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The burden of advice from returning Klondikers to those who contemplate going is “Don’t.” The excellent Mr. Smith has been manufacturing wheels so long that he seems to have got some of them into his head. So many principles as the C. F. Smith party presents seems too largo an assortment for a mayor to carry into effect alone. Soma of the county fairs in this State have secured Healer Schrader and his new wife for attractions, while several in Missouri have booked W. Jennings Bryan. ‘‘A general rise in prices,” says Bryan, “should be followed by a rise in wages.” So it should be, so it has been in many cases already, and so it will be generally if ha will wait. If Mr. Smith had been a machine politician he would not have opened a campaign for the mayoralty by toiling the people that they needed to be instructed by kindergarten methods. The Taggart administer ais a business one in the same sense t the Cleveland administration was. It r e? debts, borrows money to meet cui expenses and piles up an Interest accou The St. Louis Republic its Interview’s with a number of local laoor leaders, all of whom repudiate Debs’s recent anarchistic utterances In that city, and some of the most prominent declare that such utterances injure the labor cause. “The closer we look into the details us the arrangements binding Europe,” says' the London Spectator, ’ the clearer it becomes that no one of the great powers can move without Russia.” In chess parlance that i3 checkmate for the rest of the powers. The latest claim of the free silverites and pessimists is that speculators have got more profit out of the rise In wheat than the farmers have. No matter what the speculators have made the farmers are not complaining. On the contrary, they have not been as happy for y*ears. It has been said of some persons after a rough experience that they are not so handsome but they know more. Mr. Bryan does not know a bit more than he did before he •was run over by public opinion last November. His reasoning powers are still in an embryotic state and he is color blind as to facts. The long strike has been a dead loss to both the operators and miners in the coal of Indiana. The operators had no stocks on hand when the strike came, while most of the miners could have been at work the past six weeks at' rates five cents a ton higher than will rule when the strike is over. A large employer of labor in New York city is quoted as saying on Saturday, “There is no reason why any skilled mechanic in New York who wants work should not be able to obtain it.” And yet there is an army of unemployed, consisting mainly of persons who do not want to work and of those who do not know how to do anything useful. Governor Tanner, of Illinois, is being censured for summarily removing Mrs. Florence Kelley from the office of state factory inspector and appointing a person who is understood to be opposed to the strict enforcement of the child labor law. A law of that kind is worthless unless those intrusted with its enforcement are in sympathy with it. The Bloomfield (Ind.) News says that the lust meeting of the free silverites in Green county was held in a cave, and asks: "If they have taken to the dark caverns at the dawn of prosperity, where, oh, where, 'Will they hold their meetings at the noonday of Republican prosperity, which is fast approaching?” Pet laps they will retire into a cave and pull it In after them. The price of silver cannot be doubled by coinage so long as the world is saturated with the white metal, and so long as there are an abundance of mines in which silver can be produced at 40 cents an ounce. Men may argue the possibility of 16 to I based upon metal values, but all th© facts are against it. Silver is no longer a precious metal. Late advices from Hawaii indicate that Japanese aggression in the islands is assuming a serious aspect Jmd that Japan will abate nothing of Us protest against annexation. Her attitude on this question should not cause any change in the policy of the United States, b*t at the same time this government hftoultPkeep itself well informed regarding Japanese schemes in Hawaii. In his latest syndicate paper at so much per column Mr. Bryan says: "If the rise in wheat will enable the farmers'“to pay their interest more promptly ahd have money left to buy merchandise, how much greater would be the general benefit if the rise extended to all agricultural products." Perhaps he would be kinc. enough to name

a farm product that has not experienced a decided advance within the last few months. Wheat, corn, potatoes, wool, live stock of all kinds—all the principal agricultural products have advanced. Intelligent Republicans do not claim that this is wholly due to a Republican administration, but they have a right to congratulate themselves that it comes under a Republican administration. - * ••¥ HARDING AND SMITH. Mr. C. F. Smith has issued his manifesto and thereby contributed a little more to the general festivity of the municipal campaign. Suppose we take Mr. Smith for a moment as seriously as he appears to take himself. What can be the result of his campaign if he should succ<Ad in making any headway? He is not so foolish as to suppose for a moment that he can be elected mayor. His professed object is to start an independent movement in hls capacity as a wealthy and successful business man. The only possible result he can accomplish is to draw votes from Mr. Harding, not because he has been a Republican for a very few years, but because his acquaintances in business are for th’e most part Republicans, and because any movement appealing to the business element must draw its support, if it gets any, almost exclusively from the Republican ranks. Nobody realizes this any more thoroughly than do the Democratic leaders, and hence the encouragement given Mr. Smith by the Democratic organs. If there is any reason why any Republican should desert Mr. Harding to vot'e for Mr. Smith or any other man, the Journal would like to have that reason pointed out. Mr. Harding has lived in this community all his life, and his life among us has been an open book that any of his fel-low-citizens is privileged to read. Like his fath’er before him, he is a plain man of the people who has earned for himself an honorable place in the community. He is a good lawyer, and his practice has been among the people, and not of the character that warps the sympathies of an attorney in favor of rich corporations who are his clients. He has not been a corporation lawyer, and therein lies the reason why h'e has not become rich, though his profession has made