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THE DAILY JOURNAL MONDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1897. VtaßbiDftoo Office—UG3 Pennsylvania Avenue Telephone C ull*. Business Office 2SB 1 Editorial dooms...A 86 TERMS OF 81 BHCRIPTION. _ DAILY BY MAIL. Dailr only, cae month I .70 Pally only, three months 2.0d Daily only, one year 8.00 Dally, Including Sunday, one >ear 10.00 Sunday only, one year 2.00 WHEN FURNISHED BY AGENTS. Daily, per week, by carrier 15 cts Sunday, single copy 5 cts Daily and Sunday, per week, by carrier 20 cts _ WEEKLY. . M Reduced Rate* to Club*. Subscribe with any o£ our numerous agents or rend subsr rations to THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, Indianapolis, Ind. Persons sending the Journal through the mails In the United States should put on an eight-page paper a OKE-CENT postage “tamp; on a twelve or sixteen-page paper a TWO-OENT postage stamp. Foreign postage is osually double these rates. All communications intended publication In this paper must, in order to rec attention, be accompanied by the name and address of the writer. If it is desired that rejected manuscripts be returned, |>cstage must ia all cases be inclosed lor that purpose. THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL Can be found at the following places: NEW YORK —Windsor Hotel and Astor House. CHICAGO—PaImer House and P. O. News Cos., 217 Dearborn street. CINCINNATI—J. R. Hawley & Cos.. 154 Vine street. LOUISVILLE—C. T. Peering, northwest corner of Third and Jefferson streets, and Louisville Look Cos., 256 Fourth avenue. ET. LOUIS —Union News Company, Union Depot. Washington, and. c.—Riggs House, Ebbttt House, Willard’s Hotel and the Washington News Exchange, Fourteenth street, between Penn, avenue and F street. The Republican party has no more thick-and-thin opponent than Thomas Taggart. If the Republicans vote their normal Strength this year Thomas Taggart will be ex-mayor. There is no difficulty in getting experts to swear, but the trouble is they will not swear alike. The Taggart smile has become so worn that the proprietor is forced to adjust it several times each day before a glass. Thus far no Republican has given any reasons for publication, over his own name, why he should vote for Thomas Taggart. It seems that but for the premium on bonds the city controller would be in the market for a temporary loan. Deficit is the one reliable follower of Democratic management. Should Mr. Taggart be re-elected mayor and the suspended Park Board gets down to work again, the White river bottoms of the mayor may be included within the proposed park limits. A Paris paper advocates a Franco-Rus-sian-American dreibund. No, thanks; your llrtcle Samuel does not care to engage in pulling chestnuts out of the fire for European powers. London dispatches seem to indicate that Lord Salisbury is losing his grip as a leader. He has certainly bungled in international matters to the injury of British prestige in European affairs. One of the chief reasons for the failure of the strike of the street-railw r ay men in Chicago is that a large majority of the employes, having good pay, refused to be Influenced to leave their employment by a few organizers.

It should cause no surprise that the streetrailway magnates of Chicago should set up the claim in the Supreme Court of Illinois that cities have no right to demand any compensation for the use of their streets. arrogance of street-tailway companies Is progressive. “The wisdom of the Chicago platform is being vindicated every day” is a part of the telegram of Mr. Bryan to George Fred Williams, of Massachusetts. If any other person should make such a remark it would be proper to ask him where the process of being vindicated is going on. Sixty-four Irish members of the British House of Commons have signed a memorial asking the government to summon an immediate sitting of Parliament to enact relief measures for Irish tenants. The memorial will doubtless be pigeon-holed and Parliament will not meet till the usual time In February. The last Republican city administration inherited a deficit in the form of a temporary loan, but it went out of office leaving a substantial balance in the treasury. But for the returns on borrowed money, which are no part of the actual assets of the treasury, some private banker would be having the advantage of a temporary loan. The much maligned hut really modest and useful peanut is the latest farm product to feel the wave of prosperity. Perhaps as it Is raised only in the South it should be called a ranch product. This year’s crop Is reported small poor quality, and France and Spain have secured options on nearly half the visible supply and Eastern firms have cornered the rest. Under these circumstances who can blame the peanut for advancing its price? . Canadian newspapers are much exercised because the old. worn-out wooden war ship Yantic, of 900 tons, has been taken Into the waters of Bake Michigan, in violation, as they claim, of the treaty which restricts each nation to one war vessel of 100 tons. Tho Yantic would be of no use in modern warfare, carries no heavy guns, and has been taken into the lake to become tho armory of the naval militia of Michigan, at Detroit. The Canadians are sometimes very absurd. A Paris dispatch says that Major Handy, procial commissioner of tho United States to the Paris exposition in 1900, is dissatisfied with the small amount of space allotted to the United States and threatens to withdraw. The United States itself is mainly responsible for the situation. Congress neglected tho matter, and whereas France was the first nation to accept the Invitation to the Chicago exposition and ask for space, the United States was the last to accept her invitation. Had wc accepted promptly and applied for space we should have got all we wanted. Now we will have to take what we can get. Several of the Journal's state exchanges note a decided Increase in the attendance at the public schools since the compulsory law went Into effect. The superintendent of public instruction, who is in touch with school authorities throughout the State, estimates that the entire increase will be not less than 25,000. For the first year of the law, and almost before the machinery for its enforcement has been put in operation, tills Is very gratifying. It shows that many persons who have not been giving proper Attention to the schooling of their children

