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A SSRWUS SITUATION.

The Republican caucus which met laet nicht to consider the question of Cuban reciprocity was unable even to acree to a bessarly reduction of 30 per cent, in the duties on Cuban imports into this coun. try. The outline of a bill was presented by Mr. Payne, chairman of the ways and means committee, which he said that the committee favored, hut it was at onbe antagonized by two members with beet sugar constituents. And one of these men. Tawney, of Minnesota, actually proposed that the American people should continue to pay the present bonus to the beet sugar interests, and that they should further bo compelled to pay back to the government of Cuba 20 per cent, of the duties collected on Cuban Imports into this country: Thus the whole burden would be borne by the people in order that n few of Mr. Tawney's constituents might enjoy a privilege that they ought never to have had. and which is not now essential to the profitable conduct of their business. Four or live other members seemed to be greatly distressed, particularly Mr. Smith, of Michigan. He declared that on the strength of the Republican assurances that the industry would be protected. $10,000,000 had been Invested by the people of Michigan In the beet sugar industry, and he was quite sure thht this industry would be seriously Imperiled if the 20 per

cent, concession were made.

AH of which is most discouraging. For the bill suggested by Mr. Payne is Itself so unsatisfactory that It really does not greatly matter whether It passes or not. Yet even this measure Is antagonized by the beet sugar representatives. To one looking at the question fairly It seems as though Mr. Payne were driving a very hard bargain with Cuba. Nothing Is to be done by us till an Independent government is established In Cuba, and until that government shall have enacted Immigration laws fully as restrictive of Immigration an our own. When this Is done the President of the United States is authorized to enter Into an agreement with the new government by which "reciprocal and equivalent concessions may be secured in favor of the products and manufactures of the United States by rates of duty, which shall be less by an amount equivalent to at least 20 per cent, ad valorem than the rates imposed upon the like articles when Imported Into Cuba from the most favored of other countries." When the President shall be satisfied that all these requirements have been met with he is authorized to "proclaim such facts," and therehfter the imposition of the present duties shall be suspended as far as Cuba is concerned, and in their stead there shall be imposed duties equal to m per cent of those now in force. On any violation of the agreement by the Cuban government, the President is to have power to restore the old duties. But no agreement could be reached, and so the caucus adjourned till next Monday night. In the meantime the case of Cuba is rapidly growing worse. And the question is how far our protectionist friends are ?eady to go in withholding justice from s people whom we seem to have freed only that we might enslave them. Rut the situation Is serious for the Republican party as well as for the Cubans. The sentiment of the country is overwhelmingly in favor of much freer trade relations with Cuba than have yet been seriously suggested. Really there ought to be free trade. The people of this country need what the Cubans have to sell, and Cuba needs our products. Yet we interpose artificial barriers between the market end the goods, and we do this not for the benefit of either the Cubans or the Americans, but wholly in the interest of a few selfish men who want to make money by compelitng the American people to buy their sugar at an Increased price. Nothing else can be made out of it. , All this Is perfectly clear to the people of this country. The Republicans In Congress need not deceive themselves with.the thought that the people d not understand the situation, for they do. They know that we have a chance to get a good market in Cuba, to give the Cubans a good market in this country — thus strengthening the government of the island — and also to get all the sugar we need at much lower prices than now, and that all these good things are to be denied the people of Cuba and of this Vountry simply that the beet sugar peo-

ple may make more money.

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INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS. When sensible men reme-sber how serioiiRly strained were the relations between the United States and Germany a few years ago they ought to be grateful for the Improved conditions. For years it has been felt that If the Monroe doctrine were ever challenged it would be by Germany. Many' distinguished authorities, both in this country and abroad, have assured us that we must be prepared to defend that doctrine against Germany. We know that whatever may be true of the German government, the German people and prMs were bitterly hostile to this country during the Spanish war. .But now we see a great and a most desirable change. The German Emperor l> frankly and honorably bidding for the friendship of the United States. The advances came from Mm. He had his yacht inrtU in this country. He asked that the 1 ’resident's daughter.be allowed to name :t. And finally he sent Ms brother to visit this country. All this clearly was done that he might contribute to the estuMisbment of friendly relations between he two powers, and wipe out whatever hard feeling might have been caused by mistakes in the past. It seems to ue that all this is something to be thankful for. Whether the Emperor is prompted by sel-

