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from their peaceful puraulta, but an increased tax, which will weigh heavily on a nation already heavily burdened. It is plain that where one European power takes the Initiative in increasing Its army and navy, all the others must make haste to do likewise. This is expensive, not ' only to the countries which begin the competition, but for the other continental powers, which must, perforce, add to their own equipment In order to keep, measurably at least, on the same footing. This is a good deal like the efforts of one man or one family to keep pace with the expenditures of a neighbor. The neighbor buys a new carriage or a new table service, and unwise but ambitious friends, anxious not to lag behind, will try to j follow the pace thus set. This sort of enj terprise has long Imposed grievous burj dens on Europe. ! Now. with France and Germany both j Increasing their armies and navies, England, of course, must takJ'cognlzance of their efforts, and mdst make an Increase commensurate with her greater naval nesds. We have called attention lately to England’s appropriations for naval equipment. Her army Is well cared for, and an anorncous array of men could be assembled, wherever desired, In short order. Should It seem expedient, she, too, would add to her present military strength. Indeed, such an addition Is now being urged in pertain quarters. It is not an edifying spectacle — this rivalry of the great powers, hi times of tranquillity, for military ascendency. We hear a great deal of the triumphs of peace, but with these great nations betting heavily against each other, and raising the wiger every time a bet Is matched, the hopes of those who look forward to universal disarmament have little basis in fact.. And we of enlightened America feel the Impulse; indeed, self-protection compels us to act upon it. When a shakingup occurs In Europe, there Is always the possibility that we may be dragged info the row. It la Just this same anxiety, accented in Europe by traditional hatreds, that makes necessary the maintenance of great mllitry camps and fleets of war-

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the unofficial laureate. In the January Atlantic there is an article by Prof. Charles Eliot Norton on Rudyard Kipling’s poetry which closes with this remarkable tribute: The study of the forms of Mr. Kipling's verse must be left for some other occasion. It Is enough now gratefully to recognise that he continues the great succession of royal English poets, and to pay him the homage wnfch is his due. Doubtless many of the admirers of the young poet were amased at these words. That such ungrudging praise should pome from a cool and critical student of literature living In an atmosphere whlcSi has, rightly or wrongly, been supposed to take the edge from enthusiastic admiration for anything, is indeed surprising. Mr. Kipling has been extravagantly praised before, but In this article we have a discriminating Judgment upon his work — a judgment which is more favorable than could have been, expected from such a man as Professor Norton. We do not mean to say that one criticism can make a poet, or that a great poet is made any greater by a recognition from the Brahmins of literature. But it is true that this voice from Cambridge, speaking through the pages of a serious literary magazine, wdl win for Mr. Kipling consideration from many of those people who are tn the habit of waiting until they have heard from those who are supposed to be authorities, v j There are two qualities In this poetry which make it notable which, it seems to us, have not been made sufficiently clear by the critic*. The first and most obvious one is the political quality. Almost from the beginning It has been saturated with Imperialism. Professor Norton dwells somewhat upon this point, but it is really & matter of the first importance. With all their traveling up and down the earth the English people are essentially Insular. The masters of the greatest empire of history, they yet seem to feel that outside of England there la little of value. It is to such a people that this imperial appeal comes. Years ago Kipling rebuked the narrowness of his countrymen. "What,” he said, “should they know of England who only England know?” There ca* be little doubt that the man who does anything to strengthen the British empire throughout the world, and to bind it together, Is the best friend of England. This is the gospel taught with telling force in Kipling’s poetry. It Is, from the English point of view, sound politics. The other characteristic of this poetry Is Us romantic element as applied to commonplace things. In It we see accomplished the result which W-^lt Whitman strove for. and for the most part strove in vain. Steamships, steam engines, railroads, the telegraph and all the great appliances of our material civilisation are dealt with in these ooems, and In a poetic way. This of itself Is a great achievement. It takes more than the ordinary eye to see the soul of romance In the.ordinary affairs of life. The success of this roan Is the Justification, If any were needed, for Whitman’s attempt. There are always those who refuse to see the romantic element In their own times or hi the things with which they are familiar. It is of the highest importance that this element should be preserved and - strengthened, and that the eyes of the blind should be opened so that they may see It. This great service Is most effectively rendered by Mr. Kipling. But, as he Is an Imperialist and conservative, and yet a democrat, so, though he Is a romanticist, he is a realist, too. There was danger that he should be regarded as a mere rhymester and storyteller. But that danger has passed. He has done too much good and serious work. He will do more. The world is eager to read his latest poem or story. His audience is admiring and sympathetic. It has, moreover, been educated to expect great things from him. Everything Is in his favor, and It will be his own fault If he does not do greater things than any he has yet done.

