Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 October 1894 — Page 12

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1894.

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THE SUNDAY JOURNAL SUNDAY. OCTOnKK 7. 1P94. WASHINGTON CFFICE-U10 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE

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SJLW ui:K GilM.-y HoiiMaiid Windsor JIoteL riULADELl'IIIA-A. T. Kembl. 3735 Lancaster art line. CHICAGO Talnitr llouite. Auditorium Hotel. CI2CI' N ATI-J. E. II a w ley A Co.. 1 51 Vine street. LOUISVILLE C. T. Drering, northwest corner of TLml aiiil JtffiTWtfi etrtets. fcT. LOUIS Union New Compaiiy. Union D pot. Washington. i. c tugs iioao andEouut SIXTEEN PAGES Thus far the wool markets of the world ,s?em not to be convulsed by the prediction of Daniel Wolsey Voorhees. When the vote in Georgia, as counted by the ofiicials who revise the voting-, shall be announced, the Democratic ticket will have a. majority expressed by five figures. If Senator Yoorhees does not accept that Philadelphia offer to engage in the wool business he will miss the greatest opportunity of his life to make a fortune. That will be a big barbecue in this State on Tuesday, Nov. C, when the people will rip the Democratic party up, the back and roast it on the gridiron of public opinion. It Is announced that Senator Voorhees will read his piece at Mr.nsfield, O., on the 15th inst. Teople thereabout wiio are afflicted with insomnia are Advised to hear It. John Sherman regards corn as the greatest blessing- conferred upon the world by America because it is the basis of so many nourishing foods. lie probably rejects the claim that the more corn, the more whisky, and so on. Connecticut women did not turn out to vote for school officers on Tuesday as they did last year, when the right to vote was a novelty. Does this mean that women will not be every-year voters when they acquire full suffrage? The showing which China is making should allay the alarms of those excellent persons who have seen In her many millions of people and great capacity to imitate a power which some day would start out to conquer Christian nations. It will be an excellent thing if citizens who have thousands of dollars which they can spare would start a park system, but until thousands of men who are'struggling to save the homes which they built under the prosperous period rrior to 1S03 have larger employrnenf. and wages, it would be simply cruel to increase taxation for that purpose. Engineer James Root, of4 Minnesota forest fire fame, has succumbed to the inevitable and signed a contract to appear as the here of a sensational drama entitled "A Ride for Life," which Is about to be presented in New York. Roofs bravery deserves substantial recognition, but one could wish it might have come in some ther way. r ' Dr. Edward Vincent, of Springfieid, TIL, the surgeon and ethnologist of the Peary expedition, has just reached home from his Arctic Journey. He regrets the breaking out of a controversy relative to the management of the expedition, but fully confirms the statements which have been made relative to Lieutenant Peary's illjudged and arbitrary methods. Two of the strongest -labor unions In Great Britain have denounced the resolutions adopted at the recent trade union congress in England as "the dreamy ideas of advanced Socialists, which, if put in practice, would be a curse to labor by X'laclng it in a condition of abject dependence upon government." Such resolutions have been passed in this country, but Intelligent organizations seem to regard them as mere froth. While societies in other States are collecting the history they made in the war for the Union, little has been done or is t-eing done In Indiana. Th? troops Indiana contributed to the several armies, and the part these troop3 took in the campaigns and battles of those armies would be a valuable contribution to the heroic history of the State. If no organisation Is in existence which can take up this work for Indiana, one should be formed for that purpose. One of the amendments agreed to by the New York constitutional convention for rubmisslon tj the peorle provides that the Legislature may abolish the ofUce of coroner, and it Is believed the amendment will be adopted by the peopl and carried out by the Legislature. Some provision will, of course, have to be made for the performance of the coroner's duties, but this can be done without difficulty. The office was borrowed from the English system, and is a relic of the colonial period. Its legitimate use has become so overgrown with abuses, not only la New York but elsewhere, that the abolition of the office Is a ubject worthy of general attention. The deplorable catastrophe at Detroit, fn which several firemen lost their lives by the falling of a defective building, cjosely resembles In some rerpects the accident which occurred at the Bowen-Merrill fire In this city several years ago. In this case as in that the chief or the fire department U leverely censured for puttlns the men

In what proved to be a fatal position. Hindsight is far better than foresight. If a fire chief could foresee such accidents he would avoid them, but if he never sent his men Into places of danger he would be denounced as a coward and incompetent. It Is of the essence of fire service that danger should be Incurred, and no chief should be censured for not foreseeing that which is beyond human foresight. war talk iietweex fraxce axd EX G LAM).

