Indianapolis Journal, Volume 49, Number 280, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 October 1899 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS .JOURNAL, .SATURDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1899.

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In order to receive attention, be accompanied by the name and address of the rltr Rejected manuscripts will not be returned unlets pcatage Is inclosed for that purpose. . THE INDIAN ATOLIS JOURNAL . Can be f.-und at the following places: KEW YOf'K Astor House. CHICAGO-rJiImer House, P. O. News Co., 217 Dearborn street. Great Northern Hotel and Grand I'actrtc Hotel. CINCINNATI-J. It. Hawlej &. Co., 151 Vine street. .LOUISVILLE C. T. Deertn. northwest corner of Third and Jefferson streets, and Louisville Rook Co., 2i Fourth avenue. ST. LOUIS Union News Company, Union Depot. WASHINGTON. D. C.-R!ffjs House, Ebbltt House and WUlard's Hotel. For a man who "thrice refused the crown" Mayor Taggart shows an amazing desire to wear It again. In every respect, from head to foot. In all the wards the Republican ticket Is superior to the Taggart ticket. The Massachusetts Republican platform has the right ring. It is as sound as a dollar In every feature, and a sold dollar at that If It la Inconsistent for a man who voted for Mr. Taggart two yeare ago to vote against him how, that sort of Inconsistency will break the record next Tuesday. " The only way to beat Mr. Taggart Is to vote for Mr. Bookwalter. A vote for any other candidate is what the venerable exSecretary Evarts once characterized as 'voting In the air." "Very respectfully, T. Taggart," is appended to a personal letter which the Democratic candidate is mailing to voters solic--Ring their support. This Is the last resort of frightened candidates. A Democratic campaign circular under the heading "Where Tour Money Goes" omits ,to state that a large part of It went into park lands purchased of Mr. Taggart's personal friends at exorbitant prices. The talk of Queen Victoria's "intervening to prevent war" or of her abdicating in the event of the outbreak of hostilities is supremely silly. She can control events without resorting to any sensational method. 4 That the' Illinois Federation of Labor, in convention at Danville, struck out the 16 to 1 clause In Its constitution shows that some of the earliest advocates of free" coinage regard It either as a dead issue or an economic mistake. To hire a voter to go away election day, even on an excursion to Chicago, is a violation of the statutes of Indiana. This remark is made in reference to the announced scheme of Mr. Taggart's managers to offer free tickets to colored voters to go to Chicago the day of the election. In the Taggart campaign the two hundred kegs of beer contributed by an Ohio brewery would not have supplied the thirsty who follow the mayor's meetings one night, but le lng "scab" beer, that quantity would have shattered the Taggart campaign had not the discovery of Its irregularity been made In season to call in the tickets. A lot of prime cattle brought $7 per hundredweight yesterday on the market in this city, which is said to be the highest price ever paid for cattle since stockyards were UlTUtli ltd v. A ih skj uic liiur n wen liic farmer who has a bunch of steers to sell can get about 0 per cent, more for them than he could four or live years ago. In declining to make any speeches in Ohio, where a political campaign is pending. President McKinley showed good -taste and good Judgment. A President should avoid even the appearance of taking part In u state election, and if Mr. McKinley had spoken In hU own State the Democrats would have said it was because he was afraid it was going against him. If Mr. Taggart wishes to demonstrate the popularity of his administration let him publish a complete statement of the campaign assessments levied and collected from all the city employes from the members of his boards to policemen. Of course they are "all honorable men." and the payments "were made cheerfully, but the public would ? like-to know Just how anxious a reform administration is for the re-election of a reform mayor. If public office Is a public trust, a public official who prostitutes it In any respect to party or personal ends violates his oath or office and is unworthy of confidence. No matter how unimportant the violation may seem to be, if It Is a deliberate violation it should work a complete forfeiture of public confidence. False In one respect, false In all. Is a maxim of law, and faithless In one 'respect, faithless In all, should be the rule In politics. Mr. Taggart has deliberately and defiantly violated the charter In some respects and prostituted the office he now holds to the advancement of party and personal ends. Ho may not have done this in every official transaction, but the fact that he has den? It in some makes him unworthy of public confidence. Any untried man is safer than one who has been tried and found wanting. , ; Mr. Taggart can b beaten. His plurality was 3,$11 In 17, or an average plurality of 13'i votes to a precinct. An average Increase of 20 Republican votes to a precinct, leaving Mr. Taggart's vote the same as In 1837, would defeat the mayor. To increase the Republican vote 10 in each precinct und cut Mr. Taggart's vote as many would defeat the latter. Rut about l,Sc Republicans, In the attempt to better their tickets or by carelessness In marking, had their ballots thrown out in 1S37. If these men will be careful they can reduce Mr. Taggart's lead of JW7 at least 1.0C0 votes. Irr that event the plurality to be overcome will be 2.S00. If the Republicans Increase their vote an av

erage of 13 to a precinct, and Mr. Taggart's remains the same, he-will be beaten on th face of the returns. If the Taggart vote Is reduced an average of fc votes a precinct, and the Republican vote Is Increased that number, he will be beaten. There are precincts which will show a Republlran gain of 50 votes. In fact, if the strong Republican precincts do their duty, as they did last fall, they will beat Mr. Taggart and elect Mr. Rookwalter.

