Indianapolis Journal, Volume 49, Number 191, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 July 1899 — Page 4

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All crwnaiunlcatlons Intended for publication In this paper must, in order to receive attention, be accompanied by the nam and address of the writer. Rejected manuscripts wtTl not be returned unless Fatage Is Inclosed for that purpose. THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL. Can be found at the following places: HEW YORK Astor House. MB CHICAGO Palmer House, P. O. News Co., 217 Iarborn street. Great "Northern Hotel and Grand I'artne Hotel. CINC1NNATI-J. IU Hawley & Co.. 1 Vine stret. LOUISVILLE C. T. Leering, northwest comer of Third and Jefferson streets, and Louisville Bock Co., 2Z& Fourth avenue. . BT. LOUIS Union News Company, Union Depot. WASHINGTON. D. C Rlgjs House. Ebbltt House and Wlllard's Hotel. Kentucky Republicanism would have to be very, very bad If Kentucky Democracy did not make It respectable by contrast. William Jennings Bryan would seem to be the logical candidate of a party that has an established reputation for committing fatal mistakes. Tha old copybook adage, "Many men of many minds," finds a striking Illustration In the present attitude of the grand old Democratic party. The principal business of the grand old Democratic party at present seems to be receiving itself Into Its original elements. Dome of them are highly original. An exchango names Indianapolis in the list of cities ambitious to secure; tbe national conventions of 1900 an announcement which is a startling piece of news to the people of this city. Mr., Bryan declares that he stands where he' did in 1894. If that is so he can never hope to catch up with the country at large, which has been at the double-quick while he has been marking time. That the anti-expansionists are not helping their cause by holding public meetings was demonstrated at Cincinnati, Saturday night, when only 300 persons attended a widely advertised meeting with prominent speakers. If the Democrats attempt to win next year on an anti-war platform they will antagonize Southern as well &3 Northern sentiment. For the first time since the civil war the blue and the gray are united in support of the flag. ..all The riding of two horses going In opposite directions has always been regarded as a difficult feat, but the grand old Democratic party Is getting ready to attempt the great act of riding half a dozen horses heading as many different ways. The short period of enlistment In the volunteer regiment now being raised, till June 20. 1901, shows that the government expects the Philippines to be pacified before that time. Actual hostilities there will probably end with next fall's campaign. If the insurgents hold out that ong. Practically all the trusts In the United Ctatea are organized under State laws and can only be reached by State legislation. The only great organizations of capital of a national character are the transcontinental railroads, like the Union Pacific, and the government has shown no lack of vigor In dealing with them. A senator who has been traveling through Colorado finds that while free silver Is not a dead Issue tho sentiment is not nearly as violent as it was formerly. "Whereas two or three years ago a man was a silver man first and a Republican afterwards, now Republicans are Republicans first and silver men afterwards." In other words. Colorado is gradually coming back Into the Republican column. The greatest gold producing State In the Union could not be expected to remain enslaved by the silver fallacy long. The candidacy of Mr. John R, McLean, the proprietor of the Cincinnati Enquirer, for the Democratic nomination for Governor Is tbe cause of much contention inside the party in Ohio. The county convention in Cleveland to choose delegates to the state convention went to pieces in a fight , between the McLean and anti-McLean men, the latter having a Email majority. Many leaders hold grudges against McLean, and a few like Mr. Thurman aro his sworn enemies. It seems probable, however, that he will be nominated, because he has all the workers who serve for pay and can put out a large amount of money where It is needed to secure delegations. The Chicago Tribune and other papers call upon the next National Encampment of the Grand Arrayto deal with those posts which in their resolutions regarding pen sions have expressed the sentiments of Guiteaju. For Instance, the Spring 11111 post. - in Kansas, had declared that it Is "Just and proper to Invoke a Just God to remove a President who retains IL Clay Evans as pension commissioner." This utterance is simply criminal because it expresses a Jus tlftcatlon of an act which an assassin might comraiL The department commander of Kansas is at fault that he does not annul the charter of the Spring Hill post. The commander-in-chief should call his atten tion to this case of criminal insubordlna tlou. Agulnaldo furnished the world the best evMence of his unfitness to rule a people when his guard shot General Luna as the latter- approached the headquarters of his chief. The guard shot Luna because It believed that . he w as engaged In a plot to assassinate Agulnaldo. At least this ts the statement made by Agulnaldo's friends. I low did the officer of a guard come by the information of the intended assassination if it had not been given by Agulnaldo him twlf? Would such a subordinate have dared to shoot the second in command if he had not been Instructed to do so by Agulnaldo? Impossible; the officer was acting under In

ctruction from Agulnaldo. It may be true

that Luna had plotted to asrasslnate Agulnaldo, but It Is true that Agulnaldo ordered

the assassination of Luna. And these men who resort to assassination to get rid of those whom they do not like or who are ambitious are declared by the Atkinsons and their Imitators to be capable of giving to a people a safe and free government! TWO KINDS OF DEMOCRATS. While some noisy Democratic leaders ike Mr. Bryan, who would much rather be President than right, are trying to com mit the party to the policy of opposing the government on the Philippine question, many of the more Intelligent on-s are outspoken n favor of supporting it. Whether the lat ter are actuated by motives of patriotism or of mere politics they are much wiser than the Bryanltes. Looking at the matter broadly, it is the duty of every American, rrespective of party, to stand by the gov ernment on a question of foreign policy in volving the honor of the flag. When some person Interrupted Governor Roosevelt durng one of his speeches recently with the question, "Are you In favor of holding the Philippines?" he retorted, quick as a flash, Are you In favor of withdrawing the flag before armed enemies?" That puts the case in a nutshell. To oppose the suppression of the insurrection In the Philippines is to advocate dragging the flag in the dust. No American should be willing to occupy that position, and no political party that does can win. It is bad politics as well as bad patriotism. The Bryanltes are very shortsighted in opposing the prosecution of a war which will be brought to a successful conclusion before another general election. If there were the slightest prospect or reason to believe that the American cause n the Philippines would fall there might be some political sense in opposing It, but there s no such