are disposed to obey the new law simply because it is the law. It looks now as if It would prove decidedly beneficial and less expensive than has been feared, for a general' compliance with the law will leave comparatively little for the truant officers to do. It should be the policy of school authorities to reduce the cost of these officers to a minimum. A NEW AND HOLD CLAIM. The boldest claim yet made in the interest of a street-railroad company is the one set up by the president of the consolidated companies in Chicago that the city has no right to demand an equivalent for a franchise or any compensation for the use of its streets beybnd a license tax on the cars run. This is a new’ and startling claim. At the beginning of strest-rallroad construction in this country most cities granted franchises and gave the use of their streets without asking or receiving any equivalent except the service, which in many cases was poor. The immense value of these franchises was not realized at first, and the doctrine that they should be paid for was yet to come. But during the last few years there has been a great change in this regard. The commonly received doctrine now is that the streets of a city belong to the people and that a franchise granting the occupation and use of them for street-railroad purposes is immensely valuable and should be paid for either in a round sum or by a percentage of the gross receipts, or in some other way. The new claim set up in Chicago is that a city has no right to do anything of the kind. It may grant valuable franchises and exclusive privileges to a street-railroad company for a long term of years or in perpetuity, but it cannot exact any equivalent or compensation. It does not appear yet on what around the claim is based, but probably it is on the ground that the pow’ers of a city are restricted to the functions of municipal government and that even the Legislature cannot confer on a municipal corporation any but strictly municipal powers. This would be a bold claim, but not more so than many others that corporations have made. It is not likely, however, that thd courts will sustain it. If the Legislature can confer the right to make contracts on one corporation it can on another, a municipal corporation as well as a street-railroad company. It would be strange, indeed, if a city may grant the use of its streets for a special purpose for nothing, but may not do so for pay. If the claim is good it applies to telegraph, telephone and other franchises, and there would be an end of all payments by such corporations except in the form of a license fee. If the courts hold that this is the only power cities have in such matters its vigorous exercise would become very popular. It is more likely, however, that the courts will deny the claim and establish the doctFine that cities have some rights as w’ell as other corporations.

A PUZZLING INCONSISTENCY. Why is it that a Republican is expected to be a better mayor than is a Democrat? Such is the fact, but why is it the fact? If a Republican candidate for mayor should do the things which Mr. Taggart is doing hundreds of excellent people would be wellnigh beside themselves with righteous rage. They would hold public meetings, adopt resolutions and pillory the Republican official. If a Republican mayor should go to a society picnic on Sunday where intoxicants were sold, give his check for a few free drinks and be carried about the grounds on the shoulders of admiring imbibers the defunct organization once known as good citizens would experience a resurrection and plans would be devised that would surely lose him thousands of votes. If a Republican mayor should ignore the sections of the charter requiring the selection of subordinates in the city service after competitive examinations every independent and self-proclaimed reformer would set upon him as a rascal. When zealous good citizen organizations suspect that a Republican administration does not watch every saloon to see that it closes at the hour set down in the law, they send out spies to find ground for any sort of accusation. When, a Democratic administration permits open violation of laws for the regulation of saloons and allows gamblers to run their games without fear, not only is not a word said, but it is known that some of the salt of the earth take occasion to approve of the mayor, probably because things are not as bad as they can be. It is said to the credit of the Republican party that its candidates must be so much better than their Democratic opponents in order to receive the cordial support of those who call themselves and who really are the best people in communities. Still, many fail to understand why it is that such people will rail at a Republican oandidato who in every respect Is the superior of the Democratic candidate for whom, they will vote without question. This query is one which it will be profitable for the people alluded to to consider. If any one of them can find an explanation for this seeming inconsistency it would be well worth publishing. CANDIDATE WHITE’S APPEAL. The supporters of Mr. John F. White for mayor are circulating a card, three by six inches, on one side of which are printed the names of the candidates on the Citizens ticket, while on the other side are given some of the reasons why those who believe in the free and unlimited coinage of silver should vote for Mr. White. The address contains a few statements which should interest those who are yet the victims of the 16-to-l delusion. It declares, for instance, that “the man whose position is uncertain is a gold man.” This is meant for Mr. Taggart. Mr. Taggart's position on the silver question can scarcely be called uncertain. True 4 he has declared for the silver mine ow’ners’ demand, but so frequent and so emphatic have been his protests that there is a very general suspicion that his Honor is laboring to convince himself that he is a silverite. The truth is that the devotion of Mr. Taggart to silver was a part of the scheme adopted by the old leaders a year ago to retain control of the organization in Marion county. Had they all gone out of the organization a year ago they would now be nearly out of politics. They saw this, and arranged that certain leaders should remain inside the Democratic lints to control the organization. This Mr. Taggart has been able to do. A year ago he was beaten in the state convention. but the element which cast him out has lost its grip. The blatant “silver push” was beaten by Mr. Taggart in the primaries to elect the city committee. Many members of the “push” have recovered from the 16-to-l paroxysm. The others are silent, while the gold Democrats are Mr. Taggart's confidential advisers in his canvass. They furnish that portion of the campaign fund wbich is not taken out of the city treasury

