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Mr. Bryan declared that his purpose in going to Ohio was to destroy Mark Hanna. Yet Mr. Bryan never furnished steady employment to a half dozen men in his life, •while Mr. Hanna has given steady employment to hundreds who have testified that he has been a fair and considerate man. To the people of Ohio Senator Hanna said, a few days ago, that during the days of industrial paralysis no man who was in the employ of his corporations when the panic came went hungry while the hard times continued, even if the product of his labor was unsold. Only desire to “deBtroy" the great captains of industry. Carter Harrison’s braves who went with him to New York behaved in a manner to surprise the tough element in Gotham. While the sober limit of every one of the Harrison cohorts of reform is one quart of •whisky, the most of them broke the quart provision in New York and many became very drunk, and some of them were abusive. They committed several assaults, refused to pay carriage hire, and when arrested claimed to be Chicago officials by the appointment of Mayor Harrison. If he can, the mascot mayor will do well to leave his braves at home when he goes forth to preach reform of the Democratic brand. The demand for the redemption of treasury notes has reduced the coined silver of the treasury to $3,000,000, which means that the mints must soon begin to coin silver dollars for the furl her redemption of such notes. Os silver bullion, which was purchased by the issue of these notes, the government has a good supply. The demand for fractional silver is increasing. As fast as these treasury notes are redeemed-by the issue of sliver dollars therefor they should be destroyed. When the entire volume issued shall be wiped out the length of the endless chain which so troubled the Cleveland administration to keep up the gold reserve will be shortened. London papers were greatly shocked recently at w hat they called the undiplomatic language in Secretary Sherman’s letter criticising Great Britain’s course regarding the seal conference. There was nothing in the letter as offensive as the statement of the British Colonial Office regarding the situation in Africa, that there was no danger of complications ‘’provided the french government behaves reasonably,” but that • if the French persist in trespassing complications will naturally arise.” If Secretary Sherman had written that the seal question could be easily settled “provided the British government behaves reasonably” there would have been some ground for the criticisms of the London papers. In spite of the dissensions among the Republicans in Hamilton county and elsewhere, it seems impossible that the Republicans of Ohio, with all the advantages which the situation affords, should lose the Legislature and thus put John R. McLean in the seat occupied by John Sherman and h*B successor, Mark Hanna. But for the tyrannical bossism of a man named Cox In Cincinnati there would not be the least

danger In Hamilton county. The freesilver heresy has made no gains, and it should not be allowed to do so by Republicans who have wearied of the power of a man which is already broken. It w T as Cox who aided in the turning of the Ohio delegation from General Harrison in 1892 and who actually threatened McKinley’s campaign in 1896. THE M’LEAN CAMPAIGN. The Democratic campaign in Ohio has been directed by John R. McLean with his newspaper, the Enquirer, as an organ. With actual Democrats In Ohio Mr. McLean is not popular. He is not trusted by them. At the beginning of the campaign he was denounced by the Cleveland Plain Dealer as a foreigner and the foe of the Ohio Democracy. Remembering the humiliating defeat of his father through the plotting of McLean, Mr. Thurman, at the beginning of the campaign, denounced him with every epithet in the Democratic vocabulary. Having him in mind, the Democratic convention in Cleveland pledged its legislative nominees to vote for no millionaire for United States senator. His purpose is to attain a seat in the Senate. His agents have “fixed” the candidates for the Two months ago, learning of the hostility to him in his own party, Mr. McLean gave out that he would not be a candidate for senator. So much is he distrusted by meu in his own party that they stigmatized his withdrawal as a mask and a trick. Such it has proved to be, as his paid agents have been traveling about the State in his interest. During the campaign his organ, the Enquirer, *has been specially devoted to the nasty work of assailing the characters of prominent Republicans, and particularly Senator Hanna. As McLean’s opponent, it may be said that all his efforts have been turned to accomplish Hanna’s defeat that he may succeed him. As has been stated, it is not necessary that Republicans should take the trouble to assail the political record of McLean. Democrats have time and again, and very recently, done that most effectively. They have laid bare his treachery and his corrupt deals and methods. Cincinnati has been disgraced by more than its share of political scandals, but none was equal to the infamies of the period of McLean’s prominence, which culminated in ISBS in the tally-sheet forgeries. Because of their participation in the tallysheet forgeries one or two were sent to the penitentiary. To-day one of the most active of McLean’s lieutenants is the man who was responsible for the most extensive ballotbox frauds ever perpetrated outside of New York. Ex-Governor Hoadly, who was the Democratic candidate for Governor when these frauds were perpetrated, in a speech to the Ohio Club Feb. 26, 1887, spoke of them as follows: One trouble with the Democracy of Hamilton county is that they have learned the trick of changing ballots after they have been put In the box. Letting the past alone, and looking only to the future, the duty of the Democracy of Hamilton county is this: Never again—never again allow an honorable man to contemplate, as I had to with shame, my name accredited with 926 votes I never received in the Fourth ward, and my friend, Judge Foraker, in Precinct A, Fourth ward, accredited with forty-six only, when he certainly received nearly two hundred. Mr. John R. McLean may be a better man now than he was during the period of his active participation in Democratic politics twelve or fifteen years ago, but there are no indications of it in his present methods. At any rate, with the record which the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Mr. Thurman and many other Democrats in Ohio have given him, he is not the man to bring charges against others.

