Indianapolis Journal, Volume 49, Number 107, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 April 1899 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, MONDAY, APRIL 17, 1899.

THE DAILY JOURNAL MONDAY, APRIL 17, 1S09.

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Can found at the' follow Irj places: MEW YORK Aster House. i HICAOO Palmer House, P. O. News Co., 217 Ieartorn street. Ireat Northern Hotel and irand Pacific Hotel. CINCINNATI J. R. Hawley & Co.. VA Vine street. LOUISVILLE O. T. Derlnr. northwest corner of Third and Jefferson streets, and Louisville Book Co., 2C Fourth, avenue. 8T. LOUJ Union News Company, Union Depot. WASHINGTON. D. (V-Itlgjs House, Ebbltt House and Willard'a Hotel. Boss Croker's testimony Is Interesting:, but what he tells Is nothing compared to what he refuses to tell. Is the controlling element of the Indiana Democracy for bimetallism without naming a ratio? Who can tell? If ths New York Investigating committee could find "the. red book" In Boss Croker's case it might cau?o a sensation. There was not a calamity howl at any of the Jefferson dinners, and tt Is the first time in recent years that calamity was not the chief topic. Mr. Croker has admitted that h makes the Judges In New York who appoint the referees who send cases to his firm, out of which it gets 5,000 a year for very little work. And this is what a party Is for. Colonel Bryan, it is declared, did not deliver the speech la Milwaukee which was pent to the press. That was the old, very old speech; if the Milwaukee substitute was a new one, the public, which is weary of the old one. should see it. Following the example of Hancock county, the grand jury of Kosciusko county has returned eight indictments against ex-com-missloners and other ex-officials of the county for violations of law. This Is likely to be a bad year for crooked county officers. Thirteen noncommissioned officers in the regular army have recently been commissioned second lieutenants after passing a rigid examination. They were examined end promoted under a law passed by a Republican Congress and approved by General -ffrrlson. The Jefferson Club of St. Louis is a little late In getting Into action, but will offer a strictly new combination of curios. On the 7th Inst, it will entertain at a banquet Colonel Bryan, Senator Teller and Mayor Harrison, of Chicago. It would be Interesting to hear Senator Teller eulogizing Jefferton. The selection of Mr. Herbert Gladstone as chief whip of the Liberal party in the House of Commons brings that well-known name to the front again. Mr. Gladstone has had considerable experience and is said to be personally very popular among the members. As Liberal whip he will have a variety of Important duties to perform in looking after the interests of the party that ill make him very prominent. The comments of the German press regarding the recent trouble In Samoa are not creditable to German self-control or intelligence. They have tended to braggadocio and J in go I Em and have shown lack of acquaintance with the basic facts In the case, and especially with the provisions of the treaty f Berlin. The British and American papers have shown better temper and more Intelligence. Happily, the whole affair Is now In a fair way for satisfactory settlement, but no thanks to the German press. MSBBBBaBSISSBSBSSSSSSSSMBBSJSIllSSBBSSSSSSBMSBlBaBBSHBSSHBBBJBBBS The spirit of Thomas Jefferson was not In evidence In the Jeffersonian. oratory of last week. Jefferson was essentially an American and believed In the extension of American principles. He acquired the Louisiana territory and favored the acquisition of Cuba. Yet his pretended followers talk for a week and have not a 4word to cay in support of American policies. The great features of the present situation, features which are attracting the attention of the world, are our victories abroad and our prosperity at home the triumphal progress of American principles In war and in trade. Yet the near-sljhted and narrow-minded expounders- of bastard Jeffersonianlsm talked day after day and night after night at ten-dollar dinners and one-dollar dinners without a word to show that they take any Interest In tho honor, the progress and the glory of America. They are a scurvy lot. The Anderson Bulletin of Saturday was an anniversary edition and full of interesting reading for the people of that prosperous city. Some of the facts regarding the growth of tho city and ccunty since the discovery of natural gas have more than local interest. It appears that the value of tho taxable property of Anderson has increased from $1,110,415 in 1SS7 to S7.401.123 in 1 80S, an average of more than J500.C00 a year. It is thought the tax duplicate for 1S30 will show a property valuation of over $8,000,000. The. growth of the city in population and Its progress In improvements have been in the same proportion. Madison county, in which Anderson is situated, has doubled In population during the ten years nine natural gns was Introduced. It now produces more glass of various kinds than any other county In the United States, has two of the largest plate-glass factories in the United States, the largest file factory in the United States and makes more axes, shovel and tin-plate than any other county in the United States. These are interesting facts, and the people of Anderson and Madl.on county have every reason to bo proud of their prosperity. The report of the Interstate-commerce Commission for the fiscal year which ended June SO, 1SC8. shows that 1250,000 was appropriated for Its maintenance, of which

TTrr.fiH was expended. This is a considerable sum of money, but If It accomplished the purpose for which the law erecting the commission was Intended it would be money well spent. Such, however, is not the case. In the report the commission Fays that "the machinery for enforcing the interstatecommerce statute is fatally defective in its substantial provisions." The board can investigate and make decisions, but those decisions It cannot enforce. The commission asks for legislation which will enable It to carry into effect the design of the law. The request Is a most reasonable one, since the aim of the law Is to secure uniform rv.es to all shippers. If the next Congress cannot give the commission the power It should have to carry Into effect the designs of the law. It should be repealed. It should be repealed not only to save the annual expenditure of a quarter of a million dollars for maintenance of the commission, but that an end may be put to a pretense which the people understand to be such. The commission has brought to light many Irregularities for which there should be a remedy. It would be better for Congress to clothe the commission with power to deal witn them, but. If it cannot, let the interstate-commerce law be repealed.

