Indianapolis Journal, Volume 53, Number 61, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 March 1903 — Page 4

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DAYTON, O. J. V. Wilkle, :3 South Jefferson street. COLUMDUS. O. -Viaduct News Stand. Ml High ftreet. It may be that air. M. E. Ingalls's political ambition does not extend beyond a desire to be mayor of Cincinnati, but If he should enter national politics In earnest he might become a formidable factor. He Is an able man, a first-rate speaker and would have a large following among the business men of the country. Those who are studying the situation predict the elimination of Judge Parker as a Democratic candidate for President through the influence of Mr. Bryan. The latter cannot be a candidate, but he can defeat any man whom the Democrats nominate. Furthermore, the reorgranlzers will not nominate a candidate whom Mr. Bryan will oppose: He has said that Judge Park er will not do. It is an embarrassing situa tion. There can be no sounder proposition than that of Representative Cannon that "the majority of a legislative body has the right to do business." It seems not to be generally recognized In Washington, but It is the fundamental principle of parliamentary government. When one man, like Senator Morgan, 13 permitted to talk against time day after day to prevent a vote on a most Important question the majority surrenders Its right and one man rules with despotic 8 way. A Chlcj.go paper says that an organiza tion of fdfm laborers has been discovered In Illinois which has for Its object a demand for much higher wages the ensuing season. It was the purpose of the leaders to keep the fact of the organization secret until the work of the spring is at hand. when the farmers would be met with a demand for $35 a month as wages. Now that the plan has been made public the farmers are organizing to meet the de mand. Central Roe. commanding the National Guard of New York, is In Washington to protest against the application of the new rnilltla. laws to that organization. For one thing, he says, the New York troops are now armed with the Springfield rifle and much prefer it to the Krag-Jorgensen. which the War Department proposes to issue to all militia organized in accord ance with the provisions of the new law. The National Guard in all the States should be armed with t.ie same weapon, and that the best. The fact that the government has no ammunition for the old Springfield rifle is sufficient reason why it should not be Insisted on by any State militia. . New York is a big State, but there are other?. and In a matter of this kind it should not try to dictate, especially in favor of an obsolete arm. The report of the conference committee on the bill affecting the salaries of the judges of several counties and adopted by the House on Saturday, if enacted, will place the Legislature in a compromising attitude. The House has been asked to in stitute impeachment proceedings against Judge Rajch. of the Circuit Court in Vanderburg bounty, but no one has been found to prcsen. the resolution. Having thus Ignored the charges against Judge Rasch by not taking the proper action the House committee and the House have practically assumed that he Is In some way guilty or open to grave suspicion by leaving his name out of the list of salaries which have been Increased. The Judge of the Superior Court In Vanderburg county receives an increase, while Judge Rasch is left out of the list. This Is equivalent to condemning the man without a hearing and Imposing a fine of about $1.000 a year. The city U to be congratulated on the fact that the passage of the compromise till regarding railway track elevation will Cnd In existence a commission in which the public has entire confidence and which is clothed with full authority to Invest!Cate the whole subject and report a plan for the permanent solution of the ques tion. This commission is not only organ ized but It has already taken considerable testimony and made considerable progress in Its investigation. The ground has been cleaned for conference with the renresentn. tlvA of the railroads and no time need be lost In preliminaries. It took the mayor a gcxd while to decide on the appointment cf a commission, and this ground does not have to be gone over again. As the com-rr.'-aion will be In a position to proceed leisurely It should Inform Itself as to tho experience of other cities and take the c;lr.ion of experts In the matter. It would t- a mistake to decide off-hand that track ctrrstica Is the only or-the best solution C the qttestlon. The objective point to be :cd ct U the eUralnation of grade cross-

Ings, and If this can be done Just as ef

fectually and more cheaply by a mixed system of track elevation and track de pression, or of subways and viaduct?, then that plan should be adopted. And the commission should not lose sight of the great Importance to the city of Its pres ent switch facilities. TUB APPROPRIATION' HILL. It should not take much of the time of the Legislature to pass the appropriation bill, for the reason that it has been most carefully and intelligently drawn by the House committee on wqys and means and the Senate finance committee. Indeed, It is not too much to say that a more carefully prepared bill of that character has never been reported. True, It calls for more money than did that of two years ago, but there are ample reasons why it should. Repulrs and Improvements at some of tire institutions have long been needed, and others are warranted on the ground of economy, but the State has not been in condition to vote money for them at an earlier day. There Is reason to believe that committees look at the needs of the State's institutions from a more intelligent point of view than that of saving a dollar re gardless of the possibility that such a saving will, In the end, cost $3. For in stance, a heating plant must cost a large amount at the outset, but if it costs $23,000 and will give far better results and Will af ford a saving in fuel of $3,000 a year it is good policy to vote the money for the plant. A ' cold-storage plant may cost $6,000, but if it can be demonstrated that $3,000 or $2,000 a year can be saved by hav ing It a wise economy demands Its construction. The committees preparing