Indianapolis Journal, Volume 51, Number 273, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 September 1901 — Page 4

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That the Taggart regime has reasons in favor of ,Hs continuance two years longer is confessed by the free use of beer to incite enthusiam. The decent voters of Indianapolis should resent thS; free-beer campaign by showing that a ciii election should be influenced by considerations affecting the public welfare. The recklessness of the Maguire leaders 1.- evidence of their d morallzation. Coolheavled men would vnot have assailed the Marion county Judges in the hope of winning vote fur Maguire. I Those .)od men who have declared that Czoigocz'i crime is due. to the lack of religious teaching in the public schools are respectfully reminded that the assassin told Judge White, at the time of his trial, that he Jiad attended public and church schools, i t t The Taggart-Magulre theory that an in sufficient revenue and an empty treasury, replenished at Intervals by temporary loans. "Is a business-like way In which to manage financial affairs." would hardly commend itself to the finance ministers of the grea'J powers. There 1 little doubt now that all of the elements hostile to Tammany in New York city will unite on the citizens' ticket. If four yeas of Tammany has compelled a union offthose who desire decent government, sl years of our imitation Tammany should unite good citzens in an effort to defeat it J It was , Board of Public "Works which Mr. Maulre applauds that protected against tUe passage of a law which limited the assessment upon property for street improvements to 23 per cent, of its appraised jalue. That it cannot be assessed for more! than 25 per cent. Is due o a Republican .Legislature. "With hjjs annual message to the Council of March'-IS, 1101, Mayor Taggart submitted I a statement showing the annual expendi tures of the city from 1S01 to 10o0, inclusive. The statement showed that the expenditures Increased during his administrations frcai JSCc!oS3 in 1S90 to $1.273,01: in 1900. Was he telling the truth or "slandering the city?" 5' The Arjerican Board of Missions has decided to! ransom Miss Stone, who has been cajitured by brigands in Bulgaria. That is tcie humane thing to do. but if the brigands get the Impression that all missionaries kidnaped, will bo ransomed thu board will need a large revenue. The better way Is to withdraw all missionaries from places where they are likely to be captured. The recent order of General Wood making material changes in the Cuban tariff is evidently intended as a sort of modus vivendi during the period of American occupation of the island. The changes are decidedly beneficial to Cuba as far as they go, but they do not constitute a. complete revision of the tariff. It is said this course was agrled upon after careful consideration of the question by Secretary Hoot, General Wood and President Roosevelt, it being their opinion that the time when the Cubans v.lll be able to take charge of their own jovvrnment is so near at hand that it will be better to wait and let them devise a complete tariff cf their own. The tariff as now modified will take effect to-morrow and be in force one year. There has been a good deal of history made during the Ia.t year, but it has not effaced the memory of the carnival hold here last fall, when for a few days and nights the entire population of the city, augmented by many thousands from outside, gave themselves up to fun-making, xight-seclng and enjoyment. The success of the urdertakins was such that the manager?, actuated by true public spirit, decided to repeat it on a broader scale this year, anl arrangements to that end are now well advanced. A number of very attractive features have already been secured and others will be added. It is to be hoped residents of the city and persons living oufijle who like to visit the capital will co-opera je with the managers in making the carnival even more attractive than that of last )) ar. I It is iven out as the opinion of some lawyers that the murderer Keith, even if the Supreme Court sustain the court which sentenced hlrn to death, cannot b executed for the reason that when the Jeffersor.ville prison became a reformatory it was deprived of the iower to execute men In the southern half of the State sentenced to death. If Keith had lived In a county north of the line which divides the State Ir.to two prison districts, he could be hung

I:i the Northern Prison, but, there now be-

ing no prison south, these lawyers hold that he cannot be hanged. This means that south of the dividing line there is no such thing as capital punishment, while north of that line capital punishment Is a lawful penalty. To the person unlearned ia the law this seems like the pettifoggery of those who expound the law exclusively In justices courts. a im.zi: PROPOSITION. Mr. Maguire is asking the people of Indianapolis to eject him mayor because he represents and will continue the Taggart policy of the last 'Ax years, and Mr. Taggart is electioneering for him on the same ground. The candidate does not pretend to have any policy of his own or any ideas of municipal government, except, as far as possible, to continue the Taggart policy. He does not attempt to inform the peopfe what that policy is, but Mr. Taggart does. He claims that Mr. Maguire should be elected as an Indorsement of the three Taggart administrations; first, because, during that period, the city has prospered and increased in population and has made marked progress In the way of public improvements, and second, because, by instituting the practice of raising money by temporary loans, instead of by taxation, he has enforced economy on the Council. These are the only grounds on which either Mr. Maguire or Mr. Taggart claims that the latter should be elected. Let U3 examine them. It is true that the city has grown, prospered and increased in population during Mr. Tatrgart's three administrations and has made much progress in the way of public improvements, but he had nothing to do with causing the growth and prosperity of the city, and the people have paid dearly for the Improvements, while much of the money that has come out of their pockets has been unwisely expended, distributed among farty favorites or diverted to political purposes, until an empty treasury compelled a resort to temporary loans. Mr. Taggart" claim that the growth and prosperity of the city during the last six years were due to his administration is a