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In the expectation of the success of the Btreet-rallway deal a number of people have Shown considerable expend the money which will come from time to time to the city. The greed of those who got the money which was so largely wasted in jthe purchase of park lands Is Insatiable. The bill to create a railroad commission, [Which has received favorable action in the (House, is one of very doubtful merit. It means the making of salaries for three spen, the employment of clerks and stenographers, a headquarters in the Statehouse, costing the State or the railroads from SIO,OOO to $15,000 a year. Indiana has not Bufferedi for such officials, and the matter would riot be before the Legislature now tout for the places it makes. The water frauds which have been discovered in Havana are unique in their way and could hardly have occurred in any but a Spanish governed city. It takes long training in corruption to bring about a between city officials and thousands of citizens by which they all agree to trob the city and divide the proceeds. It is probable further investigation will show that the city government of Havana is as mveh in need of moral sewerage as the city 'ltself Is of physical. The Greenfield Republican cannot see why county officers should be fighting the bill for reform In county government since it does not reduce the salary of a single, one of them. That is true, but it places restrictions on county commissioners who have been “very kind” to county officers in many other counties besides Tippecanoe. There are many county officers in Indiana who are more Interested In maintaining a system that permits commissioners to be “very kind” to them than they are in saving money for the taxpayers. The Columbia City Mail says that the township trustees In that county (Whitley) are all right and do not need any supervision, but “In view of the bond deal recently put through in this county without the knowledge of our taxpayers,” it thinks the Jaw relating to county commissioners should toe amended. That simply means that up to the present time, as far as known, the trustees have not taken advantage of a loose and vicious system to defraud the people, while the commissioners have. The whole system is wrong. A letter alleged to have been written by Gen. Maximo Gomez to a Porto Rlean has been published, in which it is declared *hat Porto Rico “fell by diplomatic trickery from a Spanish colony to a territory conquered by Americans.” To this avowal is appended an offer of his sword to aid in securing liberty for the people of that island. Some of his friends deny that he wrote the letter, and his illness may have prevented his denial. If he did write the letter he is more emotional than he has been suspected of being. The Wabash Plain Dealer, one of the best papers now opposing the township and county bills, claims that the county papers doing Job work should have the county work. The Journal la of that opinion, assuming that the local papers will do the work at the same rates they would do similar work for private

parties. But how much of this work do they now obtain? It may be otherwise In Wabash county, but in many counties the dealers in large cities get the work at high prices. This has been the common complaint for years. All of the newspaper printing is secured to county and township papers by the bills undeT consideration. If it is otherwise with the printing of blanks and books the bills can be amended. JUDGE JEWETT'S VIEW'S. Judge Advocate General Jewett's views regarding the Philippine situation are entitled to consideration as those of one who has been in the islands for some time and had good opportunities of studying conditions. The fact that there is a coolness between General Otis and Judge Jewett and that they do not agree regarding some matters is not to the discredit of either. General Otis looks at the case from the standpoint of , a soldier and fighter and Judge Jewett from that of a lawyer and civilian. The public does not know exactly the differences between them, but, whatever they may be, they are probably duo largely to their different points of view and trained habits of thought. On one point the soldier would hardly differ from the civilian. Judge Jewett thinks that ‘‘might is the first requirement for enduring peace, and the sooner the crisis is reached the better.” It is the testimony of all who know tho Filipino character that they have more respect for force than for anything else, and w’hile they are apt to construe a temporizing or magnanimous policy as cowardice they are quick to understand the meaning of force. They have already had one or two impressive lessons on this subject from the Americans, and another demonstration or two will probably convince them that they are dealing with a people who keep force on hand and know how 7 to use it when occasion requires. The Filipinos, like the Spaniards in Cuba, respect a people who, when they have to fight, fight in earnest. In the fight before Santiago the Spaniards thought the Rough Riders disregarded all the rules of war. Richard Harding Davis writes: “ ‘When wo fired a volley,’ one of the prisoners said later, ‘instead of failing back they came forward. That is not the way to fight, to come closer at every volley.’ And so, when instead of retreating on each volley, the Rough Riders rushed at them, cheering and filling the air with wild cowboy yells, the enemy retreated upon Santiago, where he announced that he had been attacked by the entire American army. A resident of Santiago asked a Spanish soldier if those Americans fought well. ‘Well!’ he replied, ‘they tried to catch us with their hands!’ ” That is the kind of fighting the Americans are doing in the Philippines. No doubt it will be as great a revelation to the natives as it was to the Spaniards in Cuba, and they will soon yield before it. Judge Jewett thinks that the utter absence of a policy regarding the future is to blame for the present trouble. He says: Aguinaldo has had causa to doubt our good faith. He used to come to see me nearly every day, just as he went to visit General Merritt. He would ask: “What is your government going to do with us?” We could not tell him. He naturally believed us liars and cheats. He could not conceive of a powerful Nation without a fixed policy. Then he took to uttering falsehoods to the world about the American occupation.

