Indianapolis Journal, Volume 51, Number 56, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 February 1901 — Page 4

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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 190L

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LOUIS Union News ComrfJiy. Union Depot IV A 53 HINT: TON". TV C?. TtlfcSTS House. Ebbltt House and Wlllard's HoteL The present Legislature has not indulged In a single Junket, for which It is entitled to credit. Three Republican legislatures did so much good work that the State would not suf fer if no other bills are passed than those appropriating money for current expendl .ures. The Muncle Normal School scheme is not yet dead, and because it is not it jhould be watched and fought by every representative who would not waste the State's money. The talk about the Danish West Indies is growing tiresome. If Denmark really wants to dispose of them she should mark her lowest price in plain figures and put tfcera on her bargain counter. The Democrats in Congress are said to be tired of Representative Richardson as a leader and to be easting about for a new one. The Republicans have no reason to be dissatisfied with Richardson, for he generally leads his party to defeat. The blatherskite Lentz, after his speech designed to encourage desertion from the crmy in the Philippines, declared that he Is a "Jeffersonian-Llncoln Democrat. Thereupon Mr. Moody read from Lincoln's letter to 'the copperheads in 1S63 condemning "more, the wily agitator who Induced the soldiers to desert than the soldier himself," which made It very unpleasant for Lentz. During the present week Chicago Is to have a show that promises to be unique and Instructive. It Is called a forest, fish and game exposition, and will contain live specimens of all existing species of wild animals, birds and fishes found In America, as far as they can be obtained, and surrounded with their natural environments. An exhibition of that kind ought .o possess a value beyond the merely turious. There Is always such a howl about the lobby, and Its methods about legislatures that many people believe a mint of money Is spent in Influencing members. The Journal has no faith in most of these stories regarding the methods of the lobby. But where there is so much talk the wonder is that legislatures do not ask thoso who print columns about such Influences to come forward and verify their gossip by evidence which Is recognized by the courts. The national House committee on rail ways and canals has reported favorably on a bill to appropriate $20,000 for an appraisement of the Delaware and Chesa peake canal. This would be preliminary to Its purchase, which is urged on the ground ihat an Inland deep-water canal would . enable battleships to be hastened from the Philadelphia navy yard into Chesapeake bay for the protection of Baltimore and Washington. Of course, there is no job back of this patriotic suggestion. The hearing before the committee in jharge of the bill authorizing the City Council to compel the railroads to elevate Ihelr tracks discloses the fact that the manufacturing and business Interests of the city are very largely opposed to the measure. The accidents incident to grade crossings are deplorable, but ten serious accidents occur on the lines of the street railways to one at steam-railway crossings; yet no one urges the elevation of tho tracks of the street railways. The forestry question has not attracted much attention In Indiana yet. hut with the continued destruction and growing scarcity of timber the time Is not far distant when It will. New York has a State College of Forestry, which Is liberally supported, and the States of Pennsylvania. Wisconsin, Minnesota. Michigan and Kansas have for estry laws and commissions. Besides these State there are more than a dozen others which have local branches of the National Forestry Association, whose object Is to create an intelligent public sentiment on tho question. The recent comments of Mr. Justice Brewer, of the United States Supreme Court, regarding the defects of the Jury system have attracted considerable atten tlon and elicited other expressions from judgos and lawyers. The weight of opin ion seems to be that Jury service ought to be made less onerous to the average cit izen, and that, as regards verdicts, a three-fourths rule would be better than one requiring unanimity. These opinions. however, are largely academic and are not likely to have much effect on an institu tion so well established as the Jury system. The late Maurice Thompsons popular novel, "Alice of Old Vlncenncs." seems to I I :cn r Insularly fortunate In the time r ! z :"'t';3. The Journal has al-

