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or Failures Than for {Many Years
During September.
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New York, Oct. 1.-—Failures I! Sep-.
tember have been about $6.700,000, and
for the quarter about $22,375,000. No
report covering the exact. month or
quarter is possible this week for a jour-
nal which must go to press on Friday,
the 30th, but the returns indicate a
smaller aggregate of failures than in
any other month in many years except
in August of this year, and smaller
for the quarter than in any other quar-
ter since 1892. ‘ ,.
Changes are all for the better except-
ing the fall of cotton to the lowest point
for fifty years, and even the lowest
prices of 1848, considering difference of
qualities, were perhapsnot lower than
prices this week. ,
While the stagnation in wool contin-
ues, with sales even smaller than in
“the same montlrof the panic year, 1393,
numerous mills have started tempora-
rily in order to get out sample pieces.
The demand for boots and shoes
seems a little better, and recorded ship-
ments have beeen larger than‘ in Sep-
tember of any previous year except the
last, and larger than in any'other year
from January 1 to date.
With pig iron firm everywhere, in
spite of the extraordinary output, and
Bessemer held at $10.40 at Pittsburg,
whaze Valley producers report 230,000
to: 3 sold for delivery before June next,
tr» consumption is evidently growing.
Jar, locomotive, bridge andstructu-
r-i work is exceedingly heavy, and
i :ere are signs of decrease in the de-
J and.
Wheat rose 2 1-2 cents, but on Thurs
day declined sharply, closing two cents
lower for the week, notwithstanding
very heavy exports, amounting for the
week to 4,911,022 bushels against 5,092,-
‘186 last year, and for four weeks to
15,011,962 bushels, against 20,661,315 last
year, flour included.
Corn is a fraction lower, with some
decrease in export demand, though the
recent shipments would have been con-
sidered heavy in any year until the
last, and can hardly be continued long.
Foreign commerce has been a. little
smaller in exports and larger in im-
ports, and yet the returns from New
York still indicate another heavy ex-
cess of exports, probably about $54,-
000,000 for the month, making $114,000,-
000 for the quarter. Shipments 'of gold
to this country have been $17,325,000
since the movement began, of which
$5,750,000 is nearly due, and lower rates
for money here ’are naturally followed
by an increase of about a third in the
proportion of Commercial loans taken
.by the leading banks. ' '
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.GEN. MERRITT’S REPORT.
"The Conditions Tliut- Met Film at Manila
Previous to the Armistice.
VVashingtofi‘, Oct. 1.—The report of
'- Major General W'esley Merritt of his
«operations about Manila'was made pub-
.llic at the war department yesterday.
:IIt is dated on board the transport Chi-
sna, August 31, and after giving briefly
‘xthe story of his embarkation and arri-
xval at Manila, and the disposition of
the troops there, he says:
“I found General Greene’s command
encamped on a strip of sandy land
running parallel to the shore of the
bay and not‘far distant from the beach,
but owing to the great difficulties of
ianding supplies, the greater portion
of the force had shelter tents only, and
.Were suffering many discomforts, the
camp being situated in a low, flat place
without shelter from the heat of the
tropical sun or adequate protection
during the terrific downpours of rain
so frequent at this season of the
year.
“I was at once struck by the exem—
plary spirit of patient, even cheerful
endurance shown by the officers and
men under such circumstances, and
this feeling of admiration for the man-
ner in which the American soldier—
vclunteer and regular alike—eccepts the
necessary hardships of the work he has
undertaken to'do has grown and in-
creased with every phase of the diffi-
cult and trying campaign which the
troops of the Philippine expedition
have brought to such a brilliant and
successful conclusion.
“As General Aguinaldo did not visit
:me on my arrival nor proffer his ser-
vices as a subordinate military leader,
and as my instructions from the presi-
dent fully contemplated the occupa—
tion of the islands by the AmeriCan
land forces, and stated that the pow-
ers of the military occupant are ab-
.solute and supreme, and immediately
operate upon the political condition of
the inhabitants, I did not consider it
wise to hold any direct communication
with the insurgent leader until I should
be in possession of the city of Manila,
especially as I would not until then
be in a position to issue a proclama-
tion and enforce my authority in the
event that his pretensions should clash
with my designs.