prospect. The Bryanltes and lit tle Americans are making even a worse mis take than the Democratic party did in 1S64 when It declared the war for -the suppres sion of the rebellion a failure and demanded a cessation of hostilities. Things did look somewhat dark at that time, and as the war was sure to last beyond another general election the peace Democrats might have hoped to win on an anti-war platform. Of course they were badly mistaken, as an American peace party In time of war always la, but they were not as stupidly foolish as the Democrats of to-day who are de claring against the prosecution of a war the end of which is already in sight and which is sure to be brought to a successful conelusion before another election. By this time next year the question of suppressing the insurrection In the Philippines will have been settled, and those who are now so determined to get on the wrong side of it will be trying to get rid of their records. It took the Democratic party a long time to get over its. anti-war record of lSol-63 in fact, it never has. , It is but fair to say that a great many patriotic Democrats have no sympathy with the Bryan faction on this question. Thousands of Democrats refused to vote with their party on the peace platform of 1864, and other thousands will refuse to Join in a de mand for hauling down the flag in the Philippines. Such Democrats as Hon. W. IS. English, of this city. ex-Mayor Matthews, of Boston, St. Clair McKelway, editor of the Brooklyn Eagle, Henry Watterson, of the Louisville Courier-Journal, Colonel Denby, of the United States Philippine com mission, Hon. John Barrett, formerly United States minister to Siam, and thousands of others in all parts of the country will re fuse to follow Mr. Bryan in his opposition to the government and the flag. Captain English in a Fourth of July address in this city staid: To-day there Is but one duty before us in that relation, and that is to manfully support the President of the United States in his patriotic efforts to put down rebellion and enforce respect for the American flag and enforce obedience to the commands of the American Nation through her regularly accredited representatives. For myself. 1 do not hesitate to say that I have no sympathy with the Boston conspirators of the Atkinson ilk and their followers, who are nring upon our brave soldiers In Manila In the rear while their savage enemies are tiring uptn them in the front. Mr. McKelway, In an address delivered on Ihe same day, closed a review of the w;.l and of the situation in the Philippines by aying: To read charges that our President is do ing King George's work and that Agulnaldo Is doing Washington's work: that our government Is a tyrant and our soldiers are incendiaries and murderers and butcherp. for saving their lives and the property and the flag of our Nation from barbarous, treach-r erous and murderous enemies to read or to hear these things strains patience and kindles retaliation. Events have cast our troops, our ships and our flag wherenag ana snips una troops signify for those there exactly what they signify to us hereregulated liberty, equal law and safety through benign order; order, the first condition of all other good possible in heaven or on earth. Expansion is destiny. Destiny is duty. Duty is as inexorable in its demands as it is inciting in its calls and rewarding in its results. And duty and destiny alike comprise the purpose of Jehovah in His dealings with America and with the world. Ex-Mayor Matthews, in a patriotic address at Boston, said: The American people never yet have failed on great occasions. They will not row. They will not permit the foreign policy of the country to be determined by considerations based on selfishness or fear. They will not shirk the duties nor lose the opportunities which Providence has placed before them. They will cross the Pacific. v hen there, may they act so widely and so,Jultlv PJ.U the Preat Interests committed to their care that in alter ages the chief anniversaries to be celebrated by the regenerated and grateful populations of Oceanlca and China will be those of the battle of Manila and the Fourth of July. Gallant old General Wheeler, who helped to drive the Spaniards out of Cuba and who Is about to start for the Philippines to assist In upholding the flag there, says: "I am glad to be able to lend my aid to the government at this time, when it Is In need of support." These expressions voice the sentiments of a host of Democrats who place country above party and patriotism above polltlca When it comes to a show of hands the Bryanltes will be astonished at their number. TROUIILES OF THE IIRYANITK3. To the outsider there appears to be no cause for it, but It is asserted that Mr. Bryan's friends are not so sure of his renomination as they would like to t. The two-thirds rule adopted by an early Democratic convention to prevent the renomination of Van Buren, still holds In Democratic national conventions by precedent. It Is said the Bryanltes would like to have it set aside, since those who are secretly plotting against the renomlnatlon of Mr. Bryan could prevent It If they could obtain a few more than one-third of the delegates to stand by them. The Bryan leaders distrust the Gorman?, the Crokers, the McLeans, the Harrisons and the less conspicuous leaders who are opposed to the silver folly as a platform plank. The probable nomination of McLean for Governor by the Democratic convention In Ohio is viewed with upprehension by the Bryan leaders. It Is known In political circles that Mr. Bryan opposed McLean for the secci.d place on his ticket In 1S96. The McLean paper has ceased to advocate 16 to 1, and McLean himself knows that 18 to 1 Is a lost cause, and is not grieved. Should

McLean be nominated for Governor he will have the party machinery In his hands whether elected or defeated, and Co'ild have It In his power to make a delegation to the Democratic national convention which would not support Mr. Bryan. There is a' greater danger In Illinois. The Harrison and Altgeld factions are at each others throats. Each assails the other as a traitor to the party. By the action of Mr. Bryan's closest friends on the Democratic national committee an executive committee has been named, one of which is Mr- Altgeld. By this action the Illinois member of the national committee who Is a Harrison man, was Ignored. The organ of the national committee has an editor who assails Harrison as a traitor. When the Democratic national committee meet3 in Chicago, two weeks hence, it must decide indirectly which of the factions shall be recognized. It must continue or dismiss the editor of its organ who denounced Harrison as a traitor a week ago. The silver Democrats in New York have appointed a committee to visit the national committee and urge it to, take such action as will prevent the recognition of a delegation by the next national convention which does not Indorse 16 to L Such are a few of the conditions and doubts which are giving Mr. Bryan and his immediate supporters uneasiness. A few months ago John R. Bartlett, a New York financier and promoter, went to England to effect a consolidation of the linseed and cotton seed oil mills and refineries, which were destroying one another by competition. A London dispatch says he has completed the organization of the British oil and cake mills, limited, after making contracts with seventeen