Mil. TAGGART SHOULD I1H BEATEN. Two years ago about a thousand Republicans and all the independents voted for Mr. Taggart on the ground that he was a good enough mayor. More than a thousand Republicans did not vote at all. It is different this year. Up to the election of 1S97 Mr. Taggart, desiring re-election, held himself in check. None of the scandals which disclosed the efforts made to attach to the original park system lands belonging to the mayor were credited. The purchase of the present park site from his Democratic friends at twice its market value was hot even proposed at the time Mr. Taggart was re-elected. These matters' are now well understood, and, because they are, few If any Republicans or Independents will vote for Mr. Taggart on Tuesday who so voted two years ago, while Republicans who did not vote In 1S37 will vote the Bookwalter ticket this year. There are ample reasons for this change of sentiment. During his administration Mayor Taggart has caused the bonded debt of the city proper to be Increased $340,000. for which he has nothing to show but a police station and a few hundred acres of land for which he paid his Democratic friends more than twice as much as it could be sold for to-day. He purchased this land without resorting to the provision of law giving him full power to compel the owners to accept a fair price. He sacrificed the city to a few rich friends'. He had not done this two years ago and he would not have done it the past year had he expected at that time to be a candidate for a third term. Another reason for voting against Mr. Taggart is that the current city expenditures have increased from $4.71 per capita In 1835 to $6.92 in 1S08. The current expenditures In 1S9S were $151,000 In excess of those of the last year of Mayor Denny an x increase of almost 24 per cent. There Is little to show for this increase. Another reason for voting against the mayor is that he Is to Indianapolis what Boss Croker is to New York the whole thing. Thomas Taggart is the government of Indianapolis. The Council, which should be independent, is his; the boards do his bidding, and the power he has assumed he uses for himself and a few friends. The mayor himself, however, furnishes the best reason why he should be beaten. He has been In the canvass six weeks. To promote his election he has In the past two months spent $5,000 upon an increase of expenses of the street gang. He has made forty speeches and although his attention has been frequently called to the park purChase transaction he has made no answer, which Is an admission of all the charges made against him In that connection. People believe that it was a deal In which the city had no representation, and they believe it because of the mayor's conduct. Another reason for voting against Mr. Taggart which he furnishes is his trivial conduct in trying to make gas meters an Issue when he knows, and every Intelligent man knows, that there Is not the least danger that such an ordinance can be passed. He has talked of little else, showing that he dare not attempt to refute the charges against him. For these and many other reasons Mr. . Taggart should be beaten. PRESIDENT M'KINLEY AS MEDIATOR. There seems to be quite a movement on foot In the East to induce President McKinley to offer his friendly services as mediator between England and the Transvaal. A dispatch from New York says a petition to this effect has been signed by a large number of persons, including federal Judges. Governors of States, presiding officers of State Legislatures, senators and representatives In Congress, eminent ecclesiastical dignitaries and other prominent citizens. An effort to secure approval of the movement from abroad elicited some interesting replies. The secretary of the Orange Free State, which is making common cause with the Transvaal, cabled for his government acknowledging American sympathy and staMng that the President would welcome the mediation of the United States. Premier JtVhriener. of the British South African colony of Cape Colony, cabled his cordial indorsement of the movement for mediation. From this it appears that the Orange Free State and Cape Colony would welcome mediation. No direct message has been received from the Transvaal government, .but as It has proposed arbitration it would doubtless favor mediation. The fact that within a few days a well-known American citizen. Gen. James R. O'Beirne. of New York, ha? been appointed by President Kruger commissioner extraordinary to the United States suggests that very likely he may be empowered to act in this matter, or at least to express the views of the Transvaal government in regard to mediation. The expressions from England are few and guarded. As far as known there is none from any person In public life. The Archbishop of Canterbury, primate of all England and first peer of the realm, ranking next to royalty, cables that "The Archbishop of Canterbury has no claim to represent the public opinion of England, but it Is clear that Englishmen feel strongly that the ultlanders are Ill-treated and It Is our duty to protect them." This 19 guarded and noncommittal, with an Intimation thatvBritlsh blood is up. The Archbishop of York, the next highest prelate of the English Church, cabled: "While earnestly desiring to avoid the horrors of war, I do not feel myself qualified to express an opinion as to whether mediation by the United States would be generally acceptable In England." This also Is guarded. Archbishop Croke, of Ireland, would "avert war by all honorable means," while Cardinal Logue, of Ireland, says while he is most anxious for peace he cannot say whether mediation would be acceptable to England or not. From all this it appears that a pretty strong pressure will be brought to bear on the President to Induce him to offer his friendly serviced a mediator and the matter may be presented to him In such a way as to challenge, if not some action, at least an answer. No doubt the South African republics would welcome the mediation of any disinterested ruler, as would peace-loving IeopIe everywhere. Rut the question Is, could President McKinley, with propriety, terder his servlce3 In this behalf, and how would the offer probably be treated by Great Britain? To make such an offer with the certainty or strong probability that it would be rejected by one parry to a controversy

might be construed as an attempt to put that party in the wrong. Whatever the feelings of the American people may be In the British-Transvaal controversy It will not do for the government to show any leaning In either direction cr do anything that might inure to the advantage of either. If the Transvaal government should, like the Orange Free State government, express a desire for President McKlnley's mediation, and if he should offer it only to be declined by Great Britain, the effect, as far as public stntlment is concerned, would be injurious to the tetter. Therefore, the President may vell hesitate before tendering his good offices. It would be a great triumph for peaceable methods and a great victory for the United States and for President McKinley personally If he could succeed in settling the present controversy and averting war, but a tender of mediation in international disputes is always a delicate matter. Such an offer was made by France during our civil war and declined by the United States. The tender came from the prime minister of France through the French minister at Washington in February, 1S03. It was made in a long communication very diplomatically worded. Secretary Seward replied at even greater length and In the same diplomatic tone, declining the offer. In our recent war with Spain the proffered mediation of France was accepted because It came after we had gained material advantages and began with a sjpplication for peace on the part of Spain. In the present case It is doubtful if Great Britain would accept mediation before she has struck a blow when she can reasonably expect to get so much better terms a little later. Yet many people will think the President could afford to make the offer without reference to its reception by Great Britain. There is one point that might prevent the President from taking any action In the matter, even if he felt disposed to do so. The existing treaty between Great Britain and the Transvaal expressly provides that the latter shall not enter into any engagement or agreement with any foreign nation or power without the approval of Great Britain. This might be construed as a diplomatic warning to all foreign nations not tc meddle In affairs between Great Britain and the Transvaal.

