave. The body had slid to the foot of the coffin and was huddled in a heap. The examination showed that the fiend had taken the body from the coffin and, using the under side of the lid of the outer box as an operating table, had made a slash with a knife in a circular manner and then removal the vital organs which h<? wanted. CAT'S BITE KILLS WOMAN. She Had Ajttack of Hydrophobia at Long Branch, N. J. Long Branch, N. J.?Mrs. Rachel D. Barry, who was bitten by a cat seven weeks ago, died in her Eatontown Boulevferd home, after enduring great agony. Her nurse and physician pronounced it the worst attack of hydrophobia they had ever witnessed. For hours before her death she had to be strapped fast to the bed to prevent her from breaking her limbs. Mrs. Earry was forty-six years old and leaves five children. She was an expert telegrapher, and when her husband was station agent and paymaster at Ovford, Pa., she frequently operated the telegraph. LONDON MARKET LOSSES. Decline in 387 Stocks $680,000,000 ib August?$1,723,000,000 This Year. London.?The Eankers' Magazine prints a table telling o? the millions evaporated on the Stock Exchange by the depreciation of securities, which the editor likens to "a survey of a district afflicted by some devastating calamity." For August the decline in 387 representative stocks reached the staggering total of 3680,000,000. This makes an aggregate of $1,725,000,000 since the beginning of the year, of which $555,000,000 is in American railroad shares, $240,000,000 in British funds and $180,000,000 in EngTioK ro.'lu'n v on/1 nv/1 i n o h> iiou launuj auu uiuinai j ouvi/ix. Will Sacrifice a Submarine. The British Admiralty is about to sacrifice one of the earlier type of Holland submarine boats to acquire knowledge of the effect of mine explosions upon a boat of that class. TRAIN BRINGS DEATH TO TWO. Philadelphian Driving Auto Instantly Killed and Son Dies in Hospital. Philadelphia.?Harry Gtirk died in a hospital here from injuries received when a train crashed into an automobile on Five Mile B^ach, near Wildwood, instantly killing his father, Henry J. Gurk, of this city, who was driving the machine. Mrs. Gurk, hei brother-in-law, Waiter H. Gurk, and his wife, who were also in the avtomobile, escaped severe injury. OK. C. H. POWELL DEAD. Darin? Investigations in Carbolic Poisoning at Greenwich, Conn. Greenwich, Conn.?Dr. Seneca P. Powell died at his home here in his sixtieth year. Dr. Powell had b?en ill for three years, dating from the time when he announced to the m?dical profession that dear alcohol wa3 an antidote for carbolic a?id poisoning. Pie had frequently experimented on himself. This is said to have undermined his constitution. Dr. Powell was a native of Alabama. and was horn ou January 0. 18 4 s 0 \ i. # ll WASHINGTON. The Acting Secretary of War advised the President that the Canal Commission's request to be permitted to create a deficit might legally be granted. Governor Magoon. of Cuba, reported to the War Department that careful measures had been taken in Cienfuegos to eradicate yellow fever. Navy officials declared poor oil supplied by independent dealers caused the change in specifications V;Hg for oil bids which favored the Standard Oil Company. . >&#? United Stat.e:i Navy officers declared the average performance of navy gunners with big guns was better than the British. The Secretary of the Treasury announced that hereafter national depository banks would be permitted to use Philippine railway bonds, at ninety per cent, of market value, as security. "r'aH It was announced at the offices of the Panama Canal Commission that work was proceeding so rapidly in the canal zone that $8,000,000 more was needed for the present year's expenses. It wa3 announced in Washington that because of the alleged transfer of some of its property by the socalled Powder Trust, the Government had filed at Wilmington an amendment to its petition. ' V;;S|j Samuel Gompers said in Washington that the American Federation of Labor would probably bring counter suit against the National Manufacturers' Association, charging conspiracy. The United States