Indianapolis Journal, Volume 52, Number 118, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 April 1902 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, MONDAY, APRIL 28, 1002.

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Fairfax Hotel, WiUard Hotel. DENVER. COL.-Louthan & Jackjon, Fiftetnta and Lawrence streets. DAYTON. O. J. V. Wilkie. 23 So. Jefferson treet. COLUMBUS. O. Viaduct News SUod. 3S4 High street. Mr. Bryan 1.3 adding to the stock of Democratic harmony by again assailing David B. IHIl. Generally Mr. Bryan is creating a great deal of harmony with a club. If J. Pierpont Morgan could organize a consolidation or merger of European rulers he might greatly reduce the expenses of government and perhaps shut down two or three of them permanently. The fear that air might be mixed with natural pas by meter measurement is probably unfounded, but there has been a great Injection cf wind in a pending proposition to buy out. one of the companies. Senator Money's conduct in drawing a knife on a street-car conductor was bad enough, but It was a mild offense compared with stabling our soldiers in the back, as Senators Rawlins and Carrnack did. Henry Watterson's horse and man on horseback were young when General Grant was President, but now the horse is so old and wind-broken that he cannot long stand up under the daily service to which his proprietor is putting him. Now the beet-sugar people are asking that the tariff differential on refined sugar, the repeal of width, was to destroy the trust, shail not be removed. In other word.?, they desire to be protected against their own amendment. Ex-Senator Thurston, of Nebraska, says the framers of the Constitution intended that the Senate ihould be a conservative body. Those excellent men certainly never contemplated that such men as Rawlins and Carmack would bo members of that body. When Democratic senators vilify and defame brave officers in the Philippines, who have no chance to reply, the names of the senators who congratulate them should be given, in order that the country may apportion the Infamy. There is disgrace enough lor all. The Buffalo Express asks if it Is true that the report of this? year's beet-sugar production Is being withheld by the Department of Agriculture because it is not sufficiently favorable to bear out the arguments of the Oxnard lobby. The inquiry may call forth an answer. Some interesting questions on military and ovil law might b raised If Generals Chaffee and Hell should sue Senator Rawlins for slander in calling one of them "a dastard villain" and the ether "a brutal, cowardly beast." Would "senatorial courtesy" be a good defense? Those who sneer at Grant meetings on the anniversary of his birth belong to a executive office in fifty years that it can party which has had but one man in the honor i. nd praise, and that one Grover C'lcvclar d a large majority of his party has been denouncing since lOS. President-elect Palma shows good sense In holding that payment of the soldiers who forght in the late Cuban war must be postponed till the agricultural interests of the Island are developed to a paying basis. It is also encouraging that he was supported in this- view by the leading Cuban generals. The Washington correspondent of the Pittsburg Dispatch says that the action Ikhicii me iTosiaeni nns luKen in regard to J o alleged "beef trust" in the first good Ziove that he has made. Kvidently he ha.s Aorgotten the Injunctions against the railroad corporations which have been cutHrr ri too f i W V mcnt iL-3i til V. In iui j w tiiv c. i uvrvti dilti 1MO move in the mutter of the "merger." Two years aso the Democratic orators and organs were demanding that the government extirpate the mild form of slavery and Mahommedanism in the Island of Mindanao. Roth were righteously Indignant In epithets, but, now that the authorities have dealt with the fierce natives effective ly. the same orators and organs howl againt the making of war upon these offenders. Someone has telegraphed th New York World a thousand words about the Indiana r.epubUcan stato convention. That part of the dispatch which give a plank of the platform, and the names of the candidates 1 trjth. but the portion !a which it Is assorted that "money corruption is frejl' charged," and that district committeemen raid that never befor wj so much money used in a Republican convention is false. Th story that on candidate put tf.ftO in U-rl.itlon In the convention, and that one

delegate is known to have received $20 for his vote. Is fal so. As a matter of fact no man could afford to pay for any State office, and all of the candidates being rather jxmr men or men of limited means, such an expenditure was not possible. It Is not that this story is told of a Republican convention which causes the Journ.il to object; In fact, it would object If It were told of a Democratic .täte convention. If faire, because It gives the Impression that bribing Is a common practice in the politics of this State, which Is not the case. Th Journal does not believe that money is used to buy delegates to a state convention of either party. Indeed, the impression prevails that If money is used In such conventions less Is expended in Indiana than in othf r States. Yet the New York World has a startling headline, "Tap Barrels for Needy Ilootiers." Such a statement i3 a slander which all Indianians should resent. The most deplorable result of such declarations is that they lead people who read yellow newspapers to believe that nominations are bought and sold. Such a belief on the part of many quite intelligent people is calculated to destroy their respect for popular government, which would be a calamity. Indeed.

