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Can be found at the following places PA RIfi American Exchange lu l'arte, 38 Boulevard de ' apr3tn's. ' - . : . KW YOKK Gilsey House, Wind8orfaotel and Astor PHIIADELPIIIA A. P. Kemble, cor. Lancaster ave. and Baring st. CHICAGO I'almer House. Auditorium Hotel and P. O. .News Co., ill Adams street. CINCINNATI-J. R. Hawley & Co., 154 Vine street. LOJTISVIIJ.E-C. T. Peering, northwest corner of 1 bird and Jefferson sts., and Louisville Book Co., 3.rM3 1-ourthave. ST. LOUIti Union News Company, Cnlon Depot. WmII7!",GTPn I- -RlKR" House. Ubbltt House, U tllard's Hotel and the Washington News Kxchange. 14th street, bet. Penn. ave. and J?' street SIXTEEN PAGES As between the Monroe-doctrine declared in 1823 and tjie Cleveland doctrine exemplified in Hawaii the American people are overwhelmingly in favor of the former. The worst enemies a public man can have are those whom Colonel Ingersoll once styled "fool friends." His enemies he can silence if he is an able man, but there is no relief from "fool friends" except in death, and they do not die young. An exchange says that Bismarck Is a great deal older-' man at eighty than Gladstone is at eigh.ty-five. Per contra, it may be said that Bismarck has accomplished vastly more in his eighty years than Mr. Gladstone seems likely to in more than eighty-five years. The belief that Great Britain jvill participate in the proposed International monetary conference has caused an advance, in the price of silver bullion. Ten days ago silver bullion was quoted at 62 cents an ounce; now it is 64. That is, the bullion in a dollar is worth not quite 50 cents. Most of. the time of the regular Cabinet meeting on Friday was given to a photographer who made a group picture of the President and his secretaries, after which they all walked to Secretary Herbert's and ate gumbo cooked in Southern style. Our foreign relations do not seem to ba giving the administration much anxiety. One of the few mugwump papers in the East stigmatizes the action of Governor Morrell, 'of Kansas, In asking the President to look after the rights of exConsul "Waller, who was appointed from that State, as an act of "impudence." Many people will conclude that the Governor did the proper thing in calling the attention of the President to the fact that Waller is held to be a reputable man In Kansas. The savage growl of "the British lion about French aggression in the upper Nile region elicits from the leading paper of Paris' the retort that "in regard to the upper Nile France can only recognize the rights of Turkey and Egypt and no others. The proclamation of England's claims there does not constitute a title." This is the pot calling the kettle black. England has as much right in Egypt as France has In Madagascar, where the French authorities recently perpetrated an outrage on an American citizen. England Is an intruder and trespasser in one place and France in the other, and a controversy between them as to their respective rights" is as ridiculous as would be one between two burglars as 'to; which was in legal possession of the premises. ' , It is a great pity that Miss Anna Dickinson's name andffamte should be clouded in her later days by the sad disclosures of her damage suit. All the testimony, including her own, goes to how that she, is a moral and mental wreck' , though ehtf retains enough of her once brilliant, mind to make a fight that would be worth watching If it were not so pathetic. It is probable that her mind was beginning to lose Its poise at the tKie she determined, contrary to the ad 'ce of all her friends, to go upon' the B ge. .Her utter failure as an actress hmitdnmn and hr wild ... - . . . - - charge that the : newspaper critics had formed a conspiracy agafnst her was a proof of her loss of judgment. As a matter of fact, JMiss Dickinson had the friendship of the- press, -and nowhere would she have received quicker f ecognition had her " histrionic " efforts ' been worthy of praise. : She Is" naturally a woman of intense nervous energy, and her early career in the lecture field offered ier an outlet for her dramatic power that was closed when the cause for which she labored no longer needed her. No other subject ever inspired her as did the questions of . the War, : and her talent, irmerea useii away unui it was beyond recovery. Her case is. a tragic one. , - , There is much -to commend in the recent action of the Secretaries of Agriculture and Interior in forming a national' board of . irrigation . experts' to Btudy the best methods-of promoting llw.itAn tn Vi ovist cattrtna ' ef tha TVest and Southwest. The subject is one of great importance, well worthy cf gov-., ernmental investigation and experiment. It . is 'said jthat the United States is the r-nly great government having a large arid area which has not taken up the question of irrigation' as one of prime national importance,- France, Great Britain, Italy. Russia and other Eurtpean . powers have irrigation departments, ar,d '.; have,, invested, millions in canals aui irrigation works for the benefit of local communities, "though the t.orhs themselves remain the property jf .? state. The United States, with

one of the greatest areas of arid land, has left : the matter entirely to State governments, and the result is that not only has irrigation up to date failed of extensive development", but what has been done in many cases has been ill done and will have to be largely reorganized before the best results can be obtained. The1 board which has just been appointed consists of five officials of the Agricultural and Interior departments who have given special attention to the subject, both on Its practical and scientific side, and its work Is likely to prove valuable. It does not involve the creation of 'any new offices or salaries. THE TROUBLE IN MANITOBA. H In attempting to force the parochial school system on Manitoba against the will of a large majority of its people the Dominion government has raised a dangerous, issue. The. nature of the Issue can be well understood by the people of this country, who would fight to the death for the preservation of the public school system. The people of Manitoba believe that the preservation