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**-A-****** Caught in By WILLIflJV The sun that winter afternoon wj quite warm, but the north win< blowing down the ice laden river, ci like a knife. Philip Ross, captain ( the barge Bessie, standing in th bow of his clumsy craft directing gang of men unloading the stom which comprised the cargo, shivere as the strong blasts rushed by, an drawing his heavy overcoat close about him, took refuge behind tfc supporting masi or me aernuK wuei liis body was not so much exposed. Quitting time arrived before all th stone had been raised and landed, an Captain Ross blew his whistle as signal that work was over for th day. The teamster unhooked tb horses from the derrick tackle; th laborers gathered up coats and dii ner pails, and in an incredibly shoi time they were lost to sight down on of the city's streets. The two men bers of the crew and the cook ha been graited permission to spen the evening on shore and left at th same time. When all had gone, Philip walke to the stern of the barge and stoo looking out over the water. The tid was ebbing, and the blocks of ice i the stream were being borne alon tnufii-d t>io hav in honvinir maSLSP! The river, with its shipping, its mis cellaneous cargoes and the sugge: tions of new and strange places th sight of incoming and outgoing ve: sels were always bringing before hi mind, was dear to the young mai and he longed for the day when th firm by whom he was employed woul send him to sea on one of their ocea going steamers. One large cake of ice directly 01 posite him attracted his attentioi He followed it with his eyes as ! went tumblfng along on its way t the sea, and wondered how long time would elapse before the actio of the salt water would melt it. All at once the entire flow seeme to pause in its onward progress. A the same time the deck on which h stood began to rock like a vessel i motion. The sensation awoke hii from his reverie, and glancing hui riedly over his shoulder, Philip sa' that the bow of the barge was swing ing about, for the bowline, a thicl heavy hawser which held the foi ward part of the craft to the docl had parted, leaving only the lighte line at the stern to keep the barg from drifting away from her mooi ings entirely. Instantly Ross saw that anothe line would have to be ruu ashore t take the place of the broken hawsei and at once, or the barge would b adrift. The distance between th barge and the dock was too great t leap, so throwing the loop in the en of a line over a bitt head he droppe the coil of rope into the bottom c the dory fastened to the river sid of the larger craft. Cutting the bos loose he picked up the oars and b< gan to pull rapidly, following out plan he had formulated almost a soon as he perceived that the bow line naa pariea. mis was 10 pas around the bow of the barge, reac the dock, fasten the other end of th rope to the snubbing post, and thu hold the unwieldly hulk until h could get a tug to tow the barg back to her position. There were at his disposal only few seconds for the accomplishmer of his object, and Philip bent to hi task and sent the dory out in th river with strong, swift strokes. The turning the boat's head up streai and shoreward, he put forth all hi strength and skill in his efforts t make the dock before t:ie barge ha floated the rope's length down th stream. But, riverman though he wai T~> V> i 1 i Kn/) V, ~ Jt x nmp uau taiicu iu tuuaiuci tue ui. Acuities of his task. No sooner wa the dory well out from under the le of the barge than tho floating ic struck it, effectually stopping its pre gress. One huge cake caught th small boat in its embrace, and whi] Philip was working around the bloc the tide was carrying the ice an boat down the stream. By the time he had succeeded i getting clear of the cake he was s far below the barge that it was us< less to try and gain the dock in tiro to snub her, and Philip realized tlu his efforts were to end in failuri "The unwieldly craft had swun around and floated down scream ? far as the stern line would allov This hawser held her, much to Phi ip's surprise, but he felt certain tb jope would not stand the strain loni The captain swept the river wit his eyes in search of a tug to to the barge back, but while there ws many vessels in sight, they were a too far away for him to signal. Thei too late, he thought of his plight an that he was being borne down the rr er toward the bay with a tide again: which it was not easy to pull. Hov ?ver, he had no reason to doubt h ability to regain the bank, and bene ing to the oars again, pulled his bes Slowly the boat began forgin Ol A.s J _ * ?uvuu agaiufil. tilt? LiUe, <111(1 POlntlD the bow toward the spot where h wished to land, Philip settled hin self on his seat for some hard worl The warm sun earlier in the da had loosened great quantities of ic in the upper branches of the rive and it was being carried down tb stream in mighty floes, some of whic extended all the way across and wei particularly thick between the boi and the bank. Philip had not pulle two minutes before he found himse surrounded by masses of floating ic that offered such resistance that h strokes were of no avail. Provoked at his failure he turns the dory towards the middle of tt stream wherp ht> thmiorv.