Indianapolis Journal, Volume 51, Number 77, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 March 1901 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, MONDAY, MARCH 18, 1901.

THE DAILY JOURNAL MONDAY, MARCH IS, 1H01.

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The Journal was in error in the date of General HarrlBon's advocacy of nonpartisan control of the St ite's benevolent institutlons. It was In 1WI, not in 1STG. The Philadelphia Ledger, which I? rarely facetious, says that ex-Senator Pettlgrew Is "a Populist presidential possibility." The Populist party is accustomed to afilictlon. American editors have not a. very high opinion of Count Boni de Castellane, but perhaps they will be a little cautious in expressing themselves next time ho visits the United States. . The report comes through Eastern paper. that Mr. Bryan, edited of the Commoner, was snubbed by Sixto Lopez, the alleged lepresentativo of Aguinaldo. The nature of the snub Is not fully revealed, but if it was given Mr. Bryan's friends will be f.uro to denounce him as a dingy-faced Fillplnol The meeting of the City and State Par Associations to take action on the death of General Harrison was the largest ever held and the triUutes were exceedingly appropriate. It will be a long time before the profession in this State will hold a greater member than the one it now mourns, and he was proud of the profession, too. The country will be glad to know that American troops are to be withdrawn from China at once, except a small legation guard. Every legitimate object of sending Ihem there has been accomplished, and to keep them there longer would be a cause of friction and danger, not to speak of the expense. This government has made an excellent record in China, and the withdrawal of our troops will mark a fit conclusion of itTo the American people nothing could be more ridiculous than Count Poni, son-in-law of the late Jay Gould, and De Uodays fighting a duel. Bonl slapped the face of the editor, whereupon tho editor challenge ! blm to tight. They fought, and Bonl shot , Itodays. Now, If a duel was fought because of a slap, what should be the logical penalty which Itodays might demand for telng shot through the thigh? If the penalty were paid in duels it would take a hali cozen to make the equivalent of a severe vound if one were the price of a slapped face. The surrender of the insurgent Lieutenant General Trias with several hundred officers and men, is evidently an important step toward the complete pacification of the Philippines. Another dispatch saya that the Filipino Junto at Hong-Kong is breaking up and ttlrty-two members of it have decided to go to Manila and take the cath of allegiance to the United States. After enjoying American protection ana liberty a few years the FiUpiros will be as unwilling to surrender as they were at first to accept it. The sailing of the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York for Australia was not celebrated more than it ueserved from a British point of view. For the first twenty years of the nineteenth century Australia was nothing but a convict colony, the 'Botany Bay" for England's worst criminals. The steps by which it developed from a penal settlement into one of the most prosperous and loyal of British colonies, largely peopled with voluntary emigrants and their descendants, were very Interesting. Time was when a voyage from England to Australia stoo-. for all the horrors of a convict ship; now, the heir apparent to the British throne and his wife make it surrounded by every luxury that a great empire can supply. They will have A royal welcome in Australia. The political situation in Chicago seems much mixed. The Republicans had an opportunity for a sweeping victory had Harlan, tho popular choice, been nominated for mayor, as he could have been had there teen a direct vote at the primaries, but the delegate convention is said to have been manipulated by ex-Representative Lorimer and another man selected. It is asserted that many Ilepubllcans will not vote. On the other hand. ex-Governor Altgeld is out against Mayor Harrison. In a recent Interview he laid bare the extravagance and Inefficiency of the Harrison administration. An a matte of fact, the present municipal government of Chicago is about as disreputable as it can be. A reetnt writer has shown that Chicago is the asylum of an army of criminals and "bums" who are net tolerated elsewhere. He pays that in the last election this ehm-nt gave Carter Harrison thousands of votes. The fact that ho has been very relucUtnt to proceed against the criminal clement In the city goes to sustain tho charge of complicity with the lawless elements. For months

hold-ups and assault?, almost In the presence of the police, have been notoriously frequent in Chicago. Present indications are that Chicago will have a more disreputable board of aldermen than it has had fur three years, .nie of the most notorious looters who had been retired having been nominated. City expenses have been enormously Increased during the Harrison regime, and the lebt has been increased, but there is nothing to show for it.