gin son. writing of old times at Cambridge. says that in his youth one could hardly ask s question of one of the colony of scholars In that town without receiving a satisfactory answer. To-day. aleo, any question may be answered In Cambridge, but it may take a week to discover the man who fas a specialist in th# particular subject and who can give the information Instantly. All this does not mean that men are more given to following their Individual bent, but that it Is wholly impossible in these days for any indlvdual to be u unveraal scholar In sny true sense. As Colonel Hlggtnson puts It, “The most enthusiastic scholar must forego ten times as many paths as he can pursue, and must resign himself to be & specialist.” This development of specialism has Us advantages; but with these there are aJso disadvantages which must be taken into consideration. It Is inevitable that men and women who are not content with superficial attainment should devote themselves to the pursuit of some one of the many Inviting highways, leading off to different temples of knowledge. Unless they specialize they can never hope to achieve greatly In any one line, though they may know a little of many things. There is real distinction In being an authority in some branch of knowledge, — In being able to say a final word on a particular subject. There was, for instance, the late Prof. Francis J. Child, of Harvard, an eminent authority on English and Scotch ballads. Certainly no other American has ever known this department of literature so thoroughly as he. Dr. Asa Gray, the distinguished botanist, the late Dr. Whitney, the Sanskrit scholar, are other instances of men who have given their lives to the study of one branch. John Flske knows the Spencerian philosophy as no other man In America, but after conquering that branch of learning he veered off into history, for the writing of which he has rare genius. Thus the list of Americans might be greatly extended, although it was, comparatively speaking, only a short time ago that the all-round men were numerous, while those who gave attention to only one thing were regarded warily. Such, for Instance, was the eccentric Professor Popkin, who taught Greek at Harvard many years ago. In Lowell’s youth, and lived in Inaccessible bachelor quarters. After years of saving he finally resigned his position that he might have uninterrupted leisure to read “the authors,” as he designated the Greek dramatists. But if this tendency to specialization assures us profound scholars there is also the danger of onfe-plded men, with narrow sympathies and limited horlsons. The old system of education before the day of elective courses, led students to the Pierian spring, whether they cared for the waters or not There is much to admire In the elective ides, as also In the larger specialization of which we have been speaking; but old-fashioned people must watch regretfully the unfriendliness with which the old academic courses are now too often regarded. Specialisation in persons devoted to scholarly pursuits is essential; but It would seem that men who are to go Into the thousand and one pursuits that now offer, should get the most general education possible. If they acquire a taste for literature or the other arts they are laying up great store of pleasure for themselves. They become much better citizens In the large sense; they will have within themselves resources of Interest and happiness for the lack of which no material successes can wholly compensate.

IMPROVE PUBLIC PROPERTY. With the beginning of 1W7 it Is to be hoped the county commissioners will set about to cut down the court-houae yard. It is almost Incomprehensible that they should hesitate to make an improvement that would so Increase the value of the county’s property, and add In every sense to the convenience and comfort of th# people. There is never any hesitancy about building a bridge or finding the money for it. But here an Imperatively needed thing that oan be done for $15,000 Is debated, and apparently all ways possible songht not to do it. Of course the city can not stay In the cellar with its offices much longer. If the county refuses to Improve Its property, the city will have to move elsewhere. Fortunately there are modern buildings In Indianapolis whqre the city can find convenient offices. In due time the city will build a city hail that will be worthy of it Meanwhile nere is a valuable building In charge of the county commissioners that is going to the dogs for lack of proper care. It# cellar Is not fit for habitation; its surroundings are as bleak as a county poor farm. And yet though a very small sum would modernise the place and Increase Its value from every podnt of view, the commissioners stolidly do nothing or endeavor to find reasons for not doing It. Now the coming of the year 1*97 is a good time for these gentlemen to endeavor to arouse themselves to a conception of Marion county that is In keeping with Its progress. This county has grown. It Is metropolitan In its population, wealth and needs. Indianapolis is nearly nine-tenths of Marlon county when It comes to footing the bills. City, as welt as county, demand that a county building, which in itself is a fine structure, when properly arranged as it would be by this alteration, be put in the way of a realisation of Its fullest usefulness. It It mismanagement Incredible to allow eo fine a property to go unimproved and fail of Its best uses. . ,

