Indianapolis Journal, Volume 51, Number 196, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 July 1901 — Page 4

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Both telephones 2SL The repulsive thing about the passing of Mr. Bryan 13 the spectacle of men who courted his smiles a year ago now dancing In glee upon his prostrate form. Mayor Harrison Is tired of running Chicago without having more money. Kvidently his friend Taggart has not told him of his scheme of running a city upon temporary loans. After marj months of military occupation and diplomatic fencing the civilized powers are beginning to wonder If they have really gained any substantial advantage over China or any guaranty against a recurrence of trouble. The San Francisco Labor Council has given an exhibition of narrow prejudice by adopting almost unanimously a resolution favoring the rejection of Andrew Carnegie's offer to the city of $750,000 for a public library. The action shows that a library is needed. From the establishment of the postal registry system until about three years ago the rule of the Postorfice Department was to recognize no responsibility for any losses In the mails. Under a rule established in 1S0S It pays for losses In registered letters to an amount not exceeding $10. Ex-Governor Altgeld, who was one of the most noisy of the Bryan men in 1S0G. says that "the old-time boodle element of the Ohio Democracy ran the convention last week, and that It has nothing emblazoned on its banner but appetite." The ex-Governor has a fine assortment of epithets. If we remember rightly, the Democratic managers in this city had several large pictures of Mr. Bryan which were displayed in meetings and about headquarters last year. They are probably in existence at the present time. It would be well for' those who cherish them as revered mementoes not to take them into Democratic conventions In Indiana. Fromlnent business men of Havana, native Cubans as well as Spaniards, are reported as being strongly in favor of annexation to the United States. They say ihey want a definite and settled form of government, and they do not think the Cuban Constitution, even with the Piatt amendment, will bring it. Ferhaps not. but It seems necessary to try the experiment. It is asserted that Kepre-entatlve De Armond. of Missouri, is ambitious to take Mr. Richardson's place as Democratic leader of the House, and to qualify hlmeelf he has gone to the Philippines to discover arguments to support a proposition that the United States abandon the islands. Mr. De Annond and his associates In the policy of abandonment will not lind it popular, as it Involves a backdown. The part of Mayor Tom Johnson's platform demanding the taxation of the property of corporations at the full value was adopted by the Ohio Democratic convention, but it wL-tly struck out his fad favoring the single tax whb'h would have practically nullified the proposition adopted. The single tax would relieve all franchises and personal property of taxation and put 11 upon land. The people of St. Louis have very little to do with the making cf a city government. The Democratic legislature has taken the police out of the hands of local officials and made it tost more than twice as much as It !i 1 two years ago. The same body has passed an election lu.w which t eerr.s to have been created fort the ierpetratlon of frauds. It has been used for that purpose. Nov.- that there is a contest to expose the frauds the Supreme Court has declared that ballot boxes cannot be opened to disclose the fraudulent work. The presint City Council, composed of two tranches,

cannot agree upon an appropriation bill, and as a result no one of the officers and employes of the city, except the police, has been paid since April 1. At the present time 4.101 officers and employes have $C7C,S2tf due them as salaries.

THE STRIKE IX Tili: STEEL MILLS. While the strike of the thousands of men employed by the United States Steel Company has a very serious appearance there is reason to believe that no extended and extensive closing of the mills will take place. The representatives of both the manufacturers and the employes are conservative men who know each other and are not antagonistic because of their relations to each other. No question of wages is involved. The representatives of the Amalgamated Association Insist that a few mills which have not been embraced in the making of scales in the past shall now be included. The manufacturers object to this, ostensibly on the ground that the men in these mills are not members of the association and that they should not be - forced to recognize it by signing its stale. The officers of the Amalgamated Association Insist that the scale of wages shall apply to all mills, which would practically put them under the supervision of its organization. To the outsider this does not appear to be a serious disagreement, particularly when there s no complaint of existing conditions on either side. The officers of the steel combination very naturally do not wish to place their organization ir. a hostile attitude to the organization of labor. Whatever may be their ulterior designs they now declare that they do not wish to compel employes who are not in labor organizations to Join them. If the differences are no more serious than these which have been stated, there is reason to believe that the strike will not seriously interfere with the business depending upon the products of the combination. A I1ASELESS THEORY. Mr. John W. Bookwalter, a native of this State, but for many years past a resident of Ohio, a successful and retired manufacturer and once unsuccessful candidate for Governor, puts forth a theory that is thought worth wiring as news from London. After a somewhat extended bicycle trip through Europe he declares his conviction that a crisis is imminent between the city and the rural populations of the world. "In the rise in the price of grain," says the dispatch, "he sees the beginning of a struggle of the agricultural element against the concentration of capital in the cities. This movement he believes will commence in America, where, he believes, the economic conditions are lnferioto those of Germany and France, especially the latter, which, he maintains. Is the soundest country in the world, owing to the distribution of wealth between the agrarian and metropolitan classes." Mr. Bookwalter Is the owner of a famous art collection, and every time he goes to Europe he adds to his collection of bric-a-brac