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TWELVL PAGES VMXERAL LEE'S REPORT. Tb* account that General Lee give*, in hia official report, of the condition* prevailing la those portions of Cuba over which h* fa la charge 4* very encouraginfp In the provinces of Havana and Plnax del Rio much has been accomplished la the Way of restoring peace, order and prosperity. Throughout the entiro western part of the laland improvement haa been Aanted. there being much leas suffering from scarcity of food than had been supposed. Turning from the facts repotted by General Lee to the recommendations made by him. It la clear that he has little doubt that it will shortly be possible to set up an Independent government in Cuba, which, with a little overnight on the part of the United States for a time, will be able to maintain Itself with credit. He suggests that the taking of a census Is an important step In the direction of the establishment of an Independent government. He assumes that tho government will bo popular and. representative In form. Atid on' this theory ha urges that the question of suffrage be given very careful consideration, and especially that the qualifications of voters be clearly defined. The form of government favored by him is, of course, republican, with a president, vice-president and congress, and a nsw system of jurisprudence suitable for such a government. But, though General Leo would begin as soon as possible the work of reorganising Cuba, on an independent basis, he Is too wise to take any chancea at the present 11 time.' In his opinion, we should, for a while, make It our business to see that the new government is conducted on proper lines, and to that end’ he would have the United States maintain a close supervision over Cuba till Its republican government 1* firmly established. American protection should be withdrawn gradually, it being necessary, In General Lee's opinion, to keep United States aoldk-rs In the island for some time to nrotect Americans .and other foreigners In their personal and property rights. These recommendations are wise. They are based on the theory that Cuba ought to have an independent government aa soon as possible. It la our duty to help in that direction. At the same time, we are responsible, In a measure, for the conduct cC affairs, and it is, therefore, necessary that we should see that the new government is started On right lines, and that there Is at least a fair chance that it will continue on those lines. On the whole, General Lee's report Is most encouraging. It shows that much has been accomplished in the way of the pacification at Cuba, and for the relief of her suffering people, and also that the situation, which was full of complications, haa been ably handled. It ought to be remembered, too, that General Lee, la an authority on the subjects with which he deals. He knows Cuba and the Cubans certainly as well as any man who now represents the United Htates in an official capacity in that island. And when V says that the time haa come for beginning the work of setting up a new and Independent government, we may weU give great ) weight to hie opinions.

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r&OSPERlTY URCHEVKED. The commercial agencies continue to dulge in expressions of surprise that xnand should contisue lr the face of steadily rising price*. The Dun

port says “the astonishing feature is the magnitude of , demand notwithstanding prices which would ordinarily check It*' There is, of course, on intimate relation between demand and price#, jpr a heavy demand tend# to raise prices, and. on the other hand, exorbitant price# tend to check demand. It Is clear that the second tendency has not yet begun to operate. It la the great demand that has made the high prices, but the letter have not risen to such an extent as to check the demand. And no one can tel! when this limit aill be reached, or, indeed, what It la. Everything depends

on the condition of the market.

It Is well to have the note of warning rounded, but §,t tbe present time no great danger aeemi to threaten. For the demand >•. for the most part, legitimate. This la pointed out by the authority from which we have already quoted. It says; In product# directly consumed by individual* the target employment and better

of the working force give explana

other words, we have not merely » but an effective demandL People have money with which to satisfy their

and «a very many la a tern

of them fed ency on their

many things when he to buy them, but they bewhen he finds himself in whole thing hangs todemand that has It Is the Increase at increased further ■tlmean exart any several years from hand-to-No one Jwi*n Indueor were on haJfI #* an accumulated de-

THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS, SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 2, 1899.