him a comfortable living income. He has once held office in Marion county, and in the administration of that office acquitted himself with honor and credit. He is not a man of great pretensions, but he hafe the reputation of always making good what he promises and more. In his profession h’e is thoroughly respected as a good lawyer, and in every relation of life he has shown himself to be a capable and straightforward man and a good citizen. Nobody has ever questioned his integrity or his honesty of purpose, nor can anybody question bis ability to conduct th’e affairs of the city as they should be conducted. TWO CLASSES OF LEADERS. The Journal has more frequently failed to agree than to be in accord with President Gompers, of the Federation of Labor. It disagreed with him in 1892. when he expressed the opinion that the tariff has little to do with the scale'of wages paid in the United States. It disagreed with him last year on the silver question, but commended him for refusing to yield to an effort to commit his organization to the silver cause. He has always opposed making labor organizations the aids of party, and he has fought the socialistic elements in the federation. He refused to join Debs in his insurrection in 1894 by opposing the scheme for a general strike. It is not a matter of surprise that the noisy and inconsiderate element in certain labor organizations is now opposed to Mr. Gompers, and that one of that class assailed him venomously and trades unions generally in a Pittsburg meeting on Sunday. Mr. Gompers did not believe that a general strike such as Debs and Sovereign advocated to help the coal miners was a wise policy. There is reason to believe that a large majority of the members of the trades unions, representing the intelligence of the federation, were in accord with President Gompers. All those who do not regard such men as Debs and Sovereign as wise men hold that their scheme for a general strike to help the miners is preposterous. It would have led to widespread confusion and distress—conditions which the Debses and Sovereigns court because they are the natural leaders of whatever tends to lawlessness and violence. It is just here that the ways of labor organizations seem to be about to part. An element led by radicals like Debs a.nd Sovereign will pursue the policy they advocate, while the larger and more influential body of trades unions will select such men as Gompers and Sargent to manage their organizations. The latter will devote their efforts to secure legislation benefiting labor and for closing the gates to unrestricted immigration, which is the enemy home labor has most to fear. The element led by Debs and Sovereign will devote itself to fermenting strikes, issuing edicts, preaching lawlessness and otherwise promoting conditions which are destructive of employment. A SU PPOSITITIOUS CASE. Everybody in this country respects honest labor and sympathizes with every movement that tends to promote its interests. There is not a person of right feeling in the United States who would not rejoice to see every workingman steadily employed the year round at much better wages than they now receive. This feeling makes everybody approve of Labor day. It is deemed especially fitting in a country where ninetonths of the people do something for a livelihood that one day in the year should be sot apart for the special exploitation of labor and the enjoyment of all who wish to participate therein. In this spirit most of the States have made Labor day a legal holiday, as has Congress also in the District of Columbia and the Territories. In accordance with these laws government offices, including the departments in Washington and the postoffices throughout the country, are closed on that day, as are also banks and business houses. All this is done in recognition of the merits of labor, and all classes of the community cheerfully acquiesce, though it causes some inconvenience to business. But let us suppose another case. All must admit that capital and capitalists are as necessary to the prosperity of the country as labor and workingmen. In fact, many capitalists work more hours a day than any of their employes do. But, whether they work more or fewer hours a majority of them work hard. The true view of the industrial question is that capital is labor; that production is composed of two factors, both labor-~the labor that receives wages and the labor that pays wages, it takes as much labor to get and pay the wages as it does to earn and receive them. But if one deny this one cannot deny that capital is quite as important in its way and

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place as labor. That being* the case, suppose we should have Capital day as well as Labor day. Suppose that a majority of the States and Congress should make Capital day a legal holiday, and that the government departments, banks and business houses should close. Suppose that on that day the capitalists of the country.' including the bankers, railroad magnates, millionaires, manufacturers, merchants and employers of all kinds should come together to have a good deal to say in opposition to labor. Would the laboring men of the country acquiesce in such an observance of Capital day as cheerfully as capitalists, business men and the community generally now do in the observance of Labor day? Would laboring men consent to lose a day’s work and wages while their employers celebrated Capital day as cheerfully as manufacturers and business men now close in honor of Labor day? We are not saying that Labor day is not a good institution—it certainly is, if rightly observed—but sometimes it is instructive to look at matters from a nev joint of view, and in this case it is worth while to ask if workingmen would coi ntenalnce, encourage and approve of the celebration of Capital day to the extent tha: capitalists do of Labor day. The new organization called the American Railway League may prove to be something of a power in politics and legislation. Railroad men constitute so large and intelligent a class and they have so many organizations among themselves that they can easily perfect a larger one. The objects of the new organization are said to be better legislation on railroad matters, better feeling between employers and employes, and giving better effect to the political power wtych railroad men possess. The president of the organization says: It will be primarily a political organization, working in a broau-minded way for the welfare of all railway men, whether they are working on the road tor wages or whether they are the owners and officials. There are many things