of their common school system is involved In this issue. The trouble dates back to an Indiscreet promise made by the Dominion authorities twenty-five years ago. In 1870, when England turned over the entire Northwestern territory to the Canadian government, a majority of the population of Manitoba were Catholic, and when it entered the Dominion they were assured that their schools should not be interfered with.. At that time the population of the province was about 25,000; It is now more than 200,000, and overwhelmingly Protestant. Five years ago the people, through their local government, established a national common school system, under which the Catholic parochial schools were cut off from government support, just as they are in the United States. From that time to the present the Catholics have been trying, first through the British government and then through the Dominion government, to have their schools restored to the old basis. The pledge given twenty-five years ago that the parochial schools should not be interfered with was insisted upon with so much earnestness that the Dominion government finally issued an order directing the government of Manitoba to restore the separate Catholic schools to a participation In the public funds. This Manitoba positively refuses to do. and the people seem determined to fight it out on that line. They deny the right of the Dominion government to make such an order, and, even admitting the right, say they will not obey it. Manitoba has a local government of Its own, and the Legislature has been in session for some time past. On Wednesday last the ' newspaper organ of the legislative majority, published at Winnipeg, contained what was supposed to be an inspired editorial, from which the following is an extract: Let Quebec and Ottawa rest assured that the restoration of the old order of things will never be made. Manitoba ha3 too keen a sense of justice, to much regard for truth and equity, to recognize as a. religious aristocracy an element of its population by no means the most worthy. As a civilized people attempting to realize in a measure t!ne ideals of the nineteenth century, Manitobans will not silently submit to the preposterous demand that, she . should turn back the wheels of progress three hundred years. She will stubbornly refuse to supplant modern civilization by mdiaevalism. This question is not a quarrel between Manitoba and the Dominion. It is not even a quarrel between creeds and races. It is a struggle as to whether the ideals of the nineteenth century or the ideals of the Dark Ages shall prevail. The act of 1890 was designed to give to every church in Manitoba the benelits of common school education. It recognized neither class nor creed, but placed all on the same level of citzenship. Could anything be more wise?. Could anything be more just? Yet what was the attitude of the Roman Catholic Church? Standing aside, wrapped up in its black mantle of arrogance, it demanded that it should be considered a religious aristocracy. It refused to have the children of Its members receive instruction side by side with the . children of those who are their superiors in Intelligence and wisdom. And on what grounds? It said Catholics were promised different treatment from others by the act that called the province into existence. When shown that, even if this were true, which it Is not, no just citizen would claim a fulfillment of the promise, since it would violate one of the foundation principles of state organization equal rights to all it gave a second reason that the public schools are Protestant. And this is our answer to Quebec: We shall not allow the state to support religions; we shall not allow the church to control the state; we shall not return to the civilization of the Dark Ages; we shall not recognize Rome as better or in any way different from others. We shall hold to the principle of equal rights for all, and that principle shall be dearer to us than confederation itself. This shows the spirit in which the people are resisting the order of the Dominion government. Friday's dispatches from Winnipeg stated that the Legislature . had adjourned till May 9, evidently to cool off and give the Dominion government time to reconsider. Its action. Behind the present controversy lies the deeper fact that Manitoba, from its Interior and ; far Western location, , has no sympathy with the Eastern provinces of the Dominion. It adjoins Minnesota on the south and all its commercial relations are with the United States. It has railway communication with Minnesota and steamers ply on Red river between Winnipeg and Moorhead, Minn. If the Dominion government should try to enforce the obnoxious Order it may precipitate a conflict that will end in Manitoba seeking annexation to the United States. It is a little more than twice the size of Indiana and a country of vast agricultural resources.

... INDIANA'S GROWING CITIES. ' Two or three years ago, when the Grand- Army adopted the plan of holding its annual ' encampments in other cities than Indianapolis, the Journal approved the change not because Indianapolis would not give , the representatives of the veterans , an annual welcome, but because it appeared that it would be an excellent thing to have these meetings held in any of the dozen or fifteen cities in different parts of the State. The reasons then assigned were that it would afford the people In each section of the State opportunity to see more of the men and women of the war period than they otherwise could, and give ttf tens of thousands of the present generation an object lesson in patriotism. The plan has been attended with greater? success than could have been reasonably expected. Four cities have already entertained the encampments royallyFort Wayne, Evansville, . Lafayette and Muncie. Not the least, of the advantages of the plan is that the people, who i?o to. these cities on these occasions obtain correct impressions of the Indiana cities of this ieriod. They learn that these cities are no longer straggling villages fc ut cities with line residences, business 'blocks, .good hotels, electric, street cars,, larsrc manufacturing interests, and made up largely of the homes cf r ?ople who own them.