these could have done little or nothing ;tf the market had been against them. tfo. too. our export trade, which has assumed such tremendous proportions, has been, to a certain extent, manipulated in such a way aa to make high prices. One manufacturer said not long ago that he and hla fellow* had set out to capture foreign markets, the Implication being that they made up for tho low prices at which they had to &«II their goods abroad by the high prices which they were able to command In the protected home market. But, making every allowance for these Influences, it la still true that ther4 Is a natural explanation, or rather there are many natural explantuions for the present conditions. On* very important one Is that people feel that the gold standard is In no danger, and. therefore, they do not fear to make contracts for future delivery, or to give liberal credit. In other words, discounting all the speculative influences at work, we have an era of genuine prosperity. _ t DEMOCRATIC OP IS 10X8. Four prominent Democrats have given. In the New York Jourhal, enjrBesuons as to the national attitude of the Democratic party next year. Clark Howell, editor of the ■'Atlanta Constitution, member of the national Democratic committee, ar.d chairman of the press committee Of that body, appealing for “absolute unity and harmony among Democrats in all section* of the country,” declares it necessary to do more than reaffirm the Chicago platform. Tttb old Issues that stand in need of no definition should be reaffirmed In a paragraph, and the new ones ne Cearly and vigorously defined. Manifestly, Mr. Howell’s outgiving la a strong squint In some other diiection than 16 to L Evidently he would try tc save the susceptibilities of the *11 verites, but In a way that would make It Incidental to the main purpose which is to ali»n the Democracy on issues that nave recently arisen. Mr. Altgeid, on the other hand, declares that since lt»6 the Democratic party has had a mission and can not abandon it, and that it had better be defeated for principle than win with harmony and the abandonment of principle. In 1892 he says the party made a declaration on the money question, which was repudiated by Grover Cleveland at the behest of Wall street; yet the Western Democrats stood by their party and voted the ticket. In 1896 the party, by a two-thirds majority, took & stand on the money question, whereat the minority bolted the ticket. Now he thinks those who bolted should not dictate terms nor ask for concessions. They are welcome to return U they will, but no attempt should be made to buy their support. The Democracy will not admit that it was wrong in *96,. and it Js going to Insist that the Chicago platform be re-adopted. It will deal also with tlons ©Intrusts and of ImperialJohn M. Palmer thinks the party can succeed next year If it can be united; but he imagines from the language of the “dominant element" of the party that there will be nq concessions on the sliver question. “National Democrats,’’ Mr. Palmer thinks, would be satisfied with the financial plank of 1892. He says, furthermore, that the Democratic party is a war party, and not a peace party for the sake of peace; that the party made its first blunder by refusing to unite U» suppressing the rebellion, and that if it now makes the Spanish war and the manner of Its conduct an Issue, it will be defeated. No party, he declares, will be successful which demands that our armies abandon Cuba, Porto Rico or the Philippines. "Imperialism” and “militarism'’ have no force from mere repetition. “Americanism” must be brought to the front to solve the problems, and the best way to bring about Democratic harmony and united action, he thinks, la for the-convention to nominate a conservative man like Gorman, Man Wyck or Vilas; readopt the platform of 1892; Insist on the vigorous prosecution of Abe war In the Philippines; insist on the independence of Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippines when capable of self-govern-ment; denounce combinations and trusts, and Insist on reform In the collection of the revenues. William J. Stone, vice-chairman of the Democratic national committee, wants the DemocraU who left the party In 1896 to return, without sackcloth and ashes and also without any golden rings or killing of fatted calves. He thinks that the way to have harmony is to harmonise; that no one outside of the committee on resolutions of the Democratic national convention Is authorised to propose or accept concessions and that all Democrats should simply unite to “secure thoroughly representative national convention, with the full understanding that the action of t,h« convention Is to be supported. c What will come to pass In another year Is speculation purely, of course. Many things happen, particularly In American politic* in a short time. Peace In the Philippines, a large measure of self-gov-ernment In Cuba, and the same to a degree in the Philippines, together with the continuation of our commercial prosperity, may put a very different face on the political situation before the national convention meets. For tbe present, while the drift seems toward Bryan and 16 to 1, It Is manifest that many leaders are doing what they can at least to stay this drift, to minimise the silver question, and, possibly, to nominate some other man than the Nebraska demagogue. Agutn&ldo, It seems, has an Atkinson of his own. There Is a war on between the whlsky trust and independent houses. It is being waged with much spirit. The parallel that attorney Wayne MacVeagh instituted L'-tween hta client and Dreyfus is not greeted with favorable consideration by the press. It Is denied, and with reason, that the two cases are similar. There is no popular prejudice against Captain Carter. There Is no party supporting his guilt, and there Is no general staff banded together with popular support to champion the verdict of the court-martial that found him guilty. Furthermore. Instead of the sentence being carried out and with rigor. It has been "hung up" for nearly two yeais. while the object of It has been a free man still wearing his uniform, drawing hi* pay,' frequenting his dubs, and, hi short, going about without prejudl e of any kind. Mr. MacVeagh, however, makes one or two polnta that have force. He asserts ln‘the outset of hi# brief that he began hla Investigation of the case under a strong impression that his client must be guilty, but that a most careful study of the evidence completely satisfies him that he is innocent. Mr, MacVeagh is a man of