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for Pogue’s run frauds. Mr. White's friends who have issued the card understand this, and, understanding it, they close their appeal with this wail; "The cause of bimetallism will be strangled to death in this city on Oct. 12. unles a large vote shall be polled for John F. White.” Except that an outsider at one Democratic meeting made a 16-to-l speech, no mention has been made of it as an issue. Mayor Taggart in his speeches has made no allusion to it. Indeed, it is altogether probable that, now that Messrs. Holt, Frenzel, Reach and other gold Democrats are giving Mayor Taggart his most effective backing, the silver mine owners' fad will not cut much figure in the future with the Marion county Democracy. They see that the free coinage of silver will not be the chief Iss\ie in 1900. Consequently, if Mr. White's friends had said that the cause of bimetallism—that is, silver monometallism—has been strangled in Marion county by the Taggart leaders they would have correctly stated the case. SOME FEATURES OF THE SPANISH SITUATION. The possibilities involved in the present crisis in Spain will be better understood from a review of some of the political factors involved. To begin with, the government, inherently weak in other respects, is unfortunate in having a juvenile King and a Queer. Regent. King Alfonso XIII is only eleven years old, and his mother, Maria Christina, is the acting head of the government during his minority. She has shown herself a enable woman, but the w’isest woman would hardly be able to cope with the warring elements and the corrupt, intriguing factionists that 'surround her. In the present case she has adopted the almost desperate expedient of calling around her a Liberal Cabinet, while the Cortes, as the legislative body is called, is strongly Conservative. The upper branch, or Senate, has 360 members, of whom 123 are appointed for life, 53 are hereditary or official members and 180 are elected by corporations and the highest taxpayers. The lower branch consists of 432 members elected by indirect suffrage for five years. The composition of the Senate shows that it is sure to be strongly Conservative under any circumstances. The lower branch of the present Cortes was elected in April and May of last year, and contains 301 Conservatives, 102 Liberals and 29 scattering. From the composition of the Cortes it would seem that a Liberal Ministry will have great difficulty in sustaining itself, while anew election, ordered at this time, would be very apt to result in revolution or a coup d’etat cf some kind. A threatening factor in the situation is the Carlist movement, which has figured more or less in Spanish politics for twenty-five years past. Don Carlos began active attempts on the Spanish crown in 1569 and has had a considerable following ever since. A Carlist insurrection in 1874 assumed formidable proportions and put the government to its best efforts to suppress it. In February, 1876, Don Carlos, after some severe fighting, was so hard pressed that, with some of his personal staff, he crossed the border into France. There the authorities made it so disagreeable for him that he went to England. Before leaving France, however, he issued a manifesto to the Spaniards, in which he said: “Desiring to stop bloodshed, I forbear continuing a glorious but at present fruitless struggle. Seeing the sufferings of my volunteers and the superiority of numbers against them, it becomes necessary to sheathe the sword. I will never sign a compromise. My flag remains folded until the moment which God shall fix as the supreme hour of redemption.” From England Don Carlos came to the United States, where he spent a few weeks in the summer cf 1876. Since then he has resided in Europe, waiting and watching for an opportunity that he might take advantage of to press his claims. Ten members of the present Cortes were elected as Carlists, and there are still more in the Senate, but it is not known how much popular strength he has. Probably his weakest point is lack of means, for if he had plenty of money he could soon set a revolution on foot that the present government, already tottering, would be unable to cope with. There have been rumors of an impending Carlist insurrection for more than a year past, and they have contributed in no small degree to the -anxiety of the government. Such an insurrection at this time, while those in Cuba and the Philippine islands are stiil in progress, would probably be a finishing stroke for a moribund government.

A foreign item states that on Wednesday last the vaults of the fortress of Spandau, Germany, were opened for the annual examination by the imperial secretary of the treasury to see if the treasure deposited there is all right. The incident illustrates a characteristic feature of German pulley. Article 2 of the treaty between France and Germany which followed the GermanFrench war of 1870-71 provided as follows: “France shall pay to his Majesty, the German Emperor, the sum of five thousand million francs. At least one thousand million francs shall be paid in the course of the year 1871, and the entire residue in the course of three years from the ratification of the present treaty.” Under this provision France paid one thousand million francs, or $200,000,000, in 1871. Os this sum the Reichstag immediately appropriated 360,000,000 marks, about $100,000,000, as a fund for the first expenses of the next great war, and the sum was ordered to be deposited in gold in the fortress at Spandau for safe keeping. Spandau is a w’alled and fortified town about ten miles from Berlin. Within its fortress, and in vaults double barred and locked, the $100,000,000 has lain twenty-six years undisturbed, save by the annual ceremony of examination. The fortress is garrisoned and guarded by German soldiers, and no unauthorized person is allowed to come near it. The interest on this special deposit would be, say, 11,000,000 francs, or $2,750,000 a year, but Germany stands this loss in order to have an ample fund in gold on hand immediately available for wax. On Monday of last week a large number of the Republican leaders in Massachusetts were invited to a dinner by a friend in order that public matters might be talked over. Governor Wolcott, Senators Hoar and Lodge and half the representatives in Congress were of the company. Representative Moody, who is a lawyer of considerable local reputation, in his speech called attention to the declaration of the Democratic state convention relative to government by injunction. He expressed the opinion that some courts had been going too far in this matter and that Congress had recognized the fact. He then called attention to the fact that the Senate of the Fifty-fourth Congress passed a bill which provided that no man should be punished for contempt of court committed outside the presence of the court without the right of trial by jury and the privilege of appearing by counsel. This bill was introduced by a Republican senator.

