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Cv-RIjrgs IIou3, Ebbltt House, Fairfax Hotel. Willard Hotel. DE.N'V'En, COL. Lout ha n & Jackson. Fifteenth and Lawrence streets. DAYTON, O. J. V. Wilkle. S3 So. Jefferson street. COLUMBUS. O. Viaduct News Stand. 33 High street. On general principles it would seem that a city ought to reserve a few streets for the legitimate uses of the people to whom they belong. That the sacred memory of Abrain m Lin Coin is cherished in the hearts of a largo part of the American people is the hope of the Nation. As the people havo paid for making the streets of the city some tare ought to be exercised in giving them away for the bent-fit of private corporation?. Since Senator Teller left the Republican, Tarty he seems to have no higher ambi tion that to bo known as a national scold, and he Is establishing his claim to the title. The Tellers and the Turners are not de bating the Philippine tax bill, but are pimply repeating their anti-imperialistic speeches of the campaign of VMJ. That is freedom of deb.it with a vengeance. The nir of Innocence and the sense of contrition which the Russian diplomat dis plays when told of his treaty-breaking in Manchuria is amusing, while his promises are profuse. Yet Russia has usually done the fair thing by the United State. Paterson made, haste to notify the coun try that it wanted no outside hslp, even if n. thousand families are homeless and five hundred of Us linst buildings in ashes. If such a calamity had befallen most cities of that size pleas for assistance would have been telegraphed to the country. If it Is true that "all mankind love a lover," it is equally true that all mankind love a manly boy and sympathize with the parents by his sickbed. The American peo ple will unite in hoping that President Roosevelt's son may pull safely through his critical illness. A Presbyterian minister, Rev. Oliver Ilemstreet, has gained some notoriety by declaring In i public adlress at Baltimore that anarchism lias invaded the churches, especially the Methodist Church, and that President MeKinbj ccurted his tragic fate by refusing to abolish the army canteen. Persons who make such statements are not fit to be instructors of the people. For the STcu.C-O which Indiana seems cer tain to receive as a war claim, the credit of obtaining it is as much due to Repre sentative I Temen way, of the First district, as to any other man. His position as a member of the appropriations committee gave him aiw advantage, but, without In fluence on that committee, the advantage of membership would have counted for little. The Massachusetts farmer is not doing so badly as those who wrote so much of deserted farms in New England would leave us to assume. The percentage of Im proved land In Massachusetts is smaller now than in Is'A but the number of farms has increased. The census shows, however, that the Massachusetts farmers are worth 51S2.6 JtJ.704, upon which the Income Is IS. 6 per cent. There 13 no reason to doubt that the noble charity for which prominent members of the Methodist Church are zealously arid efficiently laboring the Methodist Hospital is already an assured success. Next Sun day will be observed by the Methodist churches in this city as hospital Sunday, when able men will present its claims in all the churches. Tho total of subscrip tions is already surprisingly large. The most that can be said at present of the proposition of the Interurban Terminal Company is that it raises a question that should be carefully considered. It is a auestlin of many asp. -cts. involving munic ipal, public and private interests, legal and moral considerations, and careful weigh ing of the obligations of good faith to wards th old company anl the uncertainty of It on the part of the new one. As the city now has excellent street-car service it can afford to go very slow In th? matter of revolutionizing the present situation. The announcement of the state statis tician that he has figures to show that county and township expanses havo been greater during the years that appropria tions have been made by advisory boards than beiore is sharply criticised by Repub licans. Including some Statchouse officials. Moreover, it is stated by an official In the state auditor's office that the returns In that office will show that the state statis tician's figures cannot be accurate. The further expression about the Statehouse yesterday was that any raid upon the Re publican legislation Including the laws creating advisory boards will fall. Tlie opposition cannot put up so strong a fight against these laws as It did when they were enacted by the Republicans in the Legis lature of lsi0. That there should be legis latures for States, councils for cities, trustees for all public Institutions and no legislative or advisory bodies for counties and townships which raise and expend the mass cf taxes Is Illogical