This illustrates what the Journal has remarked before, namely, the danger of delijy in dealing with crises. If this government had taken decisive action regarding the Philippines as soon as the protocol was signed, and declared then the generous policy it is prepared to announce now, the present trouble would probably have been averted. But the President had to await the conclusion of the treaty and then the slow action of the Senate. From May 1, 1898, when Admiral Dewey destroyed the Spanish fleet, w 7 e have had control of the city and bay of Manila. From the date of the protocol, last Aug. 12, it has been evident that we would take over the islands, yet the President had no authority to declare or adopt a definite policy regarding their disposition or government. The delay, though in a measure necessary, has been disastrous in that it has given Aguinaldo time and a pretext for organizing anew insurrection. If the policy, which is now practically decided on, could have been announced four or five months ago, we would be in undisputed and peaceable possession of the Philippines to-day. No doubt Judge Jewett is right in saying that lack of a policy regarding the future is largely to blame for the present trouble in the Philippines, hut as he is equally certain that the insurrection will soon collapse and that there will not be any serious guerrilla warfare we can afford to overlook past mistakes, especially as they were unavoidable. It is evident from what Judge Jewett says that our forces in the Philippines have made an excellent impression and done good work there, and no doubt they will continue to do so. COLONEL BRYAN’S PREPOSTEROUS DEMAND. Before the President made his speech in Boston Colonel assailed the imperialism which Mr. Carnegie and the Boston mugwumps discovered in the Spanish treaty. He talked of the colonial policy of the government as if it had existence otherwise than in the imagination of Colonel Bryan and those who seem bent on misrepresenting the administration. Now that the President has made his position clear, Mr. Bryan, in his last speech, talks of a colonial policy and declares that the independence of the Filipinos should be recognized as soon as a stable government shall be established. If this were done, Colonel Bryan is certain that the Filipinos would lay down their arms and await the carrying out of this policy. He then compares the position of the Filipinos with that of the people of tho thirteen colonies, as if those people are as well prepared for selfgovernment as were the people of the American colonies, who had In a large measure controlled local affairs and knew something of what constituted good government. The mass of the Filipinos are not so well qualified to manage local governments as are the negroes of the South at the present time, yet Colonel Bryan has not protested against the disfranchisement of a majority of the voters in Mississippi, South Carolina and Louisiana within the past few years. In his Boston speech the President defined his policy in the following words: Until Congress shall direct otherwise, it will be the duty of the executive to possess and hold the Philippines, giving to the people thereof peace and beneficent government, affording them every opportunity to prosecute their lawful pursuits, encouraging them in thrift and industry, making them feel and know we are their friends, not their enemies: that their good is our aim, that their welfare is our welfare — but that neither their aspirations nor ours can be realized until our authority Is acknowledged and unquestioned. There is nothing in the foregoing to afford the basis of an assumption that it is the purpose of the President to make a colony of the Philippines, much less annex the islands to the United States. The President, unless Congress decides to the

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contrary, will first establish a stable and liberal government such as these people have never known. If the people show 7 a capacity to maintain such a government, it follows naturally that the President would pursue the same policy as has been announced In reference to Cuba—such as is assured by the McEnery resolution, which was adopted by the votes of the supporters of the President’s policy, with two or three exceptions. This does not suit Colonel Bryan. He would have the President announce that the independence of the Philippines will be recognized. What would be the effect of such an announcement upon such a man as Aguinaldo? He would regard it as an evidence of weakness on our part w 7 hich would make him so arrogant that he would demand the immediate evacuation of Manila. If Colonel Bryan's demand was made the policy of the country Dewey and Otis, with their gallant men, would be recalled at once. The American people are not in favor of such a policy. On the contrary 7 , they demand the submission of the leaders who have attacked our men and who planned the assassination of all those opposed to Aguinaldo in Manila. DEFEAT OF COCKRELL SUBSTITUTE. It is announced that the President is willing to have the bill for the reorganization of the army so amended that the regular army, after July 1, 1500, shall number 50,000 men. The present number of the standing army was fixed at 25,000 in 1872. An army of 50,000 in 1900 is not larger for the United States than was 25,000 in 1872. Considering the probable necessities of the country in July, 1900, an army of 50,000 is a small force. This proposition is said to be the one which the friends of the President will submit to the Democrats who have proposed the Cockrell bill. If this concession snail not be accepted, it is said that an extra session will be called. This proposition is not made as a party expedient, but because it will be impossible for the administration to do its work with an army such as the Cockrell amendment provides, for the reason that it requires the discharge of all volunteers as soon as Spain ratifies the treaty. When the volunteer army is mustered out every volunteer officer will go out of the service. This would leave three major generals and four brigadier generals to take charge of eighteen military departments as now constituted. The services of such useful men as Generals Lee and Wheeler will be lost. It would send liack to their positions in the regular army such volunteer brigadiers as Otis and nearly all those in command in the Philippines. Major General Lawton, about arriving at Manila, would be returned to his place in the inspection branch of the service with the rank of lieutenant colonel. Major General Wood, who has rendered such valuable service as governor of Santiago. would be relegated to his regular army position of assistant surgeon. Furthermore, the Cockrell hill makes no provision for selecting officers to command the proposed native regiments In Porto Rico and Cuba, Such are a few of the more prominent defects of the Cockrell substitute, but they are sufficient to make it clear that the measure cannot be adopted by Congress unless that body has come to a determination to abandon the work w’hich s6 many of its members desired to begin a year ago.