INIJIANA ni:rniMCA PLATFORM. The platform adopted by the Republican state convention last week has attracted the attention of the country and received commendation of the Republican press generally. The Omaha Bee devotes two editorials to different features of the platform, placing special stress upon the declaration In favor of a revision of the tariff from time to time to suit the changing conditions. It calls attention to the fact that fourteen years ago the Republican convention that nominated Benjamin Harrison placed itself on record against all combinations designed to control the conditions of trade. The Minneapolis Tribune, after briefly summarizing its principal features, says that "it is a platform on which the Republicans of most States can well afford to go into the congressional campaign." The Hartford (Conn.) Courant says that "history and current events constructed the platform of the Indiana Republicans." The Pittsburg Gazette, under the caption, "True Republicanism Affirmed," calls attention to the declaration of the Indiana Republicans that reciprocity with Cuba is a national duty, and to that other eieclaration favoring tariff revisden without injury to home Industry. Indeed, it is a significant fact that about every Republican paper calling attention to the platform favors the expression in favor of tariff revision. The New York Times, which is a decided opponent of protection, commends those portions of Senator Beveridge's address in which he discussed trusts. The Times observes the distinction between the trusts that promote trade instead of restricting it and those which seek to be monopolies with a view of advancing prices. The Kansas City Star, an independent ataä freetrade paper, says that "the demand or the regulation of trusts is clear and strong." It accepts the declaration in favor of protection as a matter of course, but quotes the words of the platform in favor of reciprocity and tariff revision, which it says is embodied in the last speech of President McKinley. The Boston Herald, on the' other hand, is displeased with the entire platform. It is, says the Herald, worse than no good. It is curious to note that on the same page with this condemnation of the Republican platform is an editorial criticising Republican senators for not remaining in their seats to listen to Senator Rawlins's three or four days' speech on the Philippine question, which it compares with those of Daniel Webster in ISjO, and of Sumner, Seward and Chase in later days, and which, it may be added, the Boston Herald denounced at the time. But the point to which attention is called is that Republicans generally approve the platform and regard it as the keynote of the campaign. A WAIt FOR III.M.WITV. The country is hearing a good deal nowadays about "wars of humanity." The expression was first used to characterize our war with Spain, which was begun for the avowed purpose of ending Spanish rule In Cuba and of liberating the Cubans and giving them self-government That was a humane purpose and the war was not inaptly termed a war for humanity. Of course that did not mean that the war was not to be fought to a finish or that the enemy was not to be attacked wherever he was found and punished until he surrendered. Admiral Dewey did not fire blank cartridges at the Spanish fleet in Manila bay. He did not take particular pains to avoid hurting anybody, and he kept on smashing the Spanish ships until they were all sunk, burned or captured. Yet he was prosecuting a war for humanity. The same spirit was shown at the battle of El Caney and in the destruction of Cervera's fleet. Our soldiers and sailors, officers and men, understood they were there to light the enemy into complete submission and they proposed to do it regardless of how many people might be killed or hurt. Yet it was a war for humanity because its ultimate object was humane. The leaders of the Democratic party who are trying to make an issue out of the conduct of the war In the Philippines have changed the expression to suit their purpose. Instead of a war "for" humanity they now demand a war "of" humanity, by which they mean a war In which the enemy shall not be roughly handled, in which, if possible, no person en the other side shall be hurt, and which shall not be fought to a finish. Their idea of a war of humanity is that when American soldiers are smitten on one cheek they shall turn the other, and that enemies in arms shall be killed with kindness instead of with bullets. Their contention is absurd and Insincere. No war was ever conducted on the principle which they pretend to think should have been adopted or should be adopted now in the Philippines. No war since the world was created was ever conducted on that principle. There have been wars for humanity because they aimed at a humane or noblo purpose, but there never was a war in which both belligerents did not do their best to hurt, kill and destroy each other and compel submission of the enemy. The war in the Philippines which, by the way, is practically ended has been a war for humanity becaue it has aimed at the extension of free government and tho establishment of American sovereignty In a rightful possession, but It does nt follow that It should have been conducted on a plan dlffervnt from other wars. In his speech a few days ago Senator Rawlins denounced General Smith for ordering Major Waller to make the island of Samar

"a howling wilderne&a." Similar orders have been issued in every war when it was deemed necessary. Our troops made the Shenandoah valley a howling wilderness during the civil war. nnd they acted under orders, too. Sherman's army on its march to the sea left the country behind it more like a howling wilderness than a Ilower garden. The Filipinos have not made a great fight, as the Confederates did, but they have been very stubborn and It was necessary to whip the-m Into submission. If they had recognized the rightful authority of the United States at the beginning there would have been no war, they would not have had to be whipped Into submission and nobody would have been hurt. There never was a more righteous war than that which has been prosecuted for the maintenance of the flag in the Philippines. It is prc-eminentiy a wr fr humanity, but even such wars cannot be conducted on the milk-and-water principles which Democratic senators are advocating.