the bill had unusual facilities for distinguishing be tween the real and the imaginary needs of the different institutions. In the first place, the legislative committee, composed of Senator Goodwine, Speaker Marshall and Representative Cravens, not only visited every State institution, but made an intelligent and searching inquiry into their conditions and needs, wisely discriminating between the expenditures which trustees and superintendents would be pleased to have and those which are necessary tor the well-being of the Institutions. Senator Goodwine had served on the previous legislative committee, and thus had a useful experience. Ills associates. Speaker Mar shall and Mr. Cravens, are experienced business men. Governor Durbin visited several of the Institutions with the com mittee. When this committee left an in stitution it knew what It really needed. It took time to make an itemized report. and that report was before the ways and means and finance committees. Senator Goodwine is a member of one committer and Mr. Cravens of the other. This report was the basis of the action of the two committees. They have listened to the representatives of institutions, but it will be found that in most cases the committees have accepted th suggestions of the legislative committee. It can be said that the ways and means and the finance committees, composed of some of the most intelligent men in bofh houses, have given unusual care to the preparation of the bill which Chairman Sayre will take up before the House today. If the bill should become a law, without other changes than the committees may make, it will be as good a piece of legislation in that line as was ever enacted, and much better than If it should be changed here and there by senators and representatives specially interested in thte or that Institution. prospects of cinnExcY " LEGISLATION'. The prospect of the passage of any im portant financial legislation at this session of Congress has about vanished. The mott practical measure that has been Introduced, and one that was generally approved, was the Aldrlch bill. Senator Aldrlch, chairman of the finance committee, is a business mar; and his bill aimed at practical results. It made few changes In existing law, and the effect of these was simple and easily understood. Briefly, It authorizes the secretary of the treasury to deposit all surplus revenues, those from customs as well as those from Internal revenue. In national banks, accepting as security for such deposits bonds of the United States, bonds of any State, and a certain class of municipal bonds, and a certain very limited class of first mortgage railroad bonds. On all such deposits the banks are to pay in terest at the rate of li per cent, per an num. This is an entirely new provision. At present national banks having government deposits pay no Interest whateVer. They, however, secure these funds by government bonds purchased at a high price, and one-fourth of the amount of govern ment deposits must be held as a reserve and not loaned out. As amended in the Senate government deposits were exempted from the provision requiring the banks to keep a 25 per cent, reserve, it being thought that if the banks gave good security for the deposits and paid IVi per cent. Interest they should be released from the reserve pro vision. It is estimated that the interest on government deposits would amount to over $2,000,000 a year. In explaining the operation of his bill t Senator Aldrlch said the provision for al lowing other securities to be used in place of United States bonds would distribute the government deposits over various parts of the country. For instance, a bank in some Southern or Western State which. In the opinion of the secretary of the treasury, would be entitled to have a deposit of $100,000. might not have $100,000 in government bonds and might not be willing or able to buy them at tho present price and make any roflt out of the transaction. Under the Aldrlch bill such a bank could receive government deposits on the security of state, city or railroad bonds and could use the whole amount of the deposits In its business on payment of interest at the rate of 1H per cent, a year. The bill alms at the relief of the monetary situation when relief is needed, at liberalizing the national banking system and at authorizing the secretary of the treasury to do what financiers have long thought he should be empowered to do. The Aldrlch bill ought to pass, buC there Is danger that It will not. Valuable time has been lost In the Senate by the blockado caused by the statehood bill, and nothing but skillful management and good luck will enable the bill to get through. In the House a few days ago Mr. Payne, of New York, chairman of the ways and means committee, Introduced a bill Identical with the Aldrlch bill. The bill was referred to the ways and means committee, of which Mr. Payne la chairman; but Mr. Fowler,

chairman of the committee on banking and

currency, raised such a commotion about the reference that he succeeded in having it withdrawn and the bill referred to his committee. On Saturday he introduced a bill containing some featuru of the Al-drich-Payne bill, but chiefly those of his own asset and elastic currency scheme. This bill also was referred to the committee on banking and currency, and no doubt Mr. Fowler will report it instead of the Payne bill. Thus, between waste of time in the Senate and conflicting ideas in the House there is little probability of any practical financial legislation during the present Congress. KVKV-IIAXDED ENFORCEMENT OF LAW. Federal courts have given a number of lessons In recent years of the danger of violating their orders, thereby incurring the penalty of contempt of court, but the one Just given by the United States District Court in this city stands alone in its significance. Most of the other cases have grown out of violation of orders of the court by striking miners. The strikers have violated orders of the court In ignorance of the law or in a spirit of bravado and defiance, and some of them have been sent to Jail for it. This has been construed by labor leaders as an attempt to intimidate and oppress workingmen, as if any man fit to be a United States Judge would entertain such a motive as