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THE DAILY JOURNAL TUESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1897. Washiogton Office—lso3 Pecasylvaoia Avenue Telephone Call*. Business Office 238 I Editorial Rooms...A 86 TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. DAILY BY MAIL. Dally only, one month $ *W I>ally only, three months 2.00 Daily only, one year 8.00 Daily. Including Sunday, one year 10.00 Sunday only, one year 2.00 WHEN FURNISHED BY AGENTS. Dally, tier week, by carrier ...,.15ct* Sunday, single copy 6 cts Daily and Sunday, per week, by carrier £0 cts WEEKLY. Per year ..11.00 Reduced Kate* to Clob, Subscribe with any of our numerous agents or •end subscriptions to THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, Indianapolis, Inti. Persons sending the Journal through the mails in the United States should put on an eight-page paper a ONK-OENT postage stamp- on a twelve or sixteen-page paper a TWO-CENT postage ■tamp. Fo.eign postage is usually double these rates. All communications Intended for publication tn this paper must. In order to receive attention, be accompanied by the name and address of the writer. If it is desired that rejected manuscripts be returned, postage must in all cases be inclosed for that purpose. THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL Can be found at the following places: HEW YORK—Windsor Hotel and Astor House. CHICAGO—PaImer House ami P. O. News Cos., 217 Dearborn street. CINCINNATI—J. R. Hawley & Cos., 154 Vine street. DOUIHVILLE—C. T. Deering, northwest corner of Third and Jefferson streets, and Louisville Book Cos., 256 Fourth avenue, BT. LOUlS—Union News Company, Union Depot. WASHINGTON, D. C.—Riggs House, Ebbitt House, Willard's Hotel and the Washington News Exchange. Fourteenth street, between Penn, avenue and F street. A RETRACTION AND AN APOLOGY. To the Journal, Sentinel and News, and Messrs. Harry New, Morris Ross and Dr. Henry Jameson: Dear Sirs—l wish to say that I regret having published in the special edition of Truth, dated Oct. 12, statements that were detrimental to any of you, your journals or any cue connected with them, and I now desire to retract any charge or imputation contained therein against any of you or your Journals, attributable to me. While I was injudicious enough to publish the statements, yet it was done without any malice upon my part, and I now acknowledge the error and offer an apology to each of you for so doing, and desire that you publish this in your columns. Yours respectfully, C. F. SMITH. Indianapolis, Oct. 18, 1897. Tho foregoing letter was received at the Journal office last night through a messenger from Mr. Smith. It is self-explana-tory, and comment seems unnecessary.—Ed. Journal. If Mr. Debs’s Social Democrats keep up their riotous behavior how is the public to distinguish them from other Democrats? If the horsewhipping of women is to be One of the prerogatives of members of Mr. Debs’s Social Democracy that organization must be rated as a trifle too social for its own good. The fact that of about a thousand men who started for the Klondike since July not one third have got through shows that the hardships and perils of Alaskan travel were not exaggerated. Advices from China state that Li Hung Chang has determined to retire from public life and devote himself to his private interests and taking care of his health. He is a wise statesman who knows when to retire. There can be no objection to creating a new Territory of Lincoln out of a portion of Alaska, but the period of territorial gov-ernment-should be a long one. We do not want any more rotten borough States with two boodle senators.

The judges of the United States Supreme Court believe that by the end of the January term the docket will be entirely cleared. From 1,800 cases in 1890 the docket has now been reduced to 480. It has never been entirely cleared since the organization of the court. Well informed Republicans in Nebraska claim that they will carry the State by 15,00) to 20,000. Mr. Bryan has become alarmed at the outlook and has announced his intention of returning to the State and making two speeches a day until the day of election. He is politically dead, anyhow, but a Republican victory in Nebraska would emphasize the fact. Recent statistics show that the banking capital of the United States is $5,150,000,000, against $4,550,000,000 in Great Britain. In 1810 the banking ca; ital of the United States was $2,100,000,000, against $3,600,000,000. It is worthy of remark that most of this enormous increase in the active working capital of the country has been made since the so-called “crime of 1873.” China and Japan are concerned about the m issing of 100,000 Russian troops on the frontier near the port of Viadivostock. In view of the Russian coronation oath, which pledges each Czar to leave Russia territorially wealthier than he found it, they fear this massing of troops is intended to back up a policy of territorial aggression in the Orient. The New York Commercial Advertiser, which supports General Tracy for mayor, thinks the Henry George party “may easily turn out the strongest opposed to General Tracy.” Quite easily as it looks now, and this makes it all the more amazing that the Republicans, sound-money Democrats and good citizens, who are dividing their strength between Tracy and Dow. did not got together in time to elect one or the other. A party of railroad men and capitalists who have been examining the sugar beet farms in the vicinity of Santa Fe, New Mexico, found beets weighing from one to six pounds, which, according to analyses by the Territorial Agricultural College, yield from .15 to 18 per cent, of sugar, and were greatly surprised that Rocky mountain valleys above 7,000 feet in altitude could show such results. The time has passed to be surprised at any evidence regarding the varied resources of Uncle Sam’s domain. A special article in a Chicago paper describing the political situation in Greater Now York says Henry George lias enlisted the services of Tom Johnson as his manager, and adds: “This is the same Tom Johnson known in many of the larger cities of the country—like Indianapolis, Detroit and Cleveland—for his success in lighting street-car corporations for the benefit of his own pocket and finances.” If this means that "Tom” fought street-car coryoxalic ns

