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LOCKED IN THE LAZARET

Pr.AKIN & of sailors’ superstitions, S Capt. Dan Burton used to say that when the crew of the Daphne once took the notion that he was a ghost, they came dangerously near making him a ghost in reality. Burton was second mate at that time, and his memorable experience actually began when the Daphne, three days out from Point de Galle, Ceylon, was becalmed for a fortnight. :

Finally, one afternoon, came a tiny cloud; within an hour it spread over the sky and completely obliterated the twilight. When the captain came on deck he ealled all hands to wear ship. A tornado was bearing down on them, and they must work for their lives. : Burton found a fore-tack broken—thanks to the weather that had turned the rigging to tinder—and jumped to the lazaret toreplaceit. Many heavy articles were between-him and the spare rigging, and Burton called a young sailor, Fred Roberts, to help him move them. » The two were struggling with a big hawser when the captain roared: “Helm alee! Wear ship!" Hard over!” TRhey heard the helmsman repeat the last order. Then all in an instant the universe seemed to be blotted out, and Burton and his companion knew no more. To realize their situation it is necessary to remember that the lazaret is, so to speak, the ship’s storeroom. Extending behind and on two sides of the cabin, it takes in all the space under decks, from the stern to the line where the quarter-deck ends and the main-deck begins. In it the steward stores food intended for the officers; and their trunks, together with valuable materials, extra

supplies and fittings, are put away in it. The space between the ship’s knees affords plenty of ventilation by means of the air wells that extend from the outer deck to the ballast hold.. : : A sliding door in one side of the steward’s pantry gives him admittance to the lazaret, but officers generally enter, as Burton-and young Roberts did, through a small hatchway in the wheel-house. It was natural enough that, in the excitement of preparation for a storm; their movements should pass unnoticed; that, finding the hatchway open, a stupid helmsman should cover it and think no more about it, and that the two men should be given upaslost. = Burton came to himself with a sensa-

tion of lightness in his head and faintness at his stomach. Pitch-darkness prevailed, for the bull’s-eyeés that dimly lighted the lazaret when it was empty were now covered up; but putting out his hand, Burton felt a human form. “Who is it?” he asked. A snore was the only answer. i ~ Then Burton straightened his stiffened limbs and rolled himself clear. He heard the seaman at the wheel strike eicht bells; but whether that meant eight or 12 or four o’clock, or night or day, he could not tell. He did remember, now, who his companion was. He put his mouth to the young sailor’s ear, “Eight bells! Change watch!” he cried. : ; The habit of years made the sleeper star§ up. “Eh? ‘What? Oh!” he rroaned. - “You awake, sir? You all right?'" he asked. “What time of day do you think it is, Roberts?” Burton returned. “Eight bells has just struck.” “Must be morning, sir.” : “You don’t mean to tell me we’ve been here all night? Impossible!”’ - “But it ain’t, sir! - You didn’t know nothin’ for a long while after old Nels, that was at the wheel, let the ship veer up in the wind. She most turned upside down. You must have got your head hit. then—l was pretty well banged round myself—and ' afterward you went to sleep without fairly sensin’ anything.” ‘‘Have you tried to attract attention?” “My knuckles is wore out poundin’ on that wheel-house hatch, sir,”” the sailor said, plaintively. “Iforced it up with my head once, but when I'hollered at Bristol Dave, he dropped the wheel agd‘holl‘e'red, like he was scared to death. Scared me, that did. I fell backward, and 'fore 1 could climb up again they had the hatch' battened down and padlocked.” “Can’t we dig through to the steward’s pantry?” : “’Fraid not, sir. This here lazaret is full chock-a-block, all but this little hole we're cooped up in, and we couldn’t move the stuff 'cause’there’s nowhere to move it to.” < Just then the second mate, trying to feel out his surroundings, touched something he seemed to recognize. He smelled and tasted it. : ‘““Must have broken open a box of honey.” he said. “I’ve got a piece of comb.” - “Better eat it, sir,” the sailor advised. “I'm goin’ to try to find a bread-cask. We could easy spot it—l know where ‘there’s lanterns and oil—if you’ll take the risk of a light.” ; | “Lanterns down here?” Bffton repeated. - e “Yes, sir. I hung’em myself. They'ra covered lanterns we used for the anchor watch.” : ‘ Burton felt for his match-box and

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opened it. “I’ve got just one match,” he said. - : “That’s enough, if it don’t gghac‘k on us.” : ; ¢ It was an anxious moment when Burton scratched the match; hut it did not go back on them. Not food, but drink, was_what they first sought by the lantern’s light, and after two hours cf hunting and hard labor they found a biscuitbox and a case of mineral water—the two almost side by side. “We’re all right, now, sir,” said the sailor, joyously. “We can stand it till they have to come down after somethin:" ; .

