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It Is pcarcely probable that the Bryan Ites will be able to persuade Admiral Dewey to accept the second place with Mr. Bryan, even If they should desire him. There are things that seem impossible. , ' Those who are counting upon a stampede of the Indiana delegation to the Bryan convention to Admiral Dewey or anybody else are counting In vain. The 16-to-l out-and-out Bryanites of the Shanklin brand arc in control. ' Recent advices from Porto Rico state that the people would rather have work and prosperity than alms. In their present condition they take the relief offered as a matter of necessity, but they long for the Introduction of civil government and pros perity. Americans have scored their first victory at the Paris exposition by an exhibition of energy In getting their building and ex hibits advanced so much ahead of others as to make the French commissioner gen eral say, "It is an object lesson to us all to see the American people work." When a Democrat rises in a public place and extols Oliver P. Morton, as d,ld Repre sentative Mlers on Saturday In the House, one cannot but recall the fact that when Morton so effectively served the Nation and the State all the Democratic leaders then under the banner of Democracy were bent on his overthrow. In considering the names of .ellglbles for the second place on the Republican na tional ticket what is the matter with Gen. Horace Porter, of New York? He has served his country loyally and with marked credit to his party and himself, both In civic and military capacities, hs geograph ical location Is satisfactory and he is all right otherwise. The New York Sun Is doing a good work and having a lot of fun besides In exposing the slick and underhand processes by which Representative Richardson induced Congress to make him a present of the stereotyped plates and copyright of a valu able book which had been got up at the expense of the government. It Is evident that Mr. Richardson's duties as Demo cratic leader In' the House do not prevent his having an eye to the main chance. The Ecumenical Conference on foreign missions which will begin In New York on the 21st lnst., will be the first of its kind ever held. It will be world-wide In Its scope, representing all the Protestant mis sionary societies and missions of the world, and embracing nearly 2,000 delegates from all parts of the world. Including ministers, missionaries, educators, statesmen, finan ciers and other men of note from many countries. The selection of ex-President Harrison as honorary president of the council Is a case of an honor seeking the man. The story comes from Washington that the cause of Admiral Dewey's anger at the President Is that he was not paid $10.000 for his services as a Philippine commis sioner. The President was anxious to do this, but the statute which, declares that no man shall hold two offices of trust and "profit at the same time made it impossible. It Is said the President recommended that amount, and that he will gladly sign the bill should It become law. The story came out as the result of an inquiry into the ad miral's declaration that the President "had robbed him." SSaSSSBBSMSBBBSSSSSBSSBBBBBlSBSBBHBSSSSBBBBSSSSBBBaBBaMSBSBBa) The last Congress provided for the ap pointment of a commission of men of ex perience and appropriated Jl.OfiO.OOO to make a survey of the different routes for the canal across the isthmus. That commission has Just returned and is preparing its re port. It has made a most exhaustive sur vey of all the routes. For this reason it seems unwiso to hurry the passage of a bill providing for the construction of the canal and appropriating money therefor. Yet Mr. Hepburn, House chairman of the committee on the Nicaragua canal. Is de termined to push his bill. To that end pe titions have been circulated in the House urging the committee on rules to Introduce a resolution asking that a date be fixed for consideration of the bill. All the Democrats and a considerable number of Republicans have signed the petitions. The Senate, how ever, has refused to consider the bill of Senator Morgan, probably because It be lieves that to pass any bill until the com mission has made Its report would be an Impropriety. Report made by the heads of depart ment.". In Washington, In response to a resolution of the Senate, show that the public service must bo seriously handi capped by aged, infirm and Incompetent clerks. The report from the Treasury De partment thews 221 employes between for-tr-Crtc and forty-six years old, 10Q be- tween forty-five and sixty, 56 between sixty and seventy, 43 between seventy-five and seventy-nine years and 10 who are over eighty years old. The Interior Department reports 162 employes between sixty-nve and sixty-nine years old. Inclusive, M between seventy and seventy-five, 2S between sev enty-five and seventy-nine years, inclusive, and 4 who are over eighty years old. As suming that about this proportion prevails In all the departments it Is evident that the number of clerks too old for regular cleri cal work must be embarrassingly large. What to do with such men, who have grown old in the service, or how to pre vent the evil which the existence of such a class Implies is not an easy problem to solve. TIIE PARTY OF SHRIEKS AND WAItXIXGS. The keynote of the speeches delivered at the banquet of the Jefferson League In this city Saturday night was despair of the Republic and of free government unless the Democratic party Is placed in power very soon. Each one of the speakers seemed to regard himself as a sentinel on the watchtower of liberty whose duty It was to save the people from themselves. a prophet commissioned to cry aloud and spare not In predicting the direst evils un less the party of the Constitution and of the Declaration of Independence, meaning of course the old original Jacob Townsend Democracy, with the name of William Jennings Bryan