ready mentioned that when Mr. Thompson's story was announced Miss Caroline

Krout. of Crawfordsville, had already made considerable progress in the writing of one dealing with the same perlod and scenes. and some of the same characters, and now it appears there was another. Mr. Robert P. Harrison, of Danville, 111., shows the manuscript cf a .story entitled "Post of Old Vinccnnes," which he had actually finished and turned over to a typewriter to copy when Mr. Thompson's book appeared, dealing with the same events and character?, and, of course, taking all the wind out of the Illinois man's sall3. The moral for story writers seems to be: "Get your book out as soon as possible." Olli DUTY IV CUBA. Congress and the President seem to be approaching an understanding on the Cuban question that will probably prove satisfactory to the Cubans and at the same time do away with the necessity for an extra session of Congress. The latter is not highly Important, the personal convenience of congresmen being the main question involved, but If the Cuban question can be satisfactorily adjusted without an extra session It may as well be omitted. The present proposition is to modify tho demands of the Unlrca States and, instead of insisting on constitutional guarantees, make them a matter of treaty stipulation. The new proposition embodies the following points: That the United States shall have superVision of all treaties with foreign countries made by th2 Republic of Cuba. That Cuba shall not undertake to pay the debt incurred by Spain in her war.wltn Cuba prior to or after the Intervention of the United States. That Cuba shall agree either to lease or to sell to the United States such coaling or naval stations as in the opinion of the President of the United States may be necessary to the protection of the interests cf this country. That the United States shall have sufficient supervision of the laws of Cuba re lating to sanitation to protect this country from epidemics liable to originate there. These conditions are even more lenient than those first proposed. They represent the minimum of what the "United btates should insist upon as a guarantee of future good behavior by Cuba and the safeguarding of our own Interests. Acceptance of and compliance with these conditions by Cuba will conduce to her own safety and prosperity, as well as to the protection of American interests. Rejection of them will show that the Cubans are still actuated by a spirit that bodes trouble. A' Washington dispatch says: There is more or less contention over the exact meaning of the word "pacification" as used in the Teller resolution. That resolution provided that the United States forces should be removed from the Island when it should become "pacified." The contention 13 that this Is a word that may j be broadly Interpreted and may permit the United States troops to remain for a long period of time. J That is precisely the point made by thi3 paper in a recent editorial on the subject, which called attention to the fact that the term "pacification" is a broad one, including not merely the t-ppressloa of acti hostilities, but the establishment of conditions that promise permanent peace. "Congress," it was said, "made no pledge to withdraw our troops within a specified time or at a specified point of pacification. It left for the President, or retained for Itself, a jfree hand in this matter." Congress should adhere firmly to this view. Cuba will not be truly pacified until she has solemnly agreed to terms that insure the preservation of peace and the safeguarding of the interests of her deliverer. Refusal to do this Is antl-paclflcatlon. It is the duty of the United States to exercise the control over Cuba that Is necessary to establish permanent pacification and, when that Is done, to leave the government and control of the island to its people then, and not before. t THE XCW SYSTEM OF SLAVERY. As might be expected the depriving of the colored men in South Carolina of th ballot has been followed by outrages which would make slavery preferable. This condition has been revealed by the investiga tion of tho circumstances attending the murder of a negro named Hull In Ander son county. Judge Bennett ordered an investigation of the case by the grand Jury. Jt appears that under the contract system which prevails the blacks are reduced to a condition as bad if not worse than slavery. A farmer named Newall swore out a war rant for a negro named Hull, in which he was charged with violation of a labor con tract. The warrant was granted and put Into Newall's hands to serve. Accompanied by a constable Newall went to Hull's house, arrested him and, without trial, took him to his stockade and put him to work. In an attempt to escape Hull wa's shot Judge Bennett, commenting on the case, tald: Hero was a porr Ignorant necro taken irom nis wire ana crumren under a pretext of arrest. The machinery of the law M was used to seize him, take him from his home, and put him In a convicts stock ade and work him like a convict without process of law. lie was under no sentence of the court; he had not been tried. The testimony shows that he was guarded llko a convict, made to labor like a convict, ana treated in an respec's like a convict. One of the salient features of tho con tract which the ignorant colored man Is re quired to sign reads as follows: I agree at all times to bo subject to the i-rders and commands ot said landlord or Ms agents: that he. the landlord, shall have a right to use such force as he or his agents may deem necessary to require me to remain on nis farm and to perform good and satisfactory services. He shall have the right to lock me up for safe Keeping. Another stipulation in the contract shows that the colored laborer is in a more de plorable condition than he was as a slave. Then the master paid for tho apprehen sion and the slave was punished. Now he confesses his servitude and the rightful ness of it by the following agreement: If I should leave his farm or run away. ne snan nave me rignt to oner ana pay a reward not exceeding for my capture and return, together with expenses of sime, which amount, so advanced, together with any lnaeDteanesa 1 may owe at the expiration or the above time, I agree to work out under all the rul-s and regula uons or this contract at the same waces as aDove. Even Judge Bennett denounces such a contract system as designed to reduce tho negro to a condition of slavery a3 absolute as that existing before the war. "I doubt," he added, "if there was ever such a contract framed or devised or conceived n ftr.y civilized or Christian country. Nevertheless, It prevails to-day in South Carolina, coming with the regime of Till manfsm. Doubtless the pitchfork senator. who Is constantly assailing the institutions of the North and prating about the denial of freedom to tho Filipinos, will defend it in the Senate. Nevertheless, he Is rcsponsl ble for the legislation which is designed to give force to euch contracts as are hero referred to. Some time, sooner or later tut the sooner ths better, the Congress should Inquire Into this Infamous irzttm,

whlch makes the colored man in South Carolina a slave with less privileges than had his ancestors In 1SG1. THE VENOM Or THE IIISOKUXTLED. The New York Sun. speaking of the enemies of George .shington who so venomously assailed him, says that they "were Jealous rivals, hypocritical friends, malicious partisans and rejected officeseekers." The statement is true as a whole, and it is emphatically true of rejected officeseekers and officeholders who T?ere dismissed for inefficiency and dishonesty. Throughout his public career the men who conspired to overthrow Washington or assailed him cn personal grounds were men whom he had assisted to public place and who turned out badly in the end and those upon whom he refused to confer official position. General Gates wrote letters praising him, but traduced him when he could safely do so. Washington befriended Edmund Randolph, making him attorney general, but when he was compelled to resign under a cloud he assailed Washington In a pamphlet. It was in connection with this pamphlet that Washington parted company with his dignity and temper to declare, "By the eternal God, he is the damndest liar on the face of the earth." Thomas Faine, in dedicating hl3 'Rights of Man" to Washington, dwelt upon his "exemplary virtues," but when Washington refused to make him postmaster general he issued a pamphlet in which, addressing Washington in the second person, he said: "As for you, sir, treacherous In private friendship and a hypocrite in public life, the world will be puzzled to decide whether you are an apostate or an Impostor, whether you have abandoned good principles or whether you ever had any." And this change from flatterer to assailant came about because Washington did not make Paine postmaster general. If Wash