It is not probable that the "war, cloud" that is hovering over France and Great Britain will be condensed to an extent that actual war will occur. Wars between civilized nations are rather out of date. It is much safer to subjugate tribes in Africa or conquer the effete nationalities of the East, like Egypt. Great Britain will bluster for a time and finally retire under, some pretext. So far as the merits of the dispute are concerned, they seem to be with France. Great Britain has conceded a French protectorate in Madagascar In exchange for benefits received from France. Therefore, It may be assumed that Great Britain is pettifogging over the meaning of whata protectorate is, in expectation of further concessions. If, however, those nations should decide to go to war, one must not take it for granted that Great Britain would have the best of it. France has not only the best army, but it has a navy Inferior to Great Britain only in numbers, but equal If not superior in the type of its armored ships. Not long since Lord Beresford frightened England for a few days by telling Parliament that France and Russia were gaining enormously in naval strength. The harbors of France have unequaled defenses and its railroads make rapid concentration easy. Not long since France tried the experiment of mobilizing its army, and the result was a marvelous nuccess. On the other hand. Great Britain's colonies would be a source of weakness in the event of war rather than of strength, while its widely" scattered commerce would be, for a time, a prey to such cruisers as France could s?nd out. France Is self-feeding; but If its ships were crippled, England would be out of bread in two or three months. All these things leing better known to British statesmen than to the world. Great 4 Britain will find some means of continuing Its policy of fifty years, which Is to keep out of war with a nation nearly its equal unless it has allies who can furnish armies. While the United States could not take part In such a struggle, the sympathy of the American people would go to the republic rather than to the empire, as it went to Germany as against France when the regime of Napoleon III was destroyed. CAX RAILROAD RATES II Ii CHEAPEXED? "Can railroad rates be cheapened?" is the question which Mr. Newcomb, who has for several years been in the service of the bureau of rates and transportation of the Interstate-commerce Commission, discusses In the Forum. He starts out wltn a presentation of. the statistics, showing that the larger part of the railroad property of the United States is not one which offers attraction to the average investor. During the decade which ended with 1S03, 74,313 miles of railway, capitalized at $3,S33,371,000, passed Into the hands of receivers. At the close of 1S93, 40,273 miles of railway, capitalized at $2,217,&G.OOO, or 21 per cent, cf the railway capital of the country were operated by receivers. From 1S76 to the clse of 1S33, 57,283 miles of railway, capitalized at $3,2C9.126.Q30, were sold under foreclosure. During 1S33 railway stocks having a par value of $2,8o3,33I,372, or 61.24 per cent, of the total railway stock, received no dividends, and $132,276,593 of mortgage and $2U,SC4,2tf) of income bonds tiefaulted their interest. The average return to capital of all classes invested in railroads during the prosperous year of 1892 was 3.33 per cent. At the same time the dividends per mile have fallen from $1,263 in 1S71 to 72 a mile in 1S32. At the same time rates of transportation have decreased, the average rate per ton a mile having fallen from 1.001 cents to .878 of 1 cent, and passenger rates per mile from 2.313 cents to 2.108 cents during the past six years. While these reductions seem inconsiderable, they saved the public during the year 1S93 1115,113,377 on freight and $34,232,134 on passenger traffic, which is 43 per cent more than all dividends paid during the same period. The writer seems to allow that these figures show that rates cannot be materially cheapened if the railway shall be run in the future as at the present time. He, however, calls attention to a number of useless expenditures Incident to the struggle between competing lines, such as the paying of large commissions to obtain business and the maintenance of a large number of outside agencies and traveling agents occupied In securing and "routing" passengers' and freight. In a sin;le year when there were no rate wars, four roads operating westward from Chicago paid $1,2S3,3S3 for maintaining outside agencies, and one road from New York expended $871,231 for the same purpose. The aggregate paid by all road3 to agencies and as commissions is very