fish motives, we do not know nor care. Most rulers are prompted by selfish motives In ttaelr diplomacy. But In this case we get a direct benefit. For not only do we have assurances of the friendship of the Emperor and his government, but of the people and the papers that have recently been strongly aatl-American. And back of it all is the positive assurance of the German ambassador that his government has no territorial ambitions In South America, and that it admits the binding force of the Monroe doctrine. The whole development, therefore, is in the direction of the world’s peace. But our other friends in Europe should not be disturbed or excited. The fact that we respond enthusiastically and generously to the advances of Germany does not at all mean that she is to have a monopoly of our good will. We want no friendship with any power tbat shall exclude the possibility of friendship with all the other powers. We think quite as much of Great Britain, Russia and France as we ever did, and ask for nothing from them except their regard — which we shall be glad to reciprocate. Particularly, ft seems to us, ought Great Britain to rejoice at the friendship between the United States and Germany. For she knows that our policy is the same as hers, and tbat the recent letter of Secretary Hay to Russia and China is a powerful reinforcement of the Angio-Japanese treaty, Therefore, it is a fortunate thing that we should acquire an influence with Germany which may be powerful enough to attach her. to the policy of the open door In China for which the United States, Great Britain and Japan stand. Thus this movement of the United States and Germany toward a closer accord makes for peace the world over, and ought to strengthen the tendencies in which we so strongly believe. L0€AL INDEPENDENCE. The Atlanta Constitution commends the effort that Is now making to secure the establishment of a Southern publishing house for school text-books. It thinks there can be no debate "about the desirableness of realizing the project.” We do not mean to controvert this position. For there Is no doubt that a good publishing house Js a good thing for any community. But the Constitution says further that the Southern States have five million children In their schools, and that It Is wrong that these children should be "almost entirely shut up to the products of Northern publishers in the matter of text-books.” And, though it admits that the books may be good enough In certain ways, it holds that that fact "furnishes no argument against the production of equally good books in the South and the keeping at home of the ten to fifteen million dollars annually sent North for the supplies of our common schools." Of course, this is close of kin to the old protection Idea, the logical development of which would require every little community to do all Its own work, and to be independent of all the rest of the world. So a Southern publishing house might be a good thing, and it might not. It depends on whether it could turn out as good books as its Northern competitors at a lower price. The 'money paid for books bought in the North is not "lost" In any such sense as that spoken of by the Constitution. But the really Important part of the article — specially important in that it revives so many memories - is this: The South lags In literature and bookmaking because of the fierce competition of the great monopolists in these lines that' have groWn up in the East and North. We have the men and women competent to write school text-books peculiarly adapted to- our ne*<Js, and we ought not longer to be without tbe means of encouraging their work and building up a great home publishing plant out of the patronage we now give away of necessity to strangers. As far as literature is concerned — literature which we are told "lags” In the South — there never was a time In the history of the world when the author had such a chance as he bas to-day. There is not a publisher anywhere who is hot glad to welcome contributions from any quarter. So we fear that If literature Is lagging in the South it must be for other reasons than the lack of Southern publishing houses. But we did not realise that the South was so backward in literature. On the contrary our impression was that she had of late years done her full part. The cry is an old one. Tears and years ago a distinguished Southern author —it was either Paul Hamilton Hayne or John Eaten Cooke — deplored the fact that there was no literary taste in the South, that the Southern people would not support Southern magaxines. and that the South was necessarily dependent on New York and Boston for Its literary nourishment. But in all this there is a great fallacy — namely, that real literature can be made out of hand, and that It can be secttonallzed. When a man buys a magazine, for instance, he does not, as a rule,, want a Northern or a Southern magazine, but simply a magazine. This is the reason why so man)* local venturae established .to discuss local problems or to "boom" certain regions, almost Invariably fall. It was much to the credit of the South of the old days- that it did not care for mere Southern magazines. Except from the Industrial point of view it mattere little where publishing houses are situated. If there is any man or woman In Atlanta that can not get a cordial and respectful hearing from the Yankee publishers we should like to know his name.

presence of others, also partaking of it. is probably realized for the first time when one eats alone at a hotel or a restaurant. All shout him, at other tables, ait little parties of people chatting gayly. while he sits sheiit and, probably, glum. * Even a Barmecide feast, shared with another, such as Dickens so often spreads for Ms readers, is-better than a real one eaten alone. When Mrs. Pipchln partakes of her sweetbreads, required by her constitution before retiring, does not the reader enjoy them with her. especially as they follow hard upon the very prudent and economical supper permitted to little Paul and the other boarders? When D’Artagnan, Porthos, Athos and Aramls devour roast fowl, and drink "potations pottle-deep,” as Dumas pictures them doing with great regularity, do we not feel one with them In good-fellowship? Nor la there a more delightful hour in the day than that of the 5 o’clock tea table which has been eetabltshed In so many American homes, and is one of the wholly commendable things we have copied from the English. If the purpose of a gathering is wholly social, tbat purpose is much more certainly accomplished by aid of the cup that cheers and the sandwich and the salad that satisfy. If the purpose be business, the business is much more quickly and amicably settled under the same conditions. Good feeling among the participants Is inevitably promoted, small differences seem too small to be mentioned In so friendly a company, and so all get on together, and a decision, doubtless as wise as if grave forroalify had reigned, is arrived at, with everyone in the pleasantest temper possible.

The weather is no respecter of princes.

There is no reason why the TillmanMcLaurln episode should cause a division along party lines In the Senate. The affair was a disgrace to every member of the body.

Miss Stone is surely released, so herself.

She says

Prince Henry will be here for twenty minutes Sunday night. According to the published program he will not leave the station. The reception here is to be purely conventional — as much like the reception in every other place as the limited time will allow. The German national air with which his ears will have been assailed almost continuously for a week will be played and the inevitable Insipid speech of welcome will have to be made. Why should not we do something distinctive that would leave an Impression on the prince's mind? We have something In Indianapolis that is unique in the United States and notable in the world — that is, our noble Monument. It is the work of a celebrated German artist. Why couldn’t we cut the speech to the length of that uttered by Admiral Evans, and invite the prince to drive to the Circle and get a glimpse of the Monument which might be illuminated? All that could be done In the time allotted to Indianapolis and would doubtless be a most agreeable change from the conventional receptions of which the prince by that time will be most weary.