corporations and firms and purchasing twenty-eight mills and twelve oil refineries. The capital stock of the new organization is $11,250,000. The dispatch, announcing the completion of the organization, says: The new company is neither a trust nor a monopoly, but simply one of many industrial amalgamations which are formed here as readily as In America. English law sanctions such consolidations, and they receive the support of the greatest financiers, and there is no popular agitation against them. The promoters of the reorganization of the oilseed trade have been influenced by the increasing severity of competition in the purchase of supplies and the distribution of products, and have taken concerted action to secure what they consider a fair trading profit. The consolidated company will be powerful enough to control production, but the natural effect of economies in the purchase of seed, the disposal of products and the improvement of plants will be the reduction of prices to the English oil trade. Of course this Is what we call a trust, and there are many more in England, though they are generally organized there without watered stock or overcapitalization. If the tariff is the mother of trusts, as Mr. Havemeyer said, free trade seems to be their father. When Senator Tillman, of South Carolina, enters the lists he is sure to win the cap and bells. He does not exhibit himself as frequently as he did a few years ago, but recently he made a speech at home in which he declared that "the Philippine policy of the administration is dictated by the trusts as a pretext for raising a large standing army for use in the inevitable war between labor and capital when the limit of endurance has been reached." At a time when the wages of labor in all the leading Industries have been Increased "the limit of endurance" of which the senator speaks does not seem to be close at hand. If it should be It will not reach South Carolina,

where the wages of those who work on the farms are the lowest and there 1? no limit of endurance since the colored laborer has been deprived of all his rights by Tillman methods. A wealthy Canadian, now in the United States, says that Canadians are unanimous that Canada should have a Western fort. "Business is business with us," he says, "and we cannot allow ourselves to be dealt with unjustly for the sake of sentiment." No doybt Canada needs a Western port, but that is no reason why she should obtain It by stealing a strip of American territory. HI I1I1I.ES IN THE A I It. In IIIn t'a e. tit Leaat. Weary Watklr.s I wonder if that guy was right who said worry kills more people than work? Hungry Higgins I know it is a heap more liable to kill. me. The Savnjre Ruche lor. "Boys will be boys, you know," said the mild-mannered boarder, soothingly. "Yes. confound 'em, that is why I hate em so," said the Savage Bachelor, white the small boy boarder continued to use the door for a drum. Deserving Praise. "I don't see why you admire Bilworthy so. He has never done anything worth mentioning." !Nope. And he has never made any announcements about the great things he might do If he chose." j Not for Modern Application. The Missionary My friend, it is written that the wicked shall not live out half their days. The Miscreant Yes, but that was written In the days when the wicked didn't have so good a chance to make up their time .at night. THE STATE PRESS. Mr. Bryan says he stands Just where he stood three years ago. This is true, and It makes him three years further behind the times than he was then. Evansville Journal. Anti-expansion Is likely to be a dangerous plank to adopt. It is liable to be classed by the unthinking in the same category with "aid and comfort to the enemy." Kokomo Tribune. The disaster In business which the Democratic party predicted In case the Repub lican party were successful In 1S96, Is as absent as was -the promised prosperity of the last national administration of that party. ureenneia itepunncan. Congressman Landis has had a postofflce In Iowa named In his honor. Some time ago a number of Republicans from Boone county went to Iowa to settle and were recently granted a postofllce. They elected to name it after the Indiana congressman. Attica Ledger. Protection has nothing to do with trusts. further than its influence In promoting prosperity. Shall we kill prosperity in order to kill speculation? That would be suicidal. Better encourage the prosperity and get a cinch of some kind on the big combinations and trusts that Injuriously restrict raanu factures and trade. Lagrange Standard. The hosts of the Democracy are divided against themselves. Democrats are for and against expansion: Democrats are for and against silver: Democrats are for and against subsidies for a great merchant marine; Democrats are for and against a great navy; In fact. Democrats are for and against everything. What Is a Democrat. anyway? Huntington Jieraid. If good music is good for the soul. If It tempers emotion, stirs the finer feelings and elevates morals as all humanity believes It does, what difference If the vibration Is caused In the pines of an organ or on the tubes of a brass horn? It Is not the playing of bands that Is so objectionable, but the massing of humanity for purposes other than real rest and recreation that makes Sunday parades and gatherings so objec tionable. Elkhart Review. "Le Progress de 1'Est," a paper published in Nancy, France, contains, under date of June 26, a report of a banquet given In a gigantic wine cask, for the construction of

which our own townsman. Alfred Hlrt, fur

nished the material. Thi3 monster cask was ordered by the firm Fruhinsholz for the Paris Universal ExDosition. It is described as being thirty feet across, thirty feet h!sli ana or such capacity as to allow one hundred persons to banuuet within it comfort ably. Greencastle Banner. Private individuals don't object to being busted as the Republican party is busting them. Free trade fills the farmers' gran aries with 40-cent unsaleable wheat: RepuDncanifcm nearly busts them with 70-cent wheat or swells out their pocketbook with the extra 30 cents per bushel. Free trade fills the worklngman's dinner basket with wind; Republicanism nearly busts his dinner pail with good wholesome food, and so on throughout the list. We can't blame private Individuals for rather liking the way the Republican party treats them. Butler Record. A Democratic paper calls attention to labor disturbances in the country and asks if they are evidences of piosperity. There is no better evidence, unless it be that In almost every case the demands of strikers are complied with and each strike is vic torious. It must be remembered that the present strikes are not to prevent a lowering of wages, but to make possible a rise in the pay of workingmen. Laboring men Know wnen to strike and when they have hopes of gaining their points. They know that strikes do not succeed in times of depression. Shelbyville Republican. Collector D. W. Henry, of the Seventh district, to-day completed his report for the month of June and the receipts from several taxables exceed all previous collections. The different amounts are as follows: Spirits, $1.092. S37.03; export spirits. 10 cents: cigars, JT.JWl.Sjj; beer. $71,506.20; to bacco, si.uoy.Z4; special tax, 534.5S5.7i; telephone, $ 19.43; cards. 