ington had been investigated all the men whom he dropped because of unfaithfulness and those whom he did not appoint would have been eager to testify against him and would have presented slanders born of their malice. Since Washington every President has had his list of ingrates, long or short In proportion to the quality of their public service. Lincoln had a goodly list who al lowed their personal grievances to make them comforters of the leaders of the re bellion. Charity prevents naming some of them. Grant had a long list, Including men who deserted their party to assail him. Some were dismissed from the public service, and the claims of others to patronage were not allowed. When the Democrats investigated his administration in 1873 and 1S76 a drag net was spreau which brought to the surface every dismissed public servant with his story of rascality, while men In Congress assailed the Grant administration for its alleged iniquities. Unfaithful ex-subordinates and senators alike were inspired with grievances growing out of patronage. These are facts worth remembering, and they should establish a precedent that the stories of discharged officials and subordinates should be accepted as tes timony only so far as substantiated by other witnesses. The decision of Ir. Dougherty not to contest the election of Senator Lawler, elected since the session began to represent the district of Jackson and Wash ington, is In every way a wise one. That Mr. Lawler had a large majority of the votes polled there could be no doubt. Such being the case, the will of the majority should not be set aside because of the stupidity of election officers. There being no charge of fraud in the management of the election, a Republican Senate cannot afford to unseat a man who had a large ma jority because it would not be right. It may be added that If it had been a Democratic oenaie, anu it Air. .uawier naa been a A 1 mm mar "W - . Republican, he would have been unseated, Judging from the performances of the Dem ocratic Senate under Greene Smith In 1SS7. Among the good measures which seem to have been pushed to the rear by private and local legislation are the bills of Sena tor Goodwine to provide for the purchase of school supplies by a board, and Mr. Scott.a blll creating county school boards. FHOM HITHEH AND YON". Her Contrariness. Brooklyn Life. Mrs. Renham Not one woman in a thousand marrle the man she wants. Renham She don't want to marry the man she wants; she wants to marry the man some other woman wants. netter Late than Never. Harper's Razar. "You may recall me, sir. as the man who eloped with your daughter about a year ago." "Well, sir, what can I do for your "I may be a little bit tardy, but I have com to offer you my congratulations." Ills Decorations. Washlncton Star. "What's dem spots on you all's forehead?" asked Mr. F.rastus Pinkley. "My wife done Kimme dem," nnwered Mr. SImkins Colllflower. "Dat's the stylishes kln o decorations. iJem's peker dots." Just Like n 1'oliccmnn. Chicago Post. "What's the charge?" asked the judge. "Impersonating an officer," answered the pros ecutor. "What was he doing V "I saw him helping himself to fruit and pea nuts from the street vender's stand." Fatal Delusion. Detroit Journal. She contemplated the future with terror. "I already weigh 20Ö pounds, and still I gain In fpite of all I can do!" sh moaned. We quoted from Madame Rlavatsky and Mar cus Aurelius to the effect that fleshiness is not necessarily preclusive of happiness. A person. we maintained, may bo happy though fat. "Dut what If ehe also thinks she Is cute?" cried ths woman, turning upon us almost sav agely. Now, st last, we began to understand. INDIANA EDITORIAL NOTES. Tho Indiana State Legislature Is making a record for itself if it is not making many or tne Dtggm. cities or tne State haonv. .naerson isuueun. . . . . In Indiana 4 per cent, of the prisoners that ccme under the operation of law are women. In Kansas the percentage of wom en is only 1 plus Mrs. nation. Elkhart Re view. The course of the administration in China is a dally rebuke to those who charge this Nation with following England's lead, or that this Nation is started on a conquest of territory. Richmond item. Mr. Bryan's paper credits "The American Flag" to Francis Drake, instead of Joseph Rodman Drake. Bryan Is thinking so much about pirates and buccaneers that he mixes the old sea rover and the poet. Terre Haute Express. Susan B. Anthony has Just remarked: "The hatchet Is tho weapon of barbarism; tViM Vallnt la th ons WMnon nf rlvllfroHon." ßusaa B, has been regarded as a

pretty able exponent of the temperance cause. Crawfordsville Journal.