The Senate of the United States, of course, is shocked, but is this the first experience it has had with ring tactics? The Senate should take such action against Tillman and McLaurin as will leave no doubt irt any mind that when one Senator chooses to call another a liar he must do it in diplomatic terms.

There ought to be no doubt of the renomination of the present judges of the various courts of this county. It has been a custom of this county — and a wise custom it is — to- keep good men on the bench for several terms. The courts at best are no place for the application of the “rotation” principle. A man that shows that he possesses the judicial temperament makes a better judge with every year of his performance of the Judicial duties. The new man, no matter how well equipped he may be In legal knowledge, has much to learn when he is elevated to the bench, before the work of his court begins to move smoothly. Our present judges are honest, efficient men, wrho command the respect of the bar and the confidence of the people. They deserve renomination and re-election. The interests of the people will best be served by that action.

The German newspapers are greatly pleased at the reception accorded Prince Henry. What did they really expect? The sugar beet men do not necessarily have to prove that they need protection in order to get it, unless the party of protection is to make a distinction in their case. ■% .

The Republican primary election is only a little more than two weeks in the future. The number of candidates whose names are to appear on the ballot — or the ballots, if .two are used —will make a formidable list. We hope that at the earliest hour practicable the full list of names and the order of their arrangement will be published, so that voters can become familiar with them.

It was not known that Congressman Wheeler was much of a Democratic leader until the Republican party discovered the fact just recently. The Cuban tobacco and sugar growers again refer to the promises of tariff concessions that were made to them in return for the acceptance of the Plait amendment. Is not it about time that this phase of the business were made a subject of Inquiry? If the McKinley administration made such promises it clearly did something It had no right to do. The power of the executive is already large enough without usurping the treaty powers of the Senate.

THE CUP THAT CHEERS. It can hardly have escaped any student of civilisation that, year by year, an increasingly large amount of the world’s work Is being done In a social way. There is hardly a business organisation nowadays but has its social elsment. This is true In all ranks of Ufa A committee of men appointed to raise a fund for & city park or a statue finds it pleasant to preface Its conference by a dinner. Clergymen have their social dubs and learn to forget doctrinal difference round a hospitable board. A cup of tea rewards the woman that attends the meetings of tier mission circle. Societies of clerks in the great department stores have their winter dances and their summer picnics. All this Is a recognition, unconscious, and for that reason all tbe more significant, of the cheer and the stimulus of the social element. We are social beings, and the enjoyment of a meal Is doubled by eating it with some one. How largely Us enjoyment depends on the

A California woman has established her right to a one-eighteenth Interest in the Beaumont oil fields. She will give up her present business of running a boardinghouse.

The idea that Mayor Bookw&lter should defend a policy because it is in line with one pursued by Taggart Is altogether charming. In two campaigns — or rathec in three campaigns — Mr. Bookwalter denounced the Taggart administration There was nothing good about it. It was corruyS and wasteful, and more careful of the Interests of personal friends than of the city. On* of the most important charges brought against Taggart last fall was that he had favored his personal and political friends In the hasty letting of the contract to the Home Heating and Lighting Company, without competition. But now Bookwalter turns round and let* another coattract of the same sort, without any effort to secure competition, and on terms which are certainty no better than those granted by Mayor Taggart. And when he is criticised for It, he answers that he is simply

following the precedent established by the Taggart administration: Why dkl not he follow the Taggart precedent In the matter of temporary loans, and in all other particulars? If the precedent In the hot water matter was so strong and binding an to be a sufficient justification for him In breakiruc his campaign pledge, there must be many other Taggart precedents that are worth looking into and following.

A Hundred Years to Come.

Where, where will be the birds that sin*.

A hundred years to earn*?

The flowers that now In b»atjty spring,

hundred years to cor“*

lofty bro ats so *a

wh*re will be love's beaming eye.

We? rqw.

The rosy lips, tb

eart tha h*re wil

pleasant smile and sorrow

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The ro*y up*, tn* The heart that he&t*

Oh. Joy’

A hundred years to come?

s sigh.

It w-as fitting that Carl Schurz should be specially presented to Prince Henry. He exemplifies in his own career the possibilities of German citizenship in Ara»>rica.

Who’ll

In the Manual Training High School at present are 1,360 pupils, "{he building and equipment were intended to accomodate loss than half that number. All the rooms •re overcrowded. The work goes on under great disadvantages. At the Shortridge High School conditions are .nearly as bad. New grade schools are demanded to take care of the yearly increase in pupils. Every year more pupils are seeking entrance to the high schools. The revenues of the board are insufficient to provide new buildings and to meet its other obligations. The situation is serious. What is to be done to meet it?

’ll preey for gold this crowded street

A hundred year* to come?

Who'll tread yon church with willing feet

A hundred years to -©me?

Pale, trembling age, and flery youth. And childhood with Its brow of truth: The rich and poor, on bind and sea. Where will the mighty millions be

A hundred years to come?

We all within our graves shall sleep.

A hundred years to come:

No living soul for ue will weep.

A hundred years to come.

But other men our lands shall till. And others, then, these streets wills All, And other birds will *tng as gay. And bright the sun shine as to-day.

A hundred years to come.

—C. F. Brown.

Watching the Worm Go By By Meredith Nicholson.

A Louisville man. who is charged witn i cutting his wife's throat, has been placed ! under $1,000 bonds. Isn't the bond just t little bit too heavy for so small an of fense?