THE MAN WITH THE HOE. The hoe is not nearly as Important an implement as it was before the various kinds of agricultural machinery came into use, but it may still stand as a type of all and the man with the hoe as a representative farmer. An American poet of the pessimistic school has painted the man with the hoe In very dark and depressing colors, and made Mm an awful example of a class that does not exist in this country. Here the man with the hoe drives a wheat drill or rides on a sulky plow, when he is not marketing his crops in a' two-horse wagon or riding to town in the family carriage. Just now there are several millions of men with hoes, typical farmers, rejoicing in the prosperity which they share in common with their countrymen of other vocations the man in the shop and at the forge, the man with the hammer and the saw, the man with the trowel and the chisel, the man on the railroad and the steamer in short, with other millions of men in many vocations. The man with the hoe is keeping up with the procession. Three years ago, through the operation of a vicious economic policy and the mismanagement of a blundering political party, he had no market?, was getting low prices for his products, and was eating up his little savings or running In debt. One set of demagogues assured him that the only way to capture the markets of the world was by adhering to free trade. Another set assured him that free silver was the panacea for all his woes, that the price of wheat and the price of sliver were indissolubly connected, and that tfce price of wheat would never go up until we had free and unlimited coinage of silver at 1? to 1. He was further assured that he need never expect prosperity under the gold .standard, that as long as that prevailed he would continue to be "crucified on a cross of gold," as Mr. Bryan expressed it, and run deeper and deeper in debt. Fortunately for the man with the hoe, and the man with the little tin dinner bucket, and the men on railroads and In factories, they thought differently and voted as they thought. Now they are getting their reward. The man with the hoe is not only .the most numerous of all American citizens, but he is one of the most prosperous and contented. With his debts paid off or reduced to-a minimum, with new farm implements and machinery and with a recently opened bank account or a sum of money In his pocket, part gold and all as good as gold, ho laughs as he remembers what the demagogues told him three years ago about silver and wheat and the gold standard. He has recovered his home market and is helping his countrymen to capture the markets of the world. He sees prosperity everywhere, and chuckles to think he is right in It. The man with the hoe will not be fooled very soon again. THE BASIS OF REPt I1LICAX CONFIDENCE. The Republicans whose judgment is of value, and those who have the best information regarding the situation, are able to give good reasons why they believe that Charles A. Bookwalter will be elected next Tuesday. Two years ago It was a well-known fact to those who had anything to do with the canvass that scores of Republicans would vote for Mr. Taggart. In one Republican precinct In the Seventh ward the committeeman, on the morning of election, showed a list of seven Republicans who would vote for Mr. Taggart, and of nine more who would not vote at all If left alone, but would vote for the mayor If urged to the polla If there is a Republican who Intends to vote for Mr. Taggart this year he will not do as he has promised. The same report comes from other precincts which give Republican majorities, showing that Republicans generally will vote for Mr. Bookwalter. Previously, when Mr. Taggart has been a candidate, business men have taken little active Interest In the canvass. Republican business men are taking a very active Interest and are united in efforts to bring out a full Republican vote. In all of the wards in which there Is a large Republican vote and In many precincts there have been meetings of Republican business men, mechanics and professional men in which plans have been adopted to bring out a full Republican vote. The Taggartites seem not to take this most Important work into consideration. There are a great many Democrats who are convinced that two terms of Mr. Taggart. conducting the administration for himself, are enough. Under his rule such Democrats have less and less to do with the direction of party affairs. They do not approve what he has donedurinrthe past two years. They desire to break the power of

Mr. Taggart, and s"ee no other way to do It than to help in his overthrow at the polls. The fact that the mayor holds'all his meetings In strong Democratic localities is evidence that he realizes a defection in his own ranks. A zealous' but Indiscreet Taggart worker declares that 'It is taking all our time to keep our own men In line." It can be added that the popular sentiment Is In favor of the Republican ticket. The drift Is unmistakable. The Bookwalter buttons are altogether the most numerous. The street-corner and meeting-place conversation shows that the trend Is toward the Republican ticket. , There is harmony in the Republican ranks, and with that har-. mony is a purpose to defeat Mr. Taggart.. Such are some of the indications of Republican success.

