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4 THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, MONDAY, MAY 27. 1901. THE DAILY JOURNAL MONDAY, MAY '27, lOol. Telephone Cull (OKI und New.) Business Oc-....: I EJStorU! P.ocmj....ll THUMS I SLIXSCItlT'I io.. By CAnitlKfl-INDlANAI'OLIS an! SUIUTIES. Dally, .Sunday included. ."' cats per mot-.tli. lMily. without M-iUy, 40 c nts j't-r month, huniay. uiinv'Ut cai'y, J.'.Gi ;tr y.ir. fe.cgl cui I,.-: iKilly. 2 ctr.t; Sanüy, J Ct r.ts. EY ' AltNTS EVKilVWUKKt: Lali jrr week. 1 c.nu Daily. Sunday included, per week, 11 C(nt3. bur.aay, per issu-. i ce-ais. BY MAIL PKEPAID: Daily euition. on? year J-.C0 Dully an.l ScnUy, ir year buacay onlv. on- yer 2.0 INDUCED HATES TO CLUUa. Weekly Edition. One copy, on year CO cents Five c-nts i-tr month for rerioda 1ps than a. year. No sut-sci itin taken lor less than turee month. REDUCED RATES TO CLUBS. Subscribe, with any of our numerous as-nts or vxd subscription to the JOURNAL NEWSPAPER COMPANY Indianapolis, Ind. 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The silver Republican party of Missouri has been called to meet to lci.io what it Will do with itself. In Indiana it has al ready done with itself. If the Scotch universities hesitate to take Mr. Carnegie's millions he can Und three or four deserving Institutions in In diana that would promptly accept any bounty he may offer, and, at the same tlrne, make an excellent use of it. An ofilcial statement by th commis3ior.fr of internal revenue shows that the rcer-ipts from the war stamp tax from the date of its passage to April 30 last were pUST.lSl. The most productive single item was doc ument stamps, which yielded $1'G.7-2,112. It is not the Journal's right, but for the good of the Republican party in Iowa, it teems to be about time for Minlrter Conger to state positively whether he is a candi date for Governor or not. Ills course since coming home has been queer, to say the least. The trial of Charles F. W. N.'y on the charge of embezzling postal funds in Cuba Is set to begin the middle of this week. If U be true, as stated, that the case so far has cust the government there mut be an inviting Held for reform in Cuban methods. Texas has been noted for hostile legis lation against corporations, yet the Su preme Court of the State decides that a franchise, the intangible property of a cor poration, is not taxable. The decision shows. that courts are not apt to be In fluenced by popular clamor. In a case tried in New York a few days ego members of the jury were provided witn magnifying glasses with which they examined handwriting exhibits while ex perts discoursed upon them. The founders of the jury system did not contemplate making Jurors writing masters. . Word comes from Ohio that John R. Mc Lean has been stirred up by the criticisms Of Mayor Tom L. Johnson and will see that he does not have control of the State con vention to nominate ex-Representative John J. Lentz. Colonel Kilbourne, of Co lumbus, is the McLean candidate. The Minneapolis Journal says that "the country will say amen to the statement of Representative Landis that if hazing can riot be stopped at West Point without closing the academy it should bo closed." And the abolition of savagery should be ex tended to other educational institutions. The Supreme Court of Mississippi has decided that the Jones round-bale cot ton corporation is a trust the Jones b?ing the senator of that name who masqueraded as chairman of the Bryan national com mittee last year. It Is a monopoly because It will not sell machines nor the right to manufacture them. The secretary of war is wrestling with the question of furnishing transportation for y0 school teachers. Including 1 wom en, all of whom President Taft, of the Philippines commission, desires sent out at once. That will be the most remarkable emigration movement on record, and dis tinctively American. A commission having the matter In charge has invited competition for an equestrian statue of General George P.. "McClellan to be erected in Washington, the statue and pedestal to cost JX.000. Mt Clellan rendered valuable service to the country In certain ways, but he was not an Appomattox type of soldier. It is announced that John R. McLean is now against the free coinage of silver at any ratio. As he was never in earnest for that policy, the announcement of his con viction is more significant than surprising because It indicates that nearly all Demo cratic leaders have discovered that the sil ver delusion !s not now a vote-getter. The Staats-Zcltung. of New York, denies that Germany desires colonies In Brazil, but. If such were the case, that stanch American paper, printed in the German language, declares that it cannot be per mitted for the reason that "no European power can be permitted to increase its po litical influence uion the American con tinent." A committee of fourteen British experts and scientists has reported, alter eighteen months of careful Investigation, that there la r.o such thing as hereditary drunkenness and that love of Intoxicating llo.uo.-s li in r.o case transmitted from parent to child. This dors not lessen the reasons for tem perance, but it diK-s away with a nonseien tiflc argument. The experience of the United States Rub ber Company should prove a warning to these who are combining factories. Two years ago the company as good aa had con- trol of the market. Instead of carrying out the theory that combinations would be enabled to practice economies in production th.it would enable them to reduce prices, this rubber company put prices up to such a high level that a number of competitors rushed into the held, which forced prices dewn. The result Is that during last year the income of the combination fell off nearly three millions, the 52.122.1 -O of divi dends were cut off, and its surplus of $v2, TjC I. nearly wiped out. If the combination had been content with a fair profit it would have prospered. It was a case of killing the goose thatlai 1 the golden egg. TIIK TILLMA-U'LAl"Ill. CO NTH ST. The resignation of both South Carolina senators In order that they may make a campaign for the nearest election Is without precedent In our political history. Doth men were elected to the Senate by the same party. Indeed, there Is but one party in South Carolina, but this controversy be tween the two senators over political dif ferences of opinion proves that South Car olina' needs two parties and will have them hereafter. The campaign will be between two men who hold antagonistic opinions. Senator Tillman is essentially a Populist, with a free-trade attachment. lie