Tili: LAST SAH II ITU. The lay, the presence of so many distinguished men, the simple but impressive services, the serious demeanor of the thousands who witnessed the spectacle, combined to make an appropriate occasion for the last earthly honors to the dead ex-President. Every part of the service befitted the life of the distinguished man whose face was -en the last time by human eyes. No one feature of the day was ;rore impressive than the silent and thoughtful demeanor of the thousands of people wherever they gathered. Even the concourse of people who gathered about the Governor's residence to get a glimpse of President McKinley seemed impressed with the serious event which brought him to this city. It was rather a concourse of people assembled to pay the respect of their presence to the chief magistrate than a crowd collected by idle curiosity. On the streets about the First Presbyterian Church several thousand people stood for two hours to -catch a sight of the procession. As It passed from the church to Crown Hill similar lines of people on either side of the street paid the last token of respect to the dead statesman. The services at the church were simple yet Impressive. Rev. Dr. Haines, who has been the intimate friend of General Harrison for fifteen years, paid the simple tribute to the man he so much loved and so deeply mourns which he knew his friend would approve If words were to be said. In its very simplicity Dr. Haines's remarks surpassed that usual speech styled eloquence. But with, the saying of. the last words and in paying the last tokens of respect and love, Benjamin Harrison's sphere' of usefulness has not closed. His burial simply adds one more illustrious name to the list of the Nation's immortals. Such men never die, and their influence for good will never cease. In this community, where he has spent his life, he will be remembered as the model American citizen. His official record will always be read by those who seek to obtain the best. In all the years his patriotic and eloquent utterances, preserved In printed pages, will be studied by those who seek tho highest human inspiration and the truest models of Christian patriotism. DIUTISZI AM) AMEHICAX LAHOR LEAD EHS. A London cablegram says that John Burns, member of Parliament, Thomas Burt, also a member, and other laborleaders are conferring in relation to the feasibility of tho proposed federation of the employers' and employes unions, to be known as the National Federation of Masters Associations and Trade Unions, the objects being to "educate the minds of the employers and employes concerning the grave responsibilities which rest with them in respect to the expansion of British trade, to devise means to meet foreign competition, to send Joint deputations of capital and labor abroad to inquire into the conditions of other countries and to provide a federa tion where employers and employes may meet on the same plane." The announce ment is suggestive. Among the progressive developments of the last century, especially of the latter half of it, none was more marked than the growth of labor organiza tions and the steady progress towards a better understanding of the true social and economic relations between capital and la bor. There are persons still living who can recall the beginning of organized labor In the modern sense, yet now It is one of the greatest social forces. At first, also, and for a considerable length of time, the movement proceeded on the basis of an ir repressible conflict and natural hostility between capital and labor, but for some years past it has been getting away from that idea towards a basis of common interests and better understanding. Strikes are less frequent than formerly and the oc casions for them less numerous. Employers are more just and liberal and employes more reasonable. They understand one another better than they used to, and each side is more inclined to recognize that the other has rights as well as Itself. Arbitration Is more popular, more frequently resorted to and more effective than formerly. The rights of labor are defined and safeguarded by wise legislation, and the true dignity of labor is far more generally and heartllv recognized than formerly. These are val uable results, but they do not represent a finished work. The mission of organized labor is far from being completed yet. and will not be until the old idea of natural enmity between labor and capital is com pletely eradicated. Although strikes and lockouts are less frequent thnn formerly, they are still too frequent, and although arbitration Is more popular than formerly, it. ie not nearly as popular as it should be. These are the lines on which organized labor should work, and it looks as if British labor leaders recognized the fact more intelligently and distinctly than their American brethren do. Labor unions In the United States could do better than maintain salaried walking delegates to stir up strife, manufacture issues and organize strikes. The money thus expended would be far more wisely invested in paying committees to assist in extending American markets or sending deputations abroad to study the relations of capital and labor in foreign countries and acquiring newideas for the benefit of American labor. The dispatch above quoted shows that British labor leaders recognize the Importance of the; expansion of British trade and of devising means to meet foreign competition. Many labor leaders in this country oppose and denounce steps to this end. They forget that whatever benefits capital benefits labor also. They should ponder the action ttf the British labor leaders. New markets are better than closed nulls, and a federation of employers and employes Is vastly preferable to the maintenance of hostile camp. To pay walking delegates to stir up strife is about like hiring incendiaries to boom the building business. The' New Voice, the paper edited by the candidate of the Prohibition party for President, arraigns the Chicago press, in its last issue, for "deliberate, premeditated and inexcusable mendacity in behalf of the canteen." This because the Chlcnio pa jers gave accounts of the disturbances

n the village nearest Fort Sheridan since

the closing of the canteen. He charges that the stories are made by army officers who had a "rake-off" from the brewcries while the canteen was run. On it editorial page it promises to prove else where in the paper that all of the Chicago papers have lied about tho disturbances. but on no other page Is there a word to justify his denunciation of the managers as liars. The editor of the New Voice is to be pitied rather than denounced. No unbiased an believes the New Voice, and very few Intelligent people read it. It secures atten tion now and then by the device of marked articles. Some of the local bar associations Hon on the death of General Harrison. tlon on the death of General Harrison That of Evansville, whose meeting was largely attended, adopted a memorial re ported by John E. Igkhart, C. A. De Under and It. D. Richardson. After treat ing feelingly cf other points It closed as follows: Highest and most costlv and most beautiful of all of the monuments erected oy any of the States, it is Intended to perpetuate their memorv and to testify cur appreciation of the sacriliee of their Lves and oir pride In the crlorv of their deeds. In our State pride, though not boast ing, wo yield notuing I", coiioiruor. with that cf the people "f any of o'.r sis. er Stales; and who of the citizens o Indiana is not proud of the life and name of Penvm!n Harrson. and docs not feel that they hae added to her luster: all citizens of Indiana alike feel a just pride in having given him to tne Naticn and to the v orld. The allusion to State pride has a double f. pect. Genial Harrison, thoueh a native of Ohio, was as intensely Indianian as he was American, and took great pride in whatever contributed to the gloiy of the Slate. From another poi.H of view his own character and career :re a permanent con tfibulion tc the causes for State pride for future generations of Indianians. A dispatch to a Chicago piper from Austin, Tex., says that a member of the Legislature, Judge Dillard, has announced his departure from that body on the ground tiidi. it has passed a bill allowing foreign railroad corporations to lease Texas railways not over 115 mils in length. On takirg his departure Judge Dillard said: 1 am going home. This Legislature is controlled by the railway lobby, and 1 have lost more self-re jpect since I came here than I will ever regain. I have been to the theater, whe-re 1 paid my money, and 1 have seen the boxes full of legislators who were guests of ra.lway lawyers. 