A CHANCE FOR TROUBLE. Dispatches during the last few days indicate the possibility of trouble between Great Britain and France growing out of their territorial acquisitions in Africa. To appreciate the situation it must be remembered that France stands next to Great Britain in the number and extent of her colonies and dependencies, and in the matter of territorial extension she is fully as aggressive. Africa has furnished a great field for the operations of both, as well as for Germany, Italy and Portugal. The partition and colonization of Africa by these European powers will furnish a great theme for the future historian. The rapidity with which the acquisitions of territory have been made is astonishing. Not to speak of earlier acquisitions, during the lust ten years France has annexed 1,900,000 square miles, Germany 940,000, Portugal 710,000, Italy 547,000, and Great Britain 1,950.000. As the figures show, it has been a close race between England and France which should get the lion’s share, and the race is still on, with a great deal of unappropriated territory yet to be occupied or annexed. Considering the vastness of the country, the undefined condition of the boundaries of dilferent possessions and the aggressive policy of both powers it is evident that a collision is not a remote possibility. Recent dispatches indicate that both are laying claims to the territory or province of Borgu by virtue of a tteaty concluded with its King. The native King, who does not seem to be very well versed in international law, semes to have made two treaties recognizing the sovereignty, respectively, of each power. England claims that her treaty was made first, but France regards hers as the latest expression, like a later will, and therefore valid. Both are disposed to assert their claims, and both are sending troops into the Borgu territory. A semi-official note issued by the French government charges that the British are sending officers to Borgu to incite rebellion and distribute arms to the natives, while the British Colonial Office says, “If the French persist in trespassing complications will naturally arise.” As matters look now there seems to be a pretty prospect of a collision between the two land-grabbers. A CONTRAST. The speech of President McKinley at the banquet of the Commercial Club in Cincinnati Saturday night was an effort in every way worthy of the chief magistrate of the Nation. It is a dignified and patriotic utterance which every patriotic man must approve, and which no partisan can condemn, unless he takes exception to the closing sente ice, in which the President asserts that the weak places in our financial system should be remedied. If any one objects to this it is because he does not want a sound monetary system. Such a dignified and thoughtful utterance is no more than the people have a right to expect of William McKinley. He has always been a self-re-specting man. All of his public addresses have been those of a man who respects himself and the Intelligence of the people. In this respect he furnishes a contrast to Mr. Bryan, who aspires to the presidency, and is now the traveling agent of calamity In the expectation of winning a renomination on that basis. They are as wide apart in their views of the proprieties of men aspiring to the highest office in the gift of a great nation as they well can be. It would

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be impossible to Imagine William McKinley at any period in his life to be a part of a variety show consisting of races, baseball games, band contests and athletic displays, and receiving his compensation from the gate receipts. It may be safely asserted that no other man who has ever been President of the United States or the nominee of a prominent party would have condescended to do such a thing. Y'et Mr. Bryan has been doing that sort of thing from time to time during the past three months, and he Is said to have derived a considerable revenue therefrom. This is because at middle age he has no profession or occupation, as have other men w r ho have become so prominent as to be party nominees for President. The example of Mayor Harrison and his re-election seem to have given Mayor Taggart a touch of the dangerous malady known as “big head.” Heretofore he has been mild and plausible, but since he has started in on his second term he has assumed an air of arrogance which does not fit him. He has won by the smile. He is accustomed to it, and the smile becomes him. He should not part company with a most useful ally. The mayor should not so soon forget that he did obeisance to those who are called mugwumps before the election, and that they and a large number of Republicans elected him on his promise to be good. To them he should not so soon exhibit the insolence he has in regard to Dr. Ferguson and Detective Splann in ignoring efficiency and curtly intimating to these excellent citizens that they can go about their business while he does as he pleases. The big head is a certain symptom of the swelled head, and if it is not treated in season it. will result in a tumefaction which has brought greater men than Mayor Taggart to an untimely end. Mr. Taggart should retrace his steps and seek the editorial rooms of the News as he did before the election to assure the editors of his sorrow for sacrificing the public good in order to reward the faithful. A paper read at the recent meeting of American cotton manufacturers, in Philadelphia, contained some interesting statistics as to the cotton-goods trade of the worlcL It is practically in the hands of four countries and divided about as follows: Great Britain, $332,331,000; Germany, $47,742,000; France, $28,757,000; United States, $19,840,000. The suprising thing about these figures is that Great Britain, without a pound of native raw cotton, should spin and weave over 77 per cent, of the cotton goods purchased by other nations, while the United States, which produces over one-half of all the cotton grown in the world, supplies less than 5 per cent, of the manufactures of cotton which other countries buy. Over 95 per cent, of the world’s trade in cotton goods is in the hands of Great Britain, Germany and France, neither of which raises a pound of cotton at home, and all of which are dependent on the United States for their raw fiber. Such facts as these should incite American manufaoturers to great efforts to extend their foreign trade.