There are those who are constantly making the claim that Mr. Taggart is better qualified for mayor than is Mr. Bookwalter. Do they point to the Riverside Park transaction to prove it? Are the evidences of mental capacity found In the mayor's little gas meter speech? " Measure man by man and Mr. Bookwalter is superior Intellectually to Mr. .Taggart. In the dozen years that Mr. Taggart has been holding office in Marlon county and in the city of Indianapolis he has become past master In the art of bossing his party organization, but he has had the assistance of such men as sterling R. Holt and other men of capacity. BUBBLES IN THE AIR. Mnybe. . ' He It Is funny that it should be so hard to get wind enough for those yacht races. She Maybe you men have wasted it all in discussing them. The Cheerfnl Idiot. "I bought a poor tramp some coffee and doughnuts this afternoon," said the shoeclerk boarder, proudly. : "Very good idea. Buying sinkers for a floater," said the Cheerful Idiot. The Interrupter. "She said she would not marry him because he betrayed his country" "What! !" "Because he betrayed his country origin. I do wish you would get over that habit 0 interrupting." ' Winning Argument. The Invalid But I am already gaining great benefit from Bogger'a Onion Ointment. The Agent Yes, and if it should cure you, all you would get would be a single-column woodcut, whereas, if you use our remedies, you will as, surely find relief, and the twocolumn art etching we will print in all the principal papers of the country will be something to gaze on' with pride. llov? Dewey Silenced Long. Army andNavy Journal. Here Is a story of Admiral Dewey which it is believed has not before appeared in print. When In the fall Of 1S17 he was an applicant for the command of the Asiatic squadron his official request was not viewed with any degree of favor by the department, and he was politely, for they always do official things, no matter how disagreeable, in a most' sublimely courteous manner, refused the assignment. Finding that he could not make It through official circles, he tried political ones, with the resuit that through influence he received the coveted command. It was not the intention, however, of the department to allow him to depart unrebuked for having forced his orders, and he was summoned one day to the presence of the secretary, who said to him: "Commodore Dewey, your orders to the comand of the Asiatic squadron have been Issued, but against the Judgment of the department, which does not feel that you hold the proper qualifications for such a position, and who also ' deprecates the fact that you have tmployed political influences to secure the assignment. "So," replied the commodore, in a musing tone. "May I, Mr. Secretary, ask you one question in reply to the statement you have made?" "Most certainly." "Then.'7 went on the commodore, "if you so disapprove of the use of political influence to secure personal ends, how did you achieve your present position In the Cabinet. Mr. Secretary?" The answer of the department Is not recorded. Did Not Get n. License. Valparaiso (Ind.) Star-Vidette. This morning a wild and woolly specimen of the tourist tribe, hailing from Cheyenne, Wyo., dropped into the office of City Clerk Haliaday. at the City Hall, and wanted permission to speak on the street corners. His discourse was on 'isms," socialism and imperialism, and his views were anything but American. He stated that he had spoken In every town passed through from Cheyenne to Valparaiso, and. was going to Canada, where he would send his naturalization papers back to President McKinley. Mr. Haliaday interrupted further speech by picking the fellow up and throwing him down stairs, and gave him thirty minutes to get out of town. Sorry that he did not commit more violence, the city clerk started out for him again, but all that he could see was an Individual in a buggy driving hurriedly eastward over the Lajorte road en route to Westvllle and Laporte, his next destinations. Certain Check: nn Trait Greed. Fond du Lac (Wis.)' Commonwealth. The exorbitant prices which' the windowglass combine has seen fit to exact from the trade, are responsible for the reopening of a plant In West Virginia, which has been Idle for six years. When competition was keen and prices were low it was deemed unprofitable to operate this plant, but now that competition has been' eliminated and the prices advanced nearly 100 per cent, by the combine, the West Virginia plant can be operated to advantage and the trust will be annoyed by having a competitor, though a .small one, enter the field. It Is just this thing in a great country like the United States, where there are millions of idle capital waiting opportunity for good investment, that robs the trust problem of one of its most serious aspects. An Example for Street Railroads. New York Herald. Women traveling on the Long Island Railroad will be allowed from to-day to get on end off trains without the assistance of at times too officious employes of the road, and hereafter, under no circumstances, will any woman patron of the road be addressed as "lady," when spoken to by an employe. This new order of things was embodied in instructions sent out yesterday to every employe of the company, and signed by W. F. Potter, general superintendent of the road. Ills Swift. Race.: Flovllla (Ga.) Workman. Colonel Watklns. who started out a few weekh ago to run for. Congress, got such a good start that he has Just stopped at San Francisco, and is awaiting for a transport to carry him to Manila, where he has a position of clerk in the Infantry. United States Volunteers. The Renl Difference. Kansas City Journal. Acording to the Wichita Eagle the real, tadlcal difference between a town man and a farm man In Kansas Is that you can't get the town man to acknowledge that he Is as poor as he is, and you can't get the farm man to admit that he has as much money as he has. The Democratic Opportunity. Pittsburg News. Now that Admiral Dewey has refused the Democratic presidential romlnatlon perhaps some sort of a dicker might be made with Lieutenant Hobson to run on a 16-to-l osculation platform. Monarch of the West. Chicago Tribune. But If Venezuela has lost home territory it will not mike -so good use of as Great Britain will, the United States has scored a point. It is "practically sovereign on this continent." Faith In the Male. Louisville Courier-Journal. Oom Paul Is confident that the 'Lord will decide for him, but John Bull seems to be pinning his faith largely to the Kentucky mule. Its Only Chance. Milwaukee Sentinel. The best that the British navy has to hope for from the scrimmage with Oom Paul li a reputation as a fast freight line.