1 will go to my people and tell them what I have seen and heard, and will ask them what they want me to do. I have my resignation written out and aoi ready to send it to the Governor. Judge Dillard further declared that the railway lobby has put the gag rule on the House, so that no legislation Is considered that it does not approve. Two years ego the Texas Legislature passed an anti-trust law that would shut up Industries belonging to combinations. A class of thirty-nine young Indians of both sexes has just been graduated at the United States Indian Industrial School at Chester, Pa. Of the thirty-nine graduates five delivered orations and one declaimed. The class motto "We find a way or make one" was the significant emblem that floated above the platform upon which sat statesmen and educators of national fame. All of which seems to show that a better use can be found for young Indians than shooting them. A Chicago paper speaks of that as "one of tho largest Irish eules in the world." As it has an Irish population of more than UiO.OuO, while Belfast, the largest city in Ireland, has only L'53,oo0, the designation is not far wrong. FROM HITHER AND YON. - An Inference. Harper's Bazar. The Professor Ye, a caterpillar is the most voracious living thing. In a month it will cat about Fir hundred times its own weight. Deaf Mrs. Ernot Whoso boy did you say he rieuNiintry in the Vy rniutd. Baltimore American. "ThlV aid the guide to the tourists who wore going through the pyramids, "Is the mummy of Pharaoh's mother, and this one in the corner is that of her mother." "Ah, yes," said the wit of the party, "It is Pharaoh's grand-mummy." But the guide assumed a pained expression and began reading the hieroglyphics. A Temperance Story. Detroit Journal. Once upon a time there was a young man who took to drink. Parental admonitions, the warnings of friends were alike unavailing. The young man laughed them all to scorn. "Ha, ha!" laughed he. to be quite explicit. So he went on from Pad to worse until finally a girl married him to reform him. "Alas!" he cried, now that it was too late. "Would that I had never drunk the first drop!" Oh, boys, think of his sad fate when the cup tempts you! INDIANA EDITORIAL NOTES. General Weyler promises to rehabilitate the Spanish army. The next Democratic national convention In Madrid township will be sure to arraign the general on a charge of militarism. Shelbyvilic Republican. The Indianapolis Sentinel, speaking of the recent session of the Indiana Legislature, remarks that "it miht have l.e?n worse." which causes the Kokomo Tribune to explain that "it might have been Democratic." Logans port Journal. When the posse of leading citizens is not busily engaged in chasing some "ornery nigger," down South, the fear arises that tr.ey have migrated to the Northern States, where the sheriffs do the capturing and the mob does the rest. Anderson Bulletin. The Republican party may be trusted to see and heed the evolution that has been and is going on. Our change in standing in the world may bring about changes in our policj'. There is no law that is not subject to change under new aspects and events. The Republican administration will take ruch steps as will be sane and reasonable and necessary. Marion Chronicle. The Governor of Utah has vetoed a bill aimed to legalize polygamy, and it is well that he did, since the State was admitted to the Union on the express promise that it would suppress plural marriages. But all Governors of Utah may not be alike, so t miht be well to agitate the wisdom of an amendement to the federal Constitution prohibiting polygamy for all time. Fort Wayne Jonrnal-tJazette It I unfortunate that nothing rhort of death will call out the deepest admiration of the people for a fellow-citizen. The most lavish display of flowers, the tendert sentiments of human life, cannot brinr back the warn blood to the cheeks, canrot bring joy to the empty tenement of clay. A single lose pieced in the hand', ot the living is worth a thousand wreath on the casket of the dead. Anderson Herald. Governor Durbin did sonic splendid work in the "round up" in vetoing several measures of a vicious nature. In vetoing the Indianapoll; firemen's bill he put a cheeK on the encroachments of the Legislature on municipalities that v. i 1 1 be a prece leat in years to tome. The Legislature had no more right to fix tho salaries of the firemen of Indianapolis than it had to fix the salaries ot the Noblesville fire department. Too much time is wasted in the Legislature in local affairs over which It should have no control. The Governor Is to be congratulated for the firm, courageous stand

ho has token for safe end sound legislation. Noblesville Ledger. Again we approach the reason when genuine maple molasses made out of brown sugar and hickory bark will be sold to the consumer at ?1 a gallon. The very taste of such molasses carries one back to his boyhood days and to the sugar camps, when life was joyous, young and free. Don't begrudge a dollar for a gallon of genuine maple molases. for it will sweeten your memory as well as your mouth, and it will revive memories of "auld lang syne." C o 1 u m b u s Republican. The work of the Indiana Legislature for l:01 passed into history at midnight last Monday. Steuben county was ably represented in both branches. Neither Senator Darby nor Representative Gillett is a noisy declaimer. but when it comes to effective committee work, where painstaking and Intelligent thought and Judicious discrimination arc required, both are in the front rank. No vicious legislation was effected with their knowledge and consent. Angola Magnet. When a city of the size of Terre Haute, in a State as civilized as Indiana, cannot aflord a prisoner protection against a possible mob, and has to send him to the State