piece of brazen Impudence. New York city has grown and prospered during all the years of Tammany rule, in spite of its corruption and innumerable evils. The growth and prosperity of Indianapolis in recent years have been due to causes with which Mr. Taggart had no connection whatever. The public Improvements were a. natural result of the city charter, which he has ignored and violated in some essential respects. The improverm-ntr, which, in many cities, are paid for out of the general fund, have bten paid for here by Individual assessments, and yet Mr. Taggart boasts that he has made the Improvements without an excessive tax levy. He tries to create the impression that, owing to his wise policy and good management, the improvements have been made without burdening the people. They know better. He deserves no more credit for the Improvements than he does for the growth and prosperity of the city. But Messrs. Maguire and Taggart seem to lay more stress on the latter's financial policy of temporary loans than they do even on his wonderful services in creating prosperity. They point to it with pride. They really seem to regard it as a discov ery in finance. It used to be thought that a wise and honest rule in municipal affairs was to raise the necessary revenues by taxation and then "pay as you go." The Taggart and "Me-too" Maguire policy is to have an insufficient revenue and an empty treasury, and borrow money at Interest to pay current expenses. They claim that this makes the Council economical. Mr. Taggart said, in his last message to the Council, that he believed this "Is the business-like way to manage the affairs of the city." He has been able to put this novel idea in force to such an extent that since July CO, r0, temporary loans have been made to the aggregate amount of $4r5,CC4. and the city controller asked for authority to borrow $i2,0o0 more. Mr. Taggart thinks this Is "the business-like way in which to manage the financial affairs of the city," ami because Mr. Maguire agrees with him they ask that he be elected mayor in order that he may continue the pulley of replenishing an empty treasury by temporary loans. It is a brazen proposition. Ki:vn cky's last iii:iusrno. It seems to the Journal that there is less ground now for giving up ex-(5overnor Taylor and Mr. Finley than there was when tho lato Governor Mount declined to surrender them. More than a year ago three men charged with being in the conspiracy to assassinate William Goebel were convicted. Their cases were carried to the Court of Appeals, and that, tribunal set aside the findings and sentences and crdered a new trial. This was done several months ago, but, upon one technicality or another, these three men have been kept in prison awaiting trial. In view of that fact, it seems that it will be wise to see !f another court will give those men a fair trial after keeping them In jail several months. If a fair-minded judge and fairly impartial jury shall proceed to try Towers and his associates, then those who are demanding for trial the men In Indiana may have a decent pretext as a basis for their request. The men who have re cently been to Governor Durbin declare that the hitter feeling which was manifested during the previous trial has died cut; nevertheless, Judge Cantrill is making a canvass for the United States Senate, basing his claims on the part he took in the trial of Powers and his associates. About a year ago Mr. William V. Curtis, acknowledged to be one of the most reliable correspondents in the country, went to Kentucky to investigate the reports regarding the trial and conviction of Powers and his associates. He was sent by the Cldcago Record, which had editorially criticised Governor Mount for not honoring the requisition of the Governor of Kentucky for ex-Governor Taylor and Mr. Finley. The following is taker, from Mr. Curtis's correspondence: The most learned lawyers in Kentucky tell me that the proceedings in all these cases are without parallel for partisanship by the courts and Jury in the history of American jurisprudence, and that the Dreyfus case is the enly one within the present century thtt can be quoted in the same conutction. The proceedings before Judge Cantrill at Georgetown remind them more of the Spmlsh Inquisition than anything in modern criminal prosecutions. The juries that convicted these three men were not drawn from the regular panel, although sixty names were left in the wheel, but were summoned personally by the sheriff from among his personal acquaintances. Members of the State Bar Association have jrepared and published a statement of the cases. addretd to the members of the American Bar Association and lawyers throunout the United States, setting forth the fact?. It is a terrible urraignrnent of the Kentucky Judiciary, but they tell me here that there la little public excitement over the convictions, because everybody knows that the Court of Appeals will overrule the judgments and set aside the entire proceedings. The failure to give the three men a new trial, which was ordered by the Court of

Appeals, and other circumstance, favor the conclusion that the trial of ex-Governor Taylor would be characterized by the same disregard for Justice that was shown in the trials of the three men now in prison. TIIK A I'TIIOHITY TO LI CK S II. The organ of "Me-too" Maguire makes a great ado over a statement of the Journal to the effect that the city has no right to issue its license to sell liquor and collect its fee until the applicant shall have been licensed by the County Commissioners. True, there is a city ordinance which authorizes the controller to issue licenses to applicants who have not a state license, but that such an ordinance Is void because it is in conflict with the state law is the unqualified opinion of several good lawyers. In all cases the law of the State is supreme In the State, even if the city charter does seem to confer authority on the City Council to revoke state laws. The law of the State Is explicit, as follows: It shall be unlawful for any person, directly or indirectly, to sell, barter or give away, for any purpose of gain, any spirituous, vinous or malt liquor in less quantities than one quart at a time, without first procuring from the Board of County Commissioners of the county in which such liquor is to be sold, a license as hereinafter provided; nor shall any person, without having first procured such a license, sell or barter any intoxicating liquor to be drunk or suffered to be drunk in his house, outhouse, yard, garden or appurtenances thereto belonging. Such law covers the whole State, and a city ordinance conflicting therewith cannot annul it and thereby deprive the State of Its authority and of its license fee. If the City Council of Indianapolis can set aside