TRAGEDY OF DREYFUS

FAMOUS CASE REVIEWED nY A WELL-KX O V. CO It It ES IH D EXT. StrlklnsrMncldents of the Conrt-Mar-tial at Rennes Pictured hy n Writer Who Wan at the Scene. Mr. G. W. Steevens. the English correspondent, who Is best known In America for his narrative of Kitchener's campaign to Khartum, has written a work on the Drey fus affair which will be published on Oct. ! 10 under the title of "The Tragedy of Dreyfus)." As a convenient record his work will be welcome to many people who have not followed tha case from the beginning. The book contains a resume of the entire affair from the time of Dreyfus's arrest up to the order for revision, but the greater part Is devoted to a description of the courtmartial at Rennes, and to a consideration of the effect of the case upon the French people. Mr. Steevens's description of the courtmartial is given at first hand, for he was at Rennes from before the arrival of Dreyfus, and through the entire course of the trial. While he follows the development of the trial chronologically, yet he has. In a sense, made each chapter an essay on some particular aspect of the case. For Instance, the following topics, among others, are each treated in a separate chapter: Mercier, "the very type and mirror of a Jesuit grand inquisitor" A Shot In the Street, a description of the attempt to assassinate Laborl, and Its Immediate consequences Roget, "working with terrible earnestness, working to destroy a life as good men work to save one" The Alsatians (here Mr. Steevens points out the remarkable fact that of the chief actors in the drama: Dreyfus himself, Picquart, Lauth, Junck, Freystaetter, Zuriinden. Bert in-Hau rot. Colonel Sandherr, Sheurer-Kestner, Mercier and Mathieu B. Dreyfus were all either born or brought up In Alsace) The Court and the Case (devoted chiefly to the Judges, of whom it is to be noted that the author gained a most favorable impression) Laborl, 'after his return to Court "alert and eager, conscious, like all crators, of the effect he nade, frankly delighting In it, a spirit half electricity and half sunshlna" The Absent Esterhazy ("the most Interesting and romantic character yet come before the court, a condottlere drifted into his wrong century") A Drawn Battle (the struggle between Mercier and Laborl on the 21th of August) and a Rout (after FreyRtaetter's testimony) The Experts, Bertlllon (of whose system there is an interesting synopsis). Gobert Paraf-Javal, and the others The Confession The Defense The Verdict, etc.. HIS FAITH SOMETIMES SHAKEN. It Is to be noticed that Mr. Steevens lays unusual stress on the weight of the evidence brought against Dreyfus. Although at the last he expected a verdtet of "Innocent," he admits frankly that at times his faith In the prisoner's innocence was shaken. At one place he writes: "I came to Rennes firmly believing Dreyfus Innocent; now I no longer know what I believe. Hour by hour, day by day, the hope of certainty receded further Into the shades." He attempts als to make the conduct of the whole French nation, and particularly that of the officers of the French army, a little less incomprehensible to the Anglo-Saxon mind. "Suppose," he was asked by a French friend, "you had discovered that there was treachery in your navy, which is your all. as our army is ours, and suppose that for iiv years you saw your admirals maintaining one side of the question and your little Knglanders the other, which side would you be on?" I had only one reply if I were a Frenchman I should have been an antlDreyfusard. In England I should trust the admirals. But what should I do when, after I had trusted the admirals five years, the admirals came forward to give me the materials to form my own Judgment and gave me the same sort of materials as th French generals are giving in the Dreyfus case? If the evidence had been given at once I should have said that it looked baa, perhaps, but was not enough to hang a dog on. But after five years of bitter faction? It is not so easy to resume the Judicial mind in a day. I declare it is an outrage to ask a Frenchman to be impartial." The author has shown the pictorial and picturesque elements of the trial as well as its more serious aspects. Of Rennes, before the arrival of Dreyfus, he says: "I seem to know Rennes by heart, every feature of It. The spotless, empty streets; the distant hoot of empty tramcars; the brown-cheeked Breton women. In their little flat white lace caps, kneeling in little boxes In the river, and beating dirty linen on drawing boards with butter patters, the closed doors of the railway station, the blank walls of the prison I have grown up and grown old among them all. I no longer even smile at the spectacle of a score of Intelligent men patrolling empty streets through the hours of sleep on the chance of seeing for ten seconds a man whom they would not know if they did see him, and who, if they did know him, would not matter." And there are Interesting descriptions of those who furnished the world with news of the trial, and about whom the world knows little or nothing. Of the French correspondents he writes: "But the French confreres were still the most outlandish. For the typical Pnrislan life Is a perpetual masquerade; he must always be appearing as something. One came as a bicyclist In a flannel shirt over an expansive stomach, and madame's bloomers; he had a bicycle but never rode It. Another came as an nutomobillst, in gaiters and an oil -cloth cap; he had probably never more than smelt an automobile. A French Swiss came as a mountaineer: you expected daily to see him In court with an ice ax. Several finding themselves within a couplo of hours of the sea appeared hp yachtsmen. A few were disguised as Englishmen. Their ways were as wonderful as their garb. Most of them were very siphons of frothing excitement all through the trial. They collected news mainly from each other; they could have done just as well without any trial or any Dreyfus" ARRIVAL AT RENNES. .v And this the picture of the patiently . awaited arrival of Dreyfus at the prison at Rennes: "Two carriages are driving rapidly towards me. And the dead-walled street, . ten seconds ago so empty that you would say nobody had passed down It since It was made. Is swarming