Indianapolis Journal, Volume 50, Number 358, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 December 1900 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, MONDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1900.

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Four years ago employers In large establishments -were not giving X gold pieces as Christmas presents to any extent. A number of newspapers would make the kidnaping of children a hanging offense. Unfortunately the gallows Is only used occasionally to punish murderers. Many cannot share the sanguine opinion of Senator Lodge that the British government will accept the Senate treaty, however much they hope that this may be the case. Because of the death of ex-Governor Wolcott, of Massachusetts, correspondents assume that Mr. McKinley will lose a vote. As a matter of law, the rest of the electors can fill vacancies In tho Electoral College. The Populist leader who denounced "any more fusion" In Saturday's conference was wasting Indignation on an Inconsequential affair. Whether a party of three or four thousand votes fuses or not Is of no consequence whatever. The testimony on the canteen question of such men as Secretary Root, who has made a thorough study of It from every point of view, is worth more than a shipload of sentimental bosh from emotional people who mako a virtue of discarding facts. The movement for the formation of a farmers union to regulate prices for farm products Illustrates the tendency of the times to organization and co-operation. Buch a union would bo as " legitimate as uny other, but It would also be as clearly as any other a trust, which farmers particularly abominate. SMMSSBSSSMSMMSHBMMSaSHSSSI The pardoning of two persons In the penitentiary for murder by Governor PIngree, of Michigan, recalls the stand taken by the late Governor Matthews, which was that the executive, after a man had been convicted of murder or other grave crime by a court, has no moral right to set him free by a pardon, except on the petition of the court and Jury or the discovery of evidence of his innocence too strong to be set aside. There is the strongest pressure for such pardons. Governor Mount follows the policy announced by Governor Matthews. ITon. Frank B. Burke seems desirous of having It understood that he belongs to the school of Democracy who do not want any reform In theirs. At the conference of Democratic members-elect of the Legislature, held In this city on Saturday, he took strong ground against a primary election law. not on Its merits, which he did not discuss, but because it was called a reform measure. He said he wis not a reformer and was opposed to reform methods. He held that reforms destroy the rights of citizens. This is probably the most interesting display of bourbon Democracy on record. Mr. Burke should have lived several hundred years ago. Secretary of War Root is strongly opposed to the establishment of a veterinary corps in the army, to be under separate bureau or staff control. He favors the employment of competent veterinarians and giving them rank above that of enlisted men, but he 13 decided in his opinion that an officer who has charge of the horses of a regiment should be under the command of the colonel of the regiment, anil not an independent officer, receiving constant Instructions and communications from tho secretary of war through the head of the bureau, which will be superior to the control and direction and the discipline of the colonel of the regiment. As usual. Secretary Root is light. The Items of the river and harbor appropriation bill show that for the moat part the money is to be expended upon works of national Importance. Perhaps tne of the Mxty millions Is devoted to the Improvement of the navlgat!oT of waterways that have no water half the year, or to the making of harbors to promote some town-lot scheme. As a rule, however, the morey goes to the great waterways, the Improvement of which tends to cheapen the rates of trun?ortation throughout the country. Millions have been spent upon the Mississippi, and millions more must be epent in keeping that great waterway and 1U tributaries In a condition to be navigated. Millions have been spent upon the

lakes, but they have ben well spent. The Ending bill differs from tho?e of years ago in that th great?r rrt of the appropriations contemplate continuous work for throe years or more. For instance. If three millions Is appropriated to a given Improvement, but one millir.n will be expended Turins tho year immediately following tin making oi tho appropriation. Tili: IM'OMISn STATU AIHHM3T11ATIO.V. Tin.' administration of Goverror Durbln. soon to begin, will have t'.:e distinction of ushering in the twentieth century. Since the admission of Indiana to the Union, in IIG. there have been thirty-two gubernatorial terms or part3 of term?, and twentyfour persons have served as Governor. Under the old Constitution the term was three years and the Governor was eligible for re-election. Between 1516 and 1S52 Ave Governors were re-elected for a second term, viz., Jonathan Jennings, James B. Bay, Noah Noble, James Whltcomb and Joseph A. Wright.' The last-named served from 1S43 to 1S52 under the old Constitution, and from to 1857 under the new. Governor Durbln will be the twenty-fifth person who has served as Governor, and the General Assembly, whose term begins with