the law quoted it can set aside any other statute. If licenses are being Issued under this ordinance in this city the County Commissioners should at once investigate the matter and proceed against those who are selling liquors without their license. It would be well for them to see how many men are selling without having paid the state license fee in violation of the state law, but on authority of the city con troller. It is possible that this licensing by the city is responsible for the existence of a large number of places in which affrays occur. In conclusion the Journal in sists that no authority can be given to tho City Council to issue licenses in a manner which renders the law of the State on that subject null and void. A I Jl STIFIAIILi: ATTACK. The meeting of Democratic lawyers on Saturday for the purpose of assailing the Judges of the Marion county courts was a very remarkable performance. The gen eral charge was that they are partisan judges, yet not one of the speakers making scch charges cited an instance to sus tain them. Judge Carter enjoined the Board of Public Works from awarding the city lighting contract upon specifications with which, It Is alleged, but one company could comply, and that company composed chiefly of the political favorites of the board. The objections of Judge Carter were such as could be easily obviated by a revision of the contract. Judge Leathers enjoined the mayor from appointing elec tion inspectors, probably because the law of the State vests the appointment of such In spectors in the City Council. One of the speakers assailed Judge Allen by name, but two years ago, when the election of the present city clerk was contested by his Republican competitor, it was noted that Judge Alien's rulings generally favored the Democrat. His impartiality was spoken of at the time by his political opponents. If the assailants of the Marion county judges had cited a long list of cases in which those magistrates had shown partisan bias, giv ing the specifications. It would have been a different thing, but they have not cited a case. It would look as if the men who participated in this performance expected to influence the city election by their action. If they do they are mistaken, for when it is understood that the integrity of such men as Judges Allen, Carter, McMaster and Leathers has been made an issue, many men will take a more active part in the campaign than they have thus far. The Republican friends of Mr. Kern, who are numerous, will regret that he participated in such a remarkable assault upon the integrity of the Marion judges, but from Messrs. Green Smith and Frank Burke nothing else could be expected, as denunciation and misrepresentation of Republicans who hold office constitute a portion of all their political utterances. Sir Robert Griffin, a Hritish statistician, showed in a recent address that the nations which grew in population during the nineteenth century are five in number the United States, Great Britain, Germany, France and Russia. These nations had a population of 170,000,000 at the beginning of the century and 510,on,ooo at its close. France's growth was the smallest, its population in ISO.) being 25,fXH),000 and 40,000,000 in UM). Failing to keep pace with other European nations In the Increase of population France can have no power in the world's diplomacy unless it is the ally of Russia. The four world powers are the United States, Russia, Great Britain and Germany. Sir Robert confessed that the United States is bound to gain at the expense of others because of its financial and Industrial resources. He foresees that the United States will soon become the richest nation in the world, because Europe becomes more and more dependent upon this country for the necessaries of life. Great Britain rurchas.es much of its food of the United States, and Germany, as the years pas, purchases more and more food in thi country. Russia might come to be a competitor, but with an impoverished and ignorant population, visited frequently by famines and burdened by the maintenance of a vast army, it is not prepared to contest for supremacy in the world. In a speech delivered on Tuesday. Oct. C, in a meeting held at the corner of California and Maryland streets, Mayor Taggart said: "Mr. Bookwalter criticises the 59-cent tax lavy as too low. but I want to say to you that I will run the city on a CD-cent levy and will not make any tem porary loans, either." In his annual mes sage to the Council, March ID, 1D01, Mavor Taggart said: "On account of the low tax levy the city has been required, during the year 1W, to make temporary loans." Who best deserves the epithet of "Ananias" Mr. Bookwalter or Mr. Taggart? Judge O. F. Roberts, of Aurora, delivered an address at the recent reunion of the Eighty-third Indiana Volur.teers on the subject of anarchy. After speaking of anarchy in general and defining an Anarchist, he suggested the following remedy; pirstNo one should be allowed to land on our shores, or to become citizens, who have been convicted of any crime in a foreign land of the grade of a felony as defined by our laws, or who Is a fugitive from Justice to this country on account of the commission of such crime. Second No Nihilist. Anarchist or other avowed enemy of an organized form of

government promotive of the best interests of the people should be allowed to domicile themselves among us. but should be deported to the country from whence