THE DA Y OF SPECIAL1ZA TION. The passing of geaetai scholarship and the advent of specialization have fallen within the observation of men still young. There has been no mo.’e interesting or intellectual manifestation durtbis, for It Indicates the industry %nd so busy in that now to know thoroughly branches. Colonel Hlg

to the United States Senate. Through fusions In IMS the new Populist party, , which succeeded the alliance, helped to elect Mr. Cleveland, and last summer It was so powerful that It captured the Democratic convention at Chicago, and compelled the nomination of Mr. Bryan. The alliance now formally abandons Its organization In Staten whore It had a powerful hold; but It can not be said that Its mission has failed. Its successor, th# Populist party, has certainly given the country “a bad quarter of an hour,” and he Is a foolish man who accepts without question the Populist failure of last fall as the final overthrow of the elements which the party represents.

Let’s see; did not Bryanlsro go out with the old year? It Is rumored that Governor Bradley, of Kentucky, will resign because the duties of the office are telling on his health. Tb# frequent lynchlngs no doubt keep the Governor in continual suspense. It seems that the Hon. Tom Platt has established a trocha around the New York senatorshlp. It is reported of a broken Pennsylvania bank that the books show a condition of insolvency dating back twenty years. This was not a national bank, subject to examinations; but think of a partnership affair running along for so many years without collapsing! The owners must have been very uncomfortable all this time. These recent Instances of bank failures In which mismanagement has been clearly proved to be the cause of calamity ought to be a suffleiently forcible lesson to all persons connected with banking. A bank’s affairs can not be juggled, and its money stolen or carelessly Invested without inviting disorder. Men who undertake to manage banking houses should give close attention to their business If they would keep out of danger. The careless director has become a real menace In the conduct of national banks. He Is generally selected for his established reputation for probity. The bank’s capital includes bis good name. But if he signs reports without reading them, and In other ways avoids his obligations as mudh as possible, he Is as false to his trust as if he perverted funds to his own use. It is earnestly to be hoped that the lessons of the past few years have not been without their effect for good. There is evidence going to show that jingoism will not be ao popular hereafter. The hundred Kentucky prisoners, who promised to go to Cuba and fight If they were let out, are slmon pure specimens of filibusters.

The mess of rubbish that Is sent over the country as news from Cuba almost every day must long ago have wearied all observers of affairs in the island. We do not know of any worse case In recent years of reporting gone mod than that of this war. From the beginning It has been difficult to get facts. The correspondents have vied with each other In mendacity. The Spaniards tell one story and the Cubans give another version which it Is difficult to Identify with the same Incident. The Cuban cause has been greatly Injured by the indifference to truth of those who have managed the news bureau in Florida and on the Island. Weyler’s attitude toward the correspondents and his Interference with the free use of the telegraph has had Its influence In creating a rivalry of exaggeration. We hope that In time we shall have a full account of the condition of affairs In the Island from Consul-General Lee^who from experience and by reason of his good judgment should be able to furnish trustworthy Information. Debs has at last displayed his true colors.

Governor Bradley, wno finds It so hard to discharge the duties of hts office, might consult Senator Hill, who found It no trouble to hold two offices at the same

time. j

The melancholy reflections of the political pessimists are not always susceptible of proof. The Springfield Republican takes to task a newspaper that bemoans the passing of great Senators In New York. It says that these great Senators of the past In the Empire State have been, us often os not, great political

managers. It makes this comment:

The Clintons, In the early days, were great managers; so waa Van Buren. and so were Silas Wright, W. L. Marcy, William H. Seward and Rosooe Conkllng. Every one of them waa first of ail a boss. It has always been a sine qua non of success In New York that a man must be a successful managing politician before he could hope to be a statesman— OrovCr Cleveland, who never went to the Senate, being the one notable exception.

The result has been that New York has

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branch of Congress. The great Senators she has had were developed in spite of the conditions which first produced them and above which they finally rose. The trouble with r’latt la that while he Is s successful politician, like great Senators before him, he h*a not the germ of ultimate statesmanship. He must always be

a mere boss. _____

Mr. Pingree, of Michigan, yesterday began what promises to be a very pictur-

esque term *** Governor.

When the Hon. Tom Platt makes up his mind that he does not want it himself there will be time enough for other aspirants to contend for the senatorshlp.