is a sec tionalist who assails the North and Its In stituticr.s. On the other hand, Mr. Mc Laurin when in the House showed symp toms of restlessness. He let it be under stood that he was not a free-trader, and moreover that he was not a sectionalism In the Senate he cannot be said to have beea a reliable man for the Bryan Democ racy. He voted for the ratification of the treaty with Spain and supported other measures of the administration growing out of the acquisition of Spanish territory. He declared himself in sympathy with the pro tective policy and to be ht.tr;ily in accord with the progressi. e spirit in the South v lucii finds expression in a desire for varied industries. In other word. Mr. McLaurin belongs to the present, whiio his opponent Ftiiiuis for the reactionary sr;rlt of South I Carolina, which retiieü to private iif the f uristocratic elemciit, Hampton and Fintier, I ex-Confederate leaders. Tillman represents the narirw ml piovine-ial sentiment of the small fanners of the South, lie is at war with Industrial progrcs s nnd jealous of the power and progress of the North. He was the right man to read Mr. Bryan's plat form to the Kansas City Democratic con vention. Mr. MeLaurln has come to be the opponent of all that his colleague stands for. It remains to be seen if such a campaign of joint discussion can be conducted in that spirit of fairness which will insure fair play. Apparently, the advantage Is with Mr. Tillman, since he has the party organ ization and his opponent is a progressive man. It is probable, too, that when the vote is counted Mr. Tillman will be the victor. This is predicted because there is reason to believe that the majority of those who vote are now and have long been in sympathy with Mr. Tillman. It is said that Mr. McLaurin, while a sincere man, has not that fitness for leadership which is so essential in a man who occupies the posi tion he has assumed. Nevertheless, the man who resigns a senatorship to accept a challenge to discuss political issues with the chances against him possesses the spirit which attracts men and wins sympathy. Such a campaign as is proposed In South Carolina by these two leaders is both sig nificant and important. It is significant because it indicates a desire for another party In South Carolna than that of Mr. Tillman, and It Is Important because It marks the birth of a second party in that State which Is likely to have nn organiza tion hereafter that will divide the vote. It is a movement to establish popular govern ment in a State ruled by an oligarchy. The battle will be watched with interest because It may mark the beginning of the end of the solid South. IItL:SBVTi:itIAX CUE KD HRYISIOX. The discussion on creed revision will hold the right of way over all other business In the Presbyterian General Assembly un til the question is settled as tar as it can be by this Assembly. It is presumed the body Is provided with stenographers who will furnish a complete verbatim report of the debate that will find a permanent phiee In the records of the church. It is one of the advantages of modern assemblies of all kinds, religious, political or commercial, that their proceedings can be reported in full, thus showing not merely their deci sions, but the reasons and i.-v.tiws of their action as elisclosed by contemporaneous discusiion. Such reports of the proceedings of the various synods held during the lat ter part of the sixteenth centrry which adopted different articles of faith and con fessions expressive of the Calvlnistic creed of that time which furnished the basis of the Westminster Confession of Faith would be of great Interest and value now. And what a Hood of side light might be thrown on some of the mysteries of mod ern iVesbyterianlsm by a shorthand report of the proceedings and debates of the Westminster Assembly r.self, which spent several ears in formulating a creed for posterity. In Its origin the celebrated Con fession was an outcome of politics as much as it was of religion, the body which formu lated it being composed of ten Uritish peers, twenty members of the House of Commons and 121 ministers, representing all the dif ferent shades of 1'rcsbyteiianism of the period. The Assembly sat at intervals fvcm September, l'JIC, till February, 1649. Dur ing that period it held over eleven hundred sessions, but there was no stenographer to report the speeches and debates. It formu lated a great creed, but it is a pity it did not leave a record throwing some light on the processes by which its conclusions were reached. Whatever conclusion the present General Assembly may reach, the reasons for its action will be open to posterity. It may not be generally understood that the present tliscussion is not regarding any specific changes In the creed, but whether there shall be any revision at all. There are two reports bef jre the Assembly, a majority and minority report from a com mittee appointed a year ago to ascertain the wishes of the whole church and report at this session of the Assembly. The ma jority report favors the appointment of a new committee to prepare a summary ef reformed faith bearing the same relation to the present Confession which the Shorter Cateci'sm bears to the I.c nger Catechism. This summary is "not to be a substitute for the Confession and not to affect tho terms of subscription." but "to vindicate and clear tho doctrines of the church from false aaprions and miscon ceptions." The majority report also recom mends that the new committee be in structed to prepare amendments to the .Confession of Faith, either by modifica tion cf its text or by declaratory state ments, "it bring understood that the re vision shall in no way impair the integrity of the system of doctrines set forth in our Confession." The minority report favors amendment of the Confession, but opposes a summary of the reformed faith on the ground that it would be an additional standard of orthodoxy. A test vote taken on Saturday indicate quite clearly that the Assembly will adopt the majority re port, but ev.n after that is done and a new committee appointed considerable time must elapse lefcre a new summary of faith can be formulated and the approval of the requisite number of synods and presbyteries obtained. From a nonsectarian point of view the most surprising thing about the whole dis cussion is that it should occur at all. It is surprising that any considerable number of able and learned men should question the wisdom of revising a church creed so as to make it conform to the progress of religious knowledge and to the belief of a very large majority of the members of