10 LENGTH 10,000 MILES. Railway Projected from Hudson Bay to South Paclflo Ocean Esti mated to Coit $250,000,000. . Flans for a gigantic railroad were discovered at Guthrie, Okla., when ar ticle of Incorporation of the Pan American Hartford Company, with a capital placed at $250,000,000, were filed there Aug. 24, with secretary of the Territory. The purpose of the cor poration. It is said, Is to build a line extending from Port Nelson, Hudson Bay, in a southerly direction, crossing the line of the Canadian Paclflc near Wlnnepeg, Manitoba, through North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kan sas, Oklahoma and Indian Territory to Galveston, Tex.j from Galveston through the tropic of Mexico to the boundary line of Central America, through the Isthmus of Panama; thence through the United States of Colombia to Ecuador, and finally through the republic of Peru to Bue nos Ayres on the Atlantic ocean. Also m branch line beginning In the repnb lie of Peru and extending In a south- easterly direction through Brazil to Rio de Janeiro; also a branch line be ginning in the republic of Peru and extending In a southerly direction through "Chili, to Valparaiso, on the outb. Pacific- ocean. The estimated cost of the Tan-American railway Is $250,000,000, and the estimated length 10,000 miles. The Incorporators are W. R. Dodge, Stephen A. Sheldon. W. J. Pendleton, Eldredge O. Eldredge of Shawnee, Okla., and C. E. Wells, of Lincoln, Neb. It Is not known what outside interests, If any, these men represent. The principal offices of tho company are stated to be at Guthrie and Shawnee, Okla. Within the cor poration of the Pan-American Rail way will be several construction com panies. The largest of these will Ire the Canadian-American Construction Company, among whose directors are aid to be Charles F. Beach, Jr., Lon don. England; M. L. Muhleman, New York, and Charles B. Williams. City of Mexico. These directors will hold 1n a general way for the other com panies. A charter was also issued to the American Townsite Company, an adjunct of the railway corporation, with a capital stock fixed at $10,000, 000, with business offices at Shawnee and Guthrie, Okla.; New York City; Superior, Neb.! Hutchison, Kan.; Dal las and Galveston, Tex.; Winnipeg, Canada, and the City of Mexico. 8AVED ON THE 8CAFFOLD. Respite Arrived After the Black Cap Was Drawn. The life of Samuel Stllles, a negro preacher, who was to have been hang ed at Cuero, Tex., for murder, was saved by Gov. Lauham by less than two minutes. Stiles was on the scaf fold, the black cap Tiad been drawn over his head and the sheriff was about to pull the trap lever when a telegraph messenger arrived with a telegram from the governor respiting the convicted man. Stales swooned when Informed that he had been re spited. A woman confessed to the murder. AT THE NATIONAL CAPITOL. The postmaster general Issued a for mal order authorizing the delivery of unpouched newspaper mail by bag gagemastera. Secretary of the Treasury Shaw made arrangements To deposit $40,000, 000 in banks should money stringency occur during his term, J. B. White, postmaster at Hardy, W. Va., wired the Postofflce depart ment that toe postofflce wag robbed and all the stamps taken, Maj. Scriven, acting chief signal of ficer of the army, has been Informed that telegraphic communication 4s now established In all parts of Alaska cov ered by the signal corps lines. President ordered European squad ron to proceed to Beirut. Syria, to en force demand made at Constantinople for reparation for the assassination of Vice Consul V-gelssen at Beirut, Sy ria. Plans are perfected for the winter naval maneuvers under Admiral Dew ey off Culebra In the latter ipart of January. The squadron will rendez vous at Hampton Roads on Novem ber 30. The state department has been ad vised by the Costa Rlcan legation that the government of Costa Rica has rat ified the convention for the practice of tho liberal professions, signed at the City of Mexico. The department of commerce and la bor announces the appointment of Ed win W. Sims as special attorney in this bureau of corporations. He has been practicing law In Chicago for the past 10 years and has been county Bids were opened at the Bureau of Insular Affairs for the sale of three million dollars or Philippine certifi cates of indebtedness for the purpose of supplying and maintaining the gold reserve under the Philippine curren cy legislation. Minister Squires at Havana has In formed the state department of the murder of Ira C. Bradley, near Hoi Quln, Cuba, on June 9. Bradley was about 60 years old and a resident of California, and had been trying to es tablish In Cuba an American settle ment known as "Bradley's colony." President Roosevelt announced that Henry C. Ide, at present a member of the Philippine commission would be designated a vice governor of the Philippines in succession to General Luke E. Wright, when the latter as aumes tho office of governor general. Uncle Sam's interests on the Pa cific coast are growing so rapidly that It has been found necessary to estab lish a Southern Paclflo cruiser squad ron. The, squadron now on duty on the Pacific will be known as the North Pacific squadron and Its sphere of op erations will extend only as far south U the Isthmus. WRIGHT SUCCEEDS ROOT. Ha Will Be Mad Governor When His Chief Goes Into the Roose velt Cabinet. President Roosevelt announced that he had accepted the resignation of Ellhu Root as Secretary of War, to take effect about January 1. that he would appoint William H. Taft, now Governor of the Philippines, to the war portfolio and that General Luke E. Wright, now Vice Governor of the Philippines, would take Judge Taft's plnce. President Roosevelt authorized the following statement: "The Pres ident some months ago tendered the Secretaryship of War to Judge Taft, and at that time It was arianged that be would succeed Secretary Root. Sec retary Root will go out of office some time in January and Judge Taft will assume the duties of the office shortly afterward." The acceptance of Gov ernor Taft of the office Ellhu Root Is about to give up means the continua tion of the policy of Mr. Root In the administration of the War Department. A few army officers had an idea that Governor Taft would not be selected, but the wish was father to the thought. Taft has had serious colli sions with several army officers con cerning the administration of affairs in the Philippines, notably with Gen eral Chaffee. They are not on the beat of terms now. In accepting Sec retary Root's resignation. President Roosevelt said: "My Dear Mr. Root It Is hard, Indeed, for me to accept your resignation; and I do so not only with keen personal regret, but with a lively understanding of the gap your withdraw will create in public lite. My sense of personal loss is1 very great; and yet my sense of the loss to the na tion as a whole is even greater. Your duties have Included more than merely the administration ot the department and the reorganization of the army on an effective baslg. You have also been the head of tire department which dealt with the vast and delicate prob lems Involved In our possession of the Philippine Islands, and your success In dealing with this part of your work has been as signal as your success in dealing with the purely military prob lems. To very few states men, In deed, in any country is It given at the one and the same time to achieve sig nal and striking triumphs in the ad ministration and reform of the military branch of the government and in the administration of what was, In effect, a department of Insular dependencies, where the problems were now to our people and were in themselves of great difficulty. MUST TAKE THE OATH. Order of Public Printer Creates Stir Among Bookbinders. An order from Public Printer Pal mer was Issued to the heads of di visions in the government printing of fice to appear before a notary public and take the oath of allegiance to the United States as subscribed to by clerks under the civil service law. Mr. Palmer said he had issued the order at the suggestion of a government of ficial whose name he declined to give. He said that its object was to place the per diem employes in the same attitude toward the governmsnt as that of the clerks on annual salaries, who have subscribed to the order. Every employe in the office will be affected by the order. The issuance of the order created considerable) surprise among the employes of the office, es pecially among members of the book hinders' union, who believe it bag in directly a bearing on the Issues grow ing out of the case of W. A. Miller, the assistant foreman of the bindery, wbo was discharged from the office because he had been expelled from the local bookbinders' unit: a, but who was afterward reinstated at the direc tion of President Roosevelt. GARY ISSUES STATEMENT. Corporation Chairman Says No Change v Scheduled for Presidency. Judge E. H. Gary, chairman of the executive committee of the United Statea Steel Corporation, has issued the following statement: "I know of no arrangement or understanding for the return ot Mr. Schwab to the pres idency of the corporation. I think his general desire Is to fully and per manently regain his health. It has been officially atated that his aalary waa $100,000 per annum, and that In addition he received something out of the bonus fund the same as other