“For these reasons the preparations
:for the’attack on the city were pres--
:sed and military operations conducted
without reference to the situation .of
the insurgent forces.
THE WAR INQUIRY.
Gen. Lee to Appear Before the Commis-
sion.
Washington, Oct. 1.—-The war inves-
‘7tigating commission has. decided to
.ask General Lee to follow General
Wheeler in giving testimony concern-
:ing the charges made against the war
department, and suggested Wednes-
day of next week as a date when he
~could be heard.
General Wheeler will be before the
(commission on Tuesday, and will be
interrogated both about Camp Wikol‘f
.and the Santiago campaign, the ex-
amination concerning Santiago cover-
ing especially the facilities fer caring
for the sick and wounded, and the pre-
cautions taken to preserve the health
of the men in the trenches.
The commissioners say that their
purpose is to make a very complete in—
vestigation of these features of the
Santiago siege, but ice Chairman
'Denby said yesterday that the pblicy
of calling General Miles or General
'Shafter had not been under considera-
tion. The decision to call General Lee
also at an early date was reached yes-
terday because of the knowledge of the
fact that he is in the city'an’d is liable
. soon to be ordered to Cuba.
Crown Prince of Cores Iii.
Yokohama, Oct. 1.—Advices received
here from Seoul .say that the Crown
.Prince of Cores. is seriously ill.
THE PEACE COMMISSION.
érep rations for the Final Negotiations.
Paris, Oct. ”L—The United States
peace commission has taken possession
of its working quarters, a suite of
seven rooms on the ground floor of the
Hotel Cjitinental. at the corner of the
Rue de Rivoli and the Rue Royal,
commanding the Tuilleries gardens,
and formerly used by the ex-Empress
Eugenie. Later they were occupied by
the Behring sea commission and by
United States Commissioner Peck, who
has just moved into his offices on the
Exposition grounds. American flags
drape the entrance of the peace, com-
mission’s apartments.
The clerical force of the commission
has been systematized and is, now
working busily. ., ‘
The spirit of the Paris press is daily
rendered into English for the informa-
tion of the commissioners, and the
same thing is done with the newspa-
pers of Madrid.
Many wooden boxes of records, data
and authorities affecting the case of
the United States were unpacked yes-
terday and carefully arranged.
The Spanish commissioners formally,
deny the various interviews andpara-
graphs purporting to give the subs-
tance of their instructions, which have
appeared in the newspapers. The sec-
retary of the Spanish commission said
to the representative of the Associated
Press, with the American commission:
“No member of our commission has
given any interview, and all which
rhave appeared in print as to our in—
structions are false. We are here to
defend ourselves, and, naturally, we
are not willing to give any of our
Weapons to our opponents."
REPORTS, FROM MANILA-
?tis Says He Needs Nothing. Deway
Praises the Climate.
Washington, Oct. 1.—The following
telegram from Major General Otis has
been received at the war department:
“Replying telegram twenty-first,
state necessary qualifications made in
rations by telegraphic authority com-
missary general, September 19. Care-
fully considered clothing and just as-
certained amounts here‘and to arrive.
Light quality manufactured here and
at Hong Kong obtained at Cheap rates.
Will soon be abundantly supplied with
clothing suitable. tozclimate. Nothing
needed. ' ' OTIS.’
The following statement‘made by Ad-
miral Dewey with reference to the con-
dition of the United States troops at
Manila was also given out by the navy
department:
, “As Luzon is the farthest north of
the large islands, its climate is natu-
rally the most temperate. In this con-
nection it may ’be'mentioned that out
of a force of two thousand on the ships
of my squadron, the number of men on
the sick list at, any time; has not ex-
ceeded forty, nor has there been any
considerable sickness among our troops
on shore, thoughv'they were much ex-.
posed for three weeks in the trenches
during the rainy season. . _ '
”As a matter 'of fact Manila is far
from being an unhealthy city, and the
climate is as fine as that of any place
in the tropics.”
