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Lawlessness in England does not take exactly the same form that it docs in this country, but it is essentially the same. The spirit of white-capism can be expressed as Well by clubs and stones as by masks and whips. The Marion Chronicle says that thirtysix new divorce suits have been filed in Grant county since the last term of the Superior Court. As the conditions in Grant county cannot be materially different from those in other counties, we are forced to believe that the worst social evils in Indiana are rash marriages and hasty divorces. And Indiana Is no worse than many other States. The evil is general. A dispatch in the Sunday Journal stated that the capitalists and farmers of Henry county, this State, are united In trying to secure the establishment of a beet sugar factory in New Castle or its vicinity. The effort deserves encouragement. Henry county comes within the sugar-beet producing section of Indiana, and if the money and the beets can be brought together the sugar will be forthcoming. A few beet-sugar factories in Indiana would contribute materially to the variety of its manufacturing industries and break down the Sugar Trust. The announcement by Hon. C. L. Henry that he will not again be a candidate for Congress will be received with regret, not only by his constituents of the Eighth district. but by the Republicans in other districts, who had come to look upon him as a useful and rising man. Mr. Henry’s decision is due to the fact that his private business demands his entire time and attention. Things are “booming” now r in Madison county, and he wants to be in a position to take the tide at its flood. He has the satisfaction of having contributed to the passage of the Dingley law, which has opened the door for prosperity, and of knowing that he will be succeeded by a Republican. The death of Mr. Charles A. Dana, editor of the New York Sun, removes a conspicuous figure in American, life. He was a great personality by reason of his ability, forcefulness and intense Americanism. The country has been enriched by his services as a citizen, a journalist, a publicist and a patriot. A mere epitome of his career wmuld occupy a large space in the columns of the Journal, and a comprehensive account of it would fill a volume. He was almost the last survivor of the era of journalism in which editors enforced their personality through the press—the era of Greeley, Raymond, Bennett ana others of that class. Mr. Dana was cut out for a leader, and could have remained an underling. Asa subordinate officer of the War Department, assistant secretary under Stanton during the civil war, he rendered very valuable service to the government. He came of a notable family, and well maintained its traditions.

About the only wild vagary that the Chicago platform did not indorse and adopt was the single land tax, and it looks now as if that might go ki the next national Democratic platform. The truth is, there is not much else left for the party. The tariff question is settled for many years to come, free silver will never figure in another national election, ‘‘government by injunction” is too thin for a national issue, go what is the poor old Democracy to do? John G. Shanklin, Democratic national committeeman from this State, has been a pronounced advocate of the single land tax for years, and a few days ago he said to an Interviewer: “Were I in New York 1 should support Henry George because he is the only exponent among the candidates for mayor of the principles decided at the Chicago convention, absolute loyalty to which Is the test of true Democracy.” Henry George cares more for the single land tax than he does for the eiulre Chicago platform. Mr. Shanklin knows this, and when the time comes he and Henry George will both he found working to get a sirgle-land-tax plank in the Democratic platform. The current issue of the American Economist contains an instructive comparison between the first two months of the Wilson tariff and the Dlngley tariff. The figures show that during the first month of its operation. September, 185*4. the Wilson bill yielded a revenue of $22,621,229 and during the second month $19,129,240. The Dingley bill produced $19,022,615 during the first month of Its operation and $21,933,098 during the sec-

ond. The point of contrast is that while the Wilson bill showed a large falling off in tho second month the Dingley bill shows a large gain and 52.‘5f*3.558 more than the total revenue received during the second month of the Wilson bill. From another point of view, covering expenditures as well as receipts, the deficit during the first month of the Dingley bill was nearly $7,000,(D0 greater than during the first month of the Wilson bill, while In the second montlr of the Dingley bill the deficit was over $10,000,000 less than in the second month of the Wilson bill. The Wilson bill deficit grew* as the bill got older and continued to increase, while the Dingley bill deficit was $1,000,000 less in the second month than in the first and will second month than in the first, and will great superiority of the Dingley bill as a producer of revenue, while as a producer of prosperity there is no room for comparison. The Wilson bill destroyed prosperity, while the Dingley bill is restoring It. THE MAIN RELIANCE. Those who read the New York and other reform or independent papers cannot fail to be struck with the fact that the Republicans alone are found fault with because the party does not support Mr. Low. If the evil elements in New York are to oe defeated it must be done by Republican votes. No one thinks of appealing to, the Democratic organizations. In fact, they are the evil that is to be fought—the "abhorrent forces” of vicious control. The elements outside the Republican party opposed to Tammany are chiefly conspicuous for the insistency of their demands and the paucity of their voters. They ask for all things and will not combine if they are not given all they claim. At the last municipal election the factions outside the Republican party consented to support a Republican for mayor, but they managed to get the better part of the ticket after the mayoralty. The last fight made upon Tammany prior to the fight when Mr. Strong was elected an anti-Tammany Democrat was given the nomination. The Republicans supported him loyally, but the Herald and tKe World, supporting Tammany, took nearly all the Democratic vote that was not mugwump to the ticket of that organization This time those who put Mr. Low into the field refused to consult the Republican organization. In fact, the managers were nearly as hostile to the Republican organization as to Tammany. They refused to consult with Republicans, from whom throefourths of the Low votes must come. They would make their own ticket, and if the Republicans chose they could indorse it. Indeed, they were expected to indorse it with a vote of thanks for the privilege. Furnishing at least three-fourths of the votes which any reform candidate must have, many Republicans have thought they should have some say about the make-up of the ticket instead of being ignored and snubbed. With the exception of Mr. Low, vAho is sometimes a Republican, the ticket is anti-Republican, some of it offensively so. The point, however, which should be emphasized is that whenever a movement is made to secure reforms those who are managing it look to the Republican party for the bulk of the voters who are to make it successful. If these cannot be obtained the movement fails, and those who are in it unite in abusing the Republican organization for not hoisting into power a coterie of gentlemen of rare professions who can be counted on in national elections to fight the Republican party and its principles.