reported for passage by the Judiciary committee, of which the chairman and a majority were Republicans, and was passed without a dissenting vote. The bill did not reach the House until It was too late to take it up. Mr. Moody predicted that the subject of injunctions would be considered by Congress and such restrictions imposed, that there can be no just cause of complaint. Thus it is probable that the issue of opposition to government by injunction may be disposed of before another campaign. In a saloon in the city yesterday afternoon, which, if it was not filled with men, contained a number of persons who were drinking, a man was killed. It was not a murder, but the victim was struck a blow’ which, as the report goes, felled him and he was picked up dead. The saloon, like scores of others, was open in violation of law on Sunday afternoon. Attention is called to this matter because there are men who object to the violation of the Sunday laws who are told by Mr. Taggart's more respectable followers that these laws are being honestly enforced. These excellent people do not go about town to see for themselves, else they would know that what is here affirmed is true, namely, that scores of the most disreputable saloons are open on Sunday in violation of law. Mayor Taggart knows this, the police know it and the violators of the law know that both know it. These saloon keepers know that they can violate the law with impunity. Security in violating the law is the bribe paid them by the Taggart regime for their support in the election. The Journal calls the special attention of those excellent people who are so zealous in stirring up Republican officials without real cause to this death in a saloon yesterday—Sunday. If they are silent hereafter they may be suspected of at least acquiescing in these violations of law. Rev. Dr. A. B. Leonard, the whilom Prohibition candidate for Governor in Ohio, is after Bishop Newman for a speech he made at Saratoga before the New Y'ork Temperance Society Aug. 15. As reported in the Tribune, the bishop said; “There are three concessions which temperance advocates are bound to make; namely, that while wine and liquors are not indispensable to the welfare of mankind, they, notwithstanding, had their legitimate uses; that the occasional drinking of wines and liquors was not drunkenness as denounced in the Bible; and while it is true that all drunkards were once moderate drinkers, yet all moderate drinkers do not become drunkards.” The speech was such an offense to Dr. Leonard that he introduced a resolution at the late session of the Cincinnati conference, asking the bishop if he really did say these things. The bishop has not yet answered, but, if he ever does, he will most probably say he did, or words to the same effect, then what is Dr. Leonard going to say or do about it? He will certainly not question the truth of the bishop’s statement, though he may insist that temperance people should not make the concession, but hold to their indefensible dogmas.

BUBBLES IN THE AIR. Choice in Her Term*. “You,” shrieked the up-to-date young woman to the umpire at the last game of the season, “you are positively decadent!” Thinskinned. “Your American public is pretty thinskinned,” commented the visiting foreigner. “Oh, I don’t know,” replied the native statesman. “It seems to stand about as much skinning as any other old public.” The Placid Dealer. “That confounded cheap wheel you sold me broke down before I got half way home.” “I told you it was a bargain you would not w'ant to go back on.” A Man of His Word. “Do you take this woman for your lawfully wedded wife?” asked the minister, or wjrds to that effect. The young man who had eloped by tanden twenty miles over a dirt road with the object of his heart’s desire looked at the perspiring, dusty, red-faced, limp-haired object that stood alongside him, set his teeth firmly, clenched his hands and answered in the voice of a martyr, “I do.” • THE INDIANA PRESS. It should be noted that there is no trouble in regard to the “gold reserve” during a Republican administration.—Decatur Journal. There is more rejoicing among Popocrats over one cent advance in silver than over ninety and nine cents advance in the other products of the land.—Noblesville Ledger. Owners of silver bullion should devise a way to silence their alleged champion, Bryan. The more he talks the lower the price of silver drops.—New Castle Courier. It is more than a mere coincidence that prosperity and business activity should have begun the moment a Republican President and a protective Congress were elected.—Shelbyvilie Republican. An exchange remarks that the speeches that Mr. Bryan is delivering these days are no credit to him. That may be true. Mr. Bryan, however, is not after credit. He is out for the cash,.—Mount Vernon Sun. Mr. Bryan and his coadjutors are kept busy now explaining the rise in prices of farm products. It is an embarrassing occupation for them, but it is better than doing nothing or even howling about low prices.—Monticello Herald. Some Democrats still insist that prosperity has not come and cannot till an era of free silver. We notice, however, they are as swift to take advantage of the advanced prices for their products as the veriest gold bug that lives.—Owen County Journal. Lynching is not the proper way to reduce desperadoes to a proper mode of life, nor is it the right way to mete out justice to criminals. Let public opinion demand a prompt and vigorous execution of the laws in the statutes from the officers of the law. —Muncie News. Senator Foraker says the price of sheep in Ohio has doubled in the past few months. Wonder if this is on account of a failure of the lamb crop in other countries. Otherwise, according to Mr. Bryan, sheep would continue to decline with silver. —Parke County Journal. The Nebraska banks are complaining that they have more money than they can loan, and the farmers of that State are paying off their debts with unexampled rapidity, thus making Mr. Bryan's home State a rather uncomfortable place for him just now.—Evansville Journal. The farmer who talked free silver all last campaign and now has nothing to sell is the only one who swears times are no better than under the Wilsen free-trade law. And he will continue to swear until he goes to work and produces something to sell.—Clay County Enterprise. Since the lynching affair in Ripley county many newspapers are advocating the establishment of mounted patrols or policemen for country roads. Such protection would be a good thing for many localities, but the expense of maintaining an effective country police for every place where it might be needed would make taxpayers dizzy.—Angola Magnet. It is passing strange that there are yet those who believe W. E. Hinshaw is a martyr, that he is an innocent man, etc., after a second investigation of the case by the grand jury of this county. The Progress has been censured for the stand taken in this case, but it is gratified to state that every proposition it has advanced has proven to be correct. Under all the circumstances surrounding the case at this