as a general fights the army he leads, then it is correct, but in any other sense it is a huge joke. OF NATIONAL INTEREST. The pending municipal election in Greater New York has several aspects of national interest. Even if it had no connection with or hearing upon national issues, it would be of national interest because it is to determine whether the first election under the new charter of our greatest city is to result in a repudiation or an indorsement of Tammany methods. If the former, the people of the entire country will thank God and take courage; if the latter, their faith in popular suffrage as applied to municipal government will be seriously shaken. In addition to this, each of the candidates stands for issues which are already national in their scope, or which, in the event of their succfss in the election, will become national. It is well known what the Republican candidate represents, what the Tammany candidate represents and what Mr. Low represents, but many persons do not know so well what Henry George represents. His hobby for many years past has been the single land tax theory—that is. the abolition of all other forms of taxation except a tax on land equivalent to its rental value. Let him define his theory. In his book entitled “Progress and Poverty,” published several years ago, he says: Private property in land has no warrant in justice, but stands condemned as the denial of natural right—a subversion of the law of nature that, as social development goes on, must condemn the masses of men to a slavery the hardest and most degrading. Neither on the ground of equity or expediency is there anything to deter us from making land common property by confiscating rent. We should satisfy the law of justice, we should meet all economic requirements, by at one stroke abolishing ail private titles, declaring ail land public property, and letting it out to the highest bidders in lots to suit, under such conditions as would sacredly guard the private right to Improvements. , I do rtnt propose either to purchase or to confiscate private property in land. The first would be unjust, the second needless. Let the 'individuals who now hold it still retain. if they want to, possession of what they are pleased to call their land. Let them buy and sell, bequeath and devise it. We may safely leave them the shell if we take the kernel. It is not necessary to confiscate the land; it is only necessary to confiscate the rent. These are his view’s to-day. If elected mayor of Greater New York he would have the leverage of that position to propagate and engraft his views on national politics. They are not more dangerous than some of the doctrines of the Chicago platform, and can be found in the Democratic party who would not hesitate to adopt them if they held out a hope of success. Mr. Shanklin, the Indiana member of the Democratic national committee, has advocated them for yearsc and says if he were in New York he would; vote for George. The latter received 68,000 votes when he ran for mayor of New York several years ago. He will receive a much larger vote this time, and, as all things are possible in a popular election, he may be elected. His election on the single-tax platform would make him as much an idol of the Democratic party as Bryan was last , year, and would bring the country face to face with the single land tax as a natiqnal issue. Thus there are many reasons why the pending election is of national interest.

BICYCLE STEALING. Police reports in the Journal’s exchanges indicate that the stealing of bicycles is a very active industry in every city. In New York a sixteen-year-old boy, under arrest, coolly acknowledged that he made his living by disposing of stolen wheels. Two other boys did the stealing and he bought the wheels of them, selling again at a profit. He had averaged two or three w’heels daily for ten weeks, and, as may be supposed, was making more money than a boy of his age could have earned by honestlabor. In this city many more bicycles are stolen than police records show, people having learned that but little aid toward their recovery can be had in that quarter. Insurance companies report a great number of losses from week to week, with comparatively few recoveries of the , stolen property. The number the business must he carried on with some system and by men in Collusion with dealers at other points, as the wheels could hardly be sold openly here. It should not be difficult for the local authorities to keep themselves informed as to the shipping of wheels by other than well-known and reputable dealers, and by watchfulness to make it a hard matter to carry on an illegal traffic in the machines. It is probable, however, that the greatest proportion of bicycle stealing here is done by boys and men who want the wheels for their individual use, and who, with a change of saddle or handle bars, by way of disguise, boldly ride them about the streets. There are scores of half-grown boys and young men, white and colored, about town whose parents have no means of providing them with luxuries and who never did an honest day’s work in their lives, every one of whom rides xi high-grade wheel. The police know' these, boys and know that in many cases, at least, these wheels are, in all probability, stolen. A little w’ell directed activity would make them sure on this point, and would, no doubt, result in restoring valuable property to the rightful owners. The boldness and frequency of these thefts have become outrageous. The man who leaves his bicycle five minutes unprotected in front of a public building or In his own dooryaYd runs a risk of losing it, and the feeling of insecurity interferes with the usefulness of; the machines, for owners naturally hesitate to take them where, in the transaction of business, it is necessary to leave them at curbstones or doorways occasionally. A great deal is said about improvements to bicycles, but the man w’ho invents some sure means of protecting the owners of wheels already made against thieves will do a greater service to the wheel-riding public than the inventor who is trying to do away with chains or to secure greater rapidity of movement. WHAT WILL CONGRESS DO t Congress will meet in regular session on Dec. 6. a little more than six weeks hence. The wisdom of President McKinley in calling a special session is very clearly demonstrated by the present situation. Suppose he had not done so. The Wilson law, with its paralyzing effect on trade, would still be in operation. Business would be prostrated and there would be as yet no sign of returning prosperity. Tho uncertainty as to what Congress would do would be an additional factor of mischief. There would be six weeks more of suspense till Congress meets, and then some months of agitation before a tariff bill could be passed. All these evils were happily averted by the special session. During the session there was a good deal of uncertainty as to the shape the Dingley bill would finally take, but it was no sooner passed than the clouds began to lift and the sun of prosperity appeared. The Dingley tariff has been in op-