THEY SHOULD HE RECALLED. A London dispatch in the Sunday Journal indicates very clearly that the British government has decided not to take part in an international monetary conference or do anything whatever looking towards a departure from the single gold standard. This decision has been foreshadowed from the beginning, and would probably have been made known long ago but for the desire to show the American commissioners the courtesy of giving the matter formal consideration by a Cabinet meeting. The first autumn meeting of the Cabinet was held on Saturday, and the decision seems to have been reached very promptly and no doubt it will be promptly communicated through official channels to the United States commissioners. That being done, they should be recalled. There has never been any reasonable hope of their accomplishing anything in England, and, while they have been courteously and considerately treated, it is probable the ruling members of the government have derived considerable amusement from the dignified posing of the commissioners. They have had just enough encouragement from Mr. Balfour, first lord of the treasury, and Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, chancellor of the exchequer, to induce them to prolong their stay in London, but even these officials assured them that in no event would the British government ever depart from the gold standard. The commissioners must have known all along what the final decision would be, but as they were having a good time, living at a first-class hotel with a clerk at call and Uncle Sam paying expenses, they seemed quite willing to protract the business. As other European governments will take no action in the matter without the co-operation of Great Britain, her decision puts a quietus on the movement for an international conference. The commissioners. Senator Wolcott, of Colorado, ex-Vice President Stevenson and General Paine, of Boston, were appointed in April last. They have had a long junket, a good six months’ picnic, and should be recalled. It is right to learn from the enemy. We have learned so much from the advocates of free trade that was not true about the injurious results of protection that it may be well to draw 7 a little instruction from our friends the enemey on the other side of the water. The last issue of Ryland's Iron Trade Circular, the organ of the British iron trade, contains the following: According to the latest advices from America, the Yankees are determined to secure their share of the world's trade in iron and steel, and for this purpose six manufacturers in Pittsburg and the vicinity have formed a company called the Export Iron and Steel Company, the objects of which are to enter and seek trade in the British markets. The cflices of the. company have been opened at Pittsburg. The capital is only SIIO,OOO, but sufficient backing has been obtained to guarantee any amount as soon as the increase of the business demands it. A London agent has been appointed, and an attempt will be made to do business in India. South America and Japan. The Americans are an enterprising body of men, and as a rule if they take a thing in hand they do it well. It therefore behooves every iron and steel firm of this country to watch Mr. Yankee’s movements very closely. It will, perhaps, be easier to checkmate early, before he holds anything like a strong position on the board. We know well what they can do; if not, we have only to look at the tin-plate trade. In this branch they, in a very short time, built up a huge industry, driving our V\ elsh friends practically out of their market, and have now made their first shipment toward establishing an export trade in tin plates. No such announcement as this was ever made under the Wilson bill or any other

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tariff for revenue only. Under that policy British trade circulars consisted principally of exploitations of the extension of British trade and the consequent crippling of American industries. Now the shoe is on the other foot, and British manufacturers are advised to “watch Mr. Yankee's movements very closely.” Able free-trade editors who have not yet learned that the manufacture of tin plate in the United States is an assured fact ought to accept the closing sentence of the foregoing extract as authoritative. BUBBLES IN THE AIR. More Information. Tommy—Paw, what is an enemy to society? Mr. Figg—Any sensible married man is an enemy to “society," as his wife understands the word. Putting It Indirectly. Inski—Look here, is it you that has been circulating the report that I hadn’t washed my face in seven years? Sinski—No. All I said was that if a mosquito wanted to tackle you he'd have to carry a shovel. AH He Could Claim. “Really, will this new-fangled burner reduce one’s gas bills?” asked the customer. “I cannot tell a lie, especially to an old customer,” said the lamp man. “I can only assert that it reduces the consumption of gas.” A Safe Guess. “How old would you guess her to be?” “Oh, about twenty-five would he a safe guess.” “She’s surely older than that?” “I said twenty-five w r ould be a safe guess. It is always safer to underguess a woman’s age. She may hear of it.” THE CITY ELECTION. The Delphi Journal accounts for the election of Taggart as mayor of Indianapolis upon the theory that he can smile in any language, any color, and is in harmory with the dictates of any platform.—Muncie Times. To an outsider the contest there seems to have been between opposing corporations and corporate influences, and those back of Taggart were more powerful and controlled more votes than their opponents, hence his overwhelming victory.—Terre Haute Mail. The Indianapolis Republican who voted the Taggart ticket Tuesday because he didn’t like Harding or the methods of his campaign managers no doubt felt like kicking himself when he heard the wildeyed 16-to-l enthusiast a few hours later claiming a victory for free silver.—Frankfort News. The Republicans were too busy to vote, the total showing that the vote was about 10,000 short, and the most of them were Republicans. This makes Mr. Taggart the logical Democratic candidate for Governor in 1900, and, though his name is Tom. he will receive a terrible walloping.—Covington Republican. The vote cast north of Washington street, the great Republican section of the city, only lacked about six hundred of being enough to elect Taggart without getting any help from the South Side, which is the Democratic stronghold. It is estimated that ten thousand Republicans stayed at home. —Anderson Bulletin. The Indianapolis election can have no special bearing on State politics from the fact that it was brought about largely by Republicans who did not consider that matters of national interest or importance were on trial and stayed at home. It usually doesn’t make much difference what Indianapolis does so far as the State is concerned. The boys in the out counties have to win the battles, anyhow.