SOMU of tiii: CAISFS OF COSTLY' 31 FATS. Tho New York Times, while an advocate of free trade, is too well informed on the subject to say, as have other Democratic nnd free-trade papers in the East, that the repeal of the duties on meats and cattle would have the least effect upon present prices. On the contrary, that paper rldicules the assumption that sufficient meat will be Imported to affect present prices, since the same cause that affects the prices of meat in the United States prevails in Canada. The United States produces nearly one-third of the meat of the whole world. For years we have been making efforts to open markets in Europe. During the last four years we have exported large quantities of meats, being able to make the prices. But in 1001, as In 1SS1, there was a short corn and hay crop. The result is high prices, because those who who prepare cattle for the market cannot pay the present price for corn and other feed and sell the cattle for the prices which prevailed a year ago or two years ago, or any year when corn in the cattle-feeding regions was worth from 25 to 35 cents a bushel. An exchange gives figures showing that there is an abundance of cattle in the cattle country. That is true, but there is a scarcity of fat cattle fit for the market. Sensational papers and others in the East which imagine they are making an assault on protection will not distinguish between cattle fit for the market and those which are not. It Is because they will not see that cattle fattened on corn eosting 5 cents a bushel cannot be fattened as cheaply as when corn is worth leM than 25 cents a bushel. The packers have known that there would be a scarcity of marketable cattle for beef since the failure of the corn crop. To some extent they were prepared for It. They paid a great deal more for cattle and hoss this year than they did a year ago. Having control of the supply, they have advanced the selling price to a higher figure than they would have done if the cattle country had been full of fat cattle. At a time when prudence should have led them to be satisfled with moderate prices greed led them to increase the margin between the crt of cattle to them anel tho selling price over the margin which has prevailed for years. This is the just cause for the fresh hostility of the people against the packers. Now that the railroads have bten enjoined from paying to the packers rebates of from to & cents a hundred pounds from the published rates of 13 to 23 rents from Missouri and Chicago to the seaboard, th?y will lose $1,000,000 a year. The best judgment is that common beef will be cheaper In July because grass-fattened cattle will be then put upon tho market, but the corn-fattened beef to which many people are accustomed will not be much cheaper until the country has a good corn crop. The report of the Bureau of Statistics concerning the trade of the United States and Porto Rico is very Instructive, taken in connection with the question of reciprocity with Cuba. The tariff between the United States and the island has been removed. No Industry Is harmed here, and the United States is sending five times as much merchandise there as it did prior to 1SDS. We take 52 per cent, of the exports of Porto Rico, and the island buys of us 82 per cent, of all the merchandise it imports. Meantime, under this policy, the island is rapidly attaining prosperity. It should occur to all except the Oxnard beet-sugar trust that what has been accomplished in Porto Rico already applies to Cuba in a far greater degree because It has greater resources, a larger area, and Is nearer. With a liberal reciprocity Americans can capture a large and growing market for flour, bacon, lard, butter, iron, steel, machinery, tools, textiles and a thousand other articles which we make in abundance. A larger and more profitable trade for farmers and manufacturers can be secured by reciprocity with Cuba than with any other country. Mr. Post, inventor of the so-called Post check money, has had a hearing before a committee of Treasury and Postoffice Department officials. The explanation of hi3 plan was well received, but it will not be adopted without careful investigation. The inventor stated that from statistics obtained by writing to many of the large catalogue houses, publishers or manufacturers who elo .a large mail order business, he has been able to compute the amount of money transmitted through the mails in small sums at approximately $2,tOö.OOö.Oi'O a year. He argued that his system would be a preat convenience for all persons who send or receive 'money in small sums through the malls, and that the government would receive a greater revenue from the stamps canceled on bills than It now derives from money orders. His plan deserves careful consideration at least. The Beet-sugar Manufacturing Association of Michigan, at a meeting held a few days ago. adopted a resolution urging the Michigan senators to vote against abolishing the differential tariff on refined sugar, and recommending that the Senate adopt the reciprocal plan of giving the people of Cuba the commercial relief recommended by President Roosevelt. Beading business men of Michigan say that a reduction of 20 or 25 per cent, on Cub.tn sugar will not hurt the bect-sugar industry In that State a particle. The remarkable rumor conies from Ohio that a druggist In l.'hrkhsvllle, having been elected mayor, has taken flight to Zanevllle and declares that he will not return until he can do so without danger of being seized and Inaugurated. It Is possible that such things might happen in other States, but to ask. the public , to believe an Ohio

man has run away from any kind of an office is too much for human credulity.