When a protectionist talks about moderation In connection with legislation modifying our tariff laws, and advances the theory that such legislation ought not to be made out of hand, but should be the product of “conditions,” we are inclined to suggest tbat there has never been any moderation In framing laws taxing the people of the country for the benefit of a few pet Industries, and that the only conditions out of which such laws developed were the relations between Republican ways and means committees and the representatives of the favored Industries. The McKinley tariff act of i«90, for instance, was rushed through with little regard to anything except the wishes of the people that were to profit by it, and there was precious little “moderatlon' r in it.

What do Bigelow and Wheeler think of it now?

Ca# not Tillman and McLaurin be Induced to resign and go before the people of South Carolina for vindication? From the present temper of the press down there it is safe to say that they would get it — where something got something else.

The time of year for overheated stoves has arrived.

Governor Taft continues to say good things about the Filipinos, his latest asseveration being that they are neither specially treacherous nor cowardly. In trying to prove that the difficulties of their government are not so great as is generally supposed, he may do It so well as to show that the Filipinos are eajmble of self-government.

It is cheering to note that the South seem£ to be preparing to break away from the Bryan crowd. A resolution was recently Introduced In the Mississippi House of Representatives in which it was urged that the South should turn to the North and Eazt,letting the transmlssissippl'region look out for itself. The resolutions recall the fact that “in the last two Presidential elections the great States of the North and East were solidified against the Democratic candidates,”, and point out that in the regkm east of the Mississippi and north of the Ohio and Potomac rivers “there is presented a homogeneous population, led and marshaled by the highest types of American enterprise and sagacity, and the most amazing aggregation of wealth and intelligence that has occurred in the whole history of man. ’ This section “has untold millions of idle capital for industrial Investment and expansion. while In the Southern States there are boundless natural resources being neglected for the want of ready capital for their development and utilization.” We can not give the resolutions in detail, but it is enough to say that they dwell on the devotion shown to the South by the Democrats of the North and East, and pledge the South to stand ready "to march with them In the procession of progress, and in time of national peril assist them In voting down issues, calculated to disturb the national peace and impair public confidence and maintain at whatever cost the paramount supremacy of the Federal flag.” It is thought that the resolutions will pass. We sincerely hope they will. The South must by this time realize the folly of the leadership which has brought the Democratic party into its

present straits.

There are other hands across sea. It hardly seems possible that It was but a few weeks ago that a European alliance against America was talked of.

Childhood’s Lost Beliefs.

I onr* knew all the bird* that came And nested In our orchard tree*; For el-ery flower I had a name- - My friends were woodchuck*, toad* and bee*: I knew what thrived In yonder glen; What plant* would soothe a stone bruised

toe— *

Oh. I wa* very learned then— Rut that wa* very long ago. 1 knew the spot upon the. hill

Where the checkerberrlee could be found—

I knew the ruthe* near the mill

Where pickerel lay that weighed a pound!

I knew the wood—the very tree—

Where lived the poaching, saucy crow. And all the woods and crows knew me—

But that was very long ago. And pining for the joys of youth. I tread the old familiar spot Only to learn this solemn truth: I have forgotten, am forgot.

Yet there * thl* youngster at my knee Knows all the things I used to know. To think I once wa* wise as he!—

But that was very long ago. I know ’tis folly to complain Of whatso’er the fate* decree, Yet were not wishes all in vain

1 tell you what my wish would be:

I'd wish to be a boy again.

Back with the friends I used to know;

For I was, oh! so happy then— But that was very long ago.

Eugene Field.

SCRAPS.

The real estate market is showing signs of great life for this time of year. Business properties are changing hands at large figures and lots for the erection of apartment houses and dwelling houses are In godd demand. The situation speaks well for the prosperity of the city, which is having a stire, steady and healthy growth.

The Republicans of the ways and means committee are still under the impression that there is something divine about the Dingley tariff rates.

A vigorous fight Is being made down in Arkansas against the re-election of James K. Jones to the I'nited States Senate. The objections that his enemies have to him are that he Is interested heavily In the cotton compress trust; that his war record was exceedingly brief and un-

in New York city alone there are now

about 400,000 Germans.

Ninety-five tons of gold and 620 of silver

are mined in a single year.

Yacht racing is one of the chief diver-

sions in the Hawaiian islands.

The population of Canada increased 10% per cent, in the decade from 1891 to 1901. .?up!ter is one and a half times larger than all the rest of the planets put to-

gether.

According to the traditions, about two thousand people perished In the destruction of Pompeii. The excavators have found 286 human skeletons and those of nine horses and five dogs. The British Museum recently came Into possession of a fine example of the egg of the great auk, believed to be one of the last specimens, if not the last, of the extinct colony of auks in Iceland. The District of Columbia commissioners are considering the prohibition of buildings over a certain hlght in the residence sections. The claim is made that they interfere with the circulation of air and shut off light. The Subject (after the sitting)—! hadn't sat for a picture before in ten years, don't you know, but I'm deuced glad the worst over. The Photographer (Innocently enough)—But you haven't seen the negative yet!—Puck. The late Empress Frederick of Germany tn her will bequeathed to the German associations ift England and elsewhere a gold Inkstand studded with precious stories. Each of the German associations has recently received this bequest. The women of Galveston, Tex., the city so nearly destroyed by the terrible storm a few years ago, have organized to beautify the town. They give entertainments to raise funds and with the proceeds buy and plant trees along the streets and in

the parks.