in the shape of new theories. His last one before the present was that the long-predicted conflict between Slav and Saxon was Imminent, with a prospect that it would result in the Russianizing of the western world. It seems probable that Mr. Bookwalter takes himself too seriously. His bicycle trip through Europe has not enabled him to discover any conditions that have not been known to statesmen and students of social science for quite a long time, and there is no reason to believe the "crisis" he talks about is any more imminent now than it has been for many generations past. In fact, the crisis does not exist. The idea that there is a natural hostility between urban and rural populations is akin to the theory that there is an irrepressible conflict between capital and labor which must end in one or the other going down. Such theories are not only unphllosophlcal and false, but they are vicious in that they suggest dangers which do not exist and tend to beget suspicion among different classes of society Instead of confidence. The truth is, city and country populations are the complement of each other, each constituting an important part of a great whole, with interests which, if not identical, are at least correlative, and in no respect antagonistic. Both are necessary to carrying on the machinery of the world and both will continue to flourish side by side as they always have. Mr. Uookwalter was born and brought up on a farm, and later in life acquired wealth as an Inventor and manufacturer in a city. He had to go away from home to discover that there is an irrepressible conflict and impending crisis between city and country populations. WHAT WE AHE COMING TO. After a period of deep mourning over the alarming growth of imperialism and a. series of articles predicting the early downfall of the Republic the Sentinel has modifled Its views so far as to declare that "there Is really no immediate cause to fear that the American people will ever give up the democratic idea and demand a king, but there Is Immediate danger that a plutocratic oligarchy may usurp the powers of government." There is consolation in the admission that there is no immediate cause to fear that the American people will ever give up the demot'ratlc Idea and demand a king. That has been the opinion of the Journal all along, but probably some people not so well grounded in their faith have been rendered somewhat nervous by the predictions of the pessimistic press. As for the Journal It has not noticed any decadence of American patriotism since the great uprising at th? beginning of the war with Spain: nor any evidence that the people were losing their faith in or their preference for popular government. Moreover, even if they were disposed to give up the democratic Idea and demand a king there are practical difficulties in the way that seem to render the Idea unfeasible. Not to speak of the Constitution, which perhaps might be got rid of by printing black lines across Its face, the people are so wedded to the practice of popular elections that they would not be willing to elect a king for more than four years, or eight at furthest, and hardly any person would care to undertake the job of founding so shortlived a dynasty as that. However, as It Is now admitted that there Is no Immediate cause to fear that the people will demand a king, that phase of the question may be dismissed. iiut there Is another. We are told "there is Immediate danger that a plutocratic oligarchy may usurp the powers of government." This almost offsets the consolation contained In the admission that there is no danger of the people demanding a king. A plutocracy is bad and an oligarchy is bad. but a plutocratic oligarchy would be aMreadful "combine." With a plutocratic oligarchy administering the national government, with forty-Rye plutocratic oU-

garchles administering the governments of the several States, and with little plutocratic oligarchies in every county and township, city and town, administering municipal government on plutocratic oligarchic principles, and with even our public schools, primary elections and ward meetings controlled by plutocratic oligarchies really, the country would be In a dreadf.il bad way. And we are told there Is "Immediate danger" of this. It Is very sad. It shows what a free, intelligent, patriotic and self-governing people may come to without knowing It. WHEN IS THE XEXT Dl'ET "End of a Democratic Spree" is the caption which the Chicago Chronicle (Democratic) puts on an article prompted by the action of the Ohio Democratic convention. The article is, in fact, a scathing arraignment of the Democratic leaders. Here is a paragraph: In the spring of 1300 the Democrats were as well acquainted with the political character of Mr. Hryan and his Popullstic associates as they are to-day. They knew that their continued leadership meant party disruption and overwhelming defeat. The delirium of had passed, but it had been succeeded by a cowardice which was quite as paralyzing. One will look for a long time for a more bitter denunciation of the Democratic leaders. A four years' spree was bad enough, but to be followed by cowardice cowardice which not only was disastrous to the party but threatened the welfare of the country-

puts Democratic leadership where the Chronicle cannot, in good faith, ask for it the confidence of the people. That leadership may have another "spree" or it may be overtaken by "a cowardice" which will be "quite as paralyzing." The Chronicle says that a crazy Populist gained the floor of a" Democratic convention and presented a resolution indorsing Mr. Bryan and his platform, but there was no man to object, although every man In . the house knew that the proposed action was "impertinent, foolish and dangerous." The Chronicle knew it, yet it gave Mr. Hryan a support that was sometimes hysterical. Speaking of the change in the Ohio convention, the Chronicle says: This j ear when a person of the same type undertook to perform the same act In the Ohio Democratic convention he found no support and he and his resolution were promptly voted down. The other crank .who used to appear at the supreme moment with a cheap portrait of the peerless one was on hand as usual, but he never knew what hit him or his banner. He went through a window and his portrait found the floor, where it was walked on throughout the remainder of the. proceedings. "The great Democratic drunk is over with" Is the concluding sentence of the Chicago organ of Democracy. The coming