blown In the bottle, Is speedily placed In charge of the ship of state. One of the speakers who responded to the toast of "The Flag," with a very lugubrious address, gave his hearers to understand that he had always tried to cultivate faith in the people and a hopeful disposition regarding the Republic, but feared he would not be able to save either the people or the country much longer. He had watched the progress of the ship of state with calm assurance and had tried to encourage the timid, but now, to quote his words: But now. when I behold the ship In seas whose coasts are strewn with the wrecks of nations when I hear the voice of the captain, drunk with the Falernian wine of imperial ambition, calling to unship the rudder and cast it off. that the ship is sail ing under divine guidance when I see das tard hands cutting away the anchors that have served us well in time of peril when, ahead, I see the spray of waves breaking over sunken rocks I feel impelled to shriek the word of warning In the ears of those who seem to sleep. Wake! wake! ere it be too late. There was no diagram with this, but a little study of the nautical figures of speech will show that the captain alluded to is that bold, bad man, William Mc Kinley, who, "drunk with the Falernian wine of imperial ambition," Is ordering the rudder t) be unshipped and cast off with the evident intention of running the ship of state on a hidden reef or wreck ing her on a lee shore. Those to whom the speaker felt Impelled to shriek words of warning aro the American voters who failed to see in 1S96 that the salvation of the country lay In the election of William J. Bryan, and who, there Is reason to be lieve, are still in doubt whether he would be a better commander than Captain Mc Kinley. The sleeping people who do not realize their danger nor seethat Mr. Bryan is the only person who can save them are those to whom the speaker would shriek, "Wake! wake! ere It be too late!" The Democratic party has saved the Constitution and the country, on paper. so often and shrieked to the sleeping peo ple so much that the habit has become chronic. At the beginning of the war of the rebellion it demonstrated, on paper, that the President had no constitutional power to coerce a State or prevent the dis solution of the Union, and it shrieked to the people that any attempt on his part to do so would work the downfall of consti tutional government. Then it was Mr. Lincoln. ' "drunk with Falernian wine," who was preparing to unship the rudder and wreck the ship of state. The pro cess of saving the Constitution, on paper, and of shrieking warnings between times continued during the war. No attempt was made by the Democracy to maintain the Constitution or defend the flag in any other way except by paper declarations and shrieking. In its platform of 1S64 it declared that "the Constitution has ' been disregarded in every part, and public lib erty and private right alike trodden down," In spite of its shrieking the people re elected Abraham Lincoln, and he did not unship the rudder nor wreck the ship of state. From that time to the present the Democratic party has done nothing but shriek and warn when It was out of power and commit stupid and disastrous blun ders when it was in power. As it seems to get a lot of satisfaction out of the process the best thing the people can do Is to keep It out of power and let It shriek and warn. Shrieks and warnings are less Injurious than administrative blunders and disastrous legislation. Mean while, we may remark, "Our flag is there," and it Is going to stay there.- It has not been lowered nor desecrated, and will not be as long as American valor and patriot ism, last, shrieks and warnings to the con trary notwithstanding. BRAZEN MISREPRESENTATION. In two or three dispatches the Wash ington correspondent of the Indianapolis Press has spoken with a certainty that would lead to the inference that he had at tended alleged conferences of Republican congressmen and Chairman Hernly In Washington. His statements were not given as rumors, but as facts. One day Chairman Hernly and the congressmen were made to select a man for chairman of the State convention. The next. Gov ernor Mount was made chairman, after the arrival In Washington of the Gov ernor's secretary, who. It was asserted. went to Washington and "rattled off the points of Governor Mount's speech." If be should be president of the convention. The correspondent stated positively that the platform of the Republican State con vention was submitted to Chairman Hanna, of the national committee, who approved it generally, but criticised Its length and urged the Insertion of an ap proval of the ship-subsidy bill. There aro other positive statements which It Is Im possible that the correspondent could give unless he was present at all the confer ences of which he tells. It Is not probable that any Intelligent man who gives a moment's thought to nuch gabble would believe it, because t it Is Impossible that a correspondent could obtain such information. Even the yellow correspondent cannot be eavesdropping in half a dozen places at the same time. The mischief la that such gossip will be repeated to people who have not read It, and who will be told that such statements have been made by reliable men and Re publicans. If there had been a conference between Mr. Hernly arid Chairman Hanna would this correspondent have been per mitted to be present to listen to it? It Is too absurd to talk about. If Colonel Wilson had "rattled off the points" of Governor Mount's speech, would this cor respondent have been the third person to hear the points? It Is not a story fit to amuse the political marines. Senator Fairbanks would not ask such a thing of Governor Mount, and Governor Mount would not listen to such a proposition. Even if Chairman Hernly and Colonel Wil son had not unequivocally denounced these stories as falsehoods, no one should believe them, so Improbable are they.