and at war with the principles of representative government. promise of justice for -cuiia. A Washington correspondent of the Phil adelr.de Press pre.licts that Cuba will get juFtlti f.'om Congress this session, for the reason that the three great factors in leg islationthe President, the speaker of the House and the Republican leaders of the Senate "are of one mind in the conviction that the great national policy of the coun try and of the Republican party requires concessions to Cuba." It will require three months to accomplish this purpose. A week ago the correspondent says that the party was divided between those who de manded Immediate action on Cuba and those who refused such action. The change has come In part because the agi tation has shown that public feeling for Cuba is much stronger than any one Im agined. If the sentiment in favor of Cuba is much stronger than some of those in Washington imagine It is because such men have not taken into consideration the American sense of justice. The intelligent American people know that the administra tion practically demanded that the Cuban constitutional convention should confer upon the United States all authority to deal with other nations. With all Its local self-government and independence In local affairs Its world-wide affairs are in the hands of the United States as much as are those of Canada in the hands of the British government. So understanding, in telligent American people recognize that we have put Cuba in our power, and, hav ing done so, it is our plain duty to promote the prosperity of the inhabitants of the island. Some men who imagine they are in a position to speak for the American people would be much wiser If they could take into account the American sense of fairness. Doubtless many thousand Republicans have, been at a loss to understand why members of the House should have drifted Into an attitude of hostility to Cuba. It Is explained on the ground that if the duty on sugar were changed for Cuba the Re publicans representing the few beet-sugar districts would not be returned. Such threats were made by the beet-sugar lobby. It is cause for surprise that .any man in the House Is so timid as to be panic stricken by threats of that kind. In .Mich igan, Nebraska, Colorado, Utah and Cal ifornia there are beet-sugar interests in possibly a dozen congressional districts, two or three of which are Democratic. What would the beet-sugar people gain by electing Democrats to the next Congress? Do they think that Democrats who are proposing a reduction of duties would stand up for 10) per cent, duty on sugar, simply to maintain a feeble beet-sugar Interest at home? Would the party which struck down the widespread wool-growing interest without compunction, in 1SD4, save the lo calized beet-sugar interest? If the repre sentatives whose fear of the bluffs and threats of the Oxnard lobby is so pitiable should exhibit a little of the courage that inspires men who act from a sense of duty the country would not be witnessing the spectacle of hesitancy to extend to Cuba the concessions which two Republican Presidents and the Republican party gen erally declare to be the plain duty of this country to the people of that island. It is encouraging to be told that in time the halting and timid will recover from the Oxnard scare. They will get into a state of mind which will enable them to see that the proposed reduction of duties in favor of Cuba will not lower the 100 per cent, duty which the Oxnard people now declare to be necessary to keep their limited sugar industry alive. Tili: SENATOR FROM WASHINGTON. Senator Turner, of Washington, seems to be profoundly exercised concerning what he conceives to be the intention of the present administration to establish despot- Ism in the Philippines. His speech in the Senate on the Philippine tariff bill did not discuss that measure at all. It was simply a vehement tirade against the right of the United States to establish its authority in the Philippines. Senator Turner holds that the United States has no right In the Islands, and, of course, no right to prevent the Filipinos from setting up a free and independent government. He trembles for his country and begs the administration "in tho name of SO .000 .000 American people and their posterity to stay its hand lest their precious liberties be destroyed along with that of the unfortunate people de voted to conquest and subjugation and spoliation." The conquest, subjugation and spoliation here referred to represent th.? process of bringing the Filipinos under the protection of the American Hag and the benefits of republican government as en joyed by the American people. Mr. Turner enjoys the distinction of be ing the only surviving fusionist in the Sen ate, and therefore represents a bad school of politics. He was elected by a so-calhd People's party composel of a fusion of Silver