out of "the great Democratic drunk" in Ohio was attended with all tho Indications of disgust which those who have a weakness for dissipation exhibit, but it may be asked. When will this victim of sprees have another? Who shall be the inspectors of the special election In the Fifteenth ward Is a matter of little consequence, but it is very Important that the mayor shall not be permitted to ignore the laws of the State by appointing Inspectors for The municipal election in October, which he seems determined to do. There are many citizens who remember the remarkable change in the vote at the last municipal election. Up to 11 o'clock, by comparison with the vote for mayor two years earlier, Mr. Taggart was beaten by a thousand votes. Then there was a long time In which no returns were received, and later all of them came in with gains which gave Mr. Taggart a small plurality. There are yet in circulation some remarkable stories of Irregularities in the returns of the last city election. Now that the mayor is so eager to appoint the inspectors for the October election that he Ignores the plain provisions of the law, it i3 not surprising that these stories of dark transactions the night of the election are revived. In appointing a full list of Democratic inspectors to serve In the special election In the Fifteenth ward next Thursday while the question as to the power of appointment was pending In the Superior Court, Mayor Taggart has come very near committing contempt of court. Whatever doubt there may be as to the exclusive authority of the Council to designate the inspectors, there is no ground whatever for claiming that the mayor alone has such authority. The 'election law says: Where any city shall hold an election at any time other than a time of a general election, such election shall be held in conformity with the provisions of this act, except the duties herein required of the Hoard of County Commissioners shall be performed by the City Council. This furnishes at least prima facie ground for the action of the Council in appointing Inspectors, while that of the mayor has no support whatever. Now that the Ohio Democratic convention has ignored Mr. Bryan in the platform and insulted him by trampling his portrait underfoot, the party leaders are more than anxious to learn what Mr. Bryan thinks about it and what he will say. His first utterance, in St. Louis the other night, while- guarded, is far from assuring. He simply denounced all efforts to ignore the Chicago and Kansas City platforms, and reiterated his purpose to fight for them. He promised to speak freely in the next issue of his paper, so that those who are anxious will not long be held in suspense. Manufacturers In Eastern cities are discussing the possibility of the substitution of Texas oil for coal as a steam producer. With two pipe lines in course of construction from the heart of the oil field to gulf ports, there is a prospect of the question soon being tested. The producers say they are In a position to reach all the Atlantic coast ports and to furnish oil at a price that will drive coal out of the market. Coal has proved to have such good staying qualities that this claim may bedoubted. INDIANA EDITORIAL NOTES. Like one of Whitcomb Itlley's characters. Dave Hill Just laughed when he heard from Columbus, and said nothing but just laughed again. Terre Haute Express. When John J. Lentz got in front of the political steam roller at the Columbus convention a good many Democrats climbed on just to be sure that he got well flattened out. Anderson Bulletin. The Richmond man who has just been fined for hugging his wife should have shown his Intense love by killing his wife and then himself. By that means he might have escaped the Ignominy cf a line. Lafayette Courier. They are praying for rain out in Missouri, but It is doubtful If they get it. The Lord will not look favorably on a State that allows the Republicans only one congressman out of sixteen when they cast 45 per cent, of the vote. Crawfordsvllle Journal. The President announces that he will issue his proclamation giving free trade to Porto Atco very soon. Thus his conception

of plain duty has been carried out soberly, wisely and without precipitating financial troublc on our new isiand.-Jay County Republican. Five Democrats convicted of the murder of three deputy sheriffs on election day have been pardoned by Governor Beckham, of Kentucky, but it is noticed that Governor Beckham still keeps In confinement the Republicans who were railroaded to the penitentiary on tho charge of complicity in the murder of Governor Goebel. Huntington Herald. People who think that Eugene V. Debs Is not the sort of a man he has been described In the past should read what he had to say in his Fourth of July address at Chicago. In regard to the Constitution, the flag, the Supreme Court, and the government in general. It is well to know what Mr. Debs and those who follow him think and what they are aiming to accomplish. South Bend Times. Indianapolis has made a good start toward breaking up the gang who Infest that city and who have been engaged in raH"roadlng sane people to the insane asylum In order to obtain the fees therefrom. Some of this gang should undoubtedly go to the penitentiary. And the disclosures already made should result In some radical changes being made in the insanity laws of the State. Logansport Journal. If the part' does not act upon the Dingley tariff from the principle enunciated In that article, not only in the tariff on steel, but in relation to the tariff on all lines where overencouragement is given to capital where it is not needed, the Democrats will repeat the horrors of the Wilson bill. It Is reform of tariff by Republicans or repeal of tariff bv Democrats. Only one alternative. Which is better for the country? Elkhart Review. If the man who asks a divorce In the local courts on the grounds that .his wife masticated the textile remnant so furiously as to acquire lint on the lungs and not permit him to sleep if that man can substantiate his story, he ought to be given a divorce and placed on the pension list besides. The tongue of an ill-tempered woman Is poisoner than ten thousand tarantulas, and the worst part of the poison is that it produces denth by such slow, tantalizing stages. Marlon Tribune. FROM HITHER AND YON. . Cnntlou Opinion. Brooklyn Life. She You don't think a girl Is wise to marry a man In order to reform him? He Well. I think she is apt to have the luck of the average reformer.