the church. In an age when every branch of science has extended its frontiers and whan a revised version of the Rible Itself has ben quite generally accepted it is sur prising that any doubt should exist as to the propriety of making a merely human creed conform to the enlightened conscience of a period in which the Rible is an open book and men do their own thinking. AX KYAMI'LC FOR CIVIL COUITS. A Manila dispatch says that the three of ficers Implicated in frauds in the com missary department less than three months ago have been tried, convicted, sentenced ond put in prison. This Is because they were tried by a court which is not tram meled by the tlevices which usually impede the processes of justice in civil criminal courts. The offenders were tried by a court-martial composed of more intelligent men, as a whole, than sit or. juries to try criminals in civil courts. The accused is allowed to have counsel, but his counsel is not permitted to waste time in arguins objections and in taking irrelevant testi mony. The insanity dodge has no place in such a court; the medical expert is not tol erated. The one question considered con cerns the guilt or innocence of the ac cused. To that end the Investigation Is di rected, and with a fair lawyer for judge advocate and an interested court the facts are usually ascertained without delay and with a clearness that might be an example to the civil courts. When the testimony is in the verdict is rendered and the sen tence pronounced, and the accused, if con victed, begins to work out the penalty as soon as the penalty is affirmed by the re Viewing officers. The three officers accused of frauds In the commissary department are now in prison under sentence. Suppose a man accused of defrauding the State or a county had been Indicted three months ago in a civil court, would he now be working out his "sentence? The court-martial case which has at tracted most attention for years was that of Captain Carter, of the engineers, who was the leader in a conspiracy by which the United States was swindled out of J.'.COO.GOO or more. Because a year Inter vened between the end of his trial and the approval of his sentence a great howl was raised and an effort was made to get it into politics, but when the testimony was read and tho sentence approved Captain Carter was sent to the Leavenworth prison and put in the same garb that other mili tary prisoners wear. In this connection, it nay be stated that the three civilians who were in the conspiracy with Captain Car ter have not yet been brought to trial. They have been indicted, but for more than a year a controversy over the particular United States court which shall try them has prevented their trial. In another re spect the result of a court-martial is en tilled to consideration the officer convicted cf a dishonorable offense loses his standing among those who were his associates for years. If he should get back into the army his offending is not forgotten. Re-election may vindicate an alderman who has stuffed a ballot box or taken a bribe, but there is no vindication for an army officer found guilty of conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman. The Journal would not advocate the sub stitution of the court-martial for the civil court; nevertheless, it must be seen that the civil courts for the trial of men ac cused of the more heinous crimes would possess public confidence in a larger de gree than they do If their procedure could be divested of seemingly irrelevant methods and unfair devices to clear the guilty. No reform is more needed than in the pro cedure in criminal courts by which the ef fort is made to divert the attention of juries from the guilt of the accused by all sorts of devices to appeal to sympathy and preju dice. Soon after Aguinaldo's capture there was goon reason to think it might be desirable that he should come to this country to make an effort to conciliate those Ameri cans who are members of the Anti-imperialist League. During the tirt hours of their grief over the capture of Agulnaldo, and of their bitterness over his complaisant conduct after capture, the little men made an unbecoming spectacle of themselves. Of late, however, they have subsided to an extent that it does not seem necessary that Aguinaldo should come to this country. Buffalo has had an experience in asphalt which is interesting if not instructive. Bids were asked for several streets and re sponses were made at figures ranging from ?2.2t to J2.9S per square yard. A protest was made, all the bids were rejected and new bids were taken. The new bids ranged from $1.5$ to J2.62 per square yard, with only three bids above $2. As the result of a protest high prices In Syracuse were brought down to JI GS and J1.78 per 6quare yard. These figures may be useful to our Board of Public Works. A letter from Major General Wheaton. now In the Philippines, to a friend in Chi cago says that reslstanco to the United States has practically terminated through out the islands. He adds: "We have been exceedingly fortunate, and havo treated the people of these islands with great hu manity and a lenience hitherto unknown in war." General Wheaton is probably better informed regarding the situation than some people in this country who have been talking differently. It Is expected that tho decision of the United States Supreme Court in the Porto Rlcan cases will be handed down to-day. Certain newspaper correspondents have undertaken to foreshadow the decision, with how much success remains to be seen. There Is no law to prevent corre spondents from doing this, but as the court has the last word it is rather risky busi ness. Whatever the decision may be it will stand as the law of the land. FHOH HITHER AND YON. A Theory. Thllariflfhia Record. rilol tit Wr.y do poets always refer to spring; as tei.