Republicans,. Democrats and Popu lists. The country has learned not to ex pect much from statesmen of that class, anl Senator Turner is maintaining tho record. As a citizen of Washington he be longs to the class formerly designated in the South as "carpet baggers." for he was born in Missouri and lived in Alabama until he went to Washington. If he had lived in the latter State or Territory long enough to become acquainted with its history he would have known that It was not definite ly recognized as an American possession until the treaty of 1M with Great Rritain. and that this treaty was made withut consulting the Inhabitants of the terri tory, of whom many were former Rrltlsh subjects and a still larger number were Indians. Our previous claim to Washing ton was based on the purchase of the Louisiana territory from France, which a historian characterizes as "a strange trans action by which one republic sells outright to another republic a whole country with out in the least consulting the wishes of the inhabitants, whose allegiance and all of whose political and civil rights are changed thereby." Senator Turner seems to be under the impression that the ac quisition of the Philippines by the United States is the first Instance In history Jn which a country has by purchase, conquest or treaty acquired new territory and In habitants without consulting them. A man who owes his election to the United States Senate to a fusion of Silver Republicans, Democrats and Populists cannot be ex pected to know much about statesmanship, but he ought to know a little about rudi mentary history. If Senator Turner does not care to Inform himself regarding the acquisition of Washington Territory by th? United States he can learn from the news paper files of lW-M that we acquired the Philippines in a regular and legitimate way and that our title to the islands and our claim to sovereignty over the people Is fully as good as that over the State he represents in the Senate. Tin: ideal republican. The meeting of the Lincoln League to day In Tcrre Haute will result in great good to the party If the spirit of that great man and pioneer Republican shall pervade, the exercises. In the best sense of the word Abraham Lincoln was a politician. lie was a politician because ho believed In cer tain political opinions. These he always brought to the front. He was first a Whig because he held to the political opinions of Henry Clay. When the Whig party was go ing to pieces he clung to the anti-slavery wing and naturally became a Republican when the new organization was formed. Indeed, he helped to make the organization, because in its platforms his convictions were embodied. Rut always the cause was before the man with Abraham Lincoln. So when the anti-slavery men in tho Illinois Legislature constituted a majority and could elect a United States senator, he took the Whig wing of the membership in a body to support and elect Mr. Trum bull, anti-slavery Democrat, for the rea son that the anti-slavery Democrats would not vote for Lincoln because of his Whig antecedents. Yet the Whigs whom Mr. Lin coin lel to Trumbull were four times as rr.any as the Democrats. If Abraham Lin coin had not put the cause of free-soil far above self on that occasion Us progress might have been delayed for years. In the next contest for the Senate with Douglas, if Lincoln had yielded to the advice of the more prudent as to what he should say he might have been elected, but the convic tion being in his conscience that "this Na tion cannot exist half free and half slave," he declared It as the courageous prophet of lreedom. Abraham Lincoln stood for the best thing3 in the politics of his time. He did so because convictions were higher than ambitious designs. He believed that the Republican party should stand for the best ideas-, and that oniy the best men should be called to public position by it. No man had so much faith in the American people as Abraham Lincoln. For that rea son he never played the demagogue to them. He never appealed to class prejudice. He never tried to array labor against capi tal or the poor against the rich. He went to them with all the truth as he saw It, and the people never failed him in the greatest crises of the Nation. To-day Re publicans in whose hearts there is a par ticie of the spirit of Abraham Lincoln, whether in the Terre Haute meeting or elsewhere, demand that the Republican standard be carried aloft by men of pa triotism, brains Mid positive integrity. If the party is Imbued with the spirit of Lin coln Indiana will continue as certainly a Republican State as Iowa. It can only be lost to Republicanism by ignoring the life and teachings of Abraham Lincoln. It appears that a decided majority of the Republican members attending the House caucus of Monday night was in favor of the Crumpacker proposition to enforce the provisions of the Constitution respecting representation, even