RECRLITUVG ARMIES BY ENLISTMENT A London cablegram says the British War Office is finding difficulty in securing recruits for the army. "There was an outburst of military fever after the battle of Omdurman," says the dispatch, "but It was shortlived, and now the prospects are worse than before. Even the guards regiment, at higher pay, cannot find men, whilo the outlook for the cavalry, artillery and Infantry is exceedingly gloomy. Altogether, the army is being slowly depleted, the recruiting being insufficient to replace the retiring batches." This situation resembles somewhat the recent experience in this country, although as yet the United States has had no difficulty in obtaining troops. At the outbreak of the war with Spain, as everybody remembers, there were many mcro troops offered than the government needed, and It was a race among the States to get In first. As soon as the quotas were filled the popular enthusiasm slackened somewhat, and as the prospect of active service in Cuba or Porto Rico for more than a portion of the army diminished the military fever among the troops themselves subsided, though it responded again very quickly to the prospect of fighting. The war in tho Philippines has proved a new incentive to enlisting, and at the present rate there will be no trouble in recruiting the regular army to the legal limit. If circumstances should render it necessary to mako a special call for troops they would be forthcoming very quickly to any number designated. The army reorganization till authorizes the President to call into service S3.00 new volunteers. It is not known yet whether he will do so. but if he does, with a statement of the facts necessitating the call and the work the volunteers are desired to do, there will be no trouble In getting them. The American people will follow and defend tho flag wherever it is planted. The British and American armies are the only two that aro not recruited by compulsory levy. Both depend as a main reliance on voluntary enlistment, though In both countries there Is provision for conscription should volunteers be wanting. The United States has never been obliged to resort to conscription in a foreign war, and there Is no probability that it ever will. The facility with which it has raised volunteer armies, and that without any landwehr and landsturm to draw upon, as they havo in Germany, or any first and second reserves, as in England, has surprised foreign powers more than once. After our war with Mexico President Polk, in his annual message, said: One of the most, important results of the war into which we were recently forced with a neighboring nation is the demonstration it has afforded of the military strength of our country. Before the late war with Mexico European and other foreign powers entertained imperfect and erroneous views of our physical strength as a nation and of our ability to prosecute war, and especially a war waged out of our own country. They saw that our standing army on the peace establishment did not exceed 10.00 men. Accustomed themselves to maintain in peace large standing armies for the protection of thrones against their own subjects, as well as against foreign enemies, they had not conceived that it was possible for a nation without such an army, well disciplined and of long service, to wage war successfully. They held in low repute our militia, and were far from regarding them as an effective force, unless it might be for temporary defensive operations when Invaded on our own soli. The events of the late war with Mexico have not only undeceived them, but have removed erroneous impressions which prevailed to some extent even among a portion of our countrymen. That war has demonstrated that upon the breaking out of hostilities not anticipated, and for which no previous preparation had been made, a volunteer army cf citizen soldiers equal to veteran troops?, and in numbers equal to any emergency can, in a short period, be brought into the field. Unlike what would have occurred In any other country, we were under no necessity of resorting to drafts or conscriptions. On the contrary, such whs the number of volunteers who patriotically tendered their services that the chief difficulty was In making selections and determining who should bo disappointed and compelled to remain at This statement, made after a foreign war fifty years ago, fits the present situation exactly. Foreign nations have had another and even more impressive object lesson than the first of the ability of the United States to raise armies for a foreign war. There is one respect in which England's experience will differ from ours if she finds it difficult to recruit her army by voluntary enlistment. There will be no faction of snarling, unpatriotic Englishmen denouncing the policy cf the government, discouraging enlistments and hoping to God the British arms may meet disaster on foreign soil. A BRYAN DE3IO:STRATIO.N. If Colonel Bryan was made to feel that his insistence upon 16 to 1 was unpopular In Milwaukee and changed his speech upon that point, he must have been certain that the assembly in New York Saturday night wis in full accord with his platform. If he was not appreciated by the Wisconsin Democratic leaders who sat about the tables at Milwaukee, he can have no doubt of the devotion cf John Clark Ridpath, the fantastic George Fred Williams, of Massachusetts. ex-Representative Towne and the company of admirers gathered In New York, who dissented when Thomas Jefferson was declared "the most Intellectual Democrat that ever lived." With that audience Bryan has eclipsed Jefferson, Jacksun and all other great Democrats. While there was not a man of national reputation among the speakers and not one who h.td as much as a local reputation in the Democratic party 'prior to 1SL'6. each of them and all of the audience, must have impressed Colonel Bryan that he is the one great man of tho period. As to Colonel Bryan's speech. It is a repetition. It contains the same demagogic statement of putting "the dollar before the man." This seems to have taken the place of the "crown of thorns" la the Bryan

speeches. Mr. Bryan Is the one man who in ists on putting the dollar before the man when he attempts, for the benefit of the silver mine owners and the silver trust generally, to put the wages of the country on a silver basis, thus forcing all who work for salaries and wages to accept as dollars coins which In the markets of the world are worth less than 50 cents on the dollar. The Republican party puts the man before the dollar by insisting that the dollar with which he is paid for his service shall be a full value gold dollar. Therefore the repetition of that bit of cheap demagogy will deceive no man who has any intelligence. Mr. Bryan was never fair toward one who differs with him. This is illustrated in his statement in his speech to the effect that the President advocated in his message a standing army of 100.000 men. The President did not advocate such an army; on tho contrary, he said that the conditions then existing soemed to require a force of 100.000 men. That was In December. Since that time the conditions have changed so that Mr. McKinley deems an army of 2.CO0 men sufficient. Doubtless, the audience within the sound of Colonel Bryan's voice in New York believed that statement, but intelligent people who keep themselves Informed will not be deceived by that sort of misrepresentation. It may be added that "If Mr. Bryan expects to win to his 15-to-l heresy voters who were against him in 1S96 he must find a more potent argument than the dangers to the liberties of the people In an army of 100.000 men. As to trusts, the man who champions the cause of the silver mine owners by making a proposition to add 100 per cent, of water to sliver bullion values, and favors It as the leading issue of the campaign of 1WQ, is in no position to assail trusts. For ten years there has not been so eager a trust in the country as that which controls the silver mines of the United States.