Tammany Hall entertained the Chicago contingent at a so-called luncheon on Friday. The kind of fellows that Mayor Harrison led to New York are always hungry and thirsty, and they doubtless looked forward to this event as the crowning one of their trip. According to the New York Sun, they were terribly disappointed. The Tammany braves turned out in great force, and being built on the same plan as the Chicago visitors, with the additional advantage of knowing the arrangement of the tables and the avenues of approach, they devoured pretty much everything and sent the visitors away about as hungry and thirsty as they came. The Sun says: As the devastating locust lights upon and blights the summer verdure of the forest, so those Tammany men lit upon the luncheon. It was one grand sweet grab and gulp. Newer let Chicago say again that New York is ignorant in the matter of hustle. The most acquisitive gang—to put it mildly—that the Windy City has ever sped from its gates with the fond hope that it would get side-tracked and never come back, sat in its chairs and swallowed air in, largo, unsatisfying swallows. A dozen of the Western politicians, of that class which is more accustomed to the rough-and-ready life of the slungshot and sandbrg, than to the finesse of second-story w rk and the delicate touch, charged upon the home phalanx, but were repulsed in overy case but one. A tall, lantern-jawed individual, who seemed to have struggled along with no other name than ’ Slick Aleck” thus far in his career, made his way to a table, and an hour later was still feeding with an assiduity which established a general belief that he had hollow legs. But it w’as very dull for the others. To increase their misery, they who were parching woro compelled to see others pour down the fizzing wine to which they could not attain. For the Tammanyites knew by what routes the wine would arrive, and collected there in gangs, fell upon each waiter as he came, bearing bottles, and despoiled him of his burden. All over the hall one saw Indians clutching bottles to their bosoms and running for a spot of safety, each followed by several other Indians with empty glasses and expressions that were both empty and eager. Down at the first table were four policemen who had fought their way to the front with magnificent courage and persistence, and were literally filling their mouths with both hands. The Cook countyites marveled aloud. Among the Chicago statesmen who did not get a smell of anything were Stumpy Ryan. Billy Mongler, Billy D’Brien, Sandy Wheeler and many other “marching” Democrats of Chicago, w'ho, at Mayor Harrison said, “are conspicuous at every Democratic meeting in Chicago.” They were conspicuous at this luncheon, but it was up against tho wall and not the table. For the first time in their lives they realized the true greatness of Tammany and their own insignificance. Hon. Bourke Cockran’s speech at a Republican meeting in New York last Friday night was one of the greatest of the campaign. He spoke as a sound-money Democrat, and made a powerful and eloquent plea for the election of Tracy. At one point he said: Last year we had an issue which involved the security of property and the prosperity of industry. This year that same issue is involved, but another one is added to it. (Applause.) Then we battled against the forces of Bryanism for the defense of those material possessions which are only owned by a minority of our population. To-day we stand arrayed in defense of those same possessions against the same forces, reinforced by deserters from the supporters of order—in defense not merely, I say, of the material property which is possessed by but few, but of that good character which, thank God, is the possession of the vast majority of the American people. Mr. Cockran divided his time about equally betw’een Tammany and the mugwumps, and poured hot shot into both with beautiful impartiality. Never w’as there a more signal instance of the heartlessness of the thing called politics than was furnished by the tragic death of the late Henry George. Not one moment’s sympathy was extended, except in a perfunctory way, not a word of condolence over the deep pathos of the event; only an undisguised, clamorous and dry-eyed wonder as to what the result would be in the world of politics. Yet the want of appreciation Is only apparent. When the smoke of the battlefield has drifted away the day of mourning and consideration will come. Men who fall In battle have short funeral services. ’’Coin” Harvey is yert making a good tiling out of the silver fad in sending out through the new States of the West canvassers to secure* under the guise of the

“Order of American Patriots,” subscribers to his paper. To become a patriot of the “Coin” stripe a man must subscribe for his paper. It is said that thus far his agents have brought in about $45 a w’eek to Harvey. Yesterday's rain came just in time for the trees which were planted on Arbor day, and will be of immense benefit to Indiana in other ways. The drought which it breaks has been one of the longest in recent years and very hard on the farmers. In ten States that vote to-morrow there are forty-five tickets to be voted for. In some instances, no doubt, there will be an amendment to the old saying to “You’ve paid your money and you takes your choice.” A Wisconsin man was held up and robbed of a lot of money and a valuable charm. There is at least a delightful consistency. It is natural that a man have no further charm for a footpad when his money is gone. It seems rather queer to the casual observer that the Hicks-Beaches and other distinguished Britons believe so implicitly in the double-standard family names and the single-standard currency. Walla Tomaka, a Choctaw chief, went home to be shot. Such instances are common in prohibition towns, but frequently the victim has only half the job to do by the time he gets home. The proper tiling to do with regard to the New York and Ohio elections at present is to hold your breath—but do not guarantee to hold it until the man you have bet on is elected. Henry George, jr., is no more qualified to fill the shoes of his illustrious father than Is many another man with feet of the same size and a different name BUBBLES IN TIIE AIR. Schooling:. "I was astonished at the race Bicklehom made. I didn’t think he had any idea of practical politics.” “No? Let me tell you that Bicklehorn has belonged to three lodges and a Christian Endeavor society for three or four years.” Her Mistake. Mr. Lushforth—M’ Dear, 'Jever look in glass—ic—Holloeve night t’see face your future husban’? Mrs. Lushforth—l did, but I saw no one. I think now that I must have looked into the wrong kind of a glass. A Usefnl Adjunct. “I always like to have at least one boarder who is a little slow about paying,” Mrs. Hasheroft admitted to her dearest friend. "A maa of that kind—especially a young man —is always so handy to use up all the chicken necks, the cold biscuits, and so on.” The Cheerful Idiot. “Just to think,” said the mugwump boarder, “of that horrid Tammany candidate in New York shouting ’To hell with reform.’ ” "Well,” asked the Cheerful Idiot, “do you know of any place that needs it more?”