his, will be numbered the sixty-second. Together they will turn the leaf that will mark the opening page of the State's first full century of history. It may be added that Governor Durbln will be the first Republican Governor elected by the people to succeed a Republican. Oliver P. Morton, elected Lieutenant Governor In 1SG0, succeeded Henry S. Lane, elected United States senator In 1S61, and was elected in 1S64 to succeed himself, and Conrad Baker, who was acting Governor from 1857 to 1869, was elected in 1868 to succeed himself. These cases, however, were different. Governors Mount and Durbln are the first two Republicans successively elected as such by tho people. There is reason to believe that the incoming administration will be more distinctly than usual a business administration. And it ought to be. The beginning of her first full century of existence finds Indiana more distinctly than ever a State of huge business Interests. The growth of these Interests during the last two decades has been astonishing. The timo has come when the chief executive of the State must do something more than see that the laws are faithfully enforced. This is his most Important duty, but that of looking after the finances, revenues, expenditures, public Institutions and business Interests of the State Is scarcely less so. None ofthese things has been neglected In recent years, but every year they become more important. The care of these great Interests will appeal to Governor Durbln in a peculiar manner. He will be the first Governor the people of Indiana have eveT elected from the ranks of business men. All the rest have been lawyers or farmers. Most of them have possessed good business quanncations, out none or tnem was a distinctly business man of the nineteenthcentury, up-to-date kind. In this respect the election of Colonel Durbln marks a new departure In the gubernatorial history of the State. The next General Assembly should recognize this fact and make a special point of co-operating with the Governor in making his administration conspicuously successful from a business point of view. If the present Legislature makes a bad record the next one may be Democratic, to the serious embarrassment of the Governor's administration. The large Republican majority of 1300 should not be construed as license for reckless, extravagant or experimental legislation. The General Assembly should not forget that every dollar of public money that is wasted or misapplied comes out of the pockets of the people, while every dollar saved will Inure to the credit of the Repub llcan party. As a business man Governor Durbln has every right to expect that the Legislature will co-operate with him to the fullest extent in making a business administration. By electing a business man Governor the people have said, they want a business administration, and they will hold the Legislature to a strict account if it fails to co-operate to that end. VBBSBSMeWBSSaBISBBBSBBBSBBSMBaBBIBSSIBBBSSBBHBSBaBBSlSBBSS ELECTROLYSIS. Judgo Carter's decision In the case of the Manufacturers Gas Company against the Indianapolis Street-railway Company 13 based on sound principles of law and i3 clearly right. The case turns on the question of damages done to iron pipes, gas and water, by electrolysis, or the return electric current of the trolley system of street railways. The nature and extent of this damage are no longer open questions. It is settled beyond doubt that unless the electric street railways take proper care of their return current electrolysis will attack and injure water and gas pipes to a dangerous extent. Practical proofs of this are abundant, there being many well-estat-llshed cases of bursting water pipes and serious gas explosions from this cause. In several instances the gas explosions, traceable directly to pipes eaten away by electrolysis, have been destructive of life as well as property. The destruction of water pipes Is not as dangerous, but both are a source of expense to cities in requiring the tearing upof pavements for repairs. The evil Is a very real one and can only be guarded against by electric companies providing adequate means for the safe handling of their return currents. Such pro vision Is entirely feasible, the only objection to making it being its expense. In a question of legal rights and public welfare that is no argument. v In the present case the Manufacturers' Gas Company brought suit against the street-railway company for damages done to the gas company's pipes by electrolysis. The defendants demurred and the court overruled the demurrer, saying in part: Where a corporation Is exercising a pub lic franchise and does so in sucn a man ner as to cause actual material Injury to legal rights and destruction of property when at reasonable expense, by the adop tion of well-known and approved appli ances. tho Injury could be avoided, and the person Injured Is powerless to prevent or guard against sucn injury, then I think it must be held to be negligence in the use of its franchise on the part of such corpora tion not to adopt sucn approved appli ances. There can be no doubt as to the correctness of this view. A street-railway company enjoying a franchise from the city Tnas no higher rights than a gas or water com pany, and no corporation, more than an individual, has a right to use that which U his own to the injury or damage of an other. This plain rule of law Is reinforced in this case by considerations of public welfare which should forbid a corporation from maintaining a system fraught with

constant danger to the community wnen the danger can be averted by a reasonable outlay.