—Greensburg Review. Every scheme was worked to elect Taggart. The colored men were beguiled, the bicyclists appealed to, the love of fair play invoked, the independent racket worked for all there was in it. The News, having supported the Republican ticket in the last election, it was in order for it to go Democratic this time. In the background the corporations, saloons and Holts also labored for the wily Thomas.—Madison Courier. It is amusing to hear the silverite wdng of the Democracy now boosting Tom Taggart, a well-known gold Democrat, as their next candidate for Governor. They ignore the fact that a gubernatorial campaign implies a division on state and national issues, and that the head of the ticket must make a canvass in defense of the platform upon which he stands. The platform of the party cannot be ignored, as was done in the recent municipal campaign.—Crawfordsville Journal. The Indianapolis Democrats are so puffed up with their late victory that they consider they have a cinch on the universe. They have made all arrangements to nominate and elect Taggart Governor in 1900, but possibly before that time arrives they will find somebody and something else in the way. In the first place, an Indianapolis man cannot get the nomination for that high office, and in the next place a Democrat cannot be elected.—South Bend Tribune. That Taggart was re-elected did not surprise Republicans. Taggart has probably a better acquaintance in the city than any other man, and is a remarkable campaigner. Tho corporations of the city stood ready to furnish him with all the money necessary, and no one will deny that there is a chance to use several barrels of it in a city election. The brewers and liquor dealers, the gamblers and roughs who have enjoyed the freedom of the past two years were unitedly for him. He had all the advantages which being in power at the time could give, which were many.—Franklin Republican. Had half the Republicans who refrained from voting gone to the polls and voted their ticket Taggart would have been defeated. About 6,000 Republicans and 2,000 Democrats failed to vote, and about 1,500 Republicans voted for Taggart. These facts constitute a sufficient and complete answer to the claim that the victory was for free silver. Moreover, Tom Taggart has always been a gold Democrat, ana is one now. He received the gold Democratic vote with the exception of a small number, and in his appointments gold Democrats will predominate. Let the silverites rejoice; their rejoicing cannot come from the heart. —Plymouth News. The Indianapolis Journal attributes the Republican defeat at last Tuesday’s election in that city to the fact that some 8,000 Republicans staid at home and failed to vote. It would be interesting to know why they did not vote. Usually Republicans are anxious to have their ticket elected, and willing to help elect it. Republicans throughout the Sate, who get a good deal of advice, one time and another, from the capital city, will be glad to have the Journal tell how it happened that as many as 8,000 of the faithful staid away from the polls in that one city on an election day so important as that of last Tuesday.—Rushville Republican. The result had nothing to do w-ith national issues. Neither the money question nor protection was on trial. There has, therefore, been no reversal of public opinion on these great questions. The result hinged upon the personal popularity of the candidates, and, Mr. Taggart having a decided advantage in this particular, and having promised the earth to the people for their support, was easily elected. The prosperity which the country is now enjoying is the best possible evidence that the vote of the people last November was no mistake, and when the issues then passed upon are again before the people the result will be equally emphatic for a sound financial system and protection to American industry.—Middletown News. Indianapolis is a city that is largely made up of the managers and employes of great corporations and business firms. The railroads have literally made the city. Without them it would have remained an overgrown country village, with the Statehouse as its chief attraction. With them, it is the largest and most Influential of the entirely inland cities of the Union. Now, nearly all these corporations and great business and manufacturing firms are more or less dependent on the favor of the city government, and they all want special concessions and are anxious to hold on to all privileges and immunities that they already enjoy. The railroads—including the Belt and Union Railroad Companies—the street railroad, the brewing companies, the liquor league, the contractors for city work and other

similar interests control thousand of votes. Realizing that they were almost unanimously lor the re-election of Mr. Taggart, because they feel far surer of the certainty of their various “pulls” with him as mayor, supported by a Democratic Council, than they could be under Republican rule, it is not hard to account for the sweeping Democratic victory in the capital city. Add to this Mr. Taggart’s wide acquaintance and great personal popularity and the disgust of Republicans with the 'bosses’’ who come to the surface and dominate things in this State after every great Republican state or national victory and you have the solution of the question in a nutshell. It would require a mountain of established corruption and bad government to outweigh these considerations in a city made up like Indianapolis. The fact is that the re-elec-tion of Taggart was a foregone conclusion from the start.—Benjamin S. Parker, in New Castle Courier. STATE PRESS OPINION. By the way, don’t forget that this adipinistration isn’t selling any bonds. —Rockport Journal. Drop him —that’s what Republican journals should do for Mr. Bryan. He’s entirely a “back number.”—Warsaw Times. Mr. Bryan is slowly but surely driving out the balloon ascension business as one of the stellar attractions at county fairs. —Attica Ledger. The substitution of a silver state seal for one of gold in Kansas is a curious example of sentimentality in politics. An offer to accept silver bullion at the old ratio for official salaries ■would mean something.—Elwood Call Leader. Bryan says the great principle in free silver coinage will never die, but just the same it is observed that the free-silver orators are not tramping out the grass in public parks arguing the silver question as they were a year ago.