in the way of legislation which will be as valuable to the railroad proprietors as to the wage earners, and will at the same time be beneficial to the g -neral public. These are tilings which should be made compulsory by law, but are not included in existing legislation because no one has taken the trouble to work for them. That is the province which we shall make ours. The organizers of the movement disclaim all sympathy with strikes or with anarchism and Debsism, and say they will seek to secure good government by the cooperation of employers and employes. So far as appears the aims and objects of the organization are entirely praiseworthy, but the separate organization of any particular class for political action or the purpose of influencing legislation is open to some objection. In a republic the only true bases of political organization are individual conviction and the general welfare. The Louisville Courier-Journal tells of a citizen of that place who owns a ranch of fifty-threo thousand acres in Mexico, half of which is planted in coffee and the remainder devoted to raising cattle. He employs about 250 men, who receive 50 cents a day and board themselves. In transmitting money for their payment the gentleman sends New York exchange and has it converted into Mexican dollars at the rate of three for one, so that $1 of American money pays six days’ wages. That is the kind of a wage system the Bryanites would have in this country. On the first of this month a law went into effect in New York prohibiting the sale of a railroad ticket at a less price than the card rate of the railroad issuing it. The obvious intent of the law is to do away with'the “scalping” business, but it will be impossible of enforcement and would probably be held unconstitutional if tested. The legal owner of a railroad ticket has a right to sell it for w’hat he pleases, th© same as the owner of a bushel of wheat. In Debs’s last speech in St. Louis, in which he eulogized the Anarchists hanged at Chicago as “those four brave men” and declared that “the best government is no government at all,” he made no allusion to his socialist colony scheme nor has he in any speech recently. The inference is that the scheme is a flat failure, financially and otherwise, and that Debs has dropped it for anarchism. He is finding his level. BURBLES IN THE AIR. Too Ardent. “May I print a kiss on those ruby lips?” “You mav." **••** “There! I didn’t say they were to be printed in italics.” Connubial Love. do you love me as much as you did when we were first married? He —Oh, more. You have become one of my habits by this time, so to speak. The Rone and the Thorn. “And now,” remarked the genial gentleman as he arose from the club table, “after an evening of pleasure, I now go home to about three hours of displeasure.” A Lynching Party. Tourist—ls it the proper thing to wear a dress suit to a party out here? Rubberneck Bill—lt ain’t been aw fate so fur, but if you feel like tryin’ it. I guess we kin get up a party fer you. special. At a meetling last week the Teachers’ Institute of Morgan county. West Virginia, passed the following: Resolved. That as a body of teachers we condemn the use of alcohol and tobacco by the teachers, and we also condemn the habit of those male teachers who sit in the schoolroom with their hair parted in the middle and their pants in their boot tops. The use of alcohol and tobacco by teachers is a bad example for children, and the wearing of "pants” in the boot tops is not very good form, but there is no moral principle involved in parting the hair in the middle. The Morgan County Institute seems not to know that that is the vogue. J. L. P., Kokomo: A clause in the injunction issued, by Judge Jackson reads as follows: And the defendants are further restrained from assembling in the paths, approaches and roads upon the property leading to and from their homes and residences to the mines, along which the employes of the Monongah Coal and Coke Company are compelled to travel to get to them, or in any way interfering with the employes of said company in passing to and from their work, either by threats, menaces or intimidation; and the defendants are further restrained from entering the said mines and interfering with the employes in their mining operations within said mines or assembling upon said property at or near the entrance of said mines. This is the clause which has been con, strued by the marchers as prohibiting them from walking on the public highway. Its phraseology is not clear, and it may be susceptible of that construction, and yet the prohibition seems to be qualified by limitations. It certainly could not be construed to prohibit miners from walking quietly along the highway, and it only seems to be applicable to the case of marching with the object and intention of interfering with employes of the company on their way to and from work, either by threats, menaces or intimidation. A common highway is open to all persons for peaceable and legitimate purposes, but no class of men has a right to obstruct the highways or use them to the exclusion of another, and the trying to keep men from work by threats, menaces

or Intimidation Is always unlawful, whether on a public highway or anywhere else. As already stated, the language of the order is somewhat vague, but It certainly would not prevent the use of the public highways by the miners for any legitimate purpose. The Madison Courier issues a handsome picture of its new postoffice building as a supplement. It is a unique structure for a public building, being one story in height, with a pitched roof and dormer windows, the architectural style being that called Romanesque—very different in appearance from the hospital-like or prison-lik© structures that serve the needs of the government elsewhere. It is built of stone, is complete in every part, and will be a> picturesque addition to the town. VIEWS OF INDIANA EDITORS. The Wilson bill helped importations, the Dingley bill will defend against them.—Elkhart Review. It is about time Bryan had turned a carrier pigeon or two loose. He must not allow himself to drop out of sight.—Greensburg Standard. So long as the greenbacks are outstanding our fiancial system may be said to be unsound. They should be redeemed and retired.—Middletown News. When Mr. Bryan looks over the small list of engagements he has booked ahead it is easy to understand why he can see no evidence of returning prosperity.—Fort Wayne Gazette. The secret confession of the Popocrat, when he is racing over the country buying shec-p and making money is, thank God, our enemies saved us from ourselves. —Pendleton Republican. Wheat and corn, and flour, and wool are up, and the Dingley bill is opening the machine shops and stirring the smoldering fires of furnaces, and a change is seen along the line.