* * mi; IV might not be so thick, but it wj growing dark and he could not s< very well. Too late he found that ii etead of bettering his position he ha gotten into a floe of larger propo tions than the one which had fir {held him. Somewhat alarmed at th discovery he wheeled the dory aboi and sought to pull shoreward agai but the ice was getting thicker evei minute and he could make no heai way in that direction either. The masses of Coating ice we an Ice-Floe I sc [ R STIMPSON. S w "A" tr is larger and more formidable tnan tney tfc 3. had seemed to Philip from the deck ca it of the barge, and buffeted about by fc if the wind and current, were thrown g( le against the sides of the frail craft th a with dangerous force. While using ;s the oars to ward off the larger cakes ai ;d that came toward him, he tried at the sc d same time to work the boat forward ^i ;r in first one direction, then another, ^ le but fifteen minutes of this course e demonstrated its futility. Reluctant- ar ly he gave up all hope of regaining ca ie the barge and directed his energies d in efforts to steer clear of and push Qj, a aside the largest of the tumbling e cakes, husbanding his strength for a ^ te time of need. < 0 6^ The floe that held his boat swept di rt along in about the centre of the h? channel and was avoided by the ti< j_ smaller craft plying up and down or d across the river, while the pilots of ex d ferryboats that came close enough at e for the young captain to hail did not w; seem to think his danger sufficiently th d great to warrant their stopping in- ed d midstream and taking him aboard. cr e The floe with which his boat was ]0 n floating soon approached the lower th g end of the city where the water was or s. more frequently churmed by vessels, k? 5- and Philip began to entertain hopes 3- of speedy rescue. But he was doom- a e ed to disappointment. Each vessel in 3- that came anywhere near his boat h< ls sent ugly waves toward him, and br 1> these threw the cakes of ice about so le ? that several times he fully expected ui the. planking of his frail craft to be w: 11 crushed. All his attention was re- th quired to keep the dory from being pi struck a fatal blow, and he had little m opportunity to signal his plight. w; 0 Passed by again and again, Philip th a grew disheartened after two or three oc n such experiences, and was about to w; sink down on a seat in sheer despair d when he saw right ahead of him the oc s 4- c^il n ? ??? i i r1 A Toast to Archil C' - rc> Here is a toast given by tl in honor of Archibald Deringer, _ for any other occasion in hor Artie: "The spirit of Mirth pre was his godfather, Humor 1 !r christened him favorite son of o of the optimist, the despair of t r, of woe, the purveyor of smiles, e ness. He fosters fun and pror e mortgage on amiability, he is o in the sunshine trust, his eye d face is a map of drollery, his i ^ ment, his heart is the haunt our friend Artie Deringer." e : T lights of a vessel anchored in the riv- cu " er. The ice was bearing down upon pi 'k the stationary hulk, and hope rose e high in his heart when a turn in the w s current caused the floe to veer, and tu e he passed by so far away that his cr e shouts were not heard by any one on board. pj a Then a little further on a ferryboat, w, it loaded with passengers bound for the ai is suburbs on the opposite side of the w e river, plowed through the ice not fifty th n feet ahead of him, but the pilot's at- cr n tention was on a tug and its tow th is crossing his quarter, and he did not wi o see the small boat and its occupant re d frantically waving his overcoat. The pe ? -f *v.~ v>s.? f/irrvhnit- ietiirhprl passage ui mc uie igkjuw*... ~ the water so much that the blocks at of ice were thrown about more rough- pc ly than ever. One huge cake fell di- In IS rectly across the bow of the small in 'e boat, and for a few seconds Philip ar ' thought the dory was going down cr ~ then and there. But the block slid th e ie off into the water finally, and imme- as j. diate danger of sinking was past. ki (j On swirled the ice floe uninterruptedly. It soon reached the point ar n where the river widened into the bay. th io There were fewer vessels there, and na a. Philip was force! to the conclusion th ie that his chance of rescue was ex- in it tremely slim. But he comforted him- cr e. self with one thought. The wider T< g expanse of water allowed the ice lo ts cakes to float further apart, and im- ce v. minent danger of being sunk by con- bl 1- tact with a huge blocK was over. sn ie Encourr.sed by this