capital for safe-keepins, the name and power of thp law has become a farce and a reproach. Having once tasted blood, the Terre Haute vandals will now organUo mobs to lynch and burn axiy one they think deserving of punishment or any one they think the law has not sufficiently punished. Such is the history of the growth ot mob law. Richmond Item. The 'independent" papers the kind that support the Republican party in every national campaign are right now showing their independence by saying meaner things than the Democratic papers about the Republican party. This is to be expected now, but just wait until the campaign comes on and the bung of the barrel Is jarred loose, and for a stipulated price i hey will publish any statement that tlv.? Republican campaign bureau may send out. Yet the alleged Independents pose as reformers, when, in fact, they are more unjust and more hypocritical than any partisan paper. Covington Friend. BENJAMIN HARRISON. Hin Life nml Characteristic Summed l'p by tint Indiana Press. To-day not Indiana alone, but the whole United States mourns the loss of her favorite son a statesman by training and a man by nature. Richmond Item. In the death of GeWral Harrison America and Americans, as well as the State of Indiana, have suffered an irretrievable loss, and the grief is as broad as the land, and eieep and since re. Lafayette Journal. General Harrison was an American aristocrat, a man who with every benefit of family and blood, put himself on a level with the meanest, and demonstrated his own capacity to work ou. his success. This is the true aristocrat of a Republic Terre Haute Tribune. Only one ex-President Is nlive. Death has claimed Benjamin Harrison, Indiana's grandest Republican, citizen, statesman ar.d soldier. He was a statesman with Republican principles, but not a politician in the modern sense of the definition. His ideals were too lofty to permit his stooping to the little, spiteful things in politics. itloomfleld News. We remember him now as a mighty man of genius who stood forth as the representative of his race and the champion of his people. His praise is on till tongues, and this is the surest pledge of the immortality of his glory; and when those who mourn to-day shall have passed away, all future generations to the end of time will be reminded of his name and of his glory. Richmond Palladium. In the death of ex-President Benjamin Harrison the people of this great Republic have suffered the loss of the most representative citizen which the country has known in the latter days of its wonderful advancement. The earnest search to find his counterpart needs must fail and only end In despair, for in him were rarely combined all those qualities which make man toih lovable and great. Anderson Bulletin. His patriotism was of a most intenso character, and was always noticeable in his public utterances. Since retiring from the presidency he had devoted himself assiduously to his profession and lived only for his family. A man of many gifts and attainments, in all things he did his duty as his conscience dictate!. The Nation will mourn, with the citizens of Indiana, tha death of General Harrison. New Albany Tribune. General Harrison proved by his life that the Christian gentleman can score the greatest political success without divorcing himself from his religion. A man of his intellectual force and power would probably have won without any deep religious convictions, but not in the overmastering manner that Harrison won. General Harrison's religion was one of his strong points, and Its tenets often sustained and guided him in most trying times. Crawfordsville Journal. Benjamin Harrison has gone hence and the question may well be asked. When shall we see his like again? Who will rise up to take his place in the minds and hearts of the people of Indiana and of the Nation? An honest, brave and fearless man Is the noblest work of God. Such was Benjamin Harrison. i-.et us cherish his :remory and forget his faults, if faults he had, for be it remembered that he did more for Indiana than Indiana did for him. Peace to his ashes. Kokorno Ncvs. In the death of General Benjamin Harrison this country loses Its foremcst lawyer, statesman and patriot. In scholarly attainments, in legal acumen, in breadth of view on large political questions and in his high, mire, patriotic motives he had no equal in the United States. Surely a great man has fallen, and his demise is a distinct loss to our country. Although not actively engaged in public affairs of late years, yet his silence on some matters and his few utterances on public questions were most potent for good. Noblesville Ledger. i'he man whose untenanted form lis in his late Indianapolis home was one of the great men of the three generations in wrdch he has lived. Born to a heritage of greatness ho has had greatness added by the respect which a nation had learned to feel for the mind which dominated his acts and the character which shaped his purposes. He was a man whose intellect cast the mold of his accomplishments, and no measured events with an eye trained to a large perspective. His knowledge took wide range, and his mental grasp of situations and necessities made him a statesman. Elkhart Review. The death of ex-Pre?!dent Benjamin Harrison is a national calamity. He was one of the genuinely great and thoroughly honest men of the country. His character placed him far above and In a wholly different class from the ordinary politician of tne United States, whether senator or President. Benjamin Harrison was head and shoulders above the mercenary type, and is not to bo mentioned with it. He belongs to the immortal group of patriots tnd heroes whose te.ef in God, In righteousness and personal rectitude was the dominant note of their lives. The world will always honor the memory of Benjamin Harrison. Madison Courier. Indiana is peculiarly stricken in this depth. General Harrison was the last but one of a galaxy of contemporaneous great men. Morton. McDonald. Hendricks, Voorhees and Harrison were giants in the arena of public thought and activity. The venerable Turple, retired and broken in health, alone retrains. General Harrison nas at the very zenith of his superb and masterful powers as a publicist. He wa in the nooi.day of his greatness. Never vhi!- he was the chief magistrate of this Republic was h aecorded such lofty respect, such affectionate regard, as the people had come to bestow upon him in the 1: st month'-, of his illustrious career. Fort Wayne Sentinel. A great ro-tn. In the plenitude of his mental powers, has died. Benjamin Harrison ha? filled an important place in American h'story, and his death leaves a vacancy that will be hard to fill. As an officer in the Union army during the civil war. as reporter of the State Supreme Court, as a lawyer in many important cases, as candidate for Governor, as United States senator and as President he rose on each and every occasion to the full height of his opportunities. Since hi retirement from the office of chief executive of the Nation his fame as a lawyer, in the Venezuelan case especially, has become world-wide. More lately still, as lecturer and a writer for magazines, he has attracted wide attention by his learning and his logic Terre Haute Gazette.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS. The KiliK of Honey Inland. Maurice Thompson once said he felt a littlo ashamed of some of his early literary productions because he feared they contained too much "blood and thunder." "The King of Honey Island," just republished, is a little sanguinary in places, but it is one of the most thrilling and interesting stones ever written of the days when pirates ruled the delta of the Mississippi and when those who ruled the buccaneers were counted among the best people of New Orleans. Such outlaws and cutthroats as Rameau. Lafitte, Murrell and Copeland could not have nourished ac long as they did but for friends and protectors in New Orleans, who warned them of movements of the authorities and acted as "fences" for the booty takn by the pirates. Maurice Thompson's long residence in the region of which he wrote, his familiarity with its legends, his knowledge of the country and the Creoles who lived there, enabled him to write a romance that probably contains as mucii truth as fiction. Some of the characters may be fictitious or disguised, and the scenes may be overdrawn, out enougn facts remain to entitle the story to be called on historical romance. The