Good Word for Ulm. Boston Transcrlrt. Ranks Dumlelgh Is not such a dunce as they make him out. He gets off a good thing once in a while. Hill But It isn't original. Ranks Still lfa bright in him to remember it. rrefem rrtvncy. Philadelphia Tress. "Here's a correspondent who asks: 'Is it proper for a woman to rick her teeth in public?' " it's proper enouRh," replied the snake editor; "but when the average woman has to select a set she usually prefers to do so very privately." A Letter from the Janitor. Baltimore American. "Mr. Topfloor Dear sir: Replying to your favor of Jan. IS. stating that ypu must have more heat In your fiat. I take pleasure in informing you that the entire building is now thoroughly heated, and In expressing the hope that you are. ratisfied. July 3. Mike Muggins, Janitor." Jnst the Same. Life. Bobby Mamma, if God is as good as you say He is. why doern't He always answer our prayers? "He does, Bobby, when they deserve to bo answered." - - "Well. I prayed that . L might not steal any more jam out of the butler's pantry, but It didn't make any difference." Didn't Want to He Forgiven. Baltimore World. "I'll admit that I opposed your marriage, my children," said Silas Fodder, "but now that you're hitched up I'll forgive you." The groom stralphtened up and put a No. 3 boot down hard on the floor. "I don't see where you come In In this forgivln blzness," he answered. "As you say, you done your level best to keep tis from gettin spliced, an It seems that I ort to be the one to do the forgivln', which I ain't a-goln to do. Me an' Mandy's groin to move over In Jasper township, an' If I ever ketch you aroun the place I'll fill you full o' buck-shot." And taking Mandy's lily white hand in his own large brown one. he strode across the threshold. Proud Hecnnae He Won It. Detroit Free Press. "Among the foreign officers who came over to America." said an ex-Confederate soldier, "to help out either the North or the South, in the late unpleasantness, not one became more popular or did better service for the side he went with than did Prince Tolignac, of France. "The prince ran the blockade into the Southern States, and offered his sword as a French soldier who had seen service, and was given a staff appointment in the Confederate army. "Later he was promoted to command a regiment of Louisianlans. and from this duty his services won for hlrn a brigade and the s-tar on his collar of a brigadier general. "He was affectionately called by his men 'Prince Pollle.' while a few who suffered under his severe discipline tortured the name, as soldiers will, from Pollgnac Into 'Prince Polecat,' but for all that he was a fine officer and won fame in General Dick Taylor's at my. "But what I was going to relate was the reply the prince made to a very pretty Northern girl at a reception given in Paris one night at the American legation. Gen. John A. Dlx being then minister. "A Southern lady present, who had known the prince at home during the war. continually addressed him a General Pollgnac, which caused the fair Northerner to say, bv wnj- of rebuke, to her friend, for such she was: " 'Why do you persist In calling the prince by a title that amounts to nothing, as It belonged to an army not now in existence. Give him the title he has a right to claim. "Before the Southern girl could reply the prince said quickly: " 'Pardon me. mademoiselle, but I prefer the title of general, defunct though It may be. for the reason that the rank of prince I was born to and deserve no credit for its inheritance, but the military rank I personally won on the field and hence honor it th rroef "The Northern girl," continued the exConfedernte. "was equal to the occasion, for she answered promptly: "'As n tru? American, looked at In that light I think you ar right, and I honor you for It It shill be. then. General Polignae.' " Sonth Abandons Ilrynn. Savannah (Ga.) News. What Mr. Herbert Insisted upon In hl address was greater Independence of thought In political matters and honest elections. He pointed out that in his opinion it was a waste of time to continue to make an issue of the Philinplnes. believing that that issue was settled when the treaty of Paris was ratified. He opposed the ratification of that treatv, though some Democrats who are still Insisting upon maklrc the Philippines an issue urged its ratification. The action of the Senate In ratifying the treaty made he Islands a permanent iosession of the United States, snd Mr. Herbert does not see any benefit to be derived from trying to keep the lsuo nllve. He does not believe In threshlne over old straw. As we have stated frequently, there are a great many nemoern; who acree with Mr. Hrbrt. If the Democratic party is to caln a victory In the next national contest it v 111. in their orir.lon, have to abandon such Issues j Fllver and the Philippines, which were the leqdlnsr ones in 10A Mr. Herbert has ro irtentlon of giving aid and comfort to the Republicans or of loir.ing the Republican pirtv. He slmplv aims to pet the Demorrattr partv In a position to vin in lfM. He recognlr.es th fact that there Is a very stronr sentiment in the Democratic partr aprainst conducting the next national campaign on exaetlv the norne declarations a those on which the last national campalsm w-as conducted. Tie Is not, of course, in harmony with Mr. Bryan, ar.d It is a Mfe statement thut the number of Democrats who are unwilllnr to follow Mr. Bryan any further is becoming larger every day