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eration two months, and it Is safe to say that so groat a change in business conditions never occurred before in the same length of time. The improvement has been wonderful, and is still going on at a rate which promises to make next Thanksgiving day one of uncommon gratitude and hopefulness. This is the situation in w'hich Congress will meet. The passage of the tariff bill removes from discussion a very disturbing factor in politics and business. It is hard to conceive of a session of Congress in which there will be no debate on the tariff, no leave to print long and prosy speeches on either side of the question, but it looks now as if the next session would bring that pleasing experience. This being the case, what will Congress do? The Journal has a very distinct opinion as to what it ought not to do. It should not waste any time trying to twist the British lion’s tail, precipitate war with Spain or making speeches for buncombe on any other subject. Neither should it waste any time in skirmishing for political position or trying to make political capital for either party for the next presidential election. It would be most gratifying to have a session of Congress free from these features, as well as from tariff speeches. It would be a great thing if we could have one session of Congress that would attend strictly to business in a businesslike way. Among the so sign questions that will claim consideration next session the most important will be the proposed annexation of Hawaii, and among domestic questions will be that of currency reform. Both should be treated in a spirit of broad patriotism, with a single purpose to reach a right conclusion and do the right thing. The. Republican party is pledged to action on both of these questions. It is true the St. Louis platform did not make a distinct declaration In favor of reforming our currency system, but that was the logic of the whole campaign. On the other question it declared distinctly that “the Hawaiian islands should be controlled by the United States.” Still another important question that will demand attention is the protection of American shipping. On this subject the St. Louis platform says: We favor restoring the American policy of discriminating duties for the upbuilding of our merchant marine and the protection of our shipping in the foreign carrying trade, so that American ships—the product of American labor employed in American shipyards, sailiripf under the stars stripes, and manned, officered and owned by Americans—may regain the carrying of our foreign commerce. A party that has made so good a beginning at redeeming its campaign pledges cannot afford to ignore this one. Outside of the routine business of Congress, passing the appropriation bills and providing for the orderly administration of the government, theso are probably the most important matters that will come before the next session. They should be taken up promptly In order, discussed on nonpartisan lines to a finish, and settled in a way that will promote the national honor and welfare.

A GOOD SUGGESTION. The Commercial Club has been instrumental in promoting so many good things for the city that the public has learned to expect that what it puts its hand to will be pushed along. It can hardly be said yet to have committed, itself to the project of a permanent exposition or annual spectacular festival in the city, but it is to be hoped it may do so. The suggestion is a good one and particularly appropriate at a time when so many other cities are taking advantage of the rising tide of prosperity to make their merits and attractions known. Indianapolis should not be behind in this respect. Few cities have greater commercial auvantages in the way of location and distributing facilities. It is already an important manufacturing point and fast becoming more so. Its fine stores, streets, public buildings and private residences are universally admired. Its soldiers’ monument is unequaled in the world, a splendid, enduring attraction that challenges the admiration of all comers. With all these attractions it remains to advertise the city. Having the merits, or as a merchant would say, the goods, we must make them known. The way to do this is to induce people to come here. As Mr. John Wanamaker said in an interview in the Sunday journal, “You want to get the people in to see what you have to sell, and you must advertise to do that.” If the Commercial Club takes hold of the matter it will doubtless devise a good plan, but it seems to the Journal that the two ideas of a spectacular display and a commercial exposition might be combined, thus uniting business with pleasure. The world pays as much to be amused and entertained as it does to be instructed, and sight-seeing is scarcely secondary to money-making. A spectacular festival and commercial exposition would please all classes. The latter would necessarily bo purely local, but there is no reason why the former should not enlist the co-operation of manufacturers throughout the State, and especially of the cities and towns in the gas belt comparatively near the city. An annual exposition of the manufacturing industries of the State, embracing a competitive display of goods and prices, with facilities for taking orders and shipping at bottom rates, ought to interest a great many people and attract buyers as well as sellers. The main expense of such an exposition, as the building, etc., w'ould have to be borne by this city, and it should be made sufficiently attractive to enlist the interest and co-operation of outside manufacturers—a sort of free clearing house for enterprising business men from all parts of the State. The spectacular side of the affair would interest a different class and each would help the other. The idea is susceptible of large development. With the death of Charles A. Dana the New York Sun will probably change ownership as well as character. At least it is expected that the control of the paper will pass out of the Dana family. Paul A. Dana, son of the late editor and himself editor pro