large. There is much waste from the competition of long and circuitous routes with shorter and natural ones. Between New York and New Orleans there are ninety-four all-rail routes, the shortest being 1.340 and the longest 2,031 miles. At the basis per mile per ton of the Interstate Commission, the cost of a carload of 24,000 pounds will be $77.13 by the shorter and $118.1t by the longer. There are scores of such competing routes which carry freight at the same cost, and yet the mileage of some of them is nearly double that of the shortest. The longer roads must haul such freight at a loss and must take a period in which to do It which must be detrimental to the shipper. Railroad revenues, again, are wasted by maintaining wholly unnecessary competitive trains. Between Chicago and Omaha eleven trains axe run dally each way except Sunday. As there are nly about 200 passengers per diem each way,' the public could be as well served with half the trains and the roads would save $1,323,20 a year. Extend the calculations to other through lines running double the trains needed, and the total which could be saved would

make some comparatively worthless roads paying property. The same saving might be made by running full freight, trains. 4 ...... Separate and duplicate organizations are wasteful The remedies suggested In part are pooling and consolidation. This - suggestion will frighten the picket-line anti-monopolist, but the writer, who has the best opportunities, for observation, believes, that pooling and consolidation would cheapen the cost of transportation by shipment over the shortest routes, do away with the empty car service and the maintenance of costly organizations and agencies.

AS TO TIIK WIIIITIXG POST. The recent convention of humane societies in Albany, N. Y., adopted a resolution Instructing the committee on" legislation to prepare and submit to the Legislaturean amendment to the penal code providing, in cases of gross acts of cruelty to children, for the infliction of corporal punishment on male offenders, In addition 'to the existing penalties now provided by law. It seems somewhat surprising to find humane societies moving in favor of 'the establishment of a form of punishment which is commonly regarded , as barbarous and 'inhuman, yet the' movement is : defensible-on rational grounds. In the first place, it Is' worth while to Inquire whether whipping is really a barbarous' form of Qunishment. If it be so It must be either because it Is unnecessarily painful or because it is humiliating to the recipient. That it is painful may be freely admitted. and the advocates of whipping seem to re gard that as a strong reason In its favor. They aver that the object of the punish ment of crime is to deter vicious persons similarly disposed from repeating the of fense; that there is nothing the brute dreads as much as he does physical pain, and that if the law inflicted that upon the brute It would be the strongest possible deterrent. It is claimed that In the State of Delaware, where the whipping post is resorted to as a punishment for minor offenses, there are fewer criminals in pro portion to the population than in any other State in the Union. It is very questionable whether the efforts of modern philanthropists to eliminate the element of pain from the punishment of evil doers has not contributed materially to the Increase of crime. The other suggestion, namely, that corporal punishment is humiliating to the recipient and destructive of manhood, seems far fetched. All punishment is or should be humiliating to the recipient In the sense of being productive of remorse and conducive to repentance. The first step toward the reformation of a criminal 'or wrong doer is to make him feel that he. has Incurred a righteous penalty by his acts and ought, to suffer therefor, and this can hardly be done without humiliating him. Indeed, it is a question if any punishment is efficacious or reformatory that does not humiliate. As to the destruction of manhood, there is so little of that left in many criminals, and especially In habit-, r.al wife and children whlnpers, that it ,is. hardl worth ronsiderlng. -A brute "who' deliberately violates and destroys his own manhood cannot complain if others do not consider it worth regarding. This is the line of argument of those who favor the establishment of the whipping post, and it must be admitted that it is not tvithout force. The strongest argument against it is that by common consent civilized peoples have for a long time been gradually doing away with corporal punishment, both as a legal penalty and as a means of family discipline, an'd yet it Is by no means certain that Its