time, we are more firmly convinced now than ever that Hlnshaw alone Is the only person that can shed any light on the tragedy, and until such time as he sees fit to divulge all it will remain a secret as now.—Plainfield Progress. Debs cannot understand why so little was contributed to the miners with so much sympathy expressed for them. If Debs and Sovereign will keep hands off the next strike they may be able to draw conclusions that will explain why so little was donated. The public sympathy that went out to the miners was decidedly suspicious of several of the self-appointed leaders. —Lafayette Courier. As each new class enters the Rose Polytechnic Institute we are again reminded of the great scope of the career offered to the graduates, and regard regretfully the rush of young men to the Normal School, excellent as it is, when so few in comparison turn to engineering and mechanics. The latter are not yet overcrowded. Their field is world-wide, but that of. English teaching is not. —Terre Haute Mail. When a whole community makes up its mind to violate the law or to shield those who violate it, it is next to impossible to find indictments against the guilty or to convict them if indicted. That is the situation in Ripley county, this State, and of the two hundred men who participated in the murderous lynching of five men two weeks ago, not one has been indicted. Some having committed murder, others do not hesitate to commit perjury to protect them.—Middletown News. ABOUT PEOPLE AMD THINGS. Parker Pillsbury, who is said to be the last survivor of the abolition agitators, is living in good health at Concord N. H. He is eighty-eight years of age. The Knights of Pythias have raised $12,000 for a monument to John F. Rathbone, the founder of the order. It will be placed in New Forest Cemetery in Utica, the owners of the cemetery donating ja/.wO feet. , Count Leo Tolstoi is a vigorous hater of England. He says the English and the Zulus should be herded together as the two most brutal nations of the earth. His chief regret, he declares, is that he cannot spare time to w rite a book about the English people. Sarah Bernhardt had made arrangements to play at Strasburg, but the Statthalter refuses to grant permission until she has first acted in some other German city. As Sarah has vowed that she will never appear in Germany, Strasburg must do without her for the present. Zola is contemplating a lecture tour in America, and will probably give a whole course on “The Love of Nations - ’ in this country. The Paris Figaro says that he was recently offered his own terms by American managers to come over here and reply to Mr. Brunetiere, but Zola declined, “not wishing to afford Mr. Brunetiere that satisfaction.’’ The famous collection of birds made by the naturalist, Alfred Brehm, and his father, who was a clergyman, has been bought for a London museum by Baron Rothschild. It includes over 10,000 specimens of European birds, and differs from other cpllectioiis in having each variety represented by several individuals of both sexes and different ages. A corduroy road made of small cedat trees, which were in a perfect state of preservation, was unearthed the other day thirty-eight feet below the surface of the earth, seven miles east of Ashtabula, O. Prof. Carl Wright teacher of geology in Oberlin College, who has visited the spot and examined the wood, give it *as his opinion that the wood has been where it was found since the glacial epoch. Major William D. Smith, second in command of the bodyguard of General Gomez, who is now in Chicago, has this to say In regard to the recent report of the United States consul at Cienfuegos: “I have engaged in forty-two pitched battles with General Gomez before I left Cuba, and some of the worst battles that I have been in have been fought within a short distance of Cienfugos, and the consul there could not have avoided knowing it. And May 2, when I left the island, there were in the province of Santa Clara, centering about Cienfuegos, at least twenty thousand Cubans fully armed and equipped.” Mr. Candler, the secretary of state of Georgia, says that he had the good fortune to save Gen. Neal Dow’s life during the war. The latter had been in command of the forces at Pensacola, fia., and hadincurred the hatred of the Spanish inhabitants, who charged that he instigated his soldiers to incendiary acts. He was removed to Misisssippi, and while wounded was captured by Colonel Candler. He was taken to Montgomery for safe keeping. A number of Pensacola refugees learned of his presence, and, uniting with the citizens of Montgomery, surrounded his prison and threatened to hang him to a lamppost. Col. Candler, accompanied by a private named Mitchell, took General Dow through a rear exit while the mob was clamoring in front for admission, and he was later taken North. Prof. Herman Edward von Holst, the famous historian and professor in the University of Chicago, has obtained his naturalization papers as an American citizen from Judge Neely of the Circuit Court, Chicago. Prof. Von Holst is a native of the province of Lithuania, Russia, and he has renounced all allegiance to the Czar, The professor first declared his intention of becoming a citizen of the United States Oct. 5, 1894. Your foot is the tiniest that trips, love, Thro’ the maddening maze of the waltz; Two blossoming buds are your lips, love, Your eyes say your heart is not false. Your hands are so dainty and white, love, Your fingers wondrously fine, That I am tempted almost, but not quite, love, To say I adore you—be mine! But, no! there’s a frightening fear, love. That will not allow me to spea.k. You’re spending three thousand a year, love: I’m making twelve plunkets a week. —harlem Life.

Gen. Grant’s Characteristics. General Porter, in the Century. He was possessed of a moral and physical courage which was equal to every emergency in which he was placed He was calm amid excitement, patient under trials, sure in judgment, clear in foresight, never depressed by reverses or unduly elated by success. He was fruitful in expedients, and had a facility of resource and a faculty of adapting the means at hand to the accomplishment of an end which never failed Mm. Ho possessed an intuitive knowledge of topography, which prevented him from ever becoming confused as to locality or direction in conducting even the most complicated movements in the field. His singular selfreliance enabled him at critical junctures to decide instantly questions of vital moment without dangerous delay in seeking advice from others, and to assume the gravest responsibilities without asking any one to share them. His habits of life were simple, and he enjoyed a physical constitution which enabled him to endure every form of fatigue and privation incident to military service in the field. His soldiers always knew that he was ready to rough it with them, and share their hardships on the march. He wore no better clothes than they, and often ate no better food. There was nothing in his manner to suggest that there was any gulf between him and the men who were winning his victories. He never tired of giving unstinted praise to his subordinates. He was at all times loyal to them. His fidelity produced a reciprocal effect, and is one of the chief reasons why they became so loyally attached to him. He was never betrayed by success into boasting of his triumphs. He never underrated himself in a battle; he never overrated himself in a report. The Yellow Fever Scare. Washington Post. “If yellow fever were a more familiar disease in the United States our people would pay but little attention to it,” said Mr. Charles S. Swisher, of Boston, at the Shoreham. “In Havana, where it is common, no more attention is paid to it than the Mexicans give to smallpox. There is hardly any time that Mexico hasn’t the last-named disease somewhere in its borders. I heard a renowned doctor say that yellow fever hadn’t killed one-fifth as many people in this country as la grippe. The latter scourge has caused hundreds whose lives were spared to lose their vision, and scores of others, maddened by the agony it produced, have committed suicide. “But the fever creates a panic that makes men act inhumanly and unreasonably, and paralyzes the trade of cities and whole sections of the country. Its ravages are not to be compared with the other against which there is no thought of shotgun quarantine, though tt is said to be catching. Verily', the actions of mankind are past accounting for. and with all the progress of civilization human nature remains much the same through the changing centuries.” Those Lnetsert Trial Hones. Detroit Tribune. If the bones Introduced into the Luetgert state couid articulate they might give the expert* the horse laugh.