Senator Quay has undertaken the advertising of Mr. Wanamaker free of charge. The efforts bring made toward bringing about International bimetallism are more entertaining than important. It fs said that Mr. Bryan objected to the three-foot poster that was to advertise his lectures. Mr. Bryan, it seems, always has been disinclined to become posted. It Is reported that the Farmers’ Alliance in Nebraska and Kansas will next month wind up i’l business and cease to exist. The Alliar v -e has given way to the Populist party; but the student of polltios must concede that it filled an Important office and exerted a strong formative influence on the politics of the nation. The alliance was a secret society, which denied membership to capitalists of any kind, except farmers, and which like wild-fire In the West. It had end mysterious Initiation#. In less than a year it had In electing severs! Congressmen. and had forced the election of Peffer

The Balance Sheet. Another year has passed away; ... A New Year's morn ha* now begun; To most It comes with Joy and giee— To me with none! It comes with solemn face and grave. And whispers of the burled pest: And bending low., n asks of me; "How spent, the last? "Where is the record of the work? Where Is the ledger, kept for Heaven? How has the book been posted up? What statement given?" I open It. and turn the leavee. And pondering, page by page explore: Here, on the first, its title—clear. It needs no more! The next is fairly ruled and lined. And even a wish for good Is penned; How, without prayer to God for help. Would euch wish end? Here is a page bears careful trace. Written with firmest hand and true; No surface-reading critic, eure. Finds fault with you! What stands upon this blotted page? Scarce the caligraphy I know.' Ahl I remember! Late I wrote— The light burned icw. But what now follows? Startling fact! I turn the pages o’ri and o’er. Bach after each contains a blank. And nothing more! Ah! here at last a well-filled page. Its Hnea in full, traced through and through; You must contain some treasure trove— Some good in you. And Is it so? Ah, no! ah. no! I find of earth, what’s earthly here; Barth’s joye, earth’s pleasures, earth s renown. On you appear. ? I mad Its lengthy-worded tones. Its boast—what *T” have done and do; How shall I on ita pompous page Strike balance true? No! Cloee the book and seal It ub; Anew I dare not through It go; The lesson which It well has taught. By heart I know! - ; Could we but blot out of our Uvea The days and hours we’ve spent in vain. How easily might be summed up What would remain! And If our years for Him were spent. Doing His work—His work alone. We ne«d not fear the "Balance Sheet. When Ufe la done! —Chambers’s Journal.

“ SCRAPi. ” There are about 600 Mohammedans In the United States. The traveler In Mexico Is seldom out of sight of mountains. Apple growers in Missouri now weigh their fruit Instead of measuring it. Major McKinley will be the third Methodist President.—Philadelphia Press. A millionaire of Los Angeles presented that city with 8,000 acres of land, to be used for park purposes. Before the great freeze in Florida the annual orange crop was from 8,000.000 to 10.000. 000 boxes. The estimate for this season Is 70,000 boxes. Sponges, slates and Mate pencils are no longer allowed in the public schools of Cambridge, Maas. Paper, pens and pencils have been substituted. In Mexico/ It has been discovered that the administration of honey to smallpox patients banishes the pustules, and decreases the fever Immediately. The New York police department asks for the modest little sum of $7,000,000 for the expenses to be incurred in keeping the Gothamites In order during 1897. In all. It has been estimated that over 2.000. 000 acres are devoted to the maintenance of deer in Scotland, and that about 5.000 stags are annually killed. In the great church at Mengo, Uganda, there are over two hundred trees to support the roof. Each of these trees took one hundred mem to drag It up the hill. Teacher—What Is that letter? Pupil-, I don’t know. Teacher—What Is it that makes honey? Small Boy (son of a manufacturer)—Glucose.—New York Weekly.. Willie—Mamma, they say that history repeats Itself, don’t they? Mother—Yes, dear. Willie—Well, why don’t it repeat Itself when I’m trying to learn It.—f don Tit-Bits.

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recent statement that the new bishop of Peterborough was appointed simply because he was rich enough to repair the west front of the cathedral. A celebrated aeronaut asserts, after patient Investigation, that the ninth day of the moon is the most rainy of the whole twenty-eight, and 4 oclock In the afternoon the rainiest hour of the day. Another natural gas well has been completed at Lake Shore, Utah, which registers a pressure of 258 pounds, and 15u,000 feet of gls from the new spoufor ie now being turned Into the mains of Salt Lake

City dally.

The last remaining vestige of the once prosperous town of Singapore, Mich., Is fast disappearing. The old dock is being tom to pieces and the logs and timbers of which it was composed are being converted into firewood. "Our neighbors are very polite,” said Mrs. Perkase to her husband when he came home at night. “Are they?” "Yes; I sent to borrow their step!adder, and they told me they hadn’t one, but If I’d wait a while they'd send and buy one.”—Harp-

er’s Basar.