such character that when he says a thing it ts entitled to weight, and his frank statement in this way, although he is the attorney of the accused man, is entitled to consideration. One thing that made popular presumption against Capt, Carter is the way Jn which the courtmartial's sentence of dismissal from the army ha* been "held up,” and the connection, real or supposed, of the contractors with this suspension of the sentence. But now It appears that Captain Carter haa been all this time urging action in his case, and ao, a* no one wants an innocent man condemned, and as all would be glad to see such a crime as Captain Carter is accused of not proved, it must be admitted that there is latitude for suspension of judgment. Just here comes the slight resemblance to the Dreyfus case, for it may appear that the army class feeling has been operating against the accused officer and that progress has been obstructed by the army clique. All this, however. Is of little concern. No one has been punished, and there Is now every hope or a fair hearing. If the court-martial has been unfair, let It be demonstrated. If it has been fair, then let the sentence go into effect, and In a way. If possible, to emphasise the condemnation that has secured the delay/ It should be remembered finally that the court-martial that brought in this verdict was a very able one, consisting of soma of the moat prominent officers In the army. . The Germans have killed spine Chinamen. Now look for Germany to "retaliate.”

Will the “aunties" ever wake up to the fact that it is not all harmony among the Insurgents? The former partner of Aguinaldo says that the latter Is trying ^ reduce the islands to a condition pf domestic slavery. Let the administration go ahead In the way it ha* begun.

M. Guerin is foolish. By placing olmself In a regular jail he could get plenty to eat, to say nothing of flowers and knickknacks.

Since Colonel several friends found.

Plcquart led the way of Dreyfus have been

One of the queer customs of that queer city of Philadelphia Is for neighborhood balls to be held in the open street. The street selected is one of the smaller ones, where there Is little or no travel In the evening. It is thus used by common consent. The people of the neighborhood decorate their houses with flags and lanterns and hold Informal receptions on their front porches or In their front rooms, while the young folks dance on the smooth asphalt of the street. A very pretty custom It Is! The French generals might reconcile themselves to Dreyfus’* acquittal were they sure that Dreyfus would then be content and call It square. There was nothing lacking In quality or quantity In the reception tendered to Senator and Mrs. Beveridge last night by the Marion Club. Indiana's young Senator, after a trip that has attracted the attention of the country, and, more,, after a home-coming that has attracted attention by reason of his wise jetlcence, should surely feel that his welcome last night appropriately emphasized an interesting episode. The Boer women are taking part in the fray. Now we shall see whether the Horn Joseph Chamberlain ha* the last word! Boston gave about twenty tlmes 4 more money to the Fcrto Rican sufferers than Chicago did. It may be sold that Boston's clearings are also greater than Chicago's, hut they are not twenty times greater. Tho fact is, Chicago, whatever splendid things it has done in other directions, has not established a reputation for liberality :n public contribution* for sufferers at home or abroad. It has generally been outstripped in this way both as to time and amount by other cities. Mr. McLean does not believe in speeches or brass bands. The Democratic campaign in Ohio will take the form of a still hunt, and a vigorous shaking of the plum tree. The tin plate' combination has again raised the price of standard plate 27\4 cents a box. The last advance was In March, whe-n It was raised 50 cents a box, but since then Bessemer pig Iron has risen so that the black sheets from which the tin plates are made cost 80 cents a hundred pounds more, while pig tin l as advanced 7 cents a pound. So that it does not appear that the tin trust Is to be blamed too severely for Its Increasing demands; but what It does Is a-plenty. Ex-Secretary Alger will not run for mayor of Detroit, but the people of Mlch»gan had bettfer not offer him a United States senatorshlp more than on e.

harmonises with s life of Immorality," says Mr. Wright, but more t'han this, he avers: Machinery has not helped to create new and tremendous inequalities of society or turned thousands Into tramps and vagabonds, or hardened the natural selfishness of man In any way, as is so often asserted. It has been the means of reducing the work-day from twelve or fourteen hours lo nine or ten hours, ana the inevitable result will be the still further reduction of the time necessary for the earning of a living. * • • The poverty of the present day is not the misery of the past.

What the country would like to see with the beginning of the next dry season would be General tYheeler at the head of the cavalry In the Philippines. There would b« no "siestas” then.

Reports of ravages by the army worm come from some parts of the West. Do tho Insects wear the Filipino uniform?

Men that express the hope that General Otis will be driven into the sea are* In just as traitorous a mood as if they picked up a gun and fired into the ranks. Mr. Halstead was right; such men are traitors, and traitors of the worst stamp.