abandonment has been productive of good. The fact that, Delaware stubbornly refuses to abolish the whipping post, and that many intelligent people In that State insist that it is an excellent mode of punishment for a certain class of offenders is a strong argument" in Its favor, and the recent action of the convention of humane societies seems to indicate that public opinion on the subject is undergoing a change. SELFISIIXESS IX FICTIOX. iU . Is there something In the New England atmosphere conducive to selfishness, or why is it that this unpleasant trait is so prominent In New England fiction? The plot of more than one of Hawthorne's novels turns upon the selfishness of a leading character. Mr. Howells has fou.id It In his studies of life in that region, while some one has pointed out that Miss Wilkins's stories, almost without exception, have the selfishness of one or more individuals In each for the central theme. Certainly there could be no more remarkable presentation of Intense and narrow personal feeling and self-love tham in her latest novel, "Pembroke." As if this were not enough of a disagreeable subject, Mrs. Deland has made it the motive cf her new story "Philip and His Wife." the concludIng chapters of which have Just appeared In the Atlantic Monthly. In one sense It Is a tale of village life, but the chief characters are not of the class of which Miss Wllklns writes. Their home is in a village permanently or temporarily, but they are people of the world, cultured, traveled and educated. Nevertheless, with all their advantages, love of self is the overmasterlnj? trait of three of the leading personages; a fourth only saves himself by a Epasm of conscience at the last - from breaking a woman's heart, while a fifth, in the background, but still influential, is a monument of self-indulgence and disregard for others. Of the five, one, as Just mentioned, finally redeems himself; another, a woman, performs an act of selfsacrifice not from principle, however that wins a measure of the reader's sympathy, but the other three never so much as comprehend that they are selfish. The story is written with an ethical purpose, after the tiresome fashion of end-of-the-century novels. The question considered is the propriety of divorce where the love that Wst bound a 'married couple together has ceased to exist. The husband, a refined, sensitive man, chooses to : view the. matter from what he calls a high moral" ground. He argues that there is no spirit ual sympathy, no Intellectual companion-' ship, and where even the love won by physical beauty has given place to indifference, if not' repulsion, continued association is degrading and should cease. After

long cogitation on the subject he resolves to act upon this theory and announces his decision to his wife, who, though herself an easelovlng and intensely selfish woman and thoroughly devoid of affection for her husband, is shocked at the thought of the disapproval of society. When she accustoms herself to the Idea she feels a sudden sense of freedom a freedom the more enticing since it discloses to her the fact that she is in love with her husband's friend and sister's fiancee, and he with her. The friend, an honest, manly man with all his weakness, recovers himself after a single passionate Interview with the woman, and makes haste to persuade the husband to a reconciliation with his wife. He points out that although separation might be better for the husband's moral condition, and would Improve his spiritual comfort, the woman, with her sensuous, self-indulgent nature and lack of stern principle, Was In greater moral danger than when held to correct conduct by the- bonds and rigid social code of married life. The husband apparently fall3 to comprehend that he owes any duty to his wife; he insists on the separation, and accepts from her a great sacrifice the giving up. of her child which in a moment of rare humility and self-abnegation she feels herself unfit fo rear properly. She is a rich woman, and goes to Europe, where according to her nature, no longer restrained, she is sure to lead a lax life, and for which, according to the author's view, the husband is to be held responsible. That personage, in fact, with all his delicacy and refinement and so-called high principle, proves to be the most self-loving, and selfindulgent and least altruistic of all. The point In controversy is a fine one, and Is skillfully presented. Doubtless society needs a lesson of the kind, and will, psrhaps, profit by this; but, nevertheless, a protest must be entered anew and in general against the novel with a fixed and determined ethical purpose, and. In particular, against further acquaintance with the cold