uescription of the battle of New Orleans that memorable engagement on the bth of January, 1M3, when the "immortal," but profane, Jackson routed the British army is a graphic bit of word picturing. Ot course, everybody knows the battle should never have beta lought, lor tne treaty of peace had been signed at Ghent on Dec. fifteen days previous to the fight, but there were no cables in those days, and in consequence tne British leit two thousand ot their number lying in the swamps and lost Gen. I'ackenham and other iamous officers, while' the Americans had but seven men killed and six wounded. Much of the credit ot Jackson's brilliant achievement was initio the freebooters, who had been induced to take service under him. They lougnt like devils. This point is made prominent in the story. Without the aid of ol the dare-devil class New Orleans probably would have fallen into the iianus of the enemy. The chief characters in the look are: Pierre Rameau, the King of Honey Island (who was also known as Colonel Loring, but whose real name was Kirk MacCullough), a noted pirate and murderer who pulled General Jackson's nose in a cotlee house, who braved the whole city of New Orleans by entering a theater and assaulting Lieutenant Ballanche, and who finally went over to the Britisn and was mortally wounded In the great battle. Jules Vernon, one of the richest men of the times, about whom there was much mystery and whose word was law among the. robbers and rift-rau. He lied iroia Scotland after committing some oftense and settled in New Orleans. His real name was MacCullough, and he was the lather of Pierre Rameau, but did not learn the piratical king was his son until shortly before tb battle. It was Vernon who Induced the "forbans," 'river rats" and thugs to fight under Jackson. By his second wife he had a daughter named Pauline, who married Burton Fairfax, an artist, after peace had been declared. Fairlax had several encounters 'with Rameau, ar.d was wounded early in the war alter cischarging a cannon that mowed down a

line of British soldiers. Alexander Max Burns, a Scotch preacher, whose daughter had been enticed from home and murdered by Rameau, and wha spent years in searching for the outlaw. The old preacher, when he learned his daughter had been killed, vowed vengeance. His experiences were tragic, but he did not kill Rameau, though he hastened his death. Burns fell dead Just as the life ot the King of Honey Island ebbed away. Vasseur, a creole and retired pirate, who wai robbed by Rameau and spent the remainder of his life trying to kill 'the "king." but was kicked to death by the pirate leader. General Jackson, bluff, quick-tempered, with expletives always on tap, but a fighter and a leader of men. Lieutenant Ballanche, Jackson's confidante and most trusted officer, who married tho lovely Mile. De Sezannes after playing a conspicuous part in the stirring events of the period. Enos Peavy, an eccentric scout, whose trusty "Mary Ann," a famous rifle, picked off several British officers. Madame Souvestre, a handsome, rich young widow who nursed Fairfax wh-n the latter was wounded and fell in love with him, and who donated her wealth to the church and entered a convent when the learned the artist had given his heart to Pauline Vernon. The book is illustrated. G. W. Dillingham Company, New York. 1AlKlon. There is a degree of timeliness in the publication of two books by Brentano, New York, because of their relation to a great dramatic event now attracting the attention of theater-goers in the United States. The books are "The Romance of L'Aiglon," translated from the French of Carolus, and F.dmond Rostand's poetic tragedy "L'AIgion," in the original French. One is a charming story charmingly told in prose, and the other is a six-act drama in verse. Both deal with the "same subject and to some extent with the same characters and incidents', but in very different styles. The play Is not an adaptation of the prose story, though reading the latter gives one a fairiy correct idea of the plot and action of the. former. As the play is the one Madame Bernhardt is now giving the books have rather a special interest. The acceptance and presentation of any play by that famous and critical actress would argue its merit, and in this case there is no question but the play is one of striking interest. The scene is laid in the years ls.")alKiL mostly in Austria, though it shifts briefly to France. The story is the romantic and pathetic one of Napoleon Bonaparte's young son, known in history as King of Rome and also as Duke of Reich städt, and who was nicknamed when a babe "L'Alglon," the eaglet, or little eagle. After Napoleon's downfall and exile the boy was sent to Austria, where he was kept as a sort of state prisoner and reared under the personal supervision of his grandfather. Emperor Francis, of Austria, and the wily and unscrupulous Prince Metternich. The boy's heart was in France. His sole ambition was to take up his father's career and establish his claim to the French throne, and in spite of all that his tutors and overseers could do, he mannged to nurse this ambition till it became the consuming passion of his life. Finally he escapes and makes a desperate, but unsuccessful, attempt to rouse the French people and dies heartbroken on the battlefield of Wagram. where his father had fought. The story introduces a number of historic personages and is full of couit Intrigues and personal adventures. The play abounds with strong dramatic situations, which are skillfully utilized, and which no doubt lend themselves easllj to effective treatment by Madame Bernhardt Linnet. This story, by the late Grant Allen, is not one of that author's "hilltop" novels, but is of a more sane and wholesome. If also more commonplace, order. "Linnet" is the name given to a young Tyrolese girl with a marvelous voice, who is "discovered" by various people while she is yet only a shepherdess. Andreas Hausberger, by right of being first in the field and of being her teacher, marrie? her because he sees that her voice will be a source of iucome. She becomes a great public singer, but her husband Is cruel to her and she leads an unhappy life. Before she marries she meets another man. an American, whose home is In London, with whom she falls in love and who wishes to marry her. Another lover or two, a pretty American woman and numerous minor personages figure in the story, whose scenes are now laid In the Tyrolean Alps, now in London operatic circles, now in social circles and at last again in the Tyrol. Among the minor characters introduced is a "prophet" or "seer" from America, who i3 in defnand at social gatherings, where he does marvelous feats of what he assures his audiences i--. mind-reading An observant young English society man detects his secret, and the private interview between the two is one of the interesting episodes of the tale. In various instances Mr. Allen again proves the Ii. ability of the Englishman to gain thorough command of the American vernacular. He has the seer, for example, use the phra.e "those there envelopes." when, as every native American could have Informell him, any one addicted to the use of "there" In such connection would sav "them there." There is a good deal of skill shown In the working out of the characters, especially that of Florian, society man and epicurean philosopher. There is a Moody tragedy at the close which frees Linnet from her unloved husband and leaves her free to marry the man of her choice. The story is one of more than

usual Interest, and there is in It much of the author's keen comment on life and Us affairs. The New Amsterdam Book Company.