THE HUMORISTS. lindern Definition. Chicago Tribun. "Johnny, what is central tim?" "Central time, ma'am, is th tim! the teleI hone girl kej.s you waitin' w hile she gits j ready to say 'hollo.' ' III ( npneit). J Sriart Set. ( "Mrs. TaikinKton's husl and ought to lie a j good listener." "He is. He can listen to ntarly CM words a minute." IlopeleM. Puck. ! Farmer Jor.es Is your Fen f till p imr tew the ! art school? Farmer Krown Nope; his Instructor sail it wa'nt no us-e. Why, artr he'd bin thar three months he didn't know no mere about art than one o' thf?e American millionaire art connytfOurs. Well Supplied. Baltimore American. "Look here," paid the employer to the office bov, "you have already been off twice because your grandmother was dad. and to-day you want off on the fame excuse. How is that?" "Oh. fir," answered the office boy, truKclin against the temntatkn to ru.-h to the window and watch the bapetiall parade, "oh, sir, I am pained to tell you that poor grandfather was a bisamlst." In Snspense. Washington Star. "So you don't know whether you want to go to work or not?" "Well, suh," answered Mr. lrastus Tinkley, "I'd like de refusal ob de Job a little while." "Hut I neel Fonittbody right away." "In dat casfj I'll have to let it ro by. I's jes bought a policy ticket, an' I'll haftrr wait till aftuh de draw-in' to see whether I's gwine to work at all or not." Father to the 31 nn. Catholic Standard. "No more meat," f-aid Willie's pa. "When boys start eating they never know when to stop." "When I pet to be a man like you I'll be different, won't I?" "Yes; you won't eat so much then." "No, but I'li drink a lot. Aunt Mary was just telling ma that when you start drinking you never know when to siop." CONVENTION ECHOES. "We view with pleasure" is a striking phrase in the Republican platform, which shows up well In contrast with the customary Democratic expression, "We view with alarm." Richmond Item. The Republicans of Indiana adopted a good platform of principles, yesterday, and nominated an exceptionally strong ticket both in personnel and from a geographical point of view. Connersville Times. Altogether the action of the convention meets the hearty approval of Republicans all through the State, and In its list of candidates and its platform very little can be found that will furnish material for the opposition to feed upon. There is no doubt of the success of the ticket at the election in November. South Bend Tribune. Worthily and well did the convention accomplish the high duties Intrusted to its deliberations. It has chosen a party platform, an able exposition of sound Republican principles, that will insure the best interests of our State. A ticket was nominated, a ticket of true blue Republicans, men of master minds who will conduct the affairs of tho State with honesy and lnedligence, a ticket which will lead the party to one more sweeping victory. Muncle Star. Unque?tlonably Senator Beveridge's address opening the Indiana Republican convention i3 ouo of tho most remarkable political speeches ever delivered.. In scope and comprehensiveness it is complete. In boldness of utterance, originality and precision of statement it is unique. Every vital public issue is taken up. ellscussed without subterfuge and the Republican position elucidated without fear and rendered impregnable by unanswerable logic Madison Courier. The State ticket nominated by the Republicans yesterday Is composed of splendid material and will be a winner. There is not a man on the ticket but is thoroughlj' capable and of high standing, both as a citizen and a party worker. The Eighth congressional district would be better pleased if it had a representative on the ticket, even though tha Governor is from among us. but ande from this there can be no complaint and there is everything to commend the ticket to the voters of the State. Madison county will roll up a handsome majority for that ticket. Anderson Herald. The Republican state convention which adjourned at Indianapolis last night at 6:50 o'clock while the band played "Auld Lang Syne" did a great work. It proceeded to the end without an unpleasant incident and the convention heard with profit the keynote of the campaign contained in the brilliant speech of Senator Beverldge. From first to lust the convention chose its best men. and In no other ticket in the history of the State has there been such well-balanced value ef manhood. The platform is an able document promulgating the sound principles and achievements of the Republican party. Goshen News-Times. The great convention is over and the Republicans of Indiana have named a ' winning ticket. It was perhaps the largest convention ever held by the Republicans in the State. Outside of the delegates proper there were hundreds of others who came to look or. and take a band In the matter of nominating the ticket. The ticket nominated Is tmexceptionable from head to foot. The nominees are all able representa tives of tho party and proved to be the strongest in the race for the nominations to which thy respectively aspired. There can be no doubt of tho election of the entire ticket. The Republican party of the State will stand as a unit for it and the Democratic party cannot defeat it. Columbus Republican. The conclusion of the monster meeting held by the Republicans of the State of Indiana justifies al J predictions that the Republicans of this State would put into positive expression the principles and the policies of the campaign upon which the country is just beginning. The Nation's interest in the outcome of this meeting lies in tho fact of its connection with the congressional elections which are to take place this fall. Th-1 principles tn the national policies which were outlined and were emphasized in the expressions of the platform of the party do not disappoint Republicans and will prove to the country thai the Republican party is still a fit 1 "ader of those forces which unite to nlarce the power of tho Nation, to increase the efficiency of labor and of production, to foster prosperity, encourage grood povcrninent and to develoo and extend the regard in which this Nation is held by the Nation at large. Elkhart Review. ACROBAT SUES TOR $50,000. Say the AffeotlniiH of ('ami lie I)rville. lit i:-VIf, Were Stolen. SAN FRANCISCO. April 27. Andrew W. Lyons, formerly an acrobat, has brought suit in this city against E. V. Crellin. husband of Camille d'Arville, the opera singer, tor fT",f) for the alienation of Iiis wife's affections. In his complaint Lyons alleges" that he was the former husband of Mrs. Crellin. who. in !:. obtained a divorce in Chicago without Lyons's knowledge and subsequently married Crellin. Mrs. Crellin is now in Brooklyn. Etntct from IndlmiH Platform. New York Sun. It is an abb- eloeumcnt containing many words, generally Judicious. It contains one word, however, which is a platform in itself. We extract and print it here: "PROSPERITY." That is a record on which the Republican party can stand. That 1 a platform on which it can carry the country again.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS.