- Sensational Journalism has rarely afforded more con spicuous samples of reckless disregard of fact than the dispatches alluded to. XOXIXTERVEXTIOX AX AMERICAN IJOCTRIXI3. ' It Is fair to assume that no person of in telligence, whatever may be his views re garding the South African war. believes that the United States should intervene to put an end to the conflict. Those who have taken the trouble to Inform them selves regarding the subject of Interven tion must know that it is a very serious matter, since it means that the govern ment which intervenes must be prepared to resort to war to put an end to a con flict between two peoples. There is no probability that Great Britain would rec ognize any interference. In fact, the Brit ish government has given notice to that ef fect. Therefore, if we should intervene to put an end to the South African war we would become Involved In a. war with Great Britain. Even Mr. Webster Davis does not advocate intervention, and thus far he has not urged a change in the policy of the United States, which Is strict neutrality. In 1863 and 1S63, as is now well known, a practical understanding existed between France, Great Britain and other European powers, and England thought the time had come to Interfere In our civil war by rec ognizing the Independence of the Confeder ate States. This interference the Lincoln government resisted through its diplomat ic representatives. The Lincoln administra tion held that such recognition would be regarded as an act hostile to the United States, with all that it implied, because it would be a foreign Intrusion which would not be tolerated except when our govern ment and our people were too far ex hausted to resist. Intervention In 1SG2 would have been regarded as a declara tion of war by the United .States. Great Britain, as any other nation, would hold the declaration of a purpose to intervene to end its war In South Africa as a dec laration of war. If Germany, France, Austria and Italy should unite in a de claration that it is time that the troubles in the Philippines should be ended and express a purpose to intervene to end them, Is there an American who would not regard it as a declaration of war? . It can be added that the Monroe doctrine as clearly sets forth tbe purpose of the American Nation not to Interfere with the wars of foreign nations as to prevent for eign nations from extending their domin ion In the United States. "In the wars of the European powers. In the matters re lating to themselves, we do not take any part, nor does it comport with our policy to do so," Is the declaration of Monroe in his message of December, 1S23. It is the policy of the United States at the present time. TO AMERICANIZE OVU SEW POS SESSIONS. The Interesting statement concerning the public school system in Cuba made by Mr. A. E. Frye, American superintendent of schools for the Island, shows that the work has fallen under wise management. Every body recognizes the great importance of educating the rising generation of Cubans, and also that it must necessarily be a work of time and patience. Under the Spanish regime the school system was" worthless, and the war swept even that away. The important point of Mr. Frye's statement Is that whereas the Introduction of the American system met at first with very bitter opposition, there has since been a complete revulsion of feeling and he is now receiving the heartiest support from all classes. The cause of this change of feeling on the part of the people is stated by him as follows: How was this work accomplished? It was by placing absolute confidence in the Cuban people and winning their confidence In return. Thus the superintendent of schools had so framed the law that all the boards cf education were Cubans, every teacher was a native. Cuban teachers, un der proper guidance, had selected the text books. All children were being instructed In their mother tongue. All -appointments under the superintendent of schools favored the Cubans. There was absolute freedom in methods of teaching and absolute free dom in school organization. In other words, the Cubans were trusted. They rose to the occasion and organized their own school system in a most thorough and surprising manner. This shows very wise management on the part of the superintendent and suggests what should be the keynote of all our deal ings with the inhabitants of our new pos sessions. To win their confidence and co operation In every good work, to inaugurate and carry forward needed reforms on American lines without rudely or, unneces sarily interfering with established usages and methods should be the aim of all our laws and of the officials executing them. The situation In Porto Rico is different from that in Cuba, because the former Is our permanent possession, while we are pledged to withdraw from the latter as soon as practicable. Being an American possession Porto Rico must, of course, be come Americanized eventually, but this should be accomplished by gradual and conciliatory means and not by methods arbitrary in themselves, or too abrupt In their application. In short, to recur to Mr. Frye's statement, the Porto Ricans should be trusted as long and as far as they show themselves worthy of trust, and thus led to co-operate In the Americanizing of the island. Spanish traditions, usages, methods and language should be treated consid erately and not impatiently. Eventually they must all gl-e way to the American, but as this is a foregone conclusion we can afford to avoid crowding matters at the risk of repelling the co-operation of the Porto Ricans. It will take at least a gen eration cr two to Americanize the people, even with their trust and co-operation, and without these much longer. We ought not to expect nor attempt to root out the Spanish language quickly. In this respect the main. work and best results must b among the children and through the schools. Adults, especially