The visitors' find the best .schools and schoolhouses in the country, - well-built churches and " places of public amusement and the beginnings of public libraries. These cities have come to. Indiana since the war, and many of them have come during the past ten years. The rural portions of the Sts te are as much interested in the welfare of these prosperous and growing citi es as are those who dwell in them, as they have done more to create a diversified ' agriculture than all other markets. These cities are the best hope of the future for the farms of Indiana. In this connection the Journal may be pardoned when it adds that these cities are too important and that each has too valuable a future of its own to harbor the small envy of rivalry. AH of them cannot grow alike, but it is better to have a city of fifteen thousand people, with a steady growth, - with a population free from pauperism, than a city of 100,000 by a forced growth, which brings, all the ills of feeble industries and a partially employed people who do not own their homes. So much being said, it may be added that Muncie is one of the cities of which all Indiana may be proud, and of which all those who attended the encampment speak in admiration of the public spirit displayed by its citizens the past week. The entertainment was successful because its leading business men gave their attention to their guests. They left jpothing undone to please their visitors, and one of the reasons of Muncie's prosperity is that its business men are public spirited citizens who have the good sense to act in harmony. PLBLIC SCHOOL DEFECTS. In a current magazine article on progress in the public schools, by William T. Harris, United States Commissioner of Education, are some statements from which conclusions may be drawn of a different character from those which he deduces. Although the percentage of school attendance in the United States is large as to the number of pupils, the average time of attendance for each pupil does not exceed ninety days in a year. At this rate the entire school population is receiving on an average a little less than four and one-half years schooling of two hundred days each. In some States this average falls as low as two years, and in others it rises to nearly seven years. This prevalence of elementary education Mr. Harris finds to be a very gratifying. thing, as, Indeed, it is, but he laments the fact that it is accompanied by a comparative neglect of the secondary and higher courses of study as shown by the statistics. Out of the number of pupils enrolled more than ninety-six in every hundred are pursuing elementary studies; less than three in a hundred are in secondary studies in high schools, academies and other institutions; only one in a hundred is in a college or school for higher studies. While it is doubtless to be regretted that so few receive the benefits of higher education, the causes that limit such advantages to the few are mainly of an Industrial character and not to be controlled by legislation. The large majority of pupils are unable to remain in school until they are sixteen or eighteen years of age, but must drop out much earlier in order to enter business. This condition of affairs suggests several reflections. It brings up with renewed force the old argument against the topheavy expenditures for high schools, the outlay being in, an inverse ratio to the number of pupils receiving their benefits. It also proves the importance of making the elementary course as practical as possible much more so than it now is. Since so large a number of children get so few years of schooling the necessity of giving .them instruction in the studies that will do them most good is apparent. .These studies, it is needless to say, are the "three R's" and the English language, or such features of it as may be comprehended by the childish mind. These branches are taught, of course, now. but they are sandwiched in with a little drawing, a little music, a little botany, a little geology, a little natural history and a little of a great many other things useful and interesting, but not absolutely essential. The system that takes a child at six years and develops his mind by easy stages until, ten or twelve years later, he is rounded out symmetrically at high school graduation is very attractive, but the system should be made for the benefit of the largest number, and the children who cannot remain, to be scientifically developed, but must leave school when they know a little of a greaf many things, yet cannot read intelligently, spell .correctly or find their way in the multiplication table are legion. The. great trouble, as it seems to a good many people, is not that so few children 'reach the high schools, but that those who do not reach there are less thoroughly equipped than they ought to be in the time they have spent. ESSENTIALS OF SPIRITUAL TEACH. ':" INC. ' A pious Indianapolis elder was once congratulated on the large attendance at his church, crowds having taken the place of the former sparse congregations. "Yes, we have crowds," said the elder, with deprecatory shrug and tone of indignation; "we have crowds, but think of the class of people they are. Our pastor seems to draw that kind." Those congregations were rather peculiar. They were largely composed of the people not known, as regular church goers; many among them had known nothing of churches and had cared less. They : had not felt that this organiza tion offered anything to them; that it touched th'em at any point. For, they were not saints these people. Some of them were engaged in what is known to salntdom as disreputable and sinful pursuits; some were gamblers, some saloon keepers, some merely regardless of religion as they had hitherto seen it manifested. They were not of the class that "build up" a church in the worldly and commonly accepted sense. They would; not greatly increase its revenues, nor add - to its social importance; with them the church could no longer' be exclusive and aristocratic, a reputation it had once enjoyed, and in which certain members, including the pious deacon, had taken pride. Why were they there at all? Because the minister in charge had made their acquaintance: he had met them on their own ground, macls himself familiar with their thoughts, their lives, their especial temptations, and they had felt that he had a heart in sympathy with them ; that,' like One greater than he, he was 'touched with a foelinsr cf thir Inflrm-