Ihr IiKiippi Rubble. Emerson Hout;h, author of this story, 1:came favorably known to the public through his book, "The Girl at the Halfway House." In tnis later tale he handle's a very different theme. "The Mississippi Rubble" Is also a much more ambitious work than any he his yet published. The striking title he found ready at hand; It was, in fact, inevitable, since the leading figure of his book is no less a personage than John Law, the famous gamester ard financier, whose great banking and speculative scheme which wrought such excitement and havoc in France ncariy l1) years ago, was later known by this expressive name. It is rather a daring venture for a novelisl to take for his central character one whose career Is so well known as Law's, yet, alter all, it is not the personal, but the public acts of his life that are familiar to the readers of history. He was so noted a figure in a public sense that, whatever may have been the case during his lifetime, his private affairs fell into an unconsidered background so far as later generations are concerned. In dealing with the romance of his life doublcss Mr. Hough considered this vague knowledge as one of the probabilities. How much basis he has lor this romance it is lmpobsible for one who has not maele a close stuily ef Daw's biography to say. So deftly are his complicated love affairs woven into the web of events known by all who have read of him at all to be true that the line between fact and fiction cannot easily be drawn. Naturally this artful treatment adds greatly to the realism and the interest of the story. The narrative divides itself into three parts, in which the scenes ami incidents differ widely. Law, with his brother, is first introduced, at the time of his arrival in London from Edinburgh,- his reputation as the originator of novel and elaring financial ideas having preceded him. He is represented as handsome, well mannered, and bold and self-contident in affairs of the heart, as well as in more material pursuits. He meets the woman of his choice, Lady eJatherine Knollys, by accident before he has fairly entered London; he falls instantly in love with her and engages in a swift and ardent courtship in which he succeeds in winning the lady's affections, and all promises well. But the course neither of true love nor of his other interests runs smoothly at this time. For killing a man in a duel he is thrown into prison and sentenceel to death; he is also estranged from his sweetheart through the wiles of her treacherous frieml who Is in lovo with him. Escaping from prison, he fines himself by mistake on a vessel bound for America Instead of France. His experience in America forms the second part of the tale. Reckless and desperate, yet, withal, observant of the great possibilities of the country, he wanders over the new world in company with French voyagers, explorers, Indians aetventurtrs all, seeking they scarcely know what. At last he comes with his company to the "Messasebe," and there he lingers long; there, the author would have us believe, he builds the foundation of what, long after, results in "the Mississippi bubble." While leading this savage life he has various wild adventures, a fight with Indians and capture by them among the rest. These are picturesque chapters, and the flavor of primitive existence which they bring into what would otherwise be largely a chronicle of the conventional and luxurious gives the book a peculiar attraction. The last and thinl part relates Law's experience in France as the trusted friend of the regent, Philippe of Orleans, and with his great financial scheme at last in successful operation. He had arrived in Paris just as Louis XIV lay dying, and one of the striking passages of the book is the description of the deathbed scene. Here, at the height of his success, when he is practically dictator and all men bow down to him, the two women who have most influenced his life appear again. The scene at the royal banejuet where he meets once more the treacherous creature who has wrought him so much ill is very dramatic and suggests striking stage possibilities, though the book, as a whole, does not convey the unpleasant impression, now so common with fiction, that its author wrote it with the stage in mind. Here is a description of Law as he lookeel on that etccasion: "There appeared now the tall, erect and vigorous form of a man owning a superb physical beauty. Powerful, yet not too heavy for ease, his figure retained that elasticity and grace which had won him favor in more than one court of Europe. He himself might have been King as he advanced steadily up the brilliantly illuminated room. His costume, simply maele, yet of the richest materials of the time; his wig', highly powdered, though of modest proportions; his every item of apparel appeared alike of great simplicity and barren of pretentiousness." What the incidents were that so complicated his love history. In what way the woman whom he did not love deceived him, how the web was nt last untangled all these things form such a part ef the interest of the story that to tell them here would be unfair to author anel reader. It is enough to say that the tale is extremely well handled. It offers an unusual variety of picturesque scene and incident; its chief personage is vividly presented, the character study made of him being one likely to be accepted as a true portrait; and it Is historical in a genuine sense. Unlike most so-called historical novels It is not built against a vague background of histcry; it is history in so far as it deals with public matters. It Is a careful work in a literary sense, showing no signs of haste or carelessness, and in this respect is again ex ceptional. Altogether, it is a book quite out of the common and will undoubtedly meet the approval of discriminating readers. Tho Bowcn-Merrill Company, publishers. A Story of u .nt Ion. The book bearing the title "Wales" is one of the Tutham series of "The Stories of the Nations" anel Is sent forth as "a continuous popular history of Wales." It is very interesting on account of its clear and definite outlines and the beautiful, poetic prose in which the story of the Welsh nation is tolel. The author is Owen M. Edwards, fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford, evidently of Welsh descendant! thoroughly imbueel with the spirit of independence and progression characteristic of the Welsh people. Brief