he placed the in oars in the row-locks and tried again dc h to row, but the floating ice was still th w too thick to admit of any progress be ls that way. Giving way to his despair w; 11 he crojiched as far forward in the gr bottom of the dory as he could, draw- cr ing his heavy coat about his form as he * a protection against the piercing lil ' wind. But the keen blast penetrated js beneath the thick garment and lit . numbed his whole body. bi Then a change came over him. af TVonnniitv ho viowpri the situation tn g and resigned himself to his fate. In pi ie a half stupor he sank further in the P] j. stern as the blood began to move wi i sluggishly through his veins. in y For fuly fifteen minutes he sat ca ;e thus, so oblivious to his surround- sp r> ings that he failed to see a tug with fo te a tow of three barges approaching in th h line that, if continued, would have ju e cut the dory in half, until the hoarse st it whistle, warning him to get out of a td the way, had sounded twice. The hi If second blast aroused him. He looked hi ie up dully and saw the lights of the is tug. ta In a second he was all animation. h< 'd Leaping to his feet he pulled off his th ie coat and began waving it around his ot -e head. sa ls The pilot had comprehended the tb ie situation when Philip failed to heed ai the first warning, and as soon as the o^ L young man began waving his over- p< coat, rang for the engineer to stop the tli js engine. Then opening the wheel- h< house window he leaned out, the bet- cc n ter to see through the deepening pi -y gloom. of "I'm fast in this ice-floe and can't Hi get out." Philip shouted, but his lips tt re were so cold that he did not apeak v 5ry distinctly n-- Ihe pilot had to uess his meanin.,. nc Philip's senses were sharp enough in ?en if his body was numb, and he F( ink in thp sienifirancff of several sti larp orders given by the command- pi of the tug during the next sixty Le ?conds, in answer to which two men he ist off the hawsers leading to the ca iree barges. Then the man at the sh heel rang for half speed ahead. sa Philip heard and understood the gnal and was filled with a fear that th ie prow of the tug, forcing its way yo trough the ice, would push the big op ikes against his dory and sink it be- fo: re he could be taken on board, wi )me such thought must have flashed ar irough the pilot's mind at the same Le me, for he suddenly left the wheel, m< id leaning out of the window again, anned the floating ice that turn- hli ed about so threateningly between ru ie two crafts. on "The ice cakes here are big ones, co id you'll crush my boat if you're not m< ireful," Philip called. an The helmsman observed the mass ba floating ice with a critical eye, then bo ive another order to the engineer rough the speaking tube, in obedi- ed ice to which the tug's propeller re- ab iced its revolutions until the vessel to' id just headway enough to keep sta- bn Dnary in the current. Half a dozen men?all of the crew ! :cept the engineer, who remained * his post, and the pilot, in the heelhouse?crowded to the bow of * e tug, ready to lend a hand if need 1, for the ice. impeded by the larger aft, was piling around the frail oking dory, now and then striking Tt e gunwale with such force that hu ily the stanchness of the little boat an ;pt it from being demolished. fe< With the oars, Philip tried to clear ar passage ahead toward the tug, but te: his eagerness he bore down too se; javily on one of the blades and is oke it off short. Throwing the use- ea ss piece of wood aside, he picked Ai ) the other aor and went to work ch ith that, but he was afraid to strain nil at one very hard for fear of snap- is ne it also, and slowly the ice hem- ne ed him in. Clearly he saw thatf it pi< as only a question of time when fa e dory would go down and its sole ha :cupant be precipitated into the icy sig ater. to All hands realized that this would sti :cur before the boat could reach the an nil ? """"" he BALD DE RINGER. fly ^ ?- 1 Wi bil ie toastmaster at a dinner aj] , which is eminently suited ye tor of a good fellow like ssided at his birth. Wit n*: lis godmother, and they 3e' Laughter. He is the hope th< he pessimist, the destroyer sp the custodian of cheerful- in, notes pleasure. He has a ^ the majority stockholder h is a beacon of gaiety, his nind is a mirror of merri- re of happiness. Here's to us ^ T I ig, and at a suggestion from the ^ iul a siuiui mrew rump a rope. ea "Tie that around your waist, and De hen I give the word, jump for the v/c ig. We'll haul you aboard," he Af ied cheeringly. Philip did as he was told, and, pretred to leap at the signal, stood gn: atching the distance between him no id safety lessen. One moment it thl ould seem to the anxious lad as ...j ough the space betwwen the two T1] aft was not diminished an inch; en the heaving mass of floating ice ould thin out a trifle and the cur- ho nt would bear the dory forward