Indianapolis Journal, Volume 51, Number 315, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 November 1901 — Page 4

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Wiilard Hotel. Indianapolis doe3 nut want a Loom so long as It can have the pvesent quality and increasing quantity of business activity. x Doubtful men must not bo given nominations by good partus in Greater New York. Mr. Shepard has shown tlut it is not well for good men to accept bad nominations. One of the defeated Tammany senators declared that his nun will not suffer by the change, since he has over CV) positions at his command In the corporations In the city holding franchise:?. The close result of the recent election in Maryland and the very considerable Republican gains In Virginia do not indicate that the Booker Washington incident cut any figure. The excitement was only skin deep. In the elections In New York last week CCO voting machines wore used In severity cities and villages with entirely satisfactory results, the reports in every case being that the work of registering the will of tho voters was done with unvarying accuracy. A correspondent of the Atlanta Journal, writing from this city to say that he is pleased with it, says that its population Increased 20 per cent, during the last decade, lie was CD per cent, away from the fact; the Increase In population the last decade being Z0 per cent, and a fraction. It 13 said that Russia Is displeased with France for compelling the Sultan to pay, fearing that It will had other nations to do the same thing. liu.-dia Is indignant because Emperor Williim has taken the Sultan under his Immediate protection in return for commcrcir.l concessions. All of which 13 gratifying to the Sultan. The CSO men employed on the American steamship St. Louis are paid $11,300, while the 427 men necessary to man the British ship Oceanic are raid JD,) and the ZW men on tho German ship Kaiser William are paid 57,715. Thus the difference In pay rolls puts the United States out of free competition In freight carriage between this country and Europe. The American people do not know much about San Pedro, a Pacific port of Southern California, but they have paid $3,000,000 to Improve Its harbor, and it is said that after visiting the place the river and harbor committee has decided to recommend tho appropriation of $2,000.000 more. It Is claimed that when the Improvement Is completed the harbor will be worth afl It has cost, but railroad and steamship lines will be the chief beneficiaries. One gets the Impression from reading the reports given out by the State Board of Health that nearly all of the deaths from typhoid fever, consumption, diarrhoea, diphtheria and like diseases might be escaped by the proper sanitary precautions. "When such diseases are eliminated, human life will be greatly lengthened, slnco accidents and the fellow with the concealed weapon are all that the Individual would have cause to fear before the machinery of the human body shall bo worn out with age, and the papers will no longer record as remarkablo instances persons who are a hundred years of age. To twenty-three of tho old and faithful superintendents, foremen and other employes In the Carnegie Steel Company at the Edgar Thomson works have been given blocks of stock of the United States Sfel Corporation averaging $50.000 each by the latter company. This Is In accordance with the plans cf Mr. Carnegie, which he could cot carry cut because of the opposition of his partners, who opposed giving away stock. Evidertly the great steel combination does not regard the transaction in that light, holding that a portion of the accumulation of property belongs to faithful and efficient employes. The New York Evening Tost publishes an Interview with one John Meehan. recently appointed by Mayor Van Wyck to be a school commissioner for one of the boroughs cf Greater New York. Mr. Meehan keeps a lunch house cf the kind popularly designated as a beanery." When found he was slicing corned beef. Asked if he was in favor of extending the kindergarten rystem. he replied: "I guess so; what are they?" To a question whether he thought the present number of schools In the city adequate, he answered: "You'll have to excuse me on them questions. It wouldn't do you no good for mo to answer them, anyway." It Is probablo Mayor Low will make some changes In the School licard. The Chicago Tribun. dLcu??5lnff the smoke nuisance as it exists in that city, t'vs that "while l: may be conceded that

no devices yet Invented and no degree of care that men can be forced to exercise will prevent the emission of some smoke, yet it cannot be denied that if a serious effort were made the volume of smoke would be less than it is now." That correctly states the case here also. If the smoke nuisance cannot be wholly prevented, as, perhaps, in the present stage of appliances it cannot be, it can be greatly lessened, and the law should be vigorously enforced to that end. tiii: comivc; fi.acial i'hohliim. From a special dispatch to the Sunday Journal It appears that an effort will probably be made in the near future to Induce Congress to authorize the organization of a great central national bank which should assume the banking functions now performed by the United States treasury and the subtreasurles and act as the fiscal agent of the government in all banking business. Such an institution would be to some extent a revival of the old United