quotations from the first chapter will give an Idea of the picturesque country, so li tic known to the average reader or traveler. "Wales is a land of mountains. Its mountains explain its isolation and its love of independence; they explain its internal divisions; they have determineel, throughout Its history, what the direction anel method of its progress were to be. The meuntains of Wales rise between the sea and the comparatively ll.it lands of the south of Rritain, a curved line of summits, some 150 miles long, running from north to south. Two rivers skirt their ba.se s em tho land side, the Doe flowing northwards and the Severn southwards, both flowing to the western sea. The valley of the Severn separates the Welsh hills from those of Devon anel Cornwall; the valley of the Dee separates them from those of the north of England. To the? southwest a line of s-rratet hills, running far into the sea, forms the promontory of Eivion and Lleyn. the land of gigantic fortresses anel weird, lonely peaks. Eastward, beyond the valley of tin; Conway, lie the green limestone hills of Denbigh, and leyonel them lie the iron and Iael hills of Flint. Southward a mountainous rielge runs, displaying precipitous, rocky slopes towarel the west and the sea and undulating Inte high moorlands on the east. South of this group the Rerwyn ranges run from northeast to southwest. Te the west and north are the mountains ef Gwynedd. with Snowelon among them, a glorious multitueie. Te the east the hills ef l'owys, equally numerous but with softer contour, fade away to the dim. distant lowlands ef England. Reyond the valley of the- Dovey, to the south, rises the desolate luight of Pliniimmen. From it a long line ef Iewcr meiuntains curve to the southwest, breaking up, ;iihin sight of the se-a. into a line of low, isolated peaks. West ef this half-circle a number of rivers run a short e-ourse to the sea. From ihe eastern and southern slopes the most hdportant rivers of Wales the Severn, the Wye and the I'sk. fall elown into romantic glens as they descend to the plains lying at the feet ef the mountains. A glanee at the.' map of Wales shows that it is ellfficult to eenquer. Around its mountains f.-inges of lowlands lie, not exceeding .'on ft-et in altitude. Within this narrow fringe ef fertile land rise- uplands to the height of between 5oo and 1. "'io feet. Among these rise fastnesses to the heiut of between 2m and 3) feet. The whole country is naturally a place ef r-tu;;e. u. home of inelependenee. Wales forms part of the broken chain ef mountains which rises In solitary majesty from an expanse of sea anl plain stre telling from the Ural mountains te the Alleghenies. A land uf mountains which forms the character

of those who come to It. glvlnur them a vague similarity of Ideas which makes unity possible in hlstot v and in literature that is the abiding fact in the history of Wales. The Inhabitants of tho mountains feel, amid all their differences, that ihey are one nation, because their land Is untJ other lands. As far back as we caYi

go they have a historv the traditions of many wandering nations blendet! Into one: . memories coming from a lost history, a the sound of the bells of Aben'.ove co from the lost laml eleep elown belowwestern sea. This belief In a unity of and in a continuity of language has much truth In it the mountains absorb ' i races that come and give them their ch. actor. As far back as we e;-n s -nations, ever moving westward vro v i plain and sea. reached the mount ii is ' Wales standing on the outer edge of ti. - , world then known. The first r;;ce Wa. called Iberian, the next eelt. Ti:pn e-nme Rome, anl after a struggle lasting Hartylive years its conquest of the mvnintains of Wales was assureel. The persistence ef Rome in Wales in Its political, thought, in its language and in its literature is explained partly by the fact that it brought a new civilization to an impressionable people, but chiefly because It had to defend that civilization against the growing aggression ef heathen invaders. The migration of nations was beginning anew. The eastern province war conquered between 450 and 52') by two f,reat families of Teutonic invaders, the Angl s and the Saxons, who shattered the Roman power in the southeast of the island. It was not until fil.1 that the western tribes were defeate! by the Angle King at ehester. The onlv part of the Roman-province that was left unsubdued was the mountaimus countrymodern Wales. It was at this time and among these mountains that the romances of Arthur were born. Thev represented then the spirit of unity and of freedom, and, dim and distant though they seem, they still live in all true Welsh hearts. The annals of Wales for many centuries were burdened with devastating wars, civil and religious. Poetry and literature found expression during all these terrible years, anel in spite of adverse circumstances have left their records as evidence of the existence of lofty intellects and noble hearts among the Welsh nation." This book fills a real want, for a history of this country in convenient form has been lacking. Dorothy Vernon. "Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall" is the full title of the new novel by Mr. Charles Major, author of "When Knighthood Was in Flower." As in the latter book, Mr. Major has chosen to deal with historic characters and an historic episode. It is of the time of Elizabeth. Haddon Hall, in Derbyshire, then the residence of Sir George Vernon, father of the Dorothy of this tale, is still in existence and belongs to the descendants of the Vernons. At the opening of the story the feud existing between Sir George and his neighbor, the Duke of Rutland, living a few miles distant, kept the families apart. Sir John Manners, son of the duke, and Dorothy Vernon fall in lovo with each other and it is their clandestine love affair that forms the theme of the book. The story is told in the first person by Sir .Malcolm Vernon, cousin to Dorothy anel friend to Sir John Manners, the feud not extending to the younger generation. Dorothy, too. has a friend. Madge. a beautiful blind girl, and Malcolm falls in lovo with her. Dorothy is a tempestuous pe rson, quick-tempereel. willful, spoiled anel bent upon having her own way In all things. Her father is a choleric, domineering man, and the verbal encounters between the two are frequent and furious when affairs do not move to the approval