that. The case which has just occurred In this city differs from any other In that the persons cited for contempt were acting by the advice of lawyers and under, the orders of a state court which undertook to assume Jurisdiction of a case of which the United States Court had already taken jurisdiction. In fact, the Judge of the local court, the circuit judge of Floyd county, was one of the persons cited for contempt. Ills contempt was in appointing a receiver for an insplvent company after a receiver In bankruptcy had been appointed by the United States Court, and the offense of the others consisted in trying to take control of the property out of the hands of persons acting under the authority of the United States Court. For this offense the federal judge sentenced six persons, all well-known citizens of New .Albany, to imprisonment from ten to sixty days In the Marion county jail. The sentences were as follows: Charles D. Kelso, the receiver appointed by the state court, sixty days; Michael Zier, of the Arm of M. Zier & Co. and police commissioner of New Albany, thirty days; Raymond J. Morris, sheriff of Floyd county, twenty days; Claude Sittason, dep uty sheriff, Thomas Smithwick and Fred Ruoff, watchmen, ten dayseach. George B. Mclntyre. circuit prosecutor of Floyd county, is charged with contempt In hav ing filed the information against the temporary receiver appointed by the United States Court, and he is cited to answer tomorrow. Two attorneys of Louisville, who gave legal advice In the premises, have given bond for their appearance on March 9 to answer and show cause why they should not be punished for contempt. In addition to suffering terms of Imprisonment, the defendants above named will have to pay the costs of the court and the expenses of their transportation to and from In dianapolis. The punishment seems severe. but it was such a clear case of contempt by trying to override an order of the United States Court that it was necessary for the court to take notice of it and make an example of those who had engaged in it. All of the defendants are good citizens and are far from being lawbreakers in the ordinary sense of the term, but they made a serious mistake in supposing that an order or decree of a federal court in a case clearly within its jurisdiction could be violated with Impunity, even under a contravening order by a local court. It was all the more necessary to punish these men for contempt because they are well known and popular citizens in the community where they live. If the court had ignored their offense or let them off without punishment, striking miners who have been punished for contempt or those who may be punished hereafter could have said: "Yes, the United States courts make fish of one and flesh of another; if a poor miner violates an order of the court he is hauled up for contempt and sent to Jail, but prominent citizens and men with money In their pockets can do it with impunity. Bench law Is for poor men only." There would have been some ground for this sort of criticism if the United States Court had ignored this flagrant case of 'defying its authority. The incident has an unpleasant aspect in the imprisonment, though brief, of several good citizens, but it is a lesson in the even-handed enforcement of law. The action of the Senate In advancing the Wolcott railroad commission bill to engrossment causes surprise. The bill Is in lino with the prevailing mania for government by commission. It provides for the creation of a' State railroad commission to consist of three members at a salary of $3,000 a year each, a secretary at $2,000 find a clerk at $1,230. The commission Is authorized to employ experts to examine into the freight rates of any or all roads in the State, without any limit as to the expense that may be incurred in such investigations. It is also authorized to establish a uniform system of bookkeeping on all railroads. This would be almost impossible of acomplishment and would be a very arbitrary interference with private affairs. The commission may also establish freight rates, though the roads may appeal from its decision to the local courts, where, as everybody knows, they would stand little chance of getting justice from a Jury. The effect of the bill would be to transfer the most Important features of the railroad business In the State from its legitimate management to the hands of a commission without any interest in the property or any knowledge of the business. In as far as the bill proposes to "regulate railroad business between different States it would be unconstitutional, but there arc other reasons why it should not pass. Some of the educational people must now realize that they put themselves in a position which made It the proper thing for the Legislature to refuse to increase the State levy for tuition for the public schools. During the fall the county and city school superintendents held a convention and resolved by a fair majority vote that another normal school Is necessary to the well-being of public Instruction. Then came the larger meeting of the Indiana Teachers'. Association, which, after a long debate, voted down the normal school proposition by a decided majority and urged a 16-cent levy. Some of the teachers tak-

Ing part in the debate said another normal school could be of no use -to the public schools, but that more tuition money would be, as It would cause higher salaries to be paid. Being at odds as to what they de