STATE PRESS OPINION. Carter Harrison claims the honor of electing Mr. Taggart mayor of Indianapolis, for Chicago’s ruler and his marching club took a hand in the campaign. It is reported that a goodly number that voted for Mr. Taggart are altogether willing for young Harrison to have the credit.—Lafayette Courier. The professional fault-finders are not finding the welcome ears that they did last fall. People are too busy now to listen to complaints that they know are not founded on fact, and they are suspicious of men who offer them a theory which would not hold good even for one year.—Seymour Republican. It is demonstrated that right here in Indiana beets can be grown that contain a larger per cent, of sugar than the best beets grown in Germany, and German farmers are getting rich raising sugar beets, and we buy their sugar.—Fowler Re-publican-Era. The attempt of the Democratic press to make it appear that President McKinley’s administration was playing into the hands of a wealthy syndicate of New York In tne Union Pacific deal falls fiat. It is now a positive fact that the government will come out on that transaction with no loss whatever.—Washington Gazette. The Spanish complain of Yankee aid rendered the struggling Cubans. Suppose our government had placed no obstacle in the way of such aid being rendered as sympathy for the oppressed might suggest? The result would have been more war material in Cuba than the insurrectionists could use, and Yankee volunteers would have materially swooien the ranks of the Cuoan army.— Angola Magnet. The miners of this county are working full time. This is very gratifying to them, inasmuch as they were compelled to lie idle for many months during the regime of Cleveland. The miners of Park county are cognizant of the fact that a demand for coal gives employment and wages and that free silver at the ratio of 16 to 1 can have nothing to do whatever in creating a demand for coal.—Petersburg Press. Mayor Taggart is being severely criticised for removing Dr. Ferguson from the superintendency of the City Hospital because ho is a gold-standard Democrat, a class whom the Bryan Democrats have no respect for nor confidence in. Taggart is a spoils Democrat, and every one who voted for him knew it. They had no right to expect anything else of him than a strict compliance with Democratic ethics.—Marion Chronicle* “The best mayor that Indianapolis evr had,” the man that was independent, has removed the City Hospital superintendent to appease the craving appetite of a silver mob and appointed as chief of detectives a man recently dismissed as superintendent for drunkenness. “Independent Republicans,” “best citizens” and gold Democrats should celebrate in honor of the holy Tom Taggart, the man who was lauded as better than tho mob supporting him most enthusiastically.—Lafayette Courier. The large car works at Dunkirk, built during the boom of 1892, and later abandoned, will be occupied at once by a large glass manufacturing concern. Articles of incorporation, with a capital of $40,000 in shares of SIOO each, are now being prepared, and the fires will be started in the furnaces no later than Jan. 1. The car works now consist of ten buildings, and two others will be added, all of which will be used by the company in making tumblers and bar goods. The promoters of the company are Pennsylvanians.—Albany Journal. The administration is not yet eight months old, but cast your eyes around and behold what good has been accomplished—prosperity, dollar wheat, one-hundred-cent dollars, a protective tariff, the starting of mills and factories all over the country, the employment of all the many thousands of idle hands which had been out of work for many months and a brightening up of everything and everybody. Not even the advance agent of calamity, Willie Bryan, can check or change all this to the bad, though he labor ever so hard at $l5O a day to do it.—Muncie News. It is asserted from Washington that the civil service has no friends In the Indiana delegation In the House. A statement is made by those who are working to secure the repeal of the law in the coming Congress* by the passage of the Grosvenc-r bill, that the vote of the entire delegation will be cast in favor of the repeal of the civilservice law. If that statement be true there will be changes in the Republican delegation in Congress at the next election. Any Republican who so far departs from the traditions and practices of the party as to vote for a return of the wild methods of appointment to office is not u fit conservator of the interests of the people, and should be spotted.—Elkhart Review. An Expert Opinion. Washington Star. "Great men." remarked the thoughtful youth, “are frequently misunderstood by the public.” “That,” replied Senator Sorghum, gravely, “is very true. And mighty lucky it is for some of thm.”