tempore, will succeed to his father's interest, but it is said to be heavily mortgaged. During the campaign of 18S4 and the Cleveland administration the Sun lost money to such an extent that Mr. Dana became a heavy borrower, hypothecating his stock with J. Plerpont Morgan, the banker. His former controlling interest is now practically owned by Mr. Morgan. The other two stockholders with large holdings are Mr. Laffan, publisher and business manager of the paper, and Mr. Thomas Hitchcock, a banker who writes financial articles for it under the name of “Matthew Marshall.” The chances are that Mr. Laffan, who represents Banker Morgan's interest as well as his own, will get control of the paper, and that it will be run more as a moneymaking machine than as a great newspaper. lie (the late Charles A. Dana) could not quite leave a thing as his great and powerful mind saw it—or could see. lie must give it the final touch that turned it out of the straight and narrow path. He must at lust always appeal to the worser elements, must seek to make the worse appear the better reason. And thus it comes about

that with all his great powers, gifted as few men are gifted, wMth his almost unparalleled opportunity, he has done evil and not good. —News. Not at all; far from it. He was simply not a mugwump. Also, he had a sense of humor, a thing no mugwump ever could understand. None of the distinguished astronomers now assembled at Chicago to attend the dedication of the Yerkes observatory believes the statement wired from Paris that French astronomers have discovered evidences of air, water and vegetation on the moon. Two members of the observatory staff have already viewed the moon through the Yerkes telescope, the most powerful one ever constructed, and they unite in saying that while it revealed many details in the surface of the moon never seen before, such as small craters and minute crevasses, there were no traces whatever of air or vegetable life. Professor Hale, director of the Yerkes observatory, says the alleged revelations in the French photographs are not new. “Prof. Loewy, director of the Paris observatory,” he says, “has undoubtedly made the best photographs of the moon, but the best photographs ever made will not show as much as can be seen through a twelve-inch telescope. The lines noticed in the photographs of the Meudon observatory have always been noticed, and no astronomer has yet ventured to assert that they represent active rivers.” The new French theory is not likely to obtain credence among astronomers. The stranger who dropped into town about the first of last July and has remained until now’ may reasonably have tho Impression that Indiana is a land of perpetual sunshine. People who make it a point to grumble about the weather have gone so far as to wish for clouds merely to break the monotony. Sir Edwin Arnold did not eulogize Japanese women for nothing. One of the women thought so well of his praise that she decided to monopolize it by becoming Mrs. Arnold. BUBBLES IN THE AIR. lie Was the First. “Tell me, dear, am I the first man you ever kissed?” “You are the first one who was mean and suspicious enough to ask me that question.” So Unscientific. “The number you multiply by Is called the multiplier, Isn’t it? It seems so queer that it should be.’ “I see nothing queer about it. That is what it is, isn’t it?” “Os course. That’s why it is so queer.” Every Sent Was Taken. Barnes Tormer—Every seat was taken at our last performance. Roscius de Hammo-I heard about it I was told that the audience carried off the benches as the only way of getting any return for their money. Refined Repartee. She—l have seen twenty-five summers. He—Then you must have been blind for several years. Now, I own to having seen forty-five. She—That leaves you about twenty-four years of age, when one takes into consideration your failing of seeing double. THE RECENT ELECTION. Thomas Taggart opened up his barrel of money on Tuesday and was elected mayor of Indianapolis by a handsome plurality. After all, boys, its monev that wins in elections these days.—Knightstown Sun. The political friends of Mr. Taggart now assert that iff:* victory means that he will be the next Democratic nominee for Governor two years from next fall, but there is a chance for many a slip before convention time.—Goshen News. The people—that is a majority, as appears upon the returns—have intimated that they want certain things, and to get them we must elect Taggart. They have him, and what the people demand they usually get. —Plainfield Progress. The Republicans of Indianapolis permitted the re-election of Thomas Taggart for mayor on Tuesday of last week, and show that some of them must have contributed directly to his victory. They should be compelled to do penance in sackcloth and ashes.—Martinsville Republican. Tho Indianapolis campaign was conducted largely along local issue lines, but the Democrats there planted themselves squarely on the Chicago platform. It is nonsense to assert, as has been asserted, that the result of the election in that city is wholly without importance as showing the fidelity of the Democracy to a principle and the acceptance of that principle by the voters.—Lafayette Journal (Dem.)

ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. Aubrey Beardsley, the painter of gruesome pictures in black and white, is now in the last stages of consumption. Still he works hard every day at his easel. He is supporting his mother and sister and has another sister on the stage. Miss De la Ramee,, known to fame as “Ouida,” is eccentric in dress. She favors light colors, quite out of harmony with her ago and appearance generally. Her face is not innocent of powder, and her hair is arranged in a curly mass with ribbon on it. J. M. Barrie’s description of himself at Nottingham in his journalistic days, ten or twelve years ago, is—“An uncouth stranger wandering in the dark round the castle, his appearance unimpressive, a book in each pocket and his thoughts three hundred miles due north.” Winston Bell, one of the few colored men practicing law in Baltimore, has been serving as a waiter during the summer at a hotel near Boston. He has been practicing law but a short time, and finding it hard to get clients, is compelled to work during the summer to help pay his expenses. He is a graduate of the Harvard law school. No more will “Mary call the cattle home across the sands o’ Dee.” A big company has bought the scene of Charles Kingsley's beautiful poem and are “reclaiming” the waste