sire, the two bodies gave the impression that each element is looking after its own interest. So the Senate displayed its good sense by rejecting the 16-cent levy and Increasing the limit which townships may vote for tuition to 50 cents per $100. Even If the 16-cent levy had been adopted the bill would have been so amended that the additional levy could be devoted to those localities where a larger amount of money is needed for tuition. ' The immigration bill which became a law through the insistence of Senator Fairbanks is a very Important measure. It does not go so far as many would have It by barring Illiterates, but it makes effective provisions of existing laws which were vague, and will make It possible to reject a large class of immigrants that are now admitted. There are already too many cheap laborers in the large cities, and too many of them scatter out into the country. Ignorant and naturally hostile to authority, these immigrants become the most vicious element In strikes, as was witnessed a few days ago in West Virginia. In these days of prosperity this large foreign element of rough laborers is not noticed, but when the change comes and the volume of employment dwindles there will be a contest between the native laborer and the foreign in which the latter will win because he can live on half the outlay required of a native brought up to a generous diet. By the passage of this bill the foreign steamship companies which thrive by bringing undesirable immigrants to this country have been defeated. Hitherto their lobbies have been able to defeat legislation which has long been needed. The next move forward will be the application of an educational test. THE HUMORISTS. ot n Success. Philadelphia Tress. Ascum Were you one of her chafing-dish party? AI. "Way Seaton Huh! We were a chafing chafing-dish party. The chafing-dish didn't chafe as much we did, and some of us are hungry yet. An Avowal." Washington Star. "I suppose' said the .man with the searching eye. "that drink was your downfall." "It was," answered Meandering Mike. "I took a drink o water dat had microbes in it, an dat's what damaged me healt' so I can't work." Comlnic .to it. Baltimore American. "I see there's talk of taking more of the Indians' lands. After a while, I suppose, they'll have nothing but the memory of their once vast hol-JIng-s." 'That's o. They'll have nothing but mental reservations.'' In n Hurry. New York Sun. Noah was excitedly pacing the quarter deck. ."I se?," he exclaimed, "the Standard Oil Company has Just bought Popocatapetl for sulphur. If. we don't hurry up they'll get Mount Ararat and we won't be lble to land." Giving orders for full speed ahead, he anxiously awaited the denouement. Truth. Come Oat. Chicago News. Mistress (angrily) I thought you said you could do plain sewing? New Maid So I did, ma'am. Mlstrera Just look at the stitches in'thls apron you made. I can tee them across the room. New Maid Yes. ma'am. Isn't that plain enough to satisfy you, ma'am? . BHtlgated V'nhnpnlneas. Judge. Our carelessness oft makes us unhappy. Yet there once was a lady who purchased a. $2.000 sealskin coat, add then quite inadvertently wore it with the price mark still attached.' To be sure, she was confused, after having worn the coat all day, to have her attention called'to the price mark. Gut remembering the expression on the faces of the women she had met her confusion and embarrassment were mitigated to some extent. Need of it New Constitution. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: If a mere looker-on who has been looking on every Legislature for more than fifty years may be permitted to express an opinion, I would be glad to be permitted to say that the present Legislature contains more men of eminent ability and more who are much above mediocrity, and fewer who are unfit to legislate at all than any Legislature for a half century, yet it is likely to adjourn leaving some most Important measures unfinished, while it has enacted into law some very Important measures which are defective in vital details, and all because there is not time enough allowed by the Constitution to properly discuss matters of such importance. It never was wise to limit the time a Legislature may sit; but, assuming that sixty days were enough to legislate for a population of less than a million, it does not follow that it is enough for nearly three millions, even if conditions have remained unchanged; but when we remember that when the present Constitution was adopted there were less than a hundred miles of railroad In the State, and that there are now eight thousand miles, not to mention the thousands of miles of electric roads, with more of each kind every month, and that as great a change has taken place in almost every social and economic condition of the State, it 'is no wonder that a Constitution that was good for fifty years ago needs bringing down to date. I will not presume to specify beyond the length of time a Legislature may sit farther than to say that our Judiciary system needs radical overhauling from the justice of the peace to the Supreme Court, but a convention of a hundred such men as could be elected from the districts for representatives as defined by the new apportionment law could easily submit to the people a Constitution much better adapted to present conditions than the Constitution we are now working under, nnd there never will be a better time for this reform than the present. It is puerile to talk about the cost of such a convention, or of the cost of allowing a Legislature to finish its business before adjourning. If we can't keep tavern we ought to take down our sign. Once iu fifty years is none too often for a people to meet in convention to profit by the experience of the past in the matter of government. The time is short for preparing for such a convention, but it can be done, and ought to be. The amount of unfinished business, much of which is very Important, together with the. vital mistakes in some of the measures already pateed, demands some such a remedy. m U. L. SEE. Indianapolis, Feb. 28. Requirement of a President. Charles F. Benjamin, In March St. Nicholas. To tell a boy that he may be President is to put the presidency above other earthly prizes attainable by our future men, and to Imply that the route to the presidency is a people's free highway. There Is, In truth, no royal road to the White House, nor special privilege to any person or class that many have a fancy for it. What the law says as to the presidency Is simplicity itself: merely that the President shall be a native-born citizen at least thirty-five years old. with a residence of not less than fourteen years within the United States, and that he. shall be elected by a majority of votes in the nation. There are millions of boys who In time will meet all these requirements but the last. The boys possess the wide-open field, and how widest Is may be Judged from the distance between Jefferson and Mrdlson. born to wealth and high training, and Jackson and Lincoln, born to dire poverty and cast upon the world to train themselves.