blooded, self-centered New Englander as depicted in popular fiction. He is de pressing to the souL LOWER PRICES FOR HOGS AXD THE CAUSES. "Hogs have fallen a dollar a hundred In less than a month," said a well-known dealer at the stockyards, yesterday, "and the tendency Is downward." The quotations for hogs at the Iridianapolia stockyards OcL 5, 1833, and Oct. 4, 1834, were as follows: Grade. Oct. 5, '93. Oct. o. '94. Heavy , $6.40 to $6.S0 $5.20 to $5.60 Light'.... 6.40 to 6.U2Va 5.00 to 5.30 Mixed 6.40 to 6.85 5.10 to 5.40 Heavy rough 4.50 to 6.25 4.00 to 5.00 Here is a decline of prices within a-year ranging from 50 cents to $1.62 per hundred pounds, and the most of it has come within the past Tew weeks. It will be charged to an overstock of hogs in the country. But why is -there an overstock? Statistics do not show a great Increase, but the reverse the number of hogs in the country Jan. 1, 1830, being 51,602,780, against 45,206,233 Jan.' 1, 1S34. With a decrease of 6,300,000 in four years there can be but one cause for overstock now, and! that cause is the falling off in demand. There are no figures at hand showing the consumption of hog products during the first year of Cleveland, but the fact that the consumption of wheat fell off over a bushel per capita during that period of "clover," and corn 6 2-3 bushels per capita, warrants the conclusion that there was a like falling off in the consumption of hog products. Inquiry made of retailers who sell largely to wage-earners, last spring, shows that there was much less of such meats purchased than a year earlier. Less hog products, which are the meat of the masses more than any other, are being consumed because wage-earners have not the money to purchase. Furthermore, the Democratic Congress has Intervened to cut the hog products of this country out of special markets by the repeal of all the Harrison reciprocity treaties. Cuba will still purchase of us in part, but we shall hereafter pay the high duties imposed upon other competitors, making it cost more to the consumer and causing him to purchase less. The same is true of Brazil. With the utmost difficulty the Harrison administration made a treaty with Germany which opened all the German ports, which had been closed in part to such goods, at a lower duty than most other competitors were compelled to pay. This treaty was set aside by the Democratic Congress in a manner which has given offense to the German government, so that retaliation may be.looked for which will shut off our growing trade with that country In hog products. In no one thing was the Harrison admintitration more active and persistent than in opening markets which had been closed to our hog products, and in getting tariffs discriminating in our favor. It wa3 the impetus to the beginning of a vast trade, and under its stimulus in clearing the home markets of the surplus the prices of hog products advanced during 1831 and 1832., All this has been recklessl thrown away by the authors of the Democratic tariff, which has closed markets which Republican effort had opened. One of the commissioners of Cook county, Illinois, in which Chicago Is situated, who has been investigating the situation with regard to the necessity tor relief work during the coming winter, thinks the condition of the working people of the city is much worse now than It was a year ago. He says the people have had less work than they had during" last year, and. consequently, their savings and credit are at a lower ebb and more people will need assistance. If this is the case in Chicago It is likely to be so in a greater or less degree In other cities. Judge McAdam, of the New York Superior Court, is convinced that naturalization is properly a federal function and should be in charge of a tribunal established for that purpose. Many people will agree with the Judge. If the changing- of an alien into an American citizen Is not an important matter, there are few things about government that can be. The Individual communion-cup movement is growing if the Journal's exchanges are to be relied on. churches In many different

parts of the country having resolved to