The Peruvian press is authority for the statement that criminals are practically unchecked in Santiago. One paper makes the allegation that more than 2,000 persons were found injured in the streets of Santiago by the police from the

month of Ju"

bar.

Paris has found it necessary to put a check to the haphazard decoration of her public places. The prefect of the Seine has appointed a technical committee of artists, architects and other competent judges, to which all plans effecting the outward appearance of the city must be

submitted.

A remarkable phenomenon was witnessed to Jerusalem recently. A swarm of Dying ants settled upon the city, and filled the air from sunrise until 9 o’clock. Visitors to the Holy Sepulchre were obMged to use their handkerchiefs constantly in order to keep the insects out of

their eyes and nostrils.

A Melbourne cleik, with a steel pen, and without a magnifying glass, has Inscribed on a post-card 10,161 words. The writing consists of selections from Shakespeare and Dickens, a chapter from Genesis, and the song of ’’Home, Sweet Home.” The work is eo done that many people have been able to read the writing

with the naked eye.

The London Dally News comments on the dwindling demand for oranges, figs, raisins and nuts, and explains it by saying that Londoners are gradually taking over the continental usage, and supping

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Addttlon To Yellowstone Park. Omaha Bee. Captain Andefaon. Superintendent of the Yellowstone National Park, says that an effort is being made to Secure legislation from Congress whicn would add the Jackson’s Hole country to the park. The area which it was proposed to take In is about fifty miles square and contains Jackson's Lake and the Three Tuton mountain peaks. It is rich in natural scenery, and would, in the opinion of the captain add materially to the park's attractiveness. Senator Carter, of Montana, ha* drafted a bill for that purpose. Which has the Indorsement of the Senators from Montana and Idaho, but the Wyoming Senators have not yet been won over. o - WATER SUPPLY OF CITIES Every large European city is using sand filter*, which are the simplest and best. In sixteen cities with an sazregate of over X.000,060 residents, where filtration would have saved seven or more lives per 100,000 ennuaily. it Would have saved Interest on plant and operating expenses. Lawrence, Mass., with *4,000 population, built a filter costing *00,000, and H Is figured saved enough lives at *6.000 a head to pay the yearly Interest on the plant and operating expenses the first four months it was in use. /r*.recomputing *5,000 for each life lost unnecessarily by typhoid fever, in the seven cities showing the excessive death rate, the price of the filtration plant would be paid for in the value of the services of the persons thus saved In one year. From the polutlon of the water supply through the excrements of a single typhoid fever patient, Plymouth, Pa.. In IMS. with 8,N0 population, had 1,104 typhoid fever coeee and 114 deaths—Involving a loss In care of the rick and for wages lost of *07,000, together wtth *18.000 lost as the annual earnings of those who died. With a pure water supply, a fair death-rate from typhoid fever is 25 per 100,600 per annum. By the United States census of 1M0, only eight cities of over 50.000 population, had so low a death rate as 25 per 100,000 per annum, while five cities of over and two of under M.oOO population, had 10* deaths per 100,am. The remaining 41 cities In this country of over 50,000 bad rate# varying from M to M per 100,000.

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llyou ask a blessln’ on wUat The parson, observing the

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— the day’s meals has altered. Business men lunch heartily in the cl by—practically dine there—take a certain amount of rest in the middle of the day, and come home later to a lighter meal. Oranges, raisins, and figs at 9 ore not popu-

lar with a dyspeptic public.

In one of the rural districts a Georgia minister was invited to dine with a citizen who. though wealthy, furnished bis table poorly. When they were seated the host said: "Times are mighty tight, parson, an’ we ain’t got nothing much ter set before you, but, sleh as it is you air

UNgjeMBe. Will

you see?'

scant repast, lifted tm his voice and said: "Lord, make us thankful for what we see. and may we be able to find it when we reach for It. Let it not escape us and prove a snare and a delusion. Amen. Thank you for the greens.”—Atlanta Con-

stitution.

"I am sorry," eald the poet, "but I am obliged to call your attention to the fact that a line in one of my recent compositions was entirely perverted and the meaning painfully distorted by the compositor. "Young man," replied the editor, “that compositor has gone through more poems than you eves wrote or even read. He has put In Ids life setting up poetry of all kinds, spring and fall styles and heavier goods for waiter. He may have changed your poem, but when you say he harmed It, you presume. When a man of his experience makes up his mind to change a piece of poetry, a person in your position should not attempt to criticise."—Washington Star. One of the district school trustees was a crank on the subject of fire, and when he called around with the examining board he always confined his remarks to

a question addressed

MONEY-MAKING WOMEN.