—Shelbyville Republican. As an evidence of “returning prosperity” just read our list of the marriage licenses and the weddings. The favorite ministers for weddings are all having to work overtime now. Good old Republican times and the Dingley bill have done good work in the matrimonial line.—Knightstown Sun. Last winter William McKinley said that in his judgment it was better to open the mills of the Unite*! States to home labor than to open the mints of this country to the silver of” the world. There are many ohers who didn't think so then but have since reached the same conclusion.— Lawrenceburg Press. The silverites will present just about as solid a front in this State as they are presenting down in Kentucky now. The gold wing of the Democratic party is growing in numbers each day and if the silver wing of the party again favors free silver at the ratio of 16 to 1 when the commercial value is about 36 to 1 it will again be defeated. —Petersburg Press. The opponents of the Dingley bill said that if it became a law the “markets of the world” would be closed to this country, but they were mistaken, as usual, in their predictions. On the contrary, our exports have been very large and the balance of trade with foreign countries continues largely in our favor. Free trade notions rarely “pan out”—Kendalville Standard. The esteemed Indianapolis Sentinel is itself again, coming up smiling with an oldtime editorial on “Bimetallism a Necessity.” There is great comfort in the assurance, that while elections may come and go. nations rise and fall and empires flourish and decay, the glorious cause of bimetallism like the traditional brook will go on forever, under the fostering care of the editor of the Sentinel—Richmond Item. We doubt the propriety of any interference on the part of the Republican state convention next year with the senatorial question. The election of the United States senators is vested in the Legislature of the State, and it seems to us that any outside dictation as to the person to be elected would be offensive to the Legislature and be likely to create dissensions in the party that would bo harmful in a pronounced degree.—Brookville American. The business man is again taking an interest in politics. In those States in which the silver question enters into the campaign, and it is being forced to the front wherever possible, the business men of the country are reviving their organizations of last year with which they so effectively and successfully combated this dangerous menace to the financial systems of the country. —Bedford Mail. . Tho gratifying result of municipal ownership of tho electric light plant should set citizens of Muncie to thinking. The report of the superintendent for the last quarter shows an expense of a fraction under $6.95 per light, or at the rate of $27.80 per light a year. This is about one-third of the cost to cities that are under contract to private individuals for furnishing no better service, if as good, as that enjoyed by Muncie, and who can doubt, if the water system of the city was under as careful management, that our citizens would be served with "good, potable water” at one-third the present cost.—Muncie Times. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. Professor Andree is, or was, nearly fortythree years of age, and unmarried. He spent a year in America in 1876, as sweeper and mechanic in the Swedish department at the Philadelphia centennial. , Shakspeare's daughter Judith, who was thirty-two when he died, survived him forty-six years and became a Puritan. So rigid was she that she would never go near a playhouse, and was intolerant of everything theatrical. Mrs. Ballington Booth says that there is nothing in the story that the breach between the Volunteers and the Salvation Army is to be healed. The differnce, she says, is not a personal quarrel, but a matter of principle, so that there is no chance for reconciliation. Mr. Owen Seamans has been offered, and has accepted, the post on the staff of the London Punch rendered vacant by the death of Mr. E. J. Milliken. Mr. Seaman is the author of “With Double Pipe.” “Horace death of Mr. E. J. Milliken. Mr. Seamans is “The Battle of the Bays." Mrs. Francis A. Williamson, of Reno, is the editor of the Nevada Citizen, a weekly paper. The object is "to promote the advancement of women in the ethics of civil government, ordained in the Declaration of Independence and established by the Constitution of the United States of America.” Mrs. Alice Freeman Palmer, lecturing on the higher education of women in Worcester, Mass., recently, said: “Why has so much money been given for this work? Because people know now that the search for knowledge does not make the woman’s heart have less love and the soul loss faith.” Rev. Dr. Rylance, rector of St. Mark’s Church, New York, who has just returned from abroad, declares that he is an of “blue laws.” He says England and France would not stand such a measure as the Raines law, and that the Sunday of European countries is more conducive to happiness of the people than our so-called dry Sunday. Mrs. Caroline Morse runs the custom house elevator in San Francisco, Cal. She is the widow of a sailor, and she cares for and educates her family by means of her work. She was appointed under ex-Presi-dent Harrison’s administration, and was deposed during Cleveland's last term, but San Francisco demanded her reinstatement at once. The poet Swinburne is one of the most erratic persons in the world. Although he is a perfect master of French, German and Greek, it is his delight to pretend that he is illiterate. He left Oxford with a great reputation for learning, but he would not take a degree. He lives near London in a charming old house and is scarcely ever seen in society. Last week 190 officers of the array were away from their commands on specUl service. Os the number 109 were detailed as instructors at schools and colleges, forty-two as instructors of state troops, and twentythree had pleasant billets in Washington. That number of absentees is about the average for the year—enough to officer several new regiments. Sir Everett Millais, son of the late president of the Royal Academy, held the baronetcy but a year. He has just died at the age of forty-one of pneumonia brought on by neglecting to change his wet clothes. He was a well-known sportsman and authority on dogs, and his fame must rest on his introduction of the Basset hound into England. His heir, John Everett Millais, is but nine years old. The Emperor of Japan has done a great deal for the advancement of women in Japan. Stained teeth and shaved eyebrows are to be abolished. The Empress Fusaka,