middle-aged and elderly people who have never spoken or read anything but Spanish, cannot be expected to learn English. It will be enough if their children do, and the next generation ought to be fairly well Ameri canized. Instruction in the schools will, of course, be in English. The tariff law pro vides for the admission of Spanish literary and artistic works free of duty for a period of ten years, and books in the English language for all time to come, "when the same are imported from the United States." The proceedings and acts of the legislative council will, of course, be in English. The new law provides that all pleadings and proceedings in the United States District Court for the island shall be in English, and that the Porto Rican commissioner or resident delegate In Washington shall be able to read and write English. The Governor and all high executive officers of the Island will be Americans, and, perhaps, ability to speak English will be made a prerequisite to appointment to any local office. In short, English will be the official language of the Island from the beginning, and will become the language of the people as fast as the schools can make it so. There need be no fear . that the English language will not take care of Itself. It is a living, expansive language, while Spanish is a dying one. It is only a ques tion of reasonable time till English will be the universal language In Porto Rico, and for that reason it would be unwise to adopt arbitrary measures to root out the Spanish. The new commissioner of edu cation for Porto Rico should be a man of rare executive ability and tact, and he should be given a free hand to organize a school system that will be a potent factor In Americanizing the people. Hon. Perry Belmont, of New York, favors Admiral Dewey as the Democratic candidate for President, arfd predicts that by the time the convention meets he will have developed unexpected strength. He says: ' With McKinley and Dewey as op ponents, business men will be assured that whoever is elected the business interests of the country will be protected and the prosperity which has existed under the present administration will be continued without Interruption by the campaign. Mr. Bryan should realize the fact that with Dewey as their candidate the Democrats will sweep the country, whereas with Bry an and the free silver platform they cannot win. This being the case,' I hope Mr. Bryan will withdraw In favor of Admiral Dewey. Republicans Intend to re-elect President McKinley, but they would rather see the Democracy succeed with Admiral Dewey than with Mr. Bryan. Mr. Belmont's sug gestion that Mr. Bryan withdraw shows he does not know the "'mau' ' ' In view of the extensive deposits of iron ore In the United States It is surprising to learn that it Is now being largely Imported from other countries. Statistics show that from last January to March 31, inclusive, no less than forty-five vessels arrived at Philadelphia laden with Iron ore, aggregat ing 113,000 tons. These vessels cleared from ports in Spain, Greece, Brazil, Cuba, and one from the East Indies. The large impor tation of ore Is attributed to the energy of American Ipn mills in guarding, by an Im mense reserve supply,, .against the possl-j blllty of another stringency r In the iron market. It means that, besides using the entire output of American mines, the mills are drawing largely on those of other coun tries. Popular .Consolation. The Paris exposition with Its, lights and splendid throngs May be filled with dazzling beauty rich and rare; But I'll bet It's not .sorgrand as Hoosier sunsets In the spring. With the gold and crimson banners in the air! ,.:f And there's still one ? more advantage that the Hoosier scenes possess That Is better than the other one, a heap: Besides Its lack of beauty when compared to ours at home, That scene "in gay Paree's" not half so cheap! . i ' The situation In South; Africa of late has been totally different from Colonel W. J. Bryan. The former has been "all quiet at the front." Now would be the time for the boom manipulators of St. Helena to get out a directory with an affidavit as to popula tion. The Morton statue dedication seems to have been very successful as an eraser of party lines for the time being. BUBBLES IN THE AIR. An AdoRe Affirmed. When one door is shut another opens, you know And so line up, China and Torto Rico. A Thirst for Contrast. "What makes Johnson Jobt so determined to go to California In an automobile?" "I think it is because he once went there on foot." Intellectnal Outlay. "Isn't your son's college education expen sive?" "Oh, very. You see, he has to have silver monograms on every baseball bat he owns." Worn nil in Politics. He Clark must go; h bought his senatorial seat with over JlW.Ooo. She He did? Well, when -he gets his money back I hope he'll give his wife a big lot of it. Forced to Acquire. "Adelaide, you didn't use to be always fussing about your deficient attainments." "I know it, Edgar; but now that education has got to be stylish I Just simply have to go in for it." Headed for Disaster. "Pa. what is the inevitable." "Well, I don't like to see you Investigate such deep themes, Jimmy; but, as a general propo sition, the inevitable is any big scheme that a man tries to run without cash." Men Never Understand. "Twenty-five dollars for a basket-ball frock? Why. Clara, the doctor said you were not to play barket ball any more." "Well, mercy me, Harry! I have to have something fit to wear when I go to look on." INDIANA EDITORIAL NOTES. The best kind of a Porto Rlcan plank In the State platform would be none at all. Richmond Item. If the Republicans throughout Indiana could tee the effects of Goebelism in Kenr tucky as the Republicans along Indiana's southern border see it, Goebelism would be made an issue In Indiana this year. Cory ?on Republican. One Llttlefield, Democratic candidate for Governor of Rhode Island, speaking of the