76 cents: documentary stamps. $11,673.26: proprietary stamps, $2,161.38. Total, $1,221,864.64. As shown by the above figures the collections in this dis trict are assuming vast proportions and will place this district near the head of the list as to the amount of work done and receipts collected. Terre Haute Tribune. Mr. Illff, of this city. Is deputy commis sioner for Wfayne and Union counties, and he has always taken much interest In the fram ing of all laws for the protection of game and fish and In the enforcement of them. However, Mr. Illff has always been heart and soul against the seining privilege and his attitude on this question has been wen known among his friends. He said to the Item to-day that the practice was out rageous and was simply ruthlessly destroying thousands upon thousands of game fish in Wayne county streams. In a recent let ter to Mr. Ilifr state Commissioner Sweeney says that from reports received from his deputies the seiners are not taking out many game fish. He also states that had this law not been passed the result would have been "indiscriminate seining." He says that he got the present law through as a compromise and seems to tmnk it a good one. Richmond Item. There is one industry that has made rapid Increase during the past two years in this section of the State, as shown by the receipts of the collector's office, and that Is the manufacture of spirits. There Is no tangible evidence that the home consumption of the manufactured product has increased, but the effect of the numerous distilleries is perceptible in the better market for corn. The price paid by the distillers is usually higher by 2 cents a bushel than the prices paid by shippers, and, hence, they are directly responsible for an increase of 5 to 10 per cent, of the gross amount received by the farmers for their surplus corn. In view of the enormous acreage and large crops along the lowpr Wabash this Der cent, of increase. due directly to the product which gives bus iness to the collectors omce ana revenue to the country, is large. The farmers who raise corn are to be congratulated on the growth of an Industry which is chargeable with much evil and which, of course, deserves credit for the tangible good. Terre Haute Express. CURRENT 3IAGAZINES. William Allen White, the Kansas editor, has a clever boy story in the July McClure entitled "James Sears: A Naughty Person. It is worth reading. A new serial story by Guy Boothby begins In the July number of Cassell's Magazine. It is entitled "A Maker of Nations." The number also contains several good short stories. The current Indianian deals mainly with the history of Fountain county and its people. Hon. John Tipton Is the, subject of a biographical sketch In the series on United States senators from Indiana. In the current pumber of Literature Mr. W. D. Howells discusses 'tfie question "Are' the Americans Bible " Readers?" He does not undertake to decide definitely, but is plainly of opinion that they are not. An illustrated article In the Metropolitan Magazine undertakes to describe the complicntPd movements i.f skirt or "fire" dancers. but it is not likoly that one ambitious to 1 learn this art could gain mucn miormation therefrom. The Art Amateur for July contains a beautiful color study of wisteria; also, a stork decoration for a stein. Montague Marks, Ernest Knaufft, Rhoda Holmes Nicholls, Arthur E. lilackmore; E. T. Harley and other well-known artists and writers eontrilute to the number. The August Century will be a midsummer and travel number, containing many articles of seasonable interest. Among Its contents of another character will be a brief paper by Major General Leonard Wood, military governor of the province of Santiago, setting forth "The Present Situation in Cuba," and the outlook for the future. W. H. Council!, president of the College for Negroes at Normal, Ala., -contributes a rather remarkable paper to the July Forum on "The Future of the Negro." He does not take the hopeful view entertained .by Hooker Washington, but is, on the contrary, very pessimistic and sees little prospect for the colored race in this country. His article is likely to cause discussion among his own people. Harper's Round Table for July containsamong other Interesting features an account by Brigadier General Funston, now in Manila, of a game of baseball played on the Ice in the far north by sailors from a number of arctic whaling vessels which happened to meet at Herschel island. An illustration from a photograph taken by Funston shows the players mullled in their heaviest clothing and groups of wondering natives wrapped in furs. Besides the usual chapter of literary gossip from the Lounger and Its department of book revievA the July Critic contains another chapte? of Thackeray's "Contributions to Punch," a sketch of Francisque Sarcey, a study of Sarah Bernhardt as Hamlet, a long review of Mackail's "Life of William Morrl3," a blogiaphical sketch of Edward Noyes Westcott, author of "David Harum," and a paper on "The Chances of New Writers." The Bookman for July contains a second series of Illustrations showing scenes from the Wessex novels In Thomas Hardy's country. The pictures are from photographs taken especially for the Bookman by Clive Holland, author of the accompanying sketch. The present series Is of places described In "Tess." The public likes to hear personal gossip about authors, and the editors of this magazine cater very successfully to the weakness in their bhapter of "Chronicle and Comment." Collier's Weekly for July 8 contains many features of news Interest. The front "General Orders" depicts Brigadier General Hale and his officers in the Philippines. The Baker-White-Ho ward feud in Kentucky is the subject of the special article, illustrated from photographs. The great annual racing event in France, the Grand Prix, is illustrated by photographs, one of which shows Agoncillo and the Filipino Junto at the race course. "The Final Endowment of the Stanford University" is the subject of an entertaining illustrated sketch. Among the subjects discussed in the July number of Trained Motherhood are: "What Shall Children Do In Vacation?" "The Fears of Childhood," "The Religious Training of Children." "The Baby's Name." "Baby's Bath." "Temper in Little Children." "Sum n er Suits for Little Boys." and "Children's Lies." There Is also a department entitled "The Doctor's Talk with Mothers," In which the various ailments of childhood are discussed and questions of anxious parents answered. Trained Motherhood is a very practical periodical and could not fall to be of use to any young mother, rubiisned at 13 1'ark Row. rsew iork. The first number of the Club Woman's Magazine announces that it is devoted to the advancement of woman and to the upgilding of organized efforts as represented by women's clubs. It also says that its leading features will consist of accounts of Important conventions and meetings, discussions of questions connected with club policy and club work, separate departments devoted to woman In art. literature, professions, etc.. to health and nhvsical development. to woman in politics, on the stajse and on the platform, to motherhood and all other matters of Interest to club women and tending to advance the noble purposes for which they are banded together. This first num

ber contains portraits of several very earnest and determined looking, but not strictly beautiful club ladies. The magazine is published in New York and edited by Ada Brown Talbot.