Yet the hours that followed were very tedious, and when they had lengthened out to two days or more, officer and man grew heartily sick of confinement. The space at their command was so restricted that they could barely stretch out, lying or standing; but they dared not try to enlarge it, for\the ship was rolling 4 good deal, and they feared that If they “brokc the stowage” they would bring down casks and boxes, trunks and tackle on their heads.

Sometimes Burton or Roberts would have a spell of frantic thumping at the hatchway. But the sounds came back muffled, as if the hatch were buried deep; and if they were heard in the wheel‘house nobody seemed to heed. It was on the fourth night or day, they hardly knew which, when the weather had moderated a little, that Burton thought he heard a muttering in the direction of the steward’s pantry, and saw a light over the tops of the casks. - “Hello, there, doctor!” he called.

Then the sailor joined in. “Hi, doe! Ahoy, there!” He tried to creep toward the .light between the decking and the tops of the casks. =

‘“Wha’dat? Whodar?” questioned the steward, a Demerara negro. “Mr. Burton and Fred,” replied the sailor, in a tone that must have sounded sepulchral. ‘ I “Wow-00!" moaned the steward. “I’s done been called by adead man!” Then came the sound of a fall and the jingleof glass. ! : “He’s flew,” the sailor reported to Burton, in disgust. “Took me for a ghost, I reckon.” “Say,” he added, a moment later, “I smell smoke! Say, that fool dropped his lantern! He’s set the ship afire!” - The horror of the situation was instantly apparent. Not so the means of escape. : “Fred, we must try to reach the fire and put it out!” Burton cried. “No use, sir. I can’t crawl any nearer, and you're fatter thanl am. Besides, we haven’t anything to put it out with. We'd be roasted.” “But we'll be suffocated, anyway!” “Have to stand it, sir, if it happens so.” But now they heard on deck the roar of voices and trampling of feet that told that the alarm had been given. Commands of officers and answers of seamen showed by the tone that they knew they must battle for life. No flames had reached the seconc mate and the sailor as yet, but the heat in the lazaret was rapidly becoming stifling and the smoke seemed to search the farthest corners ot their aching Inngs. = ! ; : They breathed with difficulty through folds, of their shirt-sleeves, which they had torn off and wet with mineral water. ‘ Roberts was first to suceumb. As he sank insensible, there were soundsat the hatchway that foreshadowed the lifting of the hatch, and Burton dragged his companion near it. : . Suddenly the hatch was removed. An avalanche of hose came through it. The boatswain set his foot on the first step of the ladder. .

“Take Roberts on deck first!” Burton cried. !

But with a single glance below, the boatswain yelled and fled! Burton seized the nozzle of the hose. His laboring lungs and &marting eyes forgotten, he dragged it forward and directed a stream toward the flames. The water came just in time to ward them from an oil-barrel. Another stream, poured through the sliding door of the steward’s pantry, helped to win the fight. Soon it was over. " Burton threw down the hose and tried to crawl back to the hatchway. - But now it was his turn to give out, and Roberts, whom the fresh air had restored to consciousness, i)ushed and pulled, coaxed and lifted him toward the ‘deck. There the captain met them. “‘The dead. come to Ife!” he cried, amazed. e “Tend to Mr. Burton. first!” gasped the faithful sailor. ~ “Lay aft, four of you!” the captain called. ‘“Carry these men into the cabin.” “We thought you two went overboard when the tornado struck us,” the captain added. “The men have declared ever since that the ship was haunted, and soon I should have had to take a Tope’s end to get one of them to go aft. I'm’glad the ghosts are laid!” - But they were not completely laid, so far as the negro steward was concerned. For the rest of the voyage Burton and the sailor were treated like invalids, and whenever the “doctor” had occasion to serve them he would edge off and hand things at arm’s length, as if he were not yet sure that they were not spooks from spirit-land.—Youth’s Companion,

= | e g e Tael ate of soda solution, dried between two slowly turning cylinders, and finally given solidity by an ammoniacal bath. : THE DIRGE OF THE SEA. War galley, sloop and galleon— I cradle them in quiet sleep; Their days of stressful warfare done, They slumber forty fathoms deep. Armada, argosy, and fleet That one day challenged half the world— In their last haven sway and beat, With flags among the seaweeds furled. The clamoring of sword on shield, - The tumult of the crashing hulls, The battle cries that one day pealed Above me now give place to lulls, For swords, and shields, and ships, and men Lie silent, while my billows run In play, ard break and break again And toss their jeweis at the sun. - I The fighting men of all the lands— The warriors of the centuries— They rest now on my hidden sands; Yet sometimes in- their strident keys Above the storm my voice I litt And shout their battle songs for themes Again to idle calms I shift, And croon their whispersd requiem, Strange men, with strange hates in thelr eyes ; i That glittered with the battle tight: Strange men, who hoarsely gave war cries— For, being strangers, they must fight. But now, my %}inows -sll?wly surge And solemn winds bear on their breath The echoed measures of my dirge That chants the brotherhood of death, ~W. D N, in Chicage Daily Tribune,