It Is not easy to pick out any important manufacturing industry In thi* country that has net greatly increased since the last census. The growth certain to ba shown by the next census may be indicated by the Increased use of electricity In its various forms. It was not until 1888 that the first street railroad was run by an electric motor In the city of Richmond. In climbing u hill, the motor came to grief, and was dragged off the track amid the Jeers of lookers-on Now there are over 16,000 miles of electric road In this country, and it is said that there were more miles of electric roads built last year than of steam roads. There are more than 40,000 electric street cars to-day. while the capital Invested In all sorts of electric mnchlnery amounts In the aggregate to hundreds of millions of dollars. Of course, the growth of a new industry like trfis in the last decade can not be taken a* typical of the Increase of old ones, ana it is useless to speculate as to what the census will show as to the Increase of manufactures, but that It will be unprecedented there can hardly be a doubt.

Tfils Is an “ft" month, and the first of the kindj and so the oyster comes to the front. < PULPIT AND PEW.

The agricultural department announces that the number of cattle other than milch cows in the country has declined from 37,£1,239 in 1892 to 27.394,225 at the beginning of this year. As population has Increased meantime, these figure* come in oppoi*t mely for the meat trust that ha* advanced the price of beef.

Sarah Gorham, Sierre Leone’s first woman missionary, is to have a monument. Trinity College la to be the name of the Catholic university for the education of women at Washington, ground for which has been broken. The Endeavor World give* an account of the dally Bible classes in London held merning and evening, and says they are constantly growing in numbers. One class has an attendance of more than 1,200. It Is stated that the religious spirit of the age is extremely charitable, as seen In the very temperate and liberal commems of the clergy of all denominations on the death of Ingersoll.—Boston Transcript. Nothing narrows and spoils one’s disposition more surely and rapidly than setting up as dictator over other people’s conBcienees The /<cripture commendation is given to him who governs uis own spirit— The Watchman. Lyman Abbott, In a sermon published In the Outlook, says: "Sin is net the same as punishment from sin. The New Testament says very little about saving men from punishment; it says a great deal about saving men from sin. Jesus Cnrist naa come into the world to redeem us from sin; this is the vital matter, not the other." According to the necrological report of Princeton Theological Seminary, recently Issued, the length of the average pastorate In tbe Presbyterian church Is eight years and eight months, the average service of ministers as stated supply Is two years and five months, and the average of ministerial service, Including both pastors and stated supplies, is five years and seven months. The Christian Advocate, in alluding to the fact that the Bible has been transhued into more than 250 languages, says: “We venture the opinion that the King James version has formed the basis for the translation of at least one-half of ;that number. It is so strong and exact that the average translator of to-day ckn reproduce the Bible better from the English than he could from the Hebrew and G reek. While the Rev. Mr. Morgan was preachr mg In the most solemn manner In the gospel tent at Fifty-sixth street. In New York, there was a sudden flash of Ught and the place was filled with stifling smoke. A photographer was taking the scene with his camera in the interest of a so-called religious newspaper. “Is there no limit,” says the Observer, "to this irreve^nc*??'Where is the God of Moses , Churchman disetisBes the questionWill England Become Roman Catholic?" end 8uy& th.j real ie«t of the prospects of a church Is less in the census than In tho’ marriage register. Here we find that in evety 2u0 marriages one will be Jewish, eight Roman Cahollc, twenty-four nonconformists, twenty-nine without religious ceremony, and 133 according to the Anglican rite—one Roman marriage to seventeen Anglican—no great peril to the coming generation. The Boston Pilot says that converts to the Roman Catholic church in England are coming in at the rate of 600 a month. The work of higher critic* 1* a* important as an., guided growth to be marred engaged in it with slowness of apprehension of those whom they seek to serve. The ' ’

find there the thought of their Father for

Perhaps General Otis has forbidden General W'heeler to climb & tree.

The great Increase of our exports naturally causes much rejoicing, and amid It has been heard some mock sympathy for Great Britain on her vanishing trade. W r e bought from that country last year about 3199.000,000 worth of merchandise and sold to it 3540,000,000 worth, but of this vast amount all but 3200,000,000 worth was breadstuff*, cotton and other farm products, and not manufactures. On the other hand, an official estimate In London puts the number of American tourists row In Europe at 70,000. To each Is assigned an average expenditure of about 31,500, making a total of American money thus scattered abroad of about 3100,000,000. A great part of this sum will be spent in Great Britain. Add to this the sum that we send to Great Britain annually to pay freight on_our exports and the Interest bn English investments In this country, and old England's pligH^ does not seem to be such as need call for our commiseration.

What to do with Congressman Roberts, of Utah, Is going to be a vexatious problem for the next Congress. Perhaps we

could make a treaty with him.