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The Kidnaped Millionaires. Readers in search of an up-to-date, lively novej, with ' abundance of action and adventure, and a highly original plot, will find it In "The Kidnaped Millionaires." The kuthor, Mr. Frederick U. Adams, goes direct, to the most distinctive movements of twentieth century life the trusts for the basis of his story and takes the organizers of the movement the great financiers for leading characters. He docs not use the real names of these gentlemen, but the personalities are so slightly disguised as to be easily distinguishable. Readers will have no trouble, for instance. In identifying "Simon Fence." "Andrus Carmody," "Palmer J. Morton." or "Mr. Rockwell." A millionaire New York newspaper man and his paper figure prominently in the tales. In fact, this paper and its edltorti and reporters are indispensable factors In the proceedings, and it depends something on the Individual reader's opinion of "yellow journalism" whether he regards the account of the part taken by the "Record" as a satire cn the methods of certain NewYork papers or as a glorification of "yellowness." This excerpt seems to support the former view: "At the end of the first year the Record showed a net loss of about $2,000.000. Mr. Van Home (the owner) examined the figures with some care, drummed on his desk, lit a cigar, softly hummed an air from the prevalent musical skit and sent for Mr. William Chalmers, his managing editor. SSO " 'What do you think of that for a showing?' asked Mr. Van Horne, as he handed the treasurer's statement to Chalmers. That placid gentleman studied the figures for a few moments and replied by asking the owner what he thoußht of it. " 'It surpasses all of my expectations,' replied Van Home, after a pause. 'We simply underestimated our receipts. You will remember we calculated our deficit for tho first year at $3,5oO,COO. and for the second year at $1.600,000. At the end of the second year we expected to be on a paying basis, and at tho close of the third year we hoped to show net earnings of Cu0.000. Our plant is worth a million, and this would be a 10 per cent, profit on a total investment of .J00.000. Well, Instead of this dreary wait, we are on a paying basis this minute. The past month shows a balance of $40.000 in our favor. I am going to give that to you.' "Chalmers did r.ot evince any great surprise. It was a part of his training not to be surprised. He knew Van Home's methods too well to assume a sense of gratitude which he did not feel. It was a munificent gift, but Van Horne felt that he had earned it and-so did Chalmers." Money Hows like water in this story. The Count of Monte Crlsto's expenditures are not to be mentioned in the same day. Besides the kidnaped millionaires and the wealthy owner of the Record a reporter on that paper U the possessor of $30.000,000 inherited from his father, it may be well to say. He Is a reporter simply from love of the work and had distinguished himself by interviewing the Czar of Russia. Naturally he is a privileged character about the Record office. Why. and by whom the millionaires are kidnaped, how they spend their time on a remote Island, or what they suppose to be an island, the effect upon Wall street of their unexplained absence, how they escape, etc., are features of the tale well narrated. Tills Is what happened on the Stock Exchange: . T "On the following Tuesday morning London ignored the New York break In prices and opened strong. Chicago and the speculative West looked on Its splendid crops and telegraphed buying orders In generous volume. The galleries around the trading floor of the exchange were crowded with the sightseers who are always in force when the market is excited. The hand of the big clock slowly approached the hour of 10. The thousand or more brokers gravitated toward the various standards which bore the names of the important trading stocks. Did vou ever make the experiment with Iron filings and a magnet? Place such filings on a sheet of paper and pass a magnet under the paper. The tiny bits of metarwill mass themselves in peculiar and irregular figures. As the magnet moves kaleidoscopic changes will be effected. Individual filings will detach themselves from one mass and fly to another. Such was the scene on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. The gretat gong sounded. The murmur became as the roar of a freight train as it dashes past the echoing walls of a station. At the signal of the gong a thousand well-dressed men became maniacs. Their faces grew purple. Madness glared from their eyes. They assaulted one another. In their demoniacal fury coats were ripped from shoulders, hats crushed and scarfs torn into shreds. With waving arms and extended fingers, with voices rasping shrill. vibrant, hoarse, thunderous, menacing, incoherentit was the incarnation of riot, the sublimated essence of disorder. At times a man could be seen fighting his way out of one of these human whirlpools. He would clutch men by the throats. They would not know it nor care for it. He would jam his elbows into their sides, and after a struggle seemingly hopeless would escape from the surging mass with eyes bulging and face bruised in the conflict. You may search the world-scattered tribes of aborigines and you cannot approximate a scene equal to this in savagery. The thin veneer of civilization is melted in the heat of lust." Incidentally there Is a good deal of illuminative conversation on the subject of trusts and the reader is able to understand the attitude of the capitalists and to consider them from the human point of view. The book, which has just been Issued by the Lothrop Publishing Company, Boston, is undoubtedly destined to figure presently in the lists of phenomenal sales. The Tribulations of a Prlneess. Fersons who read that interesting and remarkable book entitled "The Martyrdom of an Empress." published a year or two ago, will be attracted by the announcement of another by the same author. "The Tribulations of a Princess" is quite as striking and fascinating a book as the other, and bears internal evidence of being what it purports to be the personal memoirs and autobiographical narrative of a brilliant woman who has seen a great deal of the world, mingled much in high life and ex perienced a full share of sorrows as well as of pleasures. Who the woman Is remains a secret, for this book, like "The Martyrdom of an Empress," is published anonymously, but the publishers, Messrs. Harper & Brothers, authorize the statement that there is no simulation of authorship and that the author of the two books is really one and the same. "The Tribulations of a Princess" is the life story of a French girl born and educated in a secluded and romantic part of Brittany, "with a devoted, loyal and chivalric father and a selfish cruel and tyrannical mother. She was of noble birth, and her happy girlhood is described In a very Interesting manner. At the age of fifteen she was sacrificed, her heart broken and her life almost wrecked by her compulsory marriage, planned and enforced by her mother, to an Austrian prince whose title was a mask for a dissolute life. The girl was horror-stricken at the Idea of marrying a man old fnough to be her father and whom she did not love. In a reminiscent mood she writes: "God forgive