Indianapolis Journal, Volume 51, Number 252, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 September 1901 — Page 4

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THE. INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, 3IONDAY, SEPTEMBER 9. 1901.

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Anarchists are the avowed enemies of all Hivernncnt there is no reason why all cove' nments should not unite? In an Interaatifaal league against them. 1t desire of so many citizens to become chcl commissioners is commendable. The longjr tho list the better the opportunity cf t'j public to make a good choice. ThS Anarchists are denying that Czolgocz Is a liember of their organization, but they canrlt free themselves from responsibility. Theil teachings were what led tho poor wretlh to his wild deed. Th j Rev. Mr. Naylor does not commend himilf to the public a3 a Christian guide by Is advocacy of lynch law. The fact that e Is the President's pastor gives him no Jitification for lawlessness. Thfi'charges which the) Civic Alliance has made,! against the superintendent of polica and 8 ,me of his subordinates are so specific that he Hoard of Safety cannot Ignore them J-flthout Implicating iteif. s EnuVa Goldman made her anarchistic tpee: In Cleveland on May 6 last. On Sept. her auditor, Leon Czolgocz,1 shot the Iresic nt. The blackest crime of the age .was 1j gestation but four months. Evebody who has given a public utterance legarding the President has spoken AkhlcL. his QunlitJes as a man except ßenat' r Wellington, of Maryland. He did not the offices he sought as a would-be boss. In tfe discussion of the Iiritish-Eoer war held 1 the Methodist Ecumenical Conference ill London the negro delegates from this cf'jntry favored British supremacy as ssentHl to the welfare of the black race la So!h Africa. It jU nut to have this country become ui'ri inroughcut the world as the enly cl -where Anarchists can promulgate their iewft vrlth Impunity and hatch murderous plots Egalsst the heads of other governments as well as our own. Oovr!Tior Dockery, of Missouri, in an address before a meeting at Jefferson City, said i. the President: "His official and prlrat life has been honest, stainless and pure; 'a his public life he has been conscientious, sincere and courageous." i "Whei a colored nan delivering the goods of his mp!oyer is set upon by toughs, as was tli case in the western part of the city or Saturday afternoon, it is time the police Authorities should devise some special mtans for the suppression of such scoundils. The 'Expenses of the government during last Ji;Jy and August were nearly $13, uw,0.0 levl than during the corresponding month,of 1D00 a fact which answers the chargo that the government is beirg plunge into wider and more reckless expending. The ty of Glasgow, Scotland, is clvins anothe.'J evidence of successful municipal controln the exclusive management of the exposlt'n, row going on, which has already if id expenses and promises to yUld a large' surplus. Hut Glasgow seems to be an exertional city. At a Conference on Saturday of republican leaders in Iowa, including toth senators, slveral representatives and tho state ofScers.f t was agreed that the speakers in the Iovji campaign th!s year will follow Preside,.': McKinley on the tariiTf question, favoring reciprocity and perhaps partial revision It is ; matter of little Interest, still people wh come across the combination of 1 tters Jjfclch form the name of tho Prrsi!r:t'3 tSyassIn will wonder what pronunciation Dp given to them, (.'zclgocs Is : o-.-iour.lcd as if spelled Sehaw-Kosch. w ith v:g5c ilon of the letter 't" before " z." VI - letjr 'T' fades away in the Polish n nunc tlon. 1 e?! i'j the declaration of Czolgocz that lie haa .o confederates, it U announced tlit ti. I police cf Huffalo h ive information v.lch connects him with a coterie o; Ana;hlsts In that city and probably Vl:h tli I 'same t lernt nt la Cleviland and other eie It is predicted that whm he di.-over5 that lie h.is nt made himself a 1. to f;e will confess the conspiracy if o:.e ex'.j-:. Such ded are k h rally the r?j"alt of conspiracies, one man b ing seleetf.l it lot to commit the erlrae. The p: sasin 2 tdmlts that he talked over his plan witv thfT AuarchUt:. Ä Genera Pitzhuh Is? j.ay.s an earnest and evictntly sincere tribute to the character of fil'rt-Mdent McKinley, in which he ay: "Irerall that he told m upon one occasion I that he wished no hlghr nor any mor Ctittir: eulogy over his prave than the factf. hat he had buried the lingering pasfclcns fdüd prejudices of the civil war

and the sectional animo:-lty of the American people." Thus th" generous and gentle man whom his rnmies have charged with barbaric imperialistic ideas wi?hed above all ele to lo ki.own as the restorer of harmony amor.g his own countrymen.