BOOKS OF THE TIME. Ex-I’restdent Harrison's* Treatise on the Working of Oar Government. General Harrison’s long expected book, "This Country of Ours," will surprise those who expected it would be a ponderous volume of large pages in small type, simply because it is expected that when a statesman writes of the constitution and our government he must know so much about them that a very large book can contain but a small part of what he knows and has to say. "This Country of Ours" is a small Look of 355 rather small pages in large, clear type. The preface is less than a page, but it declares the purpose of the author, which is “to give a better knowledge of things that have been too near and too familiar to be well known." The preface closes with the hope that the book “may tend to promote an intelligent patriotism and a faithful discharge of the duties of citizenship.” The table of contents follows the preface, and an introduction precedes the general matter of the book. The introduction is designed to prepare the reader for the-jreal contents of the book by setting forth the relations cf the* citizen to the political organization known as the United States. The first observation is: "God has never endowed any statesman or philosopher or any body of them with wisdom enough to frame a system of government that everybody could go off and leave.” "To pay taxes and to submit to the law," the writer continues, "are far short of the whole duty of the citizen. Government is made strong and effective by the intelligent affection of its citizen The fear of the court-martial and ti e provost guard may cause men to stand steady in battle, but "only a love of the flag will send a line forward with an esprit that walls of earth and men cannot withstand." The character and quality of patriotism are described as follows: "The impulse of patriotism needs to be instructed, guided—brought to the wheel—if it is to do the every-uay work of American politics. Sentiment? Yes, never too much; but with it, and out of it, a faithful discharge of the prosy routine of a citizen’s duty. A readiness to go to the field? Yes, and equally to the primaries and to the polls. The real enemies of our country—the dangerous ones—are not the armed men nor the armored ships of the great powers. If there Is too much exuberance in the thought that we can whip the w'orld, it is a safe saying that we can defend our land and coasts against any part of the world that will ever be in arms against us. We are alert as to foreign foes—the drum-tap arouses the heaviest sleepers. But we are a dull people as to internal assaults upon the integrity and purity of public administration. Salvation Army methods seem to be needed in politico-moral reforms. It has seemd to me that a fuller knowledge of our civil institutions and a deeper love of them would make us more watchful for their purity; that we would think legs of the levy necessary to restore stolen public funds, and more of the betrayal and shame of the thing. A good argument might be made for the wave theory as applied to patriotism, for it seems to have its ups and downs. There are eras when it rises to the combing point and others when greed and selfishness rise above it on either side.” General Harrison makes a defense of the old-time Fourth of July celebration and regrets that we have allowed ourselves to "be laughed out of it.” "The old Declaration has a pulse in it and a ring to it that does the soul good.” "Has your boy ever read it?” he asks. "Have you—all of it?” he goes on; and he would like to have the censustakers required to get an answer to the question. Regarding the teaching of patriotism, General Harrison is very much in earnest He says: “In the home and before the school days come, the feelings should be kindled and sentiment awakened. Do not be ashamed to love the flag or to confess you love it. Make much of it; tell its history; sing of it. It now floats from over our schools, and it ought to hang from the windows of all our homes on all public days. - * * I like to think of the flag as I saw it one night in Newport harbor. Clouds of inky blackness had extinguished the stars, and only the harbor lights revealed to our pilot the path to the sea. Stillness and darkness brooded over the waters and over the shores. Suddenly there was presented to our sleepy eyes a dazzling sight. Away up in the heavens the star-spangled banner appeared, lustrous as a heavenly vision; its folds, waving gently in the soft night air, seemed to shine by inherent light, and to move by inherent life. The flag was ‘transfigured before us,’ and seemed to have been flung out of the skies, rather than lifted from the earth. It was not a supernatural 'effect. A great searchlight turned upon the flag as it hung from a high staff wrought all this surpassing beauty.” General Harrison believes that "a greater reverence for law is a sore need in this country of ours.”* He thinks that a better knowledge of the laws, how they are made, and how defects in them may be remedied in an orderly way will strengthen the conviction that they must be observed by every one. All laws must be obeyed. "The man who apologizes for or participates in the blowing up of a saloon ought to be held particeps in the retaliatory crime—the blowing up of a church." "We are having a renaissance of patriotism, and we need a renaissance of conscience toward law." "The man who hides property from the tax gatherer or slips a fee into his hand to obtain prelerence, canont lead in a 'tiger hunt.’ ” The executive oriicer who neglects to enforce any law usurps the functions of the law-maker. Lynching is a usurpation—tne crowning of a cruel and unbridled tyrant. It stimulates rather than represses crime. Speaking of lawlessness, General Harrison says that "its chief promoters are greed, corporate and individual, in its various manifestations, and the parasite of greed—unarcnism. The corrupting and destructive forces assume in their campaigns the indifference of me body ot the peopie. The forces of law and order have no outposis; the whole army is generally on turiougn." In finishing this vigorous and thoughtful introduction, the writer makes two practical suggestions, wnich ale as follows; "We need general assemblies of the people in the smaller civil subdivisions, town meetings in which the two questions only snail be considered: First, are the public officers faithfully and honestly transacting the public business? Second, are the laws—not this law or that, but all laws—enforced or obeyed? The enforcement of the law, whether we opposed or aided the making of if the strict accountability of public officers, whether we opposed or aided their election, should! be the objects and the limit of these meetings.” , , Having set forth the necessity of love for country and profound reverence for the law the writer assumes that we are now ready for familiar talk about "this country of ours." The first chaoter is devoted to the Constitution, how it was adopted, how it can be amended, etc. It is stated that a constitution should “deal only with large and permanent matters,” leaving details to the Legislature. The three great departments ol' government, the legislative, executive and judicial, are explained. The weakness of the articles of the confederation which preceded the Constitution is set forth clearly and concisely. The Constitution as it was adopted is a series of concessions made by the States which makes the government of the United States one of specihed powers. The powers of the States and those of the United States are clearly set sortie It is shown that the government of States is a government of the people as much as is that of the state. The person who understands the tifteen pages devoted to the Constitution in this book has all the practical knowledge of the organic law and of the relations of the State and the Union that he can need. The second and third chapters are devoted to the Congress. The reasons why it is constituted as it is are clearly set forth. Not only are the provisions for the election of members of the Senate and House given, but also the reasons for the present system of representation. In a familiar manner, which any reader can understand, the make-up, the powers, the duties and the limitations of the legislative branch of the government are set forth. Chapters four to ten, inclusive, are devoted to the duties and powers of the President. Much of the treatment is historical, and a clear idea of the experiences of a President is given. To what is made a dry subject by many writers upon our government, General Harrison has given a living interest, and has condensed into 112 pages an amount of information which the general reader can only not find in any other book, but cannot find at all. It is an epitome of all the knowledge and information to be found upon this important subject. The next seven chapters are devoted to the departments under the respective secretaries composing the Cabinet. No idea could be given of the contents of these chapters without giving them in full; but this much may be said: the person who has read them has full information regarding the machinery of the government ot this country of ours. One chapter is devoted to the independent boards and commissions of the