tney came, speedily. Third Let he Congress set apart one or the islands now under control in the West Indies as a penal colonv. to which, on complaint and proof heard, all avowed Anarchists shall be deported for life. In this way the evil horde now in our midst may be effectually rooted out and exterminated. u e must protect our magistrates, state and national, and thus show to the world that we are determined to get rid forever of this pestilential and law-defying element. I know that no true American citi zen, whether native or adopted, will raise nis voice against any efficacious measure that will relieve us of the terror that is such a hideous menace to free institu tions. Jaw and order. THE JESTERS. I'n (runt worthy. Detroit Free Tress. "But Jones gave jou his word, didn't he?" said Frisbie. "Yes," repliod Terkasie, "but I don't like to take Jones's word. lie won't even keep It him self." The Lohntet. A lobster went 1 unting for chamois. But the vertigo made him grow elamois; Fo he said, with a si?h, "I hope I may ölgh If I ever come here again, damols." St. Louis Test-Dispatch. ot III Ideal. Chicago Tribune. "In this country, I suppose, the Ideal condition in politics is that the office should seek the man." "I don't know about that, stranger. We have offices that go beting, but we don't think much of 'em." Hard Luck. Judge. Ethel I think Jack intends to propose to-night. and I look like a flight from my cold. Edith What of It? You said you were going to refuse him with scorn. Ethel I was; but if I refuse him with scorn looking like thH heil be deuced glad of it. And She Vn Hlht. Brooklyn Eagl?. "You are sure jou heard me pronounce the nam 'Susan' in my sleep last night?" protected Adam, with studied Incredulity. "Yes," snapped I've. "And you needn't deny it. I know that generations from now it will be proved that I was not the first woman on the earth." LOTTERY TICKET SALES TIIK (OMI'AMKS CAHK NOTHING ABOUT PH03IIM:T CITIZKNS. Prire Are Frequently AY on In Estnbli hineilt Where flinty 31 en Are Employed. "There are many queer notions abroad concerning the mannt-r in which lotteries are conducted," said a local banker, "and perhaps the one most generally held is that lotteries pick out some particularly prominent man in a community and throw a big prize to him in order to draw a lot of 'suckers' into their nets. That idea is all wrong. The lottery fakirs care nothing for the prominent citizen. That kind of people don't buy lottery tickets much. The fellows they are after are the wage and salary earners the workmen, the clerk?, the cooks, the waiters, the barten ders, anyone that has a steady income. "Have you not noticed," continued the banker, "that every now and then some bartender will draw a prize? Well, as soon as that happens all the other bartenders in town invest in lottery tickets. Then take a big railroad office, where scjores of clerks are employed, and let a lottery throw a prize in among such a crowd, and see how all the rest of the clerks will fall over themselves to secure the magic slips of paper. It Is the same way in all classeb of wage and salary earners. When a member of a given class gets a prize the news quickly spreads to all the rest. Those are the people the lottery sharks are after, for they are sure of their prey all the time not by fits and starts. All they have to do is just cast a little 'sop to Cerberus' once in a while. "I caught a lottery agent trying to sell a ticket to a clerk in this bank the other day, and It made me hot. I 'went up to the fellow and said, 'Look here, I don't want you coming around here selling- those things to my employes.' 'All right.' he said very suavely, 'if you don't want me to do it I won't.' I not only don't want you to uo it,' I replied, 'but 1 won't have it ai tii. "Then I took the clerk to one side and had a little fatherly talk with him. 'Have you been buying lottery tickets?' I asked. 'Why, yes.' he answered, 'I have bought a ticket every month nearlv all my life. 1 did not think anything of it.' 'Well,' I said, 'you must quit it, my boy. Don't you remember when I took you in here that you were not nearly so well fixed as you are now? I have borne with your shortcomings and tried to encourage you so that you would rise In the business, and now I do not like to see you fastening on yourself a habit that, will be nothing but a clog to you all through life. The boy promised that he would buy no more lottery tickets, and so far as I know he kept his word. Well, you see. I just dried it up right there. If 1 had not put a stop to it. all the clerks in the bank would have been tapping me for money to play the lottery with. "Say, do you know that the people of Indianapolis are daffy over this lottery business?" ejaculated the banker. "It's a fact. I have never known so much buying of tickets as is going on right now. This week I saw two checks aggregating $5.000 ready to be forwarded to the home office of a lottery. That amount probably represented the week's sales of tickets in this city. Think of it! A quarter of a million of dollars of our good money is sent away from the city every year to a lot of fellows that have never been here, never will be here, and have no earthly interest in the city or In us. ' And what do we get back for this enormous outlay of money? Well, maybe some lucky devils here and there draw prizes of size sufficient to total $115,000. There you have it. We are suckers enough to give up SiVi.OoO for a paltry $,0i0! How much might be accomplished if that vast sum could be devoted to bettering the material prosperity of the city!" "I don't know which is worse, lotteries or bucket shops," said another banker, "but I suppose the lotteries are worse here In Indianapolis because xhey catch so many and the bucket shops do not like to handle amounts as small as those handled by lotteries. But you would be surprised to see tho kinds of people that freeiuent bucket shops. The first time I ever was inside of such a place was about two years ago. I was passing by, and a sudden impulse seized me to step inside and see what went on there. When I got well Into the room and glanced around to see who was there beside myself I was amazed to find quite a number of good citizens whom I had never suspected of gambling. Then my eyes fell upon one of my customers, a young fellow whom I had supposed attended strictly to his business. However, I remembered to have noticed something peculiar about several checks he had written recently. I did not let him know I saw him. but a few days afterward, when he came up to my desk in the bank, I remarked, quite casually: 'You have been losing some money lately, haven't you?' He colored up and began to get angry. 'Now, look here,' I said, 'it's no use for you to get mad. I can tell by your checks that you have been playing the markets and losing. I would advise you to stop, my dear boy, before you get in too deep.' He did not stop, however, and in a few months he had no account in any bank, but had taken to drinking desperately, and I heard not long ago that he had died. "That experience led me to conclude that maybe it would be a good Idea for a banker to drop into the shops every once in a while, just to keep himself posted as to who frequent such places. I make periodical visits, and $ca.eely ever fail to see somethlnsr that interests me."

