Indianapolis Journal, Volume 51, Number 112, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 April 1901 — Page 4

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The anti-imperialists must bo thorough!' (Disgusted with Agulnaldo for using th-? phrase, "The glorious sovereign banner of tho United States." Whatever motive may bo attributed to "Agulnaldo, it cannot bo denied that his utterances as a leader hold out the hope that peaco and prosperity may speedily follow. . Representative It. W. Tayler, of Ohio, vho has a prospect of remaining in Congress for some time, has announced his purpose of making the passage of a national uniform divorce law tho special object of Ms efforts. It is a desirablo reform, and ought to succeed on its merits. It is announced from Boston that SIxto Lopez, representative of the Philippine inturgents in this country, 13 preparing to make a trip to the Islands with the object of learning tho exact conditions there. If ixe does not go soon he will find on his arrival that all of the late insurgents have turned In their arms and taken the oath of allegiance to the United States. American manufacturers of glucose sugar fire not much concerned about the new Urltlfh duty on the article. In fact, they tay it will prove beneficial in the end, for, while it will add to the market price of the article, the imposition of the duty gives it an official standing it has not had before. This country exports about CO.'ak) tons of luco5e products. The threat of Captain Carter's counsel to sue Solicitor General Richards for libeling their client In his argument showing up the impertinence of Carter's claims for a new trial is absurd in the extreme. The trouble with Captain Carter and his counsel is that they do not regard it as a crime lor an army ofllcer to steal several hundred thousands of the money of the United ßtates. So long as the?e many thousands last his counsel will light his cause. Germany is reported to be suspicious of Italy since the recent flirtation at Toulon with France, when an Italian statesman proposed an alliance against the United states. The ending at an early day of the triple alliance which male Italy the ally of Germany , agalns"t France may be followed by a new combination to insure the peace of Kurope. Hut even France and Italy together are not in a position to involve Kurope in war, as both are loaded with debt. Officials of the General Land Olllce at "Washington say that many persons are being deceived by attorneys in Oklahoma, who are representing that they have inside knowledge and special advantages for making land entries in connection with the prospective opening of certain Indian reservations. As the reservations arc not to lie opened by a "rash." but by lot carefully managed by representatives of the government, there will be no chance for the exercise of special advantages. Attorneys who are making there representations are simply trying to lleece the unwary. The Arkansas Legislature is receiving a preat deal of attention because the Senate of that body ha. passed a bill which debars every citizen from the right to purchase a drink of whisky until he shall have paid ?5 to the county clerk and obtained a license. Several papers have published the bill at length, and a few have commented upon the effect of such a measure. Hut it Is not probable th House will concur in the action of the Senate. Still, there i no way that Arkansas could obtain t-o much rntoriety as by making men pay a Uccnso for the privilege of patronizing bars. The correspondent of a ChUai;. p,ijr takes a column in which to declare that t befriends of Mayor T;;?gart expect to make him chUrman of the Democratic national committee, and that he Is the candidate of the members of the committee in fivor of ex-Governor Iavid H. Hill, of New York, and of the advocates of the Hill candidacy generally. Unle:-s the new iKmoeratie organization la New York city r. overthrow Tammany Mr. Hill cannot get his own h'latc. Croker h as betten Hill twice la the State of New York. Moreover, it woiil l look like inpr.itituile on the part of Mr. T.iggart IT. after haing i.''K") of Ooker'd rnorcy In tho la-t campaign, he should turn to Crcktr's most deadly foe. The bill providing for tho taxation of mortgages will not be enacted by the New York Legislature. The purpose of the measure was to reach a class of property that practically escaped taxation, since the tax on real property which affords security to the mortgage Is paid by the person giving the mortgage. The opposition to the bill was based upon tho assumption that to tax mortgages would be a double taxation, since the property the mortgage reprcnU Li Uisd to Xuil value, Ad that ul J

tinritely the poor man giving the mortgage would bo compelled to pay the tax on thu mortgage. The point seems tri be well taken. 1'ecause ;i piece of property worth f 2. curt is mortgaged for Jl.. it should not be taxed for ??:'). If any i hange In the laws rel itive to the taxation of such property ' made, the M iss ichtisctts law should be folh.wi il. which divl ; .- the tax between mortgagor and mortgagie in proportion t-i th ir respective Interests In the property taxed. On the other b. ir.d it is the height, or absurdity to as-ert that the value of I roperty ran be Increased or per cent, by Imposing mortcagts upon it amounting to that much of its actual value. Tin: m u-; mih.im; m ama. The sj. culallvo mania is a mystery to people outsl le the atea of activity, who are removed from It by time and distance. One now looks back upon real-estate booms In which cornfields were platted and Hold for prices which would be high In large cities, and wonders how speculators could have been so deceived. Half the mystery is explained when the central theory of all such speculation Is understood, which I? that those who buy on u rising market expect to sell for a higher price the next day. They take tho risk of a breaking market, which is as certain as the rise, since whatever Is sold above Its revenuetaming price must fall to that level on the ground that whatever goes up must come down. Just now the Stock Uxchange In NewYork Is the center of the most remarkabl speculative mania the country has ever witnessed. At this distance men appear to have parted with their senses and to have rushed Into the wildest sort of speculation ir. Htocks. Shares of