of either. Once ho threatened to whip her. anel In a spirit of defiance she tears off her bodice anel bids him strike her bare shoulders. Deirothy is put to great straits to meet her lover, and once goes to meet him in the park, dressed as a man. Here Is an absurd scene, fit only for the stage, which, there is reason to suspect, the author had in mind when writing it. When the girl, in her masculine garb, goes to the park she encounters her lover, who does not recognize her, but, supposing her to be a man, talks with her, and after a most remarkable conversation for strangers to indulge In finally suspects that his companion is a woman! Another scene obviously introduced for spectacular purposes is a elanco by Dorothy in scant attire before Queen Elizabeth and her suite, who are guests at the hall. The girl takes all the paces of a horse, and enumerates her good points, calling them to the attention of an unwelcome wooer whom her father favors. Eventually, and after much tribulation, true love wins, of course, both Dorothy and her cousin being made happy in their respective ways. The story will inevitably suggest "When Knighthood Was In Flower" to readers familiar with the latter book. The grouping of the characters is similar. Dorothy is "Mary Tudor" under another name, her father is King Henry slightly varied, Madge differs not from Jane in type, and Malcolm Vernon and Manners are Caskoden and Brandon over again. The situations In the two books, too, resemble each other in numerous instances. The characters are treated in the same way, no attempt being made to give an old-time atmosphere to the tale. Dorothy, like Mary Tudor, has the modern feminine characteristics of self-confidence and independence, also a free-and-easy tendency to indulge in pert remarks. This impression of present-day young womanhood is strengthened by Christy's Illustrations, which are pleasing representations of the twentiethcentury girl. In "When Knighthood Was in Flower" Mr. Major told a story in which a variety of events and adventures wae abundantly mingled with a gentle and amiable senti-, mentality. A great number of people liked the story. In "Dorothy Vernon", he has produced another of the same sort. No eloubt this book, too, will meet with a similar welcome. It is handsomely printed by the Maemillan Company, New York. Principles of AVeMern Ctrl llzatlnn. In this work Mr. Benjamin Kidd, author of "Social Evolution," again shows himself to be an original and deep thinker, a close student of the drift of social movements and a clear and forceful writer. The work is based upon the idea that the great controversies, scientific and religious, which filled tho nineteenth century, have broadened out far beyond the narrow boundaries within which the specialists imagined them to be confined. The older antagonists in many of these controversies still continue, as they will doubtless continue to the eml, to confront each other in the same attitudes cf opposition as at the beginning. But the general mind is no longer engaged with the; past aspects of these dispute. It is becoming more and more preoccupied with the larger problems beyond, which the new knowledge has brought full into view, anel with the immense social and pelitical Issues which are now seen In be ultimately involved. The operation of the law of evolution is as clearly evident In the unfolding of great social movements as In any field of nature or progress. "What we are coming to see." says this author, "is that if we accept the law of natural selection as a controlling principle In the process of social evolution we must, by inherent necessity, also accept it as operating in the: manner in which, in the Ions run, it produces the largest and most effective results. Our attention throughout the course of human history has been concentrated hitherto on the interests of the individuals who for the time being comprised what we call soeiety. Yet what we are now brought to se-e Is that the overwhelming weight of numbers, as of interests, in the evolutionary process, is never in the present. It is always in the future. It is not the interests of those existing individuals with which all our systems of theoight and of political science have eonoerned themselves, but the interests of the future, which weight the meaning of the evolutionary process In history." These sentences furnish the keynote of the whole, work. It is an argument to prove that the real significance ef all the great social and ecencmle movements of any given period lies in the' future rather than in the present, and that the forces which are re-ally shaping the elevelopnient of progressive peoples are much less cone erned with the interests of ! the e xisting generation than they are with those that are to come after. On these lines the author has formulated a theory which is well characterized as "Principles e.f Western Civilization." The work is fertile in suggetien and is a powerful exposition of a great subject. New York: The Maemillan Company. Irrigation In the t'nifed States. The prominence given by President Roosevelt in his annual message to irrigation as : means of fertilizing large tracts of arid lands shows that the subject is growing in importance-. The President said: "The forest and water problems are perhaps the Most vital Internal questions of the United States." Of course he referred to physical anel not to moral questions. Under the title of "Irrigation In the United States" the subject is ably treated by a competent hand. The author, Frederick H.

Newell, in chief of the division of hydrography of the United State Geob-gica! Survey, secretary of the American Forestry Association, etc.. and Is one of th most cap-' writers on th sub.1ct in th conntry . long and practical exp-rienoe ptvir .v.l.. My to his utterances. H Is tslso . . -er. For a nurnter of year . " n continuously engaged in .igations of the extent to ,g'.on can b reclaimed by . rtalning th cst and caAvoirs, measuring the flow cf for power. Irrigation and oth r -'n. 4V:rioses and mapping the ?r- " '.md-rground waters. In this attempts to bring together In as ".nleal a character as ponibie the re- " f this study and experience. Thi will b found" instructive hy all ho i. interested in the question of artl'ielal igation on a large scale or even for 'arming or market garden purposes. The book is liberally and hlnfullv illustrated. New York: T. Y. Crow ell It Co.