Carroll D. Wright, in his study of the social conditions in American cities, finds that the inhabitants of the slums are not Increasing In number and that they are as free from disease as those who live in more pretentious neighborhoods. The average income of people living In the slums exceeds that of persons in many better localities. He finds also that women wage-earners under the factory system are not 1cm moral than under the former hand labor system, and he establishes the fact that the immoral classes among women and the criminal classes among men are not to any large extent drawn from the class of wage-earners. Other classes of society contribute the larger proportion. "Regular employment !« conducive to regular living, and neither

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them. Each class Is Indispensable to the other for the highest accomplishment of what both seek. “Murmur not, brethren, on'e against another, that ye be not judged; behold, the judge standeth before the doors.”—The Congregatlonallst. Mrs. Lucy Rider Meyer,of Chicago.at the recent Epworth League 'convention, declared that the Roman church has won its victories to America far more by its white-capped sisters than by its blackcassocked priests. “These women, at work noiselessly but tirelessly, with children, the sick, the aged. In education and reformation, may well command our study. They have thrown themselves Into the work of the church with a courage and devotion that attempts anything." Mrs. Meyer instanced a single order of sisters which is planting a hospital in every city of Indiana having over 10.000 Inhabitants. She then rallied the Methodists for priding themselves on one little hospital in a city of 2,000,000, whereas Romanism has five hospitals In that city and is planning another. In and near three of our principal cities there are 5.300 sisters. As Mrs. Meyer well puts It, the deaconess movement supplies the feminine element so greatly wanted In the Protestant church an element rooted deep in the very heart of humanity’s needs. This movement among the Methodists has brought forth larger results than may be generally supposed. There are at present throughout the ■ world fifty-six Methodist deaconess institutions. comprising 800 deaconesses and probationers. Last year the deaconesses made 250.000 religious calls and nursed nearly 6.000 persons Thu* with characteristic energy, the Methodists have definitely caught and carried out the conviction that the world wants 'mothering.’”

-The Outlook.

, i , TAXING GOOD-WILL. The State Board of Tax Commissioner*

The NlasoaxL

Between. !6w brink* of ragged clay Tbe rapid river takes It* way. It* heavy, tawny water* flow A* if their road they did not know; Swirl off In loop*. *pread oat In lakes Whose sandy shoal* trail sluggish wakes. They gnaw away the tumbling banka Mow down their leafy willow ranks; They dwindle till the duat blow* round Where fishes swam and men were drowned; Then flood the bottoms mile* away, Fence, barn and house their scattered prey; Bat yet, far back, the hills remain. Which all their wandering* reetrain.

O mighty river, we may »e* Our new democracy la thee. No Rhine art thou, by cliff* beset. With eaatiea on each parapet; No Thames, of placid, even tide. With grass lawns edging either side; But strong, and turbid, and perplexed. By frequent whirls and eddies vexed— At time an overwhelming fall Of brute destruction—yet through all Large wealth bestowing—grain and wood* Upepringing where once swept by floods. And so we know, whate’er thy force, God’s hills will hold thee to Hta course. —Cameron Mann in August Century. Separation. There be many kinds of parting—ye*. I know. Some with fond, grieving eyes that overflow. Some with brave hands that strengthen aa

they go;

Ah. ye*. I know, I know. But there be partings harder sttH to tell. That fall in silence like an evil epell. Without one wistful message of farewell— Ah, yes, too hard to tell. There Is no claiming of one sacred kiss, One token tor the days when life «nall mle* A spirit from the world of vanished olles;

Ah, no, not even this.

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tangible property of The News had beer, assessed for a fair valuation. The ncrease of this assessment Is nnderstccd to be for good-will, which has never before in the cane of firm or Individual been held to be aubjeft to taxation in this State.— Lawrenceburg Press. In the case of the appeal to the State Board of Tax Commlsrliners against the assessment of The News plant at Indianapolis. the board Saturday increased the assessment from 348.006 to 3400,000. It was proved befere the board that the tangible property of The News had been assessed at a fair valuation. The '.ncreaae of this iseossraent 1* understood to be for goodwill. which has never before In the case of firm or individual been held to be subject to taxation in this State.—Laporte Arjpis. -

Nor folded hands to ehotw that life 1* done; Ah. no. for life is young. a There are no seas, no mountains rising wide, No centuries of absence to divide— Just w>ul space, standing dally side by side; Ah. wiser to have died. Hand* still clasp hands, eyes still reflect their

own;