PROiBLEMS OF THE TRANSPORTATION LINES OF THE CITY. UNDERGROUND COMPLETED It Is a Marvel of Engineering In- . genuity — How the Belmonts Have Beaten thedurface . Lines of Gotham. New York.—Thé new Simplon tunrel through the Alps has just beex}

pierced. It is 12 miles, 458 yards long, and will have cost $15,000,000. People call it the longest tunnel in the world. Its makers met few obstacles except hard rock and problems of ventilation. A month later comes the opening to traffic of the 'New York subway. Two miles of it .are a

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true tunnel, but the rest is no more than an open cut filled in after construction. At one point on Manhattan island, and again where it crossés the Harlem river, it becomes for a little way an elevated railroad, as does at times the London ‘“underground.” The difficulties met haye been immense—sonietimes quick§and, sometimes the oozy bed of some built over and long forgotten creek, where Dutch girls washed their clothes in the old days, usually such a maze and tangle of sewer, gas, water, electric wire, heating and telephone pipes and conduits that it is a world's wonder how the work could be done at all. The distance, not counting extensions, is 28 miles, rot all now ready for opening, however, and the cost is $35,000,000. The price per mile is not far from that paid upon the really far less difficult Simplon. I do not see why New York may not briefly brag of its new thoroughfare, particularly as it belongs to the city, though leased for the time. i How it will work in practice I cannot say, but the test trips the tunnel has nobly stood. The walls throughout are glazad tiles, laid in putty. The stations are beautifully decorated, different colors‘ being used for important stations, so 'that the passenger who reads his paper a second too long can see at a glance where he is. “Both Ends and the Middle.”” If the city owns the subway, and if John B. McDonald dug it, why a ‘‘syn-

dicate?” Where do the Belmonts come in? Well, though McDonald had taken important contracts, even he was not Quite ready to tackle a $35,000,000 cne; besides, there was the problem of operation afterwards. The problem of competition. The latter the Belmont management et by

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leasing the elevated railroad system. They are “playing both ends against the middle” in local transit—the underground and the over-ground against the surface cars. For the purpose, Mr. Belmont organized a ‘‘holding company,” the -Interborough. This leases the Manhattan, or elevated system. And already the stock of the holding company sells away above par. The reason is peculiar. Gould, Sage and others owned the controlling interest in the “L” cars. They managed upon the cheese-paring plan, and the surface system, just “electrified” by Whitney iz Brady, got away the passengers. Its stock, the Metropolitan, sold as high as 182 in 1900. Then Belmont bougnht the elevated, put on electric cars, framed a quicker schedule and drew passengers back from the surface lines. Earnings increased so fast that the Interborough declared a small dividend before the Subway was opened from the surplus nickels of its leased elevated lines. Meanwhile the Metropolitan, vastly over-capitalized, was running behind. Its managers made a holding company of their own, sold it the Metropolitan on. a guarantee similar to that of the elevated lines by the ’‘lnterbdrough, and ‘“got from under.” Thus the ‘Metropolitan, although a guaranteed seven per cent. stock, sold at the bottom of the ‘“slump” in Wall street as low as 9974. People wondered what the guarantee was good for in the face of a deficit. The surface car lines are a magnificent property, and in time will catch a profitable “short ride” traffic, ‘but just- now the Belmont properties are ahead in the rivalry for.the favor of investors. .

The Head of the Syndicate. Perhaps because investors are the last thing Mr. Belmont worries about.

As hereditary agent of the Rothschilds he has no difficulty in finding ecapital. Yerkes, of Chicago and Philadelphia, builds a ‘“‘tuppenny tube” for London. Bankers in London, Paris and Frankfort build New York’s subway. Capital is cosmopolitan. August Belmont's personality suggests a

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golden mein. He is of middling height and weight _and speaks in a moderate tone. He would not upon htq street attract your second glance. His age also is middling. He is a man of many affairs, but never driven by them. He manages all forms of speed upon the earth. His yacht “Scout” is swift, his horses are fleet-foofed, his autos can kill :people on the road (but do not), he runs railroads and the fastest city

transit; but I never saw him in a hurry. His voice has a suspicion of a drawl, and he has the formal and unhurried manner of the “old-school gentleman.” His brothers, Oliver H. P. and Perry, have both been in politics, both are in society, botk have married the divorced wives of other men famous in their world. Neither has paid any attention to business. August is the business member of the family—is in society, also, of course, but not to the exclusion of other interests. Latterly, for the fitst time, he has been in politics—drawn in by his connection with McDonald and others in the subway matter. .