—Knightstown Sun. Workingmen in the United States may congratulate themselves that they rejected last year the proposition to place the American dollar on the same basis as the Metxican dollar.—Martin County Tribune. When farm products were low the 16 to 1 fellows claimed that it was the “appreciation” of gold. Now that prices nave largely advanced wonder if they will attribute it to the “depreciation of gold.” —Parke County Journal. The declining value of silver and the consequent financial disorder have so demoralized public sentiment in Mexico that Mr. Bryan would hardly be received in that country at anything like his own valuation of himself.—Vincennes Commercial. Money flows westward in abundance to pay for and to transport the tremendous crops. "Scarcity of money,” a theme of Bryanites last year, was really a scarcity of opportunities for money to find employment.—Seymour Republican. While the people are watching the wheat market, let them keep an eye on corn, and hogs, and rye. and cattle, and horses. In fact let them keep an eye on nearly everything that the farmer has to sell. There is an upward tendency in every thing.—Tipton Advocate. The old Democratic “gag” about increased prices under the new tariff law is not being heard this tin e—the reason is that the average Democrat knows that protests agaffist protection are not longer popular with the people of this country.—Wabash Tribune. . Now while business is good and no panic on hand, is the time to reform our currency system and get it on a solid basis. The gold can carry our present stock of silver, but the government should be relieved from furnishing gold on demand with r.o v, ay to replenish its stock without selling bonds.—Bloomfield News. There is no way of telling what views Jefferson and Jackson might entertain were they living at this time. So let Democracy be happy in the thought that if the two patriots were alive they would be in line; that they would be shouting madly for a cheap dollar; that they would be howling for government fiat.—Lafayette Courier. Democratic tariff reform plunged the country into misery and idleness. Protection is putting the people to work and making them happy and contented. If nature is helping the Republicans in the grand work of restoring .prosperity, then the Republicans and everybody else ought to be supremely Times. Lewis Leaeli, one of our best farmers, had faith in Republican prosperity and prices. When Cleveland was elected and wool dropped steadily until it reached ten cents he refused to sell his crop of wool and has continued each year to store his wool. Saturday he brought it to Salem and received the price he said would he realized under Rt publican prosperity and his 2,000 pounds went for 20 cents per pound. —Salem Republican Leader. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS, t An Englishman estimates that the earnings of Sarah Bernhardt for the last twen-ty-five years have amounted to more than $1,000,000. Dickens left $500,000 to his children, but all of his descendants are said to be poor. Not a writer of first-class ability has appeared among them. The amount of capital invested in the manufacture of bicycle tires in the United States is estimated by an exchange at $8,000,000, the number of persons employed at 3,000 and the number of tires produced annually at 4,000,000. The Duke of Veragua, the direct lineal descendant of Christopher Columbus, draws the perpetual pension of £4,000, granted by the Spanish government to the heirs of the great discoverer forever. The pension is charged to the Cuban revenues. In forty-four years, starting on a capital of skill, industry and hopeful endeavor, William Steinway. the piano manufacturer, bu It up a business which is now about to oe sold to an English syndicate at from $6.00v 000 to $10,000,000. Besides this he left a fortune of several millions. Mr. Hall Caine's new story. “The Christian,” has already been produced in dramatic form at Douglas, in the Isle of Man, to an audience at £1 a head, the author taking the part of John Storm. Mrs. Caine that of Polly Love, Miss Caine that of Glory Quayle, and Master Ralph Caine that of Brother Andrew. An examination was made of some electric belts sold by a street fakir at Ottawa. It was found that beneath a strip of gauze was a layer of dry mustard. When the wearer perspired a little the mustard was moistened and set up a burning sensation, and the deluded victim believed a current of electricity was passing through him. The members of the Edinburgh Corporation who went over Holyroom House with the King of Siam had a very bad time of it, for he eagerly cross-examined them on several points of Scotch history, discovering himself to be much better acquainted with the subject than his conductors. The King’s questions as to some of the portraits were complete posers to the civic magnates. A Chicago boy’s ingenuity has brought to light the fact that an ordinary chair serves for a convenient bicycle rack. In cleaning a wheel most people find it difficult to keep the machine steady, and at such times a rack is badly needed. This little chap has discovered that to turn the chair over, hook the handle of his bicycle on the rear legs and rest the saddle on the back, he has access to all the working parts, and can manipulate it at will. The memoirs of Rubenstein, just issued in Russia and Germany, contain many epigrammatic sayings, of which these are samples: “I am a Christian in the eyes of the Jews, a Jew in the eyes of Christians; Russians regard me as a German, the Germans say that I am a Rusian. Those who believe in classic music claim that I compose music of the future; the Wagnerites call me a renegade. Consequently I am neither fish nor fowl—a nondescript individual.” “An artist giving a concert should not demand an entrance fee. but should ask the public to pay, just before leaving, as much as they like. From the sum taken he would l>e able to judge what the public think of him. and we would have less concerts, anyhow.” Oh, give me a cot In the valley I love— Most any old spot With the blue sky above; And valley, in fact. ’Cepe the valley of Swat! —Cleveland Plaindealer. Full many a man. both wise and good, Has in a pauper's grave been laid. For virtues are not understood That are not constantly displayed. He is a failure who would win Through nothing but his honest worth; You must keep up a constant din To let folks know you are on earth. —Cleveland Leader.