coriorations which have never known a dividend are sold at the prices usually commanded by dividendearning stocks. Thla sort of thing cannot last forever because it exists by the crafty manipulation of men who are experts. YVhen that period In the game is reached at which they can realize the most money prices will go tumbling down, hundreds, If not thousands, of those who have followed others whom they regard as leaders into the vortex will bo ruined, and a panic will follow. If only those who participate in this gambling are harmed few outside would care very much, but there is always a possibility that a speculative panic may reach the real business and industrial Interests of the country. Confidence or lack of confidence has much to do with business conditions. The situation in all tho leading branches of production and distribution is as favorable as the country ever experienced. The conditions are all favorable. The promise of an unusually bountiful wheat harvest in the winter-wheat belt is an assurance, and a general confidence infuses activity in all departments of trade. Hut if several banking houses which may be involved in the crazy speculation of Wall street should be embarrassed to an extent that their doors should be closed, would not the influence of local disaster create a general feeling of distrust that might paralyze legitimate business? Secretary Gage has warned the banks so that they may have become conservative in their dealings with stock simulators. It Is hoped that this is the case. The situation may properly lead those who arc not bankers to see what evil might come in such periods of wild speculation if banks were permitted to issue circulation against their assets, as is advocated by many conservative men. The craze will cul

minate when the money market becomes stringent in New Y'ork. If, when this stringency appears, banks were authorized to issue notes against their assets to meet the demands of customer?, would not! this method of creating "an elastic currency" broaden and intensify the troubles when the speculative market shall break and prices come tumbling down? IMJISTHI AL. PTUHiHHSS IX T11H SOUTH. The recent meeting of the Manufacturers Club, at Charlotte, N. C, wr.s the occasion of several notabie addresses, but the most remarkable feature of the occasion was the meeting itself. Manufacturing in the South is a thing of recent origin. Unücr the old regime it was not only impossible but would not have been deemed desirable. In the days of slavery manufacturing and trade as a means of livelihood were regarded In the South as lit occupations for Yankees only. The only connection a Southern gentleman could pruterly have with cotton was to raise it by slave labor and sell it through agents to be sent abroad or to New Kngland to be made into thread and cloth and shipped again to the four quarters of the earth. The production of cotton from the soil was an aristocratic process, but its conversion into cloth was rather a plebeian one. Hurke once said of a certain condition, "The nobles have the monopoly of honor, the plebeians a monopoly of all the means of acquiring wealth." The Southerners of ante-war times were quite willing the Yankees should have a monopoly of manufacturing with its varied sources of wealth as long as they could retain a financial monopoly of honor. For many generations no smokestack polluted the Southern air with Its discharges and there was not a factory or factory hand anywhere south of Mason and Dixon's line. Hut a great change has come about, and chiefly within tho last ten years. No other section of the country ever made ad rapid progress in the development of manufacturer, iind especially of cotton manufactures, as the South has done during this period. Remarkable progress has been rnac'.e in some other lines of manufacturing, tut especially In cotton. South Carolina, ti.e former hotbed of secession and of aristocratic contempt for Northern "mudsills," who engaged in manufacturing and trade, has taken the lead in the new order of things. In W) that State had fifty-nine mills with '.s7j spindles.. In 1;3. twenty additional companies were chartered with a total capital of J.',"ii.'i,i"i; in 1m" twelve more were incorporated, with capital stock ox $l.o.'iO,u(; d urine the year ending Aug. CI. K' there were added IMl.CJ spindles; In IM". eleven new mills were chartered with an aggregate capital of J.'..275.'tHi. and sixteen factories increased their capital stuck by $'. IJl'.uoo. Statistics for tue year II) are not at hand, but It Is known they show continued progress. It Is perhaps literally true, as one of the speakers at Charlotte said, that "the center ef eotton manufacturing in the United States has been transferred from Fall River. Mass., to Columbia, S. C." Other States how almost equal progress. Take North Carolina for instance. In 1S3I, of 40C cotton mills in the entire Southi North Carolina had the largest number, though not the largest mills. In UDG fcho had. ltf millj with vln-

e'lrs; In 1S'7 she had about IX) factories. In KS there were -u7, and in li'jy there were -JU mills with l.OlS.'ioa spindles. Last year North Carolina produced 40.0 bales of cotton, of width 1 V were used by mills within the State. Mention Is made here only of tottcn manufacturing, but there has also b en great, though not equal, progress Ir. other lines. As a result, the South is now throbbing with a new life, and for the lirst time in her history begins to realize her possibilities in the way of material development and progress. For the tlrst time In her history she is giving genuine welcome not only to manufacturing capital but to the commercial spirit which dominates all progressive countries. In n cd her part of the United States are the people showing as Intelligent recognition of the vast possibilities fif Hastern trade and as much anxiety to secure It as they aire In the South. The meeting of the Manufacturers' Club at Charlotte and tho addresses delivered there arc among the proofs of this. Politically the South has not made as much progress as It should have done, but commercially It has made and Is making a great record. There is some reason to believe that the next few years may tiring as great changes In political conditions In that section of the country as the last few ears have in commercial and Industrial conditions.