States Bank, the abolition of which was followed by the creation of the subtreasury system and the gradual assumption by th; government of banking functions which It had never exercised before. There is a growing sentiment in favor of the abolition of the subtreasury system, and it is the opinion of many able financiers that the banking business now performed by the United States treasury would be better performed by a government bank clothed with special powers for the purpose. The late Hugh McCulloch said in a work published a few years before his death that what was needed in this country was a great central national bank, somewhat like the Bank of England, and with authority under government supervision to do the banking business of the government. In England the money of the government Is kept in the Bank of England. As the banker of the government that institution manages the payment of dividends on the national debt, the issue and withdrawal of exchequer bills, treasury bonds, the Issue of all government loans and the banking operations connected with the treasury, the government oflices generally, the Indian government and a large portion of the monetary business of the colonial government. That Is a truly national bank. As the public money i3 received from taxes it i3 paid in on behalf of the government, to lt3 account, at the Bank of Kngland. No security Is required from the bank for these deposits. The government is on the same footing as other depositors. Hence there 13 no disturbance caused in the money market by the variations In the volume of currency due to government receipts and payments, for the money in the bank is practically In the channels of business, since it is within reach of the demands of business. That is a far better system than our subtreasury system. Our present national bank system, admirable as it is in some respects, dees not meet this demand, if it may be called a demand. Our national banks, adequate and excellent as they are for all purposes of local and domestic business, have no international status. As the Journal correspondent said: When It comes to all-round-the-world finance this country is notoriously weak. If a business man of the United States desires to send or receive money to or from the markets of the world across the oceans he must buy or receive English exchange. Even the United States government, in dealing with the Philippine island, does so in a tlnancial way through English banking houses. It would be very desirable, and doubtless very profitable, if this country was able to do its own foreign banking business. This suggests In a general way a class of business which can only be done satisfactorily by a recognized government bank. As such a bank would be the depository of government moneys now locked up in the treasury and subtreasurles with authority to loan and use them In a legitimate banking way, subject to government supervision, it would be a great factor in promoting healthy action in the business of the country. Such an Institution need not necessarily be a bank of Issue nor Interfere In any way with the rresent national banks, although the time is not very distant when the latter will cease to be barks of issue unless timely provision is made to meet the contingency of the extinction of government bonds or their rise in price to a figure that will make it unprofitable to use them as security for circulation. The question of providing for the continuance of the national bank system or of providing some substitute for it is one of the great questions of tho near future. Whatever plan is adopted, it should Include provision for transferring all the banking business of the government from the United States treasury to a bank or banks created for the purpose. MAC.XAMMITY OF SELF-IXTKRHST. The concessions which the British government has made to the United States by the practical abrogation of the ClaytonBulwer treaty and offering a new treaty which concedes all that was asked by those who opposed the former agreement surprise many Americans to an extent that they seem to think explanations are necessary for thi3 yearning of John Bull to give U3 anything we ask. When it is remembered that only a few months ago the Tauncefote-IIay treaty, as amended by the Senate, caused angry comment and declaration that the British government would not make any such concessions, the new treaty is a gratifying surprise. It will, however, bo a mistake to attribute the favorable action of the British government in this matter to pure generosity on its part, as some are inclined to do. Unselfish generosity is not a quality which marks the diplomacy of nations. Great Britain's diplomacy has always been characterized with a sleepless vigilance to take care of British Interests, and we may be assured that the recent treaty concession is not an exception. The Clayton-Culwer treaty is of no advantage to Great Britain. It was made upon the solicitation of this government when It wii feared that Great Britain might construct a canal on Its own responsibility. For years that treaty has simply been an asset of Great Britain in dealing with us. It lost its value when the British Ministry learned that the United States would build a canal whether the treaty remained or was .abrogated. Moreover, tho Isthmian cannl will be of greater advantage to England, with its enormous commerce, than to any other people. If the new treaty Is a tacit recognition of the Monroe doctrine, Great Britain Is really stronger by it. Indeed, a British minister may be said to have first suggested the principle of tho Monroe doctrine to the United States when It was for the interest of that government to array us against the alleged designs of the Holy Alliance. A further reason for the apparent magnanimity of the British government is found in the eusplclcn that Great Britain la

putting her house In order for contingencies. The apparent failure in the Boer war ha3 given the appearance of weakness which emboldens other peoples in Europe to show their hostility to Great Britain. England has been on the aggressive for a century. In territorial extension and in the power which a self-reliant people and an enormous commerce gives. Great Britain has aroused the jealousies, If not the hatred, of the people of continental Europe. She has won victories over them In diplomacy. This fresh attitude of hostility leads Great Britain to believe that, because of her seeming failure in South Africa, she may be called upon to prove her ability to hold together the empire acquired during the past century. Consequently, her Ministry has offered us the treaty we wish, as German newspapers declare, to get rid of an Irritating dispute with a government which it is wise to hold in cordial relations. Preparing for the future, or, rather, taking measure to secure peace through extensive armament. Great Britain, under cover of preparation for the Boer war, has made vast additions to her army and navy and to guns, ammunition, docks and fortresses. Although it may not be able to suppress guerrilla warfare In South Africa, the British army, by real contact with war, must be the best 200,000 men for warlike purposes belonging to any European government. It is also significant that a British minister in a recent speech told the country that "the British people may be called upon next year to bear greater burdens," indicating that the arming is to go on as the means of retaining her power and her possessions. The threat of armament is for Europe, but the "magnanimity" displayed in the new treaty is for the great nation which is not jealous of England or any other power. Both are made the means of retaining for Great Britain the world-wide power she has won by states