Passenger—What ever became of the Bulger family? 'Bus Driver—Oh, Bill turned out fine. (Jot to be an actor. Tom’s an artist. Mellndy's a swell music teacher. But John never amounted to much. Took all he could earn to support the others.—

Chicago Daily News.

The following advertisement appeared the other day in a London paper; “An American gentleman visiting London, whose tastes tend to theaters and frivolities rather than to archaeology, botany, etc., desires entree to congenial (bohemian) society; liberal terms. , The milk trade attracts aristocrats. Lord Rayleigh is a milkman and owns one of the finest businesses in the home counties. Every morning special trains loaded with cans of milk from his dairy leave the station at Hatfield Peverel for London. He owns a herd of over a thousand

cows.—London Express.

Hugo Rausscndorff, who owns one of the finest private art galleries in Berlin, celebrated his seventieth birthday a few weeks ago, and took this occasion to place at the disposal of the Academy of Arts a sum of money, the interest on which— 1,600 marks—is to be bestowed annually

on some talented student.

In gambling the Filipinos are the most persistent race on earth. As soon as a servant or day laborer gets a small stake ho stops work and gambles to get rich quick. Monte and cock-fighting are the choice methods. If successful at play the Filipino never works more; If he loses everything he will do anything to regain

his losses.

One of the Washington statesmen recently received a letter from a constituent as follows: “Please send me some of the volumes containing memorial addresses for dead members of Congress. There is nothing I read with so much pleasure as obituaries of Congressmen." Tne Berlin fire department was called

out 11,060 times last year.

If all the petroleum produced last year in the United States was put In standard •barrels and the barrels placed in a row touching each other, the line would completely belt the earth. Enough coal was produced to give three and one-half tons to every one of the 76,000,000 persons In the United States, and enough gold to give every American a gold dollar. One of the most striking figures seen on the streets of Washington during the past few days is that ot Gen. T. M. Buffington, the governor of the Cherokee Nation. He measures six fe^t six Inches in his stockings and weighs 276 pounds and is not overburdened with superfluous flesh. He wears a number eight hat. a number twelve shoe and dresse.s after the most approved business fashion. His oneeighth Cherokee blood gives him the ruddy appearance characteristic of the race of which he Is so proud.—Washington

Pose

Thie Pall Mall Gazette has been asking a number of novelists to answer the following question: “Which are the greatest characters, not in the works of one novelist, but In those of the world’s novelists generally?” A few of the replies are as follows; Mrs. Cralgie says Don Quixote;

t<, i Mr. Zongwlll, Don Quixote; Miss Brad-

Important. and that he Is no lawyer, j d0n Clarissa Harlowe; Ian Maclaren,

Colonel Newcome; Mr. W. E. Norris. Tito Melema; Mr. Rider Haggard, Romola; Mrs. Grand, John Ingtesant; Miss Edna

The Chicago Tribune gives a detailed story of tbe struggle now going on between Jones and Governor Davis, of Arkansas. One of the Senator’s enemies, Col. l^eonldas Huggins, who comes from the interesting town of Yeilvllle, thus

sums up the case against him:

It only serve* to emphasize what I have been telling the people of Arkansas for many years. I have said, sir, in season and out of season, and I now repeat the statement — realizing fully the import of my words — that, as a statesman and publicist. James K. Jones is an Imposing

fraud.

Of course, these are all local questions. The people of Arkansas must decide for

Elginbrod; Mr. Hall Caine, Idney Carton, Diana Ver-

Lyall, David

Don Quixote. Si non. Lorna Doone.

What is supposed to be the most ancient inscription in existence arrived yesterday at the university museums, Thirty-fourth and Spruce streets. The inscription is on a fragment of a vase that was unearthed by the museums' Egyptian exploration expedition in the ruins of Nippur. It is said to date back at least 4,600 years before the Christian era, and is therefore more than 6.000 years old. The general outline of the characters can be distinguished, and as translated recount the circumstances of a coronation. Unfortunately, the name or

^ ^ ^ . the king who was crowned can not be dethemaelves whom they will have for Gov- j ciphered.—Philadelphia Record,

ernor and Senator. But It is. neverthe- j ' The journals in street 'car trucks oi-

J. W. R. j You came when songdtaelf wa* tame, Though nfeny strove with Idle aim Like moths about the sacred flame. On ignorant wing; You scorned. In beaten trails of fame. To walk and sing. And not the oftsung shadowy Nine. Implored in many a lifeless line. Set for your goal Apollo’s sign, Obscure, remote: You wove the human and divine In one clear note! You would not strive with them that deign To seek on chaff-strewn floors for grain, And for the trampled husks are fain. But. In the field. You strove with infinite care to gain Life’s golden yield. You sought no high and strenuous key To mark your new blithe minstrelsy. Invoked no shrine* o« bonded knee. At Greece or Rome. But, all ungyved, your spirit free Bang most of home! In the lone farmhouse you laid hare / The drama of its toil and care. But making love triumphant there Rise strong aad sweet, ’ . Like herbs that Scent tlff> summer air. Bruised 'neath our feet. 'Twas you sang first the yet unsung Faith of a people brave and young To whose rude speech a wild tang clung. In clean earth borj.— The variant Saxon of our tongue You did not scorn! You heard. In dewy haunts of spring. The treble note of childhood ring,— The homing stroke you taught its wing That you, again,' Might woo that vagrant note and sing Once more its strain. Not mine the right to sing your praise Nor twine for you the deathless bsys, But mine to walk in lighted ways Lured by your rhyme. Glad for the faith through faithless days You shield from Time. And you stiH hold, a* at the start. That which God set for you apart— Faith, Love and Trust, that in your heart Keep Its song pure. And the magician gift of art. And these endure!