Another crisis has been discovered In China. The United States refuses to be a party in the offensive operations against the Chinese. If this business keeps on a well-developed crisis will appear and some one will be hurt by lt. Muncle Times. General Chaffee will take no part in the proposed raid of the allied armies in China. He will be directed from WaJhington to abstain from participation. This government believes it best to be a little patient aim bear with the Chinese authorities rather than precipitate further bloodshed. v incennes Commercial. It Is said that men never forgive those whom they Injure, but hate them and hound them through life if possible. The truth of the observation is demonstrated by the malevolent malice displayed by Governor Beckham toward Governor Taylor, whose stolen office with its honors and emoluments. Beckham appropriated. Rockport Journal. Speaker Artman is making it hot for the lobbyists and some of them are not appreciating It very much. There are many lobbyists who are not offensive and who work in a legitimate way to secure the passage of their favorite measures. To these persons there can be little objection. But there are others who make themselves very offensive and who resort to all sorts of illegitimate methods to secure the passage of their bills. Columbus Republican. Hoke Smith says: "If Ulli Is out of it, why not nominate Wayne MacVeagh? He is a big, strong man." So he is, Intellectually, at least, even If not physically. But why this persistence about presenting the names of presidential possibilities three years ahead of time? Why not pay more attention to building up a strong party rather than putting the presidential bee Into the bonnets or our public men? First let us get matters in shape to elect; to select will be easy.-South Bend Times. THE NEW STAR IN PERSEUS. The sudden appearance of a flrst-magnl-tude star in the constellation of Perseus is doubtless the most important stellar phenomenon that has occurred since the Invention of the telescope. The only firstmagnitude star In the northern heavens has been Capella. in the constellation of Auriga, which bounds Perseus on the east. -Last night the new star excelled Capella in brilliancy, and therefore stands first among the stars of the northern sky. It is not a rare event for a new star to blaze forth, but they are rarely of first magnitude. Such stars are called nova, and the present visitor will hereafter be known as Nova Persel. If it continues to increase In brilliancy it will in a few days excel Sirius and stand first in magnitude among all the stars of the heavens. Hipparchus observed a first-magnitude star that appeared In Scorpio B. C. 134. The most remarkable new star was that which appeared Nov. 8, 1572 (forty years before the telescope was Invented) in Cassiopeia, which at once surpassed In splendor the brightest planets and was even visible at noon day. Gradually its light faded until in March, 1573, it became utterly extinct. It passed through all the phenomena of prodigious flame, beginning with a brilliant white color, then changing to a red and finally to ashy paleness. In 1604 another star of equal brightness appeared and was fully described by Kapler. During the last century four new stars were born, as follows: In 1S66, in Corona Borealis; 1S76, in Cygnus; 18S3, In Andromeda; 1892, in Auriga. All the above stars were temporary and very remote, none having a measurable parallax. La .Place says: "As to those stars that suddenly shine forth with a very vivid light and then immediately disappear it is extremely probable that great conflagra tions produced by extraordinary causes take place on them." The spectroscope has proved a valuable Instrument for observing new stars. It has always shown the presence of incandescent hydrogen gas. Nova Auriga showed a movement of 500 miles a second. Tests for distance proved it to be as remote as the Galaxy, and owing to the time required for light to travel the outburst of light must have occurred at least one hundred years before It was visible to astronomers. All the new stars have appeared in or near the Milky Way. The constellation of Per seus exhibits a sublime phenomenon of rich and varied star clusters. According to the hypothesis of Herschel the star cluster to which our system belongs is lens-shaped and we are near its center. When we look out toward the edge of this lenticular star cluster tho eye encounters vast stellar depths which give us the light of the Milky "Way encircling the heavens. It is prob ably due to the great number of stars in the Galaxy that so many new stars have appeared in or near it. From what has been said it will be seen that all the new stars have had an ephemeral existence. Regarding the possibility of our sun being subject to an outburst of light and heat similar to that of a new star Professor Newcomb says: "We may almost say that the continued existence of the human race is Involved In this question, for if the heat of the sun should even Xcjr a day increase a hnnHrfnid the hiff-hrXnrrtor nf nnimjii nnrt . M , i , only reply to It that the general analogies of nature lead us to believe that we need not feel any apprehension of such a catas trophe. Not the slightest certain variation of the solar heat has been detected since the invention of the thermometer, and the general constancy of the light of ninetynine stars out of every hundred may in spire us with entire confidence that no sud den and destructive variation need be feared in the case of our sun." JOHN C. DEAN. Indianapolis, Feb. 24. MURDER CONSPIRACY In Evidence tn the Killing of Captain Dotson In Montana. HELENA, Mont., Feb. 24. Capt. Oliver Dotson, whose body was found in his cabin in Washington gulch, undoubtedly was murdered. Sheriff McMahon, of Powell county, and Deputy Sheriff Robinson, of Deer Lodge county, who have been Investi gating the case, are in the city to-day. They say Dotson was murdered and that the confession purporting to come from him in which he was made to declare his son and grandson innocent of the murder of Eueene Cullinane was a forgery. There is every reason to believe that the murder was committed bj an ex-convict, who, it is asserted, had conspired with Clinton Dotson, Captain Dotson's son, now serving ninety-nine years In the penitentiary, to kill the old man with the expectation or securing the son and grandson a - pardon through the fraudulent confession. This ex-convict and Captain Dotson were to gether in the smallpox hospital at Helena until two weeks ago. when they were dis charged. The former. It 13 believed, went to Dotson s cabin, arrlvinpr there before the old roan, whom he killed within a few min utes after his return. The officers had been informed of the conspiracy, but did not believe it would be carried out. DROWNED HER CHILDREN. Poverty-stricken Widow Put Denth in n Well. Six to COLFAX, Wash.. Feb. 24. Mrs. Rose Werzer, a widow, in a fit of insanity drowned her six children, aged from four to twelve years, at Unlontown, Wash., today. Two were boys and four girls. She threw them Into a well thirty feet deep, containing two feet of water, thon jumped in herself and held the heads of the children beneath the surface until all were drowned. Mrs. Werzer was found alive In the well with her six murdered children by the neighbors, who pulled her out with a rope. She is violently insane. The woman's husband died a year ago, since which time she has been support d by the and the chaxltw aC naivKrt

RECENT PUBLICATIONS.