A postal savings bank is one of the schemes advocated by persons who think the United States should imitate foreign governments in all their paternal policies. Aa official of tlm lostol!ke Department calls attention to the fact that, aside from the cost of handling the business, which would soon grow very large, there are no securities in which the deposits could be invested with perfect safety that would cover the interest the government would be expected to pay. Ungland pays 2ä per cent, on postal deposits. This is considerably more than consols. In which the funds are invested, pay, and tho difference has to be made up by the government. There are plenty of other good investments and safe depositories for money in this country w'thout tho establishment of postal savings banks. There Is no excuse whatever for sending the. news and predictions of Foultney Higelow from London to American newspapers. Uxcept that no'v and then something Rrltish plea.se him, he has been generally out with the world, and particularly with the United States, consequently what he says is not of the slightest e;onstuence. If, however, as he states, lie has knowledge of thousands of frauds upon the government, he Is the protector of those who are guilty of them until he goes to the proper officials and presents his information in order to .secure their punishment. The probability Is that Mr. IJlgelow knows nothing of the kind, but Is simply indulging in his chronic habit of faultfinding and misrepresenting. An international exposition which opens at Glasgow, Scotland, this week, promises to be a very attractive affair. All European countries will be adequately represented, but the United States not at all in an official way, because Congress made no proVision for it. Glasgow is a good customer and market for United States manufacturers, and the appropriation of $5,000,0)0 which was made for the St. Louis expositiem would have been much better invested at Glasgow. But St. Louis had a "pull." Dr. Iluekley und Jamaieu UliiRer. Rev. Dr. Ruckley Is reported to have startled the New York East Methodist Episcopal Conference by declaring that "Jamaica ginger, as an American intoxicant, is rivaled only by applejack." A conference so near to New Jersey, once noted for applejack, which In its best estate was both certain and prompt in Its effect, was very properly surprised to know that Jersey's own had a rival. Of course, neither the eloquent Dr. Ruckley nor the excellent members of the conference could have other than an observer's knowledge of the effects of elift'erent intoxicants, since the day when the clergy and deacons had experimental knowledge to speak authoritatively of intoxicants is of the long ago when the clergy took a short respite from the terrors of Dr. Edwards's theology in a social tipple. It is said by those who are experts in blbulants that applejack as it is made in the more populous communities has ceased to be the nectar it once had repute of being, and is now a vile chemical, alien from distilled cider, and scarcely more seductive as an irrigator than carbolic acid. Those ancient persons whose memory reaches back to the days of the rebellion can boar witness to the hasty conclusions of the applejack discovered in marching through Dixie, a few canteens of it being more potent to temporarily ellsable sokliers than the lire of u ninety days' regiment. As to the efficacy of Jamaica ginger as an intoxicant there can be no doubt, but it could never be used except as a last resort, and then by those who had accumulated an abnormal thirst by long abstinence. Years ago, in the Union army, when there was no army canteen to moderate the thirst of the veteran, It was discovered that Jamaica ginger, which the Christian commission furnished in connection with New Testaments, possessed an intoxicating value to those who hankered after alcoholic stimulation, but even those who took it from the Christian teacher to appease cramps In the stomach and then used It as a beverage e-onfessed that it was anything but a drink for the gods, swallowing it with evidence of repugnance to enjoy the effect. It is feared that some son of Hella I has been imposing oji the excellent Dr. lUickley, who cannot possibly speak by inspiration, as the ancients, who have had experience, vehemently affirm that neither raw applejack nor Jamaica ginger can rival chemically treated corn juice or carbolic acid as an American fntexicant or as a pleasure producing irrigator. The department commander of the Grand Army in Kansas gives the public two bits of information, the first that veterans of the war of the Union had asked for half rates from the railroads of the country, and. second, that they failed because they would not all j 'ln the Grand Army, membership of some organization being necessary, he says, to ste ure such a favor. INDIANA EDITORIAL NOTES. Carter Harrison's candidacy for tho Democratic presidential nomination has not Itcn editorially indorsed by the. Commoner. Yi lerloo Fre ss. The Indianapolis Sentinel is booming J. Frank Ilanly as tho successor of Senator Heveridge. This Is tolerably tough on Ilanly. Crawfordsville Journal. The newspaper that Mrs. Nation started in Kansas Is elead. Almost any country editor coald have told her that she won hi need a saw instead of a hatchet when she got to editing. Hluffton Chronicle. Democratic rejoicing over a few municipal victories is all right. They haven't had anything to rejoice over for a long tune, and the future doesn't promise them much in that line. She lbyvlll Republican. Governor Beckham, of Kentucky, will probably make another demand for ex-

Governor Taylor, but we doubt if Governor Durbin accedes to his demand. We would not recognize a requisition from Governor Reekham for a Republican hound pup. Newport Hoosier State. The Marlon newspapers are doing a splendid Job of slopping over on the merits of their burg as a coming metropolis of the universe. Since Carne gie has taken up the matter of civilizing the natives of that section by Inducing them to read a few look.s they are assuming to 1.- some pumpkins. Anderson Rulle tin. The agent of the Mexican colonization scheme in this city does not seem to be having very good success in Inducing Dcmoe rats tr leave the expressions of the empire for tin- freedom of tho Mexican republic, where free silver reigns and whre you can get two big .Mexican dollars for eine of the empire's coin age. Columbus Republican. The Democratic papers are spreading a good deal on tho possibility of Governor Durbin granting the requisitions of tho Kentucky cutthroats for Taylor and Finley. Thty need hive no concern. The Democrats mndo the surrender of thes. persecuted men an ijsue in the last campaign and the people passed on It in no uncertain voice. Governor Durbin has no intention of ellsregardlng the wishes of tho people who elected him In order to gratify the spleen of the flint-hurling anthroMphagl who guide the atavlo Indianapolis Sentinel. Craw fords v II le Journal. The possibility ef Governor Durbin honoring requisition papers for ex-Governor Taylor, of Kentucky. Is causing considerable comment over the State. The general opinion among Ropublicaus that the requisition papers will not be honored, of which conclusion the wish Is the father. Nobody believes that ex-Governor Taylor is guilty of the charges preferred against him by the Kentucky Goebelltes. That fact would not argue against his being taken to Kentucky for trial did not people know that nis trial would be a farce and his opportunity to escape a life sentence, if not. Indeed, execution, would disappear the minute he crossed tho Ohio river. So long ns Kentucky courts furnish men no protection or Justice. Indiana exee-utlvea should extend both. Richmond Item. FROM HITHER AND YON.