manship, conquest and commercial enterprise. NKAV JKHSKV LKGISLATIXG FOIl TJIK IXITE1J STATES. An address delivered in Chicago by Mr. James B. Dill, of New York, on the uses and abuses of trusts touched on one point that is worth emphasizing, namely, the competitive strife among States for revenue from corporations. He referred particularly to the practice in some States of soliciting outside capital to organize under laws that authorized the exercise of powers in other States that would not bo permitted in the State granting the charter. He characterized this policy as apparently based on tho principle of "protection for domestic corporations and war upon foreign corporations," and added: Just so long as it Is possible for a cor porate organization in one State to do that business in another State which Is forbidden to its own corporations, just so long will we find different States offering inducements to capital to incorporate under their particular laws. To-day we lind States giving express permission to their own corporations to do in other States what such corporations are expressly prohibited from doing at home. Although the speaker did not name any State, he doubtless referred to New Jersey, whose legislation during the last few years has been framed with special reference to creating corporations In that State with extraordinary powers to operate in other States. As the State charges a big fee for every charter granted, It has profited by the business. During the year 1S?9 there were 1,043 corporations chartered under the laws of the State and authorized to issue capital stock to the amount of $2.500,000.000. The fees collected by the State on these charters amounted to $728,023. Iearly two hundred of the corporations were capitalized at $2.000.000 and upward. Six hundred of them had a capitalization of $1,000,000 or more. At the present time more than 13,000 corporations in every part of the United States are operating under the laws of New Jersey, thus, in a sense, giving that State power to legislate for every other State in the Union. By the incorporating of these 15,000 corporations Ne Jersey legalized the issuance of stock aggregating nearly $3.000,000.000. Compara- . - . . ., , . lively few of the corporations operate in New Jersey, and those that do have not nearly as large powers as those which operate In other States. The abuse should be regulated by Congress if It can be reached under the Constitution, or else other States should unite In defensive legislation against New Jersey corporations. AX rXXCCESSAUY COXTEXTIOX. Since the meeting of the officers of the Grand Army at Anderson last week some statements have been published which are misleading and calculated to create ill feeling and misunderstanding. The executive committee, to which has been referred the arrangements for the dedication of the soldiers' and sailors monument, has kept in mind the success of the encampment of the Grand Army at Anderson. It came to the conclusion that it was due tc Anderson that the encampment should be held before the dedication, in order that there might be a full attendance, the general opinion being that to hold it after tho dedication would curtail the attendance and thus work Injustice to Anderson. It is aue to Governor Durbin, who has been anonymously criticised in regard to the matter, to say in all the conferences relative to the time of the dedication he has urged that it be set for a day which would tend to Increase rather than curtail the attendance upon the encampment at Anderson. The unanimous opinion of the committee was that the dedication should take place the next day after the encampment at Anderson. With the exception of one or two individuals who have personal reasons for having the dedication first, public orinion has been in favor of that arrangemenL It should be distinctly understood that while Indianapolis will be pleased to entertain the Grand Army whenever the encampment may vote to come here, the arrangement made at Anderson, Thursday, that the next encampment be held in this city, did not have its origin here, but was inspired by an insignificant number of person? who, for reasons of their own, desire that the encampment should be held before the dedication. But for this there would not be a dissenting voice concerning the decision of the monument committee. In this connection, it may be asked what right has the board of officers to change the place of the encampment after the last encampment, by a unanimous vote, accepted the Invitation of Anderson? If Anderson should say to the board of officers that it does not want the encampment this year, it would be different, but Anderson has said nothing of the kind. The suggestion comes from men who do not speak for and do not reside in Indianapolis. The wise thing for ilia Grand Army board of officers to do

when It assembles is to fix the two days before the dedication of the monument for the encampment at Anderson. The holding of the encampment and the date for the dedication of the monument should be placed above the petty ambition of one or two persons.