Lifo of Thomas Jefferson. Under ordinary circumstances there would be no necessity of a new life of Thomas Jefferson, as between his own writings and biographies by others the subject has been pretty well exhausted. But the plan of Small, Maynard & Co.'s "Beacon Biographies," which is to furnish brief accounts of the lives of prominent Americans, seems to Justify a new one of the "sage of Monticello." The biographies in this series do not profess to be full and complete they aim at brevity and at portraying the personal characters and lives of the subjects in a way to make the reader better acquainted with them rather than dealing with general history. This life of Jefferson is by Hon. Thomas E. Watson, of Georgia, Democratic-Populist politician and former candidate for Vice President. It shows him to be a writer of good English and the possessor of a lively style of narrative well suited to a biography of this kind. It also shows that he is sometimes freer in the expression of personal and partisan views than a writer of history or biography should be. The main events in Jefferson's life are succinctly related and his personal character and domestic life are portrayed in a readable and Interesting manner, but it is plain all the way through that the author is too great an admirer of Jefferson to treat his subject with absolute impartiality or to deal quite fairly with those who differed with Jefferson. Thus of Alexander Hamilton he says: "Mr. Hamilton, born In the British West Indies, remained more or less alien in feeling to the country of his adoption and made no secret of his preference for English institutions. With an adventurer's natural sense ot his own weakness he clung to the rich and the great, becoming their advocate and leader In the United States much as two other upstarts, Canning and Disraeli, did in Great Britain. William Titt himself did not despise 'the mob with more heartiness than did Alexander Hamilton. According to his view it had pleased the Almighty to create Just a very few men who deserved to enjoy a monopoly of the good things of govern ment. For these select worthies the banquet of national favors was to be spread, and they were welcome to eat, drink and be merry. The mob, the unwashed multitude, the unfavored class of the people were to be content with such crumbs, scraps and bones as might be flung to them after the banquet wTas over; and the resignation with which they devoured these leavings was to be sweetened by the remembrance that their labor had furnished the feast. Hamilton looked upon English institutions, saw that they were good and straightway imported them. In England they had established a partner ship between the government and the privi leged. Hamilton hoped and believed they would in the course of time bear the same fruits here. For that purpose he introduced them. For that reason Jefferson opposed them. President Washington be lieved himself to be nonpartisan. In fact, he was a Federalist. No matter how earn estly he might seek advice, no matter how long he might hesitate he never failed to go with Hamilton on the vital questions necessary to Hamilton." To say that this Is a grossly unjust presentation of Hamilton's character and views Is stating It very mildly. A biographer may have his per sonal convictions, but he has no right to adopt the tone of a partisan. In spite of this defect, however, which crops out in other passages, the book as a whole is bright and readable. Sharps and Flats. In the list of American journalists who have won literary fame by their work in a daily newspaper the name of Eugene Field stands conspicuous. He had done some bright newspaper work before he came to Chicago, but his real career as a newspaper writer and author dates from 1S83, when his connection with the Chicago News, now Record, first began to show in a column entitled "Current Gossip" and afterwards changed to "Sharps and Flats." Under the latter title Mr. Field continued his con tributions to the paper until a few days be fore his death in 1S95, and probably no newspaper writer ever had more admiring readers or achieved a more unique and distinctive literary fame than he did during that period. He wrote prose and verse with equal felicity, and his writings in both forms covered an almost unlimited range of topics. Sometimes the "Sharps and Flats" column would be filled with a single story or sketch, but generally it contained a number of short articles and paragraphs or poems clone in a style peculiarly the author's own. A collection of the best of them has been made and published in two pretty volumes. The compiler, Mr. Slason Thompson, seems to have exercised much care in the selections, for he says the two volumes do not contain more than the onehundredth part of Mr. Field's writings in the "Sharps and Flats" column. The selections, many of which are In verse, possess real and permanent literary value and are well worth preserving in book form. Throughout both volumes the author's wit and humor are much In evidence, as also are his critical and artistic tastes. The book Is published by Charles Scribner's Sons. The Art of Translating. To the uninitiated translation from one language to another seems a very simple matter. Involving nothing more than an ability to read a foreign language easily and with understanding. Thoso who have had experience know that nothing is so rare as a translator who can transfer to his own tongue the style and spirit, the soul, as It were, of a foreign book, tn say nothing or tne laeas the original au I thor wished to convey. To accomplish this work the translator must not only know the foreign language in all its intricacies and subtleties, but must be as thoroughly acquainted with his own, and must first be able to write well in his own. The combination Is hard to find, and the con sequence is that translators of forelen works too often fail to give the flavor of the original. With a realization of this difficulty and or the fact that persons aualmea to ao sucn work may need guidance. Professor Herbert Cushing Tolman, of xanaerbiit university. ha3 prepared a lit. tie treatise on the art of translating which win De iouna very useful not only to those witn ambitious designs in this direction. but to students and beginners. He bases his Instructions on Cauer's "Die Kunst des Lebersetzens," of which work he speak.highly, but his book, is not a translation or adaptation of Cauer's book. He is di rect ana practical in his suggestions, and me voiume is imeiy to meet a want. Published by BenJ. II. Sanborne & Co., Boston Mrs. Clyde. A second novel by Julien Gordon, author of "A Puritan Pagan," shows the author to be possessed of real power in the concep tion and analysis of character and in deal ing with the realities of life. "Mrs. Clyde" is designated in a subtitle as "The Story of a Social Career." and such It certainly Is. Introducing at the beginning a pretty and unsophisticated girl who has been born and reared in a New England village, but who possesses undeveloped qualities of bound less selfishness and ambition to shine in so ciety. The story follows her throuch the various phases of a broken engagement, a mercenary marriage, a heartless married life and the various episodes of a frivolous married woman's existence to the pinnacle of social fame, where she reigns for a while only to be deserted by her fashionable friends and even her own daughter and to discover, at last, on a sick bed, that she has lived utterly In vain. The story of this social evolution and character development. with Its varying phases of fashionable life in Boston. New York and Europe, is well told. and. without being a purpose story, it conveys a moral. The average storyreader will pronounce "Mrs. Clyde" a good cne. New York: u. Appieton & Co. A Catch from Applcton's. A recent Issue in Appleton's paper series of novels Is "A Private Chivalry." by Fran eis Lynde. It is a story of American life in which Is a mingling of business affairs, love. Jealousy, crime, etc., that altogether makes a lively and interesting combina tion. It is very well told. "King Stork of the Netherlands" Is a romance of the early davs or tne uutcn repuouc. Dy Albert Lee, and. thouKh necessarily of a . stronr his torical flavor, has.a still stronger interest of romance. "My Indian Queen," by Guy Boothby. is a record of tho adventures of Sir Charles Verrender, baronet, in the East Indies. Boothby has established a name as a writer of novels that are not dull, and sustains his reputation in this. "A Hero in Homespun." by William E. Barton, is a tale of the loyal South. It is of the period, of course, of the civil war. and deals with a different element from that usually foun