adopt the new rorm or serw-c. cases tiny silver cups have been chosen, glass, for some reason, not .being regarded favorably by the authorities. As silver Is costly it is not likely that a large number of extra cups for use in emergency -will be provided In any case. The Journal confesses to a feeling of reverent curiosity cn this poinL In the event that an unexpected number of communicants should present themselves, and the supply of cups run short, would a dishwasher be stationed at a point convenient to the altar to cleanse the utensils as they were used?. Would It be necessary that one of the deacons or ordained brethren should do the washing, or would an unregenerated boy serve? Or would the establishment, of a constantly flowing stream of water for cleansing purposes, after ' the fashion of the familiar soda fountain, be. a proper solution? If the Individual anti-microbe cup is coming. Its care must be provided for. The South Bend Tribune has turned itself over to the Ladies Belief Society of that city to be edited and managed by them for one day in the interest of their organization. This Is a dreadful precedent for a newspaper to establisn. Now that the Tribune has granted such privilege to one society how will it refuse other equally wcrthy .; organizations who ask the same, favor? - Does it suppose for an instant that after the Relief Society has had an ' issue devoted . entirely to the interests of its work that the orphan asylums and the flower missions, the kindergarten-associations, the sanitary societies, the temperance and missionary societies, the clubs and organizations without end whose purpose Is to ameliorate and Improve the condition of mankind does the Tribune suppose for a moment that it will not be besieged b all these? Will one of these societies submit, for a moment to the thought that-another has enjoyed advantages which it might have also? Will not social war ensue, In which the Tribune will suffer If it allows the Relief Society to celebrate itself to its heart's content while the others are limited to half a column or less or are even forced to gain publicity at a fixed price per line? The too hasty managers of the South Bend paper may not enjoy the prospect, but having once lifted the gates they can hardly shut them down until the torrent of eloquence and free advertising has all poured through. Benevolence is admirable, but a paper or several papers given up entirely to philanthropic interests does not wholly fulfill the public. Idea of a newspaper. Children are charming, but a complete edition with nothing in It but child lore might pall upon a busy man's taste. Sanitary societies are necessary evils doubtless, but many columns filled with awful descriptions of filth, terrifying accounts of microbes and diatribes against the spitter would not attract the multitude. If the Tribune' man has no journalistic instinct and Is , moved by a purpose to please all his patrons, not in one paper but on the installment plan, he should reconsider. Only the members of the society celebrated will read Its special issue; rll the rest will find fault and his last state will be worse than his first. Of course this is a free country, but some queer things do happer here, nevertheless. For Instance, Mr. W. B. Capps has just been released from a ounty jail In Tennessee, . after a confinement of fifteen months for working on Sunday. Capps Is a Seventh Day Advrndst, and observed Saturday Instead of Sunday. About a year and a half ago complaint was made that he worked on Sunday, and, as he was found ploughing on that day, he was arrested, convicted and fined $10. As a matter of principle he refused to pay the fine. The ca.se got into the newspapers and a society known as. the Freedom in Religion Society heard of It and induced him to let It make a test case at his expense. This society got him in debt $214 and he was still In jail. In the meantime his farm, which was mortgaged, was sold and his wife and children were turned on the world homeless and penniless. He called the society off and set to work to earn his way out of Jail by working for the State at an average of about $1.30 a week. In fourteen months he got his debt down to $40.87, and then a Hebrew paper, published in New York, heard of his case and appealed to Its readers in his behalf. There was prompt response, and a few days ago a check f6r $31.87, still due, was sont to the clerk of the county, court and Capps was released. The whole case savors strongly of Intolerance and persecution. The New York Sun having recently remarked that ."white-shelled eggs always sell, better than others," a New England farmer writes that his experience Is that "brown ones command the readiest sale, persona esteeming them richer than the Leghorn eggs." It would probably take an expert chemist to discover any difference as to richness between a white-shelled and a brown-shelled egg, but tastes and opinions may differ as to which are most attractive in external appearance. There are not many things in nature more pleasing to the eye or more suggestive of good "country living" . than a basket full of clean fresh-looking eggs, whether white or