SOME BOOKS OF THE TIME

The Portion of Labor. Tn this great story, now being published as a serial in Harper's Monthly, we have the highest use of the noble art of fiction, viz.. to paint real life and to show that among laboring people as well as among rich, educated people dwell some of the noblest traits of human character. It is too early, seeing that the story is not yet finished, to predict its future, but it certainly seems to me to be another "Uncle Tom's Cabin." The sorrows of a poor people ("Labor's Portion") were never more faithfully Pictured. Andrew Brewster is "a hand" in a shoe factory. He has no bad habits, only he can't support his little family sumptuously on 12 per day, and in addition maintain an insane sister-in-law In an asylum. His wife is an unrefined, uneducated New England woman, constantly put to straits to know where the next dollar is coming from, but all the time relying upon a small sum supposed to be In the savings bank, which, without her knowledge, Andrew has lost In a gold mine investment. Their only child, Ellen, is a brilliant, lovely girl, whose talents have made her the town talk and won for her, at the hand of a rich lady, the offer of an education at Vassar College. Just as she is about to start the crisis comes, and her father, worn out with age and hard work, is discharged from the factory to make room for a cheaper and more active "hand." Ellen is for the first time brought to realize what "the wolf at the door" means. To support her now disabled father (the home has been secretly mortgaged), she gives up the aim of her life a college education and takes a place at $3 a week in the factory. Of course, there is the usual love story, without which any novel would be a failure. Ellen's choice is the nephew of the fpctory owner. And he although a gilded youth and conscious of the wide and impassable social gulf which separates them is man enough, aided by the councils of a rich uncle and aunt, to appreciate and love this noble girl who has given up all for the sake of duty. Just how the story will turn out no one knows; but Miss Wilkins can be trusted to the end. "labor's Portion!" How few of us prosperous people, to whom a day is a failure when we are o?.ly $10 or JiW ahead; who have books, and time and money to go to theaters and live in beautiful homes and attend fashionable churches, realize what 51.50 a day, and only half time work at that, means. How few of us stop to think that in humble homes, where the struggle for life is expressed in threadbare clothes, premature wrinkles and gray hairs, that no poverty is so pinching that It does not share its crust with some one less favored, and that the faithfulness of man and the selfsacrifice of woman are here found at their noblest, and all the nobler because mere is so little to divide. Every purse-proud man or woman should read this labor story, which, like "Uncle Tom's Cabin." pictures in all its coarseness as well as beauty what Mrs Str.wt in hrr subtitle called "Life Among the Lowly." The author has sense enough to Know that ncn people nave wnu nearts, mat we are au neu aim uuui m.ule m" thu snme stuff, and that neither property nor poverty is the test of worth; hence, wnile Miss wiiKins uraws nun u unsparing hand the character of Lloyd, the font nri- im'nar tt-li-s hoc n Ck rri1TlPS iltiOll t discharging a worn-out employe on the principle mat lauor is a coimnuuuj, auu, HVu nir rrm nr- lanthr is tn be OUrchaSCd in the cheapest market, yet Lloyd s brother, his nephew and nis womanKinu, wiougn ming in luxury and separated from them by on olm.ict lmnncc'.lhli ofinl Clllf. fach and Uli ClIlLiW-'W I ' - . . - . t . - C) I all are made to appreciate the worth of the j Ti a & ui ,.1. i. 4.. nnculhla nml I probable that but for Ellen's beauty and talents thev would not trouble themselves about their employes Ellen's parents still, Miss Wilkins is artist enough to know that "every human heart is human" and that the poor have by no means the monopoly of kindness or generosity. On the other hand, both rich and poor have their vices, and those of one are not much worse than those of the other. If Miss Wilkins ends as well as she has begun, "Labor's Portion" will easily raise her to the rank, as novelist, of Mrs. Stowe or George Eliot. This book is certainly the most stimulating piece of fiction that has aopeared in the United States for many years." It must be a hard-hearted person who can read it without tears D. P. BALDW IN. Watt' Childhood SiniR. Outside of church circles and those who sing sacred hymns comparatively few persons nowadays ever heard of Dr. Isaac Watts, yet he was a prolific author and during his lifetime was accorded a high place among British poets. A volume of lyric poems by him ran through eight editions during his life. In 1715, when he was forty-five years old, he published "Divine and Moral Songs for Children,"' selections from which are now published in a pretty volume issued - by the A. Wessels Company, New York, entitled "Childhood Songs of Long Ago." It was said in a former edition of these verses that "they have been the delight of the youthful mind from their first publication unto the present time, and probably will be for ages to come." That puts It very strongly. They are instructive, didactic, devotional and abounding in wise counsel expresed in good rhyme, but one can hardly conceive of twentieth century children yearning after them. Yet they are classic, in a way, and some of them have a fine familiar ring. Here we find "Against Idleness and Mischief," beginning with: "How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour. And gather honey all the day From every opening ficwer?" Three more stanzas in the same vein enforce the same lesson, and the interested child sings; "In works of labor and of skill I would b busy, too; For Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do." Here, also, is the "Cradle Hymn," beginning: "Hush, my dear! Lie still and slumber! Holy angels guard thy bed! Heavenly blessings, without number, Gently falling on thy head." Five more stanzas, seldom seen in print, complete the hymn. The one "Against Quarreling and Fighting" begins with: "Let dogs delight to bark and bite, For God hath made them so; Let bears and lions growl and fight, For 'tis their nature, too." This poem has five stanzas. Others in the volume are not as familiar, and all strike a high moral key. There