LABOR ABROAD IS SUFFERING SADLY Industrial Depression World- Wide, But is Passing Here. AMERICAN OUTLOOK IS BRIGHT While Manufacturing Establishments In the United States Are Increasing Their Payrolls, Distress Among the Unemployed Prevails Throughou! Great Britain and the European Con tinent. [Special Correspondence.] New York, Oct. IS. That the recent financial panic frotr which the United States is now re covering was not the result of local conditions is indicated by the iact that a severe business and industr • depression for months has prevailed throughout the world. The United States has suffered less than any other country. In fact, the situation in this countr> is not to bo compared to that abroad. Official reports recently received by the department of commerce and labor furnish an accurate index to the bus! ness conditions of foreign countries. These reports show that the imports into the United Kingdom for home consumption and the exports of do mestic manufacture have decpned greatly. The situation there grow? worse. In August the decline in exports was 15.7 per cent. The decline in re exports, that is goods imported from other countries for sale to foreign purchasers, was $67,532,420 for eight months this year, or over 20 per cent. The falling off in net imports was $137,079,572 for the same time. The decline in exports of domestic manu facture in that country was $146,000.- 000, or 10.6 per cent, in eight months, about 2 per cent greater than the de cline in the United States in the same time. Many Unemployed Abroad. Pauperism has increased enormous ly in the United Kingdom this year and the number of persons receiving indoor relief is the greatest since the records began in 1868. A census of the unemployed, taken by the newspapers, shows an extra ordinary number—over 22,000 in Glas gow alone. The London Times says that the outlook is "the worst that the younger men have faced," adding: "The dominant fact is that there is no life in shipbuilding, and no pros pect of any revival. The railway shops have cut down their staffs; 50 per cent of the masons are out of work, and 25 per cent of the plumbers." Many Seek Charity. A Blue Book of the British govern ment shows that nearly 1,000,000 per sons were receiving relief on Jan. 1, which number has greatly increased! since that time. In London alone 149,-] 000 persons were securing relief —a | great number over the previous year Wages have declined greatly. The London Financial Times, a high j authority, of Sept. 19, says: "For the greater part of the year j we have been passing through a very j acute phase of commercial depression . j and we have seen both imports and ox i ports decline at a rate that has been j anything but consoling. A review of J the business of the principal for : ;n; countries and colonies shows that ' practically everywhere business is in | a very lethargic state. The board of trade returns of the commerce of for eign countries furnishes the necessary figures showing the condition of busi ness in those countries. "The imports for home consumption of Belgium for seven months show a decline of nearly $25,000,000. Those of Canada show a decline of 23 per cent, or nearly $40,000,000; France $25,000,000; Germany, $45,000,000, a. ! J so on with other countries. The dom >■ tic exports from those notions a!su i show large declines. The greatest I that of Egypt, which for the seven months shows a decline of over 19 pr cent, or nearly $13,000,000. France shows a decline of nearly $35,000,000, or over 6 per cent. Germany's decline im exports is less, but reached a total of about $10,000,000. Japan shows a decline of 12 per cent, or $12,000,000. and Switzerland a decline of 10 per cent, or over $10,000,000, and so on with other countries. "The decline in the domestic rx jßt\ ± of thp United states b very much less than those from the Unit I Kingdom, and the relative decl'ne w a very much less than that of Switzer ! land, Japan. Egypt, British Sotri Africa, and .some other countries. T 1 average decline shown in imports 112 all the countries was over 12 per cen., and in some exports over 8 per ce t. The later returns show even wore fi ;urcs. Generally speaking, thereto e, we have abundant proof of the wide! spread nature of the present <1 pr .?