Slit AYaiiteel 11 SIioit. Smart Pet. Mr. Tweeds IM make soma woman a No. 1 heshund. Mrs. Weeds Hut hat Is your objection to marrying a widow? Proof Hon! t lie. rhll.vlelj.hlii Pro. CassIJjr I heard a man the day ?ujin thot Adam an Hve war Chinees. I-'inrdin Tut, tut! Shure annywan cud tell they war Irish. Ceisshly Is it so? Flnnlpan Av ecerFc. They war evicted, fo they rrut u' been IrUh. Determination. Washington Stnr. "It's the only toinie on earth." said Mr. Polan, who was ftrugjrlinjr with a balky horfe, "that 1 wbht for an ettynioblle." "Would yez nil the hone?" "No. sir. IM never i'lve in like that. IM hitch tho animal up in front to the mashlne, an' then I'd pe whether heM ;' er not." VVhnt Are Wt Coming Tot Nw York Evening Sun. The fond mother had Ju; killed ten of her twelve children. She was a happy wife and her husband came home eurly every nljht. "Now," sho paid with a ccntented sijh. "John can oloae with the agent for that house." This was twenty years frem now, when no landlord would accept a tenant with more than two children. Onr Own Ilutmlyat. The Moving-Van Man comes, and having; hit The Mirror on the Door a llttl bit, He parses en nor any Paste nor Glue Can ever make a Good Glass out of it. At Drowsy Tw light cometh one who faith: "TU Bcrubbln' done, an' I am tired to Death!" What is that Subtlo Perfume in the air? It 1 the Cook, with Onion on h-r breath. ThA Ringer of the Daffodil has Sun. And from his Music Uarrel pulled the Rung. The Joke about the Ilonnot has appeared, And thu; we know that Gentle Spring has Sprung. Haltiniore American. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. Marion Crawford, the novelist, works very systematically every day. "When in New Y'ork he has a room at his publisher's and goes there to write for an hour every morning. That done, ho considers himself at liberty to spend the rest of the day in amusement, and generally takes a iong drive or walk. The accomplished young woman whom General Corbln is going to marry is a daughter of the late John Ratten, of California, for years a partner of John W. Mackay and James G. Fair. She is one of live s!sters. each of whom has an income of SlO.OoO a year from the estate. She was educated in Paris by the Ladles of the Sacred' Heart. She speaks several languages nicely. The trousseau will be bought abroad, and It Is expected that Cardinal Gibbons will give the nuptial blessing. There still survives a clergyman who took part in the coronation of Queen Victoria. This is the Rev. K. W. Vnughan, M. A., vicar of Llantwit Major, Glamorganshire, who is also alleged to have sung as a choirboy at the coronatien of King George IV. Mr. Vaughan. who is in his ninety-second year, still performs his clerical duties with unimpaired vigor. Last year he "restored" his ejuaint old parish church, once the center of a mighty Welsh university, which produced such distinguished personages as St. David and St. Patrick at a period when their Saxon neighbors were savages. The centenary of Victor Hugo is to be celebrateel next year, but meanwhile a little preliminary celebration is to be held In the inauguration of the group executed by the sculptor Rarrlas. Victor Hugo's eldest daughter. Mile. Adele Hugo. Is now nearly seventy-seven years of age. She was engaged to be married to an English officer, who dlid in India. On learning of her loss her mind became affected, and she Is still ignorant of her father's death. The two other heirs of the poet are his grandson and granddaughter. M. Georges Hugo and Mme. Jean Charcot, who married the son of a well-known neurologist. The Kaiser's bedroom in the Neues Palace is simplicity Itself. It is a small apartment and the walls are hung with flowered batiste. The brass bedstead is of English make, such as might be bought anywhere for I'm) or The bathroom is assuredly the most primitive ever fitted up for a modern monarch, and it must be remembered that William is the first German Emperor who takes his bath regularly every morning. Apart from the sponge, trushos and robes, the room contains nothing but a deep zlno tub. rather narrow at tho foot end and painted white, with the color worn off in spots. Mrs. Grace Lewis Mann, of Oakland. Cal., will go to Raltimore for the purpose of selling George Washington's sword, which is now in possession of Mrs. Mann's aunt. Miss Virginia Taylor Lewis, who will gi-? the proceeds obtained from the sale to her rieoe. This sword is highly prized by th Lewis and Taylor families, who are descendants in h. direct tine from "Hetty" Washingt n. It has been in her possessio tdnee tho "father of his country" laid it down forever, though Miss Lewis was tempted by an offer of $-J.O"0 for it when the blade was exhibited at the world's fair at Chicago. Now she has decided to part with It to some museum or public Institution, and is negotiating with th Metropolitan Museum at New York. There is. however, a difference of between them. Miss Lewis wanting $Pioii, while the museum 13 willing to give $."o,0ou. Un Suite. She doesn't prcn.me It "eng sweet." A beyond all d-r.lal 1' meet. Hut in.tea1 iMTh 'en M.t," And the ju tien I n eot. How dare s-he to live la our street? Detroit Journal. I'rpneiice v. Coin. Sir Gullfoid muttered: "Pulchritudo!" And up to ht-s full hljht drew himself, "IVcutua!" Sir Hvls muttered. And up to his limit blew himself. Now which of thee, do you suppo&e. The gentle Lady Clara chose? Detroit Journal.