This late attention to political matters, which are the proper concern of every American, has brought upon Belmont the accusation of being a “trust magnate.” It is a misfit. The representative of enormous wealth he is, but not wealth invested in trust enterprises ror affected by mnational politics. The local transit of New York city is no concern of the federal government. Belmont has an excellent bargain with the city, but he took it up when no one else would, and when prophecies of disaster were many. No genius, but a man who takes his time to study things out and then acts upon his mature reflection, Mr. Belmont is this week New York’s most conspicuous citizeln. o The Muddle of the Docks. New York hLas just spent $15,000,000 on a magnificent series of docks on the

Hudson river for large ocean-going steamers. Now it is confronted by a “bluft’ =of the steamship trust that it will run its great ships to other ports unless New York makes more. reasonable rentals. As the German lines have their own piers in Hoboken the trust and the Cunard line are the only possible users of

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piers so long and costly as these. It looks as if the “bluff” were pretty good. The ship trust.was a crazy scheme of over-capitalization by Mr. Morgan, and it is now owned by Englishmen, and doesn’t care a rap for New York, or any other American city, yet I half sympathizé with it in the dispute. New York can borrow money at three per cent. or so, yet it wants the trust to pay a rental of five per cent. upon the cost of the docks. That would be well enough if the steamers had to come to New York, but when other cities are offering pier space at nominal rentals it does look as if New York might come down. For a generation the city has “skinned’ foreign commerce by high wharfage charges fixed long ago by Tweed, by needless pilotage, by railroad *“differentials” fixed by New York railroad owners in favor of other citiec. The town must wake up if it wants to keep its trade. The fact that the headquarters of the cotton gamblers is being transferred hither from New Orleans is not a recompense. New York has enough business gamblers. What it needs is business. i ‘Whitney’s House and Horses. The late, William C. Whitney was a typical horseman. He loved horses

and was willing to spend his money upon them:. At Westbury, at Sheepshead Bay, in Kentucky, in Lenox, in Aiken, wherever he lived a few brief days in the hop-skip-and-jump manner of the rich New Yorker, he made princely provision for. ‘his - horses. Three of his homes were models of what a

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horse heaven on- earth should be. The Whitney heirs were lucky to dispose of his horses, as well as his houses, so well. It iS not every millionaire who is willing to step into a house built or rebuilt for another man as J. H. Smith, the. “silent man of Wall street,” did into the great brown stone mansion of the late traction magnate at a price of some $2,000,000. As for the horses, no wonder that men were ready to bid high for them {the prices ranged up -to close to $60,00( for favorites) when Meddler’s sons and daughters this ‘year “alone have won $190,000 on the race track. Hamburg, he is the father of two Futurity win. ners, those of 1903 and 1904, while Leonidas, also a Hamburg horse, was second to Hamburg Beble in 1903. Stalwart, a horse bought rather easily from E. R. Thomas at a selling race, has won $50,000 in races this year. Mr. Whitney’s horses cost him enough while he was alive, in all conscinece. They were, at any rate, worth something after his death. OWEN LANGDON. ALL HAVE SAME BODY HEAT Medical Man Examines Stoker and Explorer and Finds Temperature Always the Same. A medical practitioner has drawn attention to a very important subject in the matter of diet. He points out that the stoker grilling in the stokehole of a Red sea liner and the explorer among the ice floes of the frozen north—provided they are healthy men—have idéntical temperatures. The automatic heat-regulating mechanism in the body, no matter what the thermometer may register outside, sees that the body is kept at a normal temperature of about 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit. In order to assist this wonderful process in extremes of weather, it is necessary to congider the subject of food, and one of the most important items of food in hot weather is water. Water, as the writer points out, is a food, and it should be taken in summer weather as a regular article of diet. The habit of drinking iced water is discountenanced, and the ice cream is barred as the most fruitfnl cause of innumerable dyspepsias. etter than cold drinks are hot drinks, and tea with a slice of lemon is recommended as the most cooling drink at this time of the year.