To BRING SICK HOME.
Will Be Removed from Porto Rico as
Soon as Possible.
Washington, Oct. 1.-—The war depart—
ment has posted the folloWing:
The president has given instructions
that all the sick at Porto Rico be sent
North as soon as they are able to travel
with safety, his purpose being to re-
lieve General Brooke of the further
care of the sick, and at the same time».
enable the men to receive the treatment
hospitals.
These men will be furloughcd, as in
go. .
About seven hundred left yesterdajx
on the transports Relief and Missou-
rx.
In conformity with the above, the
quartermaster’s department issued or-
ders to the officers having charge of
the shipping at New York, telling them
to send ships to Ponce equipped for
carrying the sick to this country.
Cite to Get a New Name.
New York. Oct. 1.——So many protests
against the use of the name and em~
blem of the Cits’ Union have poured
in on the men who are trying to put
an independent state, ticket in the field
adopt a new name and emb‘lem.
In a letter sefiyesterday afternoon
to the executive committee of the un-
ion, the Cits announce that they will
proceed soon to 'call themselves the
Citizens' State party, and will employ
a beehive for theiremblem.
Nicaragua Canal.
canal commission has opened head—
quarters inWashington in_ a part of
9.1 months the final study of the data
gathered by the engineers will be made.
and a report prepared for submission
to congress and the country. ‘
ternative propositions and so give the
country a. chance to decide which plan,
\if any. is prefefred. ..
Influx-g onto to Dibbnud.
Havana, Oct. 1.—-The secretary of the
Spanish military commission has de-
livered several documents to the Am-
erican commission at the Trocha hotel,
the present headquarters of the Amer-
ican party.
General Maximo Gomez. in an inter-
view at Camp Rojas, province of Santa
Clara, is quoted as saying that the in-
surgent forces will disband and apply
themselves to farm labor as soon as
the Spanish troops have evacuated the
island." ~
Fashionable Earrings.
The latest fashion news from tho
jewellers is that Paris and London
lapidaries are making history repeat
itself in the setting forth of ear-rings;
not the little drOp screws and knobs so
long worn, but the pendant, Victorian
ornaments, such'as her Majesty wore
in her young days, and still elects
when it pleases her. These barbaric-
looking accessories are no more likely
than theVlctorian bonnet, which was
donned. by- so few women that wearing
it rendered them exceedingly conspic-
uous. .
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A BAD UV bTRUMENT.
- By C. A. E. King, U. S. N.
_ Surveying a tropical ocean in June
in a vessel of the old navy. always un-
der steam, is not the lightest duty that
naval men are called upon to perform.
so it is little wander that when the
sloop of war Alert reached Yokoha-
ma after a long tour of this service,
several of her officers were down with
sickness. So their places were filled
by others, drawn from the ships of the
squadron, pro 'isions' laid in and prep-
arations made to return south to the
scene of her labors, the survey of Brit-
omart Reef.
This reef, reported and placed upon
the charts long ago, had been the ter-
ror of merchant skippers for years. It
lay in the Pacific ocean. somewhere
between the Benin Islands and the
. Ladrones. Its exact location was in
doubt.
There was great bustle of prepara-
tion on board the stanch little ship as
stares and coal were taken on board
The caterer of the junior oflicers‘
mess had told his messmates that a
pleasant surprise awaited them when
Guam should be reached, for that isl—
and, over which our flag now flies,
was to be our furthest-stopping place,
and there under the “blood and gold"
of Spain we were to learn the secret
of all his smiles and pleasantries. So
we cheerfully chipped in our hard
earned silver dollars for meSS stores,
which Uncle Sam, with unappreciative
acuteness, thinks his officers better'
able to buy than himself.
