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MoLAIK, 4 I3ffi!yd W e have yet to hear a single cogent reason given why the republicans of this district should elect John Lind to con gress W e say republicans, because it will take republican votes to elect him, and he is making a special effort to cater to that kind of support No consistent republican partizan can vote for a man who has done so much to injure the party in this state, the man who has been the active instrument of inflicting the only defeat the republican party in Minnesota has had in forty years N o independent republican can vote for Lind if he has at heart the best interests Of the city, the state and the country. There are not many independent repub licans vho would care to see the control f the national house of representatives pass to the democracy. A vote for Lind is a vote that may be Instrumental In accomplishing that event uality. N o cool republican can see any reason why he should undertake to strengthen the ranks of the incompetent democratic party. Yet control of the house may de pend on one congressman. Merely as a cftizen of Minneapolis, the Toter has nothing to gain by exchanging Mr Lind for Congressman Fletcher The chances are ninety-nine out a hundred that if Mr Fletcher is elected, the na tional house will be republican. Being a member of the dominant party, he will have an advantage o\er a new member of the minority party Even if the house should be democratic and Mr. Lind elect ed, he could accomplish little with the senate and the presidency republican The most populous congressional dis trict In the United States, the seat of the commercial metropolis of the northwest oan scarcely afford to be represented in Washington by a free-silver reactionary who is out of touch with the times, by an anti-expansionist who would curb his own country while it is competing with the rest of the world EDITOR. OF FOB 30 issues.... 1151 30 issues 904 DAiy Such being the situation there is no use thrusting an office upon a man who doesn't want it, and has been trying as hard as Mr Lind has for the past ten years to get out of office and stay out. Mr. Llnd's admirable ambition in this respect is always overborne by adverse circumstances Every time he refuses to take office something happens to make him do what he said he wouldn't He needs some good strong kindly help in his good Intentions He can't resist dem ocratic cajolery and when tempted he falls and again appears as the enemy of his political alma mater, the good, old reliable republican party This time, though the straight-out, dyed-in-the-wool democratic nominee he is talking republican doctrine. W e have no doubt that the voters will prefer a stalwart, rock-ribbed loyal republican, nominated by republicans, standing for republican principles invariably, to one who is not a republican, who Insulted and injured .the old party, and is now auda cious enough to seek to go to congress to the disadvantage of that party with the aid of republican votes. - i 30 issues 630 No Call for Lind. The coal operators propose to make the vpublic pay $25,000,000 for the strike, By means of increased prices. Would it not Coif. T O IN A NUTSHELL. 0 2 have been better to have made the public pay for an increase of pay that would have avoided the strike? Mr. HSU in His Element Mr. J. J. Hill Is always Interesting He has a wonderful faculty of wrapping tho dryeat subjects In a halo of absorbing Interest. To read his unassuming yet wonderfully impressive discourses on the great trade questions of the day is to sympathize with Dr. Trlggs* idea that the industrial captains of our day were the poets of other times. Mr. HOI, lute most able men, has a prolifio imagination. To this faculty he unites great creative ability. He has visions of mighty industrial changes of railway lines and steamship companies, of globe-encircling trafflo arrangements, and then ha turns them into fact. H e Is distinguished from all the other railway men of this country who have attained greatness by his elevated point of view and the scope of his mental vision. Very likely there are abler railway executives in the United States than Mr. HU1, but none of them are such masters of the philosophy of transportation and so abun dantly able to make philosophy break through and prevail over obstacles. Where these superlative executives can see only a few hundreds or at most thousands of miles of railway, Mr. Hill sees the whole essential transportation system of the -world and grasps its inter-relations in a truly Napoleonic manner. ^ v w TxrESDAYEvranro, The interminable discussion of currency and banking re form in the United States abounds in reference to the Canadian systems, though rarely are these references ac companied by compact statements of the outlines of the Canadian practice. ' Canada is a gold-standard country, but has no gold coin of Its own. The British sovereign and the American eagle are both legal tender and are the basis of the money system. There are about $25,000,000 of Dominion government notes_ In circulation. N o increase In these over $20,000,000 la' allowed except on seourlty of the full amount in gold, But the great bulk of the currency