T. R. S. Come away from Boston town. Where the lit’ry times are o’er. Follow hither your renown A ad abide forevermore; For the Charles is running dry, « Charmed no more by voice of Pan— Linger ’neath our Hoosier sky, Thomas Russell Sullivan! Here the times are all in joint On the Wabash and the White; And we daily here anoint Many writing folk of might. Archaeologists, I trust. Soon will Boston's ruins scan: .Be not underneath the dust, Thomas Russell Sullivan? Trail your Hawthorne's mantle here In our placid village street*, Where all worthy things are near. And the old gods keep their seats; Snatches of Olympian song Echo here to hearten man— Pitch your tent where you belong, Thomas Russell Sullivan! Aldrich with his pen may keep Watch by his "Unguarded Gates”; Robert Grant and Stlmson reap What Is left by Arlo Bates! But by Ariel's lightest song. Or the frown of Caliban, Hooslerland's where you belong, Thomas Russell Sullivan!

H. H. H.

Behind this rigid barricade By the eighth letter sternly made. Scowl not, O friend, at four o'clock When at your frowning door I knock! I, too, have tasks as well as you. And tough, iron-flbered wood to hew; Eke water from the faithless spring In my cracked pitcher I must bring; But when, far up Meridian street. I see Spring's light, gold-sandallcd feet. Then, hasten with me. if you please. To follow her bright draperies! I am not one whom Nature tempts Country ward; rather she exempts Me from the damp, rheumatic haunt* Which the bucolic poet vaunts, Suffering me. In the city park Spring's earliest visit* to remark. Or, In some scant yard to behold The first green on the waking mold. And so. about this time of year. When at your wicket I appear. Think not. O brother mine, X come Suggesting hot scotch or spiced rum! But likely, if the gods are kind, Some weather sign I’ll have In mind. A bud that on some old park tree Ha* winked a gentle hint to me,— Some faint, elusive, wondrous thing Has touched and thrilled me with the spring! A Burnt Wood in Winter. Though quickening airs of happy spring No balm for these seared trunks could bring,— And ardent summer suns wooed long But could not wake the pines’ old song,— Yet winter wrought the miracles ‘Twas on a stormy night It fell. Leaving the blackened waste at dawn Fair In the snow's oblivion.

A Tenant.

This spirit with Its boundaries wide,

Is not my own to hold in fee:

Through all my days therein I bide

As one f,f God's great tenantry. •Tis not as unsown fallow land

To He, the playground of wild weeds. But lent me from the Hoverclgn's hand To grow the fruitage of fair deed*.

And I ill-pay his faith and trust

If the field be but weakly tilled.

Unsown the rich unbroken crust Or sown In labor feebly-willed. But 'tis for me to tend my field

Till white with harvest my flef be

full-handed bring Its yield

of honest tenancy.

And I

In proof

less, rather amusing to the outside world to hear James K. Jones spoken of as a "publicist,” even though he Is said to be a fraud in that capacity. However, the country at large knows something of Jones. And from what It knows it would not be disposed to rank him high as a political leader. Indeed there is a suspicion that he knew little of whit was going on in the two campaigns in which he was chairman of the l>emocratic na-

tional committee.

Delaware has nobody to represent her in the Senate, but she can well feel that she is better off than South Carolina.

people right-

ways wear out on the right side first ’ said an expert in traction met' ‘■That’s because the majority of people are right-handed. Right-handed pe< involuntarily choose a seat on the hand side of the car, and most people standing up reach for a strap on the right Any conductor will tell you that the right-band seats always fill up before the seats on the left, and It you m&k» it a point to count the number of persons occupying seats In a crowded car you’ll almost invariably find that there are more people squeezed into the right-hand seats than in the left. This, with the majority of standing passengers holding to the right-hand straps, throws most of the weight on the right wheels, and the extra friction grinds the right-side journals down before those on the left are much

worn.”

VIEWS OF THE STATE PRESS. Of all the nice thinge said about Prince Henry he can not hope to have won the hearts of the American people unless he carries home the affectionate nickname of ’ Hank.”—Lafayette Journal. The Democrats of Indiana will, of course, hope that T. Taggart’s efforts as treasurer of their State organisation will heave a better financial record behind than T. Taggart left as mayor of Indianapolis. —Evansville Journal-News. We are sure that the Chicago person who kissed King Edward’s hand and then backed off like a Sangamon county haytedder will get all that is coming* to him ! when he reaches home, provided he has the nerve to return.—Elkhart Truth. If the members of the United States l Senate were sports, they would form a 1 ring, and let the South Carolina Senators fight It out to a finish—and then expel ; both Senators. That would add something : to the gayety If not to the dignity of the Senate.—Noblesville Ledger. Not even the dignity that hedges the United States Senate about is proof against the “old Adam” that lurka In the besom of all men. However, it is a fact to contemplate with pleasure that most Senators can wrestle the "old Adam” down even under stress of most severe provocation. It has been many years since the Senate beheld a spectacle, the like of which was furnished Saturday by Tillman and McLaurin.—Ft. Wayne SentineL

THE NEW YORK STORE ESTABLISHED 1853 SOLE AGENTS FOB BUTTERICR PATTERNS. INDIANA'S GREATEST DRY GOODS EMPORIUM .

contains valuable information about some of tbe new Spring Goods; also, exceptional BARGAINS IN EVERY DA Y NEEDS You are surely interested in these.