depression which he pretends to think ex ists, says: "It Is certain that a limitation of production must be the chief remedy.' Great scheme! Let 'S strike this "de pression" down by closing, the factories and throwing the laborers out of work! It has been only a few years since the cloa was tried, and the limitation of production was enormous. Muncie Newp. A newspaper, as well as the Individual, can afford to do right; It pays to do right, pays to be honest and fearless. At times wc have doubted the propriety of support ing certain nominees of our party, and with rarely an exception we have had cause to regret that we gave the candidate the benefit of the doubt, for a man who proves false in one particular is liable to prove false In other matters, and to distrust such men Is a safe rule Kokomo News. The Anderson Daily News says that the two candidates recently, nominated by the Republicans for commissioners of Madison ccunty, are Prohibitionists in "principle, practice and belief." and adds that their election will kill the whisky business in that county just as though that would be an awful calamity. It is decidedly to the credit or the party that two sober, conser vative temperance men have been nomi nated, and if the whisky business suffers because of their election, the people of the county will be the gainers to that extenL Mlddletown News. The State statlstlcan has sent out the ad vance sheets of his annual report. . Irl one of these pamphlets Is the Statement by counties of the financial condition" of the counties. Every county in' the State has a full and complete statement but Shelby. Under the head of the amount of money expended by the counties during the year 1810, Shelby county Is a blank. A foot note on the page makes this explanation: "County records missing and no report could be obtained." Thus is the official statement sent out to the world that Shel by county cannot make a complete report of the transactions of the county for the year 1SW. Surely the taxpayers of the county will hang their heads in shame. Shelbyvllle Republican. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. Judge N. C. Sears and Congressman Foss have been Indorsed for re-election by the Twenty-fifth ward Republican League, an anti-machine organization. It Is stated that President Kruger's fav orite hobby Is gardening; the collection of phloxeä -in his garden at Pretoria is famed for Its excellence. He has a liking for red geraniums and calceolarias, and the daffodil is one of his pet flowers. He is said to detest orchids. Prof. Henry Morton, president of the Stevens Institute of Technology, said the other day that he thought a scientific edu cation of a. certain kind necessary to every man, not because this is a scientific age so much as because it is pre-eminently an age requiring that accuracy which a scien tific training develops. The recent death of a member of a Se dalia. Mo., firm disclosed the fact that for thirty years the firm had kept no account books. It did a strictly cash business, and divided the day's receipts each night, share and share alike. When a bill of goods was purchased, each member of the firm paid one-half of the money, carried in his pocket. When the late Dan Rice was at the Walnut-street Theater in 1860 he sent passes one night to -300 young men, and when they arrived to see the show he appeared without his make-up and read them a lecture condemning the outbursts which had been made in favor of the South, and secession at a time when the fate of the Nation hung In the balance. Miss Terry's single superstition Is said to be a fear of the single number 3. "She will not enter a hotel room numbered 3, nor a car, nor a berth in a sleeping car. She will not sit three at a table; she de clines to go on the stage by the third en trance. Once, when an enthusiastic Eng lishman proposed three cheers for her, she put her face to hands and ran away before the third cheer could be given. This Is really so absurd that one wonders whether Miss Terry objects to three meals a day. Mr. Stephen Gwinn tells a story of Miss Mary Kinsley. Just before she left Eng land to go to South Africa she gave a final lecture at the United Service Institution on "Imperialism" as she understood it. In the course of her address she dwelt at length on the work done by a great pub lic servant in the Malay peninsula. Aft er the lecture was over an old gentleman came up to Miss Klngsley and, presenting his card, asked leave to shake hands with her. It was the man of whom she had spoken. In her surprise she said. "But I thought you were dead!" "I thought," replied this builder of the empire, "that I was forgotten." Cometh now the crocus fair, And the daffodil so gay; Comes the jonquil, debonair Spring is well upon the way. But the fairest of the blooms. One in which there is no fault. Is the onion, tender, young. Sprinkled carefully with salt. Shading from a limpid green To the purest, cleanest white. Crinkling cool on shattered ice Now, that is a joyful 'sight! Spring has other beauties, true; Other flowers, fair and sweet. But the onion leads them all, It alone. Is good to eat; Baltimore American. EPIDEMIC AT NOME. Many Goldseekera Die of Typhoid Fever Sprlnjr in Alaska. VICTORIA, B. C, April t 15. Arrivals from the north state that the warm weather In the north Is breaking up winter trails and the river is open In many places. Navigation will open two or three weeks earlier than usual. . High water flooded the mines at Dominion and Hunker creek. Inspector Strickland, of the mounted po lice, has arrived from the north to raise an additional fifty men for the Strathcona Horse for service in South Africa. Advices from Nome state that during the winter typhoid fever has raged there. There have been thirty deaths from the disease, and 300 cases. It is also stascd that many persons perished on the way from Dawson to Nome. MULE ON THE TRACK. Train Wrecked, Engineer and Fire man