MONEY FOR PRIMARY* SCHOOLS. Superintendent Goss’s recommendation to the School Board that no more money should be expended on the High School and Industrial Training School “until every child In the primary grades is given a seat in a sanitary schoolhouse” is based on justice and common sense, and should by all means govern the action of the board. It would he well, of course, if funds permitted the supplying of the needs of all the schools, but since this is not the case the children of tho primary grades should he provided for first. The correctness of this proposition admits of no dispute. A large amount of money is required to support the two high schools, and there are indications that the educational system is becoming top-heavy, but whatever may be the State’s duty in regard to giving advanced education at a high cost to a comparatively small number of pupils there is no question of the necessity for supplying primary instruction to every child. Avery large majority of the children in the public schools never enter high schools. The compulsory 7 education law 7 now requires that every child between th ages of eight and fourteen shall attend school at least twelve weeks in each year, but previous to the passage of that law a very large percentage left school at the age of eleven or earlier. With the limit advanced three years the full benefit of the added time should be given them. Rooms and teachers should be furnished for the lower-grade pupils whatever the high schools may lack. The superintendent’s report shows that forty-seven additional rooms will be needed at the opening of the school year next September. It will be a scandal and disgrace if a dollar is spent unnecessarily in any other quarter before the accommodations are supplied. The city is growing and the schools must increase in proportion or endless trouble will ensue. LORD BEKESFORD AND CHINESE TRADE. Lord Beresford’s address in Chicago makes some things quite clear and leaves others in doubt. For an Englishman he talks well, and though a representative of the nobility, he handles trade questions quite like an expert. He advocated the open-door policy in China very earnestly, but did not make it quite clear what he wanted Americans to do or what he thought they ought to do. As to the natural resources of China he spoke strongly. “They are simply enormous,” he said. “They are incalculable, and the possibilities of trade of the future are limitless.” He thinks this enormous trade should be controlled by England, the United States, Germany and Japan, and that it should be done by peaceable methods and “some sort of commercial alliance or commercial understanding between those countries with regard to the future development of that trade.” Americans can easily assent to all this, but it is somewhat vague. How is it to be done without the co-operation of the Chinese government ? Lord Beresford talks about reforming the finances and reforming the government of China. How can that be done without forcible interference? He practically admits that this would be the logical result, for he says: “It is no use putting out theoretical proposals that we are to reform the finance, reform the government and do all that sort of thing unless you have the first essential in any country, an efficient military and police.” Pursuing this idea a little further, he suggests the organization of a Chinese army under the Joint command of British and American officers to maintain the open door for trade with China. “My proposition Is,” he says, “that, we should land officers and men to put this army in order as a Chinese army for

the benefit of the Chinese, for the benefit of their trade and the security of the trade of those countries that at present do trade with China, and also help the future development of trade with those countries who now 7 trade with China.” That seems to be something quite different from “a commercial understanding,” and rather too much like an entangling alliance to suit Americans. In the main Lord Beresford’s speech was a strong plea for the development of Chinese trade by the open-door policy, in which the United States should have its full share, but it seemed to imply a resort to methods which Americans are likely to regard as rather too full of dangerous possibilities. Perhaps we can get our share of Chinese trade without uniting with other powers to reform the finances and government of China and establish anew military and police in the country. A Washington dispatch to the New "York Mail and Express says that Speaker Reed declares his intention “to kill every administration measure possible,” his alleged motive being to humiliate tha President and show his own mastery over the House, The Mail and Express ranks as a truthful and careful paper, but in this case it must have been misled. Speaker Reed understands the proprieties and responsibilities of his position, and, whatever his personal feelings may be, it is not at all likely that he would make such a declaration as tiiat attributed to him at a time W’hen the American people regard support of the President as a patriotic duty. The proposal to erect anew prison in which to place homeless and wayward girls, thereby separating them from the women criminals of the State, is w 7 orthy the support of members of the Legislature. It is said by friends of the measure that a suitable building can be provided for $40,000. and if this is true there seems no good reason why the appropriation should not be made. Senator Tillman, of South Carolina, in a speech in the Senate, declared that “government by the majority is government by the consent of the governed.” As ho led in South Carolina in disfranchising the majority of the voters, he should go home and restore popular government before he talks of “the consent of the governed.” BUBBLES IN THE AIR. Woman. "Woman is a contradictory creature.” “Well, I should assent. Just when her eyes are flashing fire is when she assumes her chilliest demeanor,” Ordnanoleally Sucnking, Weary Watkins—l guess my miseries comes from never havin’ no aim in life. Hungry Higgins—Neither have I, hut I have had many a load. The Cheerful Idiot. "They say,” said the shoe clerk boarder, "that the severe cold has affected the wheat.” “I presume,” said the Cheerful Idiot, "that its ears were frostbitten.” A True Patriot. "Then you don’t like the broad a?” "Os course not, it is not only un-Amer-ican, but actually sinful.” “Get out!” “It is. Have you never heard that the righteous follow the straight and narrow a?”