land. Where “all alone went she” there will be factories and houses, and, if the cattle stray there at all, it will be in circumscribed fields, for the salt marshes where Mary met her fate are doomed. A man in Paris finds a profitable business in collecting bad debts by stopping at a debtor’s with a wagon, around the top of which are these words: “This buggy only stops in front of the houses of people who will not pay their debts.” Everybody, and particularly business people, dread this man’s buggy so much that they pay promptly. Since Queen Victoria has found it necessary to lean on a cane in walking, she has used a stout oak stick originally presented to Charles II by a loyal citizen of Worcester. When the Queen first used it it had only a plain gold top but when she required something to give a firmer “grip” to support her better there was added a queer little Indian idol, which had formed part of the booty of Seringapatain. Cornhill tells a story of an English woman of high station who bewailed to a friend the loss by death of a somewhat ill-bred but extremely wealthy neighbor who had been very liberal in his help to her country charities. “Mr. X. is dead.” said she; “he was so good and kind and helpful to me in all sorts of ways; he was so vulgar, poor, dear fellow, we could not know him in London; but we shall meet in heaven.” Professor Heydeck, of Konigsberg, has discovered graves of the seventh and eighth centuries, evidently of Scandinavian origin, in East Prussia. In one he found a silverpommeled cross-hilted sword, a pair of stirrups, two lances, one of them with silver ornaments; an iron shield boss, three spurs, a pair of scissors, a grindstone and the remnants of an iron pail. In others were found two oval dishes richly ornamented, a third of a form hitherto unknown. bronze bells like sledge bells and sundry other articles. Father Taylor, the famous bethel preacher, loved .he Baptists and never forgot that it was Baptist clergymen who befriended him in Halifax jail. • Rev. Dr. H. Neale was his Intimate friend for a quarter of a century. But when twenty or thirty sailors, converted at Father Taylor’s bethel, joined Rev. Phineas Stowe’s church by Immersion he was a little annoyed and showed it in his own way. It was extremely cold weather and the water in Mr. Stowe’s bap*

tlsmal tank had been artificially warmed. Father Taylor, meeting one of his converts, inquired why he had gone away from his bethel. “Ah,” said the sailor, "I didn’t feel that I could be in the fold unless I went down into Jordan.” “Into Jordan,” said the old man with a consuming sneer, “biled Jordan’” “I do not like your country,” said The monarch transatlantic; “I fear that it has much to dread From ways that I call frantic.” Quoth Uncle Sam, who heaved a sigh, "Since thus you view our nation, In your place, I would not apply For naturalization.” —Washington Star. LANDOR WAS IN THIBET .. ■ RETURNS TO BOMBAY AFTER SUFFERING FROM SAVAGE TORTURE. Only Three White Men lluve Ever Witnessed the Wonders of the Buddhist Stronghold. * _ New York Herald. From Broadway to Thibet; from Herald Square to the Sacred Temple of Buddha; from the Tenderloin to the “roof of the world;” —it’s a long stretch isn’t it? How many of you remember having read a brief cable dispatch the other day announcing that Henry Savage Landor, the well-known explorer, had just returned to India after a terrible experience in Thibet? How many of you read of his torture by hot irons, of the horrors of the stretching log, of htyv he was chained for eight days? How' many of you understood the full import of the lines, even did your eye chance to note them in a hurried glance through your morning paper? “Thibet?” you say, “Why, that’s a little country tucked away somewhere in the map of Asia. Come to think of it, it’s a part of the Chinese empire.” And there your knowledge of the country probably ends, and your interest In it as well, unless you are a student of travel, or have a leaning toward ethnology. In the latter event you have undoubtedly heard of the mysterious city of Lhasa, and of how for centuries explorers have endeavored to get within its sacred walls. Henry Savage Landor was one of those intrepid spirits who, in their explorations, are as eager in their search for the unattainable as are children who cry for the moon. When he crossed those gigantic mountain walls, aptly termed the “world’s backbone,” and entered the plateau of the Lamas, he fully knew what he might expect. Ho had before him the experiences of others, extending back to the year 1300, when Marco Polo ■was the first European to enter Thibet. He realized the twofold difficulties of Thibetan exploration. He knew that the peculiar geographical position from the north, west and south presented great dangers. He also knew' of the policy of exclusion followed by the Chinese, a policy solely aimed at and enforced against representatives of the white race. But he wanted to see for himself. He knew that every other accessible portion of the globe was the legitimate field of the explorer and he wanted to go where he wasn’t wanted and where he knew he w'ould not be tolerated. Other explorers had set their faces toward the city of Lhasa and been forced to turn back. Only three white men, so far as Is known, have ever entered its sacred portals. No eyes other than theirs and those of the Mongolian have ever witnessed the splendors of the Temple of Buddha, in which lives the great Dalai Lama, the most opulent person in the world. Landor’s followers also knew the dangers that beset them. His retinue dwindled down little by little, until but two coolies remained to share his privations without appreciating his triumphs. The details of his experiences, received only since his return to Bombay, are meager to a degree. But it is natural to infer that he had accomplished his purpose, that he had entered the city of Lhasa, and that he had barely escaped with his life. We are told that he was arrested as a spy, or for treachery. That is the usual excuse of these strange people in guarding the mysteries of their ancient city. In previous instances, however, the explorers have been met before they reached the city by the embassies of the Grand Lama and prevailed upon to turn back. This was the experience of W. Wood villa Rickhill on both of his expeditions. Heinrich Hensoldt claims to have resided in the Thibetan capital for a period of nine weeks, and was in daily communication with. Buddhist scholars and high dignitaries of the court of Dalai Lama.