• sion in trade, and we need not alarm outselves that we are experiencing any special chastisement in the hands of fate." "The Thunderer's" Tale of Distress. The Ixindon Times in a recent issue, speaking about the condition of affairs in Scotland, says: "The present generation does not recall such slackness in all industries, and, of course, in commerce which depends upon the activity of work shops and factories. "The outlook for the winter is the worst that the younger men have yet faced. One shipbuilding yard has not a vese-d on the docks, and another large one is employing only a third of its f'ill complement of workmen. The dominant fact is that there is no life In shipbuilding, no prospect of any revival, no orders in sight of any con siderable magnitude. TlVfefore it is feared that the winter will be a very nard one. Cautious estimates put the total number of men, including labor out of work in Glaseaw at from 10.000 to 30,000. UTTOW Bla tfie shipbuilding yard that is fullly era ployed The largest forge has reduced its staff from 4000 to 2500. The rail way shops have cut down their staffs on account of economies. Fifty per cent of the masons are out of work and 26 per cent of the plumbers. "In the textile trade most of the fac tories are on short time or keeping down their output, bo that women's wages are in fact reduced from 18 shillings ($4.37) a week to 10 shil lings ($2.43). Half of the 4000 docket are unemployed. The provident so cieties tell rather doleful tales. Lifs policies are lapsing all around, in short, work is scare and threatens to become scarcer. Following the exam ple set by the Glasgow Herald, the lord provost has opened a 'istress fund, and liberal response in L . ing made by the citizens." The New York Journal of Com merce, In its issue for Sf-st. 23, re viewing American and British foreign trade, states: Home Conditions Not Co Ea !. "The falling off in American ex> •••ti in August amounted to oaiy 13.2 per cent, while on the British side ther.; was a decrease of 18.7 per cent. Our own export figures for the <i;it months as compared with thee ghl months ending with August, 190" s.iow a decrease of less than 9 per < rr . Ti:e British figures for the cc: u.l>.g period show a decline ol 10.5 pr cent." From this it will seom that th nation is much worse in the Us Kingdom and in some oth<./ coun than it is in the United States. British board of trade returns I August show the largest aggregate i crease in trade for any month oft year. The imports fell over 530.000.0' > in that month, and the exports abou. $37,000,000. This enormous decline in trade, the London Times says, "is o.' much importance to the working classes owing to the enormous number of unemployed." A dispatch says: "With the trade declining in th:- alarming manner shown by the above figures, the outlook for the workers during the coming winter is very gloomy. The most serious feature in the point of view of the workingman is the falling off of exports of manu factured goods." The situation in (Jermany is much the same, although not quite so bail as In the United Kingdom, The Canadian government, owing to the trade condi tions. has adopted regulations to pre vent immigrants from coming to that country unless well supplied with funds. At the recent session of the Canadian Manufacturers' association In Winnipeg, the parliamentary com mittee reported as follows: "The one outstanding feature of the year has been the pinch of hard times which all of us have suffered in a greater or less degree. The London labor bureau of the association has been closed as a result of the indus trial and financial depression." ENGLISH TITLES. Why Inferior Honors Are Sometime* Refused by Commoners. Although it costs money to be made a peer, no sum can actually buy a British title, as may be done in some European countries. Honors of this description are in the giving of the king, or, rather, Ills majesty liestows them on persons at the recommenda tion of the prime minister, who really has the final say In the matter. Titles are conferred either directly or indi rectly directly when no third per son recommends a candidate for royal recognition and indirectly when a third person brings a candidate's name 1 forward, he having good and valid grounds for doing so. The former method, however, is the one which is usually adopted. It is the duty of the prime minister to distinguish a name celebrated In politics, science, art or literature and to decide whether the merits of any given prominent person deserve recognition at the bands of the king. If, in tlio opinion of the prime min ister, such a given person deserves ele vation to titled rank, before the minis ter takes any steps In the matter the favored Individual Is apprised of the prime minister's Intentions by a per sonal letter. In which is conveyed tin degree or title it is proposed to confer on him, subject to his approval. In four out of five cases the approval is given. The fifth person, who may have been offered a knighthood oi perchance a baronetcy, refuses be cause his refusal may increase his chances of obtaining at a later day a higher title still—a peerage. Armed with the person's approval, the prime minister now takes the next step—that is, obtaining his majesty's sanction, which is rarely refuse.]