Life nuI Literature of the Ancient IIelrewn. This work, by Dr. Lyman Abbott. Is a product of modern biblical criticism and advanced theology. It Is less than fifty years since orthodox circles in England were deeply stirred by the publication cf an essay on "The Education of the World" by Dr. Frederick Temple, now Archbishop of Canterbury. The author affirmed that Rome, Greece, Asia and India eich contributed something to the growth of the future Christian church Rome law, Greeee science and art, Asia the spiritual imagination. India the discipline of the human conscience. The author of the essay also traced in the Bible a development of religious teaching from an earlier and cruder to a later and better spiritual conception of truth and life. The theory then advanced that God's Drocesses of education have not been confined to the Hebrew race and that in the Hebrew race thev were gradual. which aroused such fierce antagonism forty years ago, is now accepted as axiomatic by a large and Increasing body of biPlical scholars. It forms one of the fundamental principles of the modern and scientific school of biblical Interpretation as opposed to the ancient, traditional and theological school. It Is the cornerstone of this book, in which Dr. Abbott sets forth the best results of the higher criticism of the Old Testament. It contains a careful analysis of the law. politics, noetrv. history, drama. philosophy, ethical culture, theology, folk lore and fiction of the ancient Hebrew people. Out of such an analysis the higher criticism constructs a synthesis from which, the author believes, will emerge a less .dogmatic and more spiritual theology than the old. "If so." he declares, "the gam win far counterbalance any possible lot Boston: Houghton, Mifllin ü Co. The SICKe In Peking. The author of 'this book, Dr. K. A. I. Martin, has been a Presbyterian missionary and teacher in China for nearly fifty years. He Is a learned as well as pious man and about forty years ago was made presi dent of the Imperial College -at Peking. He speaks the Chinese language and has the respect and confidence of all classes of the people. His Influence for moral and political reforms in China has been greater than that of any other American. If the Journal is not mistaken Dr. ?artin is a native of Indiana. He was in Peh.ng during the Boxer uprising and was one of the imprisoned foreigners during the long and trying siege in that city. In this book he gives a very interesting account of the conditions preceding the uprising and of the events and incidents of the siege. There is also a chapter on "Reconstruc tion, which presents an Instructive view of Chinese politics. The author thinks the U - A a . . 1 net result oi recent events anu muse now going on in China will be a national resur rection on a broader scale. He Insists that there must be no abridgment of the rights and privileges of missionaries. "1 would i.ave." he says, "no state church estab lished in any portion of the empire; but our worst enemy in the last resort is heathen darkness, and, if we would not let the devil up to attack us again we must wage war on the powers of darkness until the true light shall be allowed to shine Into every nook and corner of the land. As to the open door ioik-y he in sists that It should be open to light as well as io traue. s a wnoie, tne dook is a very intelligent presentation of existing conditions In China. It contains some Interest ing maps and illustrations. New York: i lemlng II. Revell Company. . Knstover Conrtlioune. This story, by Henry Burnham Boone and Kenneth Brown, is the first of the series of twelve novels by new American writers to be issued this year, one each month. It is intended that they shall depict scenes and characters in different parts of the country. The events of this story take place, for the most part, in rural Vir ginia, and the leading characters are the sons of men who suffered by the civil war and never recovered their financial foot hold. The difficulty of adapting themselves to changed conditions and making success ful farmers by means of their own labor and the aid of hired assistants, instead of slaves, descends to the sons, and the ac counts of the slipshod methods prevailing present a vivid picture of conditions un doubtedly existing in parts of the South There is an unevenness about the story. possibly due to the double authorship. The book, as a whole, hardly fulfills the prom ise of the early chapters, and the ending is rather weak. Nevertheless, it is a readable story and contains some unusually clever touches. Several of the characters are verj' well drawn, among them the young Englishman who rents a farm and trains fast horses. There is a good deal of horse talk in the story too much, perhaps. The tale is of sufficient merit to cause the re maining books of the series to be looked forward to with interest. Juken-Edwarri. This is an instructive study in heredity and education on an original plan. It con sists of a contrast between the members of two families, one of which represents poverty, vice and crime and the other piety, virtue. Intelligence and culture. The two families selected are the celebrated Jukes family and that of Jonathan Ed wards. The record of the Jukes familv has become familiar to reformers and charity workers. It is summarized In the state ment that out of the 1.2u) descendants of Max Jukes 310 were professional paupers who were in poor houses 2,3" 0 years. &t died in infancy for lack of good care, 50 women lived lives of notorious debauchery. 