JUDGE CR CM PACKER'S REl'OUT. If argument were to decide the measure which will become the apportionment act for the next ten years, the proposition of Representative Crumpacker, of the Tenth district, would obtain that distinction, in his dissenting report Judge Crumpacker sets forth the Injustice and the evils growing out of the disfranchisement of the colored voters in certain Southern States. The man without a ballot Is without the means of self-protection. This is particularly the case when the disfranchisement extends to a whole race. He Is the victim of injustice. For such disfranchised voters there is no future but a species of serfdom which exists in sections of the South at the present time. In South Carolina farm laborers are compelled by the penal laws ot the State to carry out their contracts of employment, however unjust they may be. Such laws specify that laborers must perform all "the labor reasonably required of them" by the contract or go to Jail. In Russia the condl-M tlon of those who were once serfs is In finitely better than Is that of the farm laborer in South Carolina and other States. As little or no provision is made for the education of the blacks, it is evident that they will sink lower and lower In the scale of Intelligence. For these unjust state laws Congress has no remedy except In the apportionment of representatives In Congress. Under the fourteenth amendment to the Constitution Judge Crumpacker holds that Congress has an Indirect remedy, to say nothing of Its positive duty imposed by its requirements. No State will lose one-half or one-third of its power In Congress and In the election of President If It can prevent It. Between being shorn of half its representation in the House and in the Electoral College and giving all Its voters the privilege of voting, the whites In most of the Southern States will choose the latter. On the principle of obeying the plain re quirements of the Constitution and of jus tice to all. no argument can be made to offset the proposition set forth by Judge Crumpacker in his minority report. It is not probable that any attempt will be made to refute his arguments. Against his position his opponents will plead expediency and protest against raising sectional Issues. The negro will not sell his vote if there is no white man to offer to purchase. If illiteracy Is the objection to the negro voter. It should be equally objectionable in the white voter. If one race is to be deprived of the right to vote because of Illiteracy the other should be. Let justice be done to both races by so cnangmg tne constitution as to make a new national qualification for voters which shall be the ability to read. If this Is deemed inadvisable, follow the plain requirement of the fourteenth amendment, as Judge Crumpacker suggests. The strike of the Santa Fe telegraphers was short and a failure from the beginning. It was hardly ordered before the managers of the'road began to be overwhelmed with applications for employment, and the places of the strikers were soon filled. Now, after two weeks, the president of the union who ordered the strike declares it off. In his circular he says: Out of the defeat it may be there shall come a victory for right and humanity which those who come after us shall enjoy and bless us for the noble stand we took. Let no man look back with regret. Our destiny lies before, not behind, and the men who for Ufteen days made the gallant fight that you have are the men who will wrest from the future that success and prosperity which the present has denied them. Some of your number will suffer loss, some will seek and find better positions than they had, for no railroad em ployes are more capable and worthy a set of men than those who answered the call ot our icauers. - aiay uoa prosper each or you. All this Is poor consolation for men who have been ordered out on a hopeless strike and lost their situations. The president of the union should have admitted that he had not studied both sides of the situation, that the strike was a mistake and that he was largely responsible for a step that had e-Med in disaster. Saying "May God pros per you" to men who have lost their Jobs through an Ill-advised strike is like proposing three cheers for the poor. It is a dan gerous thing for any labor union to plnce the power to order a strike in the hands of a leader who has not sense enough to see that it cannot possibly succeed. The Supreme Court of Illinois has held that the elevation of railroad tracks can not be made the basis of damage suits on the part of the owners of adjoining prop erty. Tho city of Chicago promised railroad companies elevating their tracks that It would assume all the damages. One Judge dissented on the ground flat the property of adjoining owners would be in jured, and for that reason the decision Is too sweeping. The Chicago Post In commenting upon the decision, says the city of Chicago ordered the abolition of grade crossings and the railroads obeyed the order. Now it appears that the change in grade has been detrimental to adjoining property In many instances, and It seems that Individuals thus injured should re ceive recompense. If the elevation of tha tracks succeeds in this, city this matter will become very important. The evidence brought out in the West Toint hazing case has not been at all of a horrifying nature. Most of the cadets who have testified have undergone the process. and, while some admit that it was dis agreeable, they deny that it was dangerous or even humiliating. 'They seem to have accepted it as part of a traditional system necessary to take the conceit out of boys. make them amenable to discipline and de velop manliness. While this may be a mistaken view, something should be forgiven to a lot of young men who are evidently actuated by high notions of honor. No graduate of West Point has ever been heard to complain of the hazing he re ceived, and it has not prevented the Institution from reaching a point of excellence that makes intelligent foreigners declare It the best military school In the world. In Danville, 111., an employer discharged a man because he Joined a labor union. The discharged man brought a suit for damages under an act of the Legislature of 1S93 which prohibits employers from dls charging employes for belonging to labor unions or continuing In them, and make h fine the penalty. The Supreme Court of Illinois has decided that the law is uncon Etltutlonal. The court holds with President Gompers that the employe has a right to quit an employer at any time, provided there Is no contract, for any rea son, good or bad, or no reason at all.

The court goes on to say that the constitution accords the same right to the employer in regard to the discharge of the employe. A year book Issued by the London Daily Mail contains the following record for the United States under the general head of "The World's Chief Statesmen:" '"The United States has many able mm; no one of conspicuous merit. Most noticeable are President McKinley, the tariff expert. Just elected for a second term with an Increased majority; ex-President Cleveland the mediöctc Democratic leader, who was swayed by Mr. Richard Olney, his anglophobe secretary of state, more especially In the Ven