The Utah State Land Board has decided J to ask Congress to cede the arid lands In Utah to the State, and it is expected that Colorado will make the same request regarding Its arid lands, the reason in both cases being that the State is better prepared to deal with the lands than is the general government. The Salt Lake Tribune approves the movement and thinks It will result in a practical solution of the irrigation question. INDIANA EDITORIAL NOTES. Well. It looks as though the people are satisfied with a Republican administration. Vincennes Capital. Booker Washington should increase the funds of Tuskegee Institute by booking a lecture tour while the advertising is hoL Logansport Journal. With Cromer in Congress again, Ed Fltzpatrick clerk of the Supreme Court and the Ohio & Indiana Railroad built from Muncie to Fort Wayne and the editor of this paper is ready to go out and spend a night with the sailors. Pennville Corn and Glass. The cuticle of Judge Cantrill is still hang ing on the Indiana Statehouse fence. If Judge Cantrill wants to know what genuine contempt of court is let him come over into Indiana and learn what fair-minded Hoosiers think of his kind of Justice. Marion Tribune. An English paper joining In the general chorus of rejoicing over the fall of Croker said that "the gods that preside over honest government deserve a libation from every good citizen throughout the world." No doubt the libations were poured in New York Tuesday night and Wednesday morning and that the libating was very hearty. , Terre Haute Express. One of the three distinguished Europeans who viewed the Union Traction lines yesterday frankly confessed that nowadays Europeans had to come to America to get new ideas In most every line and to keep abreast of the times This Is a confession that would gratify most any nation, much less one that from the standpoint of years Is yet in swaddling clothes. Anderson Herald. When Indiana Is asked to give up two men who would certainly be subjected to the Fame legal farce Is it any wonder that the Governor should be moved by a sense of honor to tell the Governor of Kentucky that the Cantrill court at Georgetown was ruled by political hatred and was therefore not competent to fairly try Taylor and Finley. Governor Durbin's words were true and plain, and it was mete that they should be offered. Terre Haute Tribune. If the Schley court has elone nothing else it has furnished the material from which a true history of the Santiago naval campaign can be written. All the essential facts have now been set forth beyond shadow of dispute. There nre conflicts in the testimony, of course, just as there are conflicts in the four gospels, but they are not on material points, nnd the weight of evidence is sufficiently great In all cases to decide them. Clay County Enterprise. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. A giant tree in the Mariposa grove. California, has been selected to be named W"illiam McKinley. It stands between the Washington and Lincoln trees, and is estimated to be 3,000 years old. General Buller once explained why It was necessary to put such showy clothing on most of the troops. "Because a showy uniform attract Mary Ann, the nursemaid, who makes Tommy Atkins join the army. In plain uniforms you would find recruiting a harder job than ever." Mrs. George Cornwallis West's discontinuance of the publication of the AngloSaxon Review, which has been described iv n wit n vs ' tci-ii ilfrf 11 1 elvnonnv u-nrlh i for ,i iruinea." Is intirnat ed liv some of the English papers to-be due to her desire to devote her entire time to matrimony. Miss Alice de Rothschild is one of the richest women In England. She owns a villa at Grasse and a London house In Piccadilly. At Grasse seventy gardeners are required tn Irorvr-k Vi 1 j cunthörn 1 11 ri iM en In i ttito tf perfection. On the estate sh has a collccHon of zebras, llamas and Hindoo bulls Taris is to have a porcelain tower, which will rival in size and beauty any similar structure in China. It is to be over 130 feet high, covered with porcelain decorations made for the purpose at the government J factory of Sevres, and will be erected in the Park of St. Cloud on the site of the old tower known as "Diogenes's Lantern." Swedish papers tell of friendship between Emperor William and an aged Norwegian 1 x - c- n n 4- -.- -v- i.l Vrf -4'" - Ti- vt hnon V a Tr rk j ls at MoMe, a village near the coast. The Kal.-er never visits Norway without giving i his old friend a call. The two converse like a palr ()f ol(J ci,ums. addressing each other ! as "Wilhelm" and "Christian." the Inter view usually being wound up by tne villager playing something on his accordion and the monarch leaving him a gold coin. In a recent magazine article Anton von Werner speaks of his famous painting, representing the meeting of Bismarck and Napoleon on the Chaussee do Donchery. Bismarck described the e-cne to him minutely, mentioning, among other things, one amusing detail: "I stopped my horse to get off. My revolver accidentally got between my legs and hindered me In dismounting. I seized it and seeing this the (Napoleon) turned pale as chalk." The death is announced at Genoa, at the age of ninety-eight, of Pierre Maurler, a Frenchman, who lived on the island of Elba when Napoleon took up his compulsory residence there in April, 1814. Pierre remembered hearing the news toward the end of February, 1M3, that the Emperor, with over l.OuO followers, had sailed away in feluccas . bound for Provence. The lad used to carry eggs and fruit to the kitchen of the Emperor, and one day that famous potentate caught him stoning a dog and sharply reproved him. Maurler was presented to Victor Emmanuel In 1SG3. and the King was much interested when he heard from Pierre's own lips his memories of the great Napoleon. THE HUMORISTS. Ilentful Fiction. Judge. Clara Modern fiction is very restful. Laura Restful? Clara Y'es; there are no many trahy new novels that it is no disgrace to keep up with them. Cupid nnd Advertising. Cleveland Tlaln Dealer. "Did you ask the man for his daughter?" "Not yet." "Why not?" "I'm going to wait until ho begins to fel the benefit of his fall advertising." Ills Hotels. Brooklyn Eagle. Resilient Kars Did you:e attend de PanAmerican. Pe-te? Terambulatlnff Pete (loftily) Naw; I ain't got no relatives livin in Euffalo, an' w'en I telegraphed on for accommodations I found dat all de statlDTX houses was overcrowded. Iloyn AV11I De Hoys. Cleveland Tlain Dealer. 'Ta," said Mrs. Methusalem to the oldest of his race, "I wish you'd speak to Abimelecb. He's been p'-ing Bidad's hair aain." Lemme see." quoth the patriarch, "how old is 'Him now?" "He's 247 his nex birthday." "Well, you must make allowances for th' boy, ma. He's younp ylt." Mr. Meeklon'n Impreiilnn. Washington Star. "Henrietta." ald Mr. Meckton. "your speech was very fin. Py the way, the orator who jToceded you was obviously an unmarried woman, who didn't know what he vat talking about." "What do you mean?" "She talked about man being a tyrant and an oppressor. We know better, Henrietta, and I don't think fch ought to be encouraged la putting euch foolish ideas in the heads of husLund a."

RECENT PUBLICATIONS.