In actual circulation, except subsidiary coin, consists of bank notes * The Canadian bank system was established In 1871, and has twice been revised. It provides |for central chartered banks with branches, and note Issues secured by a first lien upon assets, stockholders' liability and a 5 per cent redemp tion fund. The minimum capital required for organization of a bank Is $600,000 subscribed, one-half of whioh must be paid in before the bank can begin business. The paid-up capital cannot be Impaired by the payment of dividends, and 8 per cent is the maximum dividend until there is accumulated a re serve fund ot at least 30 per cent of the capital. There are now thirty-five chartered banks, which have about 700 branches, an aggregate capital of $68,000,000 and - 0 2 oentf l ^___ It is rarely Indeed that we have such Interesting deliverances from the witness stand as thp discourse on the theory and practice of continental and oceanic transportation that Mr, Hill gave yester day In St Paul, in the case of the United States government versus his merger plan. To a man with even a trace of Mr Hill's interest in transportation and the merest touch of his imagination, the story of the balancing of east and west ship ments on the Great Northern and North ern Pacific, the value of the Burlington to the two systems, the tapping of the Illinois eoal fields, the dire predlotion of coal famine, the assertion of competition between Mr. Hill's railway and ocean systems and the Suez canal, the fond dwelling on the low gradients of the Burl ington system are delightful. But the more Mr. Hill dwells on the formidable power he now exercises In the main for the benefit of the northwest, the more one Is impressed with the pos sibilities of the same combination for evil, if the system should pass Into weaker or less devoted control So long as the Northern Pacific and Great Northern were separate and competing systems each w as a check upon the misuse of the other, and neither had it in its power to do the northwest such damage as both now can do if small men or perverse men come into control. Pending the time when we have far more efficient control of rail ways in the public interest than now, such combinations are to be dreaded, however beneficent they may turn out to be in the hands of the right man. t After Oom Paul the Mad Mullah. Ver ily, trouble chases the British drumbeats around the world. Changing Democracy. The socialistic coal plank of the New York democratic platfcrm may yet be the means of bringing together the supposed ly conservative and the undoubtedly rad ical wings of the democratic party. Brj an will have no trouble in subscribing to na tional ownership of coal mines, Hill has already subscribed to it, and it just simply delights democrats of the Tom Johnson type Our Washington correspondent suggests that the demociatic party may yet drift into state socialism. N o greater change could be imagined from the old time conservative, highly individualistic democracy than such a one A s between the two parties up to this time the re publican as the champion of tariffs and subsidies and of internal Improvements apparently has leaned more toward state socialism than the democratic party, which has always advocated the least possible amount of government. But since 1892 the democratic party in the United States has been drifting to wards radicalism. It has been losing its historical connection with the old ante bellum party. Continuous defeat has forced upon it a policy of opportunism, which is now taking form as perpetual radicalism, since opportunism has fre quently led It to take radical positions And now that the great questions of publio control of the accumulation mnd distribu tion of wealth are coming to be the ques tions of the hour, it Is as natural as can be that the democracy, feeing largely made up of mer? who consider themselves sufferers- from present conditions, should throw their ancient notions and Ideals to the wind and take UR.the. supposedly popu lar side of ne-w questions. Ireland seems to have been annexed to Boston. It is curious to what an extent Irish political questions are threshed over In this country. With Irish speakers stumping the United States discussing old world political matters, the time may yet come when, as Stead suggests, a delega- tlon from Ireland will appear In Washing ton asking that Ireland be admitted as a state into the American union. Perpetual CoaL-Stringenoy. That w as a very alarming prediction Mr. J. J. Hill made yesterday when he said that the coal situation, bad as it is this year, will constantly grow worse In the northwest This part of the country Is so far away from Pennsylvania and neighboring coal fields that the nearer consumers wilt have first chance at the supply. Also, there are some difficulties In tha way of transportation. The Wash ington and British Columbia ooal fields are too far away. Some help may be ex pected from Illinois. Of the Iowa coal Mr. Hill says nothing, evidently not consider ing It of good enough quality for steam coal. Mr. Hill referred to coal for both manu facturing and domestic use His combina tion Is evidently looking out for its own motive power by buying