In civil war fiction. It is difficult to separate fact and fiction In Its pages, and

there Is apparently much of the former.. Mnraulny's Essays. This little volume, edited by George A. Watrous, contains selections from the essays of Thomas Babington Macaulay which deal with literary themes The essays chesen are those on Milton, Dryden, Addison, Bunyan, Goldsmith and Johnson. Macaulay treats his subjects from the historical rather than the analytical standpoint, and thus covers a wide range In the progress of events and development or thought This method prevents the essays . from hinsr In a strict stnse "literary. tut they nevertheless give an Insight into the literature of the time which can only come from an understanding of general conaitions then existing. Mr. Watrous has done a service to students in putting xnese essays In such convenient form. Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., New York. Tnwp and Other Tlilnff. This is the original and unique title given to a collection of poems or verses of a very distinctive and peculiar kind, most of which have appeared on the editorial page of the New York Sun. Tha author is Mr. William J. Lamoton. and he has created a school of poetry, or fcemi-poetry. which is quite unlike any other. The "Yawps" which compose this volume consist of short, jerky compositions, most of which are devoid of rhyme, but full of breezy humor, keen wit and wholesome good feeling. Some of the short poems show line poetic feeling, others are very mirth provoking, and it may be truthfully said there is not a dull page in the book. It is published by the Henry Altemus Company, Philadelphia. Songs of AH Lands. Prof. W. S. B. Mathews, of Chicago, has had the happy thought of making a collection of patriotic, national and folk songs of many 'countries. Some of these are very well known in this country, but others are new to native Americans. Some of the newest and best are from Bohemian, Russian. Norwegian, and Danish sources which hitherto have been neglected. The book has been prepared especially for schools and social gatherings and contains many English part songs and glees. The music is In three and four parts and many of the English selections have piano-forte accompaniments. It Is published by the American Book Company, Cincinnati. A Triple Entanglement. This romance, by Mrs. Burton Harrison, is the story of the love affairs of a young American man and an Englteh girl who met as travelers in Spain. The girl was engaged to another man at the time, and as a result of this came many misunderfctandings and complications, and much unhappiness. In time, however, as is proper in all romances, the tangles were straightened out to the satisfaction of the deserving. The story Is very well told, with less discursiveness than is usual with this author. The J. B. Llppincott Company, publishers. The Old Gentleman of the Black Stock This tenderly pathetic story Is among the best things written by Thomas Nelson Page. The romances of a past generation are woven deftly Into those of the present and the affairs of the "Old Gentleman" are made as interesting as those of the younger man so casually brought Into association with him. The atmosphere of a past time Is skillfully conveyed. Admirers of this lit tle story will like it. especially In the at tractive setting Into which it has been put by the Scribners. Its Illustrations are by Christy. Overheard In a Garden. This volume of verse by Olive Herford 13 divided into four parts poems overheard in a garden, not in a garden, bubbles and curtain calls. As might be inferred from these classifications, the verses are of - a light and airy character, some of them quite out of the ordinary in conception, and they are accompanied by many quaint Illustrations done by the author. New York: Charles Scribner's Sone. Anions: the Magazines. Harper's Bazar has made ' a new de parture. The price of the regular once-a-week Bazar still continues at $4 a year for fifty-two numbers, but hereafter one num ber a month of the Bazar will be issued as a special fashion number a big magazine at i a year, 'inis once-a-month number will contain over ninety pages devoted to fashions, good form and domestic topics. The March Century will contain an ac count of the flight of the Empress dowager from Peking. The author, Miss Luella Miner, a missionary of the American board. obtained the story from a