-.s in the feminine gender? SloLbs I suppose because she is usually late. II en co ii Hill Vernacular. Philadelphia Press. "Say, I told that Boston man my fish story, and all he said was 'Kindly alight.' What did ho mean?" "Oh, that's Just Jala way of saying 'come off.' " Wnll-Strcet Victim. Chicago Record-Herald. Mr. PI ink I sympathize with you, Mr. Plunk. Mr. Plunk Yes; that's th worst of It; I don't nr.ind dropping the money bo much as I do hav ing fellows who are really tickled aoout It come and tell ir.e they feel sorry for me. Where to Find Rest. Judge. Doctor Tou are mentally exhausted. I advise you to send your family to the country. Patient But I can't leave my business. Doctor--Of course not; you stay in the city and get a rest. The Power of Riches. Llf. Von Iilumer Hilton tells me his wife hates the sea, and he has just bought a yacht so he can have some pleasure by himsif. Mrs. Von Blunur That's mean of htm, isn't it? "Yes. But It only goes to show what money can do for a man." It AVna Very IIIrIi. Chicago Test. They were speaking of the wedding. "It was a high church affair, I understand," suggested one. Here the head of the house and father of the bride became suddenly interested. "Highi" he exclaimed. "High! Well, if you had to pay the LI1L I guedS you would think 0 ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. TMwin A. Abbey, the American artist, has long been admired as an artist by the King, and has for some years been a personal acquaintance of hla, having" accompanied him on two shooting trips into Scotland. A cousin of the late Henry Ward Beecher celebrated her hundredth birthday at Bur lington, Conn., Friday. She does not pride herself upon reading without spectacles, but is a little vain of the fact that shj has never required the services of a dentist. Rev. Dr. Dwp;ht N. Hillis, the eminent Tresbyterian divine, favors for American Imitation the legal Saturday half-holiday system in vogue in England. "People then have a chance to rest that afternoon." he says, "and are thus brought back to the church on Sundays." Mr. James J. Hill, the railroad magnate, owns a model farm at Pleasant Lake, in Minnesota, about eight miles from St. Paul. He exhibits keen interest in tho develop ment of agriculture and stock raising on his farm, and has frequently given lectures at the agricultural experimental farm in Minnesota, lying midway between St. Taul and Minneapolis. The farm contains a buf falo and deer park. Sarah Bernhardt ha? just given her im pressions of American women. She declares that American women are superior to Eu ropean women; that men and women In America have an entirely separate exist ence; that the American woman is an intel lectual being, for whom the man works, whether in the studio or factory. She says all classes are the same; that in America the home does not exist, and that, although tree, the American women are absolutely virtuous. Washington's "smart set" Is developing a lively Interest this season in coaching, and a number of parties are making up there for trips through England, France, Norway and Sweden. Miss M. Josephine Rastwick, a young Southern woman, who has lived much abroad, and is regarded as one of the best amateur whips in the world, is arranging to take a party from Wash ington through Normandy and Brittany. Miss Rastwlck took lessons in driving from Ernest Fowns, the noted English whip, who has been engaged for the trips which she and her friends are planning. The famous golden-voiced Dr. Do Smet, by strict diet, cold-water treatment, and physical culture, has kept many famous men and women from nervous collapse. Dr. De Smet is in regular attendance on the un happy Princess Charlotte (King Leopold's sister, and the widow of the murdered Maximilian), near tho palace of Laeken, and It Is an open secret that his energy keeps her in comparative health. He is a firm believer in a cold water treatment, in perpetual movement, in brown bread and fruit as articles of diet, and he has only one weakness in ordering Koekelberg beer to all his patients, rich and poor! Speaking of the recent killing and eating of two missionaries by cannibals of Fly river, Guinea, the Portland Oregonian says: "These savages do not eat mission aries because they have any religious hos tility for them as preachers of a new faith; they only eat them because, as noncon sumers of rum and tobacco, their flesh is far more palatable than that of any other type of wnite man. In the judgment of a cannibal, the meat of a missionary is better eating than anything else except the llesh ol a young child, another nonconsumer of tobacco and ardent spirits. These cannibals not seldom spare the lives of American and European sailors, for the simple reason that tlidr ftesh is so impregnated, with the Uavor of alcohol and tobacco as to be as unpalatable as we lind that of crows, gulis, I -u.'..ai lis and other carrion-consumin.i birds." "O! what a tangled web we weave tVhen lirst we practice to deceive!" Put after we have tried a bit We make a better Job of it. Philadelphia Record. TO EDUCATE WRITERS. Object of n Trnwt LeaKne and School of Literary Training. NEW YORK, May 2?. Mrs. Kathleen A. Bchenna, miniature painter and writer of soma note, has organized a trust for the purpose of educating writers. Corporation papers have been filed, othcers elected, of fices secured and the first number of the othcial organ. The Torch, issued. Among those whom Miss Behenna has interested In the scheme are: Professor Tyler of Cor ned. Professor Hyslop of Columbia, the Revtrend Henry Frank, Carrio Chapman Catt, Fanny Humphreys Garfney and Prof. F. N. Scott, of the University of Michigan. The constitution of the new educational trust says: "We. the incorporators and trustees of this Educational Trust League and School of Literary and Journalistic Training, do hereby solemnly bind ourselves to work pri marily with God's liip for the benefit of our it llow-belngs ar.d to draw together in bonds of brotht rhood those who look for fuller development through service to hu manity. We do not establish this company or trust a priori for the purpose of amass ing money or controlling literary work, but to advance education, especially along lit erary lines, an I to Implant a liner ideal of life in the Nation, througn the cultivation of individual expression. We do bind our selves to matce this, as far as lies in our power, a successful financial proposition, carried out upon a broad, co-operative and nonsectarian basis, we. the incorporators and trustees, esteeming ourselves the hold ers ot a gnat educational trust, for the benefit of our fel!ov-mtn." It is declared that the objects of the so ciety are to estabP-b and maintain a school of literary and journalistic naming and to carry cn the business of buying, selling, syndicating and publishing literary work. 1: is the expectation to establish a daily newspaper, but this branch of the work will not be undertaken until there are ample funds and the school work Is established on a firm financial basis. There are already thirty or more contributors to the Trust League, and eighteen students have taken up short courses in Journalistic work and jjroafrc&ding. RECENT PUBLICATIONS. The Love Letters of lllsmnrck and of Victor Hugo. Literature has its times and seasons, and one might almost say its changing fash ions. It seems to go by fits and starts, though these are as apt to