Yet had one over universes flown. Bo far each heart hath from the other grown. Alone were leas alone. . —Martha Gilbert Dickinson. SCRAPS. Peoria distilleries use 40,000 bushels of corn dally. Maine and Michigan require but ninety days’ residence for citlz.-nship. Germany manufactures 70 per cent, of the world's production of coal-tar colors. The reading rooms In the Whitechapel district of London have been visited by 1,750.000 readers in two years, and their numbers are rapidly' growing. Among the prizes for the Atchison Com Carnival Is the offer of several Atchison lawyers to give their services free to any person seeking a divorce.—Atchison Globe. There has been great difficulty In London In finding drivers for electric vehicles and one company has dismissed Us employes and closed up Us plant on this account. The Emperor of Russia Is said to bo the most liberal dispenser of fees among the rnonarchs of Europe. It is not unusual for him to give a eoaenman or messenger a fifty-ruble note. A bronze statue of the Virgin has been set up through the efforts of QUeen Margherita of Italy on the Roeclamelone peak near Susa. 12,o00 feet above the sea. Pope Leo hns written a Latin Inscription for the monument. Since 1500 the Catholic church has canonized nlr.ety-slx saints and beatified 320 other persons. Of the 416 only 58 were women; 16 in all were Italians. 66 Spaniard!*, 27 Portuguese, 14 French, 13 Dutch, 5 Belgians, 2 Poles and 4 Germans. The Reposeful One—My dear, I wish you would not be so energetic. Will you never rest? The Fussy One—I never expect to 4>e able to rest till I get In my grave, and then It will be Just my luck that the next day will be the resurrection.—Life. Hveen, a little Danish island In the sound, half way between See land and ihe Swedish coast and only fifteen miles from Copenhagen. Is being bargained for by a German syndicate which wishes to turn the island Into a gambling resort Jke Monte Carlo. Agitation against poisonous ingredients used in pottery has drawn out an order from the British Office of Works, that all articles supplied under contract to thi public departments, the Houses of Parliament and the royal palaces shall he made with leadless glaze. It is related of the Hon. Charles Endlcott, tax commissioner of Massachuseits, who died suddenly a few days ago. that he had never taken a vacation In the last twenty-five years, as there was no other person to whom the simple act of signing a document In the commissioner’s absence could be assigned. A correspondent in New Zealand reports a strange dislike to ths medical profession among the working classes there. They never apply to a doctor until all other means have failed, ami then assume a hostile attitude, refusing to give their symptoms and expecting the doctor to find out what Is the matter with them by simply looking at them. Japan, not to be behind European states In civilization, is going to send out an Arctic expedition. The reason given is that If Japan is ever to compete with England on the seas, it must develop In the Japanese the spirit of adventure and of discovery which has made the English powerful. The only places left to be discovered are the North and South Poles. A tract of 2u0 acres of land, beautifully located in the suburbs of Parkersburg, Yv. Va., has been arranged by its owner, exSena tor Co union, for a playground for the children of the city. A part of the tract is well shaded, and will not be disturbed, except that seats and tables are conveniently placed, while tbe unshaded portion Is arranged with flowers, paths and other pleasant effect*.—Woman's Journal. A woman was staying In a Canadian village one summer, and met an old weman who had a blood feud on with another woman. “How Is it Miss Smith was seer taking tea with you yesterday?” the visitor asked. "Oh, well,” she said, triumphantly, "she asked me to tea the day before, so I retaliated the next day. I knew she'd make herself 111 with my Johnnie cake.” A Swedish officer named Kuylenetjerne, who is at present traveling In China, reports that the Manchurian railway can not be completed under five years, partly because all the wood ha* to be Imported from America, and partly because most of the 12.000 Chinese laborers who had been engaged went home again, being dissatisfied with the treatment they received at the hands of the Russians, and unable to endure the cold winter. Harvey W. Roger* of Hamburg. N. Y., started for the Centennial Exposition In this city in 1876. and has been lost to his family ever since. His sisters recently got word of him through a pension application, and after a long search found him In Danville, Va. He Is now ready to return to his old home. He makes no excuse for his strange conduct, but says he craved a Wandering life. Increase in real estate valuations during his absence has made him wealthy.—Philadelphia Times. On the farm of W. F. Leavitt, of Naples, Me., a portion of a cellar drain next the house was opened this spring, it having become clogged. From the dirt thrown out of the diten several varieties of flowers have grown thriftily all summer. These same species of plants have net been grown on the place for over fifty years. The last grown was about this spot, which shows that the seeds must have lain dormant that length of time and retained their vitality. They are telling on the other side of the water the following story concerning the Prince of Wales and a wealthy American who was much to the fore at Cowes The prince Is fond of telling s'.ories. some of them, .alas! no longer new, and being aware of thto fact the trans-Atlantic visitor considered that It would be a good method of winning the good will of the arbiter of English society to show a warm appreciation of the royal anecdotes. The prince, who is no fool, was quick to detect this, and determined to avail himself of the first opportunity to show that he understood the little game. The occasion soon arrived. The prince was telUng a story, and happened to pause before he reached the point, whereupon the millionaire. In his anxiety to please, exclaimed, with a hearty, though not altogether natural laugh. "Blr. that story just hit me.” “Yes." •lowly replied the prince, "I thought it had missed fire."—Washington Post.