THE SUNDAY BIBLE SCHOOL Lesson in the International Series for October 30, 1904—¢Elisha . . at Dothan.” - (Prepared by the “Highway and Byway’’ Preacher.) (Copyright, 1904, by J. M. Edson.) LESSON .TEXT.—2 Kings 6:8-23; mem-. ory verses, 15-17. Read '2 Kings 6-9 and 13:14-21 for the closing incidents in the life of Elisha. - GOLDEN TEXT.—‘“The ange!l of the Lord encampeth round about them that fear Him and delivereth them."—Ps. 34:7. i TlME.—Probably in the closing years cf Jehoram, king of Israel, . PLACES.—Dothan and Samaria. The former was about 12 miles north of the latter. ; The Lesson Outline. THEME:—Dangers and Deliverances. 1. Israel's Danger and Deliverance.—vs. 8-10. ; . 1. The Plot.—v. 8. { . { " 2. The Plot Revealed.—v. 9. | 3. The Plot Thwarted.—v, 10, 11.. Elisha’s Danger and Deliverance — vs. 11-17, ; 1. The Exasperated Enemy.—vs. 11, 12, 2. The Plot Against Elisha.—v. 13. $ 3..The Hosts of the Enemy.—vs. 14, 15. E ‘4, The Hosts of the Lord.—vs. 16-17. ¢ 111. The Enemy's Danger and Deliverance.—vs. 18-23. ; 1. Entrapped.—vs. 18-19, ik 2. Helpless.—v. 20. ; 3. Returning Good for Evil.—v. 21-23. 3§ Comparing Scripture with Scripturti.

I. Israel’s Danger and Deliverance. (1) The Plot v. 8, “Took counsel with his servants.” The wicked plotting against God’s children. Ps. 37:12; 140:5. Syria in her persistent effort to- entrap and crush Israel is typical of the devil. Paul speaks of the snares of the devil, 1 Tim. 3:7 and 2 Tim. 2226, and Peter describes the devil as a roaring lion, 1 Pet. 5:8. The-prayer of David, Ps. 27:11, should be our prayer. :

(2) The Plot Revealed, v. 9—God, from whom nothing can be hid (Jer. 23:24), Who seeth the things done in secret (Ps. 44:21 and 94:11), Who never slumbers or sleeps (Ps. 121:4), revealed the plottings of Syria’s king to Elisha, and the latter was thus able to preserve Israel against a most powerful and crafty enemy. “The man of God”"—a type of the Christ in His watchcare and faithfulness towards Israel. Christ in His relations to His: disciples performs even a more perfect service. Jesus knows all the perils that threaten us, Heb. 4:15. “Sent unto the king of Israel.” Elisha sent to the king, but Jesus comes to His disciples. He warns us of danger. He opens doors of escape. 1 Cor. 10:13; Jude 24.

(3) The Plot Thwarted, v. 10.—The king listened to Elisha’s warning and obeyed it, thus repeatedly escaping. If we will but hear Jesus as He whispers warnings to us and will then obey, we shall escape, as did Israel, the snares set for our feet. John 5:24. When we are entrapped it is our own fault, Jas. 1:14-15. 11. Elisha’s Danger and Deliverance. (1) The Exasperated Enemy, vs. 11, 12.—What puppets the wicked are in the hands of ng, Ps. 33:10; 37:13, and how impotent is their rage. The powerful king of Syria, witn his vast army, his able generals, his immense resources, was utterly pqwerless when God was reckoned into the account. Itisalwaysatroubled, andexasperated, and disappointed enemy that fights against God. Ps. 2.4; Ps. 76:10. (2) The Plot Against Elisha, v. 13. —The righteous when they take issue with évil are always marked as special objects of hatred and revenge, 2 Tim. 3:12; Matt. 5311—12. But Elisha was not the mant to flee and hide himself. ‘At Dothan” was the place of duty, and there Elisha stayed, although it was most easy of access for the enemy. How little the servant of the Lord has to fear when he is standing true to God‘%against the evil. Ps. 55:22. =

(3) The Hosts of the Enemy, vs. 14, 15.—How strong the evil seems; how firmly entrenched; how ,tremendous the odds appear. One defenseless prophet and his panic-stricken servant and a vast army come to take them. Shall we belittle the enemy? Shall we ‘doubt their power for harm and evil? No! But we need to see the Lord's hosts. It often- seems as if we were outnumbered, but we never are; ' Rom. 8:31; 2 &Hron. 32:7, 8: Matt. 28:20. : - ’

(4) The Hosts of the Lord, vs. 186, 17.—1 t takes the eye of faith to see. The hosts of the Lord are there. We need to pray, “Lord, open mine eyes.” A glimpse of God’s power and resources will restore lost coyrage and give strength. One with God is a majority always. Phil. 4:6, 7; Heb. 13:6. :