government. In speaking of the work of the Fish Commission General Harrison says that the introduction of the carp by that board was a blunder. The last two chapters are devoted to the Judiciary. The powers of the Supreme Court or the United States and of the United States courts generally are set forth and their relations to state tribunals are clearly defined. No topic is discussed, but the facts and the history are given. The last chapter is followed by the Constitution of the United States. An excellent feature of the book is an index covering thirteen pages. The most minute topic treated in the book is noted in the index, so that the possessor of the volume who has a doubt as to any point can find in the index the page upon which it is treated. Another excellent feature is that the subject of every different topic treated is indented in smaller type into the body of the paragraph. This feature will be a great convenience to those who may use the work as a text-book. It is a book to be studied rather than simply read, and it is so superior to the most of the books on civics in use in the schools that it should take their place, and by doing so give life to a study which has little in it to interest pupils. General Harrison’s book cannot fail to incite a fresh interest on the part of general readers In the details of our government. Heretofore this Important subject has never been treated by a master In a manner that the mass of the people can understand. Treatises on the Constitution and the powers of the respective departments of the government have been addressed to those who are assumed to have an elementary knowledge of the subject, so that people in general have come to act upon the assumption that all such topics are beyond the comprehension of all who are not lawyers or life-long students. General Harrison has dispelled this illusion. The person of fair intelligence can obtain a general but clear idea of the government of “this country of ours" from this book The volume, which is a fine sample of American book making, is published by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. Captains* Conraneoas. Rudyard Kipling, famous for his short stories and poems, has demonstrated that he can tell a long story as well as a short one, and a story of American life as well as of British Indian. He does this in "Captains Courageous,” which, after being published as a serial, is now issued in book form. It is a romance of the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, and is concerned almost wholly with the adventures of the* crew of the codttshing schooner We’re Here, of Newfoundland. The story deals largely with the experiences of < son of a Western multi-millionaire, who falls off an Atlantic liner and is picked up by the schooner. He is a boy of only tifteen years, and has been spoiled by a doting and indulgent mother. When he recovers from his plunge in the sea and his fright he tells his story of how his father allowed him S2O a month pocket money and demands to be taken back to New York. The captain of the schooner is a typical Yankee skipper, who scouts the boy’s story of wealth, and when the latter becomes insolent the captain strikes him. Instead of being sent back to New York he is made to work his way and rough it till the end of the cruise at $lO a month and found, binding he is in for it the boy accepts the situation with true American pluck and sets about learning the things a Newfoundland "banker” must know. His months of continual hardship on the little vessel and in the dories, .and his association with the rugged, sturdy fishermen, develop the latent manliness of his character. It is remarkable how in this part of the story the author succeeds in interesting the reader in all the small details of codflshing and the Incidents that hapnen in this hard life, smothered in fog and in hourly danger of being run down by the great liners. Kipling spent a month or so on this New England coast absorbing local color,and so well did he use his eyes that a veteran skipper could scarcely give a more graphic picture of life on the Grand Banks, with its perils and its tragedies, than he does. These features of sea life axe handled with that dramatic power of which Kipling is a master. The odd characters who form the schooner’s crew are strongly drawn. The book is full of breezy romance of the sea, and some of its descriptive passages fairly throb with life. The sea part of the story is the best of it. When the homeward run is ended and the schooner reaches Gloucester the transition is complete. Harvey, the millionaire’s son, wires the news of his rescue and safe arrival at Gloucester, and from San Diego, where the millionaire is seeking some benefit for his heart-broken wife, a flying trip is made across the continent in fifty-seven hours. The account of this trip is a masterpiece of vivid description. The meeting of parents and son is admirably sketched, and the new manliness of the boy, which calls out his father’s confidence, conveys a good moral. The crushing discomfiture of Captain Troop when he finds the lad actually told the truth about his millionaire father is very amusing. The millionaire does something handsome for the captain. The closing scenes of the story are a trifle melodramatic, and one loves best to recur to the salt sea part of it and the rough life of the fishermen. The story abounds with characteristic passages illustrative of Kipling’s genius, and can be read with equal pleasure by young and old. New York: The Century Comapny. American Nobility. "For a novelist there are two ways of being moral—either to avoid the mention of evil or to bring it into play in order to show its baneful consequences. The author of ‘American Nobility’ has chosen the latter.” So says Pierre De Coulevaln, the author of the book named, in a prefatory statement. In an introduction he states, further, that it "is the story of a FrancoAmerican marriage and a picture of French society in the Faubourg St. Germain, at the chateau en province and at the seaside, it is distinguished among society novels by the contrast constantly and vividly drawn between American and French ideas, traditions, habits of thought and conduct connected more or less closely with the vital subject of the relations of the sexes.” Tne story, in brief, is of a wealthy New York girl whose father, on his decease, had left her a fortune of $12,000,000. Going with her mother and sister to visit a friend in Paris, she is wooed and won by a young but impecunious French marquis. After their marriage the young wife discovers the inevitable French liaison. Her husband loves and is loved by a French woman of rank, a duchess. The efforts of the wife to accommodate herself to the looser French ideas of married life, made the more intricate by the fact that her husband and his family and relatives were all Catholics, while she was Protestant—the final denouement, in which the duchess dies from the effects of pneumonia, purposely bught upon herseii with suicidal intent, when she found that life to her was no longer endurable while the man she loved was the husband of another— the almost wrecking of the married life of the principal characters, and their final reconciliation are interestingly portrayed. All this is very French, but it is somewhat relieved by intelligent discussions of the social and religious questions of the day, deftly interwoven in the thread of the story, wherein the sturdy character of the American'woman is made to contrast favorably with the loose ideas of the French aristocracy. The drift of the book is an argument against international marriages. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons.