itles." And although they were follow ing evil pursuits or, were scoffers at good, or were outwardly Indifferent to those things that make for righteousness, they were not really regardless of: them. Few, indeed, are they who are , without aspirations for a better life or longings for a certainty as to the future. When one comes with a message they can understand they flock to hear him,: whether he speak from within the pulpit or without. If he Irive them hope and comfort and Inspire them to higher aims they will follow him even into the church, which has not attracted them before. They prefer, the teaching that offers a heaven, but unless the teaching come to them from one who has himself lived and , suffered and been tempted as they, until he can sympathize with their imperfectness, it does not impress them. The compassion of the human must mingle with the judgment of the saint, else the latter's influence is lost. . ;- . If the men and women who thirst for a knowledge of spiritual things do not find it in its legitimate place they follow after false gods the Ingersolls and others, who take away hope and offer no substitute. Yet when an Indianapo-, lis minister ventures to listen to this Ingersoll that he may know what it is that draws the multitude after him he is criticised and rebuked by his deacons and other guardians of his good name for having thus brought disgrace upon himself and his church. Surely, they did not fear for his spiritual integrity. It is an insecure foundation ofrighteousness that is imperiled by this mocker at sacred things. The minister whose faith is disturbed by it is not fit for his calling. ' But his appearance there may influence others, and it does not look well; these are the arguments. There is not one who listens to Ingersoll who goes away convinced by the. speciousness of his plea, his flippant sneers, his eloquent sentences or his musical voice; not one who would not willingly reject all his plausible arguments if the other side were presented with equal force. Not every religious teacher is an orator like Ingersoll, but the least gifted one who speaks truth that he has learned through the travail of his soul will be listened to, however faltering his tongue. If he understands what other men need, their thoughts and fears and hopes, he can reach out his hand and they will come. But he cannot gain this knowledge by being shut in a glass case and by associating only with the elect. Because they too often do just this, ministers know only one side of 'life, and are therefore without influence where their influence is most needed. It is a mistaken notion that they must remain in ignorance of many things called evil because investigation might be misconstrued. If he cannot be trusted to use discretion In his search for the obstacles over which his fellowmen stumble he Is not worthy of his office; if he does not dare soil his hands or step down in the mire to lift a weak brother up he has mistaken his calling. The Unitarians and Universalists having both claimed the poet Whittier as an adherent of their respective doctrines, the editor of the Outlook remarks that "it is somewhat difficult to determine what is Unitarianlsm and what is Universalism in the present fluid condition of theological opinion." Laymen who may have puzzleqtheir minds over this particular theological problem as one of the things they Ought to solve will be encouraged by this authoritative expression to let their minds turn to more agreea.ble subjects. Lunar Observations. "Ef yuh want yuh lettus to do well you'd bettah wait a couple o' days befo' yuh sow yuh seed," said an old colored man a few days ago. Asked why, he replied: "Cause It's de dahk o' de moon now and lettus grows above groun'. Whatevah blooms or grows above groun must be planted in de light o de moon, and whatevah grows under, groun', like petatahsand slch,' must , be planted in de dahk o de moon." This was the old colored man's way of formulating a belief that is almost universal among ignorant people and very prevalent among intelligent ones. Whether it has any . foundation whatever is a disputed question, and likely to continue so. Scientists and natural : philosophers say it has not, while a majority of practical gardeners and farmers insist that It has. The amount of lunar superstition that exists, and its wide prevalence, amounting almost to universality, are curious phases of folk lore. These superstitions take many forms and prevail ; in all countries. They, doubtless, owe their origin to the fact that the moon is at once so familiar and so mysterious an object. A constant attendant of the earth and visible during the greater part of the time, it cpmes to be regarded as a part of our natural environment, and yet It is so completely detached from all terrestrial ' influences, so nea? and yet so far, that men are at liberty to invest it with almost any" qualities they please. The result 13 a great mass of lunar superstitions and fallacies, some of which are, probably, as old as the human race. The words lunacy and lunatic, describing the kind of intermittent insanity formerly supposed to be subject to the changes of the moon, show how one of these superstitions has imbedded itself In the language. There is just . as much reason to believe that the changes of the moon affect the conditions of insanity as there is to suppose that they have any material effect n the weather. In other words, there Is none at all. Literature abounds with allusions to or recognitions of r other superstitions about the moon, some pathetic, some tragic, some sentimental, but all more or less absurd. The moon is so faithful an attendant of the earth, and her services in some important ways are so valuable that she ought not to be misunderstood and misjudged as she la by these' superstitions. As a tidemaker she does for mankind" a work of inestimable sanitary value, , cleansing the shores of seas and rivers, besides performing an incalculable amount.. of mechanical work In floating vessels and transporting merchandise up - and down . tide-water streams. The earth would not be habitable without the' tides. Another service of inestimable value is done by the moon in enabling navigators to find the longitude at sea and. as a timekeeper for the chronologlst and historian In ounting periods too vast for accurate reckoning by other means. These and other services of the moon, not to mention her ennobling Influence on young lovers and spring poets, are sufficiently valuable without imputing to her. qualities which she does not possess. Outside of superstition and folk lore there is no reason to believe that the moon has any direct or appreciable influence on the weather or on the germination or growth of plants or vegetables. She may cuse currents in the air corresponding somewhat to the tides in the ocean, though, in the nature of things they could not be so pronounced, 1 but as for causing rains or drouths, or influenclng vegetation it is. Impossible. No astronomer or scientist admits that there Is or can be any. connection between changes of the moon and changes of the weather. It i3 true there Ij rexuJ.ir periodicity It

the changes of the moon and a sort of periodicity in the changes of weather, but there Is no connection between "the two. A moon's quarter is roughly equivalent to a week.; and meteorological observers have noticed a tendency in the weather to change and repeat itself" every-fteven That this periodicity, if . it really exists, has any connection with the changes of the moon is purely conjectural and fanciful. A high astronomical authority says: When close, comparisons are made between the moon's positions and records of rainfall and wind direction, dim Indications of relation exhibit themselves, but In every, case where an effect haa been traced it has been of the most insignificant kind, and