. It is seldom that a plain "Mr." blos soms straightforward into a "lord" un less the circumstances i'.ve very un usual, such as the reason why a peer age was conferred on Mr. Morley or honors conferred on successful gen erals in the field, as In the case of Wolseley. Roberts and Kitchener. As a general rule a plain "Mr." is formed into "Sir"—that is. knight or baronet—and one who Is already n "Si:" itii-I has done some sirnal recng niii n I.:ids his reward In his ultimate sew: t» 1 > the state entitling him to roy. l elevation to the peerage.—Chi cago News. AIRSHIP INSURANCE. Farmer Asked For Flying Machine Clause In His Policy- Jacob Weiner, a fanner of Nepaug. Conn., went to Winsted. Conn., recent ly to buy fire insurance. Ha insisted on there being a flying machine clause in the policy, saying he had read how Orville Wright had perfected his aero plane, and he thought there was as much danger of a flying machine strik ing and wrecking his building as light ning if aeronautics keep pace with the development of automobiles. The farmer wanted a five year pol icy, but when informed by Justice James Smith, the Insurance agent, that he was ahead of the insurance compa nies, which have not yet begun to in sure against loss by "flying machines, he said dejectedly: "Insure my buildings for one year only. Perhaps the companies will be up to date by the time my policy ex pires." HEW HEALTH PROJECT National Reform Movement Is Started In Boston. TO ATTACK EVIL AT ITS ROOT Miss S, J. Hughes Wants Vacancy Commissions Established In Largo Cities—Each Empty Be In spected Before Occupancy and All Danger of Disease Removed. A movement to lay the foundation of a national reform iu all large cities was recently started in Boston with the object of promoting health in a new and original way, which starts at the root of an evil and is generally combated effectively. Miss Sarah J. Hughes of the Back Bay section of Bostou, a woman of extraordinary energy and intimately acquainted with those perplexing ques tions and conditions which are a con stant source of anxiety to boards of health, has conceived a plan for the establishment of vacancy commissions In Boston, New York and Philadelphia as the starting points of a national work. These vacancy commissions are to be composed of a physician at the head, a trained nurse of high standing, n public spirited and practical lodgiug house keeper and a real estate woman of philanthropic character, says a Bos ton correspondent of the Philadelphia Record. Their powers, to be conferred either by city or state, will be such as to give them authority to enter all va cant houses. Inspect them and order them put Into a condition before occu pancy that will preclude all danger of disease. Miss Hughes has discovered that landlords are in the habit of giving only a superficial cleaning to vacant tenements and houses, that new layers of wall paper are laid over the old layers, that germs are so thick on the inside of the rank paper that they can be seen with the microscope and that crannies and crevices where disease lurks are utterly neglected, not being given even a hot water and soap treat ment when bichloride Is an absolute necessity. No less than ten layers of paper have been found by Miss Hughes In Brookline, Mass., the richest town in the world, while five and six layers are common all over Boston in homes supposed to be far l>etter than lodging and tenement houses. Observation has proved, according to Miss Hughes, that disease and death have their ori gin in such conditions, where the par simony and shortsightedness of land lords permit only superficial cleaning that looks well to the eye at first, but which covers only a whitened sepnl cher. Miss Hughes has found that the two most prevalent diseases arising from these Insanitary methods are con sumption and diphtheria. She has kept close track of houses where the land lords would neither make the neces sary changes ti <• permit new tenants to make them, with the conclusion formed in an array of astounding facts and figures proving that disease has followed almost invariably and Inevi tably; hence the advocacy of vacancy commissions. Mayor George A. Ilib bcrd of Boston has lent a willing ear to the propaganda, while aldermen and eouneilmen are greatly impressed. Others have joined in the new move ment, and the plan Is to follow