through the Bur lington some 30,000 acres of Illinois coal lands It is also his intention to intro duce Illinois coal Into general consumption in the northwest But his statement that the situation will grow worse does not Indicate that he expects to accomplish much for the general public even In this way. If the problem of coal supply is to press upon the people of the northwest every year they can not too soon turn their energy and capital to the development of the Inexhaustible lignite deposits of Nortn Dakota and to methods of making it more suitable for general use A s y et the problem, except now, on account of the anthracite strike, has not much bothered the people of Minnesota. In North Dakota they have long since taken to lignite on a large scale But there can be no doubt that if It becomes difficult to get coal from the east, ways will be found to adapt to all uses the vast sup plies of crude fuel nature has deposited J n North Dakota. With so much valuable European experience In the use of lignite before us, it ought not to be a verv -diffi cult task to make profitable, and if Mr. Hill is right, supremely important, U3e of this "brown coal." Minnesota will be well represented at the national convention of buttermakers in Milwaukee. Not less than 500 of the North Star butter men left for the con vention last night. This number speaks emphatically of the importance of the dairy industry in Minnesota. It will ere long be much more important, and the state's quantity of production will rival the high plape the quality now holds. A sad thing about the responsible editor of a respected contemporary, is that when he loses his temper he gets his figures mixed. This morning, for instance, he permitted an "underdone veal" to come to life and "browse" in editorial columns This is pretty bad for one who in his calmer moments is such a pastmaster at "fine writin'." The campaign seems to be warming up & bit. With Senator Nelson and Con gressman McCIeary stirring things up last night and Secretary of the Treasury Shaw coming to speak at the exposition to-mor row night republicans hereabouts ought to begin to realize that a campaign is on and that an eleotion is only two weeks away. And now that the dreadful Imperialistic army, which used to deprive our demo cratic friends of much needed sleep, is reduced to 60,000, what has become of that menace of militarism and those pre dictions that for years and years we would be pouring the youth of the land Into the maw of the Philippine war? Attorney General Douglas has conclu sively proved now that John Lind was in favor of just the kind of a gross earnings law aB that to be submitted to the people. Consequently the St. Paul Globe's attacks on that measure are on Mr. Lind as much as they are on anybody. "Wages are going down in England, but In this country they are s'till going Up. Whether we can keep them up here de pends largely upon our ability to find new markets. There is a hint in this favora ble to reciprocity. All suspense Is over. The great coal strike w as thiB morning officially declared off. Now the piok will take the place of talk and bluster, production the place of oratory and exchanges of bad names. When you read this, if you live In Min neapolis, you will still have time to go to the precinct polling place and register. The last chance to register win be offered Saturday. The law being against him and not be ing subject to easy repeal Mr. Hill, it seems, is arranging to change governors Who Are the "Knockers?" \ Lincoln Star. Mr. Baef refers to the opponents of the trusts as "knockers." That Is very well said, but the worst "knocKess" we have in this country are those industrial giants Who pound up the price of products with a tack hammer, and pound down the price *b labor with * pile driver* Canadian Currency and B^nlUng Systems THE MINNEAPOLIS JOURNAL'. ' ' | i "Hi [ i - ! - 'in in l| ilii Hy** a surplus of $38,000,000. The Bank of Montreal, with a capi tal of $13,000,000 and forty-eight branches,, is the largest. The banks Issue notes to the full amount 6f their capital on the security above noted, and there is no prescribed re serve. Not more than 10 per cent is usually held against deposits, and circulation is not taxed. In practice note issues rarely exceed "60 per oent of the capital and range from 25 to 50 per cent In different years and different parts of tlje same year This fluctuation proves the elasticity and adaptability of the system. Each bank is required to re deem its notes, on demand at Us head-.office and at the branches in the chief titles of the provlnbss. .The^average life of a Canadian bank note is only four weeks Aside from affording systems for the facile distribution of cur rency the bianch banks are chiefly valuable as distributors of credit Through the branches resources far away from the point where the loan may actually be placed are at the service of responsible borrowers. *It results from this that the rate of Interest is substantially the same throughout the country, varying only with the^cost of conducting busi ness at small and remote branches An important result of the branch system la that very little money is tied up under "due to and from other