no apparent connection naa been recognized between one effect and another. Certainly there Is nothing that can support the extensive popular belief in lunar influence cn weather, and nothing that can modify the conviction that this belief, as at present maintained, is an absurd delusion. If the idea that the moon has a direct and controlling influence on the weather la absurd the idea that it has such an Influence on vegetation is still more so. There Is no more connection between the changes of the moon and the growth of plants than there is between the movement of clouds and the flight of. birds, or between the fashion of spring bonnets and the average rainfall. , The Harvard faculty having decided against football, the Harvard Advocate threatens awful things as a result. It says: "Healthy, and athletic college men will hardly be content to sit still and pore over their books for the three months before Christmas without any excitement. If they are not allowed the excitement of football, it is too likely that they will seek the unhealthier excitement of dissipation. , And not only will many men who now play football, and keep straight, go to the devil if football is given up, but they will drag down with them a good many more. It takes more than one man to gamble, and it usually takes more than one to. go into town, And as football men are and will be, with or without football, the most popular men In the classes, weak-minded persons will take a peculiar pride and pleasure in walking the primrose path in their company." This is very funny and boyish. If the writer of that paragraph happens across it ten year3 hence he will turn two or three colors and wonder how he could ever have been such an idiot. A writer in the Chicago Tribune maintains that there would be money in treating soft coal ashes produced in that city for gold. . He asserts that such ashes by actual analysis contain gold In paying quantities, the fine particles about 80 cents worth per ton and the clinkers from $1 to $4 per ton. "I have made a great many assays of them," ' says the correspondent, "and to put the clinkers down as worth $2 per ton would probably give a good average. After being . freed , of the loose fine stuff they are in excellent condition for cheap extraction. The cost of chemicals would not exceed 40 cents per ton in proper plants, the extraction to be about 80 per cent, to 90 per cent, or $1.60 per ton, leaving a margin of $1.20 per ton for labor, or more than is paid in the mines." If .these figures are correct Indiana has a new source of wealth in her soft coal. If put to a vote of the street-car patrons there Is no doubt but that an overwhelming majority would cast their ballots against the near-crossing system. Now that the experiment has been thoroughly tried and universally pronounced Inconvenient, awkward and dangerous the managers should not hesitate to go back to the plan formerly in use and the one found most satisfactory in all large cities. BLDI1LES IN THE AIR. The Horrid Man. She said she owed her life to him, And then the horrid man Asked her If she would marry him And pay on the installment plan. Provident. "Well, I supose you have something laid up for a rainy day." - "Laid up for a rainy day?" said the rheumatic gentleman. "I am laid up every rainy day myself." The Cheerful Idiot. "Been getting up a new mud guard," said the inventive boarder. . "Might I ask," inquired the Cheerful Idiot, "whether it is to be applied to bicy. cles or candidates?" No Drnl. "Boston, Mass.. March 22. To the editor of the Plunkville Bugle, Dear Sir: We inclose cut of Mrs. Malvina Higgins, of your township, who was cured of eighteen distirct complaints by our justly celebrated Onion Tonic. You will run cut and ad eod, as per contract. THE ONION TONIC CO." "Plunkville, March 26. Cut of Malvina Higgins, with ad, ree'd. It will be impossible for us to permit it space in the columns of the Bugle. There are only two families in this township, the Johnsons and the Higgins-js. As the Bugle circulates exclusively amorg the Jobnsons, you can see what effect the publication you wish would have on our circulation. EDITOR THE BUGLE." LITERARY NOTES. Hamline Garland' 13 writing a story of Dakota life. Mr. Howells's new volume of poems, "Stops of Various Quills," is nearly ready for publication. It is said of Taul Bourget, who Is extremely conceited that he has been spoiled by the flattery of women. , , The concordance to the Psalter which Mr. Gladstone constructed nearly fifty years ago has just been published for the -lir.n timp ! Jeannette Gilder says that Robert Louis Stevenson never found the discussion of illicit love necessary to the strength of a story. ' Rudyard Kipling has been spending several weeks at the capital. He has been making a close study of George Washington relics. It is reported-here that among the unpublished manuscripts of Stevenson has been found a complete volume, entitled "Letters to a Boy of Twelve." It Is said that while Robert Louis Stevenson received large sums for the serial rights of his stories, he did not get much money from these works when reprinted in book form. . Mary Cowden Clarke, the compiler of the "Concordance to Slmkspeare," Is now eightysix years old, but In spite of her age takes a vivid interest in life and books. She lives in Genoa. One of the most polished -writers of the colored race Is Rev. Alexander A. Crummel, for years a professor In Liberia College, W. A. He was educated at Oxford College. England, and until lately was rector of St. Luke's Protestant Episcopal Church, Washington, D. C. Mr. Charles A. Dana has edited, revised, and added to his lectures on the. making of a newspaper, which will be published in book form by the Messrs. Appleton. Few lectures have attracted more attention than these by the editor of the Sun, and the book is sure to have a wide reading. David Christie Murray, the English novelist, who has taken up a residence in New York, has a strong, intellectual face, and is thought to resemble Henry Ward Beecher. He is better equipped than most literary men for givng public readings, as he is a fine elocutionist and a clever actor. ' The Gentleman's Magazine, the first number of which was published in-1731, was the first English periodical ever to appear under the name of "magazine." it has regularly continued every month to the present time. The word "magazine" is a slightly altered form of the Arabic word for storehouse, "maghazln. . - - ; . August- Lustig, the Alsatian dialect poet who has lately died, was a most popular citlsen -of Muihausen. . He was born in l&JO f t IZtrt ' "rr. nd served for xome

f yeara as draughtsman in a lace factory. He then enlisted hv the urmy. He was such a j prolific writer that a, volume, of new verse '.from his nen aoncared almost every year.