be accidental as premeditated. Of late there has been a remarkable outbreak of amatory liter ature in the form of love letters. The grand passion is an important factor m fiction and poetry, and figures largely in history, but in love letters It is the sole inspiring or should one say the soul-inspiring motive? Within a little while the public has been regaled with the love let ters of the Brownings, the love letter of an Englishwoman, together with imi tations, parodies and answers thereto, and here are two more large volumes entitled, respectively, "The Love Letters of Bis marck" and "The Love Letters of Victor Hugo." The first embraces letters writ ten by Bismarck to his fiancee and wife during the period from 1M6 to 1SS9. The world knows the great German chancel lor as a "Man of Iron" a great diplomat ist, minister, strategist and empire builder. This volume presents him in a new light and is a very interesting portrayal of the personal side of his character. It is hard ly necessary to say that the letters are not mawkish, silly or oversentimental, but they are delightfully frank, confidential and natural, and they reveal Bismarck as a true lover and true husband. He often addresses his sweetheart and later his wife as "My darling." "My Nan," "My treasure," "My heart," "Consolation of my eyes," "My dearest." and with other like endearing epithets. In reading the letters one forgets the man of blood and iron, the empire builder, and sees only the gentle, affectionate and pious lover and husband. As u specimen of good love-letter style, affectionate but not silly, take the follow ing from a letter written before marriage: "My dear, dear Johanna, must 1 tell you once more that I love you; 'sans phrase,' that we ought to share with each other joy and sunTing 1 your suffering and you mine; that we are not united for the sake ot showing and sharing with each other only that which gives pleasure, but that you may pour out your heart at all times to me, and I to you, whatever it may contain; that I must and will lear your sorrows, your thoughts, your naughti nesses, if you have any, and love you as you are. not as you ought to be or might b?. Make me serviceable, use me for what purpose you will, ill-treat me without and within, if you have the wish to do so. 1 am there tor that purpose, at your ci i s - posal; hut never be embarrassed in any way with me. Treat me unreservedly, in the conviction that I accept everything that comes trom you with profound love, whether it be glad or patient." Here is an extract from a letter writ ten after their marriage, after their family had begun to grow, and after Bismarck had bepun to come into authority: "I havo just received your letter of the Tth, my angel, which, in fact, came here yesterday, because the mail now travels twenty-four hours faster, owing to my complaint. My first feeling is one of very humble thanks to the Loni that all is well with you. Absolute solitude is just vh.it I often long for, after a whole day's chase among duii, dry documents and su perficial chatter. 1 am only comfortable when I get to bed at night, smoke, read, then turn and implore God to take you in Rfinfeld under His protection. There is a fancy that follows me in all my work to lie with my head In your lap. in a quiet, solitary, deep mountain ravine, in the warn summer time, close to the brook, to contemplate the blue sky above me through the smoke of my cigar and the tops of the beech trees, and to be looked at and petted by you, and tor a long, long while to be quite idle." Many of the letters, written in the midst of public engagements or stule cares of the most engrossing nature, show a degree of a!Tectionatenes3 and solicitude concern ing the welfare of wife and children that is almost incredible in a man of Bismarck's supposed sternness, and they suggest that the world knows little of the true char acters of public men. This is not the only interesting features of the letters, for many of them contain unreserved expressions concerning men and things or accounts of notable events that are of historic inter est. Following is an extract from a letter wriiten to his wife, whom he addresses as "My Dear Heart," -on Sept. S, IsTO, two days after the battle of Sedan: "Day before yesterday I left my quarters here before dawn, but came back to-day, and have meanwhile been through the great battle of Sedan on the 1st. in which we took some öo.OuO prisoners and shut the remainder of the French army, which we had chased ever since Bar-le-Duc, into the fortress, where they had to surrender, with the emperor, as prisoners of war. At 5 yesterday morning, after I had discussed the terms of capitulation with Moltke and the French generals till 1 o'clock, General Rellle, whom I know, called me up to say that Napoleon wished to speak to me. Without washing or breakfast, I rode to wards Sedan, found the emperor in an open carriage with three adjutants, and three more at hand in the saddle, on the main road before Sedan. I dismounted, saluted him as politely as in the Tuileries, and asked his commands. He desired to see the king. I told him. as was true, that his majesty's ejuarters were fourteen miles away, at the place Where I am writing now. Upon his question, whither he should betake himself, I offered him, since 1 was unfamiliar with the region, my quarters in Donchery, a village on the Maas close to Sedan; he accepted them, and drove, es corted by his six Frenchmen, by me, and by Carl, who meanwhile had ridden after nie, through the lovely morning, toward our lines. He was distressed before reach ing the place, because of the possible crowds, and asked me if he might stop at a lonely workman's house on the road. I had it examined by Carl, who reported that It was wretched and dirty. Nim porte,' said Napoleon, and I mounted with him a narrow, rickety stairway. In a room ten feet square, with a figwood table and two rush-bottomed chairs, we sat an hour, the others staying below. A mighty con trast to our last interview, in lst7 at the Tuileries." etc. Other historical events of interest are il lustrated by side lisht. in the same infor mal manner, but. perhaps, the most intor erding features of the book are the revela tions of personal character. Impressions and emotions. The letters are classified into four groups: Those written before mar riage to July. 1S47; those written while in the Prussian Parliament and the Federal Diet, August. 1S47-1N5X; those written while minister to St. Petersburg and Paris. 