NEW PUBLICATIONS. Lady Jackson** Latest Book, The Court of the Tailertes. In the interesting series of works on French history by Lady Jackson “The Court of the Tuileries” follows chronologically the summary of the events of the reign of Louis XIV and the first empire, as recorded in “The French Court and Society.” The present work opens with the entry of the allied sovereigns into Paris—with Napoleon five leagues away, two hours too late to prevent the capitulation and the signing of the treaty—and closes with the flight of Louis Philippe. The period covered is one that is full of political intrigue and dramatic events, and Lady Jackson gives an animated, gossipy account of its happenings. All the great personages of the time march and countermarch before us. giving us brief but fascinating glimpses of their well-known characters with anew and piquant interest. There are vivid descriptions of Louis XVIII and the scenes in Paris on his return trom exile, 'destitute of everything, without a suite, without guards, without wealth, with nothing to give, almost nothing to promise,” unable to walk two yards witnout assistance, the victim of gluttony, disgusting to behold. Chateaubriand, Constant, the great artist, Talleyrand—scores of the wits, the diplomatists, the authors and actors of the age—are remembered in anecdote and achievement, mingled with the political story of the times. The work is in two volumes, the cover design being the fleur delis of France, and there are sixteen portraits, photo etchings after famous paintings. Boston: L. C. Page & Cos. Impressions of Turkey. In a prefatory note to “Impressions of Turkey,’’ the author, Prof. W. M. Ramsey, sa#ys: “My hope is that this book may do something to produce in America an adequate conception of the great educational organization which the American missionaries have built up in Turkey with admirable foresight and skill. Beginning with a prejudice against their work, I was driven by the force of facts and experience to the opinion that the American mission has been the strongest as well as the most beneficent influence in causing the movement toward civilization which has been perceptible in varying degrees among all the peoples of Turkey, but which has been zealously opposed and almost arrested by the present Sultan, with the support of the six European powers.’’ As Professor Ramsey is an Englishman, this fine tribute to the work of Americans in Turkey has special value. It will be noticed that the author is also frank and courageous enough to class Great Britain among the powers which have been responsible for many of the evils in Turkish government. He spent twelve years In Asia Minor, and this book is an interesting narrative of his experiences, descriptions of the country and the people, the institutions, religions and other, existing there. He also expresses Intelligent opinions respecting the several races occupying the territory, the character of the Turkish government and other matters observed during a long residence and extensive travels in Turkey. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Mr. Howells** Lutest Story. In Mr. Howells's new story, "An Openeyed Conspiracy,” he makes one of his characters ask “Why has nobody done a story about Saratoga?" He answers the question by writing one himself, the salient point of this story being the social life at that popular summer resort, and the surprise and disappointment of the ignorant wanderer to whom the name of Saratoga had suggested all the glories and attractions of a fashionable world. There are two good Samaritans sufficiently secure in social position to enjoy the advantages of the place, and the author skillfully brings them to the rescue of the bewildered individuals. Mr. and Mrs. March are the good Samaritans, and the author makes Mr. March tell the story in the first person. Mr. March is attracted by the extreme beauty of a young girl who is sitting one afternoon in Congress Park. Ho notices her dissatisfied expression and begins to speculate as to its cause. He observes that the girl’s companions are middle-aged, prosperous villagers, who all wear a decided expression of ennui, and Mr. March comes rapidly to the conclusion that they are simply “lonely amidst a crowd.’’ Through Mr. March’s kind offices they are introduced into the best society, and a love affair develops between Mrs. March’s protege and a young man of exceptional social position in New York. The story is delightfully told and leaves an impression of satisfaction. Harper & Brothers.