Killed and Five Others Hurt. CHATTANOOGA. Tenn., April 15. A through freight train on the Southern Rail way struck a mule and was wrecked while running at full speed near Huntsvllle, Ala. The engineer, Percy Armstrong, and the fireman, Sandy Osborne, were killed and five of the train crew were seriously in jured. The engine plunged down a steep embankment and immediately caught fire. The freight cars crowded upon the over turned engine and instantly suffocated and crushed to death In the cab both engineer and fireman, who had resolutely stuck to their posts. The wreck caused a delay of twelve hours in the running of trains on the Memphis division. WANTS HIS NAME CHANGED. Moses Fowler Chase Will Ask the Conrt to Cnt off Chase. CINCINNATI. O.. April 15. Moses Fow ler Chase, the young millionaire, of La fayette, Ind., sails for Europe next Wednesday, and his attorney, during his absence, will petition court to change his name to Moses Fowler, the name of his grandfather, whose estate he inherited, af ter the death of his mother. Chase's father recently arraigned the son for lunacy, pending the contest over the control of the estate. Mrs. Chase Du I lame, of Cin cinnati, against whom his father also brought suit in the contest over the estate, accompanies him abroad. Xo Blore Toledo Commercial. TOLEDO. O. April 15. The Toledo Dally Commercial has l-en succeeded by the To ledo Daily and Sunday Times under the management of the Toledo Times Com pany. Hon. IL P. Crouse is editor-in-chief; II. A. Hoff, business manager. To-day's Issue, twenty pages, is greatly Improved, typographically and otherwise. They carry both the Associated Press wires. RECENT PUBLICATIONS. Knights in Fustian. Oliver P. Morton will always remain a great figure In Indiana history. He stood four-square to all the winds that blow" during the civil war that time when men's passions ran higher than before or since In this country and by very force of will and character held the State In line with the Union; supplying troops an army In Itself to the national government on the one hand, and quelling Internal dissen sions on the other. Eulogistic tributes were spoken In his honor on Saturday in the House of Representatives at Washing ton and members of the party which an tagonized him when he was Governor classed him as one of the great men of the century. Antagonisms are past and the events of tnc. war period have gone into a background sufficiently distant to afford a perspective that permits a recog nition of their dramatic, romantic and humorous phases. Miss "Caroline Brown," of Crawfords vllle. is the first writer to . perceive the literary value of this material, and has used it with admirable effect in a novel Just published by the Houghton-Mifflin Company, entitled "Knights in Fustian." That famous organization, the "Knights of the Golden Circle." are thus happily designated, and the doings of "temples" of this order In "Riffle and Honey Creek townships. Middle county," form the chief incidents of the tale. In a brief preface the author explains that she has drawn the facts of her narrative from many sources, and that with the exception of certain chapters dealing with sentiment every Incident is founded on facts, which were the actual .experiences of her kith and kin, or else the observation of eye witnesses. The most Important part of them were gleaned from the official record of the treason trials, from various his tories and biographies, and from the files of the Indianapolis Journal. Such a pref ace is somewhat unusual In a novel, but inasmuch as some of the Incidents of the story may give Tise to controversy, she does well to fortify herself In advance. The story opens with a quilting at the home of a certain Mrs. Bowles, who is described as an Amazonian woman who had a boundless contempt for her own sex, and was a hater of men because they failed to make use of their opportunities. The score of neighborhood women who had been Invited to the quilting wondered what motive had led her to offer this unac customed hospitality, but. as appeared later, she was In the confidence of the local "knights." who wanted to spend the afternoon in drilling, and wished their "weemen folks," In whose ability to keep silence they had no faith, out of the way for the time. The immediate cause of the sudden activity among the conspirators was an Impending draft which they in tended to resist. The majority of these "knights" are represented as ignorant men with no inkling of the ultimate de signs of their leaders, whose tools they were. The possibility of being drafted into the Union army was sufficient to arouse the fierce opposition of the rank and file, but the plans of the "Grand Council" in cluded a co-operation with the Confederacy and the overthrow of the existing govern ment of State and Nation. A young Union soldier at home on fur lough Is one of the characters, and he and his father, a well-to-do farmer of the neighborhood, are especial objects of "copperhead" animosity. At a meeting of the "temple" lots are drawn for the burn ing of this farmer's barn, and by. design the. fatal, slip comes to the possession pf a simple-minded old man who considers the oaths which bind him to the circle as sacred, and who dreads to perform the act of Incendiarism, but fears worse the fate that threatens him should he refuse. The chapter in which this barn-burning occurs Is very dramatic. The daughter of this in cendiary Is a Unionist and the heroine of the tale, and her difficult position, both be fore and after her father's tragic death, is well described. Other characters are a tin peddler, who worms himself Into the con fidence of the "temple's" leaders and takes all the degrees of the order, but proves finally to be a spy In constant communica tion with Governor Morton. Several his torical personages are Introduced. Val Jandlgham, supreme commander of the knights, Is mentioned frequently. Mr. Dodd, grand