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS. Literary Friend nnd Acquaintance. Mr. . D. llowells Is never more delightful than In his literary essays. He has the qualities that espe-clally belong to the writer of essays a calm, equable temperament, a contemplative tendency with a habit of close observation, a sense of humor overlying deep seriousness and the Insight born of sympathy. In presenting his recollections and studies of tho group of American authors with whom he came In contact during his early years In Hosten he ha made a valuable contribution to American literature, not only because of his theme and the new light thnewn upon noted men, but because of the charming manner of the telling. He writes of a group of men most of whom were much older than he, and In his attitude toward them is the gentle deference and respect due from a younger friend. In no way does he put himself forward, yet his own pleasant personality pervades the pages in a way that adds greatly to their attraction. In giving glimpses of the men he knew he unintentionally makes himself known in even a more distinct way than in his novels. One who had known nothing of him outside would here get the impression of him as a kindly philosopher aware of the foibles of human nature but tolerant of them, looking on at the world in a half umused way. conscious of the depths unexplored, but unwilling to add to the common stress by sounding them; preferring rother to spend his gifts for the wholesome pleasure of those looking for diversion ulong a stony road. A passage in his paper on Oliver Wendell Holmes has an applicability to himself ns well. Speaking of Holmes's work he says: "I have loved It as I loved him, with a sense of its limitations which is by no means a censure of its excellence. He was not a man who cared to transcend: he liked bounds, he liked horizons, the constancy of shores. If he put to sea he kept In sight of land, like the ancient navigators. He did not discover new continents, and I will own that 1. for my part, should not have liked to sail with Columbus." Mr. llowells has discovered no new Intellectual continent, but he has made more attractive the paths of the old one. In one ef the chapters lie gives this glimpse cd himself before he entered the charmed circle In Hoston nnd when lie was still a newspaper man In Ohio: "If there was any one In the world who had his being more wholly In literature than I had in lX) I am sure I should not have known where' te find him. and I doubt If he could have heen found nearer the centers of literary activity than I then was or among those more purely devoted to literature than myself. 1 had been for three years a writer of news paragraphs, book notices and political leaders on a dally paper in an Inland city, and 1 do not knowthat my life differed outwardly from that of any other young journalist who had begun as 1 had in a country printing office and might be supposed to be looking forward to advancement in his profession or In public affairs. Hut inwardly it was altogether different with me. Inwardly I was a poet, with no wish to be anything else unless In a moment of careless affluence I might so far forpct myself us to be a novelist. I was with my friend J. J. Pratt the half author of a little volume of verv unknown verse, and Mr. Lowell had latelv accepted nnd had begun to print In the Atlantic Monthly five or six poems of mine. Resides this I had written poems and sketches and criticisms for the Saturday Press, of New York, a long forgotten but once very lively expression of literary intention In an extinct bohemla of thai city, and I was always writing poems ami sketches and criticisms in our twn paper." He visited New England and New Yora soon after this, only as a visitor and a literary aspirant, however, and to enjoy the privilege of seeing the celebrities whom he came later to know so well. The first two chapters in the volume treat of the Impressions made upon th young man during these visits. That relating to NewYork and its literary group is of especial interest because it has been less frequently told, Boston having been a literary Mecca to which many pilgrims traveled, afterwards telling the story of their experiences. It was four years after this before Mr. Howells, as assistant editor ,. Atlantic Monthly, became a member of the Roston circle; in the meantime he had served as consul to Venice and had written "Venetian Days." His last chapter dealing with "Cambridge Neighbors" opens thus: , , , "Reins the wholly literary spirit I was. when I went to make my home in Cambridge. I do not see how 1 could well have been more content if I had found myself in the Elvslan fields with an egreeable eternity before me. At twenty-nine, indeed, one is practically immortal, and at that age time had for me the effect of an eternity in which I had nothing to do but to read boiks and dream of writing them, in the overflow of endless hours from my work with the manuscripts, critical notices, nnd proofs of the Atlantic Monthly. As for the social environment, I should have been puzzled if given my choice among the elect of all the ages to find poets and scholars more to my mind than those still in the tlesh at Cambridge In the early afternoon of the nineteenth century. They are now nearly all dead, and 1 can speak of them In the freedom which is death's doubtful favor to the survivor; but if they were still alive 1 could sav little to their offense, unless their modesty was hurt with my praises Th's is a charming chapter. Among the neighbots mentioned i.re Prof. Rovesen, Prof Childs. Louis Agasslz. Henry James, sr.. John Fiske and Richard Henry Dana. The book has eight chapters, or divisions, and it is impossible to specify one as having a greater degree of interest than another Each contains reminiscences of men who whether little or well known, aiv made interesting here; each affords glimpses of the manner of life at the time -a simplicity of living which has already passed-and gives pictures of people and Places so vivid that they become at once ilmost as much a part of the reader s mental gallerv as if the experiences had been his own. Ä chapter is given each to Holmes. Longfellow and Lowell, his relations with all these men having been evidently those of intimacy so far as a young man may become intimate with men so much older. Altogether the work Is most satisfactory. It Is a book to read from cover to cover, then to dip into again and again, a book to have as a permanent possession. The volume is typographically handsome and numerous illusti ations add to Its attractions, published by the Harpers.