He also composed many of the tunes to which his songs are sung. Moliere still holds his own with the Paris public against all comers. A performance of "Le Bourgeois Gentilhommc" given recently at the Comique Francaise brought the largest receipts ever taken at a Fingle performance there. According to the traditions of the house, every member of the company, whether societaire or pensionaire, most appear in the. burlesque ceremonial with which this comedy end. Mr. Thomas Hardy says, in his preface to tho new edition of ' "Tess," that the descriptions of landscapes, of prehistoric antiquities and of old English architecture to be found in his books have- all been "done from the real." He has drawn a map of Wessex . for this volume which volume is the first uniform edition of his works. The new novel , will be included in it. He had written a preface for each story. The tercentenary of Tasso will be observed at Rome by an exhibition of manu scripts, relics, and works relating to the poet. ' This will take place in the Convent of Sanf Onofrio, where he died in 1S93. The. Minister of Public Instruction, Dr. Bacceli. has established a competition for the best wcrk on Tasso to be written by students in the Italian universities. The prizes will be awarded on the Capitol, where the poet was -to have been crowned. ABOUT PEOPLE A1VD THINGS. Thomas B. Reed is at present resting In Portland. Me., ' until summer, when he Intends going abroad with his family. There Is a rumor in Washington that the engagement of Miss Brice, daughter of the Ohio Senator, to Henry Outram Bax-Iron-sides, second secretary of the British embasy, will soon be announced. It is said that in India the people have no idea of time, but , that they have learned that trains do not wait for any' one, so that great crowds are at the stations hours before the time for, a train to start. Although ninety-nine years old, the Rev. Allen Thompson, a Methodist Episcopal divine, Is able occasionally to occupy a pulpit and deliver a good sermon. He officiated on Sunday in the First Church at Bordentqwn, N. J. Euphrates Esculapius Endymion McJimsey is the name of a clerk in the recorder's office at Maryville, Mo. He signs his rather euphonious name with a big rubber stamp. His mother was a student of Oriental history and mythology. The President expects to leave the White House with his .family next week and occupy "Woodley." He. will drive to the White House at least twice a week for Cabinet meetings, but will transact considerable official business at his country residence. Mrs. Audenreid, mother of Countess Divonne, who voluntarily exiled herself from her home here during the visit of her titled daughter, has returned and opened up her house in Washington. The Count and Countess have agreed not to return to this country during Airs. Audenreid's lifetime. Vaszary, the Primate of Hungary, is a man of most simple tastes, and when he first entered office his task was rendered doubly hard by the fact that hitherto he had been but a poor Benedictine monk. He drove to the primatial palace at Gran in a public cab, carrying on his knees a cage containing his pet canary. A St. Petersburg millionaire recently died suddenly in spite of a curious precaution which he had taken to prolong his life. Ten years ago he built a magnificent bathing establishment near St. Petersburg, which he never opened, because a gypsy had told him that he would die at the opening ceremony. The story of Nero and his soothsayer, which is also told of Louis XI and his astrologer, has found a parallel even in these skeptical days. John Green, a successful negro horse trainer and driver, died at Middletown, Del., the other day, at the age of fifty-five. JdThn was an object of Interest to whites as well as blacks, because he was one of the few among his race in those parts to earn much money and save his earnings. He lived in a large, comfortable, neatly furnished house, educated his children and dressed them well, and had the hearty respect of all who knew him. The late Aaron Dennison, who has been Btyled "the father of American watchmaking," was a man of an unusually sweet spirit. He was interested in his work not merely for its own sake, but for the benefits resulting to his fellow-man. Often he worked late into the night, so late that his loving wife would go and beg him to "wait until to-morrow." One night she said to him: "Are you not going to bed at all? What are you doing?" And he turned and slowly answered: "I am trying to make it possible for every poor man to have a watch" a result which he very nearly accomplished. Of birds he'd sing, and balmy spring; Of flow'rets would he carol; But, Just the same, he' clothed his frame In winter-time apparel. Washington Star. Half the world is laughing While the other half in tears; But at least we sneeze together When the jocund spring appears1. Washington Star. With sportsman's luck, The hapless duck Bold Grover oft does shoot; But when there's strife, You bet your life He hires a substitute. Kansas City Journal. SHREDS AND PATCHES. Honest money Is the noblest work oi a government. Philadelphia Press. Oh, If we but had a walchdog of the State Department! Philadelphia North American. We have never met a pessimist to whom the bright side of a dollar seemed dark. Puck. Getting most out of life consists mainly in allowing worry to get the least. Baltl- ' more American. . The Allison presidential boom has Incurred the support of Charles A. Dana. Chicago Dispatch. We are slow to find out that long before we were born the devil learned how to hide his cloven hoof. Ram's Horn. The young onion is now in the market and the confirmed vegetarian is growing stronger day by day. Chicago Post. People who want to get their pictures in the newspapers should apply to the