Prof. David Starr Jordan can make science as attractive as romance, and his story of "The Little Brook" and Its inhab itants, in Popular Science Monthly, Is one to hold the attention of readers old or young. Dr. Charles C. Abbott contributes to the number an interesting paper on "The Anuquuy or aian in .North America." other papers are "Scientific Method and its Application to the Bible," "Geology of the KlonaiKe uoia fields," "The Race Problem in the United States." "The Use of Acety lene," "Thoughts About Universities," "Un usual -orms in Plants." "The Colors or Flowers." "Folklore of the Allechenies" and "Origin of Ancient Hindu Astronomy." Tho special element of timeliness which characterizes the Eclectic Magazine Is Il lustrated in the July number, which opens with an animated and interesting description of "A Week in the Philippines." by Andre Bellesort. translated from the Revue des Deux Mondes. M. Bellesort's visit to the Philippines was during the Flliclno re volt against the Spaniards, and the condi tions described are at once like and unlike those now prevailing. Another timely article Is Mrs. Lecky's description of "The House In the Wood," the palace at The Hague, where the peace conference is now in session. Articles on "Ladies' Clubs" and " omen in Science" will be particularly interesting to women readers; literature is represented by a biographical and critical article on Stevenson, written by a friend ana schoolmate, by a summary of the writ ings or the -naif-forgotten novelist. Miss Ferrier. Stories, poems, sketches of travel and reminiscence, with some seasonable out door articles and "Readings from New liooks" nu out an attractive number of the magazine. The Living Age Company, dudllshers, Boston. A writer In Literature discusses the "ab senteeism" of certain American authors their way of living outside of their native country and yet claiming to be of it. This writer thinks, and very properly, that It is wrong to criticise them for this, and says that If they can find a more agreeable asso ciation and environment on tne other side of the ocean they have a right to live there, since they can, of course, do their best writing under conditions bestvsulted to them. Nor Is it right, he thinks, to question their patriotism. He concludes thus: "Therefore wo commend the absentee authors and condemn their critics, regretting, of course, that the former are temperamentally unable to enjoy life among us. We will go even so far as to say that rather than miss the writings of the best or tnem we should not object to their taking up their residences in Patagonia or at the North pole If it pleases them to do so. Wherever they may find comfort let them live. We do not want to have them irked into elvinc us dvsDeotic literature, or reouired to remain in uncongenial surround ings to the utter ruin of that love of country which, despite their choice of residence, we tirmlv believe to be Imbedded In the hearts of all of them." The Home Magazine (New York), contains an illustrated sketch of Dr. Mary Walker. One of the pictures represents that eccentric woman In her coffin. It is related that she went to the rooms of a Washington pho tographer recently and Insisted on being "taken" In a coffin. The photographer, having no burial casket on the premises, tigged up a pine box that had contained n hath tub. draDed it with portieres, and Dr. Mary solemnly stepped in and lay down. first insisting that a siunea uira ue iacru near her head. Fiowers were arranged about her, she closed her eyes and was duly photographed. When she was asked later why she wished a photograph of herself showing how she would look when dead. ?he replied. "Well, the old saying Is that no poet is great in the eyes of the world until he Is dead, and the same applies to reformers, too. People make fun of me because I do what I think is right by the women of the country, but I tell you the moment I am dead you will see all the women of this country rushing to place a great monument over my grave, and they will send fiowers and give me a big funeral at which a great host of people will be present, and I just want to know how I will look when they have laid me out In state. That s all. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. Governor Roosevelt Is one of probably a very few public men who have kept up their knowledge of other languages since leaving college. He reads a certain amount of French, German, Greek and Latin every week. Queen Victoria has no family name, her family having attained prominence before family names became common. The Prince Consort had no family name either. It Is said sometimes that he had such a name, Wettln, but the statement 1st incorrect. A friend of ex-Secretary William R. Day says of him: "His brain is a cabinet of facts. It contains, as it were, a thousand drawers, each properly labeled, so that he can get at what he wants at once. He can talk well and with authority of anything on crops, drainage, engineering, general science, law, art and literature," Candidate Goebel Is a remarkable man in many ways, and his old "Pennsylvania Dutch" ancestry crops out in his quiet bulldog pertinacity. He does not drink or smoke, he has killed his man. he is a bitter enemy to all trusts and corporations, he does not gamble and Is responsible for the law making gambling a felony In the Bourbon State. Dr. Theodore L. Flood, who for twenty years has been editor and proprietor of The Chautauquan, will next month retire from those duties. He retired from a pastorate at Meadvllle to create and manage the magazine, which has been such an admirable representative organ of one of the most popular educational movements of this country, and he deserves public congratulation tor his success in the bold undertaking. Some Interesting relics of Lord Nelson and Napoleon I were sold In London recently. A pair of shoe buckles, with gbld borders, and a left-hand glove worn by Nelson fetched twenty-six guineas and twentyeight guineas, respectively. A portrait of Napoleon, in miniature, by kabey, brought twenty guineas, and a walking stick used by him at St. Helena, bearing a deep silver band with inscriptions, formerly the property of George Augustus Sala, eight guineas. Governor Roosevelt shortened the sentence of John Howard, a convict in the Sing Sing prison, because the prisoner constructed two large pipe organs for the chapel, working two years on the job, and thus saving the State an amount of money estimated at about $5,000. The organs were finished about two weeks ago. Just as Howard's sentence expired, and he was released. The organs presented a most Imposing appearance, and