officials. These statements, like all other official statements, can be re lied upon." KNOCKS JEFF DAVIS DOWN. Candidate for Governor Fails to Have Questions Answered Promptly. Judge Carroll L. Wood, of the Ar kansas Supreme Court, who is oppos ing Governor Davis' candidates, for a third term, knocked Governor DavlB off a speaking stand, four feet, to the ground, during the meeting at Bis marck. Governor Davis was not hurt Judge Wood was Immediately arrest ed. Governor Davis publicly asked Judge Wood questions, and before they could be fully answered Interrupted with more questions, which so an gered Judge Wood that he knocked Governor Davis from the platform. Later the matter wag adjusted. Dog Unearths Murder. The well-dressed body of a man of medium height was found by a hunts man's dog In a clump of bushes near Rochester, Ind. From the fact that the body was badly decomposed and that a heavy beaver overcoat formed part of the clothing, It la thought the man was murdered some time last spring. McDonald la Superintendent Frank McDonald, formerly ot Brad dock, Pa., who bag been night super intendents! the Bessemer plant ot the Republic Iron and Steel Company, has been promoted to the position ot su perintendent,, vice Perry Mackey, re signed, wbo goes to Wheeling to ac cept a position with the United States Steel Corporation. OWES HIS LECTION 10 UIWI CARDINAL INDEFATIGABLE. Inside History of the Late Conclave. Austria Interposed Veto Against Cardinal Rampolla. Information concerning the recent election of Pope Pius X., bs been received In Chicago In the shape of an official diary of the four days of the conclave, during which the Cardlnalg of tho church sought to elect a suc cessor to Leo XIII. Father James Mo Govern, a friend of the new Pope, is the recipient of the papera. It In dicates that Cardinal Sarto owed his election largely to the pergonal effortg of Cardinal Satolll. The eventa of Sunday, the second day. are thus chronicled: "Intense agitation among tne cardinals. Satolll wag indefatig able. He passed from room to room, begging the Cardinals to vote for the Patriarch of Venice. The supporters of Rampolla began to feel the ground sinking under their feet. Cardinal Rampolla remained cold and Indiffer ent, moving through the corridors In silence, occasionally transmitting an order in a low voice to some Cardinal or hlg assistant. The Cardlnalg In charge of the dioceses gave a full expression to their desire of having a Pope elected who would be more approachable and would look after the needs of the people committed to hlg care. Satolll used this for all it wag worth." Sunday wag the day on which the veto of Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria to the candidacy of Cardi nal Rampolla wag presented. Concern ing it the diary sayg; "On the Becond day of the conclave, when the name of Cardinal Rampolla waaj In the as cent, one ot the Austrian-Hungarian Cnrdlnnls presented a veto coming from Emperor Francis Joseph of Aus tria against the election of Cardinal Rampolla. The contention In the Aus tria-Hungarian Parliament, In which Cardinal Rampolla Interfered, caused Intense opposition to him many tlmeB, and the various dissensions among the Slavs, which prevented the union of the churches, caused the people of Austria and the Emperor to disapprove of the election of Rampolla as succes sor to Leo XIII. The last proceedings of the conclave on Tuesday are thus described: "Cardinals assembled for the last time. Cardinal Sarto appear ed pale and apparently unhappy. He had passed a sleepless night. Cardi nal Rampolla wag severe of aspect, but he had an impenetrable calmness. Hlg friends were discouraged, but they d.d not abandon him. In the last bal lot only 10 stood by him, so It was certain that the election of Sarto was assured. As the votes were being counted many of those Cardinals fi nally went to Satolll and expressed great satisfaction. The last vote re sulted: Sarto, 60; Rampolla, 10; Gottl. 2. GOING TO 8T. LOUIS IN 1904. Service Men In Emperor's Army Form National Organization. The North American Krlegerbund at Terre Haute, Ind., adjourned to meet in St. Louis In 1904. As a result of of the session a united society ot men who served in the German army has been formed. The committee appoint ed to perfect the organization of a central society formed the United Krlegerbund of America. The follow ing officers were elected: President, Richard Mueller, New York; vice president, Carl Schmidt, of Cleveland; secretary, Carl Schoenduve, Akron, O.; treasurer, John Schickler, of Chi cago. BIG KITE CARRIED HIM UP. Merrill's Experiments, After Sliding Down a Rops, Cease. While flying a monster box kite, 12 feet high by 4 feet