the Boston work with similar establish ments In New York and Philadelphia, finally making it national in character. Miss Hughes would have all the halls painted from attic to coal scuttle. She would tear off the layers of paper to the plaster and have it carried off in barrels. She would have the walls treated with hot water and soap, fol lowed by bichloride, until there could be no chance for germs to remain, and in this way she claims a vast propor tion of sickness would be prevented. Miss Hughes is a sister of the cele brated physician and surgeon, l)r. Laura A. C. Hughes, who delivered two addresses before the American Medical association at Chicago last June and who won distinction in the Spanish-American war. Truck Patch Literature. No longer the animal fictionist gets the public's profound admiration By stories of rabbits who have all the habits peculiar to civilization. The fox thai hews rocks into four sided blocks to build him a bobcat proof lair Is gone by the board with the tales that record the catch of the fly Ashing bear. And wl'.h pager delight all the gentry that write of nature have whetted anew Their pencils and deal with unquenchable zeal with the things ihat the veg'- tables do. "The Onion That Moved Half a Million to Tears" is the name of one popular story; Another relates of a cantaloupe's traits that led it to win fame and glory: "The Pumpkin That Bit" Is a neat little skit of a fight In a ten acre lot. Where a cabbage grew gay with the pumpkin one day and got what It ought to liavo got. A tale to divert is "The Sage of the Dirt," which tells of a thoughtful potato Which got In a row with a near Jersey cow concerning the teachings of Plato. For now it is known that not varmints alone, but garden truck also, can think. There dawns a big chance in a field of romance that has not yet grown sod den with Ink. What Seton can find In an antelope's inind or under a buffalo's thatch Can also be found If one only looks round In some handy asparagus patch. And who knows but perhaps when these book writing chaps have ceased to make magazine features Of the beasts, bugß and plants they may find some romance In the doings of plain human creatures? —James J. Montague in New York Amer ican. A Painful Dilemma. Willie—What's a dilemma? Johnny—Well, it's when you can't sit down because your dad licked you for going swimming and you can't stand up because a crab bit your toe.—lllus trated Bits. It Is said thai the average man can get along with :: ■ > words, hut unfor tunately she generally hands him more than that.—Buck. Visiting Card Fad. The newest visiting card fad is to have a little plan showing the resi dence and the adjacent streets print ed on the back. FLEETS OF AIRSHIPS. British War Balloon Expert Says Time For Them Is Near. In the opinion of Colonel James Templer, former superintendent of the balloon factory of the British army at Aldershot, who Jalked at the Waldorf hotel in New York the other night on military aeronautics. It will be only a comparatively short time when the United States and other countries will have large fleets of large uirigible bal loons for emergencies of war. The colonel went to New York after witnessing the tests of Captain Thom as S. Baldwin's war balloon at Fort M.ver, Va. lie said countries like tho United States and England, instead of having only two or three dirigi bles, carrying two or thmwuen each, would ultimately l>e content with noth ing less than several hundred war bal loons. "1 was delighted," said the colonel, "with Captain Baldwin's balloon, as it was just the right shape and size effi ciently to train men, and it certainly was a great personal success for Cap tain Baldwin—who, by the way, is a splendid chap—as hitherto that size balloon had never been made so that it could be both dirigible and buoyant. The fact of its taking up two men ren dered the ascent made by Captain Baldwin and Lieutenant Lahm very surprising to me and a most unquali fied success. "I am delighted to think that It is under consideration that Captain Bald win is to receive instructions to build a larger dirigible balloon for your war department as soon as the money can be obtained. This matter should be pushed with all possible facility. "I am delighted with my reception. I am delighted with the country. Un less I get orders I shall stay here un til the Wrights' aeroplane tests are over. I want to see those, not that I have any doubt as to the Wrights meeting all tho specifications of the war department, but because 1 believe they can do even more. I spent one whole day with Orville Wright, and I cannot tell you how favorably he im pressed