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London Spectator. Those who deny the mental equality of women and men might add a line to the four in which Ebenexer Elliott, himself a believer in the other sex, registered the more conspicuous of their failures: "She hath no Raphael. Painting satth; No Newton, learning cries; Show u* her steamship, her Macbeth, Her thought-won victories.” Nor hath she a Rothschild, business moans r^nd really the failure is an odd one. almost as Inexplicable os the inability of women who have delighted In music for ages, and have been more trained than men to practice It, to produce a composer even of the eeqond class. If In creative power they are the equals, or as their advocates sometimes say. the superiors, of men. why do they not produce a Mendelssohn or a Wagner? There seems to be absolutely no reason why no great maker of fortunes should be recorded among women. They are distinctly successful as mathematicians, -they have never been debarred by law from trading, and they have frequently in modern times had possession of sufficient capital, the want Of which, indeed, would be no excuse, as fortunes have .constantly been made by men who came to the metropolis with tbe proverbial half-crown. No physical requirement except health promotes success in business, no education beyond a knowledge of ciphering can be proved to be necessary, and the prejudice agafost women trading has always been of the faintest kind; Indeed, in some branches of business it can not be said ever to have existed. There seems, In fact, to be positively no reason why a woman should not • have set up a great bank, or have founded a great Insurance office, or have built up & distributing business until it became as great as that of the late Mr. Stewart, of New York, who left nearly twenty millions. They ought, In particular, to have been the Jewelers of the wqrld. Women desire money as much as men; they are often extremely economical, not to say avaricious; and they frequently display a power of clinging to property such as no men/ however tenacious of their possessions could possibly surpass. The failure is the more remarkable because women often make admirable managers, conduct complicated businesses like hotel-keening with greater skill than men, and have been trusted for ages with tbe control of household finance. Th* bank clerks of the continent, the cashiers of shops, and the collectors of accounts are half of them women, and there, at least, they are believed to show In those departments of life more akHi. more assiduity, and, curiously enough, more honesty than the majority of men. No one who has ever watched them carefully believes that women are more extravagant than men, they are at least as persevering, and we find no reason to believe that they have the smallest repugnance to any business tn wtilch money can be made by the kind of bralnwprk which goes to the building up of a successful commercial concern. They do not, as a matter of fact, go bankrupt in anything like the same proportion as men. still less incur the penalties of the law for either forgery, embezzlement or

fraud.

Why, then, do they fail to grow rich, like men, through business, and why do men when drawing their wills so constantly doubt whether it is quite safe to leave them in the position of executors or trustees, and hesitate to trust wives whom they have consulted all their lives with the unchecked disposition of funds which, nevertheless, they know will be honestly administered exactly according to their wishes? The mass of legal arrangements made in England to prevent women from wasting • inherffonces, dowers and acquisitions generally, is positively stupendous, while lawyers, who of all men ought to know, and who can hfive no special prejudice against the sex. proclaim with one voice that, allowing always for rare individual exertions, no property Is safe which Is intrusted to the unchecked control of a woman. They can not, say the solicitors, understand business any more than

priests.

It is all, say the advanced women, a defect of training. Women ara never "taught” business, and therefofo never understand it, while the general and gross neglect to give them broad education prevents them from making up by general culture for the want of special Instruction in business matters. Look, they say, at the "Glrton girls,” their splendid economy, and their success in managing their affairs. If women were but trained like men, they would rival them In business as they do already in mathematics. In classical learning, and in at least one department ol literature. We can not honestly say we quite believe tbe excuse, for, after all, many of the successful business men of the world were not originally "trained” to bosinees, while gereral education does so little for them that in all stock exchanges and places where men buy and sell there Is an immovable opinion, sure to have some foundation in experience, that men of broad, and still more of deep, culture become In some way unfitted for money-making, and when they succeed, do so either by virtue of some special gift of enterprise, which la. of course, independent of the glfta which Incline a man to learning, or of some power of picking agents and assistants well, a power which might belong to a Newton as well as to the smallest and most ig-

norant speculator in bonds.