Shortly after we had sailed canned
peaches came to be plentiful on the
mess table, so that we had them
stewed for breakfast, cold for tiifin
andbaked into pics for dinner. In fact,
canned peaches soon came to be our
principal diet, until we tore our hair
and hurled abusive epithets at our
smiling mate, the caterer. His appe-
tite for peaches never palled, and for
all the abuse lie would only say:—
“Walt until we get to Guam” and had
as if to say, “When Guam is reached
how remorseful you will all be for
this treatment of me.” . ,
All things come to an end at last.
and one night the navigator told us we
would see the ohoresorGuam at sun-
rise in the morning. What a joyful
prospect it was to know that we
would touch the green earth once
more and learn the mate’s tantalizing
secret! [
The ocean and sky grew ugly, that
night, and by ten o’clock we were
pitching and tossing in a fearful sea
that threatened to lay us onour beam
ends. The heat was terrific, for it was
a “black storm,” and there was not a
breath of Wind, and one poor fireman,
crazed with heat and work, rushed up
from below and threw himself into
the inky waters. Away went the life-
boat, and into it a fearless crew, but
we never saw the man again, and it
was with the greatest difficulty that
we recovered the boat’s crew aftertwo
hours of hard battling with the waves.
We were in the (lead centre of a
whirling storm, and the greatest inten-
sity and danger seemed to lie toward
our haven—Guam.‘ The skipper, one
of the best that ever trod a quarter-
obtain-abie in the better a ointed home - ,
pp ‘ dawn the Wind burst upon us we were
cases of those returning from Santia- :
this fall that they have decided to ,
XVashington, 0ct. 1.—The Nicaragua ~
the old Page hotel, and here for sever- :
This will be ready by the first of .
December, and will present several al- '
to succeed: on this side of the water .
deck, was a wise man,'and gave orders
to work about slowly and steam easily
'——away from Guam! All night we Ia-
bored to save the ship, and when at
ready to make a brave struggle for life.
And so we pulled through at last,
many, many miles to the north of
Guam, and when the sea went down
’no order came to turn to the south-
ward again.
We pushed along to the north hour
:after hour, and. as the time went by
5 the mate’s smiling face grew dark and
Igloomy, melancholy and sad, and we
, pined for the secret we were to have
' known in Guam.- .
Still the canned peaches fed our hun-
‘ gry months at every meal; peaches
morning, noon and night, until our pa-
tience was utterly exhausted, and we
' resolved to wreak vengeance on the
mate and wring from him his secret.
We put our heads together one day
at tiflin and refused to eat the peaches,
and demanded to know, with one
voice, why we had nothing but peach-
es, and what was the gladsome secret
_' that we we would have had revealed
‘ had the skipper taken us to Guam.
. The mate implored, we insisted, un-
' til at last, with tearful face and voice,
be told us this'tale of woez—“You see,”
he said, in deep, funereal voice, “it
was this way. I had heard that neith-
3er the Spaniards nor the natives of
IGuam had ever tasted the sweetness
of canned peaches, and so I thought
that if I bought a lot of it and took it
with us we could sell the stuff for its
1 weight in Spansh pesetas at the island
land make ourselves a lit-tie fortune.
So” (and here he shrunk from Dr.
Jekyll to Mr. Hyde).“I put all the mess
money in canned peaches—and we
didn’t go to Guam-and, oh, Lord!
there is nothing left to eat but canned
peaches.”
Ominous mutterings and savage
looks thereafter greeted each appear-
ance‘of the 'ruined speculator who had
staked his all (and ours) on peaches
and had lost. , -
Yokohama and areal dinner were
many miles 'nway, but both were
reached at last, and as we pledged
each other in yellow wine at the Union
Club the night of our arrival our
hearts softened. and we had even a
kind thought of ,_ the wretched mate
and his most disastrous secret_
this young author as a marvel of
courtesy or a phenomenal specimen
of assurance," said the magazine edi»
tor's assistant.