NEW DRESS FABRICS The very latest fabrics for spring wear are being shown in the Dreaa Goods section—among the recent arrivals are— All-wool Mistral Cloth. 46 inehra wide, In reseda, medium and dark castor, medium and dark navy, light and medium gray and H Ce golden brown, at, a yard » 43- lnch all-wool Twine Clotha, In caator, reseda, navy, blue, old rose, golden brown and ei silver gray, at, a yard VV 46-inch Mohair Mistral Cloth, in the new spring shadings, Jj.OO 46-inch all-wool Wire Cloth, in the new spring tints, at, C a yard ...tfl.AJ 44- inch silk and wool CA Eollan at, a yard ^IOv Silk and wool Eoliana, in dress patterns, in the new colorings, suit.T.‘ n * . wear :. at :.. a .$15*00 —Weat Aisle. LADIES’ SPRING SUITS In a large assortment of blouse and Eton styles; special to-mor-

row at—

$10.75, $13.50,$15.00

—Second Floor.

WALKING SKIRTS

In black, medium and dark gray, made with the flare flounce, and at?*^?“ . shade :$3.49 ,$4*49

—Center Aisle.

BLACK DRESS GOODS On Center Bargain Table Two special bargains in hxtely all-wool black goods—

59c Diagonals, a yard. 39c 69c Cheviots, a yard,../ 49c

—Center AJele.

WASH GOODS

Ginghams, in stripes and plain colors, at, a yard 36-inch Madras, in pretty strij 2,000 yards, made for a waist concern, 18c value, at. A/* a yard > s** 200 pieces Madras, all different styles, stripes and plain 'J G Ip colors, warranted fast, a yd..lAav 32-inch woven Madras, in shirtwaist stripes, all styles and | Cf colors; at, a yard IJV Silk spotted Zephyrs, an entirely new faerie, for shirtwaists and dresses. 100 different styles, A A* at, a yard....* A VV 28-Inch mercerized Chambray, in pilain colors, 26c value, a 20C yaT< * —East Aisle.

MEN’S WEAR

Men’s spring weight jerseyribbed Shirts and Drawers; >4 Ac Thursday, a garment *ryK. 60 dozen all-silk Shield Bowz,

new styles, 25c quality;

Thursday, each

Boys’ fast colored percale gee Shirts, with two separate collars, 49c value, at....,

Men’s flannelette and black and white strips cheviot working 1Ac Shirts; Thursday, each iTv

—East Aisle.

LADIES’ NECKWEAR A beautiful new line of colored

embroidered turnover Collars, in white arid all colors, at, A P/* each & JL

100 dozen plain white embroidered

and hemstitched top Collars, 1A*. the 16c kind, each 1UC

100 pieces Torchon Laces, 4 and

5 inches wide, with insertions Cc

to match, worth 10c, at, a yard

-Center Aisle.

SAMPLE HANDKERCHIEFS 60 different styles and patterns to select from; some are all-linen, hemstitched; some fine Swiss and embroidered, others lace-trimmed, worth up to 25c; special, )0C

abso-

6K tripes, shirt-

neglt25c

choice.

200 dozen ladles’

ered.

Swiss embroJd-

lace-trim-

scalloped edges,

med and hemstitched, worth | P r 30o to 36c; choice at, each...... 13L Men’s Handkerchiefs in fine quality japonets, with beautiful colored borders, also pure linen, with fancy colored borders, and plain linen, 25c values; special -J P*. at, each / Ijv New and dainty patterns bi spring fancies, colored and plain linen embroidered, all styles of lace-trimmed; also a Tteautiful line of black embroidered H’dk’fs, A P*. worth 60c; special, this sale.. 45

• —Center Aisle.