REFORM IS DEMANDED. All three of the reform bills now before the Legislature should pass without a dissenting vote. —Terre Haute Mail. There has not been a single argument made by the opponents of the county and township reform bills that does not beg the question.—Rushville Graphic. The people always want to know where their money has gone, and the expenses of the courts should be published the same as the expenses of the township and county officers.—Oxford Tribune. There has been a concerted effort on the part of those interested to scatter misinformation as to the reform bills. Don’t credit anything you hear from the lobbyist and supply agent.—Fairmount News. The people of Indiana are thoroughly aroused on the subject of a reform in township and county government, and desire a reduction in the enormous amount of taxes paid for all purposes.—Greenfield Republican. If the business of Allen county were conducted on striotly business principles the white man’s burden would be much lighter than it is. No private enterprise could run for a single year if it employed the methods that prevail in administering county affairs. —Fort Wayne Gazette. Let no member of the Legislature be deceived by those of his constituents who, themselves, have been imposing on the taxpayers of their own counties. The people should be consulted, not those who have been taking advantage of the people. The reform bills should be passed in accordance with the will of the people.—Seymour Republican. It is the people of the State who demand reform in towmship and county business. The lobbyists at the Statehouse w r ho prefer the old regime or something similar do not represent the people. The latter desire to know all the channels in which their money is expended. They demand it in fact, and if unnecessary expenditures are made they will be apprised.—Fairmount News. Both the Republicans and Democrats declared for reform in county and township affairs in their state platforms. The members of the Legislature are pledged to such reform. They owe it to the people as w 7 ell as to their parties to pass the reform measures. If any of them have anything better to offer let them offer such to the Legislature in proper form.—Seymour Republican. The people of the State will not look with approval upon the move of certain county officials in the State to re-enact the fee and salary law. The matter is being pushed in the Legislature, but we do not believe that the Legislature will commit itself to such a backward movement. The people are not willing to go back to the old fee system by w'hieh the people were systematically robbed.—Columbus Republican. That some kind of reform in township methods is desirable very few fair-minded people W’iLL dispute. While a very large majority of the township trustees are capable and honest, giving to the discharge of their official duties tha same painstaking care they do to their own private affairs, it is undoubtedly true that some are dishonest and corrupt, and that’s why some kind of judicious restraint is imperatively demanded. —Angola Magnet. Why should county officers fight the county and township reform bills? The county bill does not reduce the salary of a single county officer. It does, however, reduce to a minimum the chances for either a 7 dishonest county officer or contractor to steal, and that is where the shoe pinches and affords the reason for their opposition. The law will work no hardship on honest officials, but it will prevent stealing and protect the taxpayers.—Greenfield Republican. The voters generally are interested in the proposed measures for better administration of county affairs, and they are keeping close tab on the daily proceedings. The men at Indianapolis do not seem to appreciate the undercurrent of feeling that lies below the demand for reform in this field, and are too apathetic on the question to suit the people. The simple fact is that unless some measure is adopted to secure to the taxpayer a better local system, by which his voice will be more often heard, that individual w 7 ill make a protest that will be heard more effectually. —Elkhart Review. As far as the township trustees in this county are concerned they don’t need guardians appointed to look after their business. Os course in the face of the bond deal recently put through in this county without the knowledge of our taxpayers, it would seem that as far as Whitley county is concerned there should be some wholesome law enacted to place some restraint upon the County Commissioners in the matters of making allowances and contracts, but we

don't reed any Populist legislation as far as our trustees are concerned.—Columbia City Mail. The people over the State have come to recognize as a fact that there is more of their money squandered through the trustees and commissioners than all other places put together. Therefore they are demanding that something be done. It is claimed by the advocates of the bill under consideration that it will largely remedy present evils. * * The bill may have defects. It is not so much the necessity for a perfect bill just now as it is the absolute need of a forward movement in the direction of better local government. An imperfect law can be readily improved if the base seems sound after trial. The quicker* the State legislature pases the bill the better.— Huntingburg Argus. On Thursday the Board of Commissioners of Boorte county issued an order authorizing the construction of anew courthouse. This action was taken after a large number of farmers in the county had kicked vigorously because it would increase their taxes and also for the reason that they did not deem another structure a necessity just at this time. Here is a case where a county council w-ould serve a good purpose. The taxpayers of Boone county are without doubt against this proposition, yet two men arbitrarily saddle upon them a great burden. A council composed of fifteen representative taxpayers would never be guilty of such high-handed work.