With tlie Mlislon to Menelik. This work, by Count Gleichen, Is one ol the many books written by Engllsharmy officers, books which show the veracity, th absolute honesty, of the English mind. It is an account of an embassy sent to King Menelik of Abyssinia by the British government, in order to forward the interests of Rritlsh commerce. The different tribes and race-s of Abyssinia are here delineated as they actually are. not sentimentally, not with cant about the equality and the brotherhood of man. and not with any attempt to make out that the Abyssinians are tithe. better or worse than they really are; every line contains internal evidence of truthfulness. The members of tho mission wer. mostly six-footers, stalwart officers of crack reriments of the Hrltish army, gentlemen and line examples of the cheerful stoicism with which English officers endure extremes of climate and all sorts of hardships. It Is amusing to read how they took the trouble to dine properly each day. and how thev carried a silver dessert service with them on the way, very interesting to read about the system which the Engdsh have of dealing with the low races that thev are obliged to employ as soldiers and servants in various parts of the world. The English invariably take these low people is they are, not pretending that they are onvthlng but stupid, lying and thieving races, and yet getting out of them the wor.'c thev are capable of doing, by means of an i:Uthoritative, commanding and distant, yet not unkind manner, the reverse of our Americ-in way of being familiar and on terms of equality with everybody; our way is more likely to end In unkindness on one side and In insolence on the other than the more reserved and uncondescendlng English way. Like Americans, the English officers have 3 habit of joking cheerily over the most severe tolls, privations and disasters, and what a charm this all-pervading humor gives to any kind of life. The Abyssinians are a mixture of many races, and ha been Catholics for centuries. They are trown or black races, with aquiline features, and are dresseel In profuse draperies. Their head men have delicate and expressive faces, and wield a good deal of power. The head men wear black silk tunics, striped with orange, and fine white linen togas, and yet they, with all the other men of Atysslnia. want to get hold of broidbrlmmed gray felt hats, so there is a chance for the hat trade. The tust part of Abyssinia is eight thousand feet above the sea, nnd, though lu

sun Is vertical, is a cool country, and its rich toil produces any sort of crops that ran be thought of. The officers of the embassy, with Engush unfailing delight In landscape, pronounced the scenery beautiful. The people raise only what they need Irom day to day. live in huts, and are desperately, childishly superstitious. Imagine a land of wild rose nnd Jasmine, rich forests und endless fields of grain, so fertile that it only requires to be poked with a crooked stick in order to send up crops, Imagine vhat a land this would be for Teutonic farming races. The Abyssinian know howprecious their country would be to white men. and therefore they have an extreme Hi.tipathy to admitting white men within their boundaries. Still, their King. Menelik. is n man of some knowledge of the natural laws of commerce, and wlshe to enrich himself through commerce with Europeans; l.cnee the embassy. The embassy was tontoyed by hundreds of mules nnd camels, the Journey lasted months, and an escort e V Indian soldiers was necessary to protect the mission and their servants from the natives. Strange to say, the Abyssinians I. ever eat their own wild fowl, so the young cf'lcers had plenty of sport on the way in duck hunting. Africa, like America, is not crlglnally the home of high civilization. Immigrants from Europe alone can creat treat nations there, and probably sooner or liter white races will cultivate the rich fields of Abyssinia; whether this is Just or vnjust, ohl Dame Nature will have it so. In spite of himself. King Menelik is obliged to employ a white councilor of state, i Swiss, who always stands at his right hand, end whose Intelligence the King continually consults. The Queen is a very dignified woman of much ability; she belongs to on of the fair races of Abyssinia. King Menllk is a man of fine personal appearance, xmei he possesses an almost superhuman pctivlty and tupacity for detail; he has wt-lded his immense empire into a harmonious winde. He is superior to his people in ability. Ills manners are kind nnd tdmple, and he gives the impression of a n-an who wishes to get at the root of a matter at once. Ho pets up at 3 every morning. There is energy for you. He is very accessible to his people, nnd he and his ministers decide an enormous number of c,uestlons. He ha no sons, like so many Oriental potentates. In no country Is the contrast between the aristocracy nnd the proletariat so striking as in Abyssinia. The common people of the land chew tobacco, and in one ietpect they have better manners than our own tobacco-chewers, for when one Abyssinian speaks to a friend lie respectfully takes his chew of tobacco from his mouth ami places it behind his ear. Abyssinian bread resemoies large pancakes, llabby and lull of grit. When an Abyssinian sits down to a meal he squats on the floor with a pile of bread beside him and begins operations by wiping his hind on the top bread, which serves as a napkin. Raw meat, with j epper nnel salt, with the common people, it. the favorite article of diet; the aristoctacy has a variety of cooking. The Abyssinian soldier is not a good shot. The people of Menelik cannot be made to us? money. Cartridges and bars of salt are their cash. Only a few of the aristocracy can read Ethiopic. The Catholic priests have no influence over King Menelik. Foreign merchants in Abyssinia have hard times, because the King keeps trade in his owh hands; if there is any money to be made out of trade he is going to have It. Menelik is a strong power; he gave the embassy twenty thousand brllllantly-clad soldiers as an escort on their departure from his capital. His character and individuality are so strong nnd he is so sensible that he may well bo called a genius in a country where all are far below him in power of mind. The book contains some account ot the terrible defeat of the Italian army by tho Abyssinians a few yemrs ago. Huneireds of Italian prisoners were still being ransomed when Count Gleichen was there. These prisoners were kept, one by erne. In the huts of the Abyssinians. and each host v. as responsible for hi prisoner. A horse toldier was one day taking his prisoner out lor exercise, when the Italian began to admire the Abysslnian's horse, and naid he would like to try tho horse. The two were or. friendly terms, go the horseman dismounted and the Italian got up. Naturally, the Italian disappeared at once. After that for some days the Abyssinian was seen prowling about the woods, rifle in hand, and. on being asked what he was about, replied: "Well, you see. I have lost my Italian, and 1 go out stalking every morning now to see if I can't catch another." MARY DEAN.