stl trhaps six inches. With the line securely fastened jej tout his waist, Philip felt a tem- fr( irary assurance of safety, followed flr lmediately by an almost overpower- to g desire to throw himself overboard o{ id trust to the rope and the eager m? ew to haul him upon the deck of an e tug. But he put the temptation w iide, assured that the older man ajj lew best. 0f siowiy tne seconds dragged along, id foot by foot the little boat and da e tug drew together. The distance no trrowed to twelve feet, and although th: e ice cakes were threatening every stant to capsize the diminutive eV( aft, the dory still held her own. ?0 ;n feet was the distance when the g0 ng looked for deathblow was re- or ived. With a loud crash a huge ^ ock slipped over its fellows, and as apping short the light oar Philip gle terposed, hurled itself against the >ry and struck it a glancing blow zir at stove in the gunwale. The boat sgan to sink slowly, but Philip, hose control over himself had own more rigid as the danger ineased, heard no order to leap, and :ld his position, although it seemed feJ ce courting death to do so. we When eight feet away the gallant *hi tie craft was still above the water it struggling painfuly to keep th< loat. Not until the distance to the ue g had narrowed to six feet did the sei lot shout a loud, "Now then!" and tiilip leaped, just as a big wave asl ashed entirely over the boat send- th< g it down instantly. The great ice in? ,kes came tumbling together in the iot where the dory had been. Philip Sp, und an instant's footing on one of tei e largest of the blocks, and was th< ist about to la^ hold of the outretched hands, when a wave tossed in) big cake on top of the one giving ab m his temporary footing, knocking s feet out from under him. Had the man with the rope reined his presence of mind and luled in on it when Philip leaped, 0 ie latter would have escaped an- m( her harrowing experience. But the .nor WHS SlOW, UUU ruilIJI nrcm. m le ice laden water, the huge blocks ^01 \d smaller pieces jamming together to r'er the spot wnere he had dtsa,, iared, and when lie would have irust arms and head above water, 2 found a barrier over him which he >uld not pierce. The strong current, br ishing the ice-floe against the hull if : the tug directly in its path, kept sti le cakes wedged together so tightly all lat to break through from beneath to as au impossibility. ' of The sailor holding the rope dared >t pull for fear of injuring Philip drawing his body through the ice >r a moment or two there was con ernation aboard the tug, but the lot was equal to the emergency, saping to the deck he seized a boatiok and began pushing aside the kes directly over Philip's head, outing to one. of his men to do the me. Quick and strong manipulation of e poles was all that saved the ung barge captain, for when an. ening large enough for him to rce his head and shoulders through is made, and Philip's white face ose, he was gasping for breath, j laning over the side of the tug the | sn seized him and drew him aboard, j Two hours later when he'had had j 3 bruises attended to, had been'I bbed dry by the kind hearted cook I board the tug, warmed with hot ffee, and attired in a suit of the i ite's clothes, Philip hurried ashore ; d uptown to where he had left the j rge, and found it tied snugly at w and stern. A passing tug captain, so he learnthe next day, seeing the barge out to break her moorings, had wed her back and ^mended the oken hawser.?Young People. THE REAL S HUSKING BEE : ! * ** V9VVVWVWWWWW There will be a husking to-night, le boys have selected about thirty ige and solid pumpkins for seats, d the stocks of corn stand twenty 3t thick, all around outside. Wires e fixed, on which to hang the lanrns of the workers. Inside the ats, the whole centre of the yard left clear for the clean golden rs after they are stripped. Joslah ldtews and Ephraim Foote are the ief competitors; only old man Denson gives them a close race. It a curious and pretty piece of busiss. At 7 o'clock every seat is occuJd with laughing, story-telling rmers, farmers' boys and farmnds. Grandfather Hull gives the jnal. Lifting a stalk deftly, so as bring the ear to the left hand, he ips the husks down with the right, d then twists the golden spur cunQgly out of the stalk and the husks quick as a flash tossing the ear to e ground. Soon there is a pile, d each man and boy has his own ap. Now all are at work. The kes grow fewer, the talk lags. Ears thickly through the air. There 11 be one hour's pull, and every t of it will be farmer's science. With I their inventions they have never t got a better corn husker than the o human hands, with brains runag through them. You will easily e that it is brains if you watch e piles. Modern invention has oiled mowing and reaping, and doors there is no more sewing or iltting or candle making, but corn isking is. and I think it will long main. The