1SÖ3 ls;2: and those written. while minister-president and imperial chancellor, lsil-lS, and the entire collection makes a handsome volume t)f over 4"0 pages. A very different book in detail yet re sembling the former in a general way is "The Iiove Letters of Victor Hugo." The point of resemblance is that both books contain the frank and unrestrained ex pressions of love and personal confessions of two of the world's famous men. The points of difference are in the characters revealed' and the unconscious manner of doing it. One would expect that a typical German and a typical Frenchman would differ greatlv one from the other, and it Is interesting to note some of the points of difference as revealed by themselves in letters not intended for publication. With out dwelling on these points of difference it is enough to say that this book is a self portrnyal of Victor Hugo In the same sense that the other is of Bismarck. These letters cover a period of two years, from 1820 to 1822. and. like the others, were adelressed to the writer's fiancee, who finally became his wife. They were all written when Hugo was very young, between the apes of elshteen and twenty, and they show many evidences of youthful ardor and glowing sentiment. They are love !" and noth Ing else. Thev cast no sidelights on cur rent events of interest and contain r.o al lusion to Huso's writings or to the literary successes which he was already beginning to achieve. A young man eighteen or nine teen years old writing love letters to a air a year younger is not likely to intro duce much extraneous matter As mere love letters these are good models but as they are all pitched in one key they are rather "tiresome, fortunately the . collec tion does not contain any Kite ""n Ä by 1 Harder & brothers in unitorm style. Bird Llf. Increased consideration for dumb animals and Interest in animal life generally seem to be characteristic of advanced civiliza tion. Can it be that the more human be ings learn about themselves the more they think of dumb animals? Perhaps, however, blr-s should not be included in this cate gory for they are by no means dumb. They have their language, which men cannot un-derstand-thelr notes of love, of passion, of fear, of alarm and of joy. as expressive as human speech. And most persons know as little about birds themselves as they do about bird language. The average In dividual can scarcely name correctly a dozen birds, yet by their voice and action they constantly invite attention and they are far too interesting and beautiful to be ignored. Happily they are not ignored to anything like the extent they once were, and the result is a much better understand ing of their nature, services and rights than formerly. Some knowledge of birds, the more the better, brings a pleasure to Its possessor which costs nothing, yields ap preciable returns and contributes to the protection of the birds themselves and the conservation of their practical benefits. To convey such knowledge in a popular style is the object of "Bird Life." by Frank M. Chapman, associate curator of vertebrate zoology In the American Museum of Nat ural History. The author Is a recognized authority In ornithology and master of the subject. In this work he treats of the place of birds in nature and their relation to man. of their anatomy, their colors and plumage, their migrations, their voices, their nesting seasons, etc. Regarding the colors of birds we learn that they are vari ously due to the necessity for protection, to sex, age. climate and food. Generally it is the male bird that is distinguished by bright plumage. This is his wedding elress. which he assumes during courtship and doffs after the nesting season. No matter how brightly colored the male may be the young resemble the mother in their plum age and this undoubtedly protects them from foes. The young of bright colored birds are born without much plumage, but covered with a down which gradually Is re placed by plumage that Is pretty well de veloped by the time they leave the nest. Birds change their colors according to sea sons and circumstances. Thus in the case of the bobolink, the young resemble the fe male; after the first moult the young male develops black feathers and before return ing from his winter season in Brazil moults again, coming north in a disguise of yel lowish green. His bill also changes from a brown when he wears the yellow green dress to a black, when his black feathers appear again In the spring. Ducks have a double moult, and while all birds that de pend on fiight begin to moult at the center of the wing, so they always have enough feathers to carry them through the air. water birds lose so many feathers at once thrt they must depend upon diving for safety. The first edition of this work, pub lished in Is'jT, was illustrated by black-and-white bird portraits by Mr. Seton-Thomp-son. This edition has photographic bromide copies of these drawings which, having been colored by an expert tinder the au thor's supervision and carefully reproduced by lithography, make without doubt the best collection of colored bird portraits ex tant. The plates may justly be regarded as a triumph of successful illustration. The book is one that can be read with pleasure and profit by young and old. New York: D. Appleton & Co. KxiKlUli Politics In Llarly Vlrelnln History. The author of this book, Alexander Brown, of Virginia, has made a special study of early colonial history and politics. lib "The Genesis of the United States" was a narrative of the movement in Eng land from 1605 to 1616 which resulted in the first settlement of North America by Eng lishmen. The present work is Intended pri marily to render historic justice to the patriots who instituted popular govern ment in the country by showing that they represented a broad policy and were deter minedly opposed by the court party in Eng land. Incidentally the author shows how the whole history of early colonial Vir ginia was more or less affected by English politics. The book is divided Into live parts. Part I is an outline of the primary effort of the patriot party in England to plant a popular course of government in America, and of the court party to prevent it, show ing that a great historic wrong was done our patriotic founders by James I and his officials in the evidences preserved by the crown, and why it was done. Part II out lines the effort of the court party in Eng land to obliterate the true history of the origin of this Nation, showing how another great wrong was done our patriotic found ers bv the licensed historians of the period. Part "ill deals with the contest over our political and historical rights between the court and patriot parties, from 1625 until the patriots