From a. Girl’s Point of View. Lillian Bell, who made quite a hit in her first book, “The Love Affairs of An Old Maid,” has written another clever book, “From a Girl's Point of View.” Lillian Bell, by the way, is the author’s real name, and she is no schoolgirl, but a mature woman and a very bright one. The present volume consists of short essays in which the subjects are treated from a girl’s point of view in a quaint and original way. Among the cleverest are those on “The Untrained Man Under Thirty-five,” “Woman’s Rights in Love” and “On the Subject of Husbands.” Two little essays, "Men as Lovers” and “Love Making as a Fine Art,” are especially noteworthy for the quiet humor which they contain. The author dedicates the work “to the dull reader who will insist upon taking this book literally.” The book is full of femininity and freshness. New York: Harper & Brothers. Certain Accepted Heroes. Nine essays on literary and biographical subjects, written by Hon. Henry Cabot Lodge, at different times, are now collected in a volume entitled “Certain Accepted Heroes.” The principal one, which gives Its name to the book, is a discussion of the influence upon the youth and manhood of to-day of the heroes of Homer’s “Iliad” and the "Odyssey,” as well as those of the middle ages, such as the Niebelungen and Icelandic heroes. The author thinks them a very poor kind of heroes, to be taken as models. Aside from this essay the two on “Shakspeare’s Americanism” and the “Home of the Cabots” are the most worthy of attention. The latter collects in small space all that is known of the history of John and. Sebastian Cabot prior to their voyages to America, and decides that they were born and bred in England, probably near Bristol. Harper & Brothers. A Story for Boys. Asa story of adventure for boys “The Painted Desert,” by Kirk Munroe, has considerable attraction. Young readers who have enjoyed the author’s “Snow Shoes and Sledges” will expect to find some vivid incidents in this story, the scene of which is laid in Arizona. The book is graphically illustrated with "Indians on the Warpath,” "A Lance Quivering in the Body of a Fierce Animal,” “Writhing Serpents,” and various scenes of desert and sea, which are always attractive to the boy reader. The successful attempt of the boys to frighten the diamond saiters by making them t/iink they are surrounded with ghosts is one of the man/ graphic chapters of the story. Harper & Brothers. A Fairy Story. A clever piece of work in the fairy story line is “The Prince of the Pin Elves,” by Charles L. Sleight. The phi elves are little creatures of the Brownie order, whose business it is to skurry around at night and pick up the pins which everybody is constantly losing or throwing away. The use they make of the pins and their habits, dwelling place and occupations, together with the experience which a little boy had among them, are described in this book in a way to interest children. It is illustrated by Amy M. Sacker, and published by L. C. Page & Cos., Boston. Mr. Keith’* Crime. Harper & Brothers have deemed Mrs. W. K. Clifford’s story, “Mr. Keith's Crime,” worthy of anew edition, the sixth. The first edition appeared in 1885, before the copyright act w i issed, and on that account the book h& reared in various forms and at varlou ees. The story is almost morbidly sad i painful, but it Is a very strong one. an. is told in such a realistic way as to fix and hold the reader’s attention to the end. Publishers’ Motes. “Stories from Italy.” by G. S. Godkln, is about to issue from the press of A. C. McClurg & Cos., of Chicago. Julien Gordon (Mrs. Van Rensselaer Crugerj has a book out this autumn with Messrs. Herbert S. Stone & Cos., who will shortly publish "Eat Not thy Heart.” As usual Mrs. Cruger deals largely with fashionable life, her scene being laid at a luxurious Long island country seat. The cowboy is at last to take his proper place In American literature. “The Story of the Cowboy” has been written by Mr. E. Hough and Illustrated by artists familiar with the theme, one of whom lives upon a Montana ranch. Mr. Hough’s book will be

published by D. Appleton & Cos. as the next volume in the successful Story of the West series. Messrs. Way & Williams. Chicago, have just published “Miracles of Madame St. Katherine of Fierbois,” which is a translation by Andrew Lang from the old French. It is a register of the miracles as they occurred (1300-1500), and furnishes a series of vignettes of life during the hundred years’ war. The work is little known and is described as very humorous. Mr. Lang writes an introduction. The edition will be a small one. The Doubleday & McClure Company is practically anew publishing house, though setting out as merely an enlarged enterprise on the part of the McClure syndicate in establishing a book department. Their first publications will be ready by Oct. 1, and include “Little Masterpieces,” the beginning of a collection of books of the highest standing in literature, bound in flexible cloth and leather and edited by Prof. Bliss Perry, of Princeton, who has selected the most characteristic sketches and stories cf each author. The first volumes are devoted to Poe, Irving and Hawthorne. The third edition of that dainty and artistic piece of Japanese book making, “Karma; a Story of Early Buddhism,” by Dr. Paul Carus, is announced by the Open Court Publishing Company. This is the same tale that was translated into Russian by Count Leo Tolstoi, and so made its way back into English through the Freneli with Count Tjlstoi's name as author. In correcting this false impression Count Tolstoi said: "I should be very happy indeed were I the author of this tale; it is one cf the best products of national wisdom and ought to be bequeathed to all mankind.” The same author’s "Nirvana” is also to be published in an illustrated Japanese edition. Among the new books to be published by Little, Brown & Cos. during the autumn of this year are the following: “Romance and Reality of the Puritan Coast,” anew illustrated volume on the favorite "North Shore’’ of the Massachusetts coast, by Edmund H. Garrett; anew story (of the present day) by Maud Wilder Goodwin, author of “White Aprons,” etc., entitled “Flint: His Faults. His Friendships and His Fortunes;” an illustrated edition of the great success of the year, “Quo Vadis,” in two volumes, including pictures by Howard Pyle, Edmund H. Garrett and Evert Van Muyden, reproductions from ancient sculptures and maps and plans; also, ‘ 'The Horoscope, a Romance of the Reign 1 1 Francois II,” “SylvancMre, a Romance of the Reign of Louis XIV." “Monsieur I)e Cliauvelin’s Will” and "The Woman vvlth the Velvet Necklace;” anew volume by Henryk Sienkiewicz. author of "Quo Vadis, “With Fire and Sword.” etc.; anew book by Captain Mahan dealing with the possibilities of sea power In the development of the United States. GREAT