(Tim si iiMr.ssio or an'ahciiism. The attempted a;-a?sination of President McKinley and the fact that the would-be as?a?sin is an avowed Anarchist rrmkes It necessary to inquire v. hat can and ousht to bo done to suppress anarchism in the United States. Czo'.guez admits that he Is an Anarchist and pays hi3 mind was fired to kill the President by the teachings of the noted woman Anarchist, FJmma Goldman. Nobody knows how many Anarchists there are in the country, but the police of different cities know of several groups or coteries of them. It is probable that many persons who call themselves Socialists are really Anarchists, though many Socialists are very far from harboring murderous designs. That there 13 a considerable number of Anarchist sympathizers throughout the country Is shown by the individual expressions In different localities, which, in every case, have brought swift punishment from bystanders. But the seed has been sown and there Is danger that the plant will grow and spread. The open-door policy which the United States has pursued toward foreign Immigrants and tho leniency with which political refugees and criminals have been treated have made thi3 country a paradise for political plotters and disseminators of anarcht3tlc views. The lack of legislation on the subject and the difficulty of dealing arbitrarily with offenders of this class without trenching on the freedom of speech and liberty of the press have added to their immunity. Only a few years ago Governor Altgeld, of Illinois, pardoned several notorious Anarchists from a State prison sentence, thus virtually notifying others that they were in little danger of punifhment. But tho time has come when something must be dona either to rid tho country of these vermin entirely or at least to put a stop to the dissemination of their views. Perhaps the first question that will be ralsecf by narrow constructionists of the Constitution will bo as to the right of Congress or the States to legislate against the holding or disseminating of abstract views. On this point there can be no doubt. Selfdefenso and self-preservation are among the inherent rights of every government. They fire an attribute of sovereignty above even tho Constitution. Society has the same right to protect itself against its enemies that an individual has to destroy a poisonous reptile. Anarchists aim at the destruction of all rulers and the overthrow of all governments. Thi3 is universal treason and may be treated such by all governments without reference to their form or constitutional grant of power. It is a crime punishable under the higher law. If levying open war against the government is treason the plotting of Its overthrow by assassination is the most odious form of treason and one against which governments have a right to adopt the most severe and punitive measures. What ought to be done is not as clear as the right of government to do whatever is necessary to suppress anarchism. They cannot well be deported because no other country wouldVpermit them to enter. Among the thousand islands of the Philippines there may bo one barren and inhospitable enough to become a prison home for them and public opinion would probably approve of sending them there, but if that is impracticable they should at least be brought under police supervision and punished as conspirators. Illinois has a fairly good-law on the subject and every State should have one equally as stringent or more so. The Illinois law was the outgrowth of the Chicago Anarchist riots and provides as follows: . If any person shall, by speaking to any public or private assemblage of people or in any public place, or shall by writing, printing, or publishing, or by causing to be written, printed, published or circulated any written or printed matter, advise, encourage, aid, abet or incite a local revolution, or the overthrowing or destruction of the existing order of society by force or violence, or the resistance to and destruction of the lawful power and authority of the legal authorities of this State, or of any of the towns, cities or counties of this State, or by anj' of the means aforesaid nhall advise, nbet, encourage or Incite, the disturbance of the public peace and' by such disturbance an attempt at revolution or destruction of public order or resistance to such authorities shall therefore ensue and human lifo is taken or any person Is injured, or property destroyed, every person so aiding, etc., shall bo deemed as having conspired with the person or persons who actually commit the crime, and shall be deemed a principal in the perpetration of the same, and shall be punished accordingly, and it shall not be necessary for the prosecution to show that the speaking was heard or the written or printed matter was read or communicated to the person or persons actually committing the crime. If such shaking, writing, printing or publishing is shown to have been done In a public manner. Another section provides that If two or more persons conspire to overthrow the existing order of society by force and violence, and any person is killed in pursuance of the plan, all the conspirators shall be deemed guilty of the crime, "notwithstanding the time and place for the bringing about such revolution had not been definitely agreed upon by such conspirators, but was left to the exigencies of the time or the judgment of co-conspirators or some one or more of them." With such a law a3 that in every State, fortified by an act of Congress providing a special penalty for the assassination or attempted assassination of the President anarchism could be pretty effectually stamped out. Another year should not be permitted to pass without national and State legislation on the subject. Tili: KQl'.tL Ol" AXY ritKDKCCSSOH. Not long ago Secretary Long, in an address in Massachusetts, asserted that President McKinley as statesman and executive is the peer of any man who has held that high oTice. Thereupon a class cf newspapers which claim to be independent turned upon the secretary with ridicule and contemptuous remark. One intimated that Secrttary Long must have felt under a personal obligation to the President to make a statement which he knew to be so obviously incorrect. Others, with that pessimism which pervades the Intolerance of mugwumpism which masquerades under the disguise of independence belittled the President and' ridiculed the secretary. It is unfortunate for the world and for human progress that the character and det-ds of great and useful men are not appreeiated until they are dead. Washington was censured and belittled; the best qual- ; Hit s of Jefferson were not recognized; Abraham Lincoln was maligned until the day of his death; it has taken the American people years to comprehend the greatin';.i of General Grant, and tho real worth of Harmon was not acknowledged by many until he had passed away. This evil of dt preciutlng the living is even more detrimental at tho present time than it