banks" designations The Ameri can bank has to do business with other banks, whereas the Canadian bank transaots its ordinary operations Airough its own branches. || ftfajj^Myifti ii) ' nn i jNjnulii Money may make the mare go, but It takes a machinist to Induce the auto to circulate. young personthe billboard or the backs of the magazines. lady who is forever trying on her corsets we blush at the necessity that compels us to allude to thisin the public prints or on the billboards Not that she lacks charming features, op that point we make no strictures. Nor on the beautiful, awan-llke neck which is..followed Immedi ately t the corset. But why should the lady's form, after showing what the cor set can 40, suddenly change its- route south and: run at Tight angles due west for a^shortf^distaneg, thence*1* again and turning in its orignal dreoton until It reaches her neat and attractive feet? W e shall not cavil at the public corset, but why should the lady present the appearance of bug with the small waist part of the insect apparently dis located? It is difficult ,to tell In whioh direction the lady tei going* My old college cfftim tells me that he had a dream last week that he was llvmg in Billboardville and that all the ladies on the board suddenly came to life and stepped out on the street and proceeded to walk aWay in an unconcerned manner. He hid under the sidewalk several vet erans of the late war climbed trees A city father ran behind the barn, a promi nent grain broker fainted, three or four newspaper writers suffered pen paralysis and a prominent medical authority threw a fit Thank heaven, he told me afterwards, it w as a dream. ^ *". A. J. Russell. r .. The NonpareilI Ma n iiimniiiimiiirirmg mnmn Casually Observed. Did you notice how much easier money came In Saturday after Secretary Shaw released that $20,000,000? Speaking of 4he surgical operation of gastrectomy, or cutting out the stomach, a writer in the Lancet says he "does not look upon the operation as a favorable one." Still he must acknowledge that It Is very interesting. Chicago health authorities claim that telephone mouthpieoes are loaded with bacilli that people have coughed Into them These baccilli are likely to be talked to death when Mame and Charlie get the line. The filing sound heard in the upper part of Africa is due to the Mad Mullah grat ing his teeth preparatory to fastening them in the British lion. The W. C. T. U convention, now in ses sion in Portland, Me , listened yesterday to a most interesting and conclusive con demnation of the wearing apparel, or lack of It, of the lady of the billboards It is difficult to see why this estimable fairy should not dress properly, especially when we consider the rigors of the climate Privately we own to having suffered sev eral considerable shocks due to glancing casually at the billboard female semin ary while riding by ft Is difficult to say which is the more v ,. MINNESOTA POLITICS , Frank M Eddy wais In St. Paul yester day resting from his active campaigning of the past two weeks. H e was proud of the meeting Saturday night at his home town of Glenwood, wheh he delivered the first political speech he ever made in Pope county. Delegations came to him from every township in the county, and he gave his old neighbors and friends a taste of what he could do in the oratorical line. Mr. Eddy speaks to-night at Cloquet, Wednesday at Aitkin, Thursday at Elk River, Friday at St, Cloud, and Saturday at Little Falls. Buckmai Going After the Voters. Senator C. B, Buckman, republican candidate for congress in the sixth dis trict, has closed a very successful speak ing tour, and starts this week on a per sonal canvass of the district. He will make a few incidental speeches, but will depend prlcipally oh individual work among the voters Voting Made Easy. The democratic state committee has sent out 300,000 sample "ballots for distri bution. They are fac seniles of the state ballots with a cross marked after each democratic candidate. On the back are Instructions for voters, in several different languages. These ballots can be taken into the polling booth by the voter to as sist him in marking the official ballot. The democratic state committee has se cured another outside date from John Lind. He has agreed to speak in Duluth Oct. 30. iVIr. O'Grady's Platform, f' T. O'Grady, democratic candidate for" the senate from Rice ooifnty, has issued a unique card. Mr. O'Grady is an honest farmer, and he proclaims the fact pic torlally, with an old wood cut of horses, cows, pigs and sheep rubbing together in a happy family Beneath the cut he an nounces that "he who makes two blades of grass grow where only one grew before Is a benefactor to mankin d" As Mr. O'Grady has been a benefactor of this sort ever slnoe he w as able to reach the plow handles, he thinks it about time for the reward. Republicans for Tariff Reform. Philadelphia Ledger The most effective opposition to the tariff Is now found within the republican party. The great west and northwest have joined hands with New England in demanding that the oppressive and unrea sonable Dingley schedules shall go The crop producer who sells in the lowest mar ket and buys in the dearest demands "protection" from trust extortion which is made possible h y the Dingley act. The manufacturer produces more than we use, and he wants raw materials on better terms, as well as an extension of his mar ket for his surplus goods The withdrawal of Speaker Henderson has not perhaps taught the leaders of the republican party the lesson which it behooves them to learn, but the longer, they hide their faces in ostrich fashion from the Issue, the greater win he the upheaval when \t conaes*^ v^- ffc !