CROKERISM. It did not take the Mazet committee long to strike "pay dirt" in its Investigation of the affairs of New York city. The object of the Investigation is to secure information which will enable the Legislature to provide some remedy for the manifold evils and abuses which have grown to such alarming proportions In the government of that great city. As the city government is now constituted and administered by Tammany it is a ramified system of blackmail and extortion, an organized alliance between ignorance and vice on the one hand and intelligence and corruption on the other to control the offices and plunder the people. Tammany has no other idea of politics than this. Tho American people have had so many evidences of the utter corruption and shameless methods of this infamous organization that they can hardly be surprised at any revelations in that lint. Yet the testimony of Richard Croker. the Tammany boss, is very shocking. Even Bos3 Tweed, first an ignorant chalrmaker and afterwards the head of Tammany, dictator in New York 1 politics and multi-millionaire, was not as shameless as Croker. The prosecution of Tweed resulted In his criminal conviction, a judgment against him In a civil suit for $S.5W.X his flight from the country, his surrender by Spain and his death In Lud-low-strcet jail. Tammany Is more corrupt now than It was twenty-five years ago, and Croker, If possible, a worse man than Tweed. His testimony before the committee showed an utter lack of moral sense. Time and again he declared his theory of politics to be "to the victors belong the spoils," by which he Indicated that he meant not only the spoils of office, but all the possibilities of making money out of them. He resented with quite a show of indignation the idea that there was anything wrong in that theory. "These people are my friends, and I am going to stay with them all the time." "I am working for my own pocket, all the time, the same as you are," he said to the examining attorney. He has no visible means of support except political bosslsm, yet he lives like a lord, has one of the finest racing studs in the country and is rated as a several times millionaire. Yet, on the witness stand he said, holding up his right hand: "If you can show me where I have taken a single dollar from this city, you can cut that arm off." The trouble with Croker is that he has no moral sense and regards the working of New York city politics for spoils and plunder as just and legitimate a business as working a farm for crops. It would be a great gain for American politics if the present investigation should result In the overthrow of Tammany and in supplying tho evidence for such a prosecution of Croker as that which brought about the downfall of Tweed. Crokerism, in its various aspects is a menace to republican government. Politics without conscience tends to revolution and anarchy. A weekly paper published in Massachusetts, containing a three-column article entitled, "Does the Turk Subsidize American Newspapers?" has been sent to papers over the country. This question Is asked because the press of the country will not devote itself to extolling the Armenians who have been treated harshly by the Turks. There Is nothing to be done for the Armenians In Turkey by the people or government of the United States. Turkey has a very bad government, which does not meet Its obligations to other governments. Because of the Armenians and the refusal of Turkey to pay claims for losses sustained by American missionaries in that country', some excellent people would have our war ships going to or returning from Manila bombard Constantinople. This would not help the Armenians nor would it hasten the payment of claims. Turkey is something of an outlaw among nations, and the best thing that Americans can do 13 to leave it, missionaries and all. But the Barre (Mass.) Gazette may rest assured that the Sultan, who Is hard up, has not been paying money to secure the silence of American newspapers regarding tho persecution of the Armenians, who are probably some better than the Turks. Joaquin Miller has been islting relatives In Union county, Indiana, where he was born. To the inquiry of a newspxper man ai to the place of his birth he said: "Yes, I was born in Union county, but I waa taken away from there when a very small child, and I have been shown on this visit the house where I was born. The old church in which my father and mother were married in Union county has been in ruins many y ears, but I have obtained a brick from it and shall carry It home to mother in Cali fornia." It Is a great convenience to scores of people to be able to get money orders at the postoffice during evenings. The Innovation will be very popular when people living at a distance from the office, and who are occupied during the day, understand that money orders can be obtained in the evening and that they can bo mado payable to persons In the city. An Apache Indian living in New York city testified In a local court a few days ago

that he had been married four times, each

time to a negro woman, and that he had eight sons In the United States army and six In the navy. Thus racial eccentricities lighten the white man's burden. bubbles ix the air. Poor Connotation. "Jones had the impertinence to say it would take a surgical operation to get a Joke Into my head." "Jones was wrong. It would be more of a Job for a carpenter." A DlitKnofttn. "I'll bet I am doomed to die pretty soon." "Why. what is the matter?" "Well, my doctor tells me he doesn't know. Now, If he really didn't know, or If it were something trivial, I know he would give It some kind of a name." nitKhteil Hope. She wrurrg her hands In desralr. "I know not the way to turn!" she exclaimed In anguish. In the midst of her day dream of fame. It had suddenly flashed across her mind that a song-and-dance artiste who could not do cart wheels was not good enough even for ten-twent-thlrt. Professional Amenities. "Just fancy." said the leading man, by some strange lapse straying from talk of the "profession," "fancy being a missionary and getting broiled alive!" "Really," asked the soubrctte, in the languid drawl that she hoped would star her in society drama some day, "are the benighted heathen educated up to the delights of broiled live lobster?" THE state press. It Is apparent that the next Democrats campaign is to be a repetition of previous ones in many respects. It will be a prolonged wall a persistent appeal to thf passions and prejudices of the people. Marion Chronicle. Aa the demand for labor increases at good prices general business will correspondingly Increase, for labor Is the basis of prosperity. The Republican party is the true friend of labor and knows how to bring prosperity to the country. Vevay Reveille. Shafter has earned his stars; let him wear them in peace. He seems to know hi3 business well enough not to dabble In other people's. He has not even had a row with Mil en. That fact indicates a whole volume i this stage of the game. Evansville Journal. The national anti-trust law Is a Republican statute and every attempt made to enforce it is by Republican administration. The Democratic party has been in power since that law was passed but made no attempt to improve or amend it. Kokomo Tribune. Those unpatriotic Americans who were hoping for a slaughter of Americans by Filipinos are doomed to disappointment Our boys in blue In Manila do not intend to take a Ucklr.g in order to plea. a few disloyal cranks at home. Vincennes Commercial. People with