me. The Wrights are. in fact, the best up to date with aeroplanes. They have the best heavier than air machine that I have yet seen or read of. We have a man in England. Cody by name, who will really surprise peo ple with an aeroplane that he will soon test for the British army. Then — ah, but I mustn't say anything about that—no, not a word," said the colonel seriously. MAY CUT BRYAN IN GRANITE. Amateur Sculptor Has Carved Fifty four Faces on Small Block. Elmer Burkett of Wayne, Pa., mine owner and amateur sculptor, who ar rived at New York recently on the Cunarder Lusitania with a small piece of granite In his pocket, is looking for William Jennings Bryan. He met Mr. Taft abroad and managed to get the Impression of the Republican candi date's head on the granite rock and is now In pursuit of Mr. Bryan for n sit ting. Mr. Burkett has chiseled some crowned heads on his talisman, and, although the stone is only 3 by 7 by 7 Inches, he has carved upon it the faces of fifty-four persons of note be has met. Mr. Burkett 4(*iid that many years ago. before he became wealthy, he was walking along the tracks of the main line of tlie Pennsylvania railroad and found the piece of granite. A few days later fortune smiled upon him, and no amount of money, he said, could tempt him to part with it no has a set of small, sharp steel tools, made especially for him, and they are always wrapped up with the rock and guarded more carefully than bis purse. While on his way to Liv erpool a year ago on the Cunarder the sculptor received an offer of §IO,OOO from an art collector for the rock of many heads, but lie refused to sell it. USE OF AEROPLANES IN WAR. Could Drop Shell From Them into Ship Funnel, Says Orville Wright- The chance remark of a sergeant of artillery at Fort M.ver during the re cent aeroplane tiights of Orville Wright, the famous aeronaut, was the basis for a discussion, of one of flu- most impor tant leatures of the government's in terest In aerial craft for purposes of war. The discussion took place at a dinner tendered to Mr. Wright by na val officers. Said the sergeant. "Air ships aren't any good to launch a shell from because you can't get the 'cen trifugal force' that Is necessary to hit an object." The idea which the noncommission ed officer intended to convey was that the whirling motion given a shell by the modern steel bore guns could not be accomplished in dropping an explo sive shell from an airship. The main facts brought out in the discussion of the aeroplane as an in strument of war were that a machine such as that of the Wright brothers would be practically Invulnerable as a target for the enemy's guns, that with a little target practice an explosive could lie dropped 011 a war vessel with damaging results and that the aerial war craft could be launched from the deck of a battleship. Sir. Wright said that he had made experiments with a swinging weight to see how closely he could hit objects over which he was flying. "I found that after a little practice it became comparatively easy to put the weight Just where I wanted to," said Mr. Wright. "One allowance which must be made is the effect of a wind striking the course of the airship at right angles." "On your present machine how much weight could be added in the shape of a gun?" Mr. Wright was asked by Lieutenant Sweet, the naval officer de tailed to observe the Fort Myer aero nautical tests. "One hundred and fifty pounds," Mr. Wright replied. The merits of launching an explosive from a gun were then discussed. Mr. Wright said there would not be suffi cient "kick" to cause the aeroplane to diverge from Its course. A shell could be dropped Into the funnel of a war ship, causing terrible damage to the machinery and completing Its work of destruction by bursting the boilers. FOREIGN CAPITAL IS CONCERNED Europeans Will Make Invest ments Here If Taft Wins. An argument against Bryan that 1) growing in importance, says th* Philadelphia Inquirer, is that whicj deals with the sentiment said to b held by some voters, that the Demo cratic candioate would not be in a po sition to do much harm as president because of the fact that the senate would still bo Republican. A New York bankers, Mr. Jules Bache, is back from Europe with reports that financial in terests over thare are taking much in terest in the canvass and that If Tall is elected foreign investments will in crease. He explains that the great fear would be of the men with whom Bryan would surround himself. Roose velt. he Rays, has always had first class business men in his cabinet. Mr. Bryan's surroundings, on the contrary, have been of the opposite character, and the principal