full of gendarmes. Out of doors, down from windows, over walls, out of the very ground, it seems, they spring and scamper. A frantic cry from one of the carriages, and both check to let the gendarmes get In front. The first dashes past me. screaming, 'Move on! move on!' hardly articulate In his excitement. His fellows rush up Just in time to meet the crowd rushing up from the other way. They form a line across the street, and make a barrier of carbines held athwart their bodies. They are all as pale as oVath all licking lips dry with excitement. Back! Move on! Back, back! A little man In a sweater appears behind them. In command, he, too, screaming 'Back, back! The carriages now appear again around the corner; the gate in this street is suddenly seen to be open. The firsst carriage rolls In: men Jump from the second and rush in after it. Gendarmes still on your toes, public ctill on your heels, 'Back, tack!' still bawled down your throat and the door is shut, and Dreyfus is inside. The gendarmes halt and are silent; their cordon bars the street. The crowd resumes its old occupation of looking intently at nothing. "Nine hours of watching, two minutes of seeing. But two minutes of seeing almost worth watching for the best conceived, neatest, quickest bit of stage management in the history of government. You rubbed your eyes and wondered if it was real; at a word you would almost have resumed watching again." "Bravo, Messieurs the authorities! We had seen everything except Dreyfus." He has given a careful description of the personal appearance of each character of any importance, and as his eye, trained by leng experl?nce as a newspaper correspondent, has been able to choose out the salient features for each portrait, his pictures are always vivid ones. We quote the descriptions of Mercier and Laborl as they stood facing each other: "Mercier was small, by comparison, and slight: tn the tight black tunic and red trousers of his uniform he looked yet slighter. His oratorical equipment was slender: he had but one gesture, a cramped movement of the right arm, otherwise he kept his white-gloved hand behind his back. His voice was deep, yet hard and dry, like the croak of a bird of prey. His mental equipment we knew to be small also. As he turned to face T-horl low forehead. hookM ncsa. shallow chin, heavy eycU'j, and tIn

hanging loose from cheek-bone to neck he looked more like a vulture than ever. Above him towered Laborl, the great loose-Jointed figure wreathed in the gown that hung around him like a black toga Laborl. with the gestures that fly to meet the word, and the voice that draws like muic and shades like thunder Laborl, the practiced crossquestioner, the enthusiast, the man who, has nothing against him, the man with all the advantage of attack." And this sympathetic rlcture of Captain Freystaetter: "He came up on the platform the manliest figure of a man that had yet stood on it. Under the uniform black tunic, dark-blue trousers, of the marine Infantry, you could see that while not very tall, he was broad, and built with great strength. He wore a long mustache and pointed beard, l is cropped hair was prematurely gray, his face lined and worn to a brow, nose, cheektone and chin, yet hard, steadfast and resolute. Were he an Englishman you -would put him down to the navy; and It did no need the four ar medals on his breast to tell you that while other men in this case were riding in the Bois. Freystaetter had been pushing through the Jungles of TongKing, Madagascar. But more than that was In his face in the contracted brows and the eyes half hunted, half determined. It was the face of a man who has been on bad terms with his conscience, who knows that to reconcile himself with it will mean the loss of half his friends, may likely mean the ruin of his whole life and who is about to do It." Dreyfus himself. Picquart, Roget. Demange. Jouast. and the others are all described In the sane clear-cut way. The book closes with an appendix of some 20.000 words, in which are reprinted in full the most important depositions, etc.. made in reference to the case, accompanied by explanatory and critical comments by the Judges of the Court of Cassation. DRUMS TO BE ABOLISHED.

Ballinffton Booth Volunteers to Mnke Lens Niolse Hereafter. NEW YORK. Oct. 6. At the opening session of the Grand Field Council of the Volunteers of America, convened at Blue Point. L. I., and composed of the officers) of highest rank from all parts of the country, presided over by Gen. Ballington Booth, the following resolution was unanimously adopted: "Resolved That In view of the conflict with the civil authorities on the part of other organizations and In view of our strong desire to respect and uphold the municipal laws, we authorize that the use of the drum be abandoned, both outdoors and in. In connection with the whole movement, except with a brass band, a fife and drum corps, or at the head of a parade officially authorized by the sectional officer. It Is recommended, however, that in place of the drum a cornet, small organ, concertina, guitar or other stringed Instruments be used." CONTINUE TO INCREASE EXPORTS OP MANUFACTURES LARGER THAN EVER BEFORE. Imnor4n of Hhw Material Also Heavy Xaval Estimate for Next Fiscal Year ? 73,045,183. WASHINGTON. Oct. e.-Manufacturers' material and manufacturers products form an Important share in the increased imports and exports which the Treasury Bureau of JLtatlstics Is now recording from month to month. The Imports of the eight months, ending with August, are eighty-eight millions larger than the very low Imports of the corresponding months of last year, and the exports for the eight months exceed by about twelve millions the phenomenally high figuies of the same months last year. Indeed. It seems probable that the exports of the calendar year 1S09 will be the largest of any calenJar year In our history, while the Imports, though much above last year, are more than thirty millions below those of the corresponding months of 1S97. In the growth of both imports and exports, the manufacturers of the country have had an important part. Indeed, the Increase In exports Is almost solely due to the growth in exportation of manufactures, but for which the exports of the ear