a proper regard for the rights of their neighbors, to say nothing of a desire to promote friendly relations, will keep their chickens on their own premises; and those not thus Inclined should be made to realize that laws and ordinances passed for the protection of property rights are not dead letters. Angola Magnet. Mr. Bryan's insistence that men can only got back Into tho "regular" Democratic party by subscribing to the monsenslcal Chicago platform, and that they must then take a back seat while he and Alt geld and Jones and a few others run things, is calculated to keep a great many level-headed people on the cutside, Lafayette Courier. Our esteemed friend. Col. William Jennings Bryan, declares that the Chicago platform must be upheld in the forthcoming presidential campaign and that other matters must be considered only from a secondary point of view. All of which goes to prove that the colonel Is determined to not only dig his own grave but to serve in the cafaclty of sexton at the political cemetery. lamraond Tribune. The new transfer law will serve the purpose of depleting the town schools and building up those In the country. It will be the moans of building up new school houses in every township adjoining a large town, for the reason that It will be cheaper to build houses and hire teachers than to pay the high rates of tuition. The question as to whether it will lessen the expenses of the city schools by requiring fewer teachers and less school room is yet unsettled. Peru Republican. Tlie Schoolbook Award. Terre Haute Express." "It looks very much as If politics and very nasty politics at that had had a good deal to do with the action of the State Board of Text-book Commissioners in awarding contracts yesterday. Perhaps, after all, there has been more foundation than was supposed for some of the criticisms which have been passed upon the board during the last two or three years." Indianapolis Sentinel. ' If our estec-m'd contemporary had taken the trouble to investigate more carefully beforo writing. Its questionable charge would not nave been printed. The charge has been loos2ly made on former occasions that tho State Board of Education was cwned by the Indiana Schoolbook Company, and yet in the awards made this week, while that company was a competitor it did not secure a single contract. One of the Chicago publishing houses made the mistake of supposing it was dealing with the Illinois Legislature, by employing agents and methods with which Chicago ring politicians are supposed to be familiar, but they were not successful, as that house received no favors whatever. It was a foolish blunder and very short-sighted as u policy for the house to employ as agents men who are conspicuous in politics and law, but have no connection with educational work and no knowledge of school text-books, but the State Board of Education was, not consulted as to the kind of "Influences" the Chicago publishing house should employ to secure the adoption of its book. On the other hand, members of the board evinced their independence and self-respect by refusing to adopt the books tepresented by the politician and the lobbyist, rather than by internal merit which experienced educators are able to perceive. It should be noted with satisfaction that "nasty politics" referred to by the Sentinel did not win. The board might have properlv received censure had it been guided to Its conclusions by anything but the merit of the books, ascertained by themselves in a legitimate educational way. Secretary Hay's Son. Washington Letteri Secretary Hay's son, who accompanied one of the military expeditions to Manila via Suez, made himself very useful in one instance. When the troop ship arrived at Gibraltar a number of tho soldiers detained the expedition by going on a spree and making their headquarters in the Spanish section of the town. As the United States was without treaty relations with Spain, the officers were unable to send out a posse under American military command to bring In these men. Young Hay. however, volunteered to lead such expedition, and he was successful In bringing in most of the fugitives. To his great surprise, he found that tho Spanish had fraternized with the American soldiers and united In trying to prevent their return to the ship. Young Hay was quite an athlete duzig his collegiate course, and. although the Spaniards tried to moh him and his followers, he stood his ground and brought back the men. Signs of Life. Washington Tost. We perceive by the Princeton dispatches that Mr. Cleveland is beginning to take notice of the baseball games. When a man makes Inquiries concerning the score he is not so far out of public life but what he can hear the voice of the Nation. Democratic Orators Real Mean. Omaha Bee. After reacting the speeches made at the various Jefferson'.an banquets it Is evident that some one has misrepresented Thomas. It Is really too mean to take such advantage of a man who has been dead to long. Suggestion for Spain. St. Louis Republic. Now that we are friends with Spain once more, she may give us the contract of building her new navy. She has reason to know that we build a fairly good article of war ship. ' He Is "It" In the End. St. Louis Post-Dispatch. According to Richard Croker's testimony before the Mazet committee, he is not only trie whole show in New York, but he take 1 In most of the gate receipts.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS. Life of Edwin M. Stanton. A great many sketches and personal reminiscences of Edwin M. Stanton have been written, but until receniiy no complete biography of him had been published. This is the more remarkable because he was a man of great mold and one of the most prominent figures and actors in a heroic period of our history. As Mr. Lincoln's trusted friend and adviser and secretary of war during the civil war and for three years afterward, he was almost as prominent a figure as Lincoln himself and contributed In almost an equal degree to making the history of the period. Besides bring a mnn of great qualities and great ability, Mr. Stanton possessed an interesting personality not attractive in the sense that amiable men often are. but attractive by reason of his intense Individuality. It has remained for Mr. George C. Gorham to supply the lack of a complete and adequate biography of this gteat man. The "Life and Public Services of Edwin M. Stanton" Is historical as well as biographical. Although it contains a sketch of Mr. Stanton's early life, his professional career and his general characteristics, its main purpose Is to present the record of his relation to the civil war and to indicate the place in history to which his services to the country entitle him. The story of his public career is largely, .the history of the country during the period from 1M51 to 1SC3. The chapters .relating . to Mr. Stanton's professional career and his remarkable success as a lawyer are well worth reading, but those relating his public services have a wider Interest. The author has evidently exercised Industry and research in collecting his materials, and has used them admirably, portraying in a style worthy of the subject the character and public services of one of America's greatest men and most faithful public servants. An interesting feature of the work, are fac-slmlles of many Important letters from public men of the war period never before published. The work makes two volumes of literal size and is published by Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston.