square, Ed Mer rill, of Glenwood, la., was suddenly jerked from the ground and carried to a height from which he descended by sliding down the kite rope. Mer rill had been experimenting with kites for some time, and was determining the carrying power of hla largest kite. The cord to which the weight to be lined wag attached broke, and Merrill, who had hold of the kite rope, was jerked from hlg feet, and taken 100 feet In the air. The kite rope had previously been fastened to a tree, to which fact Merrill owes his life. After the first fright had passed, Merrill slid down the rope to the ground. He has quit experimenting with kites. BOTH 8IDES ARE BLAMED. Cononer's Jury Render a Verdict In Circus Accident The coroner's Jury at Durand, Mich., Inquiring into the death of the 22 vic tims who were killed in the wreck ot Wallace Brothers' circus train, on the Grand Trunk railroad, on August 7, rendered a verdict that the wreck was caused by the failure of the air brakes to work on the second section; that the wreck might have been avoided if the engineer, Charles M. Propst, bad watched the air gauge before him, and also It Wallace Brothers had had their carg properly equipped with hand brakes. Five Prisoners Break Jail. Five prisoners, Including Carlos Mc Cormlck, the boy murderer, aged 16, escaped from Pima county jail at Tuc son, Arli., by digging a hole in the wall and dropping from the second story by means of a rope made from their blankets. All ot the prisoners ex cept McCormlck were Mexicans. Boat 'Turned Turtle." ' The three-master schooner Willie L. Newton ot Bangor, Me., capsized In the gound oft Wilson Point, near South Norwalk, Conn. Her master, Captain Edward Coombes, and all ot her crew were lost, in all eight Uvea. The ves sel lay on her side In about 20 feet of water, with all sails set. Half Million Storm Damage. T'lt damage to farms in Nemaha an Marshall counties, Kan., by cloudburst it estimated at 1500.000. LATEST NEWS NOTES. Admiral Bchley prevented a panic on a yacht during collision. Number of persons met death in flood at Council Bluffs, ta. Eleven Spaniards were drowned dur ing a sudden squall near Tarlfa, Spain. Bishop Denis J. Dougherty has de parted for hla post In the Philippines. William Duncan, proprietor of a hotel at Raymond, Cal., shot a colored ambulance driver. A severe storm struck Mossvllle, III., killing ono and Injuring several per sons. The new cruiser Clevoland was given a trial over the Southport measured course. Mrs. Feberlll A. ' Mecento, of St. Paul, Minn., recovered from an attack of lockjaw. Indiana In Leech lake Indian reser vation In northern Minnesota threaten an uprising. The weather bureau's report of crop conditions shows an Improvement in general conditions. John I. Davenport, formerly super visor of elections in New York, died at Stamford, Conn. One man was killed and several per sons were Injured during an electrical atorm at Peoria, 111. Sir Thomas Llpton refused to admit any mistake In the handling of Sham rock in Tuesday's race. Representative Overstreet, of Indi ana, sayg currency legislation Is not necessary to prosperity. Lieut. Gen. Miles, In parting letter to Secretary of War Hoot, made start ling recommendations. Contract waa let by Cleveland (O.) concern for largest vessel on the lakes, to carry 10,000 tong of ore. Samuel Cohen confessed to having blown up the' Northern Paclflc rail road bridge at Livingston, Mont. Shamrock III. was remeasured but enough ballast was taken out to avoid any change In her time allowance. The seventieth birthday of the Em press Dowager of China Is to be cele brated next year with great pomp. The Right Rev. Charles H. Colton was consecrated bishop of Buffalo la St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York. Fire at Auburn, Cal., destroyed the Auburn hotel, and Daniel Christy and W. B. Maither perished in the flames. Nellie Brooks, said to be the wife of Harry Brooks, the gentleman burglar of New York, wag arrested In Kansas City. The Tailors' Trust, which Charles M. Schwab Is said to be backing, will establish seven or eight storeg In Chi cago. The case of Caleb Powerg wag for mally closed at Georgetown, Ky and the arguments to the Jury began Au gust 25. Eleven Spaniards engaged In salvage work on the wreck of the ateamer Irurak-Bat near Tarlfa drowned during a squall. Samuel Parks, convicted In New York of extortion and sentenced to Sing Sing, was committed to that In stitution. While going to North Carolina for hla health, Otto G. Braum, ot Buffalo, died on a Pennsylvania train at WU Uamsport, Pa. During a dance held at Plncug hall In Hornellsville. N. Y., Miss Kather Ine Birmingham swooned and died in her partner's arms. The