kitchen is lighted with unual brilliance, and there is a hum business inside. Taint odors of ughnuts come to the champions, you could only look indoors you >uld see a long row of pumpkin 2s, and there are seven jars of ney, for these huskers are hearty lers. farson ^uase is ueie, ouu tacon Hanford, and they are doing >rk neither need be ashamed of. ter the fea3ting, when it comes to e dancing, and the champion leads e girl of his choice, the parson tiles and says genially: "Folks do t see things as they used." "Bless e Lord, no!" says the deacon, 'here's no use manufacturing sins, lere's enough of them in the. nature things." The hour is up; yes, a good long ur and a half. TTle village clock ikes 9 before the huskers shove ck from the stocks?what there is !t of them. The girls are coming >m the house with arms full. Cider st?a genuine brew. I should like stop right here, to sing the praise real cider?September cider? ide half and half of pound sweets d gravensteins. But really if I ire to tell you all that I know, and that I think of this pure brewing the best fruit God ever made, I ould neveF get to the end of the ncing and feasting, and we should t get home until midnight. Only i is I say, cider is fit for mortals only | ten made of sound apples, and ery one washed at the spring, ffee comes for those whose blood es slow, and are already sleeping nodding. This is one of the fine ings about farm life, that as soon the work is done the worker ieps.?From "Corn and Grapes," E. P. Powell, in the Outing Magale. WORDS OF WISDOM. * There is at least one redeeming iture about air castles, and that is s do not have to pay taxes on sm. The kindness of insincerity is like ' e beauty of artificial roses; we val- I it for what it is intended to repreit. When you are in error ftever be named to acknowledge it. It gives e other fellow no eccuse for keep; up the argument. If you want to know how people sak of you behind your back, lisi to the reckless manner in which ?y pitch into others. The man who is always proclaiml that he is in the right is intolerle; the man who admits he has en in the wrong is charming. A couple of interviewers spent the ihi in a cell with a man who was omed to be hanged, and in the jrning the prisoner was perfectly Ming to die. Better be defeated in an honest efrt than to be discouraged and cease make that effort. Up and at it ould ever be the watchword of the in who feels that he has right on > side. There is always more than enough ightness in life to offset the gloom, wc will look for it. And there is 11 enough gloom in life to quench brightness, if we are determined have it that way.?From "Nuggets Wisdom.." in f.ha Rpp-Hivo. . AMERICAN SHIP SI PAUL PillVO DDITICU PDIIIOCD GlllftJ DnillQII U1IU1ULII j Gladiator Goes Down Off Isle of Wight in Twenty Minutes. CAPTAIN AND CREW SAVED Vessels Collided in Thick Snowstorm on the Solent?Liner Puts Each Into Port?Wreck Leached For Safety. Southampton, Eng.?The American LKe steamship St. Paul, which cut down the British cruiser Gladia tor In the Solent, arrived at her doch here, bringing some of the survivort of the Gladiator's crew, who had been picked up by her boats. The official account or the disaster issued by the Admiralty in London says the Gladiator was beached after the collision. All the officers except Lieutenant Graves were saved. Three members of the crew were drowned. The crufser now lies a hundred yards offshore. Only her keel is visible. The St. Paul's bows are badly stove in. She will go into dry dock immediately and the repairs necessary will require several weeks. No one was injured on board her. The St. Paul sailed from this port for New York at noon. She had only twenty-one first cabin passengers, with a fair list in the second cabin. As i^he proceeded down the Solent the thick weather developed into a dense snowstorm, amounting to a blizzard. The Gladiator left. Portland at 10 o'clock in the morning for Portsmouth. She was running at a speed of eight knots an hour. Captain Lumsden was on the bridge. The liner was forging ahead at a low rate of speed, making for the Channel, when at 2 o'clock in the afternoon, between Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, and the Needles, she struck the Gladiator. The Gladiator began to sink rapidly. She was hit almost amidships and cut far below the water line. The St. Paul, standing by, launched her boats at once. There was a very light sea running and the thick weathei was the only embarrassment to the work of rescue. Several of the meD swam ashore to Yarmouth Beach. An eyewitness of the collision says the crash came with scarcely a moment's warning. The liner was proceeding at half speed in a blinding snowstorm in the Solent. The pilot was still in charge. The shock to the St. Poul was severe, but no one was injured. The watertight compartments were closed instantaneously. The blow to the cruiser was