On the- Sonth African Frontier. The author of this work, Mr. William Harvey Brown, of Philadelphia, is a good traveler, a close observer and an Instructive and pleasing writer.' "On the South African Frontier" Is a narrative of his experiences and observations, partly as naturalist of an expedition sent by the United States government, in 1SS9, to the west coast of Africa, but mainly as collector, big game hunter, gold seeker, land owner, citizen and soldier during seven years' participation in the settlement and early development of Rhodesia, The book treats variedly of travel, collecting, hunting, prospecting, farming, scouting, fighting. It throws a few sidelights on pioneer life. The race problems which arise during the stage of transition from barbarism to civilization are discussed to some extent, as well as the agricultural and mineral resources of Rhodesia, and the possibilities of that region as a future field for immigration and enterprise. Before going to Africa the author had had considerable experience as a collector, naturalist, explorer and taxidermist in the Rocky mountain region of the United States, and In Africa he found a field large enough to engage all his energies and greatly widen his experience. He remained there nearly eight years, long enough to become deeply Interested in the country', which, he says, "next to the land of my nativity is dearer to me than all other parts of the earth." His descriptions of the country and gold mines, of his big game hunting adventures and of his participation In the conflict between civilization and barbarism make an unusually interesting book. The text Is aided by some excellent maps and numerous reproductions of photographs taken from nature and life. The book Is brought out in superior style by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. Strong Heart. "Strong Hearts" is the title given to a volume containing three stories by George W. Cable "The Solitary." "The Taxidermist" and "The Entomologist." The lastnamed Is long enough to have something of a plot, while the other two are sketches rather than stories. "The Solitary" is a strongly-drawn sketch of a man who, finding himself becoming a victim of drink, determined to abandon society and the world and spend the rest of his life removed from temptation. Accordingly, he goes to live alone on one of the uninhabited islets far down one of the passes between New Orleans and the sea. The story of his solitude, his struggle and his final victory and complete happiness in rural pursuits is well told. "The Taxidermist" is a story of a man who draws a big prize in the old Louisiana lotterj'. The quandary of himself and wife when they find themselves In possession of a large sum of money and their funny disposition of it furnish the theme for a very pleasant story. "The Entomologist" has more of plot and action, but had better be read. All of the stories deal with Creole characters a field in which Mr. Cable is at home. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. At the Court of Catherine tlie Great. This story of love and intrigue, by Fred WIshaw, is laid in Russia, and at the court of Catherine the Great. It purports to be told by a young German girl, who is summoned to the Russian court to become a maid of honor to the Grand Duchess Catherine. The time covered by the story includes the death of the Empress Petrovna, daughter of Peter the Great, the accession of Peter III and his early abdication in favor of his wife, who thereby becomes autocrat and Empress Catherine II. The plot of the story turns on the intrigues of this unscrupulous woman, her successful plot for the assassination of her husband and her efforts to secure, by fair means or foul, the love of a man who is already betrothed to the young maid of honor. The picture presented of court intrigues and corruption Is not an attractive one. New York: Frederick A, Stokes & Co. Rnchel. This story, by Jane H. Flnilater, one of the younger members of the Scottish school of novelists, hardly bears out the expectations based on her earlier work, but is, nevertheless, a well written tale. The hero is a nonconformist preacher or evangelist of such remarkable power that he gains a great following, but in time is overcome by the .snares of the world and the unhappines of an unsuitable marriage, loses his zeal and his ability lo draw men to him, and dies In despair. This character Is said to be based on studies of the career of Edward Irving, the man who was Thomas Carlyle's unsucce.9sful rival In love. The heroine of the story is a rather pleasing personage, and it is very skillfully ?hon how different would have, been the hero's career had he been under her restraining influence. Published by Doubleday & McClure. StcTens'i Mechanical CntCM-hlam. This technical reference book, issued by Laird & Lee, Chicago, is for the use of mechanics and engineers and contains a great amount of Information In small space. Tho steam engine Is thoroughly explained, with all its modern attachments and improvements. The traction engine and haystacker are treated In a special chapter. The manufacturing of ice, reirigerating machines, brine and direct expansion systems are treated exhaustively. Also the machine shop, the electric plant, house wiring and electric heating. The scientific principle and basis of mechanical work Is made clear in every subject, so that the practical hints and directions given are more easily grasped. Useful recipes for emergencies are scattered through the book. Many of the subjects are treated In the form of questions and answers. Each Life Unfulfilled. The main reason why the lives of the two principal characters in this story, by Anna Chapin Ray, were unfulfilled appears to be that they did not marry each other, as the reader thinks they would and almost wishes they had. But there are other reasons. It la a bright story of contemporaneous American life and an up-to-date atmosphere. The principal characters are a your.g girl studying for a musical career and a young author. Having become acquainted at a Western summer resort they meet again two years later in New York and become the best cf friends, but the girl finally marries not the hero but his cousin. In the course of the story a vivid picture is given of the debut of the singer, and of her failure. The author has a fresh, crisp style and the story is well told. Boston: Little, Brown & Co. I, Thon and the Other One. Mrs. Amelia E. Barr Is a prolific writer of stories which, without being strictly great, nevertheless maintain a high average for interest and merit. "I, Thou and the Other One" is a good story. In spite of its awkward title. It is laid In the south of England in the period when the question of parliamentary reform was agitating the country and dividing the people' Into bitterly opposing factions. "I" represents the hero