were greatly admired. When it came to trying them last Sunday It transpired that they only looked like what they purported to be, and despite all the elctrlc pumps would not give torta a sound. Howard failed to leave his future address at the prison when he departed. The shades of night were all hauled down, When onwerd stumbled through the town A youth with banner upside down: "Usona!" "Oh. what Is that?" the maiden cried; "I failed to read It when I tried." "Our country's name," a voice replied, "Usona!" "Hold on." the old man said, "an tell What has th' dollar mark befell V The youth pushed on with horrid yell, "Usona!" They picked him from the -morning dew, And boxed him back to far St. Lou' While Btill through every crevice blew, "Usona!" Cleveland Plain Dealer. Keep the Month Cloned. Chicago News. A scientist advises, as a precaution against tuberculosis and several other diseases, that one keep his mouth shut and do his breathing through the nose. This preventive Is applicable not alone to ailments caused by tloating germs, for a closed mouth will prevent nearly all the mental and physical disorders that flesh is heir to. Each for Itself. Baltimore American. The International peace conference h?s demonstrated one thing very clearly, and that Is that each nation Is mdeh more concerned with taking care of Number One than with advancing the cause of abstract altruism. ; Will Not Scare Them. Chicago Post. A young woman has been made seriously ill by eating candy. Still women the naturally courageous and daring, and it is not anticipated that many of them will be frightened into giving up the habit. Mean Tlilnfra. Baltimore American. The Congress of Women has concluded its sessions. And some mean critics can be found to ask what it was all about.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS. A Double Thrend, Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler's Xew Story.

This story, written by Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler, author of "Concerning Isabel Carnaby," a tale whose wit and vivacity attracted considerable attention last year. Is equally as clean as her first effort. If fault were to be found with it It would be that the wit and vivacity are perhaps a trifle overdone. There la at times a sense of their being forced. The brilliant conversation Indulged in from time to time by the various characters does not give the impression of reality. Nevertheless, so many wise and clever things are said that they make an Impression and tempt to quotation. Of a certain self-made man It is said: "The swarming of the social1 ladder George Harland had enjoyed Immensely; the seat at the top he had found so dull that he had eventually died of It, and had repaired- to another world to begin the upward struggle over again." Speaking of those conscientious but unpleasant persons who feel it their duty to tell their friends the "plain truth." someone is made to say: "Who on earth wants to know the truth about themselves? I don't, and I never met anybody who did. So why this compulsory education should be forced upon us is more man I can say. What we want Is a muzzling order for all sincere and truth-speaklng persons: that would make the world a much better and happier place." Again, "That is one of the advantages of living In one neighborhood for some time one knows what Is funny and what is not. It takes longer to learn the jokes of a place than to become a naturalized citizen." Speaking of a certain sharp-tongued young woman it Is rerxarked: "The woman who scores' deserves til the hatred she gets. Of course it Is clever to say sharp things; but It Is generally far cleverer not to say them." Julia, an aspiring young woman. Is In conversation with an eligible man above her In station and refinement. " You will not think It so interesting when you have seen the parties,' answered Julia, not knowing that it is worse to use such a word as 'parties' than never to have read Browning. But Jack knew." It is the same Julia who "thought that when a man called a woman clever it was a sign of admiration. She had much to learn." There is Mr. Featherdew, who was unselfish and good, yet could never get any girl to dance with him. "He was wounded to the quick when all the women cut him, and he couldn't make it out. At last he discovered that he had the reputation of being so unselfish that he always danced with the ugliest girls in the room. No man could outlive such a reputation as that, so he left town." Incidentally the author moralizes thus: "Most of us in this world are playing to an audience of one; and that one's applause is the end and aim of the work we do and the things we say and the clothes we wear. When we cease to play to an audience of one, we either begin playing to the gallery as a whole, which Is cheap; or we leave off playing altogether, which is old age and the end of all things." And so It goes from page to page. In addition to the sparkling style there is a plot, an Improbable one, it Is true, but very well worked out. The book would be better If It were shorter, but as it is it will afford entertainment to many readers. Published by the Appletons. The Victory of the Will. This volume treats of spiritual realities in a simple and practical way and with much beauty of x style. The author, Victor Charbonnel, has been called the Emerson of France, and he Is evidently an admirer and student of the American philosopher as he is of other high thinkers. M. Charbonnel was originally a Catholic priest, but withdrew from the church because of what he conceived a larger and broader enlightenment, and because he could not accept the doctrine of spiritual directorship or subordinating Individual liberty and freedom of will to any human control. Thus he writes: "It has been said by the Roman Church that there is only one true friend of our mind, our will, our soul; only one able to exert a salutary influence over us; namely, our spiritual director. These men are placed over "o, in the name of God and religion; and, because of their experience, because of their reputation for spiritual wisdom, we are to give over to them the direction of our whole moral life. It is sufficient to be submissive and passive in their hands, in order that our conscience be awakened and our will Impelled, by an Infallib'e guidance towards the true path of righteousness. In one word, the directing of our conscience by another is to replace our conscience. Strange illusion! Nothing but our own ideal, however, limited, however trivial, but sincerely cherished, lias the power to lift us above ourselves, and to he!p us up the steep pathway of moral life. The councilor