Government will submit the Newfoundland fisheries dispute to the Hague Conference for arbitration with the consent of Great Britain. OUR ADOPTED ISLANDS. Vigorous measures to stamp out. yellow fever are being taken in Cuba. The War Department has advertised for bids for batteries at Pearl Harbor and Diamond Head, in Hawaii. The bids will be opened October 15. Bids for deepening Honolulu harbor will be opened September 9. Pulajaniam has been eradicated in Tsland of Lev-te. P. I., for the first time, it is said, since the American occupation. At Honolulu a reception was given ^*3 by Governor Carter to Secretary of Commerce and Labor Straus and Congessman and Mrs. Nicholas Longworth. Five thousand persons attended. ^Sj Cuban liberals and conservatives each accuse the others of getting up a "fake" revolution to influence American action in the island. The armored cruiser squadron sailed from Manila via Honolulu to join Admiral Evans' fleet. : The Philippine Legislature will be called to assemble October 15". The date was fixed to enable Secretary Taft to be present. DOMESTIC. j Joseph L. McElroy, Postmaster ol the House of Representatives, is dead at his home, Delaware, Ohio. Mr. McElroy was prominent in Ohio politics for many years. Prince Wilhelm of Sweden was entertained by Newport society. f President Roosevelt summoned navy officials to Oyster Bay to confer on the trip of the Atlantic battleship fleet to the Pacific. Congessman Samuel W. McCall at the Marshfield (Mass.) Fair discussed xJ A. rtnnfro 1. me teuueuuy ui umco w wuvt? ? ize all power at Washington, and urged adherence to representative government. Secretary of State Elihu Root, on the verge of a physical breakdown, due to overwork, went to William Muldoon's -farm, in Westchester County, New York, to seek rest. Secretary Taft in an address at Lexington. Ky., urged equal franchise privileges for negroes, and called on the Solid South to drop dead issues. Mills Bros. & Co., of the New York Stock Exchange, assigned as a result, it is said, of a disagreement with Richard A. .Canfield, the gambler, -:'g| over his account. "7'|w The "Sinking Fund Commission of New York increased the interest rate on city bonds to 4 V& per c6nt. and the Mayor ordered heads of departments to make no new contracts for expenditure of money. ^$8 FOREIGN. The American cruiser squadron steamed from Yokohama, Japan,-for San Francisco via Honolulu. Frost was reported from many points in the Canadian Northwest, but no serious damage to crops, especially to wheat, is feared, although the price of wheat wen1; up at Toronto. ' ; It was reported from Berlin that cholera had broken out in Shanghai, .* and thai: several Europeans had succumbed to the disease. A sharp earthquake shock was felt in the West India Islands of Guadeloupe and Dominica. The Hague Peace Conference special committee approved the proposi- , tion to establish an international prize court. The Transvaal Parliament voted to buy the Cullinan diamond, valued at $1,000,000, and give it to King Edward as a mark of gratitude for the recem c.us.uuiiuii. A tablet in memory of those who perished in the railway disaster at Salisbury, England, last: year, was unveiled in the ancient cathedral there. r ,4* The officers and men of the American fleet received a flattering reception at Yokahama by the Japanese ? people. M. Jules Camt'on, the French Ambassador in BerJin, will go ti> .Nor- . ? deney to confer with Prince von Bulow, the German Imperial Chancellor, on the Moroccan and other questions. ' ~?j Three Japanese, belonging to a traveling acrobatic troupe, have been arrested at Rostoff-on-Don, Russia, with plans of fortifications and other * secret military documents in meir possession. Confirmation is obtained, declares a Berlin cable in the Paris edition of the New York Herald, of the ieported purpose of a Japanese bah* pool to acquire the Philippines by "peaceful conquest.'' I Prominent naval critics, insisting that the gunnery of the British Na?y is superior to that of the United States, advocate publishing the comparative records of the two countries as an Incentive to improvement i '-'i