would fall below those of last year. As to the increase in imports, it is divided between materials for manufacturers and tropical food-stufls which we are unable to supply from home production. There had been no progress toward a final agreement upon a modus vivendl fixing the Alaskan boundary, even temporarily, since the tentative scheme framed by Secretary Hay and Mr. Tower, the British charge, was sent to London for ratification there. So far as is known here, the London authorities are still waiting upon the Canadians in the matter. Acting Secretary Allen has prepared the full statement of estimates which will be eubmltted to Congress for the maintenance of the naval establishment for the next fiscal year. These amount to J73.045.183, which is an Increase over the appropriations for the current year of $24,537,187. Included In the Increase for the next year are appropriations of $12,268,474 for public works and navy yards and stations. There Is also-an estimate of $2,021,000 for the new Naval Academy. The item for the navy, including armor, guns and machinery Is $22,983,101. The estimate for the Bureau of Construction and Repair is increased over the current approfiriation about $3,000,000; for steam engineerng, $1.000.0Crt); for pay of the navy, about $700,000, while the estimates for ordnance are decreased about $7K).000. The estimates for public works at the New York navy yard is Sl.61i9.000. including $300,000 to begin the work on the new $1,000,000 granite dry dock and $300,000 to repair dock No. 2. The Items for the Boston navy yard aggregate $1.49V 00. which includes provision for a general enlargement of the construction of the yard. For League Island (Pennsylvania) the estimates for new public works aggregate $1,315.(?2; for Norfolk navy yard $1,349,000; for Mare Island (California). $(2,500. for Iuget Sound station, $216,005. and for Washington, $875,017. It Is said President McKinley may not resubmit to the Senate the nominations of Rear Admirals Sampson and Schley for advancement, in recognition of the victory at Santiago. The administration is disposed to avoid a rsnewal of the bitter contest between friends of the two officers, and may finally decide to let the matter drop. Rear Admiral Schley has many friends who will svpnert his claims for recognition, and some of them may propose a. bill creating the grade of vice admiral, in the hope that the President will appoint him to the position. The name of John N. Stewart, of Illinois, has been presented to President McKinley for appointment as successor to Commissioner Calhoun on the Interstate-commerce Commission. Controller Mitchell in the case of the proposed naval store at Cavlte, Philippine islands, holds that there is no warrant for establishing at Cavlte a naval store similar to the stores maintained In the army, where officers and men may purchase at cost articles of food. not included in the regular ration list. After a careful Investigation of the claim of Henry Mays against the government of Guatemala the State Department has concluded that 11 Is meritorious, and accordingly will Instruct the United States minister to Guatemala to present the matter formally to the attention of that government. The claim grows out of the alleged seiture by the Guatemala government of a railroad concession held by Mays. JUMPED FROM A FAST TRAIN Minnesota Yoanjr Woman In injured by n Desperate Leap". WINONA, Minn., Oct. 6. A panic prevailed for a tlme on the eajst-bound Northwestern train last evening. While the train was running forty miles an hour this side of Waseca to make up lost time a young lady, aged twenty-seven, who was being taken from Mankato to the Rochester asylum. Jumped from the closet window. The girl's mother gave the alarm and a brakeman ran Into the smoker and frantically pulled the bell cord. This scared, the passengers, who made, en masse, for the car platform, thinking some terrible accident was impending. City Recorder Paul Kemp, of Winona, was first out and was pushed from the ilatform by those behind him. In the fall he broke his left wrist. About a doten others Jumped, but were unhurt. Mr. Kemp was cared for In General Superintendent Sanborn's private car. The train was then run back three miles and the missing young lady was found Fitting under a bridge unhurt. She did net want to go. but finally accompanied her mother to Rochester.

DEWEY ACCEPTS -A HOME

WAVTS IT READY TO -GO IX AD HAM; IP HIS HAT AT ONCE." He Also Smrgests that It lie FurnUhed The Committee to Buy a House Already Constructed. WASHINGTON. Oct. C-Admlral Dewey has elected to accept a housv In Washington already constructed. Instead of having ono built for his occupation. In accordance with the invitation of the committee which has had in charge the Dewey home work, he called at the office of acting Secretary Allen, In the Navy Department, at 11 o'clock to-day to Indicate his preferences In "the matter of a residence. There were present, besides Mr. Allen, Assistant .Secretary Vanderllp. Assistant Postmaster General Heath, and General Corbln. The admiral was officially Informed of the purpose of the people of the United States to present him with a heme in Washington.. He frankly expressed his gratification for the tender, which ha Immediately accepted. He said had the proposed home been the gift of a few wealthy men he should feel Indisposed to accept 1U But he noted that the fund had about,43,UO subscribers, indicating that the home was to be really the gift of the American people, and as such he would accept it with as much pleasure as he had the sword bestowed upon him by Congress. He then talked upon the location of the residence. The admiral showed a decided preference for the section In which he had made his home during his former days of duty ia Washington. He wished the house to be located In the northwestern section, somewhere west of Sixteenth street, an l not too far north, thus Indicating the neighborhood of his former residence and the clubs where he had spent a good deal of his leisure time. First of all. he wanted the house at the earliest possible moment, go that he might "go in and hang up his hat at once." as he put It. Of course, that precluded the idea of erecting a house to meet his special needs. He