was years ago, because the living, who are chiefly criticised and belittled, are constantly compared with their dead predecessors whos greatness has been recognized. This is due largely to the pessimism of a class cf men of some intelligence and great self-conceit, who. for causes which cannot be explained, have arrcgatrj to themselves a sort of Infallibility which to some extent is recognized by many peoplo because their wisdom has not been put to a practical test. With the exception of Abraham Lincoln, no President has been confronted with so many serious problems as has William McKinley more serious because all of them have been new questions for the solution of which there was no precedent. Could Washington or Jefferson have brought to the issue with Spain higher faculties as statesmen than has William McKinley? To-day, Cuba has peace, security, good government, its cities are no longer breeders of disease and danger spots, its people have schools and freedom from oppression. Such is the result of the President's policy could any of his predecessors have devised a plan that would have insured better results? Having rescued Cuba from oppression could any statesman of the past have devised a more prudent policy than that of the President which holds Cuba to the United States? The Philippine policy is yet open to Intelligent criticism, but who will say to-day that If Washington or Jefferson, under tho present conditions, had had the shaping of the treaty with Spain, they would not have Included In its provisions the control of the islands? Proceeding without precedent Mr. McKinley held it important to secure the sovereignty of the Philippines. Who has presented a better plan for the disposition of the islands? 13 it probable that the statesman who negotiated tho Louisiana purchase would, under present conditions. If he had been in Mr. McKlnley's place, let some other government come Into possession of the Philippines? Was not the statesmanship of McKinley a3 broad in the Philippine affair as that of Jefferson in the

Louisiana purchase? In the Chinese affair the statesmanship of the President was more potential in shaping the adjustment than that of the representatives of any other nation. Could that of any of his predecessors have been more humane or easier? In one respect President McKinley has showed the best evidence of high statesmanship, and that Is In hi3 ability to modify his opinions to meet the swiftly changing deirfands of a people that has become a world-power since he was elected. Turn to the last speech he delivered. If he had been a narrow man, bound to hi3 earlier convictions, he would not have made the speech he did. But the high quality of statesmanship was displayed in his recognition of the changed conditions, and the courage of broad statesmanship was shown in his urgent advocacy of a modification of the policy of which he has been the exponent. That is statesmanship which enables a public man to appear even to contradict himself in order to meet new conditions. To-day the thoughtful men of the country, even if they do not subscribe to the policies of William McKinley, will not Join with those who sneered at Secretary Long for asserting that in statesmanship the present executive is the peer of his predecessors in the high office. auam)om:d pa it 3i s. There has been a good deal of talk in recent years about the abandoned farms in New England. It being an admitted fact that many farms have been abandoned by their former owners, ceased to be cultivated and sold for a song or thrown upon the market, the question has been discussed in its various relations to the movement of population and the future results on soclai conditions in the rural districts of New England. It was said a few years ago that the traveler through some of the New England States, notably Vermont and New Hampshire, "finds deserted homesteads at every turn, ruined and empty houses, and their ramshackle barns, with open doors and windows looking like eyeholes in a skull, and wide stretches of j'oung forest where once corn and potatoes grew." The United States census statistics of 1SS0 and 1S90, the latest that have been tabulated, showed the following: In 1SS0 Maine had 61,309 farms with an acreage of improved or tillable land of S.4S4.003 acres; in 1S02 it had 62,013 homesteads with an acreage of 3,041,605 acres. New Hampshire in 1SS0 had 32.1S1 farms and an acreage of 2.S0S.112; in 1S90, 29,131 farms of 1,727,1S7 acres. In 1SS0 Vermont had 23,522 farms and acreage of 3,2SG,431; In 1S00, 32,573 farms and 2,653,943 acreage. Massachusetts had in 1SS0 3S.406 farms of 2.12S.311 acres and in ISfX) 34,374 farms of 1,607,024 acres. In 1S02 the secretary of the täte Board of Agriculture in Connecticut Instituted inquiries which showed that while very few farms in the State had been actually abandoned a great many owners were desirous of selling at low prices. The number of farms thus offered at low figures was 309, aggregating 3,193,600 acre?. The figures show that during the decade referred to there was a marked decrease in the number and acreage of cultivated farms in the States named. Various causes may have contributed to this movement, but no doubt one was that the new spirit of the times had opened unknown vlsta3 of pleasure and comfort In living which the old life could not gratify, and that children had grown tired of conditions which their fathers endured with patience. It is gratifying to learn that the movement has measurably ceased and that a different order of things is coming in. The Boston Advertiser says that in a portion of Massachusetts which a few years ago was noted for its abandoned farms "there has been a record-breaking period of construction of street railways." From this it appears that Improved means of transit and communication are an important factor in bringing up the abandoned farms. "It is a long step." says the Advertiser, "from the lugubrious reports of the last decade to the formation of a $1.CX,000 street-railway company for the accommodation of prosperous communities. The story of the 'abandoned farms' of a former decade is now such ancient history that it has almost been forgotten. Yet a few people still remember how grave the problem seemed at the time when it was first brought to the attention of the public. At that time there were fears that the western part of the State would become deserted in some sections. Now in many cases the former abandoned farms have become summer residences for those who have plenty of money to spend and who are anxious to spend it." The point of general interest In this statement is that the main factor hi bringing the abandoned farms of Massachusetts Into demand again Is better means