who speaks within us is the only one to whose voice we should listen. The true power to live comes from within, not from without." This indicates the motive of the entire work, which is that true moral value consists in dignity of conscience and that action has no moral value save as it is the development, the completion, and, as it were, the fruition of individual character. The author gets at the roots of things and makes a forceful plea for the higher life of one's own soul. The work of translation into English seems to have been well done by Emily Whitney and the author's clearness of thought and style faithfully reproduced. Boston: Little, Brown & Co. A Pictorial War History. Messrs. Harper & Brothers are Issuing a pictorial history of tbe war with Spain, which, in text and illustration, will cover the ground In a way not before attempted. It will be In thirty-two parts and will begin with the colonial history of Spain, the conquest, subjugation and extermination of the aborigines of Cuba and Porto Rico, four centuries of Spanish misrule and oppression, the early Insurrections, the ten yearc' war and the three years' war, the later vents being duly authenticated. The work will contain not only the revised and corrected graphic descriptions of the war correspondents, but also the official accounts of the admirals, commodores and commanders of the navy and of tho brigade and division commanders of the army. It will also have an account of the work done by the Red Cross Society and by patriotic women In other lines. Many of the women so engaged will contribute articles. The concluding numbers will contain the fullest possible information concerning the vast terrltdrle3 th.it have recently passed under American Influence. This material is now being secured by a large staff of special correspondents, artists and photographers, who have been for months scouring the Philippines, the Ladrones, Cuba, Porto Rico and Hawaii to glean information concerning the natural resources of the Islands, the manners, customs and habits of the people and their industrial, social and economic possibilities. All their papers will be illustrated in the most complete manner. The pictures will Include reproductions of famous historical paintings, portraits of officers and other leading gures of the war, drawings by the best atrists and photographs of people and places, taken w,here pencil and brush could not serve. The work, when complete, will be a sumptuous one. Of the thirty-two parts four will be issued at a time. Each part will contain sixteen pages and a frontispiece In colors; size of page, UVxl6 Inches. It will be printed in handsome style, and" is to be sold only by subscription at 25 cenrs a part. Idylls of the Sea. "Idylls of the Sea," by Frank T. Bullen. is something new In the way of sea books. It Is a collection of short sketches of both the common and uncommon features of life on and in the great deep, told by one who has been a common sailor as well as a ship officer. Mr. Bullen is gifted. Indeed, for it is not always given to a man to be able to see the beauties of things about him and then to write of them so vividly that the reader can see them in turn. The description of a sunrise and a sunset as seen from the "crows' nest" Is a wonderfully vivid niooa nf A pr I n t i wrltinE" rinn vHth a v.-.".''" rt w - - ...... master hand. Besides the attractively clothed Information as to the denizens of the deep and their habits Mr. Bullen gives us a fan.- hannv hit nf romancinc uine am hi principal characters such unusual beings as sharks ana wnaies. it is a Dnny do;k, wun ia irioim nf thp s.4lt-sea mrav on overv page. It is refreshing and stimulating to read, and Mr. Bullen does well to choose for his field and his subjects tne sea anc an that is in it or on it. for he knows whereof he writes, which Is more than can be said of many men who write of the land and the folks who go up and down thereon. Publishers. I. Appieton & to., rew xoric Thronffh Xatr.re to God. In this series of essay." Prof. John Fiske undertakes to show how the doctrine of evolution harmonizes with religion how the spiritual truths of existence are reached from the scientific side. His reasoning will not be accepted, of course, by those who deny the theory of evolution, at least so far as man and his soul are concerned, but they will at least be gratified that so great a

student and thinker reaches, though by a

different route, the same conclusions with themselves. Mr. Fiske shows that the three postulates of religion the quasi-human God. tne undying human soul and tne etnicai significance of the unseen world are found In all religions ani in ail manklnL He goes on to say: "The eye was developed in response to the outward existence of radiant light, the ear in response to the outward; existence of acoustic vibrations, the mother's love came in response to the Infant's needs, fidelity and honor were slowly developed as the nascent tocial life required them. Everywhere the internal adjustment has been brought about so as to harmon ize with some actually existing external xact. lie believes these postulates or religion are an adjustment of the soul to actually existing facts God, immortality and the unseen world Just as the physical and mental conditions mentioned adjusted tnemseives. Summing up he says: 'Trie lesson of evolution is that through all these weary ages the human soul has not been cherLshlng in religion a delusive phantom, but in spite of seemingly endless groping and stumbling it has been rising to the recognition of its essential kinship with the ever-livir.g God. Of all the Implications of the doctrine of evolution with- regard to man. I believe the very deepest and strongest to be that which asserts the everlasting reality of religion." The Path of the Prudent. Mr. J. S. Fletcher, author of 'The Path! of the Prudent," has chosen a unique title for his book and the same attribute of orig inality applies to the name of the heroine, who rejoices in the appellation of Dorlnthia Evadne Clementine Annwell. Dorlnthia Is a pupil in Miss Watts's Home for the Upbring ing of Prudent Maidens, where Bhe and the other pupils are examlne.