October 5.-The body of Emile Zola is buried at Paris, with impressive ceremonies....Capt. John J. Pershing's column completes a successful campaign against the Moros, in the island of Mindanao, P. I., having killed or wounded a hundred of them and captured or destroyed 140 forts; the Sultan of Cabugatan is among the dead.

October 6.-The Canadian-Australian cable is reported laid from Vancouver to Fanning Island, a distance of 3,455 nautical miles.

October 9.-At the national encampment of the G. A. R., at Washington, D. C., Gen. Thomas J. Stewart is elected commander-in-chief....The Nebraska Supreme Court decides that the reading of the Bible, supplication to the Deity, and singing of sacred songs in the public schools are prohibited by the State constitution.... Col. Carroll D. Wright is inaugurated as president of Clark College, the undergraduate department of Clark University, at Worcester, Mass. (See page 548).

October 12.-The Sultan of Bacolod, of Mindanao, P. I., rejects the friendly offers of Commander Sumner, of the American forces.

October 16.-The corner stone of a memorial to the missionary victims of the Boxer uprising in China is laid at Oberlin, Ohio, under the auspices of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions.

October 17.-Secretary Shaw authorizes the purchase by the Treasury Department of 4 per cent. bonds of 1925 at 1374 and interest.... Dr. Frank Strong is inaugurated as chancellor of the University of Kansas.

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September 22.-Prof.

September 29.-General von Gossler, formerly Prussian Minister of War, 62....Emile Zola, the French novelist, 62.

October 1.-Rear-Admiral James E. Jouett, U.S.N., retired, 74....Dr. John Byrne, the eminent gynecologist, 77.

October 2.-Frank Jones, ex-Congressman from New Hampshire, 70.

October 3.-General Bela M. Hughes, a noted character in the early history of the West, 86.... Ex-Judge Mason B. Loomis, a well-known jurist of Chicago, 67. October 4.-Zebulon Stiles Ely, a New York philanthropist, 83.

October 6.-Canon George Rawlinson, of Canterbury, England, 90....Dr. Abel M. Phelps, of New York, an orthopedic specialist, 51.

October 7.-Ex-Congressman William Wallace Grout, of Vermont, 66.

October 8.-John Hall Gladstone, the English scientist, 75.... Brig.-Gen. Hugh H. Abernethy, of Jersey City, N. J., 60.

October 12.-Frederick A. Keener, a prominent citizen of Denver, 75.

October 13.-Major John F. O'Brien, a well-known business man of Louisville and a Confederate veteran, 62....Dr. Elvira Ranier, of Oswego, N. Y., a prominent New York woman physician, 55....Dr. William Riddick Whitehead, of Denver, Col., a distinguished physician and medical author, 70. October 14. Sir John George Bourinot, clerk of the Canadian House of Commons, 75.

Christopher Ernest Luthardt, a noted orthodox theologian, of Germany, 80.

September 23.-Major J. W. Powell, the eminent naturalist, 68.

September 24.-Senhor Silvano Drandao, Vice-President of Brazil.

September 25.-Capt. Lamont G. Burnham, a wellknown Boston merchant, 58....Isaac A. Singer, of the Singer Manufacturing Company, 65....Justice A. H. Ellis, of the Kansas Supreme Court....Rev. Dr. George A. Archibald, of Covington, Ky.

September 26.-John Latey, the London editor, 60.... Count Giuseppe Dassi, one of the most prominent Italians in the United States, 80....Mrs. C. A. Pillsbury, of Minneapolis, 67.

September 27.-Gen. Francis J. Lippitt, a lawyer and

October 15.-The Very Rev. Monsignor Connolly, of St. John, N. B., 80....John A. Dillon, leading editorial writer of the New York Evening World, 59.... RearAdmiral Thomas O. Selfridge, Sr., U.S.N., retired, 98. ....Lieut.-Col. Charles Porter, U.S.A., retired, 64.

October 16.-The Rev. Frederick Munson, a retired Congregational clergyman of Brooklyn, N. Y., 85.... Col. Charles Anthony, of Springfield, Ohio, a veteran of the Civil War.... Charles Henry Ham, of Montclair, N. J., formerly editorial writer and appraiser in Chicago, 71.

October 17.-Joseph A. Dean, of New York, one of the pioneers in the linseed oil business, 82.

October 18.-Prof. James A. Mitchell, of the faculty of St. Mary's College, Maryland, 48.

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HE cartoonists of the country were at their best last month when the coal strike, in its various phases, was the one topic that absorbed public attention. No possible selection of a dozen or a score of these drawings can convey much idea of the variety and the cleverness displayed in the work of twenty-five or thirty caricaturists, each one of whom drew enough coal-strike cartoons to fill up our entire department. While the cartoonists almost invariably favored arbitration of the dispute, and represented in the main the rights of the

public rather than those of either of the contesting parties, their sympathies were overwhelmingly with the strikers as against the operators. Yet, on the other hand, the greater part of their work showed good temper. Their admonitions to the coal-road presidents were not meant to be offensive or to leave any permanent sting. Mr. Bush, in the cartoon on this page, expresses the general sentiment respecting the desirability of arbitration from all points of view. This picture, we hope, symbolizes future harmony in the coal regions.