ezuela affair; Mr. Bryan, the free-silver anti-Imperialist and anti-trust champion of the Democrats, a man of ability and selfconsciousness, but of sincerity. Mr. Roosevelt, the new Vice President, is the Hero of young America, representing the very best type of American. He wages unceas ing war against corruption In city and State. Colonel John Hay is an able foreign minister well known as friendly to England." The Journal declines to accept this list as authoritative, believing, as it does, that the country has several statesmen of conspicuous merit not named in the llBtf &Tnong thera one Benjamin Harrison. It regards the book, though, as valuable for statistics contained In It relating to England. Among other things is a series of brief biographies of celebrities, among whom are found Marie Corelli, Madame Sarah Grand, Rider Haggard and a lot of other second-rate novelists; William Wal dorf Astor, numerous "sirs" whose fame does not extend to this country except In year books, and a number or actors and actresses who are not here considered 'great." Altogether, it looks a3 if Eng land, too, was a trifle hard pushed for celebrities. It has even known greater men than Lord Salisbury and the awful Joseph Chamberlain. An Eastern exchange has discovered a new source of human happiness. It says; The man who carries his own Christmas purchases home with him finds in doing so one of the real joys of gift-giving. He has the consciousness of having lightened the burdens of others. He rejoices in tne thought that to the gift itself he has added a tithe of his own labor, and that therein he has made, even if in small degree, the sacrifice which renders giving beautiful. Now that depends. If the gift should happen to be a. rocking chair, an umbrella stand or a marble clock carrying It Home might beget very unlovely feelings. Besides, what Is the use of lightening the burdens of a delivery wagon? FK0H HITHER AND YON. No Danger. Cleveland riain Dealer. "Is your depository a really safe place for my Jewelry?" 'Fafe, ma'am! It's as safe as lynching in In diana." A Subsidy Defined. Denver News. 'I see so much In the newspapers about sub sidies. What does a subsidy mean. John?" A subsidy. Mary, is where I give you ?20 for going: to soe your mother instead of having her come to see you." Idle? Speculation. Chicago Times-Herald. "Think of It!" said the woman who takes an Interest In science, "there may bo millions and billions of people on those distant points of light up there that we call stars." ( "Oh. what's the user answered the practical politician; "it'll never be possible for any or us to control their votes, anyway." When Knighthood Is In Bnslness. Detroit Journal. ' J ' ' -J The youth spread his cloak upon the highway, the queen passed, dry-shod. Oh. thank you, awfully!" murmured th queen, and that was all. But the youth did not despair, for he was a brave youth. Instead, he went to work and per fected a process for picking pigs feet by machinery. "I dub thee knight." the queen hereupon has tened to exclaim, with every mark of distinguished consideration. Soyons du siede! That Is, let us avoid doing those things which tutter no parsnips. AVänt rrofltr What profits to me that tc Bethlehem town I come with the shepherds this glad Christmas dav: That I wander its streets, up and down, up and down. If I find not the Babe who in Mary's arms lay? Or what doth It profit that out from my store Frankincense I bring, gifts of myrrh and flna gold. If my heart has for Jeius no wide-opened door. If my life from his kingship cf love I withhold? Ah, naught doth It rroflt! Not thus may I claim The gladness and glory of this blessed morn; Naught know I of Christmas, save only its name. Unless I know Him who at Christmas was born. Christian Endeavor World. DEMAND IS UNABATED. Paper of Indiana Are earnestly Ad vocating: Votln Machines. There is no let-up in the demand by tho State press that Indiana's next general election should be conducted with voting machines. All the argument expense, promptness, accuracy are on the one side of the question. Lafayette Courier. The late election cost Clay county $4,000. The ccst In Parke was about $3.000 (some accounts not yet allowed.) If this proportion prevails alt over the State voting ma chines would soon pay for themselves and then be good for many years service. Rockvllle Republican. There seems to be an unusual amount of Interest in the voting machine at Indianapolis and the Impression prevails that the Legislature will at an early date take some action on the subject. The universal use of a good voting machine would be a saving of expense. Vincennes Commercial. A test of voting machines in Buffalo at the last election Is said to have proved their reliability and value. One defect was that no splitting of the ticket was provided for. a defect that must not be allowed In any machine considered for adoption. Every voter must be allowed unlimited opportunity for exercising his personal choice. Elkhart Review., A voting machine is necessarily a deli cately constructed piece of mechanism and being so built it is likely to get out of or der. When sutnclent study has been de voted to It to make a machine practically perfect in construction and certain in oper ation, and wnen tne cost is reduced to a reasonable figure machine voting should be the proper things Until then, however. wisdom would dlstate very cautious action on the part of our legislators. South Bend Tribune. A properly constructed voting machine, of which there seem to be several successful kinds available In the market, stamps the ballot exactly as the voter wishes it stamped, counts the votes as they are cast with mechanical accuracy and delivers the complete and correct returns as soon as the polls are closed. There are no doubtful ballots to be examined and passed upon by partisan Judges, no errors in tally sheets to be corrected by political returning boards, no vexatious and suspicious delays In giving out the results. The cost of the machine Is soon made up In the saving of pay for election efliclals made unnecessary by Its adoption, and the cry of fraud is practically eliminated so far. as tho actual voting Is concerned. Salem Republican Leader. Merely a Literal Distinction. New York Press. Tammany and Mr. Cleveland are not so far apart. Tammany's Idea Is to give the rank and vile a chance.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS.