General Aider's Hook. When the advance sheets of General Alger's "Spanish-American War" appeared, the press quite generally put it aside as the relation by the ex-secretary of war of a personal grievance with brief and caustic paragraphs. Those who have since given ! the book a few hours' candid examination have come to the conclusion that it contains much valuable information regarding that event not previously published. It is due to the author to say that General Alger does not pose as a man with a grievance. The general begins with a presentation of the situation in Cuba and the feeling in this country, the demand of the impulsive element and of demagogues Intent on putting the new President in the attitude of being afraid of the consequences of war on account of Cuba. He tells of the moral courage of President McKinley in resisting the appeals of hjs friends and the taunts of his foes composing the war party. He dwells upon the unpreparedness of the country for war, of the small regular army and the lack of military material, of the task of raising, clothing and equiping 223,2;iö officers and men within two months. The chapter devoted to "Appointments and Importunities" tells, among other things, of the pressure for positions, of the man who demanded an appointment because he had come all the way from the Pacific coast to get it, of another who based his claim upon his assertion that he was a friend of the, Prince of Wales, of the young woman who asked to have the departure of the regiment of which her brother was a member postponed a day that he might receive the dainties sent him for his birthday. For every man appointed, hundreds were denied, which caused an uproar. In this connection, General Alger says that of all the appointments made, he had a personal interest In less than a dozen. Of the 1,032 appointments made by the President, 441 of the most desirable were made from the experienced men of the regular army, but lor these few appointments there were 25.0 applicants. No sooner were the regiments in camp than petitions for the discharge of men began to come in by scores. In this connection, he refers to the demand that the volunteer regiments be armed with the Krag-Jorgensen rifles and smokeless powder ammunition, when it was impossible to obtain more than enough of either than was needed by the regular regiments. General Alger then takes up the plans of campaign offered by General Miles and others which resulted in the campaign to capture Santiago. He declares that Gen. Miles recommended General Shafter tor the command of tho expedition, the preparation of which General Miles supervised. He dwells upon the delay in getting off after the troops were in the ships delay caused by fear of the "phantom fleet" of Spain. If in the preparing of the expedition mistakes were made, it was not due to the heads of bureaus in Washington, since everything was furnished that was called for. Considerable space is devoted to tho campaign, which ended in the surrender of the Spanish forces about Santiago. The more Important official papers are incorporated, and a clear and detailed account given of the progress of the campaign from the landing" to the surrender. His answer lo the many criticisms of the campaign is that In a period of twenty-three clays an army of 1S.2J4 officers and men, with a loss of 243 killed and 1.443 wounded, in the worst season of a tropical climate, forced the Spanish fleet out of Santiago harbor and captured the . fortified city of Santiago, secured the surrender of 24,000 Spanish soldiers and possession of all of Cuba east of Aserrandero. That the presence of the American army caused the Sianish warShips to leave Santiago harbor. General Alger asserts, and quotes the French consul as saying that Admiral Cevera told him that "it was better to die fighting than to be compelled to blow up his ships in the harbor." General Alger severely criticises the course pursued by Admiral Sampson throughout the campaign in not co-operating with the army when requested, and ridicules his bombardment of the Spanish forts. Yet after the city and troops were surrendered, Sampson claimed the Spanish vessels captured by the troops in the harbor as naval prizes, but his claim was not allowed. The "round robin" letter, signed by all of General Shafter's officers and approved by him, is made the subject of severe criticism because a copy was given to the press agent by some offlce-r whose name is unknown. General Shafter, in a brief dispatch, had stated to tho War Department the peril of his army from yellow fever and other diseases and orders had been issued for the removal of the troops to Morftauk Point before the issue of the round robin; yet the letter caused a great alarm, which was utilized by yellow newspapers. That and the letter of Mr. Roosevelt, the President's uncle, started the false rumors which caused almost a general clamor through the misrepresentations of the sensational press. General Alger shows from the testimony of army officers and others that the hospitals at Montauk Point were of the best and the supplies and serv ice ample to profusion. lie takes occasion to show the character of so.ne of the stories of correspondents who were sent there to write the worst they could invent. The operations of General Miles in Porto Rico are warmly approved, but when he comes to the action of that officer in regard to the "embalmed beef" and the canned beef, he presents evidence taken from the investigating boards showing that there was no embalmed beef and that the canned beef. Instead of being an experimental ration, had been an approved ration in the army for years. Regarding this matter. General Alger sharply criticises Gen. Miles. Considerable space ls devoted to the large camps and to the sickness reported in them. It is shown that the sickness was due chiefly to the Inexperience of officers and failure of the men to obey orders. He also shows that the casualties In those camps were far less than those of new regiments during the civil war. These are a few of the more prominent matters which are considered by General Alger. Whatever his critics may say, he makes no assertions which are not sustained by public records. Because the book contains explanations of the acts of the administration of the War Department at a period when the President, as well as the War Department, wa unreasonably assailed, it is a valuable contribution to the literature relative to the Spanish-American war. Harper & Brothers, New York. My