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The Egregious English. "The Unspeakable Scot" Is "even", with his English maligners; in fact, the canny Gaelic gentleman is a little to the better in the "roasting" business. Some time ago T. W. H. Cropland wrote a book called the "Unspeakable Scot." which fairly sizzled with denunciation of Robert Burns and his countrymen. The book caused much Indignation In the land of the oatmeal cake and haggis, and Mr. Crosland was excoriated by the Scotch press. Finally Angus McNeill dipped his pen in a mixture of vitriol, sarcasm and resentment and wrote a reply, which he .named "The Egregious English." Mr. McNeill has an extensive vocabulary and is an adept at satire. He evidently is a close observer, keeps in touch with current events and thoroughly knows the Englishman, for his traits and characteristics are portrayed as no writer has ever depicted them before. Some of the Englishman's foibles and follies, mannerisms and methods, probably are overdrawn or exaggerated, but Mr. McNeill has fortified many of his statements with quotations from writings of the "egregious" English themselves. In his first thrust he charges the Englishman with taking himself for the head and front of the universe. He says: "The order of creation began, we are told. In protoplasm. It has achieved at lengtn an Englishman. Herein are the culmination and ultimate glory of evolutionary processes. Nature, like the seventh standard boy in a board school, 'can get no higher. She made the Englishman, and her work, therefore, Is done. For the continued progress of the world and all that in it Is, the Englishman will make due provision. He knows exactly what is wanted and by himself it shall be supplied." There is a whole chapter of this, under the caption of "Apollo." Then Mr. McNeill goes a-gunning for the English "sportsman" with a blunderbus loaded to the muzzle with seventeen different kinds of shot. After amusing himself with a few broadsides, he fires this: "In brief, the Englishman as sportsman worth the name, seems to be disappearing, and in his place .England will have the adipose, plethoric, mechanical slayer of birds who goes to his shoot in a bath chair, and the cadaverous, undersized, Saturday afternoon zealot, the chief Joys of whose existence are the cracking of filberts pnd the kicking of umpires." Speaking of Kipling's "fianneled fools and muddied oafs" distich. Mr. McNeill says: "In response there Is an immediate and emphatic howl. Why cannot the little man stick to his Recessionals? How dare .he call sportsmen like RanJ and Trott and Bloggs and Biflin fianneled fools, much less the Tottenham Hotspurs and Sheffield United muddied oafs? Is it not time that the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton? Were not fianneled fools and muddied oafs among the first to throw up their home ties and fling themselves into the imminent breach when the war broke out? Are not cricket and football healthy and admirable old English sports, and pleasantly calculated to keep the youth of the country out of much worse mischief on Saturday afternoons? And so on right down the line." The man of business is accused of aping the aristocracy. Instead of following in the footsteps of his ancestors who made England great in a commercial way. The English journalist, Mr. McNeill says, among other mean things, Is without opinions of his own. He wouldn't dare express his own views, but he is master of the bathotic stop. "If a man wish to perceive to what degraded passes the art of writing may come and yet retain the qualities of intelligibility and apparent reasonableness," says Air McNeill, "let him peruse the Imdon morning papers and die the death. The reek and offense of then smells to heaven. There has been nothing like them, nothing to compare with them, for cheapness and futility and banality in the history ot the world. They are more to be fearful of than the pestilence, inasmuch as they spell intellectual debasement, the corruption of the public taste and the defilement of the public spirit. Their very literal innocuousness condemns them." Then Mr. McNeill proceeds to rake the editors for their beer-guzzling, free-lunch-chasing proclivities and their desire to do as little work as possible for the pay they receive. The "employed person" and "chiffon" (meaning the English women) come in for a satirical and humorous lambasting. "Tommy Atkins" Is mildly attacked, compared with the fierce onslaught on the English officer. "The fact Is." says the author, "that the monocled mountebank who Is in the army, don't you know, seldom or never understands his job. He Is too busy messing, and dancing, and flirting, and spending the time merrily, ever to learn It. That the honor of Britain and the lives of Englishmen, Scotsmen and. Irishmen should be in his listless, danip hand for even as long as five minutes is an intolerable scandal. x That he should haw and haw, and yaw and yaw, on the barrack square, and take a salary out of the public purse for doing it. shows exactly how persistently stupid the English can be." The navy next comes in for a bombardment, and when the ships have been converted into battered hulks and the admiralty subjected to a fusillade from a rapid-fire gun, Mr. McNeill turns to more godiy affairs. English churches, he says, have "one sauce," but the number of their religions Is as the sands of the sea. He indorses the statement that what is wanted, instead of religion, is social brotherhood, magic lantern entertainments, not coffee and veal-and-ham pies, and "screws of tobacco given away at the doors, wrapped up in a tract, which you are liberty either to read or to light your pipe with." The whole English church business and its priests he denounces as a "game of cant and cadge and sham." Chapters are devoted to "The Politician," "Poets." "Fiction." "Suburbanism." "The Man-about-town," "Drink," "Food," "Law and urder, "Kecreatlon and "The Stock Enchange." The concluding chapter Is caned "Tne ueiovea, and how "the un speakable Scot" loves the egregious En gllsh may be learned in the opening paragraph: "What Is more beautiful or meet to be taken to the bosom than the Englishman? Everybody loves him; his goings to and fro upon the earth are as the progresses of one wno nas done ail men good. He drons tat ness and blessings as he walks. He smiles benignity and graciousness and 'I-am-glad-to-see-you-all-looklng-so-well.' And before him runs one in plush, crying: 'Who is the most popular man of this footstool?' and all the people