patent medicine men. Atlanta Constitution. Sign in front of clothing Etore in Texas town: "Owing to the low price of cotton, all-wool suits marked down to $7.98." Life. Just because her home life doesn't happen to be happy, Spain needn't think she can be cross with strangers. Detroit Free Press. Helen Gould goes ahead acquiring knowledge like a young woman who intends to quarantine against the title craze. Washington post. Mr. Joaquin Miller appears to think that poetic license entitles a man to make an eggregious Democratic party of . himself. Kansas City Journal. Anna Dickinson demanded $1,000,000 from Jay Gould and universal suffrage from Governor Pattl3on, but received neither. -Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. "You don't seem to hold a very high opinion of the latter-day woman." "I don't. She ha ceased to be a lady and has not yet succeeded in becoming a gentleman." Life. . .. ; A Problem. Harper's Magazine. Among the many slaves upon the plantation of a distinguished Southerner during the late war was a blind and decrepit old woman known as Aunt ldy. Aunt Icly, for some reason best known to herself, thought to better her condition by taking the oath of allegiance. One of the younger members, hearing what had taken place, went to "ole miss" 10 get the solution, and after being told her friend had sworn to support the Constitution of the United States, exclaimed. 'To' de Lohd! I don't know how Aunt ldy Is gwine to s'pote the United States, when she can't s'pole herself." Sonntl Doetrlne on School Question. Robert Grant. In Scrlbner. The private schools In our cities are eagerly patronized by that not inconsiderable class of parents who hope or Imagine that the social position of their children is to he established by association with the children of influential people. Falsehood, meanness" and unworthy ambitions are quite a dangerous to character, when the little man who suggests them has no patches on hi 3 breeches as when he has, and unfortunateiv them are no outward sins on the mora,! nature, like holes In trousers, to. .-erve aa danger signals to our darling. Then again, tho' of us who occupy vomfortaM'j hoMses In desirable localtti? vl'A t nr?nv f ml nn

Investigation that thp average of the clam s of children which attend tlv? ubUo nchool 1 In such a il.trk- is much superior to what paternal or maternal fancy has painted, lu J suioh a ditrk:t the children of the ignorant j emirrart cl s are not to le found tn larg numbers. The pupils consist mainly of the rank and tile of th native American popuj la t ion, whose tendencies and capacities for j pood have always been, and continue to be.

me u;iM3 01 our sirentn as a people. -A PA R 1 S Ml I.I TA It Y rASIC. Remarkable Scene in thmt C ity on the liny of Cnrnnt'i Funeral. Richard Harding Davis, in Harper's Magazine. The unpleasant incident f the day wad one which was unfortunateiv acted In full .view of the balconlt'S of the hoteia-Meu-rice and Continental. These were occupied by most of the foreigners viitinr Pari, and were virtually the grand islands of the spectacle. In the Rue Castigllone. which separated the two hotel, and in full sight of the critical on-lookers. a horse wa taken with the blind staggers and - upset a stand, throwing those who sat upon it out into the street. In an instnnt the crash of th falling timbers and the cries of the half dozen men and women who bad been ireripitated into the street struck panic into the crowd of eifrhtseera on the pavement and among the firemen who wrere at that moment marching past. The terror of another dynamite outrage was in the mind of all, and without waiting to learn what had happened or to even looky the thousand of people broke Into a confused max of screaming, terrified creatures, running madly in every direction and changing tha quiet solemnity of the moment into a seen of horror and panic?. The firemen dropped the wreath they were carrylnc and tied with the crowd; and then the French soldiers who were lining the pavement, to the astonishment and disgust of the Americans and English on the balconies, who were looking down like spectators at a play, tucked their gun . under their arms and joined in th mad rush for safety. It was a sight that made even the women on the balconies keep silence. In shame for them. It was, pathetic, ridiculous and Inexcusable, and the boy officer on- duty would have gained the sympathy of the unwilling spectator had they cut their men down with their swords, and shown the others that he who- runs away from a falling grandstand Is not needed to live to fight a German army later. It Is true that tho men who ran away were only boys fresh from the provinces, with dull minds filled with the fear of what an Anarchist might do; but it showed i lack of discipline that should have made the directors of the salon turn the military pictures in that gallery to the wall, until the picture exhibited in the line de Oastiglione was effaced from the minds of the visiting strangers. Imagine a squad of New York policemen running away from a horsa with the blind Btager. and not, on the contrary, seizing the chance to club every one within reach back to the sidewalk. Remember the London bobby who carried a dynamite bomb in hi hand from the 'nail of the House of Parliament, and the Chicago police who walked Into a real Anarchist mob over the bodies of their comrados, and who - answered tho terrifying bomb with the popping of the'r revolvers. AMERICAN CAMELS 1XCREASIXG Despite the Fact That They Ar Ilntcliered nnI Sold urn reef. San Francisco Examiner. F. M. Campbell, who has been for some time at the famous Gunsight mine, near the line of southern Arizona, pays the camels of the desert are Increasing very rapidly, and that there are now between three and four hundred