TWO NOTABLE NOVELS. The Christian, Mr. Hall Caine's Latest Contribution to Fiction. Mr. Hall Caine has lately said in a newspaper interview' that he spent three years upon his new’ book. “The Christian"—one year in gathering the materials, one year in writing the story and another in rewriting it. It" ho had taken another year and had cut the volume down at least one-third in its length he would have improved it. It is too long and covers too much ground to be artistic or to hold the reader's interest throughout. It seems to have been the author’s purpose to bring every phase of London life into his story, and he has come near doing it, though with what accuracy is a question. The “materials’’ w’hich he so industriously gathered and put together include a fashionable clergyman who is used to represent the church in its decadent state, a hospital, a baby farm, an Anglican brotherhood, high social functions, a music hall, a theater, a cabinet council, a Derby day, an orphanage, the slums in general and a long list of personages who testify these various scenes and conditions. The novel was announced in advance as a development of the idea of Christian socialism, and it was also said that the writer meant to show the impossibility of living a thoroughly Christ-like life under modern conditions. Neither of these statements seems to be fully borne out. It is distinctly stated in the opening chapter that the hero, John Storm, became a Christian Socialist, and, disregarding the plans for a public career made him by his father, entered the church, but beyond that the theory figures very little. As for the second assertion, while Storm certainly endeavored to lead a religious life, his attitude towards thp w r orld was not Christlike. He did not feel love towards it, but. anger; he had no sympathy, nor had he an understanding of humanity enabling him to see that all grades of society, whatever their special iniquities, struggled upward. He saw’ the sins of individuals, and stamped all the men and women in their respective circles as equally corrupt and given to evil. The hero and heroine both corr.e from the Isle of Man. The former, John Storm, is the son of a lord who lives as a recluse upon the island, and nephew of the prime minister. The heroine is Glory an orphan, whose father had been a missionary, her mother the daughter of a French actress. The clergyman has “a forehead like an arched wall. The lower part of his face seemed heavy under t'le splendid fire of the eyes." The girl is “taller than the common; one of her eyes had a brown spot, w’hich gave at the first glance the effect of a squint, at the next glance a. coquettish expression and ever after a sense of tremendous power and passion. Her voice startled you with its depth. While standing in the same place her feet were always shuffling.’’ The story opens with the taking leave of their island home, he to enter upon church work in London, she to become a hospital nurse. Glory, a girl of twenty, is put into Storm’s cure by her grandfather, a simple-minded Manx clergyman, who feels confident that she could have no better guardian. The vicissitudes of the lives of these two personages in London make up the story. Glory spends six months in the hospital, then becomes a singer in music halls, then a popular actress. Storm accepts a curacy. hut after denouncing ihe congregation and the canon for their hypocrisy and wickedness he enters an Anglican brotherhood, breaks his vows, wants to follow' Father Damien, reenters the brotherhood comes out, becomes a missionary in the slums, leads the people to believe the w’orld is coming to an end, goes mad, tries to mqrder the actress, recovers his mind, and, having lost prestige with the mob, is brutally attacked and mortally wounded. The girl, who is light-mind-ed, though so talented, is sobered by Storm's misfortunes, realizes her love for him, renounces her theatrical career and marries him on his deathbed in a most theatrical manner. In spite of all the overcrow’ding of events and rapid change of scene the two chief characters are not lost sight of, but are kept well to the front, and though neither is agreeable to associate with, whatever of interest the book contains centers in their proceedings and fate. In spite of this fact and of chapters and passages of much force and intensity, the impression gathered from the book as a w’hole is not one of genuineness and sincerity. Glory’s letters home are a feature of the book, being scattered through it to the end, and more remarkable epistles were never made to pass for those of an unsophisticated maid w’ho had lived almost without other companions than her unworldly grandfather and two maiden aunts. After she has been in the hospital for a few weeks she goes to a “nurses’ ball” w’ith a fellow’-nurse, w’ho, as it turns out, was not a discreet young person. There she makes the acquaintance of two titled gentlemen, who, a few nights later, take the tw’o girls to the theater. A-fter the theater they take tea in the gentlemen’s rooms. Glory, who is represented as telling everything to her family, writes of this episode thus: “But tlie best sport was after tea was over, and Glory was called on for imitations of the people we had seen at the theater. Os course, she couldn’t imitate a man while she was in a woman's frock, so, being as bright as diamonds that night and twice ‘as impudent as a white stone,’ she actually conceived the idea of dressing up in a man’s clothes. Naturally the gentlemen were enchanted, so I hope Auntie Rachel isn’t terribly shocked. Mr. Drake lent me his knickerbockers and a velvet jacket, and Polly and I went into the bedroom, w’here she helped me to find the way to put them on. With my own blouse and my own hat (I am wearing a felt one now with a broad brim and a feather), and, of course, my own slippers and stockings, I made a bogh of a boy, I can tell you. I thought Polly would have died with delight in the bedroom, but when we came out she kept covering her face and crying, ‘Glory, how can you?’ ” From a letter describing her hospital life this passage is taken: "On Saturday it was a little boy of five w’ho had* his leg amputated, and now when you ask the white-faced darling where lie’s going to he says he’s going to the angels and he’ll get lots of gristly pork up there. He is, too. The personnel of our vineyard is abundant, but there are various sour grapes growing about. The house surgeon is a young fellow named Abery, and since Saturday h© has so much respect for Glory that she might swear in his presence (in Manx), but Sister Allworthy takes care that she doesn’t, having designs on his celibacy herself. He must have sung his Te Deum after the operation, for he got gloriously drunk and wanted to inject morphine into a patient recovering from trouble of the kidneys. It was an old hippopotamus of a German named Koenig.” Mr Caine says in an interview that he submitted his story to various experts before publication in order to prove the correctness of his delineations of the various phases of life. He must have omitted a hospital manager, else he would not have assigned a nurse who had been in training but a week to the care of a surgical