danger, in the event cf his election, would lie in the fact that a large number of vacan cies in tho United States courts woul.l have to be filled during his incum bency. We can judge the future only by the past, so we must assume tha Mr. Bryan would take the same class of men for those offices that he ha.s taken for his political advisers. While it is true that as president Mr. Bryan could not force throuftn laws against the judgment of the Ro publican senate and thus could not hi' much of a menace to the country in that way. at least for two years, h could play havoc with it through his appointments. Not only could he revo lutionize the supreme court by invit ing men of socialistic tendencies to the bench, but he could upset the trea ury and upheave the departments through a radical change in policies. suppose a Haskell to be called to the treasury department? We must either continue the princi ples of Roosevelt by the election of Taft or submit to the exploitation of (. lot of theories for the next four ,-ears by Bryan. There can be no com promise. It is one thing or the other PARIS CABBIES. The War of Words That Comes When They Block Each Other. There is no more entertaining way to «peud an idle hour in l'aris than to get into a taxicnb and instruct the driver togo along some street where you will be reasonably sure to get into a jam or to bump against another cab. The charm of the experience Is, of course, enhanced by your ignorance of what the cabbies say. Should your driver merely graze the wheels of another cab he will turn on his seat and yell mellifluously at the other driver, who In turn will shout back an assortment of vowels. But the best is a quarrel between two cab bies obstructing each other's way. The conversation, translated as nearly literally as Is safe, goes in this wise: "Sacred nnrne! Why do you?" "lloliy blue! I do not!" "Stomach on the ground! You have the face of an ox!" "Blue stomach! Are you in chains?" "A bas! Name of a dog!" "Mon Dieu! Name of a pig!" "Wow (or words to that effect)! Name of a name!" "A thousand deaths! Name of a name of a name!" Now you begin to expect some do ings. While you have not fully un derstood, you are satisfied that nothing but pistols and knives will wipe out the insults. Unfortunately about this time the jam is untangled and you are allowed to drive away, but the other driver yells after.yours: "Aha! You are a little piece of brown soap!" It seems that this expression is the "fighting name" in Paris. Were it not that your cabby owes a duty to you and must convey you to your destina tion you know by his facial expres sion that he would climb down and get that other cabby and muss up the city with him. He contents himself with turning about and making a face in the direc tion of bis enemy and of going through the motion of spitting at him. Then he says "Yoop!" to the horse, and the war is over.—Chicago Post. HOOKLESS WAIST. Hoboken Inventor Shows Dressmakers Labor Saving Device. While fourteen youug women >f va rious sizes and styles of architecture tried on corsets for the benefit of the 400 delegates to the convention of the Dressmakers' Protective association in Masonic temple at New York the other night official announcement was made that hereafter It will he unnecessary for auy woman to call for assistance In buttoning her waist in the back. A public benefactor who lives il4 Hoboken, N. J., submitted for the ap proval of the dressmakers a small metal device which, he said, would soon take the place of buttons and hooks and eyes throughout the civilized world. More than a dozen men who did not know that admission to the dressmakers' convention was limited to women spent the evening in the cor ridor, where the man from Hoboken explained the beauties of his discovery. According to his optimistic predic tion, his device, consisting of a chain running between two lines of sockets with a ring at the top, will soon be in general use and will bring surcease of care to thousands of husbands. "One pull on tho ring." said the orator from Hoboken, "and the dress Is buttoned or unbuttoned, hooked or unhooked, as the case may be. Any child can operate the device." "Give 1110 $5 worth," said oue of his auditors, and others also purchased. A New Danger. Knickcr—Let's sit out the dance in the conservatory. Stella—But they say that plants have eyes and memories.