of communication. Good roads and electric railways will work a great change In the conditions of farm life all over the country. 'Both movements are comparatively in their infuncy in this State, but both have made a good start and are evidently destined to great development. A general system of good roads and trolley lines will bring- the farming communities of the State so close together and introduce so large a social element into farm life that there will never be an abandoned farm movement in Indiana. SILLY TALK. Dispatches from New York and Washington continue to refer to measures which, it i3 said, are being taken by the banks and the treasury authorities to avert a money panic or financial crisis in the possible event of the President's death. Tho bankers express confidence in their ability to "tide matters over," and the treasury officials are said to "realize that, should the President die, a panic could hardly be averted by the strength of the banks alone, and in that event the financial department of the government must come to the rescue of the money markets to restore confidence." The Journal takes no stoclt in theso reports nor In the affected apprehension and anxiety of the banks and treasury officials. They exaggerate their own Importance and, whether intentionally or not, they misrepresent actual conditions. The business of the country is on too solid a basis, its prosperity is too real, the condition of the banks is too sound, and, above all, the confidence of the people In the stability of the government is too absolute to admit of any apprehension of a money panic or financial crisis, even In the possible event of the President's death. That event would doubtless have a temporary depressing effect on business, because it would cause several days of national mourning, but nothing more, unless perhaps speculators might use it to bear down stocks a little. The assassination and death of President Garfield did not materially affect financial

conditions. During the year 1SS1, In which ho died, tho government redeemed or purchased its bonds to the amount of $123,263,630, making a reduction of $11,374.SH in the annual interest account. There was no money panic whatever, nor any sign of it. There was somewhat of a flurry in speculative stocks, but the author of "Thirty Years of American Financ' says: "Garfield's death was not a decisive influence on tho situation; it was, In fact, a coincidence rather than a cause." The persons who are disseminating groundless fears of financial trouble in case Mr. McKinley should die are doing themselves no credit and the country disservice. All talk of that kind is silly. Already papers are demanding that the Anarchists bo driven out of the country. This is based upon the assumption that all Anarchists are foreigners. The assassin who attempted the life of the President is a native American, and it will be found that a large part of them are American citizens. But if they could be banished, to what country could they be sent? Are wo prepared to send assassins to murder the rulers of Other lands? And if all Anarchists or those who have the views of anarchistic hate in their hearts should be banished. Is it not possible that the number would be so large as to make their transportation difficult? It is unwise to disguise the situation. The number of persons who exult over the deed of the assassin is larger than most people suspect. During several weeks, as before observed, a primary teacher of anarchy has been speaking to small audiences near the Circle quite frequently. He has not advised tho shooting of Presidents, but he has declared that the government is in the hands of millionaires or their tools in Washington. In his last speech he declared that the only way to get rid of a millionaire was to put a bullet into his brain. There Is a class of people who imbibe such sentiments. They read the papers which are filled with them. Very naturally they hate thoso who are called capitalists, and are rather pleased than otherwise when a publlo official accused of favoring trusts is murderously assailed. We use th3 name Anarchist with & shudder of horror, but those persons who, like Senator Wellington, are utterly indifferent at the shooting of the President and those who unguardedly declare that they are "glad of it," when allusion is made to the crime, are Impregnated with the virus of anarchy. In his address at Buffalo the day before ho was shot President McKinley spoke of the quick transmission of news made pos sible by modern inventions, and how different the conditions are now from when it took nineteen days to go from Washington to New Orleans with a message to General Jackson that the war with England had ceased, thus causing the battle of New Orleans to be fought nearly two weeks after the treaty of peace had been 6lgned. The President gave other striking Illustrations of the changed conditions under which the whole civilized world Is kept In touch by telegraph. He concluded: "God and man have linked the nations together. No nation can longer be Indifferent to any other." The idea has found a further unexpected illustration in the almost simultaneous messages of sympathy from all parts of the world regarding the attempted assassination of the President. At the time he spoke of, when the battle of New Orleans wa3 fought, it would have taken several weeks for news of the attack upon him to have reached Europe, and several more before any utterance of the press or expression of sympathy from foreign governments could have been received here. Now they come pouring in the next day, and they are far more friendly and sympathetic than they would have been in the old time. Truly, as the President said: "God and man have linked the nations together." The only paper in Paris that does not express sincere regret for the attack on President McKinley Is a Socialist organ, which recalls his alleged "brutal repression" of the miners' strike at Coeur d'Alene, In Idaho. In that case the President used federal troops to suppress riots which the State authorities could not cope with and to prevent a condition of anarchy in Idaho. The Paris paper adds: "Socialists will learn with regret that in case of the fatal issue of the President's wounds his successor would be Vice President Roosevelt, the most unscrupulous of all the great capitalists of American trusts and of American military imperialism." It will probably surprise Colonel Roosevelt to learn that he is such a bold, bad man. The fear that Investors will be frightened by the crime of one man against the life of the President is one of the things many sound-minded people cannot understand, particularly those who are not so fortunate

as to have money invested in stocks and bonds. Such persons must not only be timid beyond comprehension, but they must be Ignorant. The death of the President, if it should occur, will not culminate in a panic of the whole country, like that of a vanquished army. The natural revulsion at such a crime may affect business for a few days, but the government would be administered by men holding the President's conservative views. There is not the least cause for fear; the timid do not direct the industrial and business interests Of the countrj-. THE JESTERS.