Lady PepfKy Goes to Town. Although the events of this story are supposed to have taken place in England four hundred and fifty years ago, the tale Is by no means to be classed with the regulation historical novel with which the reading public ls so familiar, and of which at least a considerable part of it, there is reason to believe, is unutterably weary. It ls not a record of battles and bloodshed, half savage warfare, political or social intrigue, the affairs of kings and queens. or of serious proceedings of any sort. The happy reflection occurred to the author, Frances Aymar Mathews, that in those far off times, as well as now, life must have had its share of gaytty, humor and light pleasures and was not entirely given over to tragedy or strenuous endeavor. Thereupon she studied the period in question and out of it gathered the story of "Lady Peggy" to prove her point. This Lady Peggy whom she portrays is a vivacious, coquettish young woman, daughter of an impoverished Earl and beloved by Sir Percy de Bohun. She is in the habit of carrying matters with a high hand where Sir Percy is concerned and of berating him freely when he falls tc please her, but the flouts him once too often and, much to her surprise, he takes her seriously and goes off to London. Then at once she regrets her folly and bewails her hard fate in being obliged to remain In her father's tumble-down castle in Surrey while Sir Percy, as she Imagines, disports himself in London society, making love, perhaps, to Lady Diana Wreston, a famous beauty. A letter from her twin brother a few weeks later tells her that Sir Percy is falling Into reckless ways because of her (Peggy's) treatment of him, and scolding her soundly on her behavior. Then it is that Peggy conceives the sudden plan of going to London without her father's leave. Her mothers absence favors her scheme, and, with her faithful serving woman for company, she slips away and takes the coach. "When gay postillions cracked their whips. And gallants gemmed their chat with quips; When patches nestled o'er sweet Hps At chociate times; and. 'twlxt the sips. Fair ladies gave their gossips tips; Then. In Levantine gown and brooch. My Ladv Feggy took the coach. For London Town!" Arrived in London she has one lively adventure after another and is involved in an exciting whirl of events from which she finds It difficult to extricate herelf. Upon her arrival, after a tedious journey, she makes her way to her brother's apartments, uncertain whether to laugh or cry. He Is not at home, but In another room are found some o his friends and she recognizes Sir Percy's voice. She is afraid

of being seen by them, and this is what she does: "Her ladyship, seized by a sudden mad Impulse, says to her woman: 'Chock, take my purse, tumble as fast as your two legs can carry you down. out. across to the wig-maker's. buy me the yellowwig. Chock, that adorns the front, an come not back without It. an" you love me. Chock.' She pushes Chockey out on the landing and then shutting and buttoning the door. Lady Pegy sets herself out of her furbelows and petticoats, her stays, her bodice, her collar, brooch, kerchief, pocket, hoop and hair-pins, and Into her brother's suit of grays, the new waistcoat and cravat she's brought him for a gift; she tips the coffee-pot and washes her face and pretty throat and hands in the brown liquid; she buckles on Kennaston's cturt rapier, she fetches a gray-plumed hat, she ogles herself in the six-inch mirror; she swaggers, swings, struts; and says she. dipping her finger in the soot of the old chimney and marking out two black, beetling brows over her own slender ones; 'And I know not how to swear and prance and pick a pretty quarrel, then never did I dozen times for sport don my twin's breeches and coa; and masquerade at being that sweet creature a man!' " When the brother's friends arrive she intreduces herself as "Sir Robert McTart.' A network of circumstances prevents her return to her feminine attire, she becomes against her will the guest of Beau Rrummel and is soon figuring as a gay young

gentleman of fashion. While thus masquerading she has to play the part of a gentleman indeed, once having an encounter with highwaymen and saving Sir Percy's life. Later she is herself mistaken for a highwayman and, after the summary fasnion of those days, is sentenced by a country magistrate to be? hanged forthwith. How she is rescued, and how she continues to find it Imposslole to make known her identity with honor to herself; hew. finally, as the only way of turning Into her own proper person, she takes flight from London and has another series of adventures before reaching home of all these things it is no place to tell here. It is enough to say that all ends well for Lady Peggy and Sir Percy after a season of mad excitement and such happenings as the adventurous maid had never dreamed of In her quiet country home. One reading this gay tale will not heed Its Improbabilities, but will be quite content to take it for what it is. a comedy, and therefore a welcome oasis in a desert of heavy fiction. It is a book to entertain and amuse and as such should have warm welcome. Published by the Bowen-Merrill Company. A Short History of the Revolntlon. This Important period in the world's history has been so much written about by able historians and other authors that the bringing out of a short history of the war for American independence would, at first thought, seem an unnecessary work. Wh.en, however. It is, recalled that the exhaustive histories of that period fill several large volumes which, comparatively few people can obtain, or would read if they could get them, a single volume giving the leading events in that struggle of seven weary years, if well written, may be regarded as a timely contribution to the national literature. For the mass of people history, as too often written, is very dry reading, in that it lacks the movement, the personal element and the color which attract attention. There have been many biographies of Washington, but the older readers of the Journal who were so fortunate as to come across a little book entitled Weems's "Life of Washington" obtained their impressions of the great man from that vivid, if not always accurate author, who gave the world the rare fiction of Washington and the hatchet which destroyed the cherry tree. They may have read more pretentious biographies since, but the recollection of the little volume, now seen no more, survives them all. The author of "A Short