Blue Ridge Packing Company, ot Wilkesbarre, with a factory at Lu zerne, made an assignment for the benefit ot creditors. A new motive power hag been In vented by a Joplln (Mo.) man that promises to revolutionize Industry. S. F. Stearns Is the inventor. An inspection of the battleship Mas sachusetts at the New York navy yard showed that there were five breaks In the ship's bottom. On the crowded streets at Newark, N. J., Warren Nichola, aged 24, a for mer Philippine soldier, fatally shot his friend, Edward Stine, aged 19. Former Mayor Mills, or Seymour, Ind., wag shot and probably fatally wounded in a quarrel with Police Of ficers Rcddlnger and Baughman. ' Charles Mellon, aged 24, a fireman on the Philadelphia and Reading rail way, was killed in Philadelphia by a locomotive falling Into a turn-table pit. President Hadley, of Yale university and Mrs. Hadley, with their son, Mor ris, galled on the steamer Princess Irene from Genoa, Italy, for New York, Sir Thomas Llpton during squall in Horseshoe bay, went to rescue ot Im periled women on board the yacht Alltta and eacorted them to the Erin. One hundred and fifty longshore men, employed by the Joy Steamship Company ot New York, went on a strike because the head Btevedore waa uncharged. Thirty or more passengers were se riously injured by a collision at the junction of the Illinois Central and Lake Erie and WeBtern Railroads, near Bloomlngton. The reorganizbatlon of the Norcrosa Bros. Company, which recently as signed with liabilities ot $2,000,000, wag assented to by Judge Brown at Boston, Mass. The widow and children of the late C. W. McCormlck, ot Chicago, have given $10,000 toward a new science hall for Washington and Lee univer sity, at Lexington, Va. The Metropolitan steamship, H. M. Whitney, from New York to Boston, ran down and sank the schooner John Booth, weBt of New Haven, Conn. Five of the crew were drowned. Justice Lore ot Delaware, In speech at peace conference at Mystic, Conn., advocated unusual punishment for per sons guilty of assault. The Wagner family has refused to take part In the unveiling ot the Wag ner monument In Berlin, Germany, Oc tober 1 because the Emperor refused to accept the program offered by the family. In an attempt to rescue the family of William Sanborn, consisting ot father, mother and four children at Nodaway, la., from the housetop, the raft overturned, drowning Mrs. -Ban-bora and two children. imu eon mm IH Iti SHAMROCK NEVER IN IT. Llpton's Skipper Outgeneraled Lack of Wind Robs Reliance of Victory In Fourth Race, Sir Thomas Llpton's Shamrock HI. and the defender Reliance met at the old red lightship off Sandy Hook, Thursday morning at the usual hour of 11 o'clock. The wind was light, but wag growing, and the sea was so smooth that the sharps confidently believed that the 1903 series of races for the America's cup was to be end ed forthwith. As the seconds passed Just before the first starting gun was fired Reliance was leading In a reach around the lightship for the line. Shamrock might have held on and crossed the windward end of the line soon after the gun, but Instead of do ing that, Mr. Fife turned her around to eastward. She wag then on Re llance'g weather quarter a very de slrablo position If both had been heading for the line. The difference in time of crossing wag clear gain for the defender. When once they were off It need only be said that Reliance gained Just a trifle over 46 seconds for every mile In the windward leg. In the run home she gained more than 30 seconds a mil. With Reliance less than a third ot a mile from the finish and Shamrock III. hull down on the horizon, fully two miles astern of the gallant defender, the fourth race of the present series for the America's cup waa declared off because of the expira tion of the time limit of five and one half hours, ag happened on Thursday last. Although officially it was no race, the defeat administered to the challenger wag go Ignominious that whatever lingering hope remained In the breasts of the friends of Sir Thomas's boat vanished Into thin air. Reliance's victory was In every way more decisive than that of last Satur day. Outsailed, outpointed and out footed, it waa a procession from start to finish. The Herreshoff wonder beat the Shamrock hopeless in the 15 miles out of windward work, rounding the outer mark 12 minutes and 30 sec onds ahead of her, a gain In actual time of 11 minutes and 29 seconds, and down the wind she steadily Increased her lead. In a glorious whole-sail breeze, over a triangular course, 10 miles to a leg, the Reliance again, August 25, showed her heelB to Sir Thomas Llpton's chal lenger, taking the second race ot the cup series of 1903 by the narrow