determined to secure their political rights by force of arms in 1776. Part IV shows how. in the opinion of the author, the early influences above referred to have been carried along in modern his tory. Finally, Part V reviews some of the leading political features of the contest between the opposing forces designated as the patriot party and the court party. In carrying out this plan the author makes a very complete presentation of the great contest of ideas and war of principles that led to the establishment of popular gov ernment In America and which gave color to history for a long time. The book shows extensive knowledge of colonial history and draws largely from original sources un known or inaccessible to most writers. It is a valuable contribution to the Inside history of the earlv colonial period. Boston; Houghton, Mifflin & Co. The Spanish People. This book seems to have beer suggested by the recent war between the United Slates and Spain, which gave new interest to Spanish history. It is the first of a "Great Peoples Series," intended to show how some of the leading peoples of the world have become great and earned their title to greatness. In thi3 volume an at tempt is made to trace the evolution of a composite people from Its various racial units and to seek in the peculiarities of its origin and the circumstances of its devel opment the explanation of its character and institutions and of the principal vicis situdes that have befallen it as a nation. Whatever Spain may be at present, she has been a great nation in the past and has great possibilities in the future. The con tributions of Spaniards to the mass of tho civilization of the world have been great. The world is Spain's debtor for many rich services, not only to geographic knowledge, but to commercial, artistic and literary progress. Because Spain is now in bard li:ck and because she was badly worsted in the recent war, it must not be assumed that she is without a great history. This U well outlined In "The Spanish Peoph?: Their Origin, Growth and Influence," by Martin A. S. Hume. It is the story of the evolution of the Spanish people told from a fresh point of view. The services of Spaniards to the Roman empire, the mystic spiritual exaltation of the sixteenth cen tury, and the far-reaching explorations and conquests of Spaniards, the services ren dered bv Spain to Latin literature, the preservation of the Roman system of juris diction in Spain and her influence upon re ligion, literature and the stage are all por trayed in a spirit of historic research and philosophic analysis. New York: D. Ap pleton & Co. The Story of Sarah. A bit of New England fishing coast, with an American village at the foot of a slope, and a tiny transplanted Dutch one at the top the two separated by the "branch" is the scene of "The Story of Sarah," and a good story it is, too. There is a conscious ness of reserve power in the author. M. Louise Forsslund (M. Louise Foster), which encourages the reader to presume that there will be no sagßlng in the middle of the tale, nor any letting down at the end so common a fault in many publications of the day. Sarah, the. beautiful daughter of "Cap'n Lern," of the life saving crew, though educated "with the best of 'cm." Is struggling amid the uncongenial sur roundings of her father's home, between two lovers, a fine young Dutchman, and Captain Devine, a daredevil fisherman, whose almost hypnotic power over tho op posite sex makes his influence uron the girl a potent one. The glimpse of the life of the life saving crew, with its many risks and temptations is striking. So many other characters are introduced at first as to Ttx somewhat confuting to the rentier, and pcr hips a little weakening to the tale; their dissimilarity in lot and personality add greatly to the interest of a story which does not lapse Into dullness from the first P'ire to the last. '1 he publisher is Brentano. New York. With the WIM Flovrer. The passage of but a few years brinps such modifications in our knowledge of even the most familiar things that it is only the new book or the revised edition of a standard that can "speak from to day." This book by Maud Going (E. M. Hardingen was first published In 1W, and a revised edition is issued to bring Its statements into harmony with new knowl edge regarding some details of plant habit and structure. The full title of the work is "With the Wild Mowers from Pussy Willow to Thistle Down; a rural chronicle of our flower friends and foes, describing them unier their common English names. ' It treats in a clear and simple style, free from technicalities, of the wild flowers and plants most widely distributed in the Northern States, ami contains a large num ber of illustrations. The wjiK tould be used as a text-book, and will be fom.d a use ful hand-book by all students and lovers cf plant life. New York: The Bakr & Tay lor Company. Juletty. "Juletty. a story of Old Kentucky," Is a story of the old times in the historic loca tion in tho State called the "Pennyrile district. The author, Mrs. Lucy Clara Me Elroy, knows her county well, and has saturate the book with Its atmosphere. The tale is full of dramatic incidents bear ing upon the search for an illicit still by a young revenu officer, whone love for his grandfather's beautiful neighbor "Juletty" hampers his efforts at times. In one chap ter an account ef the battle of Lebanon, (which is somewhat ne-glected by histor ians) together with the pathetic death of John Morgan's younger brother Torn, is given in a reminiscent way. The ttory is so good that it should be tetter, though when It is known that the author bedrid den for twenty y ars picked out the entir story with one hand on the typewriter, one is amazed at tho willpower and persever ance which produced so readable a tale. The publishers are Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., New York. First Yenrs in Handicraft. Training in handwork is fast beeomin: a prominent feature in the public crool -system ot this country. Of the several petlods marking this manual trail ng course. It Is thought by some that the weakest Is found in the primary school, dealing with pupils of from seven to eleven tr l-:ive .'au of ag children whi have vjtgr-jwn tho employment of the kin trsatn .ml :e celving class, without yet having alta'ned the growth qualifying them for the forms of handicraft common : Hie 3 ram mar grades. "First Years - ll."-ait." by W. G. Kennon. is an :it-.-n"vt t- bridge this hiatus in child instruction. It is in tended to show children bow to mrtka handy an! useful things vJith th? i-ulT, pencil and scissors, eithor ;.t lime or at school. The book is coot u sly lllus'ratej and will Ik? found useful ! iea.eh.rs. par ents and pupils int re ,. 