111. The Enemy’s, Danger and Deliverance. (1) Entrapped, vs. 18, 19. —The Lord taketh the wise in their own craftiness, Job 5:13; 1 Cor. 3:19. How repeatedly Jesus entrapped His enemies when they had -carefully planned to entrap Him. ° ] (2) Helpless, v. 20.—N0 foe is so powerful but that in the hands of God he is absolutely. helpless. The wickgd are always blind, but so{mé day they are to come face to face with God, then will they realize their weakness and helplessness. : (3) Good for Evil, vs. 21-23.—“ Shall 1 smite them.” Man wants revenge, but God has better methods, Matt. 5:44: Rom. 12:19-21,: - ‘

NOTES ABOUT WOMEN. | - Colorado and Wyoming have women filling the office of state superintendent of public instruction. ! In Boston, where women vote on school questions, thereis a seat for every child and full time instruction. . Colprado has elected tes women to her state legislature since 1895. Idaho has had three women in the house of representatives, and Utah one woman in the senate and three in the house. When a member of the Colorado legislature; Miss Evangeline Heartz secured the passage of the “Frog-Blocking Bill” for the protection of railroad employes. For this she was rewarded with a card engrossed with ' “The Thanks of 5,000 Railroad Men.” : ‘ iMiss Ella Meredith, of Colorado, in reply to the question whether women in her state neglected their homes to seek for political offices, said: ‘“They do not any more than they neglect their homes to seek office in club or church gocieties. Sometimes they take office toearn bread for those dependent upon them. More women neglect their homes and children to play cards and attend social functions than to do political work.”

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LEXHAUSTED ARMIES IN FAR EAST UNABLE TO FIGET. Lull Caused by Rains and Impassable Roads—Losses Are Enormous. : St. Petersburg, Oct. 21.—Apart from skirmishes and explcits of scouting parties, there is ‘almost a compiete suspension of operations in Manchuria. The heavens have interposed to put a stop to.bloodshed. Rain, impassable roads and exhausted armies are factors sufficient in themselves to explain the cessation of hostilities, and these conditions are aggravated by a dense fog overspreading the whole 04 the theater of war. Behind this pall either side would be able to change the dfsposition of whole forces in absolute secrecy; but the obscurity renders absolutely dangerous any attempt at a forward movement. When the curtain of mist is lifted the fighting may be resumed under totally ¢hanged conditions. Cg - Neither Disposed to Yield. St. Fetersburg, Oct. 24.—There is no change in the relative positions of the armies on the Shakhe river. Gen. ‘Sakharoff telegraphs that the Russians have been bombarding Lamuting and the Buddhist temple at Linshinpu, while the Japanese have been shellifg the Russian position: at Shakhe and near Linshinpu. A dispatch from Mukden reports that the Japanese are fortifying an important height south of Shakhe and ‘that neither side shows a disposition either to advance or retire. Another dispatch from the Russian front says the situation is not yet ripe for the resumption of the offensive. This meager but significant admission, all that the censor ailows to pass over the wires, doubtless indicates that Gen. Kuropatkin Js maturing important plans and distributing his forces in readiness for another attempt to break the Japanese resistance. The roads are now dried by wind and frost; the cold is intense and flocded fields have been frozen. Thus military movements are facilitated, though at the same time it will be more difficult to carry on entrenching work. i A Japs Driven from Shakhe.

Lieut. Gen. Sakharoff, in a dispatch to the general staff, says: ' “The retreat of the enemy from Shakhe was precipitate. We found in the village arms, munitions and provisions which had been abandoned by the Japanese, who also left behind on our old artillery position one cannon, four limbers and a wagon full of instruments they had previously cap.tured from us. Since the battle of October 16 we have captured altogether 14 Japanese guns, including nine field pieces and five mountain guns, #nd have retaken one of our own lost guns.” . Russian Loss 60,000. ' Tokio, Oct. 24.—Manchurian headquarters, reporting by telegraph, says that the number of Russian dead found on the battlefield and- interred up to October 22 makes a total of 10,550. Upon this total Russian «asualties are estimated to exceed 60,000. The Japanese captured a total of 45 guns during the Shahke operations. Entire Force Wounded.

~Mukden, Oct. 22. — Every man of the 200 Cossacks commanded by Capt Tousgenieff, who on Tuesday night reconnoitered the ‘Japanese, left southwestward, and- who, near Sandopu, unexpectedly encountered a good-sized Japanese force with machine guns, was wounded, and every horse, excépt Capt. Tourgenieff’s, was hit by the bullets