of them. Thi is surprising, he says, considering the large number that have been killed and palmed Off for beef in the last few years, and the inroads made upon the hands by passing showmen. Mr. Campbell gave some interesting details of these tawny denizens of the waste places, introduced so many years aro by Ben Butterworth and now grown wild. "These hulking animals." he said, "roam mainly between the Gila and Colorado rivers. In a stretch of the low Eagle Tall mountains and the desert adjoining. There is very fine bunch grass in that region, and the camels keep in good condition. I have several times seen as many as eight often In a band, arid most of them are very large. "Different person have been there from time to time catching them for the circuses. That Is the source of supply now for all the shows. The hunters go out In bands of half a dozen on mules, as horses would be of no account. Tho camels, cumbersome as they look, run very fast, and only mules are enduring enough in that tough country to wear them out. - The hunters etretch out, surround a band, and out of ten or a dozen manage to cut out and stay by a couple, wearing them out and catching them finally with lassos. The camel are very wild at first, but speedily tame down, and the showmen jan do anything they please with them. "I was or nearly two years there mining, and myself and men were furnished with camel meat right along, and thought it very good. We paid 25 cents a pound- for a good deal of it, and we thought it as good as beef we had usually eaten. The old prospectors, who had turned to peddling meat, never said a word to us, but took their pay regularly to go away and come back again. At last we found out it was nothing but the cameTs meat which they were furnishing! us. Then we began to draw the line. t "If the meat sclleis and circus people would let the camels alone for nwhllo they would Increase much faster. The animals are Interesting to see on the desert, and do no harm." TUB AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPH EIU A Drendfnl Calamity to Have to Llv In the IIoohc with One. New York Evening Sun. Some uay, when the punishment 1 fixed to fit the crime, the worst thing that can befall a criminal will not be death by electricity or hanging, or even by drawing or quartering No, the most henious of offenders will be punished by no such mild processes as these. He will be doomed to dwell under the same roof with an amateur photographer, and the worse the crime, the more enthusiastic will be the amateur photographer and the smaller will be the roof that cover them. Jt is only under condition limited us to space that the amateur photographer rises to hi full powers of diabolical annovance. He is not a pleasant companion at any time, this amateur whose talk is all of plate and processes, whose finger and clothes are fearfully, wonderfully and chemically affected, and whose mind is all ana aiways upon the one topic. But when he is at close rang he Is particularly and unspeakably awful. Every room in Uie house is turred into a dark room, should ho bo-demand it, bathrooms preferred, as having running water and being especially inconvenieni for tho rest of the household. Furniture and hanjtIngs aie looked upon as merely so many scenic accessories. Many a time entrance is denied callers becauso tho hails and drawing room are In tne fct of being taken, and .must not be disturbed or disarranged. That valuable utensil, the clothes horse. Is no longer available for laundry aervlce. When draped with curtains, there's nothing like them for a background, say he of the camera. The worst and most humiliating time of all, however, is when the amateur photographer i seized with a passion for portraiture, and Insists upon perpetuating the features of his unfortunate family in a manner as revolting to art a it is to vanity. He thinks nothing, either of display, lng these awful likenesses upon all occasions, his mind being concerned only with their technical Instead of their personal aspect. Only the strongest tie of affection can render his presence at all supportable. He la simply au infliction and a 'torture. His true place In society Is be?!de the thumb-screw, -the gallows or the whippingpost, where ho would at least be of some practical service. . .. HOW TO Hl. A PAPER. This Man Would Make I 0 11 Nctts paper Between DrlitUs. Atlanta Constitution. , " It Is understood that everybody think he knows how to run a newspaper. A gentleman told me how to run one the other day. He Is a very prominent professional gentleman. . . "I would have a fine building," said he. "and on the first Jloor would be a cafe. There my stall would board and drink. In the center would be a big table, around which my Mali meetings would be held. I would sit at the head, and everv man would order his favorite drink. After the drinks we would map out the next day's paper. Then we would drink a few more times and proceed to work. I would have a proirunent social Iwnisr on my tatf, a religious man who took leading parta In grayer meetings, a tough and a ward heeler la fact, a man from every walk or life. I would have a thorough rapcr. Vhvn I got into a political fi?ht 1 would get the name of ad my opponent's constituents and Fend them tne paper. I would whip that man. I would kiv ureat attention to the cafe and saloon feature, and I would have the. most influential unJ ne per in the world." A Serloun Question. Harper's Magazine. A young housekeeper who lives In a mt!l Kentucky town had occasion to epi inland her coo for n-srler tin.-; hr dufc. "Wf I!, Alls I .aura, ' V ! worrltM was tiieily. "I's. PUMyln' a r.-ot Vtant tiuethin.. -f' da . trme. I !. kn-n which to gr-t, a n intev cloak or u U'.voiu e.,; Mai! bsgs can now j on n" j (. Vvered tntm tr.t'-i n h'.zv.' r at