CASE AND COMMENT.

The poets from time immemorial, have indulged m many mournful reflections over autumn as the season of the dying year. The melancholy About days, the falling leaves. the brown turf, the dead AntOniB flowers, all these have been chanted by our singers to an oppressively minor key. To be sure, we have heard something of the crisp air, the brilliant sunshine, and the life and inspiration that come with the relief from the oppressive heat of summer. Yet the traditional and professional song inspired by autumn is a requiem. As far as there has been any change, it must be due to the fact that our poets are coming to be more affected by human nature than they are by nature. For, from the point of view of humanity, the autumn is the season of renewed life and activity--at least this is true of those of us that live to cities. The town, which seemed so empty, again fllls up with people who have been disporting themselves at the seaside or Ip the mountains. The baggage wagons take the road away from the station, instead of toward it. On the street the stay-at-home meet* and greets people who have been virtually dead to him for weeks. Buyers from the adjoining towns are seen everywhere. The shopping Industry revives, and bargains once more assume their attractive guise. The theaten* are all opened for the winter campaign. The schools begin once again. There are hints of parties and weddings, soon to be followed by invitations which transform the hints Into realities. The clubs resume their sessions The parsons return, and the churches take on their wonted activity. Calling is resumed. The voice of the politician, never, indeed, long silent. Is heard In the land, a little more Intense and impassioned than usual. We are again interested in the new styles, and the fall announcements of the publishers. We lay aside the negligee, and high hat* and long coats once more appear. Vacation is over. Work begins, and we all take a fresh grip on life. For city people, the year really begins with autumn, as It dies with spring. In this particular the comic papers are right, and life poets are wrong.

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Ah. we ere free— All praise to Thee!— Not for ourselve* alone. But for all men, bone of our bone! It la a war of systems, not of man; And when It come* the evil thing mum yield. The good expand and thrust It from the field! This Is expansion—the swelling tide Of Truth and Light and Freedom—the stars fight en It* side, Our stars, as fought the stars of old Against God’s fos who warred against God's fold! Majestic the flag sweep* on. Up the hill of grim San Juan, Across the quiet water* of the Western sea. Strewn with republics yet to be. Peopled by races strong and free! March of idqas dear to men— And when These march, ah! then We can not argue, or long oppose! We must fall In. and where the old flag goes We too muet go. led by Its biasing Ught— Pillar of Are in blackest night— Along the toilsome road to Duty's shining bight.

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In Harper’s Weekly of August 26, there Is a page of portraits of former and present ' Democratic leaders. Nothing

could better Indicate the

A Party’s decadence of the Demo- * cratlc party than a

Decay

Child

Stndy

glimpse at these faces. The men chosen for

purpose* of comparison are Charles S.’ Fairchild and John P. Altgald. Grover Cleveland and William J. Bryan, John G. Carlisle and James 8. Hogg, Patrick A. Collins and Robert E. Burke, William L. Wilson and Benjamin Tillman, and Clifton R. Breckenridge and Thomas Gabon. Strong as this showing is, it might have been made vastly stronger. For ir stance, there are Senators Caffery and Lindsay, ex-Senators Gray and Vilas, Generals Palmer and Buckner, John P. Irish and Bourke Cockran, who might be compared with Croker, Goebel, John R. McLean, Gorman, Tarvln and others. The Democratic party has indeed fallen into bad hands. Men can be fairly}, dged by the leaders whom they follow, and the Ideals to which they profess devotion. Measured by such a standard, this latter-day Democratic party will not take

a high stand.

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A man bent low with this world’s weight of wr^ng, A hoe. a poet and Ms dismal song Sounding In all men's ears Its dull refrain— Ah, lif* were aad Indeed If life were long! ~ But e'en the tollers sing among the sheave*. And loveliest patterns of their Uvea Love weaves; Lit by Love’s Ught the saddest face will smile, Joy U no stranger to the heart that grieves! And who ohall say that man’s life is not long. When o’er earth’s tumult soar# the triumph-

song.

Bung by the flaming choir of seraphim. And, hearing which, the weakest heart grow*

strong!