commander, appears upon the scene on the occasion of a barbecue and makes a speech. On this same' occasion is a speaker who Is thus described: "The orator came forward to the edge of the platform, and his tall figure, crowned by a massive head covered with tawny hair, that hung long 'and thick about it like a lion's mane, his smooth shaven chin, brilliant, crafty eyes that could suffuse with tears at his will. Hps that curled with bitter sarcasm or melted Into a smile as gentle as a child's, made him a man of remarkable and Impressive presence. There was that In his bearing which stamped him a leader of men, demagogue though he was." His name is not mentioned, but Indiana readers of the book will recognize the portrait. The speeches made aroused the worst passions of the disloyal men present, and when the rash young Union soldier at tempted a reply a furious mob rushed to ward him. One man whose Ire he had especially aroused fired at him, but the bullet missed its aim and killed a deputy sheriff. The murderer, who. It was dis covered, was a recent comer in the neigh borhood, and a rebel escaped from Camp Morton, was captured in a few days and hanged without the aid of Judge or Jury. These tragic Incidents are well presented and leave a vivid impression on the read er's mind. Throughout there Is an appre ciation on the author's part of dramatic values and a sense of literary proportion seldom found in a first novel. Indeed, though It deals with actual events it is far from being a bald narration of facts, but has that indefinable thing, the genuine literary quality. This is shown in the pleasing diction, bits of character drawing, the under current of humor, the sympa thetic descriptions of nature. These de scriptions betray at once the actual loca tion of "Riffle township" and "Middle county" to one acquainted with the topography of Indiana, but nothing is lost by this touch of realism. "Knights in Fustian," considered merely as a romance, is a book quite out of the common and a distinct addition to the fiction of the day a story which will hold close attention for Itself apart from Its historical bearings. Because of the side lights it throws on the events of a tem pestuous period It takes its place at once as a supplementary history of the time und must be considered In that light as well as in Its ostensible class, fiction. His torical novels are rare which combine both these qualities, and In this respect, so far as recent fiction is concerned, it Is unique. Life of Charten Sumner. For many years Charles Sumner was the best advertised and most talked about of American statesmen. This was partly due to his learning and culture In a period when these qualities were much more rare among public men than they are now, and partly to his long, persistent and able op position to slavery. In the course of time he became the embodiment of abolitionism, admired by those who agreed with him, hated by those who did not, and talked about by all. He was a great moral power in American politics, yet he was not a practical statesman. He was a man of broad views on national and International questions an authority regarding our for eign relations, and of great learning and Industry, yet he did not contribute much to practical legislation except by his con tribution of great moral force to the measures which he advocated. He was a master of the kind of oratory that consists in elaborate preparation and wealth of ar gument clothed in the best of English and enriched with classic quotations and illus trations, yet he never was a man of the people. In short, he was a great man In his sphere, nut nis spnere was peculiarly Sumnerlan. The story or his life and ca reer is well told in "Charles Sumner." by Moorfleld Storey. Beginning with his early education, European experience, profes sional life and entrance into politics the author, traces Mr. Sumner's long public career before, during and after the war to the clore of his life. Among the Inter esting features of the work treated quite fully are the Brooks . assault on Sumner and Its results; his connection with war measures, with emancipation, with the Trent affair, with reconstruction, with the Andrew Johnson struggle, his contest with Grant over San Domingo, and others of historic interest. Reviewing his whole career the author's estimate of Mr. Sura- r- I ns follow? "FVerp the time he en tered public life until he died be was a strong force, constantly working for righteousness. He had absolute faith in the principles of free government as laid down In the Declaration of Independence, and he gave his life to secure their practi cal recognition. They were not to him glittering generalities, but ultimate practi cal truths, and In this faith Lincoln and Sumner were one. To Sumner more than to any single man. except, possibly, Lincoln, the colored race owes its emancipation and such measure of equal rights as "It now enjoys. To Sumner more than to any sin gle man the whole country owes the pre vention of war with England and France when such a war would hare meant the disruption of the Union." The book Is published in the "American Statesmen" series by Houghton. Miffin & Co. At the Wind's Will. This collection of Mrs. Louise Chandler Moulton's poems is in three divisions lyrics, sonnets and miscellaneous verses, which Include rondeaux, quatrains and translations. Mrs. Moulton never writes any other than graceful verse, and It Is almost always characterized by a peculiar spiritual quality. The lyrics In this vol ume do not lack In these respects, but they are pervaded In addition by a gentle mel ancholy which Is somewhat depressing In Its effect on the reader. They are. in fact, almost without exception cither expressions of dread of the final parting from loved ones or the heart's cry te the loved who have gone. "Because It Is the Spring" speaks this feeling: Shall I be glad because the year Is young? Tbe shy, swift-coming green is on