Truvcla and Iu veMtlcntlonm In China. A work on China by G?n. James H. Wilson, of the United States army, lirst published about four years ago. has reached a third edition. "Whatever General Wilson does he does well, and he Is an accomplished writer. When the troubles In China broke out he was doing military duty In Cuba. He hnd previously traveled extensively in China and made a close study of the government and people. Foreseeing the Boxer outbreak he ter.tkred his scrvu cs to the government and was oruerd to China at the beginning cf the troub-e. thus giv ing him an opportunity to rerew Ids ic- ! qualntance with the country and to study j the new conditions at close quarters. He commanded trie nrsi join; ... t vi n American and British troops. I.:"1 strong, against the Boxers and was identified with nil the military operations up to the relief of the legations. Afterwards h hid personal Interviews with Li Hung Chang, whom he already knew, and with other prominent Chinamen. It will be seen therefore that General Wilson has had exceptional opportunities for studying the Chinese question, and especially the present situation. The first edition ot his book was published before the present troubles there began, but the present eine brings it up to date. Its complete title is "China; travels and investigations in the 'middle kingdom' a study of its civilization and in.ssibllitles, together with an account of the Boxer war. the relief of the legations and the re-establishment of peace." The present edition has been revised throughout and considerably enlarged. The mi.itary operations during the Boxer war are described with the Intelligence that characterizes all of General Wilson's military writings. It is gratifying to observe that he more than once pays high tribute to American soldiers. In a preface he say?: "In every respect the American soldiers compared favorably with those of other powers. The rank and file, It is believed, are superior in intelligence and fighting capacity to the soldiers of any modern army. Their armament, equipment and supplies are fullv equal In every respect to the best, while their horses, mules and wagons are far superior to those of any other country." Speaking of the first British and American joint expedition, which he commanded, he says: ."While the men of both contingents behaved well, performing all the service required of them in a soldierly and creditable manner, it was in the highest degree gratifying to 1lscove:aintJ1n actual campaign the Americans had nothing to learn from their Anglo-Indian comrade " Referring to the charge of lootng and he perpetration of outrages he savs that while there will always be some thieve" and marauders in every army. "It coidldentl believed that brutalities, ratine wantnri killing and unnecessary burning are but seldom, if ever, resorted to by American soldiers. If they are not so highly n disciplined in the smaller matters as the bUt of European and Asiatic troops they are certainly equal to them In fighting eaSJTlty and far superior in humanity and regard for the rights of persons and pro pIrtv" Th werk as a whole is a valuable addition to English-Chinese literature ami ore of the best works extant concerning the government. Institutions, people, preset conditions and future prospects of the country. New York: D. Appleton & Co. A 3Innnal of Statistic. Charles H. Nlcoll. publisher, 220 Rroadway. New Y'ork, has just Issued the 11 edition of. "The Manual of Statistics." It being the twenty-third annual issue of the work. It is a stock exchange handbook, and Its purpose Is to serve as a guide to the affairs of railroads and industrial corporations, and to the past course of quotations, for stocks, bonds and commodities. In it all the facts and figures about railroad, industrial and street railway corporations whose securities are known on the various stock markets are set forth Intelligently and accurately. There are records of prices in the stock, grain and cotton markets, and all the statistics which have any important bearing upon transactions in the latter commodities. The book H remarkable for it? fullness of detail as to such matters, and the care and accuracy with which they are presented, as well as for the convenience of its arrangement. 'the handy size of Its pages and its handsome and legible typography. The department devoted to ra roads is full of the work devoted to railroad securities, embraces summaries of the history, organization, capital, bonds, dividends and physical feature of the railroads of the United States, including tabulated -statements of their earnings for a series of years. A valuable feature is the presentation of the comparative freight traffic statistics of all the. principal railroads, which affords an Index to the relative efficiency of their managements, as well as to the eaVning power of the properties. The roott Important section of the book h the GinJ pages devote! to Industrial securities. In

this department Information is presented in regard ti all tho manufacturing, industrial, mining and miscellaneous corpon:tlotis which have nsumed importance in the financial anl speculative world. Two new features are a concise but complete summary of the bonded debt of the Cnited States nnd of the vnrloui foreign government bond issues which in the last year or so have been placed on tin American market, and a complete recrd of banks nnd trust companies of the lending cltle, covering a jerlod of several yearn. In addition, the book contains a large nmrur,t of general Information telatlng to flnaneia!, corporate and speculative matter'. Tho Manual of Statistics will serve ns a eon venlent reference authority, txd oily to active operators on the stock market, but to investors and business men ye m rally.