case. It is evident that a lesson of some sort is meant to be taught by this remarkable book, but it is h ss evident what the lesson Is. John Storm is a fanatic, whose creed is first renunciation and then denunciation. He is morbid and ill balanced and mistakes his love for a woman for love for the Lord; the woman is pert, slangy and silly, and after 340 pages of their adventures most readers will close the volume with relier, sure that in spite of the long series of ghastly portrayals the world is not the hopelessly unhappy place Mr. Caine has pictured it. The book is from the press of Appleton & Cos., New York. Jerome: A Poor Man, In her novel, “Jerome: A Poor Man,’’ Miss Mary E. Wilkins has made a much greater success than in any of her former sustained works of fiction. It has a unitylacking in “Pembroke” and an air of truthfulness to nature not found in “Madelon.” The scene, as in all her stories, short or long, is laid in a small New England village, and some of the people she depicts have the same intensity of nature whieft distinguishes all her characters—some of them, not all. The hero, Jerome, is of stern make, but his sweetheart, Lucina, is of tne gentlest mold, and her father is a largehearted, generous man, with none of the flintiness possessed by some of his neighbors. In two or three other personages amiable qualities prevail, and altogether the community is more agreeable than tile writer is wont to permit. Every character presented, even those who figure in a minor way, stands out vividly. She portrays them with but few touches, but with the hand of an artist who knows how to produce an effect desired with absolute precision. Jerome’s mother is a nervous invalid, the like of whom is known to every one—irritable, fretful, resentful toward the world, yet full of eager Interest in the affairs of her limited circle and dominant in her family. Jerome’s father, who scarcely appears in the story, is rather shadowy, but It is plain to be seen that he is a man without force enough of character to stand up under the awful pressure of poverty. This

poverty, as it is pictured, is one of the most impressive things in the book; this and the pride that its victims possess and that enables them to endure the extreme of penury rather than to betray their neea. This trait is inimitably brought out in tne case of Jerome’s mother when she accepts a bird from a hunter’s gamebag only when it is made clear that it is offered oniy because the neighbor has more than his family can use, and not because he has a suspicion that food is needed. It is pride that animates Jerome, that makes him determine to pay his father’s debts without help, that keeps hint at the hardest work for years and that finally leads him to withdraw from the society of his beloved Lucina because he cannot come to her with a full purse. One of the prettiest scenes in the book is where fair, sweet, modest Lucina, unable to understand the discontinuance of his visits and fearing that she has offended him. seeks him out. On a Sunday afternoon she walks across the meadow and into the woods with the vague hope of meeting Jerome and finds him asleep under a tree. “Lucina, her body bent aloof with an indescribable poise of delicacy and the impulse of flight, yet looked at her sleeping lover until her whole heart seemed to feed itself through her eyes. As she looked at him her remembrance of old days so deepened and intensified that they seemed to close upon the present and the future. Love, even when it has apparently no past, is at once a memory and a revelation. Lucina saw the little lover of her innocent childish dreams asleep there, she saw- the poor boy who had gone hungry and barefoot, she saw the young man familiar in the strangeness of the future. And more than that, Lucina, who had hitherto shown fully to her awakening heart only her thought of Jerome, having never dared to look at him and love him at the same time, now- gazed boldly at him asleep, and a sense of a great mystery came over her. In Jerome she seemed to see herself also, the unity of the man and woman in love dawned ux>on her maiden imagination. She felt as if Jerome’s hands were her hands, his breath hers. ’I never knew he looked like me before,’ site thought with awe. Then suddenly Jerome, with no stir of awakening, opened his eyes and looked at her. Often, on arousing from a deep sleep, one has a sense of calm and wonderless observation as of anew birth. Jerome looked for a moment at Lucina with no surprise. In anew w-orld all things may be, and impossibilities become commonplaces. Then he sprang up and went close to her. ‘ls it you?’ he said in a sobbing voice.” “Lucina looked at him piteously. She wanted to run away, but her limes trembled, her little hands twitched in the folds of her muslin skirt. Jerome saw her trembling, and a soft pink suffusing her fair face, even her sweet throat and her arms, under her thin sleeves. He knew, w’.h a sudden leap of tenderness, which would have its way in spite of himself, why she was there. She had wanted to see him so, the deir child, the fair, wonderful lady, that she had come through the heat of this burning afternoon, stealing away alone from all her friends, and even from her own decorous self, for his sake. He pointed to the clear place under the pine where he had been lying. ‘Shall we sit down there a minute?’ he stammered. “ ‘I think I—had better go.’ said Lucina faintly, with the quick impulse of maidenhood to flee from that w-hich it has sought. “ ‘Only a few minutes—l have something to tell you.’ “They sat down, Lucina with her back against the pine tree, Jerome at her side. He opened his mouth as if to speak, but instead it widened into a vacuous smile. He look at Lucina and she at him, then he came closer to her and took her in his arms. "Neither of them spoke. Lucina hid her face on his breast, and he held her so, looking out over her fair head at the wood. His mouth was shut hard, his eyes were full of fierce intent of combat, as If he expected some enemy forth of the trees to tear his love from him. For the first time in his life he realized the full might of his own natural self. He felt as if he could trample upon the needs of the whole world, and the light of his own soul, to gain this first sweet of existence, whose fragrance was in his face- “ The strongest realization of his own nature hitherto', that of the outstretching wants of others, weakened. He was filled with the insensate greed of creation for himself. He held Lucina closer, and bent his head down over her’s. Then she turned her face a little, and their lips met. “Lucina had never since her childhood kissed any man but her father, and as for Jerome, he had held such things with a shame of scorn. This meant much to both of them, and the shock of such deep meaning caused them to start apart, as if with fear of each other. Lucina raised her head, and even pushed Jerome away, gently, and he loosened his hold and stood up before her, all pale and trembling. “ ‘You must forgive me—l—forgot myself,’ he said, with quick gasps for breath. ‘I won’t—sit—down there again.’ Then he went on, speaking fast. ‘I have been waiting to tel! you that there was no chance. I could not come to see you any longer. I could r.ot. I thought a man could go to see a woman when he was in love with her, and could bear it when the love war- all on his side, and there was no—chance of marriage. I thought I could bear it if it pleased you, but—l didn't know’ itc would be like this. I was never in love and did not know. I could think of nothing but wanting you. It was spoiling me for everything else. If I came much longer I should not be fit to come. I could not come any longer.’ Jerome looked down at Lucina w’ith an air of stern, yet wistful, argument. She sat before him with downcast, pale and sober face, then she rose and all the girlish irresolution and shame dropped from her and left for a moment the woman in her unveiled. “ ‘I love you as much as you love me,’ she said, simply.” This sweet confession did not end the troubles, but. contrary to her usual custom. Miss Wilkins permits the tale to “end well” and so pleases the great majority of her readers. It must be acknowledged that there is something of a stage effect in features of this denouement—the sudden softening of Dr. Prescott’s heart, for example, and in the two bequests made by John Lawson, but on the whole the story is strong and artistic, and a worthy addition to the growing list of good American novels. Tt is published by Harper Brothers, New York. Tlie Army Mule. A gayly-bound volume, entitled “The Army Mule,” comes from the BowenMerrill Company, Indianapolis, which house, by the way, is widely extending its book publishing business. The volume, which is made up of a number of humorous war sketches, is by Capt. Henry A. Castle, formerly owner and editor of the-St. Paul Dispatch, and now general auditor of the Postofiice Department. No one save a man who had served as a volunteer soldier and endured the varied experiences of the civil war could have written these sketches. Service in the army was not all made up of hardships; it had at least its mitigations in the way the native American has of seeing the humor in serious'things—of relieving his nervous tension by ioking on the eve of battle and in the verv face of death. The soliders of the civil war were young men for the most part, and though their purpose w-as serious enough, their spirits were not cast down and they found amusement in their surroundings. This youthful spirit of levity is very well reproduced in the essay on the army mule, which opens the volume, and in the sketches following on the other equally well-known institutions, “The Sutler,” “The Shelter Tent” and “Dress Parade.” "Ts the mule could talk.” the author says, “what new aspects would be given to war memories;; what side gleams would be thrown on historic events; what showers and floods of reinforcement would be added to the gurgling, vasty stream of patriotic reminiscence. He had his opinions on the conduct of the war, and on the character of the warriors, also the teamsters; but those opinions remain unrecorded and, to all intents and purposes, unexpressed.” Os the sutler he says: “Although war without a sutler would have been a barren ideality, worse than politics without the negro, or the free coiner, or the Prohibitionist not taxed, yet even with him there was a not infrequent flaw in its felicities. The fact may even at this late day be duly verified by numerous surviving old soldiers, that when he was wanted he was seldom there, and when he was there he seldom had what was wanted.” The shelter tent is a pleasing memory to him, but has pathetic suggestions. "Vanished from the receding perspective of our experience is the shelter tent,” he says, “vanished from sight, but precious in memory forever. * * * It has gone. And already, for more than half the soldiery of the grand army of the Union, it has been replaced by that low. green canopy whose curtain never outward swings.” Dress parade affords him numerous pleasing recollections. The final sketch, ’’The Boys in Blue Grown Gray,” is from the standpoint of a later day, and is a review of the soldiers' career since they became men of peace. It is a warm and eloquent tribute to the manner in which they have performed their duties in civil life. "Ninety-five per cent, of the veterans ” he savs, “made a success in civil battles of life—doing men’s part honorably, industriously, heroically in the work of the world. Only 5 per cent, were failures, less than 3 per cent, ever became wholly dependent on public charity.” The book will find many readers among the veterans who like to recall their experiences of the sixties, lightened, as they were then, by a grim humor. l’nldUher*' Ante*. Fords, Howard & Hulbert, New York, will issue an Illustrated edition of Tennyson’s “In Memortam” for the holidays. Laird & Lee announce the immediate publication of “Herman the Magician; Ills Ufa: Hla Secrets.” by li. J. Burlingame,

and "Hours with the Ghosts; or Nineteenth Century Witchcraft," by R. R. Evans. Messrs. L. C. Page & Cos., of Boston, announce for immediate publication anew edition of “Goiden Dog” (Le Chien d’Or), by William Kirby, F. R. S. C. This romance of Quebec has been out of print for a good many years. The Macmillan Company announces among the books to be published In October two volumes containing “The letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning.” with portraits and other appropriate illustrations. The earliest coir.spondence quoted took place when the writer was a young girl, and every period of her life is represented in these frank and simple letters. Among the many books announced by the Messrs. Roberts Brothers for the fail of this year may be cited "Antichrist." bu Ernest Itenan; “History of Dogma,” by Dr. Adolph Harnak; Mollere's “Dramatic Works,” translated by Miss Katharine Prescott Wormeley; ’’The Christ of Yesterday. To-day, and Forever," by Ezra Hoyt Byington; "Adronike.” by Stephanos Theodorua Xenos; “The Isles of Greece.'* by S. J. Barrows, and the “Grand Tactics of Chess.” by F. K. Young. “China and Pottery Marks" is the title of a small and neat book issued by Messrs. Gilman Coliamore & Cos., of New York. In this volume may he found at once all the various marks affixed to ceramic objects. You would begin with Meissen 1712 and conclude with the roost recent Sevres. The convenience of this book of reference can be at once understood. Generally the marks on fictile ware are to be found in a large and ponderous volume, whereas the Coliamore catalogue can be put in your pocket. Among Houghton, Mifflin & Company’s autumn announcements are anew volume, by Edmund Clarence Stedman. in which ara gathered the poems he has written during the last twenty years: “The Story of Jesus Christ an Interpretation." by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (Mrs. Ward); “An Evolutionist’s Theology,” by Dr. Lyman Abbott; “A Dictionary of American Authors.” by Oscar Fay Adams; "Life and Times of Edward Bass. First Bishop of Massachusetts,” by the Rev. Daniel Dulany Addison; “Tuscan Songs.” collected, transcribed and illustrated by Esther Frances Alexander, Mr. Ruskin's Miss Alexander, with 10$ photogravure illustrations fthe edition de luxe limited to fifty copies); "Talks on the Study of Literature." by