are in all nineteen songs or poems, all expressed In the purest English and well worth memorizing by every child in the land. The poems are prettily illustrated by Blanche McManus. "When Love File Out of Window. This clever slory shows traces of the somewhat varied experience of the author, Mr. Leonard Merrick, who has been actor, dramatist, journalist and novelist. The heroine of the story, Mcenle Weston, is a pretty English girl, whose father, a physician, died in poor circumstances, compelling her to do something for a livelihood. Having a good voice and some cultivation she tried to get an engagement in opera, but is finally glad to become a chorus girl and concert-hall singer. In this capacity she signs a contract to go to Paris, where she falls among people who persecute and abuse her. By mere accident and good luck sne encounters a young Englishman, an author and playwright, who discovers her plight and rescues her. Through personal influence he succeeds in getting her pleasant employment disconnected with the stage, and finally marries her. They are very happy until, through his Inability to realize on hi work, poverty overtakes them. With true womanlybravery the young wife determines to return to the stage in order to earn a living for both. The husband resents her decision though he is earning nothing, and gradually domestic trouble arises, leading finally to a temporary estrangement and separation. The young wife scores a success in opera, goes to New York, achieves fame, and succeeds in having a play written by her husband put on the stage. That, too, Is a success, and the now popular ginger and popular dramatist, with their fortunes made, are brought together again and are happy. The story is told in a vivid, realistic style indicating personal acquaintance with the scenes and Incidents depicted, and the characters are portrayed, or rather portray themselves, in a lifelike manner. New York: D. Appleton & Co. Cnnt unit the Canteen. "Cant and the Canteen" is a small book of 13$ pages, written by the Rev. S. B. Dexter, of Chicago, and published by the Henneberry Company, of Chicago. But while it is a small book, it contains more facts than some. large books. Mr. Dexter

was the secretary of the interdenominational ministerial committee of investigation at Fort Sheridan. While a majority of the committee ended that inve stlcatlnn after taking the testimony of the officials of Highwood. neir Fort Sheridan, most of whom are saloon keepers, and presented a few statistics comparing the sobriety of the post with and without the canteen unfairly, the committee reported against the canteen, accepting the word of interested saloon keepers In preference to that of army officers. Mr. Dexter, to his personal loss, continued an investigation and presents the result thereof in this little book. He saw the effects. In the disguise of a soldier he witnessed the drunkenness, the swindling, gambling and other vices In the saloons after the men had been paid. He has also collected the statements of army officers and arrives at the conclusion that the post canteen conduced to the temperance and the morality of the soldiers. But Mr. Dexter's church did not like his facts, turned the cold shoulder upon him. causing him to resign, but those people who prefer facts regarding the army exchange to cant will find this a very improving book.

Fnrnn GordyeefT. One of the latest of Russian novelists to attract attention is Maxim Gordy. He was peasant-born and saw all kinds of toil and hardship incident to the common people of Russia. He was Induced to spend his spare time In reading. At war with his fate, he tramped Russia before he became a writer. He is now thirty-three years of age. He is something of a pessimist, as are most Russian writers, and. like the rest of them, his story presents manv forbidding characters and barbarities. Forna Gordyeeff. the leading character In the story, was the son of a grasping and sometimes brutal Russian merchant. He amassed wealth which he left to his son and his godfather to manage. The son did not fit his environment. He was ignorant, at times violent. He revolted from the life before him and yet he could form no plan for himself because he was without ideals or ethical standards. Very naturally, his historv is a painful one, not by vices deliberately cultivated, but by a perversion of good instincts. He is dulled by debauch and finally becomes mad. All through his tragic career there are moments of revolt against the worst that is In him and against the methods and morals he sees around him. While Gordyeeff is the central figure, the hook as a whole is the author's rebellion against the established order of social morals in Russia. The writer lays bare the hideousness of human conditions in Russia, but he offers no remedy. The tale Is vigorously and dramatically written and discusses with freedom the evils which are slmpl referred tri in a vague manner in this country. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. Useful nooks of Reference. Three neat little volumes that will make a desirable addition to any library come from the publishing house of Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., New York. The first is especially useful, since It answers questions often asked and contains information not always easily found elsewhere. It bears the title, "Who's the Author?" and is intended as a guide to the authorship of novels, stories, speeches, songs and general writing of American literature. In every-day conversation the question often arises as to the authorship of a well-known production a hymn, an essay or a book and no one can answer. This convenient little volume will spare much research. The compilation, which is made by Louis H. Peet, covers wide ground. The references are arranged alphabetically, giving titles or first lines. Each entry is followed by a statement of its nature (whether novel, poem, etc.), date and often place publisher, author and remarks. The other volumes are "A Handy Diction ary of Prose Quotations" and "A Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations." They are comprehensive volumes and contain brief extracts collected from British and American writers. The matter is arranged alphabetically according to the leading word in the quotation. In the prose dictionary the selections, which number 2.13Ü and are chosen from 3W writers, cover a