brown, though, unfortunately they are-not always as fresh as they look. Subscriber, City; It is not positivelyknown wo was the first white man to see Niagara Falls. There is some reason to believe that the distinction belonged to Stephen Brule, a French explorer, who arrived .in. NewFrance about 1610. Cartler was the first man to allude to them in his writings, Champlaln the first to indicate the location on a map, and Hennepin the first to give a written description of them. The football season opens la Indiana on Wednesday, when the first games of the intercollegiate series will be played. ' The Journal to-morrow will print interesting letters from the college cities of the State giving the condition of the football teams, names of players, age, height, weight, etc.' These letters have been prepared with care by correspondents familiar with the subject of which they write. It is announced that Mfss Beatrice Harraden, author of "Ships That Pass in the Night," is at work on a new story which "will contain several California chapters," As Miss Harraden has been In California hardly long enough to get acquainted with a small corner of it, her "local color" has probably been gathered as she passed on an express train. ' . BUBBLES IX THE AIR. - Delayed. Manager What the dickens makes you. ' so late? The Ossified Man De tire of me bicycle busted. ' ' ' Same ResuU Side by side In the open car, They rode the dudelet and the Jay And now one has pneumonl-ah, 5 And t'other has pneumonl-ay. Time Change. "Joblot's wife was three years older than he when they majTiM." "Well, isn't she still three years older?" "No, . Indeed. He Is 'thirty-five now, and she is twenty-eight." , Qaaltfird ForcrlTCBesa. VYou. ought to have been at the prayer meeting last night." said "Deacon Rowbe rs. "Bill Abnerford got up and told, how he had forgive you fer that hoss you sold him." . "Oh, yes," said Deacon Podbcrry, "he's fergive me all right enough, but all the same, he ain't paid fer the hoss." . .

ARMAZIXDY.

"Arrnazindy," the opening poem la Mr. James Whltcomb Riley's latest volume of verse, gives the title to the book. Ta readers of the Journal the pathetic story of Armazlndy, the girl who was a soldier, is not new, but because they have read it once they will be "the more glad of the opportunity to read It again. It Is. perhaps, not too much to say that the author has never produced. a better piece of dialect writing than this. In nothing else has tha art that conceals art been more effectively used. The, narrative as related by tha unlettered .countryman flows from his lip In limpid current, without break or rippla In the'shfipe of .word or phrase to Indlcata that the hand of a master has smoothed the channel. No art Is visible. The story tells itself; it seems a literal transcript of the homely speech of a man who. it, confidential mood, tells the history of ths woman he most admires. The narrator himself Is as distinct to the reader as if he were photographed on the page a lank, sunburned son of the soil, in blue jean and cowhides, and with honesty, shrewdness and quaint humor lined upon his face. It is a simple tale told in a simple way of a woman whose life was one of labor an! sorrow and sacrifice. It has in it the In cidents and elements of tragedy, ani though the life is that of a humble heroina and the language that of the Hooslcr byways, Its nobility and pathos are not les impressive than if passion were torn to tatters In more pretentious dramatic form. The narrative is so continuous that It does not lend itself to quotations, but soma touches are bo happily descriptive that they call for reproduction. After Armi zlndy's father died, the historian relates: Wldder, 'peared l)ke, gradjully, Jes' grieved after Urn tel she Died, nex Apriie wuz a year. (Kind o grief I understand. Losln' my companion and Still a widower-Kind still Hinted at. like neighbors will!) Fourteen-year-old Armazlndy was left with the rtwo twins" and a "fitified" oli aunt to care for, and her rural admirea asks: : : Jevver watch a primrose 'bout Minute 'fore it blossoms out ' Kindo' loosen-like, and blow Up its muscles, don't you know. And, all suddent. bu'st and bloom Out life-size? Well, I persume 'At's the only measure I Kin size Armazindy by! In spite of care and toil she bloomel into maiden beauty: Fer by time she -wuz sixteen, Purtlest girl you ever seen Ceptln sh lacked schoolln ner Couldn't raff out stylisher Like some neighbor girls, ner thumb On their blame melodlum. While their pore old mothers sloshed Round the old back porch and washed Their clothes fer 'em rubbed and scrubbed Fer glrls'd ort to jes' been clubbed! The secret of the narrator's deep