Short are our days upon this laboring earth. Yet even these are blest with love and mirth! But Ills is victory and endless Joy, To which grim death 1* but man's conquering

birth 1 ^

Dr. E. E. White, of Columbus, O., does not seem to stand in awe of the professional educators. Indeed, be issa profes-

sional educator himself. Inasmuch as he Is spoken of as a “noted authority on educational subjects.” But he Is not a faddist.

In an address delivered the other day before the Vigo County Teachers' Institute, Dr. White condemned strongly what he called the hobby of "child study” educators. Of course, those who are to teach children must know them, and know something about them. And knowledge, unless we bold strictly to the Intuitional theory in its most extravagant form, can not be acquired without study. But surely the child study business has been much overworked. There la almost never a meeting of teachers to which-things are not said about it that no one, unless he be a member of the inner circle, can ever hope to understand. One of the most serious defeats in our modern educational theories is that they lead us to put too much work on the teacher and not enough work on the pupil. In other words we have a great deal of “child study,” and. speaking within limits, little study by the children. One of the great objects of education i« to teach children to work, find any notion that leads teachers to forget that fact is

pernicious. ^ Ah. it !* not in our stars— Truthfully th« poet sings— It t* in ourselve*. my dears. If we atlU be underling*. Fate upon u* lay* no thradl

Such or so must be your work.

We may rise or we must tail As we do our task or shirk.

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The dispatches announced the other day that Dreyfus actually laughed at some remark made by one of the witnesses. It is somewhat Dfevfus surprising that more i . , waB 001 of that Laughed laugh. It is the first one that the unhappy man has indulged In for five years. In that time, filled as it was with agony, he might easily have lost all capacity for lax ghter. Men have been known to forget hew to talk, and it is quite as poe-

siWe to ferget how to laugh. Therefore, the event referred to Is One of considerable Importance. When a man is determined to be pleased he can make a good deal out of a very bad situation. A gentleman who recently moved from an Eastern Bottod to clty lo Indianapolis belt > Pf A cau86 he l, k*d the town, u, I l^aSCu has succeeded in living through the hot spell without, so far. making a complaint. When it was suggested to him on one of the hottest, deadest, most depressing days of the whole summer that the temperature was rather trying, he said: "Yes, it Is hot"; but there is a life and Inspiration in the atmosphere which i never felt when I lived in —No doubt the phUosopher was right. His phUosophy certainly is right. Of course, the converse is true, namely, that a man who is determined not to be pleased will be unhappy under the most favorable conditions. The women who talk so learnedly about “economic independence" may know a good deal about independence, but they know very little about Wiffi Of economics. It Is a favor,t ® thc0T y with v>xae ot bfin ant. the sisterhood, as pointed out by Miss Frances H. Low, to the August Nineteenth Century, that married women should be paid for taking care of the house and managing the domestic affairs. This is a very queer notion of Independence, for the woman thus paid would become the servant of her husband. Yet there would be no way in which he could compel her to perform her duties, and he certainly would not have the right to discharge her and employ some one else. And that Is something which wage paying shouli carry with It Moreover, many of the women who advocate this theory have a supreme contempt for domestic affairs, and give only as much time to them as they afe compelled to give. The services of such a housekeeper would not be of great value. But from a sane, economic point of view there is, under the present arrangement, a very fair division of labor. The man provides t he home, supplies the money for keeping It up, and the woman, with the he , u of such servants as her husband c 3 afford, cares for it. Besides, It Is as much her home as It is his. She is serving herself aa truly aa she Is him. The idea that the home is the husband's, taken care of for him by his wife, could only have occurred to those who, whether consciously or unconsciously, are seeking to create antagonism! between the sexes and to destroy the solidarity of society. The work of the home is performed for the benefit of both man and wife, precisely as the work of the office is. And It is no more rational to expect the husband to pay the wife ior doing tho work at home than to expect the wife to pay the husband for doing the work at the office. Thia whole attempt to reduce the relation of husband and wife to a mere commercial basis is as senseless as It Is indelicate.

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“My wife Is a good deal of an Invalid," said a prominent citizen, “and so is much confined to the house. This summer a

sewer has been built near our place, and at times work has been

SOflgS done on it at night. My

wife says she can always

tell whether it is done by gangs of white laborers or’ negro laborers. When It is white laborers, her ears are saluted with oaths and yells, and energetic and angry exclamations of all sorts and kinds. When It Is negro laborers, there is singing, generally In some sort of refrain about ’My Baby,’ laughing and good-natured, melodious cries and calls. I will leave it to some social student to figure out tbe meaning that must, underlie this. I simply report the facts as they come to my wife’s ears while she lies on her couch, unable to see the

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The more some people draw on their fund of small talk the bigger It seems to

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