mar gin of 1 minute and 19 seconds. It was as pretty a contest as baa ever been sailed off Sandy Hook, and had the wind not fallen during the last 10 minutes, the record for the course, 3 hours 12 minutes and 15 seconds, made by Columbia two yeara ago in her memorable race against Sham rock II., would have been broken. As It was, Reliance sailed the 30 miles within 2 minutes and 39 seconds of the record, which speaks wonders for her speed in the wind that wag blowing. In a splendid 12 to 15 knot breeze, over a windward and leeward course of 30 miles, the sloop Reliance, Satur day, August 22, beat Shamrock IU. In commanding style by exactly nine minutes actunl time, or seven minutes and three seconds after deducting the 1 minute and 57 seconds wrlcn the defender concedes to Sir Thomas Llp ton's third challenger on account of her large sailing plan as at present measured. The Reliance beat the Brit ish boat 3 minutes and 24 seconds In the thresh to windward and 6 min utes and 36 seconds in the run down the wind. TRENCH CASE SETTLED. An OH 8ult Against the Guffey Com pany Ended. The suit at Beaumont. Tex., In which Annie Trench, ot England, and George Howell, of Kentucky, Joined by a large number of family connections, sought to gain possession of 2,300 acres ot Splndletop and vlnclnlty, has been compromised. The principal defend ants were the J. M. Guffey Petroleum Company and the Gladys City Com pany, The attorneys finally succeeded in getting the plaintiffs to accept a clear title to 230 acrea of land and $75,000 in cash for their claims. The damages originally claimed by the de plaintiffs were $2,000,000. The suit was filed two years ago, when the wells were still gushing, and tied up the field for a time. PANIC IN A THEATER. In Ruah for Doors Women Faint and Are Trampled Upon. During a heavy thunder storm at Newark, N. J., the lights In a theater were extinguished and the audience, composed mainly of women and chil dren, became panic stricken and rushed for the fire escapes, many of the women fainting and being tram pled on. Florence Kelrtge, aged 6, tell from a fire escape platform and wag fatally Injured. Pledged to the Zionists. At the session of the Zionist con gress at Basle, Switzerland, Dr. Iferzl, the president, submitted to the dele gates a letter which he had received from the Russian minister ot the In terior, Von Plehwe, apparently pledg ing the support of the Russian gov ernment to the Zionists In their move ment to establish an Independent state in Palestine. Rockefeller After Lead Mines. John B. Rockefeller, Jr., arrived at Wallace, Ida., in a special train, in company with Cbarlea Sweeny, who Is promoting the purchase ot the lead mines In the Coeur d'AIene district by a $30,000,000 Incorporation In which John D. Rockefeller is said to be the principal stockholder. . Combine Box Board Industries Charles R. Flint at New York an nounced that be la organising; a new combination of the box board Indus tries of the country. REVIEW OF TRADE. Business Holding Up Wall Removal of Industrial Clouds Gives Brighter Outlook. R. O. Dun A Co.'s "Weekly Review of Trade" says: There is stilt no Indi cation of depression In trade and In dustry that pessimists predicted would follow the decline In securities. Con servatism was developed by the un certainty regarding the effect upon fi nancial conditions, but legitimate busi ness is able to secure funds as they are required, and the more cautious progress of business gives promise of greater permanent gain. Weak spots have been disclosed, and the technical position strengthened, Just as occurred In the stock market. Readjustment after a period of Inflation must ot necessity bring some losses, yet the outlook Is brightened by the removal of threatening Industrial clouds. Dis patches from all sections testify to the liberal distribution of merchandise and the disposition to prepare for greater consumption ot all the neces saries of life, while the crops are mak ing good progress aside from some cotton districts In Texas. The number of 'buyers In New York Is Increasing, and a heavy fall trade Is anticipated. It Is gratifying to find that consumers of pig Iron have at last apparently de cided to place contracts without wait ing for further concessions. The de cline has now reached Its llmft, Judg ing by the larger amount of contracts offered, and this Is the most Import ant Indication of a restoration to nor mal conditions of prosperity in the steel industry. It Is estimated that a large tonnage of structural steel will soon be ordered for delivery In 1904, although this Is In a large degree de pendent on the absence of labor con troversies. The railways are still vig orous purchasers of