The Days of Jeanne D’Arc. Mrs. Mary Hartwell Catherwood, widely known by her stories of French-Canadian life, has written one dealing with anew theme, though still of French life, "The Days of Jeanne D’Arc” is a story of which the Maid of Orleans is the heroine. The author has evidently made a close study or the life and times of her heroine. Her Jeanne is no military maid, but a timid, loving, tender child, devout and singleminded, possessed with the passionate devotion of her sex and creed, and fired bv love of country. She is not a mannish woman, but a thoroughly feminine one. The salvation of France, through this pure and pious girl’s faith, is the theme about which Mrs. Catherwood has woven ner romance. The reading public knows how well she can tell a story. The spirit in which she approached her task is shown oy the following from her preface: “This book is the outcome of many months of patient study and collection of material in America, the revisal and rejection of much of this in Paris, of journeys over the maid’s country, and her path from Domremy to Rouen, in voitures, on foot, in carts, of a character study of the fifteenth century, and, at the risk of moving a smile, 1 will confess It as the result of a divine hint.” There is a frontispiece engraving of a celebrated statue of Jeanne D’Arc. New York: The Century Company. In KedoP* Tents. Mr. Howells maintains that romance is not the highest style of fiction. Perhaps this Is true, for manipulation of incident and plot la not as great as portrayal of character. Yet it is no mean thing to tell the improbab'e with such skill as to make it seem probable. Anyhow, the human mind crave® a certain amount of romance,

and all novel readers relish it. It is the main element in "In Kedar's Tents,” by Henry S. Merriman. The time of the story is in the thirties of the present century, and the scenes are laid In Spain at the time of the Carilßt troubles. In the first chapters we are given a glimpse of the chartist mobs In England, and one of the leaders suddenly finds himself tn trouble for having killed a young nobleman In a riot. In order to draw suspicion from the real offender a devoted and quixotic friend of his assumes the role of scapegoat and flees to Spain. He is the hero of the story, and his hair-breadth escapes, thrilling adventures and love affairs furnish its theme. The story is highly improbable but highly romantic, and therefore highly interesting. The author has a flowing style in excellent English, and possesses in a marked' degree the art of telling a story. New York: Dodd, Mead & Cos. The American Railway. In a volume entitled "The American Railway,” Charles Scribner’s Sons have collected the series of valuable papers which originally appeared in Scribners’ Magazine on different phases of American railroads as viewed by well-known experts and authorities. The different chapters treat of the construction, development, management and equipment of railroads, freight-car service, how to feed a railway, the railway In its business relations, etc. Among the authors of the different papers are such eminent authorities as T. C. Clarke, John Bogart, M. N. Forney. Gen. E. P. Alexander, H. G. Prout, Gen. Horace Porter, Theodore Voorhoes. Benjamin Norton, Prof. Arthur T. Hadley. Hon. T. H. James. Charles Francis Adams and B. B. Adams, jr., and they form a rare galaxy of authorities on one of America’s greatest industries. Thn work is one of permanent value. The volume contains nearly 500 pages and is profusely illustrated. Judge Cooley, once chairman of the Interstatecommerce Commission, furnishes an introduction. A liutch of Short Stories. The announcement of the foimation of the Doubleday & McClure Publishing Company is immediately followed by the issuing of a number of books, showing that the business of the firm was well under way before the public was notified. Three volumes of short stories are sent out together. The first, called "Whip and Spur.” is written by Col. George E. Waring, jr., and will be best appreciated by a lover of horses. Two: or three of the tales are, in fact, "character sketches” of horses the writer owned and loved during his army service. Most of the tales are of army life, and all are very readable. "Thro’ Lattice Windows,” by Dr. W. J. Dawson, are sketches of Englisn village life, showing the homely experiences of a simple, unambitious people in a realistic way. “Five Detective Stories from the Pinkerton Archives” are narratives of a stirring sort, and include accounts of the Northampton Bank robbery, the Susquehanna express robbery, the Pollock diamond robbery, the destruction of the Renos and the American Exchange Bank robbery. A Story for Girls. Young readers will recall a good story entitled "Juan and Juanita,” which was published in the St. Nicholas. The author, Frances C. Baylor, has written another, “Miss Nina Barrow.” It is a story for girls. The heroine is a little girl of great wealth who has lost her parents and been brought up by a doting grandmother. She has had her own way In everything, and the result is that she is in a fair way of becoming spoiled. But fortunately she is placed in the hands of a loving cousin, who has excellent ideas as to the training of children, and when misfortune finally overtakes her she is enabled to bear it bravely. She proves to be a lovaole girl and wins the affection of the reader. It is a wholesome story. Published by the Century Company, New York. Hannah Ann. One of the most popular of last season’® Juveniles was "A IJttle Girl in Old New York,” by Amanda M. Douglass. This year the same author puts forwards “Hannah Ann,” a sequel to the other story. It portrays in a lively and entertaining fashion the life of a group of children in New York fifty years ago. The story is admirable in tone and altogether healthy reading for young people, being entirely free from namby-pamby sentiment and mischievous suggestions. New York: Dodd, Mead & Cos.