my mother; she knew only too well what she was doing. She was fully aware that Karl was a roue and debauchee, that his Intrigues had been countless, and that he had never attempted to curb his passions, being burdened by but few principles and entirely devoid of morality. He was for the time being madly In love with me. but this particular brand of sentiment was not of a nature to attract a similar feeling in the pure and guileless heart of an innocent girl." Her marriage introduced her to court circles and to political Intrigues which are described with the dash of realism that pertains to personal experience. After her marriage the unhappy wife learned to love another man. but she was loyal and true to her husband until he was killed in a duel growing out of his dissolute life. Freed by a kind fate, the determined to marry the man she loved, though her tyrannical mother again tried to make a match for her and cast her off because she refused to yield. Her second marriage brings happiness, but the book closes with an Intimation that it did not last. "We were walking In a long, shadowy lane. It was a beautiful day: the air was warm and fragrant, and It gave a color to his cheeks which made him look unusually well. 'Tell me. dear.' I said to him, 'are you certain that you regret nothing?' 'Regret?' he exclaimed. Impatiently. Why will you always say that? How can I regret anything when I am near you? Do you not see that my love for you is growing every day more Intense and more passionate? I slipped my hand through his arm and looked in his eyes, my feace uplifted to his. No. he certainly did not look as if ha regretted anything. Men .are Qtrange aplmals, very whole-souled, some

times, and very true." The word "sometimes" raises a shadow, and the author admits that "there Is more to tell." The book is full of the most intimate personal recollections of the Austrian and Russian courts, of klr.gs and emperors and of Intrigues and adventures among a class that ordinary people know only from a distance. If Space permitted it would be interesting to cite some of the internal evidences of the genuineness of the narrative, which is a fascinating one in matter and style.

Our Fernst In Their Hauuta. Every person who possesses even asllght knowledge of or love for wild plants udmlres those interesting growths called ferns, some of which arc very beautiful and others very odd. Few families of plants are at once so generally admired and so little known. There Is a sort of individuality about them, and a kind of secIusIveneFs and shyness in their modes of life that makes them at orce attractive and hard to become acquainted with. In recent years there seems to have arisen a widespread interest in them from a popular point of view, creating a popular demand for detailed and accurate Information concerning their haunts and habits and the different varieties. It is the aim of "Our Ferns in Their Haunts" to supply this Information. Its author is Willard N. Clute, an authority on flora and botanical lore. He has paid special attention to'the haunts, habits, uses, folklore, structure, growth, distribution and varieties cf the fern family, and he conveys a wealth of information on the subject In a style as free as possible from technicalities and attractive by its simplicity. In the compass of about three hundred pages he Rives descriptions and illustrations of every species of fern known to grown in North America north cf tho Gulf States and east of the Rocky mountains. "With few exceptions the different varieties are treated in related groups and arranged as nearly as possible according to season, those first to fruit coming first in the book. In a preface he says: "The early botanists were mainly engaged In describing new species and have left for us the pleasanter task of discovering the curious and interesting facts about them. In this direction still lies a practically virgin field. Our knowledge of spores and sporellngs is far from complete; the phenomena of fern hybridization have scarcely been touched upon; while the study of the natural variation In species -will afford much profitable work. There is also the ever delightful occupation of exploring unfamiliar territory and the possibility of thus adding to our knowledge of the distribution of species." In this spirit of close sympathy and applied botanical science the author treats of more than twenty different families of ferns, including hundreds of varieties, with over two hundred illustrations, many of them in color, by W. W. Stillson. The common and scientific names of all these varieties are given with beautiful illustrations of the haunts and environments of many of them, accompanied by appropriate poetical quotations. From a popular as well as a scientific point rd view the book is by far the most complete work regarding ferns that has been published. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company. Mosquitoes. A collection of all the remarks and observations ever made at and about mosquitoes would make a very unique book, but it could hardly be classed as polite reading, as It would consist largely of denunciations, imprecations, objurgations, maledictions, anathemas and other cheerful matter of that rort. Here, however. Is a closelyprinted volume of 240 pages, all about mosquitoes, which does not contain a word of the kind above Indicated. It is entitled "Mosquitoes: How they live, how they carry disease, how they are classified, how they may be destroyed." It Is bv Dr. L. O. Howard, of the United States Department of Agriculture, an authority on the subject. In view of the recently discovered and well-established fact that mosquitoes nre an active factor in the dissemination of some diseases, a knowledge of their habits .and habitats .and of how they may be destroyed is a matter of general interest and practica importance. This knowledge is very fully conveyed In the present volume. Aside from the question of disseminating disease mosquitoes are such a pest that It is interesting to learn that much can be done towards suppressing them. An experience of the author's is in point here. He was visiting in the mountains, and was greatly annoyed by mosquitoes; but. as there were no swamps, lakes or pools in the neighborhood, and the drinking water was taken from a spring, he was at a loss to understand their origin. Upon inquiry he learned that the washing water