-'I by a traveling phrenologist He Is greatly struck by Dorinthla's head and gTavely Informs Miss Watta that the girl is marked for a career worth) watching. He says, "with her self is everythingthe advancement of self, the Dleasuro of self, the success of self. If this girl were a man she would be a Napoleon or a Beaconsfield. Being a woman she will probably turn out Jo be an adventuress." So, when Dorlnthia begins her Journey, through life, being first brought to the reader's notice as a barmaid, after leaving tne scnooi. she begins laying plans for what is nowadays termed "a good match" matrimonially. That Dorlnthia is a diplomat 19 manifested In her being engaged to half a dozen men at once, including a baronet's son. a blacksmith and a pair of twins. But she meets a strolling theatrical manager who Induces her to have her voice cultivated and she is last brought before us as "Mile. Vera de Vere " a music hall finger In London, where she Is to marry an ean. inere is Hardly any "moral" to me siory, ana possibly the author didn't intend it to have. As an entertaining pleca of storytelling It is very good. Rollnda. The sub-title of this book is "A Tale of the MIsslsslnewa" a title which Indicates its local color and gives It an Indiana brand. Its author and publisher is Rolland Lewis Whitson, and the events which he records areof , a sort to rag iest that they were based on actual occurrences and set down with but. thin disguise of name or place. It Is a story of neighborhood hap penings In which the school teacher. "Rollnda," an Indianapolis young woman, is a leading figure. The other personages of the iaio are larmers, tneir wives ana cnuaren, and a freakish waif, a girl who belonged nowhere in particular and was iinnttrnHv and disagreable. The main purpose of tbe eiury is io portray ine cnaracier 01 toIlnda and of Rebecca Snyder, wife of one of the leading farmers of the neighborhood, and of the influence of the two in making a good woman of the waif. The author is not an adept in the use of dialect and mingles up-to-date city slang and rural phraseology in a. remnrkahlA wav. Ha haa vliiont! crowded into the pages all the curious peecnes ana incidents or scnooi ana iarm life he has ever heard of. The tale will probably find readers in the neighborhood described. Beacon Biographies. Five of the promised "Beacon Biographies" of eminent Americans, edited by M. A, De Wolfe Howe and published by Small. Maynard & Co., Boston, have made their appearance. Mr. Howe is the author of but one of these biographies, that of Phillips Brooks. Norman Hapgood writes of Dan- ' iel Webster, James Barnes of David G. Farragut. W. P. Trent of Robert E. Lee, and Edward Everett Hale of James Russell Lowell. The lives of thebe men are described In brief compass, but in a way to give not only tbe leading events of their lives, but such a view oi their personality, and character as to make It clear why they were great. The dainty little pocket volumes will be read where larger and more pretentious works would be passed by. Among the forthcoming biographic now in preparation may be mentioned those of ' John James Audubon, by John Burroughs; Edwin Booth, by Charles Townsend Copeland; John Brown, by Joseph Elgar Chamberlin; Aaron Burr, by Henry Childs Merwln: James Fenimore Cooper, by W. B. Shubrlck Clymer; Nathaniel Hawthorne, by Mrs. James T. Fields, and Eenjamin irranklin, by Lindsay Swift. A Girl of rlt. MaJ. Arthur Griffiths, the 'author of tht story, is an Inspector of British prisons and has written a number of clever detectlvo . stories. "A Girl of Grit" Is of that class. A young English captain who has lived av pretty fast life in London falls heir to an immense fortune and is immediately beset by schemes to kidnap and rob him. Tho services of detectives become necessary to rescue him from his difficulties and recover certain important papers, and the story continues on these lines to a dramatic conclusion. The girl of grit is the young woman with whom the heir is In love, and she also proves herself a good detective. It Is a spirited story and has an air of mystery and realism that holds the attention. New York: R. F. Fenno & Co. The Dreyfns Story This Is a little volume of seventy pages, prepared by Richard W'. Hale, a BostoU lawyer, for the benefit of those who havo not been able to follow this celebrated caso In the newspapers, but who would be glad to have a knowledge of It. if they could do so without too much effort. Mr. Hale telli the story in a very simple and straightforward way, and his purpose is to enable tho reader to lay down the book and tay, "I think I understand now what it is all about," In this purpose he has undoubtedly succeeded, and has conferred a favor on students of current events. Published by Small, Maynard & Co., Boston. A Village Ophelia. This volume, containing five short stories1 by Anne Reeve Aid rich, bears the titlo of the first one. In "A Village Ophelia" the author shows how the average character Is molded largely by the events with which it comes in contact and how a wish may come to seem a reality to a simple-minded person of morbid tendencies and supersensitive nature. 'A Story of the ero lo Vere" tells how an innocent little country girl who went to a city to live became the means of reclaiming a fallen woman. It is a sad realistic story and Eklllfuily told. The other stories are clever and well written, New York: G. W. Dillingham Company. , Publishers' Notes. The Chelsea Company, 5 and 7 East Sixteenth street. New York, have issued a new and revised edition of Mr. J. L. Ford's clever and amusing "Literary Shop." Several new chapters have been added. The Werner Company, of Akron. O., Is about to publish a book entitled "Tho United States Army and Navy." being their history from the era of the revolution to the close of the Spanish-American war The success of "The Market Place." Harold Frederic's last work, has proved very gratifying to ids publishers, the Frederick A. Stokes Company. It has been published but a brief time, but is in Its third large edition and its sales have reached nearly twenty thousand. There will be issued about Aug. 1 a little book deigned to answer all the chief questions ct the hour In regard to our navy and to -ea power." This is "A Pocket History of tie American Navy and Naval Commander! ," published by Bonnell. Silver Sc Co., New York, and compiled and arranged by Cromwell Childe. Noting the welcome accorded to "Don't Worry Nuggets" (extracts from Eplctetus. Emerson, George Eliot anj Browning) last fall. Its publishers. Fords. Howard Hulbert. Nw York, will Issue a series of similar pocket volumes containing "bits of ore from rich mines." They ill include "patriotic." "educational" and "philosophic" nuggets. Mr. Madison Caweln has collected a volume of new poems under the title "Myth and Romance," which will be Issued by . P. Putnam's Sons. This is what Mr. Howells has said in Literature about Mr. Cawein's work: "I should like to praise the poetry of Madison Caweln. of Ke.ucky, which Is as remote as Greece from te actual everyday life cf bis region, as remote from it