The Ortopti. Few writers of recent times have succeeded more rapidly In getting a hearing from the reading public than Mr. Frank Norrls. ins jirst story attracted attention, his second one, "McTeigue," cmpha-fzrd It, and later ones have confirmed the Impression that he is a strong, original and picturesque writer not without faults, but with decided merits. "Thebctopu" Is a Mory of California and Is founded upon an actual piece of history little known in tha East what is known locally as the "Musfei Sloush Affair," when the wheat grower of the San Joaquin valley came Into actual conflict with the railroad running through that ecctlon, causing some strange and almost tragic exp Th noes. The rl!r.al is the Octopus of the story, and the e-onrilets excited by its grasping and heartless policy towards a class of honest, letermlnei and fearless men and women furnish the main theme of the story. The characters In this story nre iulte numerous and typical of California life among them Magnus Derrick. "The Governor.'' proprie tor of a big ranch; his wife and sons; Hllma Tree, a dairy girl; Vanamee, a theep herder nnd rang rider; Father Garrla. a mission priest; Dyke, a blacklisted railroad engineer, his wife and daughter; a saloon keeper, a manufacturer, an elltor. a railroad agent ami several others. Cine ef the heroines, the dairy Rlrl on a ranch, whom tr.e proprietor finally marries, is pictured thus: "She was charming, delicious, radiant of youth, of health, of well-being. In her eyes, wide eqen. brown, rimmed with tiuir tin thin line of intense black lashes, the sun set a diamond flash; the same golden li:at glowed all around her thick, moist hair, lambent, beautiful, a sheen of almost metallic lustre-, and reflected Itself upon her wet lips, moving with the wonls of her singing. The whiteness of her skin under the caress ef this hale, vigorous morning light was dazzling, pure oi a fineness beyond words. Beneath the sweet modulation of her chin, the reflected light from the burnisheil copper vessel she was carrying set a vibration of pale gold. Overlaying the flush of rose in her cheeks, seen nly when she stood against the sunlight, was a faint sheen of down, a lustrous tloss. delicate a the rollen of a tlowcr or the impalpable powder of a moth's wing. She waa moving to and fro about her work, alert, Joyous, robust, and from all the fine, full amplitude of her figure, frem her thick white neck, sloping downward ti her snoulders, from the deep, feminine swell of her breast, the vigorous maturity of her hips, there was disengaged a vibrant not of gaycty. of exuberant animal life, &ane, honest, strong." This shows the author's somewhat Ihirld, but picturesque style. The nctlon of the steiry Is confine! entirely to the locality in California where it opens and the author not only shows thorough acquaintance with the people and conditions there, but makes his readers feci equally at home among them. It must be added, however, that t. story, while it has plenty of action, incident and human tragedy. Is scarcely broad enough to enlist universal sympathy, it being confined to one phase of somewhat narrow life. The author's efforts to Invest wheat itself with a fort of personality or mission. Is rather foreed. .Nevertheless. "The Oeteipus" is a strong fetory. New York: Doubleday, Page &. Co. The Inlander. Harrison Robertson, the author of trts story. Is one of th editors of the Loul vllle Courier-Journal, and the Incidents oJ the tale take place for the most pari in the Kentucky metropolis. The author has found no new material to presentlove. Jealousy, the scheming of a trlckf financier to "down" his rival, etc.. being stock propertie s of novelists; but he does : handle these materials in an original way. The hero of the story is. for instance, left in the embarrassing position early in the book of being jilted en the eve of his wedding day. The eflect of his falsa sweetheart s treatment of him an! hli consequent behavior toward the plrl he finally marries are well portrave!. The story is Southern in spirit, the ilspasitlon ef the hero to go out and kill some bodywhen he feels that his honor has he-en assailed, or when his wra'h rises from nny cause, being an instance In point. Inasmuch as this tendency murks a lingering, trait of the original savage it is a wonder that Southern writers dwell Upn it with such apparent pride. N one Is klll-d in this boo'.t, however, the Injured man and his enemy se-ttlin,? their quarrel in a hand-to-hand light em the- p'.tfor:n of a passenger car on a fast train among the Pennsylvania mountains. This piooe i.s handled with dramatic efTcet. thourh it is hardly convincing. The literary stvie ef the book is good, and with tho exception of the fight mentioned an impr sslon is conveyed that the events set forth actually occurred an effect that far more pretentious works fail to achieve. Charles Scribner's Sons, publishers. A Soldier of Ylrglnin. Some of the best American nove ls of recent "years have found their themes In our early colonial history. It is a field that invites careful study and Is fruitful In stirring events and romantic adventure. "A Soldier of Virginia," by Burttm E. Stevenson, is a novel of this class. The hem tell his own romance and narrates the tory of Hraddock's disastrous defeat, in which George Washington, then a young colonel of militia, first proved that he had what some thought a charmed life. The hero and narrator of the story having been a close friend of Washington discloses the latter's character and personality and chronicles his experiences and achievements in a way that leaves the impression on the reader of personal acquaintance. General Rraeldock is effectively portrayed and his unfortunate campaign against Fort Duquesne accurately, and entertainingly described. With these stirring description of martial scenes are mingled attractive pictures of Virginia social life In th middle of the eighteenth century and enough of love affairs to make n good story. Boston: Houghton. Mifflin & Co. AVIthont a Warrant. The scene of this story by Hildegard Broks is laid in the South, but it Is not a story of Southern life, for the events with which it deals might a well have happened In any other part of the country, and most of the characters arc not Southern. Tho plot Is complicated to the verge f impossibility. A spirited, courageous gitl become s a prlsemer in the house oi a p:int r. who pretends to bo a paralytic, but Is really a noted criminal. The young lady Is male a captive under very peu!iar circumstances after herself hootir.g ;,- of the attacking party, who are represented as members of a gentlemen's shooting party from tne North, but who are really ietective s. A succe stion of strange e ve nts and situations follow, with conve rsitions spiced with a sort of humor that sometimes approaches slanglnr-ss. An odd ending falls to . throw any light on the motive ef t.le story, if indeed it has one. It Is not a good story, but It has features that lend to a belief "that the author might write a lcttT one. New York: Chirles Scribner's Sons. I utter TI nml 'l ent. The author of this book. Rev. Cyrus T. Brady, has had a remarkably varied experience, being p- graduate of the Fnlte'd States Naval Acalemy, having served In both the navy and army of the Cnlte.l States. anl been a railroad man. an Episcopalian preacher, a missionary, an army chaplain and author f some re.ul.ibb books, and Is not yet forty-five years old This volume relates his experiences In ih army and navy, and ont Ins several stories based upon actual Incidents and e-urrence-s. heroic, djnqerous or romantic. Both the rcmlnlseenr. and the -t r which are also of a personal reminiscent character, are related In an entertaining style and are pleasant reading. New Ye rk: Charles Scribner's Sons. l- f Ilie IIa ft In. Sarah P. McLean Green's "Cape rod Folks" made that author so popular that her later books met with lnsant welcome. One of those. "Vety of the Basins." t!ea!s with the same class ef people as Iii her first story tdmple villagers and seafaring folk nnd is k much more elaborate tale.