Mr, llufford'a Hook. "Shakspeare in Tale and Vers-," by Mrs. Lois G. Hufford, of Indianapolis, the volume to whose merits the Journal called its readers attention some time isince, is being well received by the reviewer, especially those of England. Almost without exception they speak of It with approval, though, curiously enough, a few of them compare it with lamb's 'Tale" as if it were endeavoring to cover the same ground, whereas, as a matter of fact. It is entirely different in scope and character anel is intended for a more mature class ef readers. As a matter of Interest to Mrs. Hufforel's friends a number of the comments are here quoted. Primary Education says: "There has long been a need for just such a book as this. Those who have not read Shakspeare before will do so now if they are fortunate enough to get this book to arouse their interest and make th dark ways plain." The Chicago Tribun says the author "has chosen her plays wisely and done the work with modesty and success;" the Philadelphia Ledger that she "has been faithful to the spirit of the text while adapting her version to the demand of the modern reader;" the Philadelphia Press that the book ought to be of service in awakening the Interest of young readers in Shakspeare. The Detroit Free Press thinks that on th part of her youthful audience she deserves a vote of thanks. The Worcester Spy says: "The work must bo declared one for which there is a use. It is prepared with literary skill, is useful and valuable, and is a credit to author anl publisher." Of the Rritish periodicals the London Daily News says the author has accomplished her task with discretion and good taste, the Leeds Mercury that the book Is "a capital piece of work, and we are grateful to Mrs. Hufford." The Pilot says th author has performed her task conscientiously and methodically; the Spectator that "the plan has been carried through with adequate skill, and It is a good plan.'' Altogether Mrs. Hufford has reason to be pleased with the reception of her book. (apt n in of the (ini) Horse Troop. This story, by Hamlin Garland, Is one of the author's best. The literary mannerisms that mar some of his tabs are not especially noticeable in this, and though. as in many of his either stories, he has a reform to promote, he rs less bumptious than is sometimes the case in netting forth his views. His theme tlds time la the treatment of the Indians on the government reservations. One Captain Curtis is made agent at one of these reservations, and his attempt to protect the Indians in their rights brings him at once into conflict with neighboring settlers, who are constantly encroaching upon tho reserved territory; with the hanget s-on who prey in one way and another upon the red men. and with a senator of the State, who is in a "deal" to ii"prlve the tribe of the U L-t part of the land set apart to them. His experience with these opposing elements and his final triumph alter l.u.g struggle and much discouragement form the chief Incidents of the tale outride tf the love interest. In the latter the daughter ef the senator is involved, and one ef the agent's achievements is that e.f convincing the young woman that Indians are human beings deserving ef consideration and kind treatment, and not creatures as much beneath her notice p.s four-h gged animals. The action of the story is rapid, the incidents are well-handled and there are a number of dramatie situations. The lo(lc will afford an evening's pleasant entertainment. New York: Harper : Brothers. Wild Life of Orchard nnd Field. This book 13 a revised nnd enlarged edition under a new name of "Friends Worth Knowing," by the same author, Ernest Ingersoll. The latter was published by the Harpers nearly twenty years ago, and the present volume contains sr. much new matter that it Is practically a new worl. Its illustrations, photographed from life and nature, are entirely so. The book is a delightful study of wild animals and their habits, charaeteriMie-n and ways, and of outdoor nature in connection with them. Birds of many kinds, small eb-er. moles, weasels, wild nilcp. flying squirrels and many other interesting creatures arc treated in such a way that one is made to feel personally acquainted with theni. Und r sue h titles as "Our Winter Birds." "Rirds of Passage." "How. Animals Get Home," etc., the author takes the reader Into his orfldence and tells a great many of the secrets of nature that fer persons know. There are twenty-four i lustrations, all photographed from life, d woodchucks. squirrels, birds of different kinds in their rativej haunts, birds' nests, gophers and other interesting creature or their nests and homes. Nature lovers will find the boole interesting and Initructive. New York: Harper & Brothers. Playful Ilranesqne Wit. Kansas City Star. The playful wit of William J. Bryan 1 again apparent in th following paragraph fiom the last issue f the Commnner: "The tobacco trust! are engage d in a war in Great Britain. American consumers of tobacco will have te smoke up to make good tho trust losses- in England." "The Washington Pcmoorat says: 'President Roosevelt is the Grover Cleveland of the Republican party. It will take a commission to decide wllch is the aggrieved gentleman." "Someone has defined a farmer as a man who makes his money on a farm and spends it in town, and an agricultures t as cne who makes his money in town and spends it on a farm.' With that charactfrt.Mic modes ty for which Mr. bryan is famous, especially among the Filipinos, lie does not claim the personal authorship of the distinction here made between the farrier and the agriculturist, but many will re-member that he onc1! used it in a speech or interview, and without credit. Now it is utributed to "someone." Hector County Will .ot Resign. WASHINGTON. April 27. Bishop Thomas James Conaty, rector cf th Catholic University of America, e n i hath aMy de nies a published report that 1 contemplated resigning the rectorship f the university. ns says there are i.o dissensions at the university and that he li.nl no intention of resigning. He like wise uthorizs the Mate, ment that there is no foundation whatever for reports concerning th financial condition ef the tinivciKity. The- Catholio University of America, like all other educational Institutions, he says. ne-elu larger endowment for broader development, but It iius re cciveei gem rarous support. Stetriet of Otieltlca I'.iflKKeraled. SAN FRANCISCO. April 27.-0.1. Arthur Wagner, who has been adjutant general at Manila two years, arrive. t lo re en route to Chicago to assume the duties of adjutant general. Colonel Wagner, when asKed to express his opinion" as to the alN-ge'd cruelties perpetrated by the orders of G n. Jacob H. Smith la the Island of Si mar, said that the stories of cruelty t'. the natives have been largely exaggerated. "A to the 'water cure ' they lay so much strc-s on." he said, "there" has bun n;or if that In Imagination of the people of the United State s than in the inland of Samar." Tclejcrnph Operntor Accidentally Mint TOPE K A, Kan.. April 27.-Wil,um W. Carr, age-d thirty-ev-n year, one of the be.-t known telegrajh operators In tlie West, was accidentally i-hot to-day and instantly killed while visiting hin parents at Eudora. Kan. Carr was aUnhtir.g frejni a buggy when he tripped. Ils.-harglng his shotgun. He received the contents of ivoth barrels ervtr the heart. Mr. Carr had 1 n connected with the Assoelated Pre?- in Tpefca tir.ee lvl! ami hail worked at Kanvts City. Omaha, Denver and other point., lie leaves u widow. Spotted Fever SeotirKe. MISSOULA. Mont.. April 27. The spotted fever scourge in the Litter Rout valby has broken out with greater vio.e-noe than at any time known In the histrrv of the peculiar disease-. Eight person l ave dU-el of the malady within a week and fev-vtraj