used by the family came from a rain water tank. When he investigated this he found it to be literally alive with mosquito larvae, the breeding of which he stopped with a pint of kerosene, which in no way injured the water, as it was drawn from the bottom of the tank, though it relieved the household of a great annoyance. The author says that after a number of years' experience in fighting mosquitoes he has come to the conclusion that there is no reason why any community should submit to the mosquito plague. The subject of remedies is fully treated, and the experience of some towns that have made a systematic fight against them is given. The results of experiments by the United States government in destroying mosquitoes are also given. The author entirely discredits the theory that the eucalyptus tree or the castor oil plant Is a preventive against mosquitoes, and he discusses various alleged remedies for the bite. Altogether the book is an instructive one for the scientific entomologist as well as the general reader, and Is of esoeclal interest to communities which are afflicted with the mosquito pest. New York: McClure, Phillips & Co. Verses by Eugene Field. Eugene Field made his principal reputation by his brilliant and versatile work on the Chicago News, with which paper he was connected several years before he died. But he laid the foundation of his literary reputation and attracted public attention by his previous work on the Denver Tribune from 1SS1 to 1SS3. During this period he contributed very freely to the paper in both prose and verse. The poems have been collected and are now published for the first time in book form under the title, "A Little Book of Tribune Verse." The title Is rather vague in not indicating what Tribune the poems were printed in or by whom they were written, but that appears in the preface. The volume contains some 175 short poems,, very few of which have appeared in any of the author's published works, and then only after revision. In this volume they appear in their original form. The poems range from grave to gay, and are of various degrees of merit. Mr. Field wrote verse with too much facility to always write well, and while he often struck notes of true feeling and pathos, he did not always do so. Nevertheless, these poems are Interesting because of their unmistakable Eugene FJeldian character and because they breathe the spirit of Western life of twenty years ago. The reckless cowboy, the bucking broncho, the hardy miner, the inveterate gamester, the English tenderfoot, the coquettish belle and all the foibles and extravagance of Western social life are depicted with a fine and delicate touch that was the author's own. Some of the best poems in the volume are for or about children with whom Mr. Fields was in close sympathy and who, from the beginning of hfs literary career, furnished him some of his best inspirations. The work of collecting and editing the poems has been done by Joseph G. Brown, who was a co-worker oh the Tribune with Mr. Field and his Intimate friend and who furnishes an introduction to the volume. Every admirer of Mr. Field will wish to possess this book. It is published In attractive form by Tandy, Wheeler &. Co., Denver. Col. Sir Christopher. Colonial stories are becoming a drug on the market and the average novel reader is beginning to clamor for "a plain, everyday love story of th.? present time." Nevertheless the reader familiar with Mrs. Maud Wilier Goodwin's work will welcome the opportunity to peruse her latest story, "Sir Christopher, a Romance of n Maryland Manor in 1'.I4." Several of the characters which distinguish her charming novel. "The Head of a Hundred." reappear in this last volume. The plot Is founded upon the bitte rii- which existed between the Catholics and Puritans In Virginia and Maryland In the seventeenth century, so giving opportunity for a vivid, stirring romance which the author has handled with simplicity and directness, it is a pleasure to follow out the one scarlet thread of. the plot Instead of trying to ravel a wangled skein such as is orten put before one. Sir Christopher Neville has followed Elinor Calvert and her little son to the new country to renew the suit which her marriage had cut short, though the strong love had lived on. to spring to renewed life when she was widowed, not altogether unhappily. Her little son, Cecil Calvert, ig a manly, lovable, little chap who

must necessarily be to the fore in the slory. as he is in his mother's heart and life. To tell more of this mct attractive tale woulj be unfair to the prospective reader w ho la assured of a treat. Published ly LUtfcr, Brown & Co.. Botrn.

The World of Grnft. Josiah Flynt. who wrote "The Powfra that Prey" and "Tramping with Tramps." has written "The World oZ Graft." which has Just been issued by McClure, Phillips Ac. Co., New York. It is not too much to say that it Is the most terrific arraignment of the "powers that rule" in Chicago and Ne-ar York that ever has been written, though the book has enough and bad enoughthings to say about Boston and. Incidentally, some other places. Ifr they (the ruling powers in the first-named cities! are any better than the "powers that prey," Mr. Flynt has failed to show it. One of the mot striking phases of the tnok is the current of comment by the "grafters." running through all the chapters, on what should be done to secure reform. All classes were interviewed by the author, and from the common "hobo" to the "strons-P-f m man.". the grafting "elbow" and the "dead one" the verdict was of one accord, that grafting can be stopped when the people declare for it. So. after all. it is an arraignment of the American people for their indifference to their own best Interests. In regard to the prevention of crime murder, burglary, hold-ups. thievery, etc. all the criminals declared that greater severity of punishment is the prime requisite, which Is aKaln a striking commentary on the humanitarian ideas under w hich our penological Institutions are conducted. Mills Of (Mill. The scene of this fdory is laid In Virglnia a century ago. The characters are Mrt. Dulany and her inarv lously beautiful daughter Elinor. Fir William SpofTord. a wealthy scion of British nobility who had large landed Interest there. Lord Bedford, a handsome daredevil Englishman and Mr. Klllduff. secretary to Sir William, and a faithful friend to that gentlemaa