4oa men and women were physically wrecked early by their own wickedness, 7 were murderers, l.jn were conricted criminals. The record of the Edwards family is as remarkable for the great number of men and women of high character it pro duced and for the purifying influence they exerted and the notable results they achieved in many walks of life. The con trast thus drawn affords a striking and instructive lesson on the much discussed question of heredity and environment. The book is written by A. E. inshlp and pub lished by R. L. Ayres Sc Co., Harrisburg, Fa.. Honk Ilecelveel. "Ballad of the Unsuccessful," by Richard Burton. Boston: Small, Maynard &. Co. "The Poems of Philip Henry Savage," edited, wit., an Introduction by Daniel Gregory Mason. Boston: Small, Maynard & Co. "An American Earl." a play in five acts. by Samuel Silverburg. Chicago: The Needy Company. "Heart to Heart Talks mit Dinkelspiel." a collection of humorous sketches In Ger man dialect on various topics, by Georg? V. Hobari. "Ideal Drills," a collection of new and original drills and marches for use by children, arranged by Marguerite W. Morton. Philadelphia: a ho Penn Publishing Company. Cnrrent Periodical. The IJterary Era (Philadelphia) for March contains a number of interesting book reviews, chapters of literary gosip and reabable contributions on various lit erary themes by Henry F. Keenan. James Walter Smith. Edward Siltus and Cyrus I). Foss. jr. A department of genealogy is a curious feature of this periodical, but not an inappropriate one in any Philadelphia periodical. Mr. W. A. Traser. author of "Mooswa and Others." has Just written for early publication in The Saturday Evening Post a short serial entitled "The Outcasts." TbOutcasts are an old buffalo and a wolf dog. and the greater part of the story is- about the strange comradeship and striking adventures of these companions, and their pilgrimage. In company, to the distant plr.irw of deep grass, of which th wolf dog knew. In the April number the text of th Atlantic .Monthly is inereased to 1C0 p.if-es. Walter A. Vyckcff. thv author of "Toe Workers." has written nothing on that subject fcr the past three years. lie will reappear In the April Scribner's wil'i the firtt of four or five papers founded on his experiences as a day laborer. Each tu these papers will elaborate an episode which x ill have all the personal intens; of a good story well told. Tearson's Magazine, always In advance of other monthlies, is already on hand with its April number. Illinois figures this month in "Story of the Statea" Etrlea. Ths

article is written by Theodore Dreiser. A feature of tb r.umb r is an account of a

trip across Europe bv billoon. Marcus Tyndal has an illustrated article telling how bicyclists mav defend themselves fro:n highwaymen. Besides Rider Haggard's serial are several short storb-s. authors of two being, respectively. Cutlirfe Hyne and F. Frankfort Moore. Entertaining reaum can clways be found in Pearson s. The opening article of The American Il lustrated Methodist Magazine for MarcJx deals with an historic subject which ha been receiving particular attention, owing Io the book which Bishop Keener recently published, in which he seeks to prove that the site of Eden was near Charleston. S. C. President Warren, of Boston University, would place it at the north pole. Tho article, a scholarly one, is concerned wilh the Jewish and Christian conception of it locality, and trans this conception from Augustine, through Dante, to Milton. All 1 ible readers will find It interesting, and it1' treatment appeals to students of literature. The character treated in "Famou Hymn Writers." the fifteenth of the serie. is that interesting statesman and linguist. Sir John Rowring, author of "In the Crots o; Christ I Glory." The Critic for March Is a notable number. It counts among its contributors Mr. George Meredith, tho great English novelist; Rev. Dr. R. Heber Newton, one of New York's most famous clergymen; Trof. Edward Dowden. the distinguished Shakspearean scholar and critic: Mrs. Richmond Ritchie, the daughter of Thackeray, whose reputation as a writer, however, is not de pendent upon he fathers name; Mr. Ceorge M. Smith, the eminent London pub lisher, and Prof. N. S. Shaier. of Harvard University, who writes of his friend and fellow-scientist, the late Thomas Huxley. The illustrations in this number are varied and valuable and include the latest portrait of Mrs. Humphry Ward, never before published. Mr. Meredith's poem. "A Readln of Life," is over J"0 lines in length an t Is in the author's most sonorous and enigmatic vein. From he pen of Mr. Edwaid Dowden is an nppt eclative study or mi Poetry of Mr. Kipling." Mr. Dowden's estimate of Mr. Kipling's poetry is high. The March number of Universal Broth erhood Path (Theosophical Publishing Com pany, Point Loma. Cal.). concludes tha fifteenth volume of this magazine, whi-di was originally started under the name of "The Path." by William Q. Judge. It contains several noteworthy articles, foremost among which is "The Power of th Drama to Elevate and Ennoble the Llfa of the World'," bv R. W. Machell. an-1 from which we quote the following: 1-rora time to time efforts are made by we llmeaning people to use the drama as a means of educating. But people wish to be amused they refuse to be made moral by means of the drama, so they reject the dramatized sermon and go to a sensa tional drama for the sake of cxperlonein -j at least a keen and Intense emotion, even if it be low and mean in its tendency; and they nre right. They intuitively seek tor truth, but