his wife, not only shates the throne with him, but is consulted by him on matters of national importance. Moreover, she has a place at his table, an honor accorded to none of her predecessors. She has shown herself worthy of these additional privileges. An athletic dudelet named Duff Once attempted the swell game of guff; Gave the ball a good lick. And It killed a poor chick In a field over half a mile uff. —Philadelphia North American. Now comes the time when long-haired jays, With dreamy eyes and faces queer, Take up a pen and tell us that The melancholy days are here. —Philadelphia North American. Maud Miller on a summer night Was riding her wheel without a light, W ith graceful hump and bicycle face, She scorched along at a merry pace, When across her path there loomed a man, And into him Maudie straightway ran. But, alas! to her sorrow he proved to be A police court judge of stern degree; And she sighed next day as he lined her ten 'Stead of s9.9B—as it might have been. —Chicago News. A REBUKE TO MH. LOW. Tlie Citizens* Candidate “Called Down” by His Republican Opponent. General Tracy in Brooklyn. Ladies and gentlemen, in this canvass I propose to have no personal controversy with candidates or their advocates. I respect the motives of men, and I do not impugn them. But I must deal with their actions and w r ith the result of those actions as I see it and believe it to be. Mr. Low, in speaking here the other night of me, said that we were friends and had been. I have been Mr. Low’s friend now for seventeen years. Others may have served him more wisely; none has been truer or more faithful to him than I. I was the one who made it possible for Mr. Low to be mayor of this city. He was renominated and re-elected, and thus made mayor for four years. He says that he regards the fact that he and I are now foes to each other as a tragedy in his life. Allow me to say that if Mr. Low's political action had always been us wise as my friendship has been faithful he would have no occasion to consider this as one of the tragedies of his life. Now he says that he is a friend of mine; and I doubt not he is. I hope he is. But was it the suggestion of a friend that led him to say in the meeting here last Saturday night that, if 1 was elected mayor, the real mayor would be found in the United States Senate at Washington? What act in my public life does Mr. Low find that warrants such an insinuation as that? It has been far extended. It began when I was twenty-three years old, when I was elected district attorney of my county, and it has included many years of active public service. My record will be found in every one of the great departments of government, in the Legislature, in the executive and the judicial, and It embraces both arms of the military service. If I am the man that he described who, acting under the obligation of an official oath, will depute to another who is irresponsible the duties that I owe the public, acting under that oath, surely the traces of that weakness ought to be found somewhere in my long record of forty years. I repeat to you, ladies and gentlemen, what I said in my speech of acceptance. No obligations have been asked of me and none have been given. If elected to the high office to which I have been nominated I shall enter upon the discharge of its duties with no obligation save that 1 owe all the people of the city, to discharge its duties to the best of my ability. And with God’s blessing that obligation will be faithfully and fearlessly discharged. If elected I shall be glad of the suggestion, the advice and the counsel of all who choose to call upon me and make known their wishes. But the responsibility of official decision, after I have heard all that is to be said, is mine. TOO MUCH JOHNSON. In This fnse It I “Tom” Sloshing Around in New York. Washington Post. We confess to an affectionate pride in the prominence to which the Hon. Tom Johnson has so recently and suddenly leaped in connection with the quadrilateral fight in New York city. Just how he obtained this prominence or just why it has been accorded him, we do not know or trouble ourselves to inquire. We ask no questions of the comet or the meteor, who do not sift the sweet south wind or try to catch the zephyr in a bag. What we see is that Tom Johnson has soared to a dizzy height in New York politics, and that is enough for our gratitude and ioy. If the situation bewilders us just a trifle, let that pass. If we are somewhat confused by the almost theatrical transition of Tom Johnson from Cleveland, 0., to the great Eastern metropolis, set that down to our imperfect understanding. It is true that, only a little more than twelve months ago, Tom Johnson unfolded himself to our reverent vision at Chicago, in the character of an Ohio delegate to the Democratic convention. and gave as large and startling earnest of his potency as an opponent of Hon. John li. McLean, the practically unanimous choice of his State for the party nomination. It is equally true that Johnson has, until within six months, been identified with Ohio as an officeholder, and office-seeker and a statesman on the loose. But still, though we find him now, up to his neck in the New York municipal campaign, taking charge of things as easily and gracefully as though he were to the business and the manner born, w r e subordinate surprise to admiration and try to take the somersault as calmly as though we were gazing at some dear, familiar pantomime. Indeed, such is our exciting and comprehensive experience of Johnson, we should hear with equanimity of his apparition in the character of an aspirant to the throne of Siam or his leadership of an Armenian revolt in Asia Minor. We should not be hopelessly astounded on meeting him en route to establish a commune at the north polfc, or in a velvet jacket and w r ith beribboned legs, singing barcaroles upon the Grand Canal of Venice to the strummings of the light guitar. There is no limit to his versatility, no telling where he will manage an eruption next. But it wakens our fondest interest to contemplate Tom Johnson now. in the act of manipulating the tremendous conflict in New* York. He may queer his protege, the bold and strenuous George. He may hopelessly bemuddle a campaign which at one time promised much for the candidate of the independent Democrats. Tom steps in where angels might wisely fear to tread, and sorrow and confusion may follow In his jaunty path. But he is the wonder and delight of Christendom at this juncture. He surmounts the situation like a thing of grace and light. He squats upon it like a cherub on a cloud. He loads the air with nimbuses and rosy mistg. We had him once ourselves. We glory in him now. He may curdle George’s milk —the chances are he will—but he is beautiful to look upon, and he blankets the whole squabble with a smile.