.“What has he done?” . '
“Enclosed a stamp to be put on the
check .in payment. for his article."—
gwiishington Star.
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Wadi.
“I don’t know whether to‘regnrd.
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- in my condemnation.‘ Then I sank into
, the world never saw before. The story
achievements and her extravagances,
-wfiich may pass for love, and a tiger-
-tred or revenge.
disputes her place as the first of liv-
family. She says that it was her let-
the country parsonage on Sunday
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DISCLAIMED. THE STAGE.
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Bernhardt Says She W'as Born To Be I
Pair-tor and Nothing- Else.
It seems to be given to few mortals
to succeed in the line of life which
they most love. Even'the greatest act-
ress of her time, Bernhardt, named of'
the public the divine, says: “I have
never thought that I was born to be
an actress. I was born to be a painter
and nothing else. Of all things in this
world I love painting best. Circum-
stances made an actress of me; first,
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a very poor actress, for all the critics -
could not have been mistaken, and
there was not one who did not join
comparative obscurity, but I worket.
What was before me I did not like,
but I would not consent to being a
failure.”
The real genius is the one who is»
strong to conquer environment, and so,
because the little, thin, red haired girl
made up her young mind to do the
best she could with a-profession not
wholly congenial, Mme. Bernhardt is
such a Camille, a Theodora, Fedora,
Cleopatra, Adrienne, Izeyl, Donna Sol.
Marie de Neuberg and Lorenzeccio as
of Bernhardt is familiar—how she
trembled before the tribunal of the
Comedic Francaise, and afterward be
came its chief glory and la grands
tragedienne. Her eccentricities, her
violent outbursts of temper, her brus.
querie and her fine diplomatic feeling,
MME. BERNHARDT.
*ier moral peccadilios, her artistic
have been the talk of the civilized
world. She is upward of 50 and a
grandmother, but age has not even
lined her face. It has been said that
great as Bernhardt is, she has only
two notes—a feline caressingness,
is'h passion, which does duty for ha.
For all that, no one
ing actresses. Millions of dollars she
has earned, yet she has not grown
rich, and probably all she owns in the
world is a summer home on the rock-
bound coast of her beloved Brittany.
SHE WROTE THE PRESIDENT.
Wanted Her Papa Who Had Killed the
Spanish Men, To Come Home. .
Marguerite, when she learned that
her father was at Camp \Vikofi and
that she could not see him, wrote a
letter to President McKinley. This
letter was written and mailed without
the knowledge of any member of her
ter which brought her father home.
The letter reads:
“Mr. President: Please send my papa
home. I have not seen him since he
went with Uncle Sam to kill the Span-
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ish men. He has done what you want-
ed and I am crying for him to come
home. I love him and will send you
a kiss for sending him to me and
mamma.
Your friend,
“MARGUERITE WEED.”
“153 Madison ave., New York City."
, A Responsive Hoar-er.
Guests had arrived unexpectedly at
morning. The weekly supply of but-
ter had run short, so the hospitable
host dispatched old Joe, the coloi'ed
- man, to his neighbor, Mr. Paul, whose ;
dairy always boasted a surplus. , The
person proceeded to the church with
his well-prepared sermon on some of
the best sayings of the great apostle,
and was well under way with it when
old Joe, returningem-pty-handed, con
cluded he would quietly slip in and
hear his master preach. (Just as he
entered, the preacher stretched forth
his hand in a most impressive inter-
rogation of voice and manner, and
called out: “And what did Paul say?”
Distinctly sounded through the church
old Joe’s reply: “He say, Marster, he
ain’t goin’ to let you have no more
butter till you pay for dat last you
got.”
"This is the fourth time you have
asked me to marry you," said Miss
Cayenne, rather impatiently. “How
often doyou wish me to refuse you?
. “We‘ll,” replied" Willie Wishington,
"I think. three-times quite sufficient."
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