and his wife. Lady Elinor, after her marriage, falls in love with Lord Bedford, and hs becomes the father of her only son, the fact, however being carefully concealed from Sir William, who considers the child his. Lady Elinor devotes herself to thechild and lives a perfectly upright Ufa fiom the time of Its birth on. but In the) end fate overtakes her. The "Mills of God" grind slowly, but she suffers at last for her sin and her deception. The s'ory belongs to the class called "daring." and there is throughout its pape a flavor rather too strong of vulgar intrigues, and of dissolute life. Nevertheless, it is very well written on the whole, the Interest is sustained and one who begins it Is likely to read It to the end. The author. Mrs. Elinor Macartney Lane, is a resident of Washington, D. C. It is published by theAppletons. Home Thoughts. This volume is made up of selections from' essays published during the last year or so in the New York Evening Post, and well deserve to be placed in this permanent form. The name of the author does hot appear, but the character of the papers shovs her to be a woman of advanced years to whom time and experience have given unusual wisdom. Thls. added to a spiritual insight and close observation of existing domestic conditions, makes her utterances of especial value. She discourses gently and with much grace and tact on the problems that confront young live, particularly young married couples, thougn she recognizes the fact that the old have also new dlfiieulties constantly confronting them. The character of her themes is indicated by the chapter headings: "After tho Wedding." "Living Up to the Wedding Presents," "The Homelessness of Certain Married Women." "The Eldest Born." "Disagreeable Children." "My Son's Wifeand My Daughter's Husband." "The Lady of the Hoase." etc. Abundant pointed advice may be found along all these lines, but It is seldom presented In such an admirable way. It is the advice that might be offered to troubled women and men by a wise and tender mother. A. S. Barnes fc Co., Now York, publishers. Convenient Booklets. Laird & Lee, Chicago, havo estabUshrtf a reputation for their 'vest-pocket" books. They now Issue together six of these convenient and useful little publications. Tha titles are: "Webster's Dictionary. "Th French-English Dictionary." "The Spanish-English Dictionary," "The GermanEnglish Dictionary," "The Cyclopedic Question-Settler," and last but not least, "Electric Sparks." a complete teacher in matters electrical. The dictionaries are al indexed and contain the latest words and most popular idioms in the four leading languages. The little volumes are well bound in marbled paper, with leather backs and form a collection that meets the wants of busy people everywhere students, teachers, business men, travelers, etc. The set is inclosed in a box. The Mngnrn Ilouk. The Idea of compiling a book from the various writings about Niagara Falls was an original one, and It is carried out in this volume in an original way. All the descriptions that have ever been written of the great falls would fill several ' volumes, but this one quotes from only ten writers, including W. D. Howells. Mark Twain, Professor Shale-r and others. In the various extracts the falls are treated from all points of view scientifically, historically, seriously and humorously. The text and numerous illustrations together make it ar excellent guide to Niagara and a desirable souvenir for any person who has visited the falls. New York: Ddubleday, Page & Co. MUtress Veil. In this story George C. Hazleton, Jr.. author of the successful play of the same name, has turned the play into a novel, thus reversing the fashion of turning novels into plays. In this work he u.s the same historical materials that he used In the play, and has made a lively and romantic comedy in novel form In which Nell Gwyn, the merry monarch. King Charles II, and other characters of a corrupt and frivolous period figure. Although not In dramatic form the situations and movement of the story are essentially dramatic and it has the atmosphere of a play. New York: Charles Scrlbner'a Sons. Current Periodicals. There will be seven short stories in thi fiction number of Scrlbner's. by such authors as Richard Harding Davis. QuillerCouch. "Zack." Octave Thanet. and illustrations by Christy. Clark, Parish. Shinn, Yohn, McOarter and others. The directors of the Old South Work In Boston have added "The Hague Arbitration Treaty" to their series of Old South Leaflets, constituting No. 114 in that large and valuable series. Thisc publications are furnished for 5 cents a copy. An article In the July Home Magazine on "Ivory Carving" contains the surprising information that whereas ten years ag? every work of art in Ivory was impoited, to-day much of the bst of it is done In this country. Prices for good work of this kind range very high. Rev. J. M. Buckley, in the North Ameri can Review, thus describes the functions and office of a physician worthy of the name, as distinguished from the so-called "healers" of Christian Science: "An intelligent, educated, experienced and candid physician studies both the mind and the body, relieves the sick man cf the rcsponsl blllty of treating himself, strengthens hire by hope and encourages him by his personal presence and manner. He under stands the mineral, plant and animal substances included In mr.terla medica; he knows that not medicine, but inherited vital force, is the primary cause of health and healing, and of the repair of Injuries. He knows also by observation and experiment that nature can be assisted, but he interferes only w h n It Is na-s-arv and safe. Such a physician is too le.irr.ed and too honest ever to do he knows not what because he knows not what tu !v He can relieve the pilns of ineurab! di smooth th pathway of pujTerers to the inevitable end. and to convalescents he can give sjch hygienic hints as may prevent a recurrence of the malady or save thern frum something worse. Certain that all m-n must die and that all die of old age, disease, accident, or Intentional violence, he claims by nygh-ne. nn dlclne and surgery to assist nature to delay the Inevitable, and to render the jourr.ev to It more endurable." With the Publishers. Messrs. Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. have In preparation a book on the subject of Irrigation, by Dr. F. 11. Newell (U. 8. Geolog