| . The pinboard Lady. 1 ,. l . f IIIIIIIIIIIIHIII u dangerous to the rTake, for example, the Charles B. Cheney. switching - " .AMUSEMENTS Ds Wolf Hopper In "Mr. Pickwick" at the Metropolitan. Any attempt to call to life on the stage some of tU e myriad characters that sprang from the fertile fancy of Charles Dickens is interesting His men and women, cari catures though most of them are, seem very real and very human to his readers. To put them on the stage and breathe into them the breath of dramatic life does not seem a difficult taskuntil it is tried Then It bfecomes evident that, though the characters are ready to the adapter s hand, all fashioned and even pictured by the Bickenslan Illustrators, It Is not so easy to give them a play The Dickens story baffles the playwright. It refuses utterly to lie upon his Procrustean bed, and be stretched out or sawed off to fit. It has remained for Charles Klein, a clever librettist, to appropriate some of the characters in "Pickwick Papers" and thrust them Into what Is calledany other classification being impossible"a musical production tense of constructing a play, Mr. Klein has succeeded in translating several of the absurdly laughable adventures of Mr. Pickwick and his club to the stage with highly entertaining results To be suio, it does seem a bit incongruous when the Pickwick club bursts into song and other comic operatic things occur, but the music is good and it is well sung Man uel Klein has set the jingly lyrics which Grant Stewart has furnished to som lilting melodies and ringing harmonies that are very pleasing. And thus, "Mr. Pickwick," though it would fall far short of satisfying a Dickens enthusiast, Is merrily contrived to entertain large au diences. As for the chief character, the legs are the legs of Pickwick but the voice is the voice of De Wof Hopper. It is possible that if Mr Hopper tried very hard to be some one else for a few hours on the stage he could do it, but he never has done It, and since in his own proper per son he is an exceedingly funny and en tertaining fellow, nobody is seriously dis appointed because of his lack of a talent for impersonation His Pickwick make up is a marvelous success In spite of his great height, which one might expect to disqualify him for the pudgy and pon derous president, he gets himself up to look exactly as if he had stepped out of an illustration in "Pickwick Papers " But he capers about in a manner that would have shocked the real Mr Pickwick inex pressibly, and continually cracks very Hopperesque jokes. Digby Bell plays Sam Weller quite in character and realizes that smug young person with delicious unction Perhaps a Londoner would detect a telltale nasal twang In his dialect, but for us he is Sammy himself come to life. Harry Nor man, big of voice and figure as ever, plays Tony Weller with a good nature that even sad experience with "vidders" cannot un seat. Grant Stewart, besides making the lyrics, plays Alfred Jingle capitally. It is an impersonation of that graceless vaga bond with a genius for love-making de serving of unreserved praise Laura Joyce Bell adds another, fine piece of work as Mrs, Bardell to this remarkably strong cast As the nemesis of Pickwick she leaves nothing to be desired. Marguerite Clark makes a petite and quite Irresisti ble Polly, dancing and singing her way into every heart The Arabella is Louise Gunning and, in spite of a habit that singers fall into of conscious appeal to the audience, she pleases with her really art istic singing The other characters, such as the Fat Boy of Guy H Bartlette, the Mr Wardle of J K Adams the Winkle of Louis Payn and the Miss Wardle of Grace Fisher, are well done The production in short is* merrily wholesome The stage effects, the cos tumes and all the accessories are well conceived and executed and the ensembles are strong and effective ., , W. B Ch&nberlain^ f "'''Across the Pacific" at the BIJou. "Across the Pacific," an exceedingly noisy and unusually successful melo drama, has returned to the Bijou after an absence of about a year, and will prob ably break a few records before it leaves town. The piece contains all the elements that go to make success in a popular priced melodramatic production. Battle, murder and sudden death are of common makes itself apparent early in the first act and persists_to the end, except for a occurrence. The smell of gunpowder brief space when it gives way to the odor of joss sticks in a Chinese "hop joint" Murderers, thieves and traitors all ply their arts, and the lachrymose heroine is rescued innumerable times from the machinations of the villain and his as sistants all of which is highly edifying to admirers of this sort of dramatic ad venture. That "Across the Pacific" is a good play even its authors will not main tain that it has proved a successful play no one can deny. The feature of the last act Is a genuine Gatling gun which fires several thousand shots a minute and whioh, for the time, usurps the preroga tive of the comedy lead and rescues the heroine from the final danger into which the playwright has seen fit to cast her, Serious consideration of "Across the Pa cific" is neither desirable nor possible Its purpose is to amuse a certain class of theater-goers and it does so admirably, The company Is a good one. Harry Clay Blaney is fitted for much better things than fall to his share as Willie Live, a ubiquitous war correspondent for , San Francisco paper. Blaney is always funny and he has found an admirable foil this year in Miss Kittie Wolf, a dainty sou brette who does much to add to the merri ment of the piece. The interpolated spe cialties contributed by this pair aie most diverting Harry W. Fetawlck ds deserving of praise for his work as Bud Stanton and Miss Francis Desmonde is good as Nell Hazle ton. The scenery Is good and, with the Gatling gun, Is worthy a' place among the features of the piece, J. S. Lawrence Without making any pre - "Napoleon's Son" at the Lyceum An admirable performance of Rostand's "L'Aiglon" is given at the Lyceum theater this week by the Ferris Stock company, The title of the plajr, for copyright rea sons, no doubt," is changed to "Napoleon's Son " But the work, if a new version, is essentially that which has added to the fame of Sara Bernhardt and TWCaude Adams. And, avoiding unfair compari sons, one may assert that the Ferris oom- ' pany sets forth with dignity and taste the exquisitely pathetic poetry of the French masterpiece. So near my cradle to my deathbed, And all my life has passed between the two. sighs the dying prince, in the plaintive imaginative strain of the whole play. For "L'Aiglon" is rather a dramatic elegy than a tragedy. But In genuine poetry, in bold ye*- persuasive Imagination, in delicacy of pathos Rostand has surpassed*the earlier beauties of his "Cyrano " The contrary may, perhaps be held true by Frenchmen, who onlv can appreciate the peculiarly Gallic qualities of the nasal knight. But "L'Aiglon" touches more the universal heart, despite the fact that American audiences lose much from lack of familiar ity with French life and French history, and from the inevitable inadequacies of all translated language. A s L'Aiglon. Miss Grace Hayward con veys charmingly the melancholy, the grace, and the distinction of a young prince. She makes clear, in something more than wefr-ds. the Inherent vacillation and weak will of his chaiacter. Of her coadjutors, Will D. Corbett proved notably true as Flambeau, the ever loyal veteran, who dies In that wonderful scene of theatric Imagination, the spectral battle field of Wagram. The costumes and stage management are exceUent, and the scenery is far above the standard of stock companies. H. B. Curry. - Essence of the Canteen Question. Milwaukee Sentinel. That unreasonable person, Funston, sticks to It that limited beer in an or derly canteen is better for the soldier than unlimited, whisky ia a disorderly grog- IjdutlV OCTOBER 21, 1S62. In the Fail of the Campanile (Copyright, 1902, by T. C. McClure) "I tell thee," returned old Jacopo queru lously and with the same impatient gest ure he had often used to the St Mark pigeons when they grew too familiar"I tell thee thou canst not have the girl " "But I love her," urged Charlie Hark ness with the blind belief of lo\ers that this argument is sufficient "What If thou dosf" replied the old guide sharply. "Thou art but an Amer ican seaman, speaking our sweet mother tongue most vilely, and who doubts but thou has a light o' love in every port thou hast touched on'" "That is false," said the American qui etly "An yone of my shipmates would tell you so " "To the devil with thy shipmates and thee," answered Jacopo petulantly "One thing I swear to theemy Tessa shall no man have unless he dwell within sight of the campanile " A s he spoke he glanced affectionately at the great bell tower crowning St Mark's. "TWO POWERFUL ARMS LIFTBD HIM LIKE A FEATHER AND THE AMERICAN RAN *Ott BOTH THEIR LIVES Under the benign smile of the golden an gel poised on its graceful height had Jacopo In his long gone youth pledged his troth To that dead Tessa had he first told the story of the campanilehow Doge Pietro Tribuno had begun it centuries ago, how the loggia had been a meeting place for the haughty nobles of Venice So well had he told it that she suggested to him the occupation of guide, and under her inspiration he had succeeded beyond his hopes. H e grew to be a great favorite among all tourists, and to people of many different lands he repeated, never weary ing, the history of the bell tower Though a man of no education, he w as strongly tinged with the poetry of his passionate country and often comprehend ed far better than most of the sight crammed touristb who trotted after him the unparalleled beauty on the famous piazza That an American should dare to think of carrying Tessa away forever filled him with dismay Suddenly turning, he plunged into an alley