Previous to this two Russian explorers, named Menkhohdjinoff and Oulanoff, made a journey of two years and nine months through Thibet, in the course of which they are said to have not only penetrated to the city of Lhasa, but actually had an interview with the great Dalai Lama, The few other explorers who have dared the perils of this wild land in the. coluds, the robber Dokpas, the Chinese guards and the Thibetiari soldiery have only succeeded in struggling through dreary wastes of desert and storms of alternate snow, rain and hail, and finally returned laden with experience only. It is reasonable to suppose that Landor gained an entrance to the city of Lhasa, for the dispatches set forth that the Grand Lama was implicated in his toi ture. We are told that he was first sentenced to death, and, after having been burned with red-hot. irons, was actually carried to the place of execution. Almost at the last moment the execution was stopped by the Grand Lama, who commuted the sentence to torture by the stretching log, a barbarous machine in the form of a rack. How he escaped after eight days of untold agony has not Been made public, but he finally made his way back to Bombay, showing twenty-two wounds as the result of his torture. And all of this happened in the little country' tucked away somewhere in the map of Asia, a little country exceeding 700,000 square miles. If a map of Thibet were cut out and placed over that of the United State®, drawn on the same scale, it would cover all the space between New York and Denver on the one hand, and most of that between Chicago and New' Orleans on the other. The Inhabitants are said to be peac erf till y inclined, although suspicious of strangers. It is not until the destination of the traveler is known to be the city of Lhasa that they rise up in vigorous protest. Thibet Is the greatest and most elevated tableland in the world. Its height above the sea averages 14,000 feet, and it is doubtful if there is a point in the entire area at an elevation of less than 10,000 feet. The climate, despite the fact that its latitude is about that of New Orleans, is extremely cold, and the high altitude renders breathing difficult except to those who are accustomed to it. As to the inhabitants of this almost unknown country, they are of the lowest type of humanity. Secure in their isolation, cut off from the rest of the world by the enormous mountain wall of the Himalayas, they have lived for ages and have developed characteristics to be found in no other race of the globe. They are short and squat of figure, and the utter absence of a bridge to the nose gives them a most grotesque and apelike appearance. What nature has denied them in noses she has more than atoned for in her generous distribution of ears. The personal habits of the people are filthy In the extreme, and their morals are greatly in need of reformation. The scarcity of women his led to polyandry, whit h has flourished for centuries. One of their social laws Is that hospitality includes the placing at the disposal of hls guest by the host of wife, daughter or other female member of the household. And to think that in the midst of this depravity should exist the cherished goal of the explorer, the beautiful city of Lhasa, about which hovers such a halo of splendid mystery. And to think that here, in the temple consecrated to Buddha, surmounted by a dome of pur, gold, should exist the most autocratic, most opulent and most feared ruler on the face of the globe. The Grand Lama, although his country Is subset to Chinese rule, is a power unto himself. Here dwells Dalai Lama the chief priest of Thibet and Mongolia. Tnis religious pretender is worshipped as the earthly incarnation of Buddha. Incense is burned to him before a gigantic idol of the god of Jamba, a monstrous Image of clay and gilt with jeweled head, which sits enthroned In the great white palace of the Potala. Lamaism is a hybrid Buddhism, just as Mohammedanism is a hybrid Christianity. The utter exclusion of all foreigners trom this strange land has been and is undoubtedly due to the fear of the Thibetan hierarchy of priests that this religion, which has completely enslaved the Thibetans, might be speedily overthrown by the Christian “devils;” they are afraid the wealth of the monasteries would be revealed. At present the priests own Thibet as absolutely as though they held the fc-e simple to every foot of Its ground. The Chinese empire holus a nominal temporal sway, hut dars not. even if it would, disturb the Dalai Lama and his army of priests. This Is the country, and these are the people, from whom Taindor, grandson of the famous litterateur. Walter Savage Landor, esc od with his life and twenty-two woui .dfc.

THE OPERA IN GERMANY UNDER MUNICIPAL CONTROL AND IS GIVEN FOR THE PEOPLE. ♦ Salaries of I’rlma Donnas for Eleven Months Equal to One Week in This Country. William E. Curtis, In Chicago Record. Tne opera in Germany is a public institution under the management of the municipality, like the technical schools, the museums and the art galleries. It Is considered a matter of education as well as enjoyment, as essential to the well-being of a community as churches or water works or parks, and usually the opera house is the finest building in a town excepting the cathedral and the city hall. Os late years there has been a good deal of rivalry in the erection of opera houses. The finest in Germany is probably at Dresden, where it is conceded that the best company of singers is found under the patronage of the King of Saxony, who pays a subsidy in addition to the appropriation from the city treasury to get the best music that can be had. At the little town of Wiesbaden, a watering place where people go for rheumatism, neuralgia, paralysis and kindred diseases, there is also a magnificent opera house and a splendid company, which is claimed to be better than that at Berlin, although it is supported by a city not larger than Freeport or Rockford, 111. The opera house at Frankfort is also a fine building and was erected twenty years ago at the expense of the city with the assistance of sixty-seven rich residents who contributed 450.000 marks. It is a smaller copy of the Grand Opera House at Paris and seats 2,000 persons. It has a dress circle and four galleries. There is also a beautiful opera house at Leipslc and another at Munich. In all these German cities the director of the opera house is a municipal officer appointed by the mayor and confirmed by the Council just like the chief of police or the superintendent of streets and alleys. He has the absolute charge of musical affairs, and in Frankfort is the manager of the theater also, which belongs to and is supported by the city. Each year an appropriation is made by the City Council for the support of the opera, based upon the probable receipts from the sale of boxes and admission tickets. The revenues are pretty regular. They will average nearly tne same every year. The best box is reserved for the Emperor and other members of the royal family when they visit the city. That box Is always on the right of the stage. On the opposite side is a similar box reserved for the landgrave of Hesse and other dignitaries. The boxes are used by the officials of the City when there are no kings or queens or princes in town. The rest of the boxes in the first balcony, which is considered the best location, are most sumptuously decorated, are rented by the year by the rich people of the city, who do not hesitate to sublet them to their friends from time to time. Some of these boxes have been occupied by the same families ever since the opera house was built. In other towns of Germany where they have old opera houses families have occupied the same boxes for generations, paying so much a year into the city treasury.