terrific. Its force was sc great that it threw her instantly almost on her beam ends. About 150 of her crew ^vere on deck, and fully a score were pitched overboard by th< shock and many were injured. Order was quickly restored and boats were lowered. The Gladiatoi could be seen just ahaed. She was alreadv heeled over, and there was a tremendous gash amidships where the 6t. Paul's bow had cut half through her. One of the St. Paul's boats sanb during the life saving efforts, but the ;rew was immediately picked up. The loss of life through the collision is much greater than was supposed. It has run up to thirty-six and may go beyond that figure. FATAL ONTARIO AVALANCHE. . Mountain Slides Onto Hamlet, Wiping Out Half of Town. Buckingham, Ontario. ? Half oi the French hamlet of Notre Dame de Balette, sixteen miles from here on th< Lievre River, lies buried under a sliding mountain, and at least thirty persons are known to have perished. The river Lievre winds at the fool of the town and a mountain towered behind it. Spring rains have beer melting the snow and ice. At 5 o'clock a. m., as the residents prenorlv mooo nart nf tVw IJai V^U JLWt VUl LJ U4UUU V Vk mountain started to slide toward th< river. It tore a path of death and de> Btruction, and those who were nol killed when their homes were engul'fed were buried under the mass oJ rock and earth. Camille La Pointe and his famil> of eleven perished. Mrs. Desjardi^'j cottage also was swept away an 1 sa< * with her two childfen, a domestic anc a hired man are known to be buriec in the landslide. At least eight persons are missing." . The avalanche descended with i roar and spread fan-like over part o! the town and dumped itself in th< swollen stream at its foot. Messen gers were dispatched to Poupere, the nearest hamlet. The first messengers to Buckingham ordered twenty-five coffins, and all the physicians of the town were uui i icu oo LUUUU J ntuu parties. Twenty houses were engulfed. Th? slide carried two from the west banli into the swollen river and across tc the east bank, and then covered eighteen houses there. Those who were not killed in tht avalanche were drowned. OFFICIALS FALL FATAL. Clark \V. May, of West Virginia, Expires After Amputation of Leg. Huntington, W. Va. ? Attorney < General Clark W. May died at hi.' < home, at Hamlin. Ten days ago h< < was thrown from a horse and his leg ( was broken. Amputation, following ; blood poison, was followed by death. I ACCUSK Jt'ASTUK OF JilfiKKSl. j ( After 23 Years the Rev. R. IT. Cotton, of St. Paul, is to Be Dropped. ] St. Paul, Minn.?Robert Hamilton { Cotton, D. D., aged sixty-seven, foi twenty-five years an Episcopal cler gyman in Minnesota, is charged witt heresy, and Bishop Edsall has. re- ( fused to give him a license to preach because he declared publicly that thf story of Christ's resurrection was a fairy tale. ( Around the Bases. Conroy looks like a fixture at the New York Highlanders' third corner. Clark Griffith states that he will j pitch some more this season?if nec essary. I Outfielder Claude Jones considers | Case Patten, of Washington, to be the greatest southpaw extant. < Ed Killian, the phonetic expert ol c the Detroits, has discovered thai t Hughey Jennings' war cry was "sweeyah!" not "wee-yah!" as supposed. < Jennings says this is correct, the yell being shortened from "that's the way,\ j aid" i THE PRESIDENT, IN MESSAGE, APPEALS TO CONGRESS Legislation on Lines of Previous Recommendations Urged - -Denounces e< Sordid Multimillionaires." Washington, D. C. ? President Roosevelt sent to Congress a message reiterating his recommendations for variou3 kinds of legislation, particularly relating to the limitation of the power of injunction and amendment of the Sherman Anti-Trust law. Incorporated with the message was an appendix giving a report of the chairman of the Finance Commission to the Mayor and City Council of Boston on the evil practices of certain corporations which have business relations with that city. Mr. Roosevelt reminds Congress of bis message of March 25 last, and says there is good ground for hope that various measures then advocated will be enacted, including financial legislation "providing for temporary measures of meeting any trouble that may arise in the next year or two, and for a commission of experts who shall thoroughly investigate the whole matter, both here and in the great commercial countries abroad, so as to be able to recommend legislation which will put our financial J system on an efficient and permanent basis." "It is much to be wished," the President adds, "that one feature of the financial legislation of this session should be the establishment of postal savings banks. Ample appropriation should be made to enable the Interstate Commerce Commission to carry out the very important feature of the Hepburn law which gives to the commission supervision and control over the accounting systems of