—New York Sun. AN AMERICAN HERO. He Used His Own Body to Stop a Leak In a Ferryboat. One morning in January, when the Ice In the Hudson river ran unusually heavy, a Hohoken ferryboat slowly crunched her way through the floating floes until the thickness of the pack choked her paddles in inldriver. It was an early morning trip, and the decks were crowded with laboring men and the driveways choked with "pains. The women and children standing inside the cabins were a solid mass up to the swinging doors. While she was gath ering strength for a further effort an ocean tug sheered to avoid her, veered a point and crashed Into her side, cut ting her below the water line in a great V shaped gash. A moment more and the disabled boat careened from the shock and fell over on her beam, helpless. Into the V shaped gash the water poured a torrent. It seemed but a question of minutes before she would lunge headlong below the ice. Within 200 yards of both boats and free of the heavy Ice steamed the wrecking tug Reliance of the Off shore Wrecking company, and on her deck forward stood Captain Scott When the ocean tug reversed her en gines after the collision and backed clear of the shattered wheelhouse of the ferryboat he sprang forward, stoop ed down, ran his eye along the water line, noted in a flash every shattered plank, climbed Into the pilothouse of his own boat and before the astonish ed pilot could catch his breath pushed the nose of the Reliance along the rail of the ferryboat and dropped upon the latter's deck like a cat. With a threat to throw overboard any. man who stirred he dropped into the engine room, met the engineer half way up the ladder, compelled him to return, dragged the mattresses from ttle crew's bunks, stripped off blankets and snatched up clothes, overalls, cot ton waste and rags of carpet, cram ming them Into the great rent left by the tug's cutwater. It was useless. Little by little the water gained, bursting out first below, then on one side, only to be calked out again and only to rush in once more. Captain Scott stood a moment as if undecided, ran his eye searchingly over the engine room, saw that for his needs it was empty, then deliberately tore down the top wall calking be had so carefully built up and before the en gineer could protest forced his own body Into the gap, with Ills arm outside level with the drifting ice. An hour later the disabled ferry boat, with every soul on board, was towed into the Iloboken slip. When they lifted the captain from the wreck he was unconscious and barely alive. The water had frozen his blood, and the floating Ice had torn the flesh from his protruding arm from shoulder to wrist When the color be gan to creep back to his cheeks he opened his eyes and said to the doctor who was winding the bandages: "Wuz any of them babies hurt?" A month passed before he regained his strength and another week before the arm had healed so that he could get his coat on. Then he went back to the Reliance.—Everybody's Magazine. LAST OF THE PASCAGOULAS. An Indian Legend From the Shores of the Gulf of Mexico. An Indian legend of the Pascagoulas is told by the fishermen and oyster men down on the shores of the gulf of Mexico. A point reaches out into the gulf neur the mouth of the Pascagoula riv er. The pine trees on it come almost to the water's edge, and between lies a strip of white sand; across a marsh, a border of light green swaying and rustling grasses and beyond a gray cypress swamp the hailing moss of the trees swaying In the wind. To the south the blue waters of the gulf stretch away, with little waves lap ping on the chalk white clam shells of the shore. There in the evening during the short twilight one hears soft music, as if it were the notes of a violin, Insist ent, changing, sweet. It is the song of the Pascagoulas. Long years before the Pascagoula Indians had lived upon this point. The white men. the Spaniards, came i'i numbers, and with them the hostile warriors of other tribes, to make war and to drive the Pascagoulas out of the country. Coming from the inland, the enemy took away all chance of tight and hedged them in 011 the point. The I'ascagoulas fought for days and nights in the dark pine woods against outnumbering foes. Then they saw that nil was useless, that they could not overcome, and starvation stared them In the face. The Pascagoulas called a council of the tribe and talked long together. To give themselves up meant lives of slavery or death, and to fight to the last man was to leave the women and children to the mercy of the white men and their allies. The next morning the Pascagoulas put 011 all their paint and trappings and burned their wigwams. The men. women and children slowly, deftber ately, unflinchingly backed step by step into the water behind them, sing ing. Not one faltered. They died with their faces toward their enemies, brave nnd free, and now in the even ing when the wind blows over the marshes the pines and grasses sing the song of the Pascagoulas.