1 n manual cul ture. New York: The Bik-r & Taylor Company. nzareth or Tarsus f This Is a purpose story In which the pur pose is so prominent and argumentative that It completely overshadows the story and leaves of the latter nothing but an inconsequential succession of disconnected Incidents. The purpose is to prove that tha Apostle Paul was a man of disordered mind, o brilliant but unbalanced intellect, and that his doctrines are misleading and in some respects a dangerous departure from the teachings of Christ. This oriein.il idea is 1eveloiel with considerable Inge nuity, but the argument would have been more Impressive if it had been presented in a controversial form without the awk ward attempt at fiction. New York; J, 3, Cgilvie Publishing Company. Current Periodical. Ex-President Cleveland will contribute to the following issue of the Saturday Even ing Tost (June 1) an able paper on "Tha Waste of Public Money." In this ar ticle Mr. Cleveland sounds a warring note against national extravagance and the criminally reckless expenditure of publio money. A Burlington, Vt.. paper thinks the Bow-en-Merrill Company has been either ex tremely lucky or has used remarkably good judgment in selecting its novels for publi cation, and expresses the belief that George Ilorton's "Like Another Helen" possesses merit that should make it another phe nomenal success. One way of keeping the children inter ested in something of value during the summer vacation is suggested in the ar ticle. "Leaf Collections." In the American Mother for June. Children often get tired ot aimless playing, and such a plan as is outlined would give them employment for rainy days as wen as for bright ones. Ana Arbor, Mich. Under the general editorship of Mr. Cas par "Whitney, the Macmillan Company have in preparation "The American Sportsman's Library," a series of books each of which will contain an authoritative monograph on one of the main branches of American sport. Each volume will be written by a sportsman well known In his own field, and the illustrations wdll also be drawn by men who have made a specialty of their particular subject. While Mr. Charles Felton Pidgin, the au thor of "Quincy Adams Sawyer," was pro paring his forthcoming novel, "Blennerhas sett." which the C. M. Clark Company, of Boston, will bring out soon, he received much valuable Information concerning the private life of Aaron Burr (the hero of his rcmance) from Mrs. Stella Edwards Pierre pont Drake. She is a lineal descendant of Rev. Jonathan Edwards, who was tho father of Col. Aaron Burr' mother. "Warwick of the Knobs." by John Uli Lloyd, author of "Stringtown on the Pike." Is now running as a serial in the Bookman and will be published in book form in the fall. It is descriptive of. a curious phase of life In northern Kentucky during the civil war. Here, on the border lino be tween the North and South, in a email community, the contending factions, di vided in their allegiance, are arrayed against each other. It i rather Intimate and biographical than historical. Laird & Lee, of Chicago, have added an other to their series of vest pocket refer ence books. Its title is simply "Electric Sparks," but it is really a complete, though brief, review of electricity in all Its branches. The work has been especially prepared by a scientist of reputation. An other little publication is a vest pocket diary covering six months of time and In-' tended especially for the use of visitors to the Pan-American Exposition. Besides the diary' proper It contains much information about Buffalo and the fair. There are few things of which the aver age reader knows lfs than of "The Making of a Jockey," which is the leading article In Ainslee's for June. It is illustrated with pictures of Johnny Reiff, Tod Sloan and other famous jockeys, and gives an Inti mate picture of the daily life of that pecul iar typo of modern development the boy rider who earns as much per year as ten college professors. "(Jirl Colonies In New York." by Alice K. Fallows, will be of in terest to girls who contemplate seeking their fortune in art or business in the na tional metropolis. "Wu Ting Fang." by L. A. Coolldge, Is a close view study of the remarkable Chinaman. "Ocean Steam ships." by S. A. Wood, the second in Ainslee's-series of "Great Types of Mod ern Business." is graphic and entertaining. "Alone Across Alaska." by Robert Dunn, is an absorbing account of the prfonnl adventures of a yoi;rg college graduate, whose exploring achievements have been recognized by the government. All these articles are illustrated. A number of short stories Increase the attractiveness of the number. In Everybody's Magazine there is an article by Dr. L. O. Howard showing how the government scientists have repeatedly saved the fruit-growers from utter ruin and have made it possible to build up great agricultural industries. In "Fighting Petstt with Insect Allies" it is told how the en tomologists killed off the white scale which threatened ruin to the orange growers of California by Importing "lady birds" from Australia, how grasshoppers are destroyed by a fungus, how the Smyrna fig industry of California has le-n created by the Blastophaca. It makes a narrative ef dis tinct interest and value. There are als- stories by Maximilian Foster. Charles Major and Theodore Watrs, poetry by Andrew Lnng. W. J. Lampton and Howard Wehlen. "Joselyn Che-shire." the serial by Sarah Beaumont Kennedy, is concluded. In "The Making of a County Home." J. P. Mowbray employs his Ik to und heroine garden making. An article that wiil attract much attention is that on the subject of Christen Science, by T. J. Hudson, author of "The Law of Psychic Phenomena." He may be r-.itrded as an authority on psychic manifestation a form of which makes the tasis of Christian Science. With the Publishers. L. C. Page & Co., Boston, have just IsuM three novels previously announced "An tonio," by Jessie Van ZUe Beiden; "A Funny Southerner." by Julia Magruder, and "Manasseh." by Maurus Jokai. The Mitt of Kipling against G. I Put nam's Sons, for alleged infringement of copyright and trade mark, has resulted in a defeat of the. plaintiff. The t.ok trade has been practically one in believing that Kirli'g was badly advised, ar.d that he had no cause for his action. The lifelike butttrdbs and insects which appear in the new edition in co'.oi of Prof. J. H. Comtoek's "Insect L!fe" are re produced directly from specimens selectJ by Professor Comstock from the remark-