cf the story, "Thou" the girl he loved and "The Other One" another girl, whose radiant beauty fascinated him and made trouble. The division of families by political issues forms the basis of some Interesting passages in the story, and several love aftairs lend the necessary romance. It is a clean and wholesome story. New York: Dead, Mead & Co. Lone Fine. The scene of this story by R. B. Townsend is among the Pueblo Indians of New Mexico, and the period is shortly after the civil war. The hero, John Stephens, is in American prospector who is in search of a long lost sliver mine, the location of which is jealously concealed by the Indians. The story relates Stephens's experiences and adventures with them, tells how he became identified with and prominent in their affairs, and develops a pretty love romance. The story has plenty of movement of the kind pertaining to frontier life among Indians and Mexicans, and what with its abundance of incident, its spirited style and its local color, is quite an interesting story. New York: G. P. Putnam's sons. The nnuRhtem of Babylon. This collaborated novel, by Wilson Barrett and Robert I lichens, is a melodramatic story of Oriental passion and revenga. The scene is Babylon during the captivity of the Jews, and the characters are typical Israelites. The atmosphere of the story is thick with intrigues and adventures of love and Jealousy, varied with some putting out of eyes and several tragic deaths. Nevertheless, the characters and scenes seem to harmonize with the Old Testament period, and, while the time of the story is remote, its action Is swift and dramatic enough to hold the attention of the reader. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co. The Song: of the Rappahannock. This Is a volume of reminiscences or sketches of the civil war. by Ha S. Dodd, who served as a private In the Union army. The first sketch, which gives its title to the volume, is a graphic presentation of what might be called the song of battle as it impressed itself on the mind of a young soldier. The titles of the other sketches are: "The Making of a Regiment." "The Household of the Hundred Thousand." "A Little Battle," "One Young Soldier" and "Sacrifice." They are vivid and realistic war pictures and remarkably well written. New York; Dodd, Mead & Co. Merchant Prince of Cornvllle. Mr. Samuel Eberly Gross, the Chicagoan, who laid the charge of plagiarism at the door of M. Rostand, ruthor of "Cyrano de

Bergerac." has just issued the fourth edition of his work, the "Merchant Prince of Coroille." Whatever the court may decide, the author can hardly persuade the public that there is any great resemblance in this prodiuion to the Frenchman's play, but this circumstance netd not prevent the publie from reading it, and evidently has not done so. since a fourth edlvlon Is needed. Published by Rand & McNally. Crunibfl. The above title is given to a pretty little book of religious verse written by Mrs. E. G. Cornelius, of Indianapolis, and offered to the public, with the Intent, as expUIned ly the author, that the thoughts which had aided her might be of benelit to others. Ihe verses are the expression of a truii'ul and devout spirit, and their very simplicity and praylulness may make them more effective in the desired direction than more pretentious productions. The proceeds from the sale of the volume are to be used for charitable purposes. By Be r wen Bank. Allen Raine, who chooses Wales as the background for his novels, has made of this a pretty, though rather improbable, love story. A marvelous resemblance between sisters, a long siege of illness in an Australian hospital keeping the lover away and leading to an estrangement, and a number of very amiable and agreeable people make up the ingredients of the tale, which Is readable, though not absorbingly so. Published by D. Appleton & Co., paper. Mafcuzlne Mention. The Bookman will have a new cover for Its May number, designed by Will Bradley, who will also make the interior decorations and page designs. "Tlie Story of the Captains" in the May Century will mark the climax of that magazine's Spanish war series, giving, as it decs, an account by every AmtJlun commanding othcer but one of the part played by his snip in the famous fight oif Santiago, that resulted in the annihilation of Cervera's Meet. G. W. Steevens, the war correspondent whose brilliant books "With the Conquering Turk" and "With Kitchener to Khartum," put him at the head of his profession, has written his first article for an American periodical, and it will appear in Scribner's tor May under the title "The Installation of Lord Curzon as Viceroy of India." An analysis of the digits used in a guessing contest is one of the features of the Popular Science Monthly, with seven and nine in the lead, as might be" expected. There is an interesting study of the Malay language, by Prof. It. Clyde Ford, and a close analysis of dreams by Havelock Ellis among the sixteen articles and departments making the magazine. Tlie announcement Is made that Harper's Bazar will shortly begin a series of articles on the bct occupations for women. The subject is an all-important one at present, and it is certain ttiat the Bazar's discussion will be valuable and full of useful information. Another feature of the Bazar lor the spring and summer of 1SW will be an unusual number of short stories of great variety and interest. The American Illustrated Methodist Magazine 13, as its name indicates, a denominational periodical, but is not wholly given up to religious or church matters. The April Issue contains quite a variety of matter of a secular character. Among this class of contributions is one on Cuba, by Bishop Chandler, a sketch of Prof. Drummond, by a fellow-student, and a sketch or btepnen j. Foster, the