Former Tramp Gets $164,000. Knoxville, Tenn., Oct. 20.—T. E. Leroy, of Terre Haute, Ind., formerly a poor tramp, has sold an interest in a patent for connecting the ends of steel rails, or a substitute for the fishplate, to the New York Central railroad for $164,000. - i ~ Banker Dies. S Charles City, la., Oct. 20.—A. G. Case, president of the First national bank, died Wednesday- of pneumonia, aged 76. He was the most prominent banker of northern lowa. : " Sent to Prison. : Carmi, 111., Oct. 22.—John Robinson, who killed his’wife and brother-in-law, Sheppard Patterbury, was sentenced to imprisonment for 25 years. Robinson, who is blind, in a fit of jealousy shot and killed both his wife and brother-in-law several months ago. - Three Trainmen Killed. Geneva, N. Y., Oct. 22.—Two freight trains on the Pennsylvania division of the New York Central collided near this city Friday. Three trainmen, C. D: Rogers, Charles Hickey and Engineer Rouse, were killed.

froni the Japanese machine guns. Tourgenieff, though mortally wounded, carried off one man behind his saddle, while others managed to creep back to camp. . But, as already cabled, not one man was killed on the field. There is the greatest fear on the part'of the Russian wounded of falling into the hands of the Japanese, the Russians being convinced that they torture their prisoners. Still Shelling Port Arthur. St. Petersburg, 'Oct. 22. — News from Port Arthur brought to Chefoo by a junk which left there October 19 sayvs a fierce bombardment which began October 16 was still progressing without interruption. Many buildings had been damaged’ and ships in the harbor had also been hit by the Shells, but: the. character and extent of the damages are not stated. The Japanese main forces are now posted at Liudziatung. They have pladed guns of large caliber on lunjida mountain. The Russians continue making sorties successfully and inflicting heavy losses on the besiegers, -whose losses since -the commencement of the siege are said to have been 50,000. ’ . Russian Losses. Londen, Oct. 22.—The St. Petersburg correspondent of ‘the Daily Telegraph says that the Russian general staff has received from Gen. Kuropatkin a report showing that the total number of Russian wounded taken over by the Red Cross and kindred departments since the beginning of the battle to October 18 was 55,468. The number of killed is unknown exactly, because many men are yet missing, but the total is estimated to -have been 12,000. S Still Inactive. : St. Petersburg, Oct. 22.—The rival armies of Russia and Japan entrenched a short distance from each other south of the Shakhe river are forced to continued inactivity until the fine weather now prevailing dries the sodden ground and the tired warriors are sufficiently rested to resume operations. A dispatch from Mukden reports that the Russians .on Friday confined themselves toa bombardment of Shakhe station and the adjoining village of Lamatung, ‘the Japanese feebly responding. This news clears up an interesting point, and shows that Shakhe station is not held by the Russians. Russian correspondents report that some regiments of the Fifth Siberian corps have been engaged in slight skirmishes on the advance line the past few days. The fact that the First and Fifth Siberian were the only corps hitherto unmentioned in reports of the fighting on October 19 shows that Gen. Kuropatkin has sent the reserves to the trenches, giving other much tried corps a thorough rest. Meanwhile the Cossacks are ralding the Japanese lines. The -first. detachment of the Eighth corps has reached Harbin and the remainder is expected to reach that place within three weeks. Meanwhile three Poiish rifle brigades are beginning to start for the front. It is expected that this will provide 20,000 troops. By the time this force is started for the far east the Sixteenth corps, stationed at Vitebik, or the Second corps at Grodno, will be ready to start. ) Recent Events at Port Arthur.

Chefoo, Oct. 21.—The most important recent events at Port Arthur include the capture by the Japanese of further minor positions near Rihlung mountain and the severe damage of a Japanese torpedo boat destroyer by striking a floating mine. According to Chinese -advices which reached here Thursday, and which are confirmed in essential points by Japanese letters from Port Dalny, the Japanese made assaults on the remaining outer works of Rihlung mountain ‘at dawn October 8 and were repulsed. Thea following day the Russians made an attack on the Japanese trenches and they in turn were repulséd. -

Dropped Dead. . St. Louis, Oct. 21.—After taking a drink of icewater Isaiah E. Aultman, 52 years old, of Bryan, 0., dropped dead Wednesday in the United States government building at the world's fair grounds. : Prominent Financier Dead. New. York, Oct. 21.-—Charles Parsons, who had been at the head of many railroads, and one of the most prominent financiers of the country, is dead at his home here from heart disease. .. 2 : . Village Destroyed: 3 Gallatin, Tenn., Oct. 22.—The village of Bransford, on the Chesapeake & Nashville railroad, near here, was completely wiped out by fire Friday evening: The C. &N. depot, freight house and several box cars weré also .destroyed. Loss not estimated. Killed by a Friend. Corning, N. Y., Oct. 22.—George Spoor, aged 16 years, of Galeton, Pa., was shot and instantly killed at that place by Carl Carlson, a friend. * Carlson was an Indian and Spoor a cowboy in a Wild West show. g

SENDS TAFT TO PANAMA.