Ario Bates. A GOOD LAW. The “Personal Effect*” Clause In tht Tariff Should He Strictly Enforced. American Economist. The whole truth of the matter is that our free-trade papers are. as usual, simply voicing the sentiments of Europeans, ’their sole object in life, as far as the tar ( ff is eoncerntd, is to have all our goods made abroad and imported free of duty. They want to see poverty and idleness at home, prosperity and contentment abroad. For weeks past we have quot'd from English papers showing how disastrous the "personal effects” clause of the Dingley bill will be to British ''.shopkeepurs” in every line of trade. No estimate has been given of the aggregate loss of this trade in England. But Figaro, of Paris, has published a statement that the anticipated loss of i/tail trade to the storekeepers of the French capital will reach the enormous sum of 50,00u,003 francs a year, solely through the smaller purchases that will ba made by Americans when touring in Europe. To an American paper it would at once suggest itself that the annual loss of 50,000,000 francs’ w’orth of retail business, in only one European city, must be an excellent thing for the retail stores of the United States. But there are some American (sc* called) papers that cater to foreign trade. One, notoriously so—the New York Herald. Mr. Janies Gordon Bennett boasts of the enormous amount of advertising patronage that he secures from American stores and other sources for the New York HeraJd. As Mr. Bennett is so liberally patronized on this side of the Atlantic, ft is just as well that his patrons here should knowr how he misrepresents our American affairs to his patrons on the other side of the Atlantic through the Paris edition of his paper, from a recent edition of which we quote the following paragraph: “Mr. Morris K. Jessup, banker, was mulcted to the tune of $l7O on personal wearing apparel. He did not say much beyond asserting that he did not see the iustice in taxing him for the stuff he took from this country with him when he went abroad seven weeks ago. Many English wardrobes, bought cheaply in London, were brought up to American prices by the duty.” This story, of Mr. Jessup’s being “mulcted to the tune of $170” on wearing apparel that he took with him from this country when he went abroad seven weeks earlier, is one of those deliberate falsehoods that the free traders have been publishing for the sole purpose of trying to make the Dingh y law- obnoxious and objectionable. Without knowing it, their action has had quite a contrary effect The interior press of the country is practically unanimous as to the need for a “personal effects” clause. It pleases importers, manufacturers. wage earners and our storekeepers. Naturally, therefore, it is obnoxious to the French clientage of Mr. James Gordon Bennett’s Paris edition of the “New York Herald.” We have said that the only trouble w’ith the “personal effects” clause of the Dingley bill is that it did not go far enough, and that it should include all articles purchased abroad without any limit. But there is another trouble. The law, as it stands, is not rigidly enough enforced. The cutoms house examiners appear to have become scared at the bellowings of the freetrade press and are, so we are informed, passing the baggage of passengers without a thorough examination. We believe that they are allowing many passengers to land more than SIOO worth of foreign goods. A passenger’s trunk cannot be examined by merely opening and shutting the lid, nor by the passing of a man’s hand up and down its several corners. Whether the collector of a port, or the appraiser of a port, be responsible for the proper examination of a passenger’s effects we do not know-, neither do we care. But we do know’ that the D'ngley tariff is a good one. And we do care as to its admipistratlon. I>et the law be enforced as the law directs. The llreud Question. London Letter. As for the other great trouble—the ris# in wheat—it has given birth to a most amusing controversy. Mr. T. P. O’Connor write* to the Daily Telegraph a letter which is headed “Is Daily Bread a Necessity?” and at once a chorus of voices spring up replying, “No. it isn’t.” Columns of two or three of the morning papers are being filled up with letters from physicians who denounce bread as "a starchy atrocity,” of other physicians who insist that no person should eat bread after passing his or her thirtieth year; of other persons, who are of all sorts of professions and conditions of life, w’ho state how much better life has seemed to them since they took the advice of somebody and left off eating bread, or only took it In the shape of toast: and finally, most remarkable letter of all, from a faddist who explains that whenever he had a craving for bread he took a glass of hoi water instead, and has never suffered from a day’s illness since. Perhaps you have got your own discussions regarding the necessity or the reverse of “our dailv bread” on your side of the water, hut if we really do in the progress of our civilization manage to banish bread, and consequently the vicious effects of a wheat corner, from our daily life, the Lord s Prayer will have to be edited. How cap we ’pray to heaven to give us something which we no longer require and which wo have discovered to be deleterious to our bodily systems? A Shipbuilding Port. Cleveland Plain Dealer. One of the best pieces of news that haa been published for a long time comes from the shipyards of Cleveland. It is to the effect that two contracts have been closed by the local ship builders that will keep 1,200 men busy during the greater part of the winter. In a few weeks two shipbuilding companies will begin work on two large freight boats that will mean an approximate investment of $400,000. In the new, yard of the Cleveland Ship-building Company will be laid the keel of the largest boat ever built on fresh water. The new boat will be a steamer 450 feet over all, 430 feet keel, 50 feet beam and 28b feet deep. She will have a gross tonnage of t>,600 tons and a mean draught of sixteen and a half feet. The Globe Iron Works Company will build anew steel tow barge 37$ feet long. 45 feet beam and a carrying capacity of 5.000 tons, at an outlay of $135,000. Both boats will tw ready for the spring trade In this connection it is well to call to the putdic mind that next to Clyde, Cleveland is the greatest ship-building port in the world. The “Extension” Idea. New York Evening Sun. It is remarkable to find President Andrews talking about the work of the queer advertising establishment, of which tne presidency has been offered to him, as a sort of university extension scheme. It is generally understood that to have university extension you must first have your university, just a* in making hare soup you must first catch your hare. Yo Demand. New York Mail and Express. Mr. Calderon Carlisle, legal adviser of the Spanish legation in Washington, hqs avast assortment of views as to the duty of this government toward Cuba and Spain, and he is c-early disposed to thrust them upon the American public without watting to be asked. Mr. Carlisle ought to file his vtews in a dark closet until somebody calls for them-