look for it in the wrong place Ho then discusses what should be the sub ject of the real drama. The true drama, he declares, is the soul-drama, which has ben lest to the world for ages. "In the days of Aeschylus the drama was sacred. Its performances were sacred ceremonies in which men learned to see themeslves." Thf writer then speaks of the revival of this true drama by Kathrrine Tingley in tho Isis Conservatory of Music and Drama at Point Loma. With the Publishers. "The Woman Who Trusted." which U said to be a story of literary life In New York, by Will N. Harben. is being pub lished by the Henry Altemus Company, or Philadelphia. Harper & Brothers will publish, wxt week, "The Love Letters of Victor Hugo," the Plavers edition of "Ben-Hur." "Martin Brook," bv Morgan Bates, arI "The Four Georges," (Vols. 3 and 4), by Justin McCarthy. Herbert S. Stone cc Co., Chicago, have just Issued a novel, entitled "Grau Staak," of which Gt.orge Barr McCutcheon, of Lafayette, is the author. It is his first venture in fiction, but is said to be a story well worth reading. Brentano's have for immediate publication a novel by F. Frankfort Moore, entitled "Nell Gwyn. Comedian," said to be a finer piece of literary work than "The Jessamy Bride," by this same author, which was such a pronounced success two years ago. Joseph Walker Sc Sons, members of the New York Stock Exchange, CT Wall street, have compiled and issued .a much-needed booklet describing the principal guaranteed stocks of American railroads and including the guarantees of the Western Union Telegraph Company. Among the new books Just issued by Rand, McNally & Co. is "Nell Gwynne of Old Drury; a Romance of Charles II and His Court," by Hall Downing. This is said to bo the original edition upon which have be-en founded all the dramatic versions that have been so successfully staged. Mr. Bacheller's new romance of the North country, "D'rl and I," will be Issued by Lothrop Publishing Company on SepL 13. Critics already speak of the story as "better than 'Eben Aiolderf,' " and the advance orders for the book are exacted to be very large. The story will be finely illustrated by F. C. Yohn. "Enen Holden" is now selling in its 2Tth thousand. A. C. McClurg & Co., Chicago, will shortly publish "A History of the American People?," in one volume, by Francis Newton Thorpe, the well-known historian. Professor Thorpe's name is familiar to every student of history as the author of a number of exhaustive, scholarly works, t-uch as his "Constitutional History of the American People," as well as through his work as a lecturer on history. The first week In April there will Issue from the house of Charles Scribner's Sons a "Nell Gwynne" novel which is of special interest at the present time, owing to the fact that it Is written by a dramatist. In fact, this novel reverses the literary process that has become so common lately, and instead of turning the novel into a play. Mr. George C. Ilazeltun, Jr., has turned his Into a novel. The last work from the pen of the lato George W. Steevens, tho well-known English foreign correspondent, to have immanent form is now being published by the Bowen-Merrlil Company, under the title of "Things Seen." The material was prepared from time to time by Mr. Steevens, for the most part whlla lie was writing his series of articles for the Lonuon Dally Mall, which ultimately appeared in book form under the title cf "The Land of the Dollar." Cassell & Co., London, and 7 and 0 West Eighteenth street. New York, announce for early publication "The Sick and Wounded lr. South Africa 'Lest We Forget,' " by W. Burdett-Coutts, M. P. On Jan. 18. ln. Mr. Burdett-Coutts. M. P., departed for South Africa. The objects of h's trip were to provide the public with full and accurate Information with regard to th treatment of the sick and wounded soldiers at the front and the workings of the existing hospital system under the Army Medical Department. Jamieson-IIIggins Company. Chicago, announce that on March 33 they will issue probably one of the most sensational novels of the year. The title of the tory Is "The Warners," and the author is Mrs. Gertrude Potter Danb Is. the daughter f the stel inatnatt-, Orrin W. Potter, and a slMer of Miss Margaret Horton Potter, who, last year, leaped Into fame on account ol her book "L'nranonized." The story concerns the working class, s of Chicago, and is a direct attack on trusts. The author e:ris to formet that she herself derives her support directly from the sources which she attacks. "Battles ?nd Leaders of the Civil War." written by distinguished participants on both sides m l edited by Robert Underwood Johnson atid Clarence Ciaugh BuI. haa just re-appeaicd in a new library edition in four velum's, reduced in price to Jlä la cloth and Jv in half ir.omoco. This is tha so-called Centory War B-.ok. an oatgrowth ot the war paper in the Century Magazin, to which many additb i:s wvre made, fern.ing u e-e:npi. :- hls'.jry of tli- eivl! war. Such a work nn i.ewr be duplicated. :e many of the- writer.', are now da I, including Genend.. Grant. MeCieilan. Rosecrans, Jc hnstoti. li-a id e gam. e c Lr. Horace Howard Furnesi' monu mental work, the "Variorum Shak?:veare,H will Khorily be increased by the thirtcentfc volume, "Tv.-Uth Night." which is almost ready for the prcs cf the publishers J. B. Llpplncott Company. Another Important book from this house t. Ir. Francis Randolph Packard's volume. "The Hi--tory of Medicine In the United States. The work covers comparatively unexplored ground, and is the product of rauca.