Interest In the girl is described at the end. when he says: . Years now, I've been coaxln her Armazindy Ballenger To in-large her fambily Jes one more by takin' me Which I'm feared she never will. Though I'm 'lectloneerin' still. As a story "Armazindy" is deftly told, and as a study and transcripture of Western colloquialisms can hardly be excelled. When the time arrives at 'which the legion of literary clubs Is aiming, that all people shall communicate their thoughts -lathe most cultivated Boston manner, the little tale will stand as a record of the speech of. the plain people at the stage of progress reached In this far-off year of our Lord. Of the other poems in the book soma are familiar through their appearance in periodicals, but more are new; some are in dialect, some in grammatical and orthodox language. There are verses that tell the stories of life, there are records of transient moods, sentimental, sad, humourous, as chance might be; there are quatrains embalming each, a passing thought; there are pictures of out-door life, echoes of the music of bird and bee, wafts of fragrance from bud and blossom. There are tender tributes of love to friends living and departed; there are verses serious and reverent, as those in memory of tha heroes whert warm hearts "beat their lives out at the shrine of Freedom:" When every star that glittered was a mark For Treason's ball, ana every rippling bar Of red and White was sullied with the dark And purple stain of war. There are verses rollicking and gay as the unpoetic tale of "Ringworm Frank:" Jest Frank Reed's his real name though Boys all calls him "Ringworm Frank' ' Cause he alius runs round so No man can't tell where to bank Frank' 11 be Next you see Er hear of him! Drat his melts! That man's alius somers else. There is speech from a tender heart, as the call to "Our Own:" They walk with us, hand in hand; We gossip, knee by knee; They tell us ail that they have rlanned. Ot all their joys to be. And. laughing, leave us: And to-day All desolate we cry Across WiUe waves of voiceless graves-Good-bye! Good-bye! Good-bye! A masculine characteristic Is confessed la the answer to a woman's question. "How can she make me love her more?" Ah, little woman! if indeed 1 might be trank as Is the need Of frankness, I would fall before Her very feet and there confess My love were more if hers were less. A division in the volume classifies the last half as "Make-believe and Child-play." The make-believes are some exceedingly clever Imitations of the work of the wellknown writers. The list Includes a prose sketch,after Dickens; all the others are In verse, and , their models easily recognized. Who could hesitate at this, for Instance? O bright Is glowing morn on mountain hight; And brignt the moon sllpt from Us sheath of night But brignter Is the light of woman's eyes. Or this: Lithe-armed, and with satin-soft shoulders As white as the cream-crested wave; With a gaze dazing every beholder's. She hoids every gazer a slave. Or this: 1 Down in the night I hear them That whisper, and lisp and murmur And wiU not let me rest. Among the number is the famous Imitation of Toe Leonalnle," which deceived even the critics. The rest of this division of the book Is made up of child's verse and nonsense rhymes. Mr. Riley is never more at home than when writing about ani for children, and his songs to them contain some of his Vruest poetry. Who but ha would have thought to ask: Where do you go when you go to sleep, Little Boy! Little Boy! Whera? Va.y 'way in Where's j-.lt tie Bo-peep, And Little. Boy Blue, and the Cows and Sheep A-wandering 'way In there In there A-wandering 'way la there!, Excerpts from the alburn of 'Uzabuta Ann will doubtless become popular with the' unfortunates who are suddenly called on to inscribe a "sentiment" In an autograph .book. This, for instance: O Friendship, when I muse on you. As thoughtful minds, O Friendship, do, I muse, O Friendship, o'er and o'er, O Friendship as 1 said before. Or this: "What is Lifer' If the Dead might say, Spect they'd answer, under breath, Sorry-like yet a laughln': A Poor.-pale yesterday of Death! Quote as one may, there is always left something better still; but since there is limit to; space these closing lines of the volume must end this hasty and Incomplete review: " V When but a little boy. It seemed - My dearest rapture ran In fancy ever, when I dreamed , was a xntc a man! Now sad perversity! my theme ; Of rarest, purest Joy Is when, la fancy blest, I dream I am a little boy. "Armazlndy" will be offered to the public by the Bowen-Merrill Company, Its publishers, this week. Two editions nrfi be!n? cresared-on? la uniform style v.ith III