and disappeared from view Harkness was left to wander disconsolately through the piazza and to ponder on Tessa's gentle but firm assur ance that she could not marry without her father's consent. Books and Authors A Charge of Plagiarism. J. Malham-Dembleby, whoever he may be, writing for the London Saturday Re view, says he has discovered a ' key to 'Jane Byre,' " and flatly charges Char lotte Bronte with plagiarism The lit erary theft, says Mr. EDWARD BITLWER. (Lord Lytton.) Times Saturday Review says: "Clement K Shorter, one of the biog xaphers and editors of Chailotte Bronte, seems to take Mr. Malham-Dembleby's 'Key to Jane Eyre' rather gravely Nobody knows better than Mr Shorter how such literary fantasies may impress the public mind In England. Here we have so much of that kind of stuff that no single freak ish 'revelation' can make much difference Mr. Shorter sees fit directly to contradict Mr Malham-Dembleby's assertion that Miss Bronte's genius was 'constructive and not creative' Of course Mr. Shorter is right, and, of course, no book-by Frederic Montagu or any other writer can be pointed out as the 'key' to 'Jane Eyre ' " A SPECKLED BIRD. By Augusta Evans Wil son. Author of York- G. W Dillingham & Co. Price, $1 50. This is a southern romance of the pa thetic quality peculiar to the author, and characterized by no little originality of plot. The heroine, Eglah Kent, is the "Speckled Bird," that bird not being sup posed to flock with others. She was pe culiar and original to a startling degree, when a mere child living with her grand mother on an old Virginia plantation, her mother having died in giving birth to her and having been under the ban for run ning off and marrying Judge Kent. The girl's bringing up was odd and she had a painful and disturbing precocity and grew up beautiful as a dream. The chief dramatic feature ot, the book is Eglah's marriage to a Mr Herriott whom she did not love, solely to get him to give up cer tain documents which could be used to connect her father with a criminal trans action. Herriott loved her, but on the evening of the wedding when he found out-that she married him solely/to get the papers and save her father from disgrace there WA THE BALE MARKED CIRCLE JC. By George Cary Eggleston, Author of "A Carolina Cava- lier," Etc Illustrated by Emerson. Boston Lothrop Publishing company, 630 Atlantic ave nue Price, & 80. * " * J mde running adventure during the civil war whioh Mr. Eggieston wrote for boys, but This is a very *ttractive story of block- creallxe that they had been* the victims of a practical joke Knoblajpc^lq^j^toajg. peared* * - #l**^gr & NEW BOOKS. A'St S in the sleeping car and dramatic action enough to make any audience at a the ater fnyatic? and tearful. It took several deaths and years of separation to make Eglah realize she had a heart for anyone except her father and her childhood's nurse. The marriage, which had been but a commercial mockery, ultimately became a verity of love The author is at her best in telling how this w as occompllshed. a distressing scene and rupture By Clinton Dangerfteld. Malham - Dembleby, was from a little work by Frederick Montagu Mr. Mai ham-D e m b 1 e b y's charge has caused much commotion in London, says the Literary Digest The plagiarism charged is not that of an out right theft of the text but only that of details. The New Toik Elmo," Etc e wv^frt JB "As If our redwood trees and some of our canyons weren't worth a thousand bell towers," he muttered wrathfully. Then, suddenly, he grasped the arm of a by stander and, pointing eagerly to the cam panile demanded in his usual curt Italian ff "that" had always been there "That" proved to be a crack yawning in the campanile itself In his surprise and horror the Venetian overlooked the slight to his dignity. "Signore, no," he said anxiously. "The authorities must be Informed " The authorities were informed and 'a careful inspection resulted in the dis covery that this supreme treasure of Italy was in danger. So at least said the city magnates, but old Jacopo refused to be lieve "When thy bones and mine have beefn a. century decayed,' he said scornfully to Harkness, "the campanile will stand there " So thought most of those in the city, but yet they paid some heed to the warn ings of the guards set by the city council and generally avoided the piazza. Not so old Jacopo He felt as certain of the security of the tower as did the pigeons drifting to and fro beside it in the mel low Italian sunlight The Monday fol lowing the discovery of the crack he was persistently lingering near the Campanile, though much irritated by the presence of Tessa's lover, who continued to urge his suit That the American had found this flaw in the tower annoyed the guide bitterly, and he turned the deafest of ear* to all the young man's pleading, so deaf, Indeed, that at first he took the ominous crack ing sound rising sharply from the tower for an explosion elsewhere in the city. But at Harkness' cry he whirled around and faced the awful sight of the Campa nile crashing down toward them both. In full reach of the sinking angel he stood gaping Then two powerful arms lifted him like a feather, and the Ameri can ran for both their