Prospect in Kentucky. Washing-ton Post. “My prediction is that the Republicans will carry Kentucky in the ensuing election,” said Hon. W. S. Taylor, attorney general of that State, at the Hotel Johnson. ‘‘The Democrats are split into two factions mutually embittered, and each bent on downing the other. The Populists, who voted for Bryan to a man' last year, have a ticket of their own. They do not propose to give the free-silver Democratic nominee a vote, for they declare that in return for their allegiance to Bryan in 1596 it is only fair for the Democrats to support the Populist candidate this year. Mr. Bryan himself, who has been imported into Kentucky to aid his party, is making no inroads on the Populist vote. They want to know of him whether he is for governmental ownership of railroads, and if he favors the issue of greenbacks as primary money not redeemable in coin. These questions he has evaded, nor could he answer them in any way to draw recruits to his faction. “The gold Democrats are in evidence in this quadrilateral fight—very much in evidence—and are making more of an aggressive campaign than all the rest combined. They are playing a shrewd game. Above all things they desire the defeat of Shackelford, the silver nominee. The harder mey can beat him the better. But It suits their purpose to join with the other faction in Louisville and Jefferson county, so that if these are carried they can say to the siiverites: ‘Behold what our aid accomplished; you can do nothing without us.’ In other words the gold men want their former associates crushed everywhere but in the city of Louisville and county of Jefferson. They want to get possession of the machine, which is now' in free-silver hands. They regard the failure of the silver ticket as a dea.th blow to Bryanism. for if the cause fail in Kentucky there isn’t much chance of its winning anywhere. “My belief is that the Republicans will carry the State and also win in Louisville. Bryanism will be beaten good and hard, but it will not put the sound-money Democrats in position to get control of the State. They can never win over the adherents of the Chicago platform, for these men. rather than return under the domination of Carlisle. Watterson and Buckner, will tumble over each other in a rush to Populism.” Knoim Its Own. Indianapolis News. The “holier-than-thou” spirit is quite manifest in the ranks of the Tracy Republicans in New Yrk.

NEW PUBLICATIONS. White Man's Africa, Mr. Ponltney Bigelow'* Latest Work. Mr. Poultney Bigelow, one of the most Industrious and instructive of American authors, has anew book, entitled “White Man’s Africa." It is a timely book for Americans, whose interest in popular government and in the progress of civilization evokes their sympathy with the efforts being made in that direction In South Africa. The time has long since passed when even intelligent people regarded that continent as hopelessly and permanently given over to wdld beasts and savagery. It is evident now that Africa will some day be the seat of anew civilization and one or more distinct nationalities. In his preface to this w'ork the author says: “The four republics of South Africa have in their hands the shaping of a great nation. This empire cannot be guided by wires from Berlin or Amsterdam, New York or even London. The greatest good of the greatest number must become a watchword from the Cape to the Bambesi.” Comparatively little attention has been given by the outside world to the problems of government being worked out by the white colonists in Africa until Jameson's raid into the Transvaal country. That incident opened the eyes of the civilized world to the fact that African affairs were of great significance. In order to satisfy the public desire for trustworthy information regarding the country and its colonies and people, Mr. Bigelow, after a thorough study of the subject upon the ground, has written thus book. The region that he calls "White Man’s .Africa” is that extending from the Cape of Good Hope for a thousand miles or so northeastward along the Indian ocean. “This,” he says, “is the New England of Africa, whose enterprising sons are doggedly conquering the wilderness step by step, carrying with them Christianity and constitutional government.’’ He draws a striking parallel between the colonization of New England and that of South Africa, and points out the reasons why one has not progressed, within its limitations, as raptdb' as the other. “Four hundred years ago,” says the author, “Portuguese navigators and Romish monks established themselves along the whole coast line of this continent, with tne ,x----eeption of the Mediterranean shore. but brought with them an administration directed exclusively to the accumulation of gold and indiscriminate conversion of natives. They and their work have been swept away, leaving nothing but a few ginger-colored officials to remind the traveler that a government cannot live long unless its foundations are laid on principles of justice.” The book does not deal much with the past. It is essentially up to date, ami deals with the Africa of to-day. .The author’s conclusion is that “the future of South Africa lies not in the bands of noisy and frothy filibusters or stock exchange brokers, nor does it lie with a small section of Boers who still struggle for isolation. The men who hold the future of that country in their hands are men of English as well as Dutch descent, but who are no longer subject to one flag more than another. They are men who feel and act as Afrikanders, whether their farms lie in Natal or the Cape, the Transvaal or the Orange Free State.” The book is liberally Illustrated and published in attractive form by Harper & Brothers.