American song writer. "The Positive in Religion," "A Modern Holiness Movement," "The Illustrated History of Methodism." are topics of more serious papers. The magazine, which Is edited by James W. Lee and Naphtali Luccock, and published at St. Louis, seems likely to fill a want in church periodical literature.. The American-German Review is the title oi a new monthiy magazine pf attractive appearance published in New ;York, whose purpose is to promote good feeling between the two nations by treating of their common interests, of the part taken by German-American citizens in this country, and of clearing away whatever misunderstandings may exist between Germans and Americans. Tho April number opens with a short article by Mrs. Sherwood. In which she mentions the fact that but two cities in the world have a larger German population than New York. Among other contributions Is a paper by Ludlow Browntll on "Germans Who Helped to Make the Great West." In an article entitled "American Industry Makers" names of other noted German-Americans are mentioned. "German Heroes of the Revolution," "Ship that Made Trade," and "Germany's Relations with America," are other contributions in the same line. It is hardly necessary to take this elaborate means of convincing Intelligent Americans of other descent that their German-American fellow-citizens have borne an important part in this country, for the fact is well understood and freely acknowledged, but since a slight feeling has grown up against the fatherland during the recent war the effort to establish a more amicable sentiment is commendable. In any event it is not a bad Idea thus to record the doings of Germans In America as a mere matter of history. The price of the magazine is 51 a year. Pnbllnhern Notes. Mr. Walter Camp, the well known athletic authority and writer, and Mr. Lewis S. Welch, the editor of the Yale Alumni Weekly, will issue next month through the press of L. C. Page & Co.. Iioston, a comprehensive account of Yale and Yale l'fe to be entitled "Yale, Her Campus, Class Rooms and Athletics." An English paper recently attacked Mr. Justin McCarthy for his over-friendlln?s fo America, but this Is a fault whlcn will appeal with much force to the American public. It is apparent In "The Short History of the United States" which Messrs. Herbert S. Stone & Co. have ec-'itly published, and it gives a kind of cordiality to his comments and to his central attitude. wMch is most refreshing trom an Englishman. He la a man of more than one point of view md of wide and generous sympathies. G. W. Dillingham Company announce for publication In May, "Gettysburg, Then and Now," by J. M. VandersIIce. a director and historian of the Gettysburg Memorial Association. It Is a compact history of the battle of when and how the regiments fought and the troops they encountered, giving the losses, sustained by every regiment. Union and Confederate. The work is Illustrated with 12i full page illustration of the battle

field and the handwmest monuments cf th various regiments as they btand to-lay. A Chicago letter In The Bookman tr.yn: "When a book that has enjoyed un;u?iirtcl success during the autumn and winter, commences the spring season tn quite the front rank of the best tilling book of the day, a good deal may be expeciel cf Its aalahlllty durirc the rest cf the year. Suth a book Is 'When Knighthood was In Flower which Is celling to-day better than It over did. The sale of the book i.lustrates

well the value of a good title, this having beena most important factor in its suc cess. INDIAN SCHOOLS. The National Superintendent Tells of Their Work. Chicago Inter Ocean. Miss Estelle Reel, national superintendent of Indian schools, is at the Auditorium. Miss Reel is on her way West to inspect schools in Kansas and Indian Territory. She is the first woman to hold the office tnder the commissioner of Indian affairs, tind received her appointment last tummer before her ter;n as state superintendent of schools in Wyoming had expired. Since she assumed her present duties the has been most successful in awakening an Interest in manual training. Immediately after her appointment she called an institute for the teachers of Indian schools. -The meeting was held in Colorado Springs, and Its session attracted the attention of the leading educators of the country. This year tha Institute will meet In Lo Angeles. Cal. on the same dates as the National Educational Association. "There are immense possibilities In th education of the Indian. Of course every one recognizes that fact," said Miss p.. yesterday. "Hut, after all. little is known of the actual progress the government Is making. I found myself ignorant, even though I had long been interested In th Indians. Y'ou know. I am a Western woman, and for years had been familiar with some of the tribes. "It is estimated that there are 500. 000 Indians in the United States. We have .V).(0 of school age. The government maintains about 5v schools. These are scattered over many States. The Carlisle school is best known, for It may be called the Harvard and Vassar college of the Indian. In its lists of graduates are many who have really cistinguished themselves. I am aware that it is the custom to declare that even after years of education, the Indian will return to his blanket, but statistics do not bear out this theory. "Records show that 76 ir cent of tha educated Indians make pood men and women. I wonder what the records of the white man's college would be. In this connection, too much credit cannot be given the missionaries, for they watch the Indians who are returned to their tribes from the government schools. The work dene by th Catholics is especially noteworthy, but all denominations are helping alone this line. "In addition to the large boarding school like the one in Haskell, Kan., which I shall visit next week, there pre many small day schools scattered though Indian Territory, Oklahoma Territory, Minnesota, California, and other States. "It seems to me that the redemption of the Indian lies In manual training. It should be introduced in the smallest schools. We are now teaching the girls to cook and to sew. but we hope to take up training in a dczen useful lines. It has b-en proved that the wisest policy Is to gather a large number of children from a tribe and by educating this