HUtorlcnl Memoirs of Alexander I .und the Conrt of Russia. Ever since Rurlk laid the foundation of the Russian empire, in SG2, by accepting the invitation of one faction of Slavs to become their ruler and establishing the seat of government at Novgorod, the reign of almost every Czar or Emperor has been maiKed by bloodshed. No ruler of Russia has had a wholly peaceful reign. Some have given up the throne at the bidding of the assassin; others have ascended it with blood on their hands, while all have been Involved in wars that cost many lives. Even the present Emperor, though peaceably Inclined, has permitted his Cossacks, if reports be true, to commit one of the greatest atrocities of the century the ruthless slaughter of ten or fifteen thousand men, women and children in Manchuria. Alexander I, vhose memoirs, written three years after his death by Mme. La Comtesse De Cholseul-Gouiner, and now translated from the original French by Mary Berenice Patterson, was no exception to the rule of bloodshed. An assassin gave him the throne by killing his father, the cruel, crazy Paul I, whose own mother hated him so bitterly she plotted to prevent him becoming Emperor. Alexander I, however, was unlike his father. He was given a liberal education by Catharine II, his grandmother, a woman whose idiotic husband drove her to wickedness (she is not to be confounded with Catharine I, historled as one of the most dissolute women thd, world has known.) Catharine II not only attended to her grandson's mental training, but she provided a wife for him in the person of Louisa, Princess of Baden, who became known as Empress Elizabeth. Alexander was only fifteen vears old and .Louisa but fourteen when they were marriea. When Alexander was crowned he Immediately gave evidence of having a will of his own, and his liberal education was manifested in the promotion of the arts and sciences, the founding of schools and the betterment of the condition of his subjects. In many respects he was a great man. To Mme. La Comtesse De Cholseul-Goufiier. whose acquaintance with him began on April 27, and whose friendship lasted until his death on Dec. 1, 1S13, he was an ideal sovereign. She relates many instances illustrative of the Emperor's noble nature, sympathetic qualities and courteousness. There is no evidence that the friendship of the Emperor and tne countess was more than piatonic, but a careful reading of the memoirs gives the impression that both admired each other to the limit of friendship. One of the features of the book is a faithful description running all through the memoirs of the customs of the period of which the countess has written. The most interesting chapters are those devoted to the wars with Napoleon. Every reader probably knows that it was during the reign of Alexander I that Napoleon in attempting to conquer all Europe met with his first great reverses and final Waterloo when he marched Into Russia with over 500.OX) men anl marched out r.gain with a little over l00.0rj. having left over three-fourths of hl3 arrav lying on the wind-swept plains about Moscow, frozen or buried In the snow, or dying in Russian prisons; a?aln when the combined armies of Russia, Prussia and Austria invaded France, dethroned him and exiled him to Elba, and finally when his army was routed at Waterloo and he was sent to St. Helena to die. Much of this Is told by the countess, but the greater part of the book is devoted to personal reminiscences of Alexander, his gracious manner while In her presence, his clement treatment of the Poles, his kindness towards prisoners, his thoughtfulness and care of his own soldiers rfnd people and his mercy in the hour of triumph when he twice entered Paris at the head of armies. One thought will strike the reader of the memoirs: the countess either had a remarkable memory or she kept a diary and promptly recorded her long conversations with the Emperor, for many pages nre devoted to interviews with his Majesty. Several of the historic incidents related by the countess have been appropriated by historians, an indication that what she wrote was believed to be true. The translation bears evidence of having been made with care. A. C. McCIurg & Co., Chicago. The Mnster-Chrlntlnn. A great number- of people like to read Marie Corelli's books; why. It i3 impossible for those who do not like them to say. Her latest production. "The Master-Christian," has all tho characteristics of her earlier stories "purpose." daring, extravagance of statement, earnestness, crudeness and a florid flow of language. Nevertheless, for' some reason or other, the book has received more respectful attention from the reviewers than has been the fortune of her work heretofore. Perhaps this is because of a belief, not before existing, that however mistaken, she may be in her assumptions and aims, she is genuinely in earnest In trying to effect reforms. In this case she undertakes to point out the evils ex isting In the Roman Catholic Church, of which It Is plain sho is not a member. Why sho should attack this church, which she can only know from without, instead of the Protestant Church, which, it may be aamuieu, is not wunout its railings, and of which she must have a more intimate knowledge, is not clear. Sho does so, however, with great vigor and apparent bitterness of feeling. Her leading character, the "Master-Christian," is a cardinal, Bonpre by name, a saintly, spiritual man, who has lived apart from the world In a remote rural district of France, until in his old age events take him upon a tour through France and Italy and his eyes are opened to some of the evils of the time and o the shortcomings of his church. Inasmuch as every other man in the book who is a Catholic is given over, to evil deeds of one sort or another, it is presumable that the author would not have bestowed such salntllness upon he,r. cardinal had she not needed him to serve as a contrast to the moral blackness of the rest. The story opens In Rouen, where the cardinal has stopped as the first halting place on his journey. There a wonderful boy, "Manuel," comes to him as a waif and accompanies him to Paris. He is really the Christ, but the cardinal does not know this, though he is mysteriously attracted to him and even fascinated by him, as are all oth ers into whose company he comes. The cardinal meets other "princes of the church" and numerous priests of varying degrees of Importance." A considerable part of the book is taken up with discussions between him and thefe men on the faults of the church and the causes of the social and religious degeneracy of the day. Manuel Is always present on these occasions, and now and then quietly Interpolates a significant word. A socialistic agitator, the unacknowledged son of a distinguished church dignitary, figures in the tale as a rising reformer. Incidentally a fierce verbal assault is made upon the Pope himself for his failure to distribute the stored riches of the Vatican upon the suffering poor of Italy. The woman of the story, a niece of the cardinal and an artist of amazing talent, Is engaged to be married to a fellow-artist who has none of her genius. Miss Corelli cherishes an unconcealed animosity to men, and manifests It by frequent sharp thrusts at them. The lover of the woman artist proves to be of small caliber. He Is Jealous of her superiority, and when he sees her masterpiece resolves that she shall have no fame from It. The author, in fact, seems to take particular delight in painting her male character in darkest colors. The introduction of Christ Into the story Is of more than doubtful propriety, and there are other lapses of taste. There is a crudeness, also, in the treatment of the subject which Is irritating. Assuming the evils to exist as she declares, she is not equal to handling them. This could only be done by a master of logic and of literature, a thorough student of the world and its problems, and she is none of these. The book, however. Is likely to be read as widely as its predecessors have been. It has, in fact, already gone through several editions. Published by Dodd, Mead & Co. Sonirs from Dixie Land. From the Bowen-Merrill Company comes a new volume of verse by Frank L. Stanton, of the Atlanta Constitution. Mr. Stanton has a notable lyrical gift and is a remarkably prolific writer. It has seemed sometimes to his friends, seeing his constant output, that he would be the gainer if he should check the ready flow and give more thought and time to his work before it is offered to the public; this not because of faults or flaws in his ver?e, for it is singularly free from them, but because it is the custom of those who write for future fame to labor with their productions, writing and rewriting and laying them aside to ripen. But on second