—Noblesville Ledger. Whatever objections may be urged against the pending county and township reform bills, one thing is pretty generally conceded, and that is there should be a change in the present loose methods of levying the taxes and spending the people's money. There is too much autocracy and one-man power, considering the frailties of men, to secure the protection of the people's interests under the present laws. One thing the Call cannot indorse in many w ho are opposing the pending bills, is that they offer nothing as a substitute and yet they admit that there is pressing need of reform. Another very unfair way of opposing them is to charge that they were gotten up by some certain clan in favor of some city or clan of business houses. It is charged that these bills are drawn in the interest of certain supply houses at Indianapolis, when it is a notorious fact, clearly apparent to any one who has been in touch with the Legislature, that every supply house, every stationery concern and every bridge agency at Indianapolis have been lobbying earnestly and persistently against these reforms. The charge that the reform bills if they become the law will increase taxes is also preposterous. —Lafayette Call. ABOUT PEOPLE AM) THINGS. Frank Lawdon, the American whistler, has made a hit in London. What the managers think of his drawing powers is shown by the fact that he has engagements covering two years after his present contract expires. General Gomez stands about live feet seven inches in his shoes, weighs about 150 pounds, and, though seventy years of age, has been from 1805 to 1808 often in the saddle for thirty-six hours without sleep. Indeed, he xound his health better in a tent than in a house. Mrs. Fish, mother of Hamilton Fish, who was killed In the charge of the Rough Riders at Santiago, has had manufactured a large number of beautiful pearl-handled penknives, one of which she has sent to each member of her son’s regiment as a little token of remembrance. The Hawaiian school authorities, finding that a certain new history of the Hawaiian islands published in New York contained a chapter on the recent revolution, w’ritten in sympathy with President Cleveland’s order to haul down the iiag, the authorities have throw n out the book until anew chapter can be written. Perhaps by the time another year shall have rolled around stationers will take a hint from the Atchison Globe man and supply neatly engraved cards for use after Christmas, inscribed something like this: “Your lovely gift, a , received. It was just what 1 wanted. All my life I have longed for a , and you have made me happy at last.” , In making bags or cases for silverware an unbleached material should be employed. Sulphur is generally used in the bleaching processes, and it tends to blacken and tarnish silver. Rubber in any form is another thing that should never be kept near silverware. Silver is best wrapped in blue, white or pink soft tissue paper and unbleached cotton or flannel bags. The oldest Christian structure in Ireland is a remarkable building, evidently very ancient, but wonderfully well preserved, at Dingle, in County Kerry. It is popularly known as the “Oratory of Gallerus.” Who Gallerus was history does not say, but as the oratory has stood practically uninjured for more than 1,000 years he was probably one of the converts of St. Patrick. Lyman Abbott says: “I have tried to interpret my own conviction that religion consists not in believing something about God or thinking about God, but in trying to live the divine life. Religion is simply the art of living, not even the art of right living for living that is not right living is the beginning of death. Religion means for the merchant honesty, for the journalist truthfulness, for the soldier heroism, for the minister sincerity and candor.”

Positive proof has been brougfit forward to clear Miss Georgia Cayvan’s name from fho late attack made upon it. The negro valet, who alone was responsible for the story, invented the tale, as Miss Cayvan was In Europe at the time he declures she was implicated In the affair in question In New York. The wife in the case and her lavyyer have made a public and explicit declaration of their belief in Miss Cayvan’s innocence and of their own innocence in the matter of the charges against her. The stand taken by her women friends in her defense has practically forced her vindication, and is in the nature of a triumph for her. Wives of great men oft remind us That the man we think sublime May, w r hen he’s at home, be made to Tend the furnace all the time. —Chicago News. “The world’s my oyster!” in the play Doth ever sound quite natty; But Cederstrom can truly say. “My world’s an entire Patti.” —Cleveland Plain Dealer. CHEMICALLY PRESERVED BEEF. Unsuccessful Experiments Made by Scientists Years Ago. Wallace’s Farmer. Mr. George H. Eastman, of Buena Vista county, lowa, writes us, calling attention to experiments which were made thirty years ago for the preservation of fresh meats by the use of sulphurous acid gas, and asks if w T e can give any information t° the success or failure of these efforts. The subject of preserving meats fresh engaged the attention of quite a number of men at the time, among the rest Professor John Oamgee, of Ixmdon, and won the recognition of Louis Agassiz and a number of other scientific men. All the