the railways." Mr. Roosevelt finds there is doubt about the enactment of measures to do away with the abuse of power of injunction and to strengthen control by the National Government of corporations doing an interstate business. The President declares that recent decisions of the Supreme Court in the Minnesota and North Carolina cases show the impossibility of dual control of national commerce. The failure of Congress to act has left the regulation of such commerce, he says, to "the occasional and necessarily inadequate and one-sided action of the Federal Judiciary." A court, he saya, can never act constructively, only negatively or destructively. "A court can decide what is faulty, but it has no power to make better what it thus finds to be faulty." In the message the President urges a national incorporation law, or, if that be deemed inexpedient, a commission "in the Executive service" which shall pass upon any combination or agreement in relation to interstate commerce. Portions of the message are devoted to a lecture on the need of honesty in business and money making. Certain brands of the rich are verbally trounced by the President. Iu this lecture on business honesty with which the message concludes the President.says: "Among the many kinds of evil, social, industrial and political, which it is our duty as a nation sternly to combat, there is none at the same time more base and more dangerous than the greed which treats the plain and simple rules of honesty with cynical contempt if they interfere with making a profit; and as a nation we cannot be held guiltless if we condone ! such action. The man who preaches hatred of wealth honestly acquired, who inculcates envy and jeal* ousy and slanderous ill will toward those of his fellows who by thrift, energy and industry have become men of means, is a menace to the community. But his counterpart in evil is to be found in that particular kind of multimillionaire who is almost the least enviable, and is certainly one of the least admirable, of all our citizens; a man of whom it has been well said that his face has grown hard and cruel while his body has grown soft; whose son is a fool and his daughter a foreign princess: whose normal pleasures are at best those of a tasteless and extravagant' luxury, and whose real delight, whose real life work is the accumulation and use of power in its most sordid and least elevating form. "In the chaos of an absolutely unrestricted commercial individualism, under modern conditions, this is a i type that becomes prominent as inev- ! itably as the marauder baroa became ; prominent in the physical chaos cf 1 the Dark Ages." I PILGRIMAGE OF UNEMPLOYED* j Foreigners Go From Church to i Church Fraying in Vain. St. Louis.?Fifty men knelt before the various churches in Granite City, pleading for work, and when their ; pilgrimage from church to church j ended in failure Christo Antouiss, a | Hungarian, shot himself through the i ibdomen. Through pouring rain and knee Jeep in mud the men. nearly all for?igners, bareheaded and many without coats or shoes, straggled from :hurch to church, each unkempt Ilun- , ;arian, Slav and Magyar begging for 1 . w/irt /I t'ni? nnH r Vi i 1 ri run Buffalo Carries Men to the Fleet. Tli 3 auxiliary cruiser Prairie called at Norfolk, Va.. and received J40 men bound tor the Pacific to replace men in the fleet whose terms lave expired. The Prairie will carry ;he men to Colon. They will cross :he isthmus and board the Buffalo, ivhich will carry them to San Fran- j :isco. Puis Han on Cuban Tobacco. Venezuela has placed an J jn Cuban tjbaccy. Athletic Field and Diamond. Freddy Parent, of the Chicago : Americans, has discarded his head j jrofector. As an outfielder little Moran, of ' :ln> Philadelphia Americans, seems to 1 dp .strictly high grade. The St. Louis American Club ' :urned down an offer from Baltimore )f $2000 cash for substitute infielder lov Yeager. Thomas Fleming Day has arranged sewral contests for power boats for :he coming season. The lODgest of :hese will by the race to Bermuda for the Bennett cup. . .c -tit 0. . vjWAGE CUTS AND THE UNIONS | Hoy/ Mill Operatives Have Accepted the New Schedules. A Total of 140,000 Hands Affected in New England?Apparent That There Will Be No Resistance. ' Providence. R. I.?The .