Just That One. Philadelphia Evening Bulletin. "The' have had only ona Quarrel since they were married." "Whj, I heard them quarreling when they first moved next to us months ago, and this morning I also heard them at It." "Well, that's the same quarrel." The Real Reason. Brooklyn Life. "Gruet Is so very attentive to his wif that when he is with her he never sees me." "That Isn't the reason he falls to notice you." "What Is It, then?" "He doesn't want his wife to know what kind of men he associates with." More Potato Humor. Cleveland Tlain Dealer. "Bifkin is always Joking. When the doctor ordered him to go to Colorado what do you suppose he said?" "Give it up." "He said he really couldn't afford to have tuberculosis because tubers are so expensive." Even in Boston. Boston Herald. Mother (just home from the theater) Why, Harold, are you awake? Harold Yes. mamma. Mother Did you say your prayers to-n!sht? Harold No'm; I forgot to. Mother Then you must cay them now. Harold Why, mamma, does God sit up as late as this? His Address. . V.'ashlngton Star. "How do you address the President of your country?" asked the man who is careful about formalities. "It all depends on circumstances," answered the citizen of the southern republic. "Sometimes he gets his letters at the executive mansion and other times they have to b sent to jail." ENFORCEMENT OF LAW. Candidate Uookwalter'i Letter Tkgart'a Shortcoming;. To the Editor of the Indianapolis. Journal: Mr. Bookwalter's letter and his speeches are quite a surprise to those who imagine a man who conducts a large business successfully has no time or taste for municipal affairs. He seems to think he is a stockhofter in the municipal corporation, and that he not only has a right, but it is his duty, to know all about how its affairs are administered, but he also has so.ne very pronounced notions as to how they ought to be. That a very large majority of those w-ho have large private interests do not do this is true, and the more is the pity. But, after all, the election will be determined along party lines. Very few Republicans, if any, will vote for Mr. Taggarfs second or would vote for any Democrat naif so steeped in what may be called Taggartism, while not a Democrat will vote for Mr. Bookwalter except here and there a stockholder in the municipal corporation, who has taken time from his private concerns to note the utter ruin that Taggarticm 13 bringing upon us. These will rebuke the policy by rising above party, but all that pother about gas meters and the like is mere filling in to hide the reai issues. To my mind not a word has been raid or is likely to be said about the greatest crime of Mr. Taggart's administration the nonenforcement of municipal and statutory law. Take the curfew law, for instance. It was intended to break up those schools of vice which the after-night out-door life of boys and girls promotes. For a lew months after its passage it was enforced with satisfactory results; juvenile offenses were reduced to a minimum, and great hope was entertained that much permanent good would follow, but It has long been a dead letter, and the dozen or more commitments to the Reform School within a year might have been prevented if the after-night schools of vice had been dispersed. The curfew whistle is now useful only to regulate clocks by. Then there is the ordinance forbidding reckless speed and riding bicycles on sidewalks. No ordinance could be deader than that. Boys run races with the street cars and beat them on all Improved streets every day, in full sight of the police, and many sidewalks have been converted Into bicycle tracks by permanently putting in lifts at the crossings of streets and alleys, so that on all improved streets the sidewalks are the race tracks for wheelmen. Then there Is the ordinance against rapid driving within the city, yet every daj' witnesses the fast driving of horsemen on North Meridian and other Improved streets, and the nabobs who own fast horses drive at full speed at the noon hour, when the streets are full of children going to or from school, to the Imminent peril of life and limb, but the police ne,ver say a word. It Is hardly extravagant to say that more than half of the vicious class every day carry loaded revolvers, and the police know it, but they pay no attention to the fact unless it is necessary to arrest some desperate man on general principles, when the fact of having a leaded weapon serves a convenient charge for the slate. To the police and to a great many falrly good citizens this conniving at violations of law signifies very little. Let me suggest that they are by far greater offenses against the interests of the city than all of Mr. Taggart's vicious financial schemes. The city can survive these. A few v?ars of Republican economy will repair the damage, but generations cannot recover us from the moral blight of the training of a generation of lawbreakers the system maintains. It is not a matter of indifference to- the families of the incorrigible boys that have gone to the Reform School, nor to the rest of us, but the connivance of the police at the violation of the curfew ordinance trains the boy to violate the wheel ordinance and soon to defy all law that restricts him in his desires. One who professes to know says there have been three deaths in the city within eighteen months clearly attributable to Injuries received from unlawful biej-cle riding, not to mention scores of serious cripplings. But all that is insignificant compared with the moral degeneracy that habitual defiance of law ha? caused. It Is a lesson in crime that opens the way to the next offense. Possibly the Police Court records may show how many have been wounded or murdered by the interdicted loaded pistol, but all that is nothing compared with the education In lawlessness, the indifference of the police to the ordinance which, enforced, would have prevented. I can condone all of Mr. Taggart's blunders in purely money matters, such as his temporary loans, high prices for park lands and the like. I can even apologize for him by presuming he did not know anv better a very violent presumption, by the way but I cannot be indifferent to the schools of vice he has maintained from the little boy in crime's kindergarten, who. with Mr. Taggart's approval, violates the curfew ordinance every night, and the larger bnv who scorches in the street or rides on the sidewalk to the hoary-headed sinner -who defies the law in the verv presence of the police every night and ail day every Sunday In the saloon business. Is it any wonder crime 1 on the increase with such facilities for its development But what about Mr. Bookwalter's administration in this regard? In the first place it cannot possibly be any worse. For one I am willing to trust to his good sense in the matter. I should hesitate to ask him for any pre-ekctlon pledge that he will pounce upon every boy and girl who Is out after curfew hours. A proclamation that the ordinance must be oleyed. followed by the prompt arrest of every persistent defter regardless of color or social standing would reduce the offense to its minimum in thirty days. The same would be true as to the bicycle riders and the fast drivers. The. loaded pistol and the saloon keeper would be harder to deal with, but a purpose to enforce all ordinances and all laws would soon break up at least so much of the schools of vice as teach disregard of law. There will be burglars ar.d highway robbers, violators of liquor laws and criminals of that class forever, but we should not encourage lawbreakltig. U. I. SFU.