methods in vogue at that time seem to have been abandoned, and for the reason that they all damaged the meat more or less. For example, sulphurous acid becomes transformed into sulphuric acid, a rank poison. It does not, however, form in sufficient quantity to be deadly poison. Col. John N. Camp, now of Deg Moines, in the same year, 1868, adopted another method which, for the time being, promised great success. His method was to salt the meat from Texas steers taken direct from the range and arrest the process of decay by powerful antiseptics until the meat would take salt. In this way he shipped meat from Galveston to New Orleans, New' York and Liverpool, and one barrel was taken from New' York by sail to Rio Janeiro and brought back, and was edible wrhen opened on its return: proof conclusive that meat can be kept sound by that method. The difficulty he met with, however, was that grass-fed beef had such a large per cent, of water that the heavy salting which was required rendered the alhuminous portions so hard that if it was kept for a year or more it became tough and more or less indigestible. The fact that all this great activity, both on the part of scientific and practical men. about the years 18G7 and IS6B. resulted in nothing which the capital of the country was walling permanently to take hold of is the best evidence that for some reason the methods then adopted were not worthy of public support. The meat can be kept, but not in its prime condition, and for this reason cold storage has taken its place, even with all Its drawbacks, such as the expense and the certainty that It will deteriorate rapidly afteT being taken out of cold storage and placed in a hot climate. For Illinois to Look After. Springfield Republican. Several veterans of the civil war have undertaken to’build . monument over the grave of Lincoln’s mother in Spencer county. Indiana. The Lincoln monument at Springfie'd. 111., however, still shows marked evidences of neglect

RECENT PUBLICATIONS. The Cuban and Porto Rican (umpaignM. With due allowance for Richard Harding Davis's rather opinionated, know-it-all style, he was a very interesting war correspondent. He is a close observer, possesses the faculty of describing what he sees in vivid and impressive style and is fearless in stating what he believes to be the truth. Ilis series of articles contributed to Scribner’s Magazine have been expanded and published in book form under the title “The Cuban and Porto Rican Campaigns.” Mr. Davis was at Key West when war was declared and the first shot fired, and h.s narrative covers the period of the Cuban and Porto Rican campaigns from that time till the end. Os course, it is far from being a complete history of these campaigns, but as the narrative of one man. who was an eyewitness of what he describes, it is a valuable contribution to that history. As is generally known. Mr. Davis is a severe critic of General Shafter and others high in command. and he attributes the success of the operations against Santiago entirely to the dash and daring of the American private soldier and his immediate leaders, to whom he gives unstinted praise. As far as General Shafter is concerned. Mr. Davis has nothing but censure, and the boldness of his criticism suggests that things might have gone much better if Mr. I>avis had been in command. However, nothing succeeds like success, and history will probably give the commander of the expedition at least some share of credit for its brilliant success. The book has the qualities of vividness and picturesqueness, and its descriptions of the scenes and incidents of the campaign are clear and comprehensive. The illustrations, which are numerous, are reproduced from photographs taken on the ground. Charles Scribner's Sons. Saladin. To the English mind one of the most interesting of Oriental personages of ancient or modern times is that Sultan who gained renown by his campaigns against the Crusaders in Syria, who was the worthy foeman of King Richard and who furnishes a noble character in one of Sir Walter Scott’s romances, “The Talisman.” Saladin was, indeed, a very remarkable and interesting character, and a biography of him, the first that has been written in English, is a real contribution to literature. The present work, by Stanley Lane-Poole, is based or. Oriental authorities, and while in the nature of the case it cannot contain much new matter, the work of compiling and arranging has been done very intelligently. The career of Saladin embraces the fall of the kingdom of Jerusalem, and that is the real scope of the book, which reads like a romance. It closes with an interesting chapter on “Saladin in Romance." The book is published in the “Heroes of Nations” series, by G. P. Putnam's Sons. The Dreyfus Cave, It is no exaggeration to say that the action of the French War Office and government in the Dreyfus case has outraged the civilized world. The. case is remarkable for the vindictiveness with which a powerful government has persecuted an individual and the dramatic contrasts it affords of honor and baseness, of loyalty and treason, of devotion and treachery. All these are fully and clearly set forth In "The Dreyfus Case,” by F. C. Conybeare. The author has endeavored, as far as possible, to let documents and depositions speak for themselves, only explaining and connecting them by running comments, and In this way has made a very complete as well as authentic history of the case, bringing it down to a recent date. The illustrations include a facsimile of the bordereau, and portraits of Dreyfus, Esterhazy, General Mercier, General De Pellieux, Emile Zola and other prominent actors in the drama. Dodd. Mead & Cos.