wide range, from the precepts of the Chinese philosopher. Confucius, to the latest utterances of Senator Hoar on "Imperialism." The compiler is George W. Powers. In those busy days aids to memory in the shape of quick reference books are more necessary than ever before, and these volumes fill a real want. Pocket Edition of Biilr.no. Happy in conception and beautiful in execution is a new "Pocket Edition" of the works of Ilonore de Balzac, now being Issued by Little, Brown & Co., Boston. The English text is from the translations by Katharine Prescott Wormly, whoso work in that regard is unrivaled. The entire set will consist of thirty small volumes, four and one-eighth by six and three-quarters inches in size, each one printed in large clear type and illustrated with photo gravure frontispieces by Goupll from orig inal pictures by noteil French artists, in eluding Wagrez, Jeannlot, Georges Cain. Adrien Moreau. George Roux, Desrousseaux, Maxlmilienne Guyon. Albert Fou rie, Jules Muenier, etc. The handiness. lightness and dainty finish of the volumes should make them attractive to book lovers. Four volumes will be published every month. The four now at hand con tain "The Comedy of Human Life," includ ing "Pere Gariot," "The Marriage Con tract, "Memoirs of Two loung Married Women." "Modeste Mignon," "A Daughter of Eve," "A Double Life" and "The Rural Ball." The edition has been supplied to the trade generally, and any one of the thirty volumes will be sold separately. The Haekwoodamnn. The scene of this story is laid chiefly in the Mohawk valley on the western frontier of New York just before and during the Revolutionary war. The author, H. A Stanley, Is evidently thoroughly versed in the history of the period and has made a study, at second-hand, of course, of fron tier and of wood and camp life. His nor trayals of these and of wild Indian life and traits are suggestive of Fennimore Cooper. After many adventures among the Indians of a somewhat stereotyped character the hero of the story, who tells it in the first person, enlists in the continental army. where he gains distinction and promotion and ultimately unravels a mystery concern ing his own paternity and name. Among the historic characters Introduced are Gen Washington. General Gates, Chief Joseph Brandt and others. A romance runs rather awkwardly through the story, which ends with a happy marriage. Incidentally the story contains a good deal of seemingly truthful history concerning some interesting but little-known episodes in the Revolutionary war, but it is encumbered with details and it can hardly be said that the au thor has made the best of his materials. New York: Doubleday, Page & Co The Million. Dorothea Gerard (Madam de Longarde) adds another to the long list of her stories in a novel entitled "The Million." The scene is laid in Galicta. Austria, and the story relates the experiences of a village notary who devoted twenty-five years of laborious thrift to accumulating a million florins for the sole purpose of enabling him to spend the remainder of his life In Vienna and arrange a brilliant marriage lor his motherless daughter. But the daughter did not co-operate, and through a series of strange and dramatic events her father, the owner of the million which was to have been expended in enjoying the delights of the capital, was led finally to devote it to the founding of an orphanage destined for the education of motherlcs fHrle nnHor tTn iriilri.'i HP of errlesi st 1- ! cal authorities. His gift was a sort of pennance for the wrecking of his daughter's life. Although the story carries rather a sombre atmosphere it is one of power and passion. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co. From Atlanta to the Sen. This story, by Byron A. Dunn, will attract young readers who have read the preceding volumes of "The Young Kentuckiua Series." by the same author, entitled, respectively, "General Nelson's Scout," "On General Thompson's Staff," and "Battling for Atlanta." This one, which is No. 4 of the series, relates the adventures of two young federal officers during Sherman's historic march to the sea. Besides participating in several battles and sklrml.'hes both of the young men have love affairs with Southern girls, which end happily, after much difficult and persistent wooing. Besides depicting Important events in the curt way which actually occurred the story has romantic Interest, and although it is one of a series. It Is complete in itself. Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co. The -Myntrry f BnptUin. It would seem to be difficult to offer anything new on a subject that has been as much discussed controversially and otherwise as baptism, yet in this work the Rev. John S. Axtell goes back of nil controver

sies and endeavors t M.'!-: th r'tl truth regarding the ordinaries. ( . it. His plan h::s 1. en to take the l',!'..!e .jimI. with some aid from Greek literature om ti'.. one side and from the early brstory of church on th- other side. k to :md o.t the original meaning, purpose and nature of the bat'tisinal r mony. his aim ld:ig to exalt its hiuheft spiritual be-ciits. aid demonstrate the essential nature of baptism as embodied and taught in the oricln! ceremony in contradistinction to all nttendant devotional lites and other cere

monies. The meaning of the cer mony is held to be of more importance than t inform. The work shows criiioul bibllr.il knowledge and an earnest desire to gt t at basic truths. New York: Funk & Yagn.IIs Company. The Fernonnl Kultlou of Georsse Kllot. The fine edition of George Eliot's works winch is being published by Doubleday. Page & Co., New York, continues to at tract attention on account of the uniqt.e and interesting feature of an explanatory and biographical introduction to each vol ume by Mrs. Wood, telling how the book came to be written, when, where and how it took form. etc. The illustrations showmany striking pictures of places made famous by the author's pen. There are, moreover, two new and hitherto unpub lished portraits of George Eliot and Rob ert Evans. The set forms a truly bio graphical edition, now made for the tirt time, of the writings of an author who. sinco the appearance forty years ago cf scenes in Clerical Life." has taken ran as perhaps the foremost woman novelist the world has known. Volumes IX and X of this fine edition, now at hand, are given to "Daniel Derond.i," published in two