shall rejoice and say: 'The Englishman God bless him!" Mr. McNeill follows this with an array of verse written by Englishmen who have calumniated their own country, and concludes his excoriation with the remark that "there is life in the old dog yet. at any rate, according to the old dog." "The egregious ngusn" is published by G I Putnam's Sons, New York. Scientific Sidelights. The author of this work. James C. Fernald, has had much experience in the compilation of encyclopedias and he has utilized It In preparing a new one on an entirely new plan. This is indicated .In a general way by the title, which is "Scientific Sidelights," illustrating thousands of topics by selections from standard works of the masters of science throughout the world, with comprehensive indexes embracing 30,000 topics and cross-references, and making all matters contained in the volume instantly available for Illustrative use. It is a cyclopedia of scientific knowledge as represented by the conclusions of leading scientists in every branch. It differs from other cyclopedias in that it does not profess to furnish a little information concerning everything, but confines itself to the different branches of science concerning which it furnishes a large store of information arranged and classified In a most satisfactory manner. It contains Jn about 4.000 paragraphs over 15,000 classified illustrations gathered from tne entire realm of science and from works of the best authorities in their several fields. The selections are brief, bright and characteristic, and every sentence is contributory' to thought and knowledge. Among the authors quoted from are Agasslz, Argyll. Avebury (better known as Sir John Lubbock). Bacon, Bain. Benjamin, Berkeley, Boucher, Brehm, Brown-Sequard, Carpenter, Chapman, Dana. Darwin, Dawson, Drummond. Faraday, Flske. Flammarlon, Geikie, Gill. Gray. Haeckel. Henry Humboldt. Huxley. lies. James. Ladd. Langley. Liebig, Lyell, Mason. Mill, Munsterberg Newcotnb. Pasteur, Proctor, Keclus, Russell, ßhaler. ßully, Tyndall, Wallace, Wilson. Wundt, Young and many others of world-wide fame. Besides the quotations from works written In English, numerous ele&lons are given from the works of French and German scientists, especially translated for this volume. The compiler has wisely refrained from making any comments or stating any views of his own. He lets the scientists speak for themselves and gives the title of the book and the number of thv page from which every quotation is made. . Thus, under the title

"Evolution," there are fifty-five extracts from various authors touching different phases of the subject: "environment" furnishes over forty quotations, "electricity thirty, "insanity" eight, "bacteria tdxtyfour. "religion" thirty, "tropics" twenty, "motherhoou thirty-one. "nature" 106. and so on through the list of nearly 40,000 topics connected with some branch of science, either natural, mental, moral, political. Industrial or social. The selections are from 260 works by 192 different authors. As a book of reference and a key to scientific investigation the work will be of distinct value to ministers, lecturers, teachers, writers and students. New York: Funk & Wagnalls Company.

Father Turn of Connemarn. The writer of this book, Elizabeth O'Reilly Neville, has succeeded In drawing a picture of local life In what was once the kingdom of Connemara, an Inaccessible and little known part of Ireland. The country is peopled by a brave and hardy race whose habits and customs have remained compara lively unchanged for generations. The book appeals to the read er's imagination. Most of the families of the middle West have Irish blood In them, and they like to hark back to the pride, the easy courtesy, the geniality that were among the foremost characteristics of early Irishmen. Then the book furnishes a proper background for those old Irish retainers who a generation or two ago uvea with some of the well-to-do families of this section. Going about their work singing tenderly the "Kruskeen a Kruskeen, Slanta Garma Voorna," or carefully caring for little children, they are the rnost graitrully remembered servant class oi J"" time. Father Tom McDermott. an Irish priest, was like Goldsmith's character "A man to all his country dear. And passing rich on forty pounds a year. His parish was scattered and he passed most of his time going the rounds or nia flock on a small nonv. He was well edu cated, but had much of the roughness his particular constituency required. His was a lovable nature. The story is typically Irish. The Irish brogue, however, is easily understood in this book. The piot is simple and a succession of incidents and character, sketches furnish the principal interest The writer puts life and feeling into her work and makes a volume of unique entertainment. Rand, McNally & Co., Chicago. Poems of George Cabot Lodge. Mr. Lodge appears to best advantage In this volume In poems that deal with sex or religion. His leaning is toward tne sensuous emotional rather than the spirit ual emotional. The spirit of the verses of this kind reminds one of the spirit of Merejkowskl's trilogy on Christ and antiChrist. This will appear in the quotations. The psychological relations or analogies of the sex and religious emotions are almost as clearly ßhown as in a scientific treatise. The following verses are illustrative: "I have minted In marble and music the gold of the heart of my youth, And a maiden's desire has brought me the feast of the fruit of her mouth. I have folded my love as a mantle over limbs that were naked for this, I have broken my heart on a lute string and bartered my soul for a kiss. I have served all the alien masters stillborn from my folly and fears, I have laughed till I wept in derision, I have wept till I laughed at my tears: And I cry. Thro the pangs of creation and time I have tested the wholeThen come out with me to the new gods, the grreat gods. Body and Soul. " Cameron, Blake & Co., New York. Mont Pelee. General readers willTemember that when the memorable eruptions of Mont Pelee occurred last summer one of tho earliest visitors to the scene was Professor Heilprln. member of the Geographical Society of Philadelphia and a distinguished scientist. He made two visits to the Island of Martinique, one In the latter part of May and again in August, and enjoyed unusual opportunities for prosecuting an Intelligent inquiry Into all the features and phenomena of the death-dealing eruptions, the second of which he was a close witness of. He now publishes a work entitled "Mont Pelee and the Tragedy of Martinique," in which he gives a remarkably Interesting account of the eruptions, the phenomena connected therewith, the volcanic formations of the Caribbean sea and his personal expertences. jus narraiive cumuuira giapmu uc script! ve power with scientific accuracy of detail, and dals with the whole subject in a very interesting and instructive way. It should easily supplant all other books on the subject. There are about twenty illustrations from photographs taken by the author, showing different phases of a volcano in action. Philadelphia: The J. B. Lipplncott Company. Under the Sun. Kentucky Is apparently trying to compete with Indiana in the production of new writers. Miss Ilegan, Miss Goodlde and Mrs. Martin have all added to the fame of Louisville within the period of two years. Now comes Charles N. Buck, formerly United States minister to Peru, with a historical novel, "Under the Sun, or the Passing of the Incas." So far as length is concerned this is a full-grown novel, contrasting in this respect with the stories of the other authors mentioned. So far as quality is concerned so much cannot be said. The story is fairly well sustained, the setting is not common, and romance, adventure and mystery are so combined as to make almost constant demands upon the reader's interest. One occasionally thinks of "The Fair God" when reading this story of the dramatic times of Pizarro. The author uses many Spanish and Indian names with picturesque effect and fully explains their meaning in an appendix and a glossary. This book also introduces a new publishing house, Sheltman & Co., Louisville, whose first venture In the field is worthy of praise both as to typography and binding. The Cause of the Glacial Period. It Is easier to prove that a large portion of the northern hemisphere passed through a period of glaclation than It is to demonstrate the causes of the conditions necessary to produce the glaciated fields. Dr. II. L. Trues, of the Ohio Academy of Sciences, has gathered together much data and comes to the conclusion that there was a sudden unbalancing of the earth, precipitating a rush of the immense beds of ice in the north over the drift region. He supports his views with many plausible theories and citations and comprehends In his book many interesting facts of geology and physical geography familiar only to the advanced student. Everything is made plain, however, and the volume is interesting reading, whether the author's theories are correct or not. The author has a wide grasp of the subject and there are no apparent discrepancies In his reasoning. There are fourteen illustrations. Robert Clarke Company, Cincinnati. Resist Xot Evil. Mr. Clarence S. Darrow, counsel for the miners In the anthracite coal investigation, besides being a lawyer Is somewhat of a reformer, at least on paper. Some of his addresses and writings have been printed in pamphlet form. A new book by him entitled "Resist Not Kvll" treats the subject of criminology from the standpoint ol opposition to force and punishment. It is an Intelligent presentation from a the oretical point of view of the cause of crime and the evil and unsatlsfact ory results of ImTts'that his' punishment. The author admits ideas were inspired by Tolstoy. It Is hard to tell from the book whether the author is a Socialist, a visionary or a dreamer. Chicago: Charles 1L Kerr & Co. N Shakipeare'a Art. James H. Cotter talks about the bard of Avon rather as an enthusiastic lover than as a keen critic. His attitude lacks the judicial quality of the literary critic and he relies wholly, apparently, on his first Impression. That he has not been a student of the great dramatist a long time one gets from the text as well as from the preface, where he says he was Incited to a tour through the works by a visit to Strat-ford-on-Avon a few years ago. These Cook's tours through Shakspeare are about as fruitful of profound results as a Cook's tour through Europe. Robert Clarke Company, Cincinnati, Michael Carmichnel. This novel, by Miles Sandys, is suggestive In a way of Stevenson's "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde." It Is the story of a man who If he had not a double character at least led a double life, and thereby became Involved In some terrible complications and a

tragic love affair. The story Is related in the first person, and shows cor.iderab!o lower and strong portrayal of character. The scene Is laid in Missouri and farther, west Chicago: Iaird & Lec. Current I'erloUlrnl. In the March St. Nicholas the editor of "Books and Reading" offers prizes of books for the best three accounts of "My Favorite Place for Reading," the sketches to le illustrated or not as the semlcr chooses. Young readers are also invited to ?crn in lists nf the books they are reading, and to ivt their views of "Water Babies," lamb's Tales from Shakspeare" and "Alice in Wonderland." The March Lippincott's Magazine contains a new novel by the author of "Fruit Out of Season." This. Mary Moss's latest story, is called "Julian Mcldohla." It is a story of society, yet having a curious element not met with In the usual society novel. There are nine short stories in tho number and an unusually good showing of verse. Among the contributors of the latter is Alonzo Rice, of Indiana. In Everybody's Magazine for March is an article which will attract attention "The Autobiography of a Life Assurance Man." It is the personal narrative of the vice president of a large assurance company. The Van Vorst factory girl series, which has been running In this magazine, is succeeded by an account of Miss Lillian Pettengill's experiences as a domestic servant In various households. There is a fourth paper by Booker Washington on