Our Country’s Flag. The full title of this book is “Our Country's Flag and the Flags of Foreign Countries.” It treats of flags and banners in general, their national, historical and political significance, and of the American flag in particular. The history and evolution of the flag is clearly set forth and its meaning illustrated. Some space is given to the flags of other nations, and there is a chapter on flag signaling and salutes. The book contains noHiing that is not accessible in other works or in official papers, but the material is well compiled and arranged by Edward S. Holden. It is published by D. Appleton & Cos. In their series of “Home Reading Books for Young People.” Adventures of Cyrano de Bergerac. This is not a version of M. Rostand’s play nor yet a novel based on the play. It is a romance from the French of Louis Gallet, having the historical Cyrano for its hero. None of the incidents of Rostand’s drama are brought into the tale; Roxane does not figure iu it and Cyrano does not figure as a lover. He does take part in a series of very exciting adventures and proves himself equal to every emergency, though his unsuspicious nature causes him to be something of a football of fate and the victim in numerous instances of designing persons. It is a readable story. Translated by Hettie E. Miller and published by R. F. Fenno, New York. A Cruise Under tlie Crescent. The Orient has been pretty well traveled over and written about, yet Mr. Charles Warren Stoddard has succeeded in making a readable book on the subject. “A Cruise Under the Crescent” is a pleasant chat about scenes and incidents of travel on the familiar route through Egypt, Palestine and back along Asia Minor and the Bosphorus. Mr. Warren is an experienced and genial traveler and good narrator. There Is nothing striking in the book, but it is well written and pleasant reading. The illustrations are numerous and they fit into the text in a very pleasing way. Chicago: Rand, McNally & Cos. The Hero of Erie. Os course the hero of Erie was Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry. This life of him, by James Barnes, a popular writer concerning naval topics and heroes, is intended primarily for young people, though it can be read with interest by adults. Perry is one of the most picturesque figures in our naval history, and some of his naval exploits are unsurpassed in the naval Ijlstory of any country. This book is well written in very graphic style and without any dry details. It is an admirable book for young readers and the illustrations are excellent. D. Appleton & Cos. Mnguzine Mention. One interesting feature of the Writer, the little Boston monthly issued tor the benefit of literary workers, is a cha r giving personal information concerning tew waiters whose names appear in lea ling maguzines. An unpublished and very impc tant letter of Daniel Webster appears in the March Scribner’s, in Senator Hoar’s reminiscences. It is the last anti-slavery utterance of Webster and is dated Aug. 23, 1848, ami addressed to Hon. E. R. Hoar. Andre Castaigne, whose brilliant pictures illustrating the “Life of Alexander the Great” are now appearing in the Century Magazine, has just been created a “Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur” through the fiersonal interest and action of M. Faure, ate President of the French republic. “A contributor to a contemporary clerical journal records an interesting fact as to the literary preferences of the clergy,” says Literature, published by Harper & Bros. “The writer had occasion to inquire of many clergymen as to what classes of books they were willing to review for a periodical with which he was connected. Eleven out of fifty-seven expressed a desire for novels, and one announced that he was willing to deal with devotional literature. Six of the reverend gentlemen wished works on ’accurate theology’—whatever that may be.” The recent success of the British arms over the Mahdists in the Sudan demonstrates that even fanaticism cannot stand against drill and discipline. But in earlier days, it is easy to understand Arabs swept all before them. An ingenious tenet of Mohammed taught his followers that the hour and minute and second of death were fully ordained. Therefore the believing soldier’s self-regardless fighting was for a while invincible. Confucius, Zoroaster, Buddha, Brahma. Mohammed each of these great religious thinkers now has his followers beneath the far-flung flag of the United States. It is consequently the highest political wisdom to understand what each of our new' wards believes. The February number of the Cosmopolitan will contain the first chapter of “The Founding of an Empire.” by John Brtsben Walker. The first part gives a bird's-eye view of Mohammed and his religion. Publishers’ Notes. The “Mark Twain Story Book.” soon to be Issued by F. Tennyson Neely, will tell the story of Mark’s life in Vienna during the past three years. The book will contain

a verbatim copy of Twain's famous speech in German delivered before the Vienna Press Club. G. P. Putnam’s Sons have In preparation a volume on "The United States Naval Academy.” by Park Benjamin, of the class of 1867. Among R. H. Russell’s new books Is announced the third book in C. D. Gibson’s series of drawings. It is entitled “Sketches and Cartoons.” The same house announces anew edition of Tennyson’s “Idylls of the King,” Anthony Hope’s “Adventures of the Lady Ursula” and William Nicholson’s “London Types.” Mr. Russell issues some of the most artistic books in the world. Harper & Brothers announce for publication in February “The Letters of Robert Brovning and Elizabeth Barrett” during 1845-46. Other books from the house are “Ragged Lady,” by William Dean Howel s; “An Incident and Other Happenings,” by Sarah Barnwell Elliott; "Philip," in the biographical edition of Thackeray, and “Short Rations,” a series of sketches dealing with the everyday life of the American soldier, by Williston Fish. The Funk & Wagnalls Company (New York) announce a volume of "Anecdotes and Morals," by Louis Albert Banks, D. D. Dr. Banks has incorporated the idea that proverbs are better teachers than platitudes in his new book. Over 550 interesting anecdotes with forceful lessons have been gathered in this valuable work. They are almost entirely composed of incidents happening throughout the world within the last few months. These practical facts have been carefully selected and arranged so that they illustrate Important themes and point out clear and helpful principles. The Lipplncotts announce a story entitled “The Taming of the Jungle," by Dr. C. W. Doyle, to be published Feb. 25. Dr. Doyle, like Kipling, is a native of India, and was born at Landour, a hill station in the Himalayas, in 1552. His father was killed in the Sepoy war of 1557-5S while leading a regiment of native cavalry. Dr. Doyle (who is not to be confused with Conan Doyle) lived in India for a number of years, going to England later, whero he studied medicine and graduated with honor. For several years