THE COST OF BOXES. Boxes in the next gallery, which are not quite so good, are sold in the same way, and in the third gallery the best ones are also permanently taken, so that a stranger coming to town often finds that he must content himself with the poorest seats. If he will consult the portier of his hotel however, he will find that the latter can get him a good box without the slightest difficulty, unless It is a gala night. The owners of the fashionable boxes are easily reached and are usually willing to sell their places for a night or for a number of nights, provided nothing is said about it. Single gentlemen and others who want a limited number of scats can buy one, two or as many as they like in the parquet by the week, month or year. At the beginning of the season a calendar Is issued which gives the programme for the entire year, extending from Aug. 1 to June 30. During the month of July the singers and orchestra are given a vacation. If a person does not wish to buy a seat for the whole season he makes out his list for so many nights in October, so many in January, so many in March, and so on, at the beginning of the season, and makes his arrangements accordingly. In this way nearly three-fourths of the entire revenue from the opera is paid into the treasury the first month of the season, and the council knows what It can depend on in making its appropriations. Over here In Germany the opera is not intended to be a money-making business any more than a church or a public school. It is for tho education and enjoyment of the people. Therefore princes are kept down. Boxes holding six people cost about 10,000 marks, or $2,500 for the season of eleven months. Single seats in these boxes are sold for an evening at about $1.75. Boxes holding four persons cost in proportion. A single seat in the parquet for the season costs from 1.200 to 1,800 marks, or fiom S3OO to $450. A parquet seat for a single performance costs eight marks, or $2. In the second gallery you can rent a box for the year for about two-thirds and In the third gallery for one-half the cost of those in the first balcony, or 5,000 marks a year. Single seats for the evening in these upper tiers cost from 50 cents to sl, according to their location. In the top gallery the hoipolloi get an opptrunity to hear the best opera in the world by paying from 15 cents to 35 C< Opera is given six nights in the week and Sunday is the gala night. Then everybody who owns a box occupies it if he can arrange to do so. Monday is usually the off night, when the opera house is closed. The singers are employed by the year, and the calendar is made up so that the principals appear only on alternate nights; but the chorus and the orchestra and those men and women who take the minor parts must be alwavs there. Many of the chorus and the orchestra have other business. They are shop keepers or merchants or artisans. Some may be music teachers. I heard of one gentleman whose cook and coachman were both employed in the chorus, which made it rather inconvenient when the family wanted to drive to a performance. SALARIES OF THE SINGERS. The salaries paid are amazingly low, when compared with the incomes of theatrical and musical performers in the United States. The first soprano, the prima donna, seldom gets more than $5,000 or $6,000 a year, the first tenor a little less, and so on down to the chorus and orchestra, who are paid sums that seem trifling—s2oo, S3OO, SSOO a year. Some of the principals consider themselves well paid if they receive $2,500 salary, while the soloists in the orchestra are satisfied with SI,OOO and $1,200 a year. But they are assured of permanent employment, and at the end of a certain number of years are entitled to pensions, like schoolteachers and employes in the civil service of Germany. A Gorman schoolteacher can draw a pension amounting to about S6O a year after teaching twenty consecutive years, and after teaching thirty years the amount is increased to S9O or SIOO. All the municipal governments pension their employes for service after twenty-five years or more. The same is true of the government railways and every branch of tho civil, as well as the military, service of Germany. Tho attendants in the public libraries, art galleries and museums, the guide who shows you about the Emperor’s palace or the royal castles, are all entitled to this distinction when they reach a certain age or serve a certain number of years. That is one cause of the conservatism of the country and the lack of progress. These men atid women hang on hopefully to any kind of a government position they can get. knowing that it will give them shelter and bread, at least, as long as they live, if they behave themselves reasonably well. But the difference in musicians' salaries between Germany and the United States is greater than is found in any other profession. Mr. Sousa, the bandmaster, told me onee of his trombone player, who bears the scriptural name of Hell. He was discovered In one of the orchestras over here, where he was receiving S3O a month and boarding himself Mr. Sousa agreed to pay him SOO a month and his hotel bills and traveling expenses and also his steamship fare if he would come to America. Hell accepted eagerly, but the second year, when he learned his value* according to the American standard, he struck for SIOO a week and got it. The first violinist in the Frankfort orchestra is only thirty-seven years old, but; commenced to draw a pension for twenty years' service four years ago, for he joined the orchestra when he was only

thirteen yea*s old. A1 the musicians are given four treeks’ vacation with pay. OHSRA BEGINS AT 6 P. M. In most of the German cities the opera begins at 6 or 6:20 o’clock and closes at 9 o clock oi a little later, which Is a very sensible >lan, from the German point of view, forit is the custom here tc have dinner at lor 2 o’clock and supper at 8 or 9 o clock. Gentlemen go from their stores or offices tc the opera, where they meet their wives, aid then have supper when they go home ater the performance. There is a buffet irthe building, at which beer, pretzels, saidwlches, ices, cages, wines and other rereshments can be had between the acts, ant It is always well patronized. Economical people bring crackers, cakes and sometims little sandwiches in little bags with thcr opera glasses. On Snday nights it is customary for many o the ladies and gentlemen to dress for the opera, but during the week they always <o in street costumes and leave their hfis and wraps in the cloakroom. This Is ;> suit the convenience of the gentlemen ho come direct from their business. lit there is very little dressing in German, on any occasion. Less money is spent hre for personal adornment than in any oner country in the world, and even on Sundv nights, except In Berlin during the socia season, not more than one-third of the aUience of an opera are in eventing dress. the peras are a matter of education, they are iven exactly as they are written and exacty as the composer intended. In the Unite States stage managers take great libeues with musical scores. They leave out uninteresting passages. They shorten op-as sometimes by omitting entire acts, ml often interpolate compositions by othr composers in order to brighten up the prformance. But if a manager did that inGermany he would be discharged Its the purpose of the manager and of ever performer conscientiously to convey the iea that was In the mind of the composer fc the instruction as well aa the edificatin of the audience. As soon a an act is finished everybody gets up andgoes out of the audience room to drink a lass of beer or shake the kinks out of the- legs by promenading In the foyer. P riods sit down at little tables and gossip as ley drink and eat, but there is never any ’isiting in the boxes; and, furthermore. eople who go to the opera to show theirrowns and their jewels get very little consoitlon and are considered vulgar if not disputable. Anybody who would attempt toiarry on a conversation In one of the boxt or do anything to disturb the rest of theaudlence would he hissed out of the hous Such conduct as Is common at the operain New York and other cities of the Unite-states would not be tolerated for a mo-ent by the management the piilic. At the beginning of % the doors are locked and are not oened again until the curtain rails, so tha punctuality is necessary if people want i get the worth of their money. When a Inger from some other city appears as acompliment it is customary to give her orfim an ovation at the end of the first act. 1* the regular staff of singers are never cheipd except at the end of the first act, and ten In the most critical wav. Hissing is frecent. If any actor does not know his part - sings out of tune he is reminded of his efects very promptly, and the managemer fines him or punishes him in some other.ay to satisfy public sentiment. The annual is composed mostly of German opera Italian compositions are often introduced-ut French operas are not popular. An eas way to incite a riot In a German city i£o sing a French song on the street. Muss dealers are often requested to take lench compositions out of their show windcs, and no genuine French opera will be torated In a German citv unless It is writtt by a distinguished man like Gounod.