parts. The Citle of the San. This is a book of over three hundred pages in which the author contends that "the universe is a vast electrical machine, or organism, creating Its own cosmic force, lighting and heating itself from its own latent electric fcrce and bound togtthr by Invisible electric lines, pulling and guiding with the swiftness of lightning and the power and wisdom of Omnipotence." He maintains that the sun is not hot but bears the relation to the planets which are hatcheries of human souls, of a brilliant glole encircling Aurora Borealls which is the place of maturity and infection. On the broad bosom of the self-luminous sun are the cities of God and these are the ashes of the sun. George Woodward Warden is the author of this strange book. G. W. Dillingham, New York. Famous Actresses of the Day. As the second series of "Famous Adresse of the Day" in America is by Lewis C. Strang, this volume is largely devoted to a critical review of the theater in the United States from the fall of 1SD9 to the spring of ir01. The nrst series was mainly given to biography and anecdote, while this one is chiefly deoted to criticism. Among the famous actresses who are subjected to critical consideration, with brief biographical sketches, are Julia Marlowe. Henrietta Crosman. Maude Adams, Mrs. FIske, Hilda Spong, Mary Mannering, Anna Held. Ada Itehan. Viola Allen and others. There are photogravure .ortraits of most of them in character costumes. The book is published in attractive form in the "Stage Lovers' Series" by L. C. Page Sc Co., Boston. C'lnssie Stories in Prone. T. Y. Crowell & Co., New York, publish two volumes which are well designed to open a new door to interest in classic literature. They are entitled, res pectlvely, "Stories from Homer" and "Stories from Virgil," the firs containing fifteen stories from the Iliad and twelve from the Odyssey done into prose, and the other one containing twenty-six stories from the Aeneid of Virgil treated in the same manner. When it is stated that the text of the stories comes from the hand of Rev. Alfred A. Church nothing more needs be said as to its fidelity to the originals and its pure English. Both books are handsomely illustrated. The Little onsln Series. In this series of juveniles a happy idea is well carried out. The series consists of .four volumes entitled, respectively, "Our Little Japanese Cousin." "Our Little Brow n Cousin." "Our Little Indian Cousin" and "Our Little Russian Cousin." They are Interesting" accounts of c hild life in different countries, and afford charming pictures of the similarity rf childhood plays and occupations in different countries as well as their points of difference. The stories are written by- Mary 11. Wade and are prettily illustrated. Boston: L. C. Page tx Co. Irish Pastorals. Under this title are collected a number of sketches of the Irish peasantry by Shan F. Bullock, who seems to know the country and the people. The stories or sketches are entitled, respectively, "The Planters," "The Turf Cutters." "The Mowers." "The Haymakers," "The Reapers." "Tho Diggers." 'The Herd." "Spotty" and "The Brothers." They are written in a sprightly style, and compare favorably with other character sketches of the kind, ranging from grave to gay and from somberness to pathos. New York: McClure fc Co. Great Religions of the World. In this volume are collected eleven articles by as many different writers of note on the great religions of the world, including Christianity, Mohammedanism, Confucianism, Buddhism, Brahminism, Judaism and other systems which represent, .the beliefs, aspirations and nopes of considerable portions of the human race. As every article is written by a person comjM--tent to deal with the subject the collection as a whole is an instructive presentation of the world's religions. New York: Harper & Brothers. The Illnek Tortoise. Readers who are fond of detective stories, may be Interested in comparing this one, translated from the Norwegian of Frederick Vlller, with American stories of the sum class. Its complete title is "The Black Tortoise, being the Strange Story of Old Frkk's Diamond." The plot of the story turns on a stolen diamond the mystery concerning which is well maintalne-d to the end. New York: Doubleday. Page & Co. Ily Their Prülls. This story, by Edith M. Nichol (Mrs. Bowyer), is written in the first person, the narrator being a Southern woman whose personality as well as her intellectual brightness excites the reader's interest. The story is eine of modern American life and it is marked by clever character-drawing, interesting situations and bright conversations. It comes from the Abbey Press. American Sonus nml Lyrics. L. C. Page &c Co. have Issued h popular edition of Frederick L. Knowies's "(JoM, n Treasury of American Songs and Lyri-s." It is an excellent collection of American verse, and is published in the Cap r.d Gown se ries. It Is a book to be desired by every lover of American pKtry. ( Current Perloel lea Is. "The Hound of the Baskervilh s," Conan Doyle's serial story, now appearing in the Strand Magazine, In which "Sherlork; Holmes" figures, contains numerous thrills. The great detective seems to possess, all his old-time skill. Eliot Gregory, whose writings over the pen name of "The Idler" are widely known, is preparing for the Century Magazine a group of papers on various phases of sori.il life in Ne-w York. For the same magazine Mr. Henry L. Nelson is writing artieU-s oil the social side of Washington. A novel and useful feature of Good Housekeeping for October is a chart In the natural colors, showing a side of be f and the different cut. so as to make them recognizable to the householder when she visits the market. With the chart N an explanatory article by Madame Ge-lr.e I-mcke, of the Greater Ne w York cooking schools. ; The. contents of the monthly literary magazines are usually arranged and are often in print months in advance. To change this arrangement at the last moment is a serious undertaking b Mom attempted. The Atlantic Montnly. however, stopped its presses and po.-tponel its publication to py a brief tribute to President McKinley. other magazines will vone äiong a month or so later with their nn mortals. In the American Mether for October begun a series of articles by Dr. Mary Wood-Allen on the general subject -i "Boys and Girls in their 'Teens." The first question considered Is "How Much ShalJ