Chinese gentleman, to whom the facts were told by a friend who accompanied the Empress dowager when she fled from Peking. It was generally supposed that the royal family had left Peking several days or even Weeks before the foreign troops entered, but It is known now that they did not flee until after the legations were relieved. The Smart Set undertakes to entertain. not Instruct, and carries out Its purpose very sucessfully. The March Issue con tains a great variety of prose and verse of a clever sort, beginning with a novelette by Mrs. Burton Harrison, entitled "The Unwelcome Mrs. Hatch." A $.100 prize story Is a lively tale of Monte Carlo. Among the contributors to the number are Bliss Carman, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Edith Sessions Tupper, Clinton Scollard, Gertrude F. Lynch, Gwendolyn Overton and John Regnault Ellyson. With the Publishers. D. Appleton & Co. announce that they are preparing an edition of Pere DIdon's famous "Life of Jesus Christ." to be sold through the regular trade at $5 for the two volumes. It has hitherto been sold only on subscription. Latest Issues In Cassell's "National Library" series of little classics (10-cent. paper edition) are "Novels in England." by Paul Hentzer (1900); "Tales from the De cameron, Boccaccio; 'The Shepherd s Cal endar," Spenser; and "Travels in the In terior of Africa," Mungo Park. In connection with Messrs. Chatto & Windus, London, the A. Wessels Company will publish early in March "Robert Louis Stevenson, a Life Study in Criticism," by Mr. II. B. Jiaiiaon, at present lecturer on English literature in the University of Vienna, and who was an old schoolmate of Stevenson. . McClure, Phillips & Co. announce ths Im mediate publication of "The Encyclopaedia of Etiquette," compiled by Emily Holt. which is said to cover the entire subject of what to ao, wnat to say, what to write, what to wear. The volume is illustrated by reproductions of specially nosed pho tographs and is claimed to be the most complete book or manners for every-Jay use every pumisnea. Brentano's are about issuing a work of unique value entitled "Lessons in Law for Women," by Walter S. Cox, retired Justice Supreme Court, D. C. The author In his profession has been often Impressed with the helplessness of women In matters of business, their liability to be Imposed upon, and their entire ignorance of the simplest rules and principles of law. and hopes in this work to give them the means of enlightenment. "Roadmaklng and Maintenance" is the subject of a work by Thomas Aitken announced by J. B. Llppincott Company in their group of new scientific works. The book is said to be a practical and informing treatise for engineers, surveyors and others, and will be especially valuable in view of the demand for "good iads." It includes a historical sketch of ancient and modern practice, and is provided with numerous plates, diagrams and illustrations. Maria Ward Brown, West End, Long Branch, N. J., announces that the "Life of Col. Dan Rice." the famous showman, has at last reached completion and will soon be published. The book will, she asserts, "prove a veritable artesian well of wit and wisdom, rich with rare and racy reminiscences, personal, professional, political." As Mr. Rice had a long, varied and picturesque career this statement may well be true. Mrs. Brown is both author and publisher of the work. The Riverside Art Series (Houghton, Mifflin & Co.) will shortly receive two additions In volumes on "Murillo" and "Greek Sculpture." Each of those has sixteen fullpage illustrations of paln'ings and seulplures reproduced in tue best form photographic printing proce.-ses tun give them. They are wholly untchnicai rnd fre cal culated to Introduce their respective ubtzu la the simplest manner to youn ixy-

nl and to older person - desiring art information. The "Murlllu" will be putiliihed in February and the "Greek Sculpture early in March. Thj World Almanac contains a list of "largest editions" of books published in the United States during 1S.D-Ii00, and in a note concerning the compilation says: "It Is Interesting to nto that out of this list a Western publifhir.? hou.-e Issued the greatest number, as three were published in Indianapolis bv the Bowen-Mcrrill Company. T.V Miicmlllan Company and Charles Scribr.er's Sons each had two. and I). Apple ton & Co.. Houshton. Mifflin Äs Co.. Dodd. Mead & Co.. the Lothrcp Pub-