—New York Post A FROHMAN JOKE. Brother Daniel Springs It on the The atrical Managers' Meeting. Daniel Frohman, the theatrical man ager, exploded this at a recent meeting of the Theater Managers' association In the Hotel Astor, at New York city: The managers were discussing Ros tand's new play. "Chanticller," in which Coquelln may appear in the United States. It is a play of birds, symbolic of human emotions. The discussion aroused much interest. "In what language do the birds speak?" asked a facetious manager. "All French except the chanticleer," said Mr. Frohinan quickly, "and he speaks cockney." "On my knee 1 begged her for a kiss." "And what did she say?" "Told mo to get up and be practical."—Loula vflle Courier-Journal. GOMPERS CAN'T CONTROL UDOR President of United Mine Work ers Speaks Out Plainly, HE DECLINES TO BE CATS'PAW An Official Declaration Which Spread* Consternation Among Men Working In the Interest of Bryan and Which Chows the Temper of the Leadera Who Seek Only to Promote the Causa of L. or and Not Advanca Celfißh Er.ds. [Special Correspondence. | Indianapolis, Oct. 13. Samuel Gompers, who has been try ing to swing the labor vote to Bryan, got a severe Jolt when he read an official circular issued by T. L. the national president of the United Mine Workers of America. The Bryan managers have been claiming a big following among the mine workers, but President Lewis has made it clear that this organisa tion shall not be used to pull the chest nuts out of the fire of men who seek to work union labor in politics to ad vance their own aims. In this letter, sent out a few days ago by President Lewis, among other things says: "We are in tho midst of a political campaign. Every method known to political managers will be used to se cure votes for their respective candi dates. This is especially true in the attempt to obtain expressions fir m those holding official positions in labor unions. "I am in receipt of hundreds of let ters from men of all shades of political beliefs and from all parts of the Unit ed States, asking for my opinion of the different candidates, or my views upon the issues involved in the politi cal campaign. "The United Mine Workers did not elect me international president to In fluence your political preferences, or how you should cast your vote on elec tion day. You have elected me to di rect the affairs of the United Mine Workers. The success of the United Mine Workers and the welfare of its members has and will receive my first and only consideration as long as I have the honor of representing you. Not Taking Sides. "I am not responsible for interview* appearing in the newspapers, alleged to be from me, that I favor any par ticular candidate. 1 have declined to express or to give any statement p> litically for or against any candidate or issue, nor do I intend to do so. This letter will be my answer to all who ask mc for any advice along political lines. "1 have the honor to represent an organization of nearly 300,000 mem bers of every known nationality a:id different political views. We have among our members Prohibitionists, Populists, Independents. Socialists, Democrats and Republicans. From what I know of our members you are fully competent to decide for your selves how you will vote on election day. "All my time is required to look af ter the interests of the United Mini' Workers. Those interested in tho subject matter of this letter will please refrain from writing me in connection with politics if they hope to get an answer. "The United Mine Workers as an organization has been in existence for many years before this political cam paign. and we all wish that it may live many years after the present campaign has passed into history, and until every wrong of which the miner complains is honorably adjusted." Outronsoning Reason. I.ittle Kaymotnl's mother had told him that she should put him to bed if he disobeyed her command in a cer tain matter Temptation overcame him, and when his mother proceeded to fulfill her duty sobs of nngnlsh filled the room. "But. Raymond." said the mother gently. "I told you 1 should punish you in this way if you disobeyed, and mother must keep her word, you know." Between rnutiled sobs Raymond man aged to say, "You needn't break your word, mamma, but couldn't you change your mind?" Woman's Home Com panion. Accomplished. Mr. Goodlie—My boy. you'd never hear me use language like that! The Hid—l bet you don't! Why. it took me five years to learn all dem words.— Sketch. anmßf! A. 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