If a quorum was not present. One of the surprises is that a man so sensible and courageous as Rep resentative Cannon should be opposed to such a proposition, and for the reasons which he gave, namely, that It would do the negro no good, and, like the force bill which was passed In lSl, would do harm. And this is called a conservative view. The proposition is not designed to help the negro, and there is no feature of the force bill about this measure, and no proposition designed to interfere with the holding of elections in any section should be made a part of the bill. The whites have the mat ter of elections In their own hands in the South; let them count themselves out or In. The one issue in the proposition is: "Shall the Constitution of the United States be so ignored as to allow one white in most of the States of the- South as much repre sentation in Congress and in tho Electoral College as two men in any of the larger Northern States?" There is no other is sue. Senator Teller's amendment to the Phil ippine tariff bill provides: "That it is not Intended by the government of the United States permanently to annex the Phil ippine islands as an Integral part of the United States, but It is the determina tion of the United States to establish, with the consent and assistance of the inhabitants of the Islands, a government or governments suitable to their wants and conditions, and that shall give to the Inhab itants the control and administration of their local affairs, such as the raising of revenue and the disposition of it, the main tenance of, peace and order in the several communities of the islands that have been or may be organized by the people." This is the scuttle policy, sugar-coated. In stead of abandoning all claim to owner ship and sovereignty in the islands and letting them "go to the devil," as Sena tor Money proposed, the "Teller resolution would bind the United States to guarantee protection, good government and Independ ence, without any of the rights of sover eignty. Leaving aside all other consid erations. It is premature at this time to attempt to formulate the ultimate policy of the United States regarding the Phil ippines. Abraham Lincoln always had the cour age of his convictions. When he incurred the abuse of the ultra anti-slavery men because he would not issue the emancipa tion proclamation a year before he did, it was the courage of conviction which caused him to refuse. It was the courage of conviction which Inspired him to put forth the proclamation when he did, know ing that it would lose him the support of many. Tho financial disaster in Detroit is mainly deplorable because the institution affected contained the deposits of hundreds of poor people who put their savings into the bank In the belief thit It was entirely safe. Even If these people secure their deposits, the event will shake the confidence of the people in such institutions. That a well- known plunger, who may have been a mil lionaire, should have an official position in such an Institution is remarkable. The renomlnatlon of Representative Cromer at the Portland convention yes terday was a victory on which that gentle man and his friends may well congratulate themselves. Mr. Cromer has made a good congressman and his re-election Is assured. His fight for renomlnatlon has been waged against very great odds and under circum stances that made new friends for him as it progressed. THE HUMORISTS. Smart Child. Motherhood. "You never saw my hands as dirty as yours,' said a mother to her little girl. "No, but grandmother did." was the reply. A flood Excuse. Judge. First Deaf Mute You get twisted In your talk. Second Deaf Mute That's becau.se my fingers are crooked. Another Kind of Atlas. Jud?e. Amy Any ono would think you had the earth on ycur shoulders. Fred Would that I had, that I might lay the world at your feet. Full of Zeal. Life. A country convert, full of zeal, offered him self for service in his first prayer meeting re marks. "I'm ready to el) anything the Lord asks of me," ho eald, "so long as it's honor able." Trnlliful Citizen. Washington Star. "What have you ever done to deserve the of fice to which you aspire?" asked the voter. "Nothing," answered the candidate, frankly. "If I had ever done anything tc thoroughly qualify me for so Important a position, I could probably make a great deal more money as a private citizen." Ice Will Remain Up. New York Weekly. Housekeeper Ice will be very cheap next summer, won't it? Ice Man Well, I don't know, mum. You see, we've got a good deal of dear ice left over from the ,ycar before, and ve'll have to sell that f.rst, because it mitrht spoil, you know, and I'm afraid by tho time the old stock is gone the cheap ice will all bo melted. Lincoln. "In Abraham Lincoln the South had a friend at court when friends were few." Henry Wat terson. Thy place is fixed fans cavil or surmise, O chief of