iing ompany ana uouu.u. , -k w twelve." G. AV. Dillingham & Co. deny a current charge that they ever claimed or advertised Maurice Thompson's "The King of Honey Island," announced among their forthcom ing publications, as a new book. On th contrary, they point out, their circular concerning the book states plainly that it mas originally published in- the New York Ledger by Robert Bonner's Sons. After running as a serial in the New York Ledger Robert Bonner's Sons published a small edition in book form, and subsequently leased to the Dillinghams thiir right of publishing it. This is certainly legitimate. SELLING STATE LANDS; Indiana Needs Money to Par Inspectors, Boards and Bureaus. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: Anent the matter of the State's selling? Its real estate holdings in Indianapolis, to "which the Journal and other local papers and the Commercial Club and the Board of Trade object, allow mo to suggest that probably not one of you was ever In Jut the uncomfortable fix the State Is just now or you would not talk as you do. Bear In mind the State Is hard up financially, nnd something desperate has to be done. Our bonded indebtedness alone would be bad enough, but that is not half." Here are our obligations not only to existing boards and bureaus and inspectors, but here comes an innumerable host which no man can number, for it has come to pass that everything in the heavens above and the earth beneath, and all things under the earth, need to be "inspected," and all these cost money. Indeed, but "for the money in it there would be little demand for tho wholesale system of Inspection. Now, If any of you were ever in Just such a fix you would know better how to sympathize with the State. Not one in ten of you could ever think of lopping oft the superfluous Indulgences that had brought you Into such straits, but you would cast about to see what land you could spare to meet emergencies, happy If you did not have to sell the house you live In. Now, I not only profoundly sympathize with the State, but, seeing that it does not propose to drop any of the luxuries that have made this desperate measure necessary, I wish to help It out. It has much real estate not in immediate use, though much of It, if not all, will be indlspensablt in the near future. Notable among the pieces is St. Clair Tark, for which there is no immediate use whatever, but which. the city has beautified at its own expenss rather than leave it as it was for many years a disgrace to its owner, the State. It is absolutely nothing but an ornament as it now is; why not sell it and let ih future provide for Itself? Your correspond ent, "G. W. S.," suggests in Friday's Jour nal two other pieces of very valuable real estate, each 42o by 1Ü5 feet, the spaces between Washington street and Ohio street, respectively, and the Statehouse. which are not only useless now except as ornaments, . but which are maintained at great expense to the State merely as ornaments, while the city relieves it of this expense as to the St. Clair Park. They would brine a pile of money and bridge over the immedi ate demands for money to maintain boards and Inspectors galore. Then there are about 140 acres of valuable lands in connection with the Central Hospital for the insane and with Purdue University, respectively, more than is necessary for the wants of the institutions, and which now are used only as truck patches for those institutions, in which every potato and every cabbage costs the State ten times as much aa they would cost in the market, counting Interest on the value of the lands, as an honorable senator did the other day wnen he justified the project of selling the Deaf and Dumb unimproved lands by saying the butter from the lone State cow tLat grazed on the State pasture cost ten times as much as equally good butter would in the market, and therefore the land ought to bo sold, it is evasive to say that the land at Purdue is used for agricultural ex periments. As much and as good land for experimental purposes can be bought lr; Pulaski or Starke county for one-twentieth the price of Purdue lands, leaving a large balance to be used for inspectors and the various State boards that want money, and a Ciovernors mansion, and the like. To one who has been somewhat familiar with the personnel of every Legislature for more than sixty years. It Is Interesting to notice how every succeeding Legislature Is Just like its predecessor. In every ono there has been a born bucolic dressed for the occasion in store clothes who Imagined that he was a veritable Atlas bearing the whole world on his shoulders, and every one of the tribe has Imagined that Indianapolis depended wholly upon the patronage of the State, and the thing to do was to oppose everything that might by any possibility be construed into a favor to the young town. One of these. In the session of in order to be safe, voted against every appropriation, including the appropriation to pay tho legislators. When rebuked for this he naively answered: "I knowed enough of you fellers would vote to pass the bill. I'm bound to please my constituents in Putnam county." There have been McNary's in every Legislature since, and sometimes several of them, as Ir the present one. But Indianapolis, thanks to Its geographical location and tho enterprise and push of its people, has become one of the largest inland commercial and manufacturing centers In America. In which the civil patronage of the State has never cut any appreciable figure. It has always hospitably treated the State's representatives, and always will; many of whom, after their official duties Svere closed, have remained to better their conditions by sharing In the prosperity others had Inaugurated. As a matter of cold figures It would be millions to the city if the lands occupied by the State institutions and th arsena! could be opened to tho people for residence and manufacturing purposes, but, greedy as our people are for gain, not one In a hundred of them would consent to damage the wards of the State by the proposed cruelty, and the unanimous protest, outside a few land speculators, against the disturbance of the homes their money and enterprise have prepared for these come not from mercenary motives. There will be no sale. There are not enough McNarys to order iL Indianapolis, Feb. 23. U. L. SEC MIDDIES DISGRUNTLED. Think They Are Not Delnir "Well Treated Regarding Inauguration. ANNAPOLIS. Md., Feb. 25.-The naval cadets are very much disgruntled over the programme which they understand has been arranged for their trip to Washington to attend the inauguration ceremonies, and complain that they are being treated unfairly In comparison with the boys from West Point. The programme as generally understood here is to have the cadets start early on the morning of March 4. The train, upon reaching Washington will stop at Sherman ttreet, from which point th? battalion will have a long march to the Whits House. From there they will march witfc the procession and s soon as the ceremonks ure over they will return to the train and depart for Annapolis. In th meantime they will feed from lunch wagons and not a cadet will be allowed to leave the line. On the other hand the West Pointers will arrive in Washington, March 3. spend s comfortable nis in at the Ebbltt House, have their moms served in the regular way. and remain over to alttnd the inaugural ball. The reason for not allowing the cadets tc stay over, it is unuVrstod. U tht no headquarters have btr: obtained for them in Washington, end thy authorities i-.re unwilling to turn th corps ivio.' In th? city. The naval cadets think they could bi trusted with several hours uf liberty, r.nd that they ure entitled to them tvuu;e t!:? have so few.

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