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Insert. A great nature movement, or movement to promote the love and study of nature, seems to have sprung up recently in which the study of insects finds Its proper place. Insects form a unique branch of livingcreatures and furnish an interesting study. In one form or another, they abound everywherebees, bugs, f.Ies, ants, wasps, spiders, crickets, grasshoppers, katydids, locusts, etc., the list 1 almost endless. "The Insect Bock," by Dr. Leland O. Howard, alms to promote the study of this broad and Interesting field. The author Is chief of the division of entomology in the United States Department of Agriculture, and i-. of course, an authority on the subject. The book 13 at once scientific and popular, treating of all Injects except butterflies, moths and beetles. "One of the main dfslres In my mind In planning the method of treatment," says the author in a preface, "has been to encourage the study of life histories of Insects. Where possible a typical life history has been given in each family treated. Some of these are moderately complete as to main facts, while others have gaps in the life-round of the species which, in many instances, can be easily filled by careful study." The chapters on mosquitoes and wasps are very interesting. Over 150 pages are given to flies, or two-winged insects, cf which more than 40,000 species are known already and S00.000 more estimated to exist, and they range from the midges and mosquitoes to the great gads. These Insects are of more than entomological interest, not only because of the annoyance humanity and the larger animals suffer from them, ar.d their Injury to crops of various kinds, but because many of them carry and communicate germ-diseases, such as malaria, yellow and typhoid fever, gangrene, anthrax, (in cattle), ophthalmia, and other eye disease, cattle plague (tsetse) and cholera. For the spread of several of the worst of these horrors the world-wide house fiy is responsible, and the author points out that one of the advantages of the gradual supersedence of horses by electric cars, automobiles and other mechanical vehicles will be a reduction in the number of these agents of disease and misery. The great order of bugs occupies space commensurate with its variety, and grasshoppers, katydids and crickets are fully described and illustrated, including even the scores of their songs. A chapter on collecting and preserving insects will be found helpful by those who make a practical study of the subject. Tho book is copiously and beautifully illustrated, it makes a large volume of over 4o0 pages and is handsomely printed and bound. New York: Doubleday, Page & Co. The Road to llidgeby's. This story has a bit of sad history connected with it in that it is a posthumous work of a young newspaper man and writer of fine promise, Frank B. Harris, who put his best efforts into a first novel which was also to be his last, and which he barely lived to complete and revise without ever seeing Its proof sheets. He had lived and worked in Omaha and Chicago, and he died on the way to New Mexico, where he wa going in the hope of regaining his shattered health. The novel is a thoroughly American one. It is a story of farm life in the middle West, and in spite of certain limitations and structural defects, due perhaps to Inexperience, it presents true and human pictures of the scenes and characters with which it deals. The heroine is a pretty girl who, left as a foundling baby on a farmer's doorstep, was brought up as his daughter, sent to Vassar for two years and became a very attractive young woman. She is introduced as the home dining-room girl and milkmaid, but attracts the reader from the start. The hero is an educated young man who happens along that way, and, pleased with the girl at first sight, hires out as a farm hand. The rest can be surmised. Quite a number of typical rustic characters are introduced and there is a good deal of rustic dialect, but the love affair between the young man and the girl holds the main attention. It does not run smoothly from the first, but with some meanderings it turns out all right. Without much plot the story possesses penuine interest and shows unmistakable marks of originality nnd careful literary workmanship. Boston: Small, laynaru Ac co. Last Confession of Mnrie Ilanhklrteff. There may have been other women who have written as intimately of themselves as Marie Bashklrtseff, but probibly none whose confessions have been read to the same extent. The story of her precocity, her talents and her early death caught the public attention, and her unique style charmed readers who appreciated originality. In this new volume of her "Confessions" there is no falling off in' Interest from her journal, first published in English some twelve years ago. The volume consists partly of entries in her journal and partlv of letters that passed between her and the French novelist Guy de Maupassant. She had never seen him nor had he ever seen her, yet, girl as she was, she wrote him first, and a letter that so piqued his curiosity that an Interesting correspondence followed. It was a literary correspondence in which each was trying to outwit the other and in which each wrote freely without any idea of publication. The letters are not particularly edifying, but they are Interesting, though they carry abundant evidence of the egotism as well as the genius of the writers, botli of whom are dead. With wonderful talent and versatility Marie Bashkirtseff also had glaring faults of character, but she does not hesitate to lay bare her whole nature and heart. This volume has a frontispiece portrait of her from the last photograph she had taken. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company. The Old Plantation. Tho author if this book. Rev. James B. Avirett, of North Carolina, is an old man and his heart is in the past. He was a chaplain in the Confederate army and still thinks the lost cause waH a just one. The object of the book is to vindicate the South and its people against what are deemed the unjust aspersions of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" and to portray slavery and its influences as they existed before the war in what the author regards as their true light. Having been born and brought up on one of the largest old-timo plantations in North Carolina, he is capable of doing this, from his point of view, and he has made an interesting book. Its title, with subtitle, is: "The Old Plantation; How We Lived in the Great House and Cabin Before the War." It is not a story nor a work of fiction or imagination, but a faithful description in narrative style and with much interesting detail of the occupations, amusements and dally routine of old plantation life. The book is so full of interesting character sketches and anecdotes, and so abound? with realistic pictures of a life that is past and gone, that one can afford to overlook Its occasional harmh ss iedantry and its Illogical conclusions in favor of the elevating Influence of slavery. The book is dedicated "to the memory of the old planter and his wife tho only real slaves on the old plantation of many overgrown children, senants cf the estate, from 1S17 to the father and mother of the author." New York: F. Tennyson Neely Company. Two Conslns and a Cntle. Mrs. II. Lovett Cameron maintains her reputation for writing good stories in this clever one of "Two Cousins and a Castle." The elderly proprietor of a fine estate and of Portalloc Castle, whose two children, a son and a daughter, both married contrary to his wishes, and who has no male heir of his own name, conceives the Idea of perpetuating it by bringing about a marriage between, his two grandchildren, first cousins, of whom the young man was to discard the vulgar name of Spinks for the atistocratic one of Eardley. The young people are invited to the ctstle, and a game of cross purposes at once begins. The grandfather's plan of having the two cousins fall in love with each other looks very practicable from his point of iev. but unfortunately they both fall in love with somebody else, but the pirl cou.-in, the heroine of the story, so winds lurself around the' old man's hi art thit he finally becomes reconciled to btr choire and the story ends with a very different tableau from the one he had planned. There is a plot within this plot, tu work out both of which requires several interesting ehararters. The story runs along In lively fashion, an'., without aiming at anything higher than entertainment, succeeds well in that. New York: F. M. Buckles & Co. AVI 11 In in Vuu k tin Moody' I'urm. Notwithstanding the vast output of book of various klnels from the publishing houses, comparatively few volumes of verse are issued. Whether it is because, as some publishers frankly assert, that "jn.etry does not sell," or whether more dlscrimlua-

tlon is used than formerly and only tr bet accepted, and good ver;-- is a carc article, i? a q tim thai r. :d r. t bo h r? c'.iscus-ed. Th character of tl.U little collection of p.)oms indicates, bover, that the second inference m.iy be :)-,e correct one. Mr. Moody proves himself h re to br possess.-, 1 of lm.Ti-ir .iti r.. a r r.r.rl tat and a pow r of e ffective x; r n e;ulte beyond the average modern .rse wr:tei. In addition be has .1 enrr.roan't of the mere mechanics of v rse-making that .--n.-.n give the read' r conti.! n e th.it he will irft ..-i.V. i ...... i. .. . ...

I hü Ii" jjiu:;k i 'ues in i:ir;- or rnyiaai. He chooses simple th mes an 1 make no ambitious t'.iuhts, yet there i. a sv.gesiion b ick even of th lighter rhym ? of dep thoughtfuln ss ar.d of spiritual Insight a. suggestion that still better w rk may b expected from t hi - anther's p u. ;af lots not permit ejuotation. thoe.gh many lines offer thm eles; it must stT'e t At. .A A . - . 1.. I -

lines oner i n msei i s ; u must s.iiT.eo . say that the volume worth reading a. s;iuJi.fi i'ui.i intr ti. i.v ..i.i:i aim lite J'4 O ;ii iZ '1 .Mir !! fc.l' ' v.I.Jh-l J'.", il i , . p tha: in the reading "r'ong-tlower and I' p- .... T'.., 1 . -.-. ...... .... 1 '".,. ., l i in- iMkui 4Hij' ou i i : n - najTorle' shouM not be missed. Huughton, Miiilin & Co., Boston. The Warner. The author of this story is Mrs. G rtrude Potter Daniels, of Chicago, whose father and husband are said to be speculators and possessed of large wealth. The story Is rather a strange one to come from siuh a source, for it is an almost fierce arraignment and protest against the assumed wrongs of capital on labor. An ambitious young workingman falls in love with a pretty typewriter whom he marries and they are very happy for si ve-ral years, until Satan, in the form of a Star.darl Oil speculator, enters their lives. Then follow a series uf persecutions and misfortunes, including their financial ruin, the seduction and min of their daughter and ending with the destruction of all tin ir happiness and one or two murders. The story U graphic, in a sense, but it has no literary me rit and its moral tendency H to promote class discontent and anarchism. The author seems to have been more desirous of writing h book that would sell than of effecting any reform. Her style is loose and verges at times m slangines. A grammatical error like "He laid awake all night" is not more offensive than such an expression as "She had made a big effect em him." Yet m spite of these defects and lack of moral tone the story has the kind of interest that will cause It to be read on a railway train. Chicago: Jamleson-Higgins Company. I'nder n Lucky Star. The wise men of old taught that there ere twelve distinct types of people in the world who have their special place and work to do in the plan of the universe, and that they can be classified uneler their appropriate