the trees. The Jonquil's passion to the wind Is flung; I catch the May flower's breath upon the breeze. Shall I be glad because the year Is young? Nay; you yourself were young that other year; Though sad and low the tender songs you sung. My fond heart heard them and stood still to hear. Can 1 forget the day you said good-bye And robbed the world and me for alien spheres? Do I not know, when wild winds sob and die. Your voice Is on them, sadder than my tears? You come to tell me heaven Itself la cold The world was warm from which you fled away And moon and stars and sun are very old And you? oh. you were young In last year's May! Now you, who were the very heart of spring. Are old and share the secrets of the skies; But I lack something that no year will bring. Since May no longer greets roe with your eyes. It is In the sonnet that Mrs. Moulton is at her best. She has a remarkable com mand of a form of verse over which great er poets than she have sometimes stum bled. The spirit of melancholy was over her when she wrote "Though We wero Dust," but who would guess, seeing how smoothly the lines flow, that the thought did not naturally and Inevitably form itself into this shape? Who when reading It would think of the sonnet as an arti ficial, studied mode of expression? In the vast realms of unconjectured space, ' Where devious paths eternally outspread. Where farthest stars their nightly marches tread. And unknown suns through unknown sys tems pace. What power can give our longing hearts the grace To follow feet that long ago have fled Among the thronging populace of the dead To find the welcome of the one dear face? Nay! Let the souls throng round usj I am I, And you are you! We should not vainly seek; Would you not hear, though faint and far my call? Nay. were we dust, and had no Hps to speak. Our very atoms on the winds "blown br ' Would meet, and cling, whatever might befall. There are many of these sonnets that tempt to reproduction, but this "Newly Born" must suffice: Out of the dark Into the arms of lovf The babe is born, and recks not of the wi.y His soul has traversed to confront the day; Enough for him the face that smiles above. The tireless feet that on h'.s errands move. The arms that .clasp,-the tender Hps that kiss, The whole dear wealth of welcome and of bliss ' , His heirship and his sovereignty that prove. ' So may there be no place for earth's vain tears : When heaven's great rapture bursts upon the sight; , ßhall not the soul, new born In heavenly spheres. Forget the paths it traversed, and the Light It journeyed through, and all old hopes and fears Caught up into that infinite Great Light? Although the burden of the poems is human bereavement and grief, it Is not hopeless grief. The soul looks beyond, and It is this attitude of faith that proves the writer a true poet. Little, Brown & Co., publishers, Boston. The Storming of Stony Point. . The storming and capture of Stony Point, on the Hudson, by American troops In 1773 was one of the most brilliant exploits of the revolutionary war. It was pronounced at the time "the finest stroke that has been struck this year." It resulted In the cap ture by the Americans, after a skillful and gallant night assault, of an Important fort, 543 British prisoners, fifteen fine piece of artillery and a considerable quantity of military stores. The British lost sixty three Killed and over seventy wounded,1 the Americans fifteen killed and eighty three wounded. The .event was decisive for the year, and the moral effect of It in favor of the Americans was very great. Washington, who had planned the sitae for General Wayne to execute, rode to the scene the next day to express his thanks In person to the victorious troops. It is related that "his countenance glowed with Joy." Congratulatory messages and letters came from Congress, from State authorities and public men. Congress voted medals to several of the officers and promotion to others. There wns wide spread rejoicing among the people. The event Itself, its results and the events pre ceding and following It are fully described In "The Storming of Stony Point," by Prof. H. P. Johnson, of New York. The event has been described in a general way m other histories, but this work, devoted ex clusively to it. describes It much more fully than It has ever been before, and in the light of official documents and cor respondence obtained from the public record office lu London or from private hands and society collections and never before used. Thee documents are not voluminous, but wome of them are excej tionally Interesting and historically Im portant. This work doe not fall In the class of general hlstory.but as an historical monograph concerning a iartlcular event of great importance and the general fea tures of the situation at the time, it If a valuable contribution to the history of the revolutionary war. New York; Jamcf T, White & Co. Bluntclpal Government. t Xo graver problems of government exlit In clvlllied countries than those developed during the last quarter of the nineteenth century In the management of the uffilr of American cities. Great principles of finance, education, charity, public health and politics are Involved In the govern ment of large municipalities. The time when city government was supposed to consist of a mayor and aldermen elected to ierform certain arbitrary and orna mental duties Is pa.t. and to-day there Is no more" fertile Held for the exercle if talent and originality than In the develop ment of the great resource and enter prise that ure the common property of tho leople of large cities. - The proier govern ment of cities has nt last come to be recog nized as a work of much broader scope than maintaining streets and highways, preserving order and coilec'Jng taxes to pay the bill.. "Municipal Government as illustrated ' by the Charter. Finance, and 1-ubllc Charities of New YcrX" by D'rd R. Cnler. controller cf the citv. roTitülns