The reason of women's comparative failure in business must lie deeper than that, and is probably to be sought ultimately among unalterable sex differences, the disposition of women to trust to Intuition rather than reason, their incurable readiness to believe that those whom they like will not cheat them, and their want of courage in running business risks, a want, of necessity, fatal to any great successes. A woman believes in a speculation because she believes in it. and for no reason, good or bod; she Is certain that theW>Pl« she 1!,tes w,u not defraud her solely because she likes them, and she will shrink back in the hour of fortune oecauae she has a presentiment against gomg on, that is, in reality, because her mind has turned away to something else than money"'^Never truet feminine finance," said Sldonia, and that is the experience of ail professionally charges! with investing for them. Bess of Hardwick greatest teminine money-maker of English history. made it not for herself or for itself bu: out of love for the Cavendishes, and’ would have been ruined, in a year If that family had been spendthrift; while the women who atop when on the road to fortune are almost os numerous as the women, never much of a multitude, who get their feet fairly planted on that, to men, over-aliurtng i>ath. . Nevertheless, we entirely agree with 'he advanced, women, that the sex generally I is neglected in the matter of busineas I training, and that the evil ought to be

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ed, ah absolute power of attorney to sell her properties under the impression that she was giving him authority to act as her solicitor In a suit. The commonest rule* of will-making—tbe fact, foe instance, that a legatee must not be a witness—are unknown to half the Intelligent women of England, while their ignorance about their 1 tab 11 Wee under a lease is positively complete. The majority of them do not even know the common law of master and servant, though foe servants usuaUy do know h, while their cardinal notion as to the law of libel 1* that If they are told anything, legal responsibility for repeating It rezts only

with the teller.

We entirely agree In the suggeation that a business claw would be a most useful addition to ever high school in the country; but whether It will make til g.rls women of business is another matter. What seems to be required tor that Is rather mental training, the creation of a habit 6f mmd rather than technical knowledge of any kind. You may tesch all girl# what consols are, as Mr. Stewart wants to do, and be as lucid about it as he is, and when you have done, onehalf of them will still believe foat 5 per cent. 1# the natural interest of money, and fall to see that the man Who promises a certainty at 50 per cent, from a speculation would, if 1»e Were certain, keep his 50 per cent, for himself and his friends . , > ^ The "brutal’' question. Why »hould a Pennsylvanian offer Londoners l.H» per cent, for their money—the offer Is actually in circulation—when Philadelphia is overflowing with capital? seems somehow or other never to rise to a woman s Ups, and If the urotnoter who offers It is personally known to her It keeps away even from her thought. Still, a little mors esriy instruction In., gJl ke 1h?u2aSS

of women’s lives much happier, nn l .hey ought to have it, even though at tbe end of the curriculum they oelleve in endless entails and their consequent claim to the manor sold halt a century before

under a decree of court.

TRUSTS AND COMBINES.

N*w York Post.

The meeting of the “Steel Billet Pool' in this city, and the very candid way they go about the business which bring* them together, are very much in contrast with the secret meeting under which their operations were conducted, say, ten years ago. “We have now,” says one member of the pool, “essentially an open market, without restrictions, so it may be auld that there is really no fixed price for billets. and any concern can put them upon the market at its own price. Of course the rail men are interested in our pro. ceedfngs to-day, since they are all more or less identified With the production of billets, and may naturally be affected, to some extent at least, by the future condition of the market.'* It has been long thought that the rail men are standing in their own light in exacting a price for steel rails so far in excess of the value of the old material, and that the discrepancy between the cost of the old and the new has Increased so vastly during the last few years. From tables published In the Financial Chronicle of January, 1896, in regard to the report of Mr. Swank, of the American Iron and Steel Association, It appears thit the excess of cost of new steel rails at the Pennsylvania mills as compared with old Iron T rails at Phila-

delphia, has been as follows:

1888 1889 1890 1891 IKSZ 1893 !£!

What Mr. Swank's report for 18» will show it Is impossible to say, but no steel rails have been sold for domestie uSe at a lower price than $28 at the mill in Pennsylvania. Unfortunately fa* foe railroad companies, they do not now have any considerable portion of old iron rails, but are overburdened wtth old steel rails, for which the price has been, during the last year, not far from *10 per ton. On this basis the excess of the new material over the old la $1$ per ton, and the ratio 180 per cent If the manufacturers could in the years from 188$ to 1891 convert old iron Into new steel for something like $7, they ought surely, by this time, to have found a way of converting old steel into new for a great deal leas than $18. While It Is perfectly apparent that many of the railroad# have not been fully maintained during the last three or four years, it is doubtful If the skinning has yet got down to the point of making their tracks unsafe. The small percentage of operating expenses which some are showing on the basis of greatly reduced gross receipts indicates that before long this point will b reached, and this ta certainly a matter in which the public have a vital interest. This meeting furnishes an appropriate text for some reflections on the subject of tariff-protected truste. The feeling that was aroused a few years ago by th# formation of combinations to Suppress eompjtltlon and fix arbitrary prices for goods has subsided to some extent, and has become more discriminating. In eo far as these combinations are due to natural causes and receive no help from the Government, there is now a disposition to let