group to provide a big leaven of civilization for the whole people. In the past two or three boys and girls were returned to a tribe. They were fitted for their old customs ani they had no power to change the savage conditions they had outgrown. It Is no wonder many became discouraged and found their only hope of contentment in forgetting all they had learned. "Do I have many strange experiences? Certainly I do; but the Indians are uniformly well behaved. They are really hospitable. Last summer I made a long tour in a agon. Fortunately, I could generally find lodging In some ranch house, although now and then I had to camp at night." Miss Reel is a youne woman of line presence. She dresses stylishly, her tailor-mad gowns and French millinery being objects of grave scrutiny among the Indian women, who are anxious to know -about the newest fpshions. The superintendent laughingly admitted that she thought a love of dress wa one of the surest elgns of civilization, "indeed, I must buy an Easter bonnet," she said, with a smile, "and it must be something quite odd. After all. a touch of vanity makes all of womankind kin." A RIPLEY PIOEHH. Recollections of n Man Who Warn Born In the Vicinity of Versailles. Rev. John Waters, In Versailles Republican. I was a pioneer citizen of Ripley county; was born and ralred tlx miles south of Versailles, on what was called Raccoon creek, ard have been In the county ever since, with the exception of about three years, when I was '.n the United States service. I belonged to the Sixty-eighth Regiment. Indiana Volunteers, Company F, and was once a prisoner. I served nearly threo y ears and was honorably discharged by reason of the war closing. I can look back to my boyhood days and remember the howling of the panther, the bounding of the deer in the Xorest and the sound of the pioneer's ax. The first public road laid out In Ripley county was the Michigan road. My underStanding was that the Indians made a donation of land on the Wabash river: that land was sold and the money appropriated to the use of building that road. The road was laid out from Lake Michigan to Madison. Mv father helped cut out about one mile of that road, about where Dabney now stands. I remember the first sehoolhouse and its fcrm. It was but for the convenience of four families, who lived about four or five miles apart. Tne house was made of round logs and waa about 14 by 16. The logs were about such as four men could handle. The door was made cf split timber and hung cn woc'k',' hinges. On the opposite side one log ws 't out the full length of the buildIng a s used as a window. Sticks were I set t .iort distance apart with leaves of o' ks pasted on them, which were grea? lth coon grease, so the light woulu shine through. The wrIMng bench was a spilt poplar log on one side, lali on pins extending from the wall. The pens vere made of goose or turkey quIlK the Ink of pokeberries and boiled hickory bark. Tho floor was dirt: the benches were made of split timbers, with dogwood poles for legs. The horse was chinked with timber and plastered with mud. The fireplace whs made full width of the building. On the Inside of the wall it was made of stone and mud. Logs were laid across the building at the proper height and the upper part of the chimney was started on the logs. It v.as made of sticks plastered with clay. Ihe large boys would carry in logs ten or twelve feet long, make n fire and sit on the ends of the logs to study their lesions. The school teacher's name was Acy MurP My father moved to Otter Creek when I was a little boy and took what was called a pre-emption richt. A man could then settle on a plee of land, build a little cabin. Improve It. and hold it, I think, three years, then enter it from the land office and pav J1.23 per acre for It. which my father did. My father made a hand mill, on which we ground our bread for about peven years. He had a small family only thirteen children. It took fifteen ears of corn at one meal for the family, and if we bed a visitor wo ground an extra ear. Neighbors would come thre or four miles to grind on the hand mill. The meal was sifted through a sieve made of buckskin, stretched over a hoop and holes punched throvgh it with a . nail or burning iron. The brend was mixed in a trav made of buckeye wood. The dough was made In large rolls and called dodgers. Sometimes thev would wrap large leaves around It. put it In the hot ashes and let It stay until cooked: then take it out and take the leaves off. It was called ash pone, and made swet bread. Sometimes the douch was prcfd on a board, set before the fire and baked. We called it Johnny cake, and it was not bad for a hungry boy. The Pennsylvania Senatorshlp. Washington Special. From an insTde source n is ieama mat Plan Is well matured for the election of exSenator J. Donald Cameron to the United Spates Senate to succeed Matthew S. Quay. The Pennsylvania Iyrtslature will adjourn Thursday of next we-k. It has been apparent for some time that Quay's chances for re-election are hopeless, but it has been In his power to prevent the election of anybody else Announcement was mad-? recently that he had decided to prevent an election at this session of the Legislature and go before the people next year for vindication. It would appear, however, that he has changed his mind and Is now willing to throw his strength to his old friend Cameron If It will result In the election of that gentleman. Mr. Cameron retired from the Senate two years ngo. weary cf public life, but he finds that kind of an existence monotonous after twenty years in the Senate, and no very great amount of persuasion was necessary to obtain his consent to the plan propoied for his return. Senator Cameron has had a number of conferences lately with Senator Quay, and thdr relations, which were at one time somewhat strained, have again become cordial. There are some Republican votes vhirh might not go to Cameron on account of his free-ilver sentiments, but he can eas ly gain enough Democratic votes to offset sny defection In the Republican ranks. There never has been a time when Cameron could not command Democratic support. In u. Croker Sense" la Better. New York Press. All these tirades of the ten-dollar Democrats agalnt trusts should bo taken In a TM ,t,lM

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