President Has Message of Assurance for People of New Re- . ‘ public. =

, Washington, Oct. 20.=~A" letter assuring the-people of Panama that the United States intends no aggressions toward the new republic was written Wednesday by the president. It is addressed to Secretary of War Taft, who is ordered to go to Panama to arrange with President Amador certdin differences that have arisen and to represent Mr. Roosevelt.

President Roosevelt declars there is no reason why the Panamanians should be alarmed over the establishing of a government on the canal strip and that it is not intended that in any way it shall be a rival to the little republic. He points out the great advantages that will accrue to Panama through the building of the canal. To destroy any suspicion as to the intention of the United States, the president explicitly says: “We have not the slightest intention of establishing an independent colony in the middle of the “state-of Panama or of exercising any greater governmental functions than are necessary to enable us conveniently and safely to construct, maintain and operate the canal under the rights given us by the treaty.” . .

In-addition the positive declaration is made that it is the intention of the United States to exercise proper* care for the honor and interest of Panama. the people of which should have no reason to doubt the purposes of this government.' President Roosevelt then states the specific object of Secretary Taft’s trip, which is to receive at first hand trustworthy information as to conditions on the isthmus. The letter further advises Secretary Taft that the earlier he makes the trip the better, but it is improbable that he will leave this city before November 14.

Panama, Oct. 21.—The news from Washington that Secretary of War Taft is to come to the isthmus next month. accompanied by Minister Obaldia and William Nelson Cromwell, counsel of the Panama Canal company, to arrange the matters in controversy -between the United States government and Panama and the declarations of President Roosevelt on thesubject, are received with satisfaction in all circles. President Amador is in receipt of messages of congratulation from all parts of this republic.

LEAPED TO HIS DEATH.

While Suffering from Nervous Trouble Noted Surgeon Jumps from Hospital Windew. i

Philadelphia, Oct. 21.—Suffering from acute nervous disorders, Dr. George H. Purviance, of Washington, D. C., assistant surgeon general of the marine hospital. service, jumped from the fourth story window of the Orthopaedic hospital in this city Thursday evening and was instantly killed. He was about 63 years old and came to the hospital August 8 to be treated for neuresthenia and general breakdown. A-aurse who attempted to prevent the doctor from leaping to the sidewalk had a thrilling escape from death. The nurse, who was closely watching the patient, saw him open a window on the fourth floor and step out on-a small balcony. She followed quickly and grasped the docfor on the shoulder as he was climbing over the balcony rail. He tried to free himself and then caught the nurse around the waist and was slowly dragging her over the rail, when she managed to break his hold. Before she eould again seize him the invalid plunged head foremost into an areaway below the sidewalk. We was dead when picked up.

CHILDREN PERISH.

Aid Society’s Home at Shelbyville, 111., Burns—Two Lives Are i Lost.

Shelbyville, 111., Oct. 20.—The Middleswork home of the Children’s legome and Aid society here was destroyéd by fire Wednesday, and although the flames were discovered while the children were asleep all but two were rescued.

The dead: Alfred Peterson, nine years old; Charles Peterson, 11 years old. .

There were 31 children sleeping in the upper rooms of the home, which was a three-story frameand brick building. One of the older boys was aroused by the smell of smoke and gave the alarm. The children rushed to the stairways, but before all had escaped the flames and smoke cut off that means of egress, and several children reached the ground by leaping from the upper windows to the roof of an extension to the building. It is believed that the two children who were burned were overcome by the smoke in their beds, as they had evidently made no effort to escape. 5 ;

New Inspector Named. Wadshington, Oct. 20.—President Roosevelt Wednesday appointed Ira Harris as supervising inspector of the steamboat inspection service of the Second district of New York, in place of Robert S. Rodie, removed. ; Inspectors Appointed. % Washington, Oct. 21.—Capt. Henry M. Seeley, of Boston, has been appointed inspector of hulls, and Theodore T. Mersereau inspector of hoilers in the steamboat inspection service at New York. These appointments are one of the -results of the conclusions of the Slocum disaster commission, the appointees taking the places of Messrs. James A. Dumont, inspector eof hulls, and Thomas H. Barrett, inspector of - boilers, whose regnoval from the ser“ice for laxity and neglect in performing their duties has been dirécted by President, Roosevelt. ~ _ » ~ Princess Is Buried. Madrid, Oct. 19.—The princess of the Asturias, sister of King Alfonso and wife of Prince Charles of Bourbon, who died Monday after giving birth to a daughter the day before, was buried in the Escurial Wednesday with great ceremony. The route to the railroad station was lined by troops. Minute guns marked the progress of the funernl’ procession from the palace’ and the bells of all the churches were tolled. The enormous crowd which thronged the streets exhibited the keenest sympathy. R o