Popular Vote For Presidential Electors.

New York Times. The figures of the November election correctly stated, which are in all cases official, include the candidates of the National Union Reform party (Seth H. Ellis, of Ohio, for President, and Samuel T. Nicholson, of Pennsylvania, for Vice lYesldent) and In two States for the candidates of the United Christian party (J. F. R. Leonard, of Iowa, for lresident. and John G. Woolley, of Illinois, for Vice President), these votes being as follows: National Union Reform Arkansas. 341; Illinois. 672; Indiana, 251; Maryland. 147, and Ohio. 4.2M: total. B.R8. United ChristianIllinois. 352; Iowa. 1G6; total. 51S. In some States, as in Louisiana and South Carolina, there were the nominations of but two parties Republican and Democratic Elect'rl Votes Alabama .. Arkansas ., California Colorado .. Connecticut 11! 8! I ..... 9. 4 6i Delaware Florida .. Georgia . Idaho .... Illinois .. Indiana . Iowa Kansas . Kentucky Louisiana Maine ... Maryland 4 ...... 4 13 e e öl 24 1 151 13! 10! 13 8 f, 15 14 9 Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi .,, Missouri Montana Nebraska ..... ..........a 17 3 Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey , 4 10 3 New lork North Carolina 11 North Dakota Ohio ., Oregon I... ............... ..... 23! 41 32 4! -I 4! Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina 9! ..I 12; South Dakota Tennessee .... Texas 15 Utah Vermont ....i Virginia Washington ., West Virginia Wisconsin ... Wyoming ..... 12! 4 ; 12! 3 Totals 202 155

Total vote cast. Including 6,216 scattering. 13,067.308. McKinley plurality, S50.S24: McKlnley's majority, 46S.0.56. Xote In 189-McKinley (Rep.;, 7.104.770; Bryan (Dem.), 6.502,925: Palmer (Nat. Dem.), 133.424; Levering (Pro.), 132.007; Matchett (Soc. Iibor). 30.274; Rentley (Nat.), 13.9C3: total, 13.923.378; McKlnley's plurality. C01.S51; McKlnley's majority, 2VUS0.