Minor Fiction. G. P. Putnam’s Sons issue “Margot,” by Sidney Pickering, and “The Man of the Family,” by Christian Reid, In their monthly series of novels. The first is a story In which English and Russian characters figure, and the scene of which is laid in Paris. These personages indulge in very intense emotions and have a series of matrimonial entanglements of a distressing sort, but matters are finally adjusted in a fairly satisfactory manner. “The Man of the Family” is a tale of impossible but agreeably romantic adventure In which a young woman personates a man and finds hidden wealth which restores the family fortunes, after which she becomes truly womanly again and marries the man of her choice. It is a story suited to the taste of quite youthful readers. Paper, 50 cents. “The Heart of It,” by William Osborn Stoddard, deals with a young gentleman down on his luck, a multimillionaire, Apaches, Blackwell’s island officials, several lovely women and a highly individual mule named Oliver. The story is written rather carelessly, but the characters are alive and the adventures are many and intense. New' York: F. Tennyson Needy. From G. W. Dillingham & Cos., New York, the Journal has received “When Desire Cometh,” a novel by G. Embe. It is a story of considerable force, partaking of the qualities of a romance, a detective story and a Utopian scheme for relieving the condition of the poor. Also, from the same publishers. “John King, Manager,” a strongly realistic story of a young man who after wandering far from his early teachings and ideals and drinking deeply of vicious pleasures, finally returns to better things. Both books are bound in paper, 50 cents each. The Dreamers. This is the title given to a collection of verses by Edward S. Van Zile, in which the author touches on the various sides of life with an apt and ready appreciation. The poems cover a wide range of topics and bear tne impress of an assured literary touch. Many of them have appeared in different magazines, but that should not be cited against them. In tone they range from grave to gay, from serious and pathetic to broadly humorous. The author’s poems of child life are simple and pathetic. One entilted “’lls Riley’s Hour” begins: The children’s hour they call it, And they gather at my knee For a story or a poem Or a bit of history From the records of the giants, Or a tale of fairy lore; and ends: And so we thank you, Riley, When the children’s hour Is passed, And the little, forms are kneeling Before the throne at last. The book is issued in attractive form by F. Tennyson Neely, New York.

My Stmllo Neighbors. William Hamilton Gibson, who with pencil and pen is doing more than any other living author to call attention to the wonderful forms of life that lie all around us, has written another delightful book, “My Studio Neighbors.” In his Isolated country studio, secluded among the trees, out of sight of any other house, the artist-author finds what he calls “a tumultuous privacy.” The studio neighbors which he describes are not human beings, but birds, bees, bugs, insects, squirrels and flowers, all of which he draws and describes in his inimitable way. When he treats of the insects and the flowers, and of their friendly relations, he is particularly charming, and whether he tells us of the native orchids and their insect sponsors, the honey dew picnic, or the little family of thorns that move about on the stem of the bittersweet, he invests the subject with all the zest of original discovery. The book is beautifully illustrated and handsomely bound. Harper & Brothers. The King of the Park. Miss Marshall Saunders, author of “Beautiful Joe,” has written another taking story. In her first one the dog found a sympathetic friend, while in “The King of the Park” a stray cat figures. The king of the park is one of the many cats deserted during summer time by their heartless or careless owners. He. like others of these domestic pets, took refuge in the park and became the special protege of the nobleminded sergeant there in charge. But the real hero of the book is a little French exile whose amusingly imperialistic notions are gradually converted Into soundly democratic and American ones under the influence of the sergeant and his whole-souled, loveable wife. The wholesome lessons taught are communicated not by preachments but by actions. The story Is fresh and wholesome. New York; T. Y. Crowell & Cos. Murlelln. l*y *‘Onlln. M There was a time when anew story by “Ouida” was eagerly anticipated by a large circle of readers. Her nom de plume was one with which to conjure and thousands of admirers were content to count themselves under her magic spell. She has lost nothing of her literary art and her style is as graceful and charming as ever, but she is not as much in vogue as she once was. But her books still find many readers. “Muriella” is a story of low life in Italy. The characters are Italian peasants of the brigand and poacher order. “Murlella.” the

heroine. Is a rough diamond of this class who, though very ignorant, has pure and womanly instincts. The story of her life and tragic end is told In a realistic way and yet on© feels that it is unreal. Boston 1 L. C. Page &. Cos. Concerning Microbes. The rapid progress of discovery in the last few years has created a very general interest In bacteria. Few people who read could be found to-day who have not soma Idea of these organisms and their relation to disease. It is. however, true that It is only their relation to disease that has been impressed upon the public. The very word bacteria, or microbe, conveys to most people an idea of evil. This Is a mistaken on© of the subject. Bacteria are important agents in many natural processes entirely independent of disease. The w hole subject is intelligently treated in “The Story of Germ Life.” by Professor H. W. Conn, which is published in the "Library of Useful Stories” series by D. Appleton & Cos. Clerical Type*. Thoughtful readers with a taste for the study of human nature will find much to interest them in a little work entitled “Clerical Types,” by Rev. Hamos Mason. Whether this is the author’s real name is doubtful, but that is not material. He professes to be the pastor of a country parish not far from a large city, and perhaps ho is. The book is a series of sketches, twenty in number, descriptive of as many different types of preachers. There are “A Successful Preacher.” “A Popular Preacher,” “A Plodding Parson,” “A Spiritual Preacher,” “A Doctrinal Preacher.” “A Liberal Preacher,” and so on to the end of the score. The sketches are well written and decidedly readable. New York: Funk & Wagnalls Company. Three Operetta*. Under this title Harper & Brothers publish three operettas for children by H. C. Bunner, set to music by Weil. The plays are “Three Little Kittens of the Land of Pie,” “Seven Old Ladles of Lavender Town” and “Bobby Shaftoe.” The text of the operettas fairly bubbles over with childish glee, and the music is of the same light and joyduS character. The operettas are intended for representation, and the necessary directions are given its to staging and costumes. Otber Book* Received. “Prince Charlie's Daughter.” by Bertha M. Clay. Chicago: Rand, McNally & Cos. “True to Themselves.” a novel by Dr. A. G. C. Skene. New York: F. Tennyson Neely. “The Real Condition of Cuba To-day,” by Stephen Bonsai. New York: Harper & Bros. "The Touchstone of Life,” a novel by Ella MaeMahon. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company. “His Majesty’s Greatest Subjects,” a novel by S. S. Thor burn. Paper, 50 cents. New York: D. Appleton & Cos. “Fortune’s Footballs.” a novel by G. B. Burgin, author of “Tomalyn’s Quest,” etc. New' York: D. Appleton & Cos. “Mifanwy,” the story of a Welsh singer, a novel by Allen Paine. Paper, 50 cents. New York: D. Appleton & Cos. “Doctor Marks, Socialist,” a novel by Marion Couthouy Smith. Paper, 50 cents. Cincinnati: Editor Publishing Company. I*abll*her** Note*. Mr. Joseph Jefferson has written anew chapter for his autobiography, and this will appear in a fresh edition of the book which the Century Company will soon issue. Anew story entitled “Lost Man’s Lane” has been completed by Anna Katharine Green, author of "The Leavenworth Case,” “That Affair Next Door,” etc. The story will be published In book form in the United States and Great Britain by G. P. Putnam's Sons. R. H. Russell & Cos., S3 Rose street, New York, announce a long list of artistic publications, among them C. D. Gibson’s portfolio of drawings of the people of Dickens and a collection of Remington’s drawings illustrating the entire field of wild life In America. A translation of M. Gaston Vuilller’s "History of Dancing,” a book dealing with that agreeable exercise from its dawn in Egypt to its development in the theater of to-day. is to be published by Appleton. It is to have four hundred illustrations in the text, with twenty-five full-page plates in photogravure. Messrs. Roberts Brothers. Boston, announce for publication this month Dr. Adolph Hamack's “History of Dogma;” Mollere’s dramatic works, translated by Miss Wormely; “The Young Puritans of Old Hadley,” a juvenile story seml-hlstorical in character, and “The Christ of Yesterday, To-day and Forever,” a collection of sermons by Ezra Hoyt Byington. Dr. H. H. Furness keeps steadily at work on his variorum edition of Shakspearc’s plays. It is reported that he has completed another volume, “A Winter’s Tale.” which the Lippincotts will publish within a few months. The Lippincotts will also bring out anew novel by Capt. Charles King, and have on their list of forthcoming publications Amelie Rives’s novel, “A Damsel Errant.” Although Mr. Paul Lawrence Dunbar’s book of poems has been published but a short while, Dc dd, Mead & Cos., the publishers, announce that the fourth thousand is nearly exhausted. Mr. Dunbar is at present engaged in writing a novel which is to be issued shortly. It is described as a realistic picture of life in a small Ohio town, in which State, it will be remembered, Dunbar was born and educated. Mr. H. J. Whigham, the winner of the amateur golf championship for 1896 and 1897, is engaged at present In preparing a small volume entitled “How to Play Golf.” The book will address itself especially to the needs of American players, and the subjects of Its many illustrations will be chosen for the most part from among them. The book may be expected about Nov. 1. Herbert b. Stone & Cos., of Chicago, are to be the publishers. The Doubleday-McClure Company will have the authorized life of the late Prof. Drummond, which is quite natural, as he was one of the first outsiders to buy stock in McClure’s Magazine. It was not a great block of stock that he bought, but It gave the magazine $2,500 at a time when it needed it the most. No doubt Professor Drummond reaped his reward, says Miss Gilder, for McClure stock was high and none for sale long before his untimely death. Prof. Michael Joseph Golden, who occupies the chair of practical mechanics in Purdue University, has arranged for Harper & Bros, a “Laboratory Course in Wood Turning” that makes a volume of sixty-nine octavo pages. The author remarks that a wide divet sity may be observed In the use of tools In this class of work, but he has his own decided preferences. Twenty-five exercises are given, with a view’ to instructing the student in the most direct manner and without repetition. Mrs Fraser, the author of that striking novel “Palladia,” has written anew story, which she calls “A Chapter of Accidents. Macmillan will bring it out shortly This ladv is the sister of Mr. Marion qrawfoia and*the widow of a former British uiinister to Japan. Another feminine novelist who is the sister of a well-known writer—Mr. Rider Mne-eard Is also connected In a diplomatic Say with the Orient. This is the Baroness D’Anethan, the wifo of the present Belgian minister in Japan. A novel .rom this lady s pen is now on the press. All that Shakspeare has to say about love and lovers has been carefully sought out anjl arranged by Chloe is soon to be published in '’V P McClure & Cos. under the title of Ine Lovers' Shakspeare.” Th£ compilation is thorough and systematic, the selectlons be■ng arranged with special regard to reference 7nd quotation. “A Group of FTench Critics ” soon to be Issued by the same house from the pen of Mary Fisher, introduces^to English readers five modern French experts in literary criticism. These are Edmond Scherer. Ximenes Doudan. SaintMarc Glrardln, Gustave Planche and Ernest Bersot. The Temple Waverley Is the name of the new- edition of Scott's Waverley Novels which Charles Scribner’s Sons to begin publishing in October in conjunction with Dent of London. This edition will be beautifully printed and the volumes will be exactly right In size and shape to handle and carry in the pocket. Besides this it will have some entirely new features not in any previous edition. The. last work from the pen of Mrs. Ollphant will be issued next month by the Scribners. It Is the annals of the publishing house of William Blackwood & Sons, of Edinburgh. The book will be full of the most interesting literary history and anecdotes about most of the notable writers of the first half of the century. Different. Kansas City Journal. It 1* now said that Mrs. Lease is “helping Henry George" in New Lork. This contradicts a previous report, it was previously reported that Mrs. Lease was making speeches for George. Pronunciation. Kansas City Journal. The Columbia School Board has resolved that the proper pronunciation of Missouri is "Mizzoury.” This is equivalent to an official declaration that “ri” doesn't spell "rah.”