IS RED TAPE. How Mr. Cleveland** Account with I'ncle Sam Wna Settled. New York Journal. The smallest warrant draft ever issued by the United States Treasury Department, probably the smallest ever Issued by any government was for 1 cent, and was drawn as a balance due for salary to Grover Cleveland, then President of the United Sta4.es. To go to the trouble of drawing such a warrant seems, on the face of it. a waste of time and clerical labor. But great is red tape and great the desire of the government bookkeepers to have their accounts balance to a cent. And each official clerk and messenger who had to do with that warrant handled it as gingerly as if it carried tbe entire amount of the gold reserve. To those who do not understand now tl*e President of the United States receives his salary it should be explained that the $60.000 Is not paid him each year in a lump sum. It is cut up into monthly allowances of $4,166.66 2-3. To get rid of the bothersoms fraction the bookkeepers In the Treasury Department figure out that some months he shall receive 66 cents, other months 6. cents, and then the four days of March must be taken into consideration. It generally happens that these figures wort out evenly without leaving a balance on account. In May, 1896, President Cleveland received his usual allowance of dollars ana 67 cents; In June 66 cents. As June closes the fiscal year the experts who went over the books a few days alter the warrant had been drawn for that month’s salary discovered that there remained 1 cent to the credit of Mr. Cleveland. It would not do to carry that cent forward on the account for July, and it was not considered proper to send a messenger across to the White House with a. copper cent and a note from the treasurer, as a practical business man would have done. „ „„„ Instead. Acting Secretary of the Treasury Scott Wlke drew out his warrant book and filled out “Order No. 8" on W. F. Mackennan, chief of the division of keeping and warrants, for a warrant to be issued in favor of Grover Cleveland, President of the United States, for the sum of 1 cent, with which he was to be held accountable. .... - - A clerk made a note of this order and sent it by messenger to Thomas Holcombe, auditor for the state and other departments. The auditor approved it, signed his name, and had a clerk take note of it; then a messenger carried it to Chief Mackennan. of the division of bookkeeping and warrants, to draw the warrant, enter it on the books and charge it against the appropriation for the executive’s salary. In this division the warrant passed through the hands of the copyist, the bookkeeper who registered it, the clerk who indexed it and. the chief who examined it. Another messenger carried the warrant back to the acting secretary, who signed it. It was then sent to the controller of th® treasury, who countersigned it and entered it upon his books. Here the paper was handled by two or three clerks. It went next to the office of the treasurer, where the clerk designated on its face "Washington as the place of payment. The treasurer signed the warrant and sent it over to the White House by special messenger. That is the last that ever has been seen of the warrant draft by treasury officials. President Cleveland did not cash it. and It is understood that he has had it framed, as he regards the paper a great curiosity.

VETERANS AND BONDHOLDERS. The Government lias Paid More In In* I crest than in Pensions. Charles K. Radcliffe, in Detroit Tribune. During the period when the veterans were at the “front” sacrificing home comforte, the chances to gain wealth, business prospects, health, their limbs auid their lives, the expenditures of the government in excess of income was 112,614,391,000. In the last year of the war the excess was nearly $964,000,000. But there was no complaint about the soldier being a burden on the country then. For a decade after the war, the aggregate paid in interest to the bondholders was $1,235,401,000; while the aggregate of pensions was $267,972,000. The soldier was certainly not to blame for this excess of nearly a billion of dollars as usury to bondholders over the aggregate paid pensioners. Since 1860 the aggregate of $2,868,092,(1)0 has been paid as interest to bondholders; w'hile $2,140,923,000 has been paid in pensions. Over half a billion more to the bond holders for the use of their money than to the veterans for pensions, as a gratuity for invaluable service, the risk of their lives, the sacrifice of health, loss of limbs, eyes, feet and incurable wounds of all sorts. And It Is a question as to w'hen the aggregate of pensions paid, and to be paid equals the amount of bondholders’ interest paid and to be paid. The “high water mark” of pensions was reached in 1893—5159,357,000. It receded to $141,063,000 for the fiscal year of 1897. The Interest on the public debt was higher for the fiscal year of 1897—537,791,000, than It had been for any one of the seven preceding years. The United States treasurer's estimate of interest on the debt for the year ending June 30. 1898, is 036,150,000. The record of internal revenue collections begins with the fiscal year of 1863. Those who were adults at that time remember the stamps required to be placed on the many articles of common use. It was a tax that was direct on the people. This tax reached its highest in 1866, $3)10,226,000. For the first decade of the internal revenue tax the aggregate collected in this manner was sl,710,184,000. Tho interest paid during that decade was $1,083,140,000. 'Paid in pensions, $202,520,000. So it seems that thus far the bondholders’ usury has been a greater burden upon the people than the pensioners, and yet it Is to the credit of the Nation that It has kept its pledges to the capitalists in full letter and spirit. A greater and more vitally important glory is that It has rewarded and will reward the men without whose self-sacrifiing services the billions of money would have availed absolutely nothing w'hatever In saving our beloved Union from dissolution. Michigan Is Where l’ingree I*. Chicago Times-Herald. How ridiculous it is for the Detroit papers to talk about Hon. Hazen Peaehblow Pingreo being "lost!” Detroit may be floating about without a rudder: Lansing may be wandering around In the wilderness of Incertitude; but where Pingree is there is the State of Michigan. Not Fruitiest*. Chicago Times-Herald. That Ripley county, Indiana, grand Jury did not return any indictments for murder, but its session was not entirely fruitless, after all. It developed the fact that a lynching occurred in Versailles and that five former citizens of that place who participated in it are still dead. * Wamltced from Ills Potato Patch. Cleveland Plain Dealer. Every potato In Michigan has tears in Its eyes. Governor Pingree Ims forgotten his first love and is wandering in pastures new.