History of the Revolution," Everett Tomlinson. possesses the happy faculty of making history a narrative in which he seizes upon the leading features of his subject and presents them in a manner to absorb the attention of the reader, whether young or old. While all the prominent events of that crucial period are given, the author has woven into his history the deeds of many Individuals which give color to every page. In this respect the book Is so remarkable that it might be mistaken for a work of fiction were not the facts regarding the leading events faithfuhv recorded In the narrative. The fifty full-page illustrations from old engravings add to the attractiveness of the work: Doubleday, Page & Co., New York. In the Mikado's Service. The author of this book, Dr. William E. Griffis, is fitted by experience and personal contact with the people of the East to treat of their politics, peculiarities and history. This he has done In the form of a story which is both Instructive and entertaining. The characters include some enterprising young Japanese and some equallv enterprising young Americans, and the story shifts from land to sea and from Japan to America and back again. It covers the perioel embraced in a few years preceding the war between Japan and China, and includes the late Boxer rebellion, the capture of Peking, tc. The book gives one a better idea of these events and of Japanese character and politics than most histories elo, while the interest of the story is well maintained by a romance which ends with a wedding between two young Americans in the imperial palace .at Peking. The story gives one a high estimate of the modern Japanese. Boston: W. A. Wilde & Co. The Supreme Surrender. "The Supreme Surrender," by A. Maurice Low, is a strong story of Washington life, with President, Cabinet officers and senators as the chief characters. An Insight to tho workings of the official family is given which is very interesting, even fascinating, and conveys the Impression that the author ls thoroughly familiar with his subject. The book is filled with Incisive, sharp epigrams, and. while not at all light or frivolous, abounds in witty conversations and startling theories which are highly interesting if not "improving." The plot of the book, the story, the love of an elderly, ambitious married senator and a young woman, the daughter of a Cabinet officer, is delicately and well told. Both of these people are such fine, strong characters that the reader will regret that they were not brought together in a happy way. Harper & Brothers. Jack Raymond. To those who are fond of the morbid and intense in literature "Jack Raymond," by E. L. Voynlch, will prove quite as fascinatlng as "The Gadfly," by the same author. But on who reads a novel for pleasure or to escape for a time the unpieasant side or life wonders wnetner "Jack Raymond" should have been published, and probably decides that it should not. The principal characters are handicapped by a dismal past and lamely wander through a more dismal soul-racking present into a certainly miserable future, absolutely lacking all sense of humor, which might relieve some of the strained situations into which the author places them. The unpleasant plot of the story and the absence of all brightness combine to make the book lacking in entertainment, forceful as its literary style undoubtedly is. J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, The Lnat of the Aronaks. The scene of this story is laid in San Domingo. Its author, Frederick A. Ober, has spent many years in the West Indies, and is thoroughly versed in the topography of the country and the history and characteristics of the peoDle. The story is one of adventure In which the author gives a true picture of the internal condition of affairs among the people of Sin Domingo, where revolutions ate of frequent occurrence and where life has many varying aspects.. Into a picture of recent times he has woven many interesting facts concerning the early history of the island, with which the name of Christopher Columbus Is Inseparably connected. The story Is intended for young readers, and with its stirring incidents and strange adventures is calculated to interest them. Uoston; W. A. Wilde & Co. Souvenir of I'nn-Anierlcnn. Laird & Lee. Chicago, have Issued a little book of illustrations representing all phases and features of the Pan-American Exposition of Buffalo. The pictures, all from original photographs, are accompanied by full descriptitms ef buildings, monuments, statuary, promenades, night Illuminations, Midway attractions, etc. The volume also contains views from the rVris exposition and from the Chicago world's fair of ISitf, and altogether forms an interesting souvenir. Coinrdy. Under the above title the McClure-Phlllips Company have collected seven of their beit short stories into an attractive little volume. Among them Is "The Metamorphosis of Corpus Delicti" as clever a tale as on

often runs across, by J. 1 !. Crai.r a!-o "Sheriff of Elb. rt." by Cham-cy Th.rn.i'. which is crisp. l r.-e and iid. as :ni ! are all the storie-s in this entert. itt.ir.g UtUo book.

M' LnI Dinmnncl. This is another s. ns it! nal. rlthough readable, novel by that prolific writ. r. Adeline Sergeant. The theme Is h:ukyrud. though the book will be eagerly pursued by the inveterate fiction reader, to w Mom nuntity is more than quality. Co., New York. F. M. Buckle & Ilrlcf Mention. "The Old Graham Place." a novelette by Etta M. C.arJner. New York: The AbbeyPress. "Whet Will She Do?" a romance of Southern life, by Margaret D. Sims. The Abbey Press. "Mv Ladv Isobel." a story in blank verse, by Mabel "p. Taylor. New York: G. W. Dillingham Company. "Wife or Maid." by Douglas Flatter). The Abbey Press of New York publishes this very mediocre novel. "Told by Two." a story of the frivolous Bohemian typo, by Marie St. Felix. Chicago: M. A. Donohue : Co. "Heart Songs." a collection of pleasing; poems of sentiment, by Gertrude T. Clark. The Merrill Press. Toledo, O. "Our Uncle, the Major." a story of old New York in prerev olutionary days, by James Otis. Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. "The Widow Robinson nnd Other Sketches," a collection of short storWs of village life, by B. W. Williams. The Abbey Press. "The Story of Books." a condensed history of the art of printing and of book making, by Gertrude B. Raw lings. New York: D. Appleton & Co. "Amata," a romance of Italian life, translated from the German of Richard Voss by Roger S. G. Boutell. The Nealc Publishing Company, Washington, D. C. "True Love Wins." a tale of love and war, by William G. Kennedy, published by the F. Tennyson Neely Company of New York. It is a poor story, poorly written. "Christ's Message to the Churches." an amplification from a religious point er view of the scriptural messages to different Christian churches, by Rev. W. M. Campbell. The Abbey Press. "Jacqueminot, the Story of a Rose." a ' story by May Howell Beecher, the plot of which turns on the kidnaping of a child In its own Interest by a faithful servant. New York: F. Tennyson Neely Company. "Pitfalls of the Bj-llroom," a surprisingly strong argument against dancing, based on moral, biblical and religious grounds, by Rev. George F. Hall, with an Introduction by Rev. Sam P. Jones. Chicago; Laird & Lee. "A short history of the American trotting and pacing horse, with tables f pedigrees and records of famous hordes, with directions for training and handling horses," by Henry T. Coates. Philadelphia: Henry T. Coates & Co. Current Periodicals. The illustrations in Everybody's Magazine for November, showing the movements of Santos-Dumont's dirigible balloon, will rot recommend that form of travel to tho majority of observers. St. Nicholas Magazine has adopted the fashion of publishing a long story complete In each number. The first one. which appears in the November Issue, is by Rurton E. Stevenson, a favorite author among voung people, and is entitled "Tommy Remington's Battle." A very seasonable article in Ainslee's for November is "Training a Football Team." by Allen Sangree. It Is illustrated with spirited photographs. More important and equally readable ls "Our Farming Industry," by F. M. Todd, a graphic account of the American farmer and his gigantic enterprises. "One Woman's Life," by Isabelle D. Cameron, is the complete long story, or novel, in Lippincott's Magazine for November. It is the life- of a woman with a varied career, ending in a happy marriage, and is therefore a tale to please the average reader. Mabel Thurston, Paul Laurence Dunbar, John V. Sears and Mrs. J. 11. Hudson furnish the short stories. George Moore writes "My Own Funeral." In "Alpine and Marsh Garden," by Anne Lea Merritt. Suggestions for making such garden are plainly given. Recollections of Rossettl, by Gilchrist, recall a fine personality. "The Rule of Three" is an amusing sketch of a typewriter who evidently knew what she was about, though sha seemed simplicity itself. The first issue of Harper's Magazine was published in June, 1S30. But it was not until July of the following year that the department known as the "Editor's Drawer" was added to the Magazine. The origin of its title came about in this wise. Mr. Fletcher Harper was In the habit of placing for safe-keeping in the drawer of his desk such odds and ends of anecdotes, wit, humor, pathos, even "thoughts and meditations," brief but Instructive, as came to the then young periodical, or were gathered from his own experience. It occurred to Mr. Harper that he could provide better humorous matter from this drawer than he had been borrowing from London Punch tor his new magazine, hence the name attached to the department. Mr. Grinnell's paper in the November Atlantic is entitled "Modern Murder Trials and Newspapers," and Is a discussion of the nature of the universal public interest in capital cases, coupled with a review of the history and conduct of some recent causes celebres. Mr. Grinnell discusses also how far this interest ls legitimate and natural, and how far it has been etin.ulated by its press treatment, and with what effect upon the public mind. What are the results, in short, of newspaper publicity? How much injury or benefit follows to the cause of law and justice? Mr. Grinnell believes "that the lawful publicity which is given to capita! cases, while sometimes unjustly damaging innocent persons, strengthens the Influence of our courts, and upon the whole does more good than harm." Tho Century Magazine announces that it expects to have some especially interesting poetical features during tne coming year. Milton's "L'Allegro" has been chosen for color illustration in Its Christmas number, and other poems will bo artistically decorated. In addition to well-known contributors, such as James Whitcomb Riley. Edwin Markham, Edith M. Thomas, Paul Laurence Dunbar, L. Frank Tooker, Maurice Francis Egan, Clinton Scollard. John Burroughs and many others, several new or unfamiliar poets are to be introduced! during the year to the Century audience', each with a group of ioems. the first being six "Songs of the Second Youth." by "Mary Adams," a nom de plume. In other ways prominence is to be given to poetry. It is said that some of the most interesting of the contributions come from tho Souta and the West. AVlth the Publishers. "The Cavalier," Mr. Cable's new novel, has now entred Its fortieth thousand. It has only been four weeks before the public Miss Mary E. Wilklns's novel, 'The Portion of Labor," has come to a close in the November Harper's Magazine. It has Just been published in book form by the Harpers. The A. Wessels Company (New York) announce that they are about to issue the two essays In "Friendship" by Emerson and Cicero in a style to please book lovers. The volume is to have no illustrations, but especial care has been given to the typography. "The Making of a Country Home," by J. P. Mowbray, after a tremendously successful serial run, is about to appear la book form from the press of Doubleday, Page fe Co. It will be made in uniform attractive binding and decoration with "A Journey to Nature." by the same author, a widely read and most attractive tale. The new book has apptan-i as a serial in oi.e of the magazines. John W. Cliff & Co., of Chicago, announce the early publication of an historical novel by Mr. George F. Cram, of that tity, under the title "Menette. a Story of the First Crusade." The author has been for thirty years a prominent publisher, and hi name Is well and favorably known In commercial circles throughout the country. This is the tlrt time Mr. Cram's name appears on the title page of a book as author. An extremely useful book in these days of wonders ls entitled. "Wireless Teieg. raphy: a Popular Exposition." It ls written by G. W. ele Tunzemnnn. 11. Sc., a European authority of note, and has Just been Imported by the Serlbners. It makes the whole subject plain to the unsclentlnc. telling th story concisely, within the limit of a hundred well Illustrated pages, the jdo