lives As Harkness put it, "It was a narrow sha\e." When the dust from the fallen stone5? t , settled, the two found themselves standing, unharmed Indeed, but not six feet from the crushed figure of the once mi'hty angel Jaoopo suffered the young sailor to lead him home, still with the stunnde air of one who could not understand what had hiipcned. He made no answer to any Qjestions except to say stupidlv that he was not hurt and, in spite of Tessa's anx ious ministrations, refused all food for nrarly two days, lying languidly on his simple pallet. At last he ate, but the food held no sa vor The phyplcal terror he had suffered, combined with his bitter grief over tha fall of his beloved tower, were too much for his feeble resources Hourly Tessa saw him fading, but at last, with a flash of his old energy, he sat up and called the girl and Harkness to him ' I said you should marry no man who did not dwell in the shadow of the tower. Tessa mio," he said quietly, "but where may such a man be found now? Shadow indeed the Campanile throws no longer, and the lowest building in the city is higher than the labors of the masters! Never again shall thou and I, my daugh ter, let our boat drift in the blue waters of the bay and watch the setting sun lay a crown of splendid rays on the bright angelthat angel who for countless years has watched the white sails of the Vene tian craft come and go' Never, again but I grow confused I Wed her, Ameri can, since she loves thee 'Tis the old marvelhow a maid's heart Is stronger than her native landl" His mind began to wander. "Oh, ayethe pigeons, slg nore It is easy to feed them. They atla always tame' See how they 'wheel down ward, signore. There sits one upon the bronze doors Such doors you cannot find elsewhere, and when one enters through them" The old voice trailed off into a dying whisper, for other doors had opened, and through them Jacopo had passed which will be found positively irresistible by adults of any age. It excites deep in terest from a glance at the title It tells how Sergeant Major Max Voxetter, of a confederate battery way down in the southeastern corner of South Carolina, was ordered to the confederate war depart ment in Richmond, where he received In structions to take to the confederate agent at Nassau, New Providence, a bale of cotton marked Circle X, in which were deposited Important official papers and fiftv-one pounds of gunpowder to be ex ploded in case there was danger of captur so as to destroy the papers Max was only 19 years old and he started on his mission in a sloop loaded with cotton including the peculiar bale, taking with him four boys from his own battery. The author in a very thrilling way describes their adventures and great perils and suc cessful delivery of the Circle X bale, and also how they delivered to the United States consul at Nassau a sick federal soldier they had picked out of the water while running the blockade off Charleston. A new and cheaper edition of Bishop Whipple's "Lights and Shadows of a Long Episcopate" Is Issued this week by The MacMillan company The International Monthly has changed its name and Its period of issue It will hereafter be Issued quarterly and its name will be The International Quarterly. Of interest to students of American history will be a series of articles, to be published in Century Magazine, by Pro fessor Justin H. Smith of Dartmouth col lege. They relate to Canadian cam paigns of Montgomery and Arnold Re searches have been made from original sources Funk & Wagnalls have just published "Sons of Glory," a book of "studies in genius' by a talented oun pyschologjst of Italy, by name Adolfo Padovan The purpose of the book is to combat the theory of Lombroso that genius is a form of insanity The brilliant rhetoric of^the original is welf preserved by the trans lator, the Duchess Litta Viscounti Arese, Dropped by a Friend.C E Knoblauch, a member of the New York stock ex change, and one of the Roosevelt rough riders in the Cuban campaign, is one of the wits of the exchange. During the break in American Sugar trust stock a short time ago the issue had dropped over a dosen points in two days and the professionals in Wall street and on the floor of the exchange had been badly hit While the excitement around the trading post was at Its height, and when everybody was feeling bluest, Knoblauch, a dark lantern in hand, put in an appearance, and with much ado elbowed his way through the excited crowd, endeavoring at the same time to clear a space for himself. "Walt a minute, boys," he said, v"wait a minute " -, The worried brokers momentarily sus pended their operations. Then Knoblauch very gravely dropped to his knees on the floor, and with the aid of the lantern proceeded, i a grope about. The brokers, mystified, looked on for a short while, until one of their num ber, more impatient than the others, Re manded to know "what the dickers are yqu doing, Knoblauch*" , e "Oh. nothing much," was the serene,, answer* "I am simply looking around for $3,000 one of my friends dropped in sugar. But"and here the prostrate broker heaved a sigh"it doesn't seem, to be here." ,* And before the other brokers coulJ Literary Notes. DAHY DIYEBSION L'l i i '&X