"Work with the Hands." Vital phases of America's immigration problems are discussed In the March Century by such authorities as Jacob Itils. who describes scenes and conditions at Ellis island under the caption. "The Gateway of Nations;" Gustave Mlchaud. who tries to answer "What Shall We Be?" and Franklin H. Giddlngs, professor of sociology at Columbia University, who makes Interesting and valuable comment upon Mr. Michaud's statements touching America' dominating race characteristics In the near future. In the March number of the Woman'! Home Companion are five pages dealing with the newest fashions; there are many suggestions about spring cleaning, makin&T new furniture, gardening, etc. In features, "How Modern Science Proves the Bible True," "What the Baptists Are Doing to Better Mankind." "How a Great City Is Kept Clean." "Early Wild Flowers," and "Delia. Daughter of Mary,"- are interesting. The serial "The Flight of Fenella" comes to its startling end. "The Farm of the Dagger" is the title of the new serial by Eden Phlllpotts. There are short stories by Frederick M. Smith and John IL Jewett. Charles Letts & Co. (70 Fifth avenue. New York) have undertaken to publish In inexpensive form (25 cents a part) reproductions of one hundred of the most famous examples of the painter's art. The first issue of the series, under the . title "The Hundred Best Pictures." contains a list of all the pictures to be given and six photogravures representing "La Laltlere," by Greuze: "The Dance of the Nymphs," by Corot; "The Duchess of Devonshire and Her Daughter," by Reynolds; "Dante's Dream." by Rossetti; "The Syndics of the Cloth Hall." by Rembrandt, -and "La Belle Jardiniere," by Raphael. The prints are excellent, and, together with the 'explanatory text, make a valuable art publication. Some curious pictures, showing what may be done with the" camera after dark, accompany Mr. Arthur Hewitt's article called "When the Lamps are Lighted." In the March magazine number of the Outlook. In one Is presented a view of the New York City Hall,, taken at half.past 6 In winter, with a. five minutes' exposure; the square appears absolutely deserted, although in point of fact hundreds of people were passing through it while the photograph was being taken. In pictures of the famous Flatiron building and the Brooklyn bridge the moving trolley cars appear only as a long line of light, while a motor car which Eassed while the exposure of the first was elng made shows only as a spider-thread lineCountry Life In America for March Is a double number of rare excellence, being largely and seasonably devoted to gardening, with Illustrations that make one long to get into the open and "renew rJatlons with nature. All kinds of gardens are writ ten about, school gardening being especially treated. The description of the estate of Professor Sargent, near Boston, where for two generations the plant Ufa of the New England States has been studied with genuine enthusiasm, is alone reason enough for possessing: the magazine ; and the many other suggestions as to making gardens and lawns beautiful are thrown in for full measure. The publishers are to be congratulated on the beauty and Interest of this number of a publication that certainly seems to fill a want. Once a month, in the last issue for the month. Collier's Weekly adds to Its regular features a special literary and art number, designed for every member of the family. This Issue, known as the Household number. Is really a magazine in its stories, articles and illustrations, and the issue for March commands attention for the names of the contributors, the quality of the matter and the beauty of the mechanical work. James Whitcomb Riley tells In a poem howto make the right kind of a man out of the right kind of a boy; Mr. Dooley writes (exclusively for Collier's) a clever letter about "Expenses at the White House;" Richard Harding Davis modestly admits. In an amusing "inside story," that he and not General Wilson captured the town of Coamo; Thomas Nelson Page discusses a new aspect of the negro question, and Charles Dana Gibson depicts "The Greatest Game In the World." Four articles worth reading appear la the March issue of McClure's Magazine. One of these Is a graphic account, by Lincoln Steffens, of the campaign of Joseph W. Folk, the circuit attorney of St. Louis, against the municipal boodlers of that city. It Is a fight yet in progress and the attorney's complete success Is uncertain In view of a curious indifference of the citizens to the outcome, but at least he has succeeded In scotching the evil. The Installment of Miss Tarbell's "History of the Standard Oil Company" relates further details of Mr. Rockefeller's methods In gaining control of the business of small dealers and gives an account of his transactions with railroad companies. Under tiie title, "The War on the Locomotive," Samuel E. Moffett describes the remarkable development of the trolley-car system. He includes the Indiana field In his account. Another striking paper Is that describing the remarkable work of John I Whitman, jailer of the Cook county Jail, Chicago, in controlling and humanizing the prisoners under his care. In addition to these articles are several short stories. Harper's Magazine for March opens with a study of Shakspeare's "King Richard II" by Algernon Charles Swinburne, Illustrated by Edwin A. Abbey surely a notable combination. The illustrations throughout this number, especially those in color, are remarkably good. Maurice. Hewlett's twopart story reaches a conclusion, and Mrs. Ward's "Lady Rose's Daughter" draws near to Its end. There are a number of well-written short stories and sketches, but none of sufficient force to be remembered until the next ispue of the magazine appears. 'An article by the late Julian Ralph is a study of Vermont life. Stewart Culin argues that America was the cradle of Asia Instead of the reverse, as we have been taucht. Norman Duncan writes of I clally treated our Syrian Immigrants and their life after he,r ttrrlval on Amer RZ.un?inor,,N: irrican snores. in? ew York." "Recent Discoveries in the Forum." are titles of other articles. "Real life" Is an entertaining social study by E. S. Martin. Arthur Colton writes about historic Hampstead. The debt of the city to the country, or rather, the intellectual relation of the two to each other, is the theme of Mr. Ho wells In the "Easy Chair." In the "Editor s Study" Mr. Alden deals once more with the relations of author and editor. The Cosmopolitan Magazine for March contains a number of noteworthy articles. "The Police Systems of Kurope," by Avery D. Andrews, formerly police commissioner of New York, embodies many of the results of the investigations of the author on his recent official visit to Europe, where he went to study the police systems of the leading countries. It Is well Illustrated. "The Selection of a Home." by Clarence A. Martin, professor of architecture at Cornell University, is the first of twelve articles on the general subject of "How to Administer a Household." Iouise Park Richards contributes an Interesting personal sketch of the great painter. Von Inbach. The other character sketches deal with James Brook Dill, the prominent corporation lawyer, and Edward Henry H&rrir-.xn, the Western railroad crar. Ulbert IIu! bard. In an article oa "A Clziiitcrtzl I