HOSIERY / Ladies’ fast black seamless cotton Hose, with double heels and toes,^ 15c quality; Thursday, Ladies’ fast black lisle Hose, drop stitch, full regular made, with reinforced heel and toe, A P*. 50c kind: special, a pair....... J JL Children’s fast black cotton Hose, fine ribbed, seamless, with double heel and toe, 10c kind,/ /a r a pair .....-./vi, Children’s fast Mack cotton Hose, full regular made, fine or heavy ribbed. 25c quality, at, a \1 £ —East Aisle. KNIT UNDERWEAR Ladies’ spring weight ribbed ootton Yeats and Pants at, a A P*. garment 43L Ladles' fleece-lined jeraey-ribbed Vests, mostly small sizes. 60c A P*. quality, r at Z jW Ladies’ mercerized Swiss ribbed silk - trimmed alee vetoes A P« Vqatz; special at 4 JV Ladles’ ribbed wool Vests and Pants, In black or gray, $1.60 A ftquality; a garment Y OC —Balcony, East Aisle. RIBBONS Noe. 6 and 7 satin grog grain, fancy corded stripe and doublefaced Ribbon*, with oord edge; Aspecial, a yard JC Nos. 40 and SO plain taffeta. wide, a yard I4C 4 inches wide, at, a |Q C —W«rt Alete. GLOVES Two-olazp Schmachen CHevea. In the spring shades aad black and white (on bargain table); k AThursday at, a pair ’OVv -Wert Aisle. CORSETS Beautiful vriitte batiste Corsets, in the straight front effect, with Thursday st*® * u PP ort ®rs: 40c —Second Floor. UNDERMUSUNS Cftnhrtc Drawers, wide umbrella style, with lace insertion on Cambric Drawers, extra sizes for stout ladies; special A Petticoats, the new spring styles, three different styles, in Cl A A mercerized aatine, at, each.91*UU Petticoats, in seersuckers and S“* h *r. 75c, $1.00 —Second Floor. SHEET MUSIC Two Rogar Bros.’ Hits and M17. ° f R f Ub * n \ 19C Ma’ E&ny i COFY From Runaway Girl Soldiers in the Park..,. ) ASf . [27c H°«>' ■—■A- ) C0*Y —South Balcony. UMBRELLAS Children’s school Umbrellas, steel rod, paraxon frame, covered with English gloria, have natural wood loop handles and silver P/\..Todies’ 26-inch mercerized Carols re ? 8 ’ ? t ** 1 ^ frame, with natural Congo wood APhandles and silver swedge, at I jC .Ifdlea’ tight roll union taffeta silk Umbreilaa, with a good assortment of handles, $2.00 ^j . —Right of Entrance. HOUSE NEEDS 1,000 Crystal Agate Coffee Pots, and 8-quart, worth 75c A A/* and $1.26; special, each OYL 10-quart Galvanised Water 4ABuckets, 80c kind, at,. IZv Medium size Galvanised P P» Tubs, 78c kind J.... 33C Heavy, all-copper, re- Gfi tinned Wash Boilers, at...w4*yO Shredded Wheat Biscuit .........9c Imported Mushrooms .....15c —New Basement. PETTIS DRY GOODS CO.

One Hundred American Poets

XCVI.

VANCE THOMPSON. Vance Thompson was born in 1862 qf English parentage. After a boyhood In Pittsburg. Pa., lie was graduated at Princeton and studied at German universities. He has since lived chiefly in New York, engaged as a journalist and playwright. Symbols. Green grew the reed* and pale they were. And all the ■unless grass wag gray; The sluggish colts of marsh-water Dripped thickly over root and stone; In the deep woods there was no day. No day within them, ghlce or sun,— Only the night alway. f / And evermore the cypreeee* Against the cold sky rocked and ewung; The lurching of the high, black trees. Their eprawllng black tope tossed and flung Against the sky. She made a hut Of dripping stone and wattled fclay And the small window space was shut With woven reeda. green and gray. The comely stars paced soberly In the blue gardens overhead. And morn and eve the bousing eky Shifted la blue and gold and red; But Phe who dwelt in the *tone hut Knew not these things; on gathered kneea She leaned her face, her tbick hair shut Her from the star* and trees. Linen Bands. 0 weep those dead lip*, white and dry. On which no kisses He, J Those eyes deserted of desire. And love'* soft Are. > 1 weep the folded feet and hands. Held faat In linen hand*; Still heart, cold breast*.—for them my dole: find hath the soul. 1

INDIANA TOPICS.

The Huntington Now, la much disturbed over the delay In filling the portolflce ut Warren, and shows an irritation from which Congressman Steele Is not likely to profit. Says the News: “The major is mistaken If he thinks the postmasters and the applicants for postofflees are to hold the next congressional convention. It will be composed of men who will represent ’ the Republican party, regardless of officeholders.” If the News Is voicing the sentiment of Its constituency. Congressman Steele is certainly having troubles of his

own this spring.

Among the young men who have gone out from Indiana is "Bram” Baker, son uf Joseph 8. Baker, of Warsaw, who found a position wlfh Montgomery, Rolling 4k Co., in Boston. Recently the firm purchased a railroad outright, the Penobscot Central, and ’’Brain" has been elected one at! the directors. Eastern papers say that Baker is coming to the front. The Incident Is Interesting In proving that there Is room in the East as well as in the West for the pushing

young man. . i v

The spiteful Attica Ledger. In illustrating a point, is reminded oi the teacher with extraordinary notion* of cleanliness, who continually reprimanded ope li$* Ue shaver, whose ablutions were certainly not of the heroic order. One morning he came to school with bands and face shin* tng, aqd was quick to‘enlist the attention of the teacher, who complimented him on his improved appearance. Accidentally turning up his sleeve, however, she discovered a well-defined water Hie, and she suggested that he ought to foil up his sleeves and wash high up. "fan’T do it, miss,” was the quick rejoinder, “mamma . fo«IJS fHjSWCKl Oil Tnu* »in4lga»»?r*l*At'Ka« •. fAiv

winter.” The

my underclothes for th* ] ■

* inter ” The Ledger is mean enough to ocate this Incident at Whltestown. but

it Is an even bet that it happened H

tain

circulation

county.

A Remarkable Showing.

(Ad Sense for February.)

The average paid daily

The Indianapolis News for 1901. was 56,014. The average paid circulation for the year was 66,120. the year a total of 16,102 columns of

vertislng was printed. This

large total gain ov

vertislng of the yea 900. It is a

able