steel, especially as to rails. There Is a fair business In plates and sheets, but an effort to re-sell an oversupply of billets has pro duced temporary weakness In that di vision. There Is sufficient business on the books of New England shoe man ufacturer) to assure full operation of machinery for several months. Fail ures this week numbered 176 In the United States, against 173 last year, and 33 In Canada, compared with 14 a year ago. Bradstreefg says: Fall trade In favorably situated sectlong comparea well with a year ago, while In others a disposition to hold back Is mani fested. What business Is doing Is of a solid character and In fact any ten dency to overextension Is conspicuous ly absent. Wheat, including flour, ex ports for the week ending August 27. aggregate 3.245,056 bushels, against 3.372.789 last week. 6.436.530 this week last year. For eight weeks of the cereal year they aggregate 25,073.289 bushels, against 36,776.299 in 1902. Corn exports for the weetJ aggregate 866.320 bushels, against 509.495 last week. 115.150 a year ago. For eight weeks of the present cereal year they aggregate 8,325,295 bushels, against 754,659 in 1902. CABLE FLASHES. Ma edonlans held an Immense mass meeting and Issued appeal to Euro pean powers for help. Turkey has called out all army reserves. In the course of the proceedings In the case of Whltaker Wright, the com pany promoter, In England, it was Btated that the losses ot shareholders In tho capital of the three companlei amounted to $25,000,000. The German Automobile Club at Berlin, bag appropriated $20,000 for the expenses Incidental to the Interna tional race for the James Gordon Ben nett cup. Emperor William Is taking personal Interest In the event. A schooner which arrived at Kings ton, Jamaica, reports that the British Cayman Islands were devastated by a hurricane. Many houses at George town, a village near the west end of Grand Cayman island, were demol ished. Chinese reports from Pekln assert that the banished Prince Tuan Is there Incognito and that he has had several secret . interviews with the Dowager EmpreBg while the Emperor waa asleep. Literary chancellors who are being sent to all the provinces are all reactionaries against foreigners and foreign reforms. One hundred and twenty lives ore thought to be lost as the result of a Are In a four-story building at Buda pest. The executive council of San Juan, Porto Rico, has ordered a committee of three of Its memberg to Immediate ly Investigate the leper colony scan dal and make their report at the ear liest possible moment. The disclos ures continue. The Italian government has ap pointed Senator Augusto Pierantonl, professor of international law, to be counsel for Italy In the question ot the preferential rights claimed by Germany, Great Britain and Italy In the settlement with Venezuela. The Chilean steamer Mapocho, from Panama and southward bound, bring ing American and European malls, pas sengers and cargo, arrived at Guyaqull, Ecuador, but was not admitted, because when she left Valparaiso after the ap pearance of bubonic plague there. A hundred thousand Austro-Hunga-rlan troops, whose three years' ser vice expires In September, have been notified that they must remain with the colors until the end of 1903, in consequence of the Hungarian diet not passing the bill providing for the an nual quota of recruits from Hungary, A telegram from Vladivostock, Rus sia, say local and American capital ists there have organized a company to build a railroad from Khabarovsk to the gulf of De Castries, on the east ern seaboard. A large amount of traffic is anticipated In Saghalien pe troleum besldea coal, lumber and fish. Secretary Hitchcock will investigate every phase of the Indian iaud scan dals, so far aa the Dawea commission Is concerned, but It will remain for congress to provide the punishment If It Is found that it members have j ueen guilty or irregularities or con' duct unbecoming officials ot the government. MANUAL TRAINING.' Important Advance la the OhJeeUvs) Methods of Teaching.) Fortunately for the public life of the United States, the great convention of American tencbera In Boston paid espe clnl Attention to manunl training. The distinguished experts who discussed this subject before the convention did not allow ninnunl training to run away with nil training, but they conceded that In an industrial society and in a powerful commercial age like the pres ent the education ot the senses is of pre-eminent Importance. Hence the vnlue of drawing to discipline the eye, and of manual training to discipline the sense of touch, and the nervous and muscular systems were favorably ree ognized. The commercial course, the manual training