thought It Is plain that it would hamper him unduly to bind him down to the toilsome methods of the poets of the library, with their classical models. He sings as the birds do. not for the future, but for today. Musical, rhythmical speech comes as readily to him as prose to the less gifted, and his sympathy with nature and with the life about him supplies him with sentiments that suit this form'of expression. A considerable part of this volume Is given up to negro dialect verse. He is almost as much the master of this dialect, now used chiefly by the older negroes and fast passing away, as his fellow-townsman. Joel Chandler Harris, and he understands the negro character so well that the plantation pongs are vivid portrayals of life and conditions. There Is a pleasant mingling of huTjpor, pathos and llght-heartedness in them. Other divisions of the book are "Just from Georgia," a miscellaneous collection of verses In some way especially celebrating that State, "Songs of Good Cheer." all speaking the gay optimism that distinguishes po much of his verse. There are some utterances of the "Philosopher," a bundle of "Love Songs" and another of "Songs of Other Days." From one of the latter entitled "The Old Books" are taken these lines: They are gray with the gray of ages. Borrowed, and begged, and sold; Thumb marked of saints and sages In the scholarly days of old. Rose leaves pressed for a lover Rest in their pages dim. Though silent centuries cover All that Is left of him. Singers and saints and sages In the fame of a name we trust. But time will cover our pages. As even our tombs, with dust; For here. In the library's shadows. Where the famed and fameless be, I roam in forgotten meadows. With the centuries over me. Smiles Yoked vrltli Sigh. In this volume of rhymes and Jingles, with here and there more dignified verse, Mr. Robert J. Burdette has indulged In more "smiles" than "sighs." He has a perennial fund of pleasant humor and ßayety and It is seldom that the note of pathos or melancholy Is allowed to creep Into his utterances. His mission is one oi good cheer and this book has all the merryheartedness characteristic of his earlier publications. He aims to amuse his fel-low-men, and It is a worthy aim in a world where is so much of trouble and weariness. He who inspires a wholesome, hearty laugh does a real service to the world. Here are some lines which will touch a retrospective chord in many a man's mind: 'Twas just behind the woodshed. One glorious summer day. Far o'er the hills the sinking sun Pursued his western way; And in my safe seclusion. Removed from all the Jar y And din of earth's confusion, I smoked my first cigar. It was my first cigar! It was the worst cigar! Raw, green and dank, hide-bound and rank. It was my first cigar! All pallid was my beaded brow, The reeling night was late, My startled mother cried in fear. "My child, what have you ate?" I heard my father's smothered laugh, It seemed so strange and far, I knew he knew 1 knew he knew I'd smoked mv first cigar! It was my first cigar! A give-away cigar! I could not die I knew not whyIt was my first cigar! The volume Is beautifully gotten up, printed on heavy paper and with illustrations by Will Vawter on every page. Mr. Vawter has a sense of humor which enables him to fit the drawings to the text in a most happy way. His technique is also much Improved and he takes rank among the best of the illustrators. The book is a good one to have bing on the table within easy reach. Published by the Bowen-Mer rill Company. Books for Yoansr Headers. Persons in search of Juvenile literature need not go far this season though they may experience an embarrassment of riches In the number of such books. Among those tecently received by the Journal are "A Brave Defense," by William P. Chipman, being a graphic and historically true account of the gallant fight against fearful odds made by the American patriots at Fort Griswold. Groton Heights. Connecticut, during the revolutionary war; "On the Kentucky Frontier," by James Otis, a story based on facts and dealing In a very interesting way with events In which Col. George Rogers Clark, Simon Kenton and other frontier patriots of the revolutionary period took part; "The Defense of Fort Henry." by James Otis, a story that deals with- the experiences of the brave men and women .who founded the settlement of Wheeling in the colony of Virginia, and of the heroic and thrilling incidents con nected with the defense of Fort Henry in 1777. These three books are calculated not only to interest young readers, but to in form them concerning important events in American history. The first two are published In the Young Patriot series and the last In the Continental series by A. L. Burt, New York. The following have been received from the Penn Publishing Company. Philadelphia: "Earning Her Way to Col lege." by Mrs. Clarke Johnson, a wholesome Etory of an ambitious girl who overcomes many obstacles that stand in the way of a college course. A first-rate story for girls. "Maid at King Alfred's Court." by Lucy F. Madison, a tale of the ninth century which relates the trying experiences of a young girl who finally becomes one ot King Alfred's family a faithful portrayal of those remote times and re-

upon the ballot; in other States there weie three and four, and In some eight. In the table the vote for the elector receiving the hUhest number of ballots is given in all the States where obtainable. In this State the vote for the fint elector on each ballot as officially canvassed and declared is given. The electors chosen in the several States will meet at their respective i.tate capitals on the second Monday In January next to cast their ballots for President and Vice President of the United States. On the second Wednesday of February the Senate and the House of Representatives will meet In joint convention in the hall of the House in the OapUol at Washington, the president of the Senate presiding, and then will canvas the votes of the electors of, all the States and declare the results.