-auction of ten per cent, in wages of cotton mill operatives has now become effective in all of the mills of New England, except at Fall River, and it is becoming apparent that there will be no resistance by the labor unions. At New Bedford, where the cut dnt into effect la3t week, affecting 22,000 hands, the unioh leaders, after some agitation and fruitless urging of plana for more extensive curtailment of production as an alternative to cut- . ting the wage scale, advised the weav? ers to continue at their looms under the lower rate of pay. The unions all voted to accept the reduction except the. union machinists, who voted to apply to the officials of the national union at Washington for authority to strike, the manufacturers having failed to reply to a request for a conference. They voted, however, to remain at work under the reduced scale until authority to strike is given by the national union officials. A strike by the machinists, comprising a small proportion of the workers in a mill, would be exceedingly unfortunate at thi3 time for the thousands of weavers, spinners and other classes of workers. It is not probable that the mill owners would yield, especially at this time, when idleness of looms would undoubtedly be a good thing for the trade. There was a little strike of weavers in the Manville Company's mills, in Rhode Island, based on a claim that the change in the wage scale amounted to a reduction of more than ten per cent. But the strikers returned to their looms after a couple of days * of idleness. *ort7 tnousana operators were aifected by the reduction of wages put into effect at New Bedford, Lawrence and Methuen, Mass., making a total of 140,000 hands affected In New England since the beginning of the movement to lower the cost of pro Auction. The movement has now been 9itended to yarn and thread mills, as well as cloth producing concerns. Twenty-five hundred workers in the mills of the Coats Thread Company, at Pawtucket, R. I., were affected by a reduction of ten per cent, which has just been put into effect. In Fall River the sliding scale agreement will expire on Monday, May 25, and manufacturers and operatives are looking forward to that date with concern. Mill men and labor leaders want the agreement'reaewed. At the monthly meeting of the Textile Council, held at Fall River, the report made by President Tan3ey showed that the average margin for 123 working days of the present six months period is 84.S64. Since the last report cotton has ranged in price from 11.05 cents per pound to ten cents. The price of standard print goods has fallen from 3% to cents, and the Drice of 38% Inch goods from 4% to 4% cents. Cot- >? ton is quoted at ten cents per pound, itandard prints at 3 *4 cents per yard, - ? and 38 Vs inch goods at 4 % cents. The margin now is 63.4837. The highest iaily margin since the last report ' . (vas 70.9862, and the lowest 59.4837. If the above margin is maintained until the last Monday of May, the average margin for the six months ffould be 80.34, and this would mean a reduction of wages under the terms of the sliding scale of 13.67 per cent. J j T. A. McINTYRE & CO. GO UNDER. Bear Failure and Liabilities May Exceed a Million. New York City.?T. A. Mclntyre . . & Co., members of the New York Stock Exchange, the New York Cotton Exchange, the New York Produce Exchange, the Chicago Board of Trade, the New York Coffee Exchange ind the Liverpool Cotton Association, innounced the suspension of the firm. A. representative of the firm admitted that the liabilities would probably be apt less than $1,000,000. The firm bad branches in Chicago, Baltimore, Boston, Hartford, Binghamton, Syrajuse, Rochester and Hot Springs, Va.' ' LIABILITY BILL SIGNED. Bonaparte Says It is Not an Unconstitutional Act. Washington, D. C. ? President Roosevelt signed the Employers' Liability bill upon receiving an opinion from Attorney-General Bonaparte that the measure was constitutional. The bill makes railroads or other common carriers, while engaged in interstate commerce, liable for the Injury or death of an employe if the injury or death results in whole or in part from the negligence of any of the officers, agents or employes of such carriers, or by reason of any defect or insufficiency in equipment. Saltpetre From the Air. Berlin.?The associated analine mannfacturars of Treotow announce a big increase in their capital for the purpose, among other things, of operating the Norwegian scheme for ob- , taining saltpetre from the nitrogen of f the atmosphere. Anna Gould at Naples. Mme. Anna Gould arrived in Naples, where she wau met by the nu de Sagan. Hughes Makes Threats. Governor Hughes in speaking at * ? Albany for the race track bills declared that if they were not passed by the Legislature at the special session they would be made an issue of the next campaign. Disciplined Cadet Resigns. T.ipurpnant H. Fairfax Ayres. who was one of the West Point cadets disciplined because of the overcoac incident there, has resigned from .ui Army. Athletic News in Brief. Gouging and biting are not champion wrestling form. F. L. Lukeman, of the Montreal A. A. A., made a new world's record for the sixty-yard dash at the M. A. A. A. indoor races, Montreal, his time being 6 1-5 seconds. The previous record was 6 2-5 seconds. Piaying in irresistible form Jay Gould, of Georgian Court, Lakewood, c..c?n/>Q T-f MMok of Lnn WUU UVCI DUOiftvv ? don, England, in the challenge round of the national court tennis championship at the New York Racquet and Tennis Ciub. .