or by new laws S le. In allrthe suit# ave come out uns little prospect after be tried will have The only combination been able roads, and even hi tion whether the pr has not done more t There is another claa# is enabled to flourish only foreign competition. Among these are ■teel billet pool and the steel rail bine. The duty on all Iron and steel ucts except a few specialties Is prohibitory. It not only enables the combination to keep out th# competing foreign goods, but U serve# as a kind of export bounty besides, because if foe domestic producer oan get from tbe American consumer more for his rails than they are worth in a free market, he can sell to Chnada or Mexico or# Japan for less than they are worth. This has been done often, is probably done all foe time, and will continue to oe done a» long as thS 1 tariff is constructed on that principle. Quarrels may arise Inside foe pool, over the "allotment." which shall temporarily break the combine and compel them all to sell in the home market on foe basts Of ordinary competition—foe basts that we used to hear so much about at an cm Her day. It was a com on and triumphant saying then that when goods were aoM as low os the competition of our own producers would compel, thstr prices 'would be cheap

though we may

break!

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ilng of the steel rail pool and even of the sugar-refining monopoly, it will be a case where the snake Is scotched, not killed. She'll close, and be herself

again.

We make these remarks for foe benefit of those victims of foe tariff who are now giving “hearings" to various interests at Washington, We call them vtct

dims

■H ive

about their task reluctantly, and

to be rid

cause we believe that they have zone

iUV) and tbat

they woutd be glad to be rid' of it altogether. There Is much sympathy for them in Mugwump circles and s disposition not to add to their troubles, since

there are greater interesta at stake now

than the Wool schedn

ule, or all t

)ol schedule, or the Iron scfced-

■ _ „ the schedules taken together. Let them ask themselves how long the American people Will tolerate foe practice of selling American products cheaper to foreigners than to Americana, and how long they will endure the tariff-protected

trusts in any shape whatever. o-

Too Proezle. Cleveland Leader.

Editor—Go down stairs and

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remedied In ordinary education. Every

■ley

ing should catch fire. The teacher was acquainted with his hobby, so she prompted her scholars us to the answer they should give when he arose to propound his accustomed Inquiry. When the board called, however, this particular trustee—perhaps from a desire to emulate his associates tn their address®*, roes and said: "You boys and girls have paid such nice attention to Mr. Jones's remarks. I wonder what you would do if I were to make you a little speech?” Quick as thought a hundred voices piped In unison: “Form a line and march down

statrs."-r-Detroit Free Press.

to the pupils as to

■ th» i "&m

to listen to. and

lectures like Stewart rt-

ently delivered before the students of 1 the Home Education Society, in which 1 he endeavored, in a rather dry Way, we fear, to make his audience under*.and mysteries like the nature of onsols, v.aich man unravel almost unconsciously while transacting foe daily business of

life.

It is a little too absurd that girls who will be heiresses should, while their fathers live, never understand what a banking account means, should regard investments as attractive In proportion to the Interest they are promised to yield, should look upon insurar.ee as a hopeless mathematical mys ery. and should tls profoundly ignorant of the extent of

condone foe trusts, but rather, betrays a feeling that there is no way to pull them down without puiUpg down a constderabk; part of foe existing legal and social structure, and foat the evil to be attacked is less than the one which might be produced by dealing roughly with them. Originally the trusts were composed of d fferent corporations administered by a central organzatlon or trust. It was in this way foat the name oame^to be applied to such combinations. The courts held that this was an illegal *£- ministering the affair# of a corporation.

So they abandoned U and that was legal by making property or plant a- r*

after which there was no way to attack them in the courta except by vhe old laws against regraOng htn forestalling

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vieera.

all prices. Wm.L.Elder g*ve a solicitor,

were they are giving to their relatlvss, wyers, lovers, or other trusted aieera. The young helreee who, when warned by her bankers that her account was overdrawn, sent them by return of post a large cheek on their own bank, must have been something of a goose; but every one ha* known among female acquaintances Instances of Ignorance

nearly as gross.

It is a fact, we believe, for instance, proved on oath in court, that an

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