expressed his Ideas as to tho character of the home he desired, and asked that the house be made modest enough In cost to permit of the retention of a sufficient sum of money from the purchase fund to defray. the expenses of furnishing It. The committee listened attentively to all of these wishes and saw no reason why each and all could not be gratified. The admiral is going to New York and will step over, if he can. to see the yacht race on his way to Shelburns Farms. Vt. He expects to return to Washington in the course of a week. Meanwhile the house committee, having invited written proposals of properties, will go through the llt carefully and hopes to be able to present to the admiral on his return as many as half a dozen available houses from which he may make a personal selection. The fund at the disposal of the committee now amounts to atout X.0.X)U. and It is earnestly desired that this sum may be substantially Increased during tho time remaining before the purchase. Admiral Dewey received an ovation today at the United States Soldiers Home, about two miles beyond the city limits. H drove out there during the afternoon and General Rugglcs, the governor of the home, introduced him to the veterans. The admiral told the veterans In a brief speech that he had never learned to appreciate the true valor and the noble qualities of the American soldiers till he had seen them fight in the Philippines. He had nothing but th highest estetra. he Fald. for the American soldiers and would always treasure their friendship. A delegation of citizens from Atlanta, da., arrived here tA.nltrht on,i t -i-rii-. morning will formally Invite Admiral Dewey nu Mtuienani ijrumoy 10 a reception the city seeks to give them at any date the two will name. The party is headed by tha mayor. J. G. Wool ward. Lieutenant Brumby was born within t venty miles of Atlanta and lived In the Georgian capital many years. A handsome sword will be presented by the Georgians to the flag5 lieutenant and they are anxious the admiral shall come with him. While the date Is left to meet the convenience of the two It l iikely to be some time this month. Admiral Dewey will not leave Washington until Monday, as originally plannedji Before his departure he will return to Mrs.. Washington McLean the possesion of her residence, which he h rn-.n her courtesy. He has engaged a suite of rooms in an apartment nouse where ha formerly lived. It is a few blocks beyond the Metropolitan Club and he will go there on his return from Kw nrian ton hence. Dewey to Receive a Costly Watch. BOSTON. Oct. 6. Admiral Dewey will receive a $1,000 watch from the municipality of Boston. The city will spend $12,000 giving the admiral a welcome. The money will be used for various purposes In connection with the parade which will be a feature of the celebration and also for decorative features, one of which already suggested is the Illumination of Bunker Hill monument. A committee left for Washington to-night to lay before Admiral Dewey a provisional programme. The Governor Is desirous that the people of the Commonwealth should observe Oct. 14 as a holiday. If Admiral Dewey gets here in time on Friday, it Is planned tn give him a banquet on Friday evening. It is purposed to mobilize the entire Mate militia on the 14th. A Degree for Dewey. BURLINGTON. Vt.. Oct. 6. The trustefs of the University of Vermont to-day voted to confer the degree of doctor of laws on Admiral Dewey. DEWEY PARADE STANDS. ."ot Bnllt In n Sanitary W'ny and In volved In Bribery. NEW YORK. Oct. 6. Tho most Interesting subject up for discussion at to-day's feesslon of the Mazet Investigating committee was the Dewey parade stands. Dr. Charles F. Roberts, chief sanitary superintendent of the Board of Health, submitted certain documents Fhowing that the Dewey stands were not constructed In a sanitary fashion. Stephen Bern', owner of one of tho Dewey parade stands, testified that his partner settled matters by giving one Inspector $5 and another $25. The next question brought before the committee was that of the projected East river bridges. Attorney Moss hoped to prove that the city would be obliged to buy out private franchisee for bridge sites before the public bridges could be constructed to th borough of Brooklyn, but this was denied by Brldgo Commissioner Shea. At the afternoon session Park Commissioner George V. Brewer was before the committee, and an attempt was made to induce him to explain the troubles recently occurring in his department. He pleaded' that he was of revolutionary stock, and consequently would rot rob the city. J. Sergeant Cram, president of the dock department, when closely questioned regarding certain asphalt pavements put down by the Uvalde Asphalt Company, took refuge behind the statement. "If I don't obey the law, there's the grand Jury." The day's proceedings wound up with an attempt to examine Peter F. Meyer, who had again been called Into the room and placed on the stand. Mr. Meyer brolre out with a passionate objection to being examined by Mr. Moss. He raid there was a matter of long standing between them a personal matter. This brought Mr. Moss to his feet. ' The attorney raid he had been warmd that the next time he put a member of Tammany Hall on the stand his reputation would be Tipped up. He asserted that he was wllMng to have his name blasted to-morrow. If to-day he could put one of them on the stand. That was his reply to the threat and the warning. The examination then proceeded, the question of why Mr. Meyer voted for the Uvalde paving contracts being first taken up. Mr. Meyer was still on the stand when the committee adjourned for the day. Municipal Improvement Society. TORONTO. Oct. 6 The American Society of Municipal Improvements concluded Its sessions last night. The following chairmen of committees were reappointed: Street paving. George W. Tlllson. Brooklyn. N. Y.; sewerage and sanitation. W. K. Eldridge, Lafayette, Ind.; water works and water supply. George H. Benzonberg, Milwaukee, Wis.; city government and legislation. C. F. Herr, Newark, N. J.; disposition of garbage and street cleaning. John Jones. Toronto; municipal franchises. Captain Drake, commissioner of public works. Buffalo. N. Y.: I review, George M. Ames, Grand Rapids,