Life Inianio; for Women. Philadelphia Ledgei The time has been yien an effort to place an Insurance upon a Oman’s life was conJ sidered a sort of wUedness, any success) in this direction bein regarded with much questioning, and to sqo minds it was tata-. mount to the early qth of the supposed victim. Even the eomnies themselves put obstacles in the way. lany associations utterly refused to acce) feminine risks, and when they were allovl it was only for a limited amount at verhigh rates; for there was a very general bes that for a woman the physical dangers oif e are greater than for a man. But common-sense, oroad-minded lawmakers, statistics andibove all, constant agitation have made tb.hing far more possible. As laws have gtvn more favorable to woman’s tenure of fcperty and legislation has become more Jt as to her power to earn, keep and will tay her money, so has the tide of public op.on reversed itself until it is only here and t-re that any critK cism of her life insuranc^xists. But the position at ptent seems to be that women themselves e behindhand in their desire to use and ir-st their savings in this eminently practicasvay. Out of the 4,000,000 adult women In e United State* only about 50,000 are insuj. it Is strang* that woman, the more long and unselftsS of the two sexes, should* behind in any movement to thus care f those she may otherwise leave In want. Te problem which confronts a working worn is much the same as the one which coronts the workingman, and every year *s more women in the “army of supports” with duties and financial responsibiliih to the children who, lacking them, Jaok ail. Half-Tone Fxov**. Meehan’s Monthly. The origin of the term “ha tone” arose in this way: It waa variou r called by different workers according tOh e i r fancy; for instance, it was the ‘ eisanbach” process—so called after the pat tee G s one of the methods, whilst others ci e <j it the “nature” process, and, besides, „ re arose such names as “heliotype” and ‘"xotype.” But the public wanted to know t a t these strange terms meant, hence it vva, 9Ua i to add “a process for reproducing ie fi a if tones of photographs,” and this on became shortened into “the half-to, process.” So this name, ugly as it, bp* stuck to the business. Flowers and Insect*. Mehan’s Monthly. Prof. Felix Plateau, of Ghent, Be. un , t has recently published a learned papt to show that the statements of Sir John Übbock and Grant Allen, in relation to flo, r 9 and insects, are in a great measure imfc n _ ary and partake more of romance thaiof fact. This has long been decided by leaq g botanists of America. It has been plaf bevond doubt that bees will visit now 3 - which are entirely destitute of perfume a* attractiveness just as readily when thcontain nectar as they do those which hat color ad fragrance. Result of Culture. Chicago Tribune. “Mr. Johnson,” announced the interlocutor at the minstrel entertainment in Boston, “will now favor the audience with the wellknown song entitled ‘There Will Bea Measured Portion of Duration Remarkable for an Abnormal Elevation of Temperature Within the Corporate Limits of the Ancient Municipality This Evening.’ ” A Lost Opportunity. Washington Star. “It's too bad that artists aren’t more practical.” remarked a Boston man. “Do you think they could make more money?’* ‘'l’m sure of it. Look at the man who made the Bacchante. If he had put baseball clothes on it. his fortune would now be assured.” _ Had Taken an Active Part. Chicago Tribune. Mr Rambo (explaining the lateness of his coming In)—I was detained down town thish evenin’, m’ dear, by p’litical businesh. Mrs. Rambo— Political business, Absalom? What kind? Mr. Rambo—Been attendin’ an irrigation congresh, m’ dear. Name Defeated Him. Typographical Journal. Prince—l noticed that Mr. Zynkjrzski has been indorsed by all the labor unions in his candidacy for mayor. Blood—All but tho typographical union.; the comps wouldn’t go on record as favoring that name. ■ >. " A Pity. New York Evening Sun. The Indiana Presbytery has taken notice of the “report that liquors are sold at the Princeton Inn, the resoyt of students of the university.” It is a pity that somebody was not there to inform the persons that the liquor kept at the inn Is excellent. Good Word from Deli*. Kansas City Journal. Debs does not belong to the Republican party, but he oecaslonallv says a good word for it- He' has just declared that it Is the only organized enemy of socialism. Just na Well, Kansas City Journal. Blanco, Weyler's successor, advertises himself as a most humane person, but the Cubans would do well to keep a guard over their hospitals for a while yet.