Last Craise of the Mohawk. As might be inferred from the title of this story by W. G. Henderson, the Mohawk was a ship. “Last Cruise of the Mohawk’’ is a story of a boy’s adventures in the navy during the war of the rebellion, and is lilled with accounts of dangerous adventures and narrow escanes such as boys love to read. The plot is clever and well worked out, and the book will doubtless find favor among young readers. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. Publishers’ Noted. The real builders of a nation are the builders of character and mind. The steady efforts of Bishop Spalding, of Peoria, in this regard deserve high praise, and still his good work goes on. His last production in this line is called "Thoughts and Theories of Life and Education,” and is announced by A. C. McClurg & co., of Chicago, for early publication. The characters of Marion Crawford’s new book, just issued by the Macmillans, are many of them old acquaintances, members of tiie Saracinesca family, and the book is connected with “Taquisara,” through Bianca Corleone’s unhappy marriage with one of the Corleone family, “the worst blood in Italy,” and also with “Pietro Ghisleri,” through the same lady. Indeed, it is because of her memory that Pietro and his English wife refuse to recognize Vittoria and her mother socially. The scene is partly laid in Rome and in Sicily. Lamson, Wolffe & Cos., Boston, announce anew historical novel entitled "A Hero in Homespun,” a tale of the loyal South, by William E. Barton. In it is set forth in a manner both accurate and graphic, the civil war as it affected the mountain region of Kentucky and Tennessee. That region, whose present conditions are already familiar through the stories of Miss Murfree and John Fox, has a past replete with interest even greater and more significant. Mr. Barton’s book is said to be not only a story of great power, but a valuable contribution also to American history. The Century Company will publish the following books in November: James Whitcomb Riley’s “Rubaiyat of Doc Sifers,” a long poem, the story of a country doctor, with fifty il’ustrations by Relyea; General Schofield s biography, "Forty-six Years in the Army;” the Hon. James Bryce's "Impressions of South Africa;” “The Story of Marie Antlonette.” by Anna L. Bicknell, who wrote “Life in the Tullleries under tha Second Empire;” “Java, the Garden of the East,” by Eliza Ruhrmah Scidmore, author of “Jinrikisha Days,” and anew volume of poems, "Songs of Liberty,” by Robert Underwood Johnson. The Macmillan Company will publish in a week or two “The Letters of Elizabeth Barret Browning,” edited with biographical additions, by Mr. F. G/Kenyon. They will (ill two volumes, and be supplied with portraits. It Is a selection from a luge mass of letters written at all periods in Mrs. Browning’s life, which Mr. Browning, after his wife’s death, reclaimed from the friends to whom they had-*been addressed or from their representatives. Ttoe ;etters passed into the possession of Mr. R. Isarrett Browning, with whose consent they are now published. Tho duties of the editor have been mainly those of selection and arrangement' but In order to complete the record It has been thought well to add connecting links of narrative, which should serve to bind the whole together into the unity of a biography. Astronomer Ournuril. Philadelphia Record. It is a curious story that of Professor E E. Barnard, who took the first peep through the Yerkes telescope night before last. I suppose that no one would hesitate to admit that he is one of the first observers in the astronomical world to-day, for, although there are greater astronomers and many of them, there are only a few great observers, and to be great among them is to be great indeed. Just recall the history of Yerkes himself and suppose him standing in the observatory which he has given, not to a city, state, nor to a nation, but to science, and suppose Professor Barnard standing beside him, and you will have a pair suggesting the wide limits in whicn American life moves. Professor Barnard was born in Nashville and was very poor. He was a bootblack in the streets, and to those who knew Southern life and have observed that these are the occupations of negroes, this indicates a low degree of poverty Indeed. He exchanged this occupation for that of glasswasher In a photographer's. Here he showed such an aptitude for optics and such Instinctive perceptions of the usea of reflected and other lights as to attract the attention of Professor Garland, who gave him a chance in the Vanderbilt University, sent him to Columbia College, from whence he came back to Nashville to occupy the chair of astronomy in the Vanderbilt University. The rest of his career is in evidence, and his discovery of the fifth Jovian satellite while at the Lick Observatory. in California, has made his. fame sot all time.