sign of the zodiac This idea forms the basis of "Under a Lucky Star," by Charlotte A. Walker. The book is an ingenious but most persons will say ratlur forced attempt to explain personal characteristics, tendencies and possibilities, choice of partners and employes, choice of occupations, etc.. by the Inlluencc of the stars under which a person Is born. It is claimed that In studying the inllu nee e.f the planets it is found that persons born at about the same time of a month are alike in their general characteristics and that other planets may werk for or against them. The lives of many celebrated men and women are cite! to sustain the ingenious astrological theories advanced, and the author has tri-d to give them a practical turn. The book is eine that can be read with interest by those who are fond of pursuing ingenious suggestions. Nef York: G. W. Dillingham Company. A Handbook of Prorcrb. There have been many compilations of proverbs, but none. It is believed, on the plan of this one, the distinctive feature of which i3 a classified arrangement by subjects with all of the rroverbs relating to each particular subject collated under that head. Among tho topics are marriage, celibacy, poverty, wealth, speech and silence, friemlshlp, dress, pleasure, pride, jealousj', fame, gratitude and others, to the number of more than a hundred, with from a eiozen to fifty proverbs relating to them under each head. Thus, under the head of "Folly and Fools." we find: "Fools grow without watering." "A fool is never wrong." "A fool's fortune Is his misfortune." "A man may be n foci and not know It." "If every fool were crowned we should all be kings," and many others. The proverbs are selected from approved sources and the arrangement makes the boe.k a handy one for readers, thinkers, writers and speakers. New York: New Amsterdam Book Company. Heart and Soul. The author of this novel, Mrs. Henrietta D. Skinner, made a favorable Impression by a musical story, "Espirltu Santo," published some time ago. The scenes of "Heart and Soul" are laid in various parts of this country and of France. The story deals largely with the life of Detroit during the first half of the nineteenth century, when it still retained much of the old French atmosphere, though tho scene shifts from this to other parts of the countrj'. The hero Is a youth of Spanish descent, born in Cuba, brought up in Detroit, and finding his career in the work of civil engineering. Tho heroine Is a little maiden of mixed French and Scotch parentage, who wins the admiration of the reader as she did of Roderic, the hero and relator of the story. The story Is full of strong pictures of hitherto untouched phases of American lite, and the love romance that runs through it Is handled with delicacy and skill. New York: Harper & Bros. Sir. Chupes and Miss Jenny. Theso are the names of two birds, and the book tells the story of their lives. It is a charming account of the life in captivity of two robins whose misfortunes at first made them the Involuntary companions of humankind and whose affection for thrlr gentle owner and guardian made them unwilling afterwards to return to a life vf freedom. The story of their training, f their habits, their tricks, their pretty exhibitions of instinct and intelligence is tobl in a style that shows the author I. the Bigne 1 1 to be a true lover not only of birds but of nature in all her forms. The book is very appropriately dedicated "to the Audubon soehties in recognition of their work in the cause ef bird protection." It is published by the Baker Ai Taylor rmpany, New York. Crnnkltni. This is the title which, for want e.f a better. Is given to a little volume of satirical aphorisms on the follies and frailties of human nature, accompanied with clever illustrations which carry out and develop the hurne.r eif the text. Both text ant illustrations are unusually bright of their kind. Following are some of th- aphorisms, each with its appropriat pietr.re. "Forbblden fruit ha.- no attractions until we know that it is forbidden." "It is Impossible to s.rve two masters, ami few f us try. We ar satisfied to ;.. raise clod from whom all blessings th-w, while w ea-h the checks of mammon." "Many who Hng loud praises to Gol pay havy tribute1 to the devil." "Tell th- truth and you will shame the devil; you will also surprise 1dm very often." Philadelphia: ib-nry Coat a & Co. The A Im ii el o lied Farmer. The experiences of a married touple who exchange city for country life for th- b.-r.e-fit of a delicate child furnish the theme for this clever story by Sydney 11. Preston. "The Abandoned Farm r' is a newspape r man who. mainly for the reason above indicated, conclude s to m ue to the e-ountry. How he and his wife di-rusd the pros and eons of th matter, how- thy finally n-nted a little larm irorn a sklnJ'.int landlord, how they blundered along in happv-go-lue-ky style, having some disagreeable experiences and some pleasant on-s. and how the Journalistic frm r raised a b:tf crop ef j. tite.es. half e,f width be gave to th village hurch these and other old and amusing experiences related in a pb-.ising style make a very r.-adabl story. New York: Charles Scribner's Son?. Sir John nnd the American iHrl. Thi- Is Volume II 0f Harper's "Portrait Collection of Short Stories." It contains nine short stories by Lillian Bell, tho beside the title storv being "The Parif.er of Pecos." "With Mamma Awny," "The Chattahoochee Woman's Club." ''Vessum." "Miss Scarborough's ldnt of View." "With Feet of Clav." "The Junior Prize at St. Mary's," and "A Pig.on-llood Ruby." Th-y are all bright and e levt r -dorSe. There IS a frontispiece portrait ef Lillian Bell. SenUor An tone. This is a unique book in its origin and contents. It is a collection of nearly twenty short stories illustrative of Portuguese life and character, by Dr. W. S. BirRe, who. during long association with a colony of