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"Uxiled to Siberia." a story for boys, the action of which occurs In the mines and military prisons of frozen Siberia, and which relates exciting adventures in a spirited manner. "The Boer Boy of the Transvaal," translated from the German of August Niemann, in which Is described the career of a brave Boer lad who did gallant service for his country and had some exciting adventures. The story conveys much Interesting Information concerning the Transvaal country. "The story of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table." told for boys and girls by Dr. L'dward Brooks, an accurate historian and practiced writer. "The Young Financier." by W. O. Stoddard, a story the scene of which is laid In the money center of New York and the hero of which begins life as a broker's messenger boy and finally rises to a position of Importance. "Bockers and His Chum Peggy," a story of boy school life in which Bocker and Peggy, who Is a boy, not a girl, are Joint heroes along with several other boys. All of the foregoing are clean and interesting stories, and entirely free from sensational or other objectionable features. "Italph Connor" Xovels. One need not read very far Into either "Black Rock" or "The Sky Pilot" to discover that the man who wrote them must ' be himself one who has helped other men to make the best of life; must be, in short, a "sky pilot." Also he must be possessed of an acute Insight into the characters, the motives, tho temptations, the hopes and aspirations of his fellow-men and a sympa thy with them in their troubles. Moreover, and not the least Important of his qualities, , he has a keen sense of humor. Black Rock," which was first Issued several months ago, and has won Its way to popular favor by" sheer force of merit, has already reached a circulation of many thousands. It is a story of the rough life among the lumbermen of Northwestern Canada. It is told in an unconventional way, and there is little or no plot, but the reader who begins it will read to the end because of its thoroughly human Interest. The author succeeds by the simple fact of -his own earnestness and sincerity, rather than by literary art, in giving the atmosphere of realism to his work. One feels that the events portrayed must have happened. In an introduction Trof. George Adam Smith sayg, truly enough: "I do not tltlnk there is any one who shall read this book and not find also that his conscience is quickened. There Is a warfare appointed unto man upon earth, and its struggles are nowhere more Intense, nor the victories of the strong, nor the succors brought to the fallen, more heroic, than on the fields described In this volume." The author himself, who Is Charles Gordon, a Canadian clergyman, but who writes over the signature of "Ralph Connor," says: "Because a man's life is all he has, and because the only hope of the brave young West lies in its men, this story is told. It may be that the tragic pity of a broken life may move some to pray, and that that divine power there is in a single brave heart to summon forth hope and courage may move some to fight. If so, the tale is not told In vain." 'The Sky Pilot" is a story of the same class of men In the foothill country and of the labors of a missionary among them. It is written in the same sweet and reverent spirit as the other, and with the same thorough manliness permeating it. Both are good stories of real life and worth putting into the hands of young or old. Each volume has a number of spirited illustrations by Louis Rhead. Published by the Fleming H. Revell Company. New York. Women of the American Herniation. One of the prettiest gift books of the season, a book possessing historic and literary interest for the general reader and specfal Interest for the descendants of revolutionary ancestors is "Women of the American Revolution," by Elizabeth F. Eilet. When the author commenced the preparation of the work she could not have foreseen the deep interest in colonial and revolutionary history that was destined to mark the last decade of the nineteenth century, nor could she have realized that the various patriotic societies that were to be organized among women would lead to as great an interest in the lives of the mothers as In thoso of the fathers of the Republic. . The work was first published many years ago, before the interest referred to had become as widespread and active as it now Is. and the present edition will add materially to the information regarding the period and the people to which It relates. It is the most comprehensive work of the kind extant, and, as much of the information was gained from persons who had it at first hand, it possesses peculiar value. It 13 valuable, too, on account of its scope, as It embraces sketches not only of women who were prominent in the centers of action, but of those who lived in small country towns or rernot ccuntry places and yet bore an honorable part In the trials of the times that tried men's souls. The two handsome volumes of C50 pages contain sketches of about 12Ü women of the revolutionary period, living la different parts of all the thirteen original colonics and in Kentucky, -ome mirrled and some single. Lut all Interesting personalities, noted for their patriotism and some of them for their beauty, wit and personal charm. The sketches abound with incident and anecdote illustrative of character and of the times. There is an appreciative introduction by Anne Holhngsworth Wharton, author of "Colonial Days and Dames." The book is publish"! in very attractive form by Georgo V, Jacobs & Co.. Philadelphia. Hooks for Music letters. L. C. Page St Co., Bcston, have struck an original load In thtir Mulc Lovers Series. The serifs, when complete, will embrace seven volumes, each complete la Itself, and together forming a set which

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