course and the art course do not necessnrlly draw essential attention from other branches If the time be properly utilized, because these new courses greatly rest the mind and that economize time. But theso new courses also develop aptitudes which under the old system would have been quite dor mnnt but for the opportunities fur nished in rural communities In the) form of manual training under parental control. As this Is sn age of tools, It Is essen tial that manual training be developed In the use of power tools. In all proba bility the electric motor, moving power tools, will be more generally Introduced In the next decade In the public schools than Is now In evidence. The recogni tion by our teachers of the Importance of manual training Is cne of the hap piest signs ot the times. The variety ot thlngg to be done and the relative oversupply ot people in the learned professions, and the under supply of men and womea In the sci entific professions, show that our schools need to be adjusted to the present conditions of the Industry of the age. That the teachers of the United Stnteg are keenly alive to this demand Is a happy omen for the generation that Is now passing through tho public schools. The best way to develop the mind Is to recognize the law of nil humnn de velopment and to get at the subject by the way of the object. An ocular i demonstration Is far better than so oracular demonstration. New York News. An Ingenious Scheme, To any one wbo doesn't possess the modest luxury of a private car, travel ing Is always a thing fraught with dis comfort. Columns could be written on the pathetic struggles of the woman wbo travels to stow her wearing ap parel away In the coffin-like confines of a lower berth. Any right-minded woman prepares to shed tears when she thinks of the next morning state of her traveling skirt Time was when porters looked after such things, and could be Induced to preserve garments over-night in mysterious places, but these days, on nine sleeping cars out of ten, the porter is Instructed to In form you that he can't be responsible for anything Intrusted to blin. These things being as they are, I feel that I owe a debt of gratitude to a lady name to me unknown who showed me bow to dispose of a whole ward robe In a sleeping car. She travels a great deal, she in formed me, and she never leaves home without at least a dozen of the big safety pins and book combinations that people use to attach curtain rings I forget the technical term for them. It I ever knew It. I was allowed to peep Into ber berth after she bad ar ranged herself for the night, and I found she bad fastened one of these ping into each of her more bulky gar ments and had hooked them all In a row to the top of the berth cur tain. She said tho Idea wag all her own and that It wag the greatest com fort In the world to know that every thing waa hanging np neatly, Just as It would be at home. For giving a really homelike atmosphere to a sleep ing car I can think of no other scheme more highly to be recommended. Washington Post. Spools Frora Palpi The process of making spools from pulp has been in course of develop ment for the past two years, and many obstacles have bad to be overcome be fore the spool wag perfected. It was comparatively easy, gays the Hartford Courant, to mould the spool into the proper form, but after it had become dry and bard the difficulty was to grind or turn It Into the proper size to bold the required amount of thread. This trouble has now been overcome. Pulp will be used only for the, large size of spools, as it Is not practical to make the smaller sizes ot that mater ial. Many of the largo spools are nearly four Inches in diameter, and up to the present time they have been made of wood. When they Were first mnde they were turned from a single piece of wood, but It was discovered that In many cases the pressure of the thread as It was wound on the spool would push the head off the barrel, although It was the same piece of wood. In order to remedy this diffi culty, It became necessary to make the large spools from three nieces, the barrel and two heads, and when the beads were closely fitted to the barrel and glued, they were found to remain better than when they were one piece of wood. Hlg-host of Ballroada. The Ferrocarrll Central del Peru Is the highest railway In the world. Ia eight hours It takes passengers from the tropics to the eternal snow) at an altitude nearly equal to the top of Mont Blanc, the highest xSummlt Id Europe. It cost $40,000,000 to build this road. In on place It was found necessary to drain river by means ot a tunnel and as Its dry bod for the tracks,
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