he has lived in the United States, where his literary work is rapidly gaining recognition. VOTING MACHINES. Their Use In National Elections Legalized by Cougress. W. E. Curtis, in Chicago Record. Both branches of Congress have passed a bill to amend the law so that voting machines may' bo used at national elections. The President will sign the bill. Voting machines have already been legalized in several States, and their successful use at tho recent election in New York and elsew'here has proved their accuracy and convenience. About six years ago the the legislature of New York passed a bill permitting the use of machines at town elections, and later it was amended to apply to all elections. Rochester was the first city to use them, and in 1896 purchased a 'Sufficient number for all its precincts under a contract which proved that they should not be paid for until they were demonstrated to be successful. Owing to a large number of mishaps the trial was unsatisfactory and the machines were returned to the manufacturers, w'ho made an assignment and closed out their business. The same year Worcester, Mass., tried the experiment with another apparatus, which was equally unsuccessful. A third invention w T as tried at Hornellsville, N. Y.. with better results, so that the complete returns were telegraphed by the Associated Press seven minutes and a half after the polls were closed. These machines. which were manufactured by the United States Company, of Jamestown, N. Y., were purchased by the city of Hornellsville, and have since been used at all elections with full satisfaction. The city of Jamestown has adopted them for every precinct, and they were used in Detroit In 1897 with equally good results. The Abbot voting machine, manufactured at Hudson. Mich., has also been used suceessfullv, hut is regarded as insufficient for long tickets. At the last November election the Standard voting maching. manufactured at Rochester, was used in that city and In Utica with success, but the patent is contested. A United States voting machine is now on exhibition at a hotel in this city. The ballots are arranged on its face, with the names of the parties in horizontal rows and the candidates of each In columns below them. A voter who wishes to vote the straight ticket pushes a large button over the name of the party to w'hieh he belongs. If he wishes to split his ticket he presses a button at the side of tho name of each candidate for whom he desires to vote. The machine is about six feet high by twelve Inches wide and ran be placed In a booth three or four feet square. The mechanism will not operate until the voter enters the booth and closses the door behind him, and his vote will not be recorded until he leaves the booth and closes the door. If he makes a mistake or changes his mind he can amend his vote by pulling out the button he has pressed and pushing in another. Like in a. cash register, little disks show the total number of voters that have entered the booth and the number of votes that have been cast for each candidate. There is an attachment which makes it impossible for any one to vote for two candidates for the same office. If he attempts to do so his vote will not be registered. On the closing of the polls the judges of election by examining the disks can ascertain at a glance the total number of votes cast and the number, for each candidate. Unless he takes time to think a voter need not occupy the booth more than a minute. The machine has been examined by a large number of people since it has been on exhibition and has attracted much interest. AT THE WOMAN'S COUNCIL. A Young Colored YVomnn IVh* the “Star” of One Session. Washington Letter in New York Tribune. It was left for a young colored woman to impress the council as it has not been impressed before during its sessions. This wai Mrs. Coralle Franklin Cook, wife of Prof. George W. Cook, of Howard University. Mrs. Cook came to the council as a fraternal delegate from the National Association of Colored Women. Her paper was on “Some Effective Methods of Missionary Work in the South.” It Is not too much to say that in voice, simple dignity and ease of manner Mrs. Cook is the peer of any woman in the council. The force of this may be appreciated when it is added that it is the general feeling among the women themselves. It was a revelation. There has been nothing finer in unconscious grace, nothing stronger than this young woman's plea for the womanhood of her race. It stirred the council to the depths of its highest, noblest feelings. There were tears in many eyes, and at the conclusion a prominent member of the council and leader in woman’s work arose and said: “I have heard nothing since I came to the council so helpful and so inspiring.” Mrs. Cook told of mission work in the South, beginning with a brief reference to the conditions of the country, especially at the time of emancipation, and paying a high tribute to the unselfishness of the missionaries who went to the South and endured so much for the elevation of the negro. The main point of the paper is to review the work of missions in the South after the civil war. Her portrayal of what these missionaries had to face and their courage in doing so is true to history. Their object is tersely epitomized by her in the following sentence: “They are to bring anew education and a new gospel to the people whom 250 years of bondage have steeped in blackest ignorance and degradation.” Mrs. Cook dealt with the different religious denominations, beginning with the; American Missionary Association as first in the field, and as first in rank as to extensiveness of operations, also giving full credit for all work to each within Us sphere. She did not confine herself to tha colored people, but reviewed the work among the whites of mountain regions, and objected to calling them "crackers,” “clayeaters” and "sand-hlllers,” approving of the more charitable name. “American highlanders.” She paid a high tribute to the tenacity of innate womanliness, as shown in the character of the negro woman, and saw the elevation of her people only through the proper training of the girl—the future home-maker. The paper called attention to the proposition that, although a generation has passed away since emancipation, so wide is the field that the work Is just begun. An Omission. Kansas City Journal. Mr. Cleveland is w riting a good many .letters these days, hut it never seems to occur to him to write one. explaining why the country is so much more prosperous under his successor than it was under him. V Theory. Philadelphia Times. That the mothers’ congress is being held at the capital may have some mystic association with the fact that Washington was tha Father of his Country. Unite So. Detroit Tribune. One thing may be said In favor of the MeKnery resolution. It’s harmless, and it will be safe to allow the children to play with It. One by One. Baltimore American. The magazines seem to have captured all the heroes except Aguin&ldo. But they will get him later.