freedom's lovers! to the State, Doth guide and savior, sealing with thy blood A life devotion; foes, grown friends, confess Thy love, thy merit and thy tenderness. "By all the proofs of wisdom thou wert wise; Dy all the marks of goodness thou wert pood; By all the rules of greatness thou wert great" So hath Fame written thee without debate. Thomas E. Smiley. FRIENDS ONCE MORE. Senators Dubois and Ihinna Uury the Enmity of Yearn. Washington Post. Speaking of Senator Hanna, he made a speech at the Gridiron Club dinner last Saturday night which was one of the clev erest and brightest ever heard around the table of that organization. And thereby hangs a story. Many years ago, when Senator Dubois, then a delegate from Idaho, was strug gling to secure statehood for that Terri tory, his efforts were opposed by Senator Vance, of North Carolina, who took occa sion to refer to the Idaho people as a lot of uncivilized mountaineers and bush whackers. Even when Mr. Dubois eventu ally reached the Senate as a Republican Mr. Vance did not cease his attacks upon the new State and Its people. Naturally the two men did not have any love for each other. They did not speak as they passed by. It happened, however, that one day Mr. Dubois, during the great fight for the re peal of the Sherman silver purchasing law, made a speech which compelled Vance's ad miration. He went to the Idaho senator as the latter took his seat. "Dubois," he said, laughingly, "I am willing now to forgive you lor all the mean things I have said about you and Idaho. Let us be friends." And they were, until the death of Senator Vance. Yesterday Senator Dubois went to Sen ator Hanna. "Senator," he said, "you helped to defeat me for re-election to the Senate some years ago when I was a Silver Republican, and now I am entirely on the opposite side of the fence from you. Hut I want to say that after your speech at the Gridiron dinner I am willing to forgive everything. A man who can make that kind of a speech must be a good fellow." Senator Hnnna laughed heartily. "Du bois," he said, "1 don't know that I deserve your praise, but I do know that I value your good fellowship." And then the two senators sat down anJ talked about everything that had happened at the dinner. The Dishonesty of "Substitution." New York Journai. Outside the drug store the store of J Milhau's Son, at No. 1?3 Rroadway you may read the announcement at the head of this column: "We give you just what you ask for." We are glad to sieze upon this occasion to pay a tribute to this motto and incidentally to point out a dishonest and very common practice among mer chantsthat of substituting one article for another. One business man devotes all his energy, his money and his time to build ing up the reputation of a certain article. He enables the retailer to make a large profit and he spends his money that cus tomers may be plentiful. When a customer nsks for the article in question It Is dis honest to say to him. as many do: "Don't buy that. We have something else just as good and much cheaper." If the merchant had something good and cheap of his own, let him sell it to his customers by all means. Rut let him not steal the trade of a man whose energy helps to build up his business. Let him not divert to his own pocket all of the profit which he ought to in honesty share with another. There are wares that are made enormously profitable to the retailer sim ply because men push their business with intelligence and perseverance. It is ungrat ful as well as dishonest for the sake of a ilttle extra profit to cut into the legiti mate business of the advertising manufac turer. Incidentally the public, as well as the storekeeper and the manufacturer, are in terested In this question of substituting one article for another. That which is rep resented as "Just as good" is usually not Just as good, but very far from it. If a man has spent a million dollars building up the reputation of a certain article it Is to his advantageto keep up the quality of the material which enters into the manufacture of that article. His profit is large if he is honestly treated and It would be suicide for him to use Inferior material for the sake of a 111 tie extra money. The man who-makes up an imitation article and announces It as "Just as good" has no such sum at stake. He has invested nothing. He has no val uable name to ruin and it is to his interest to make the "just as good" article just as cheap as he can make It. The buyer shouM remember these facts and put his confidence in that retailer who. like the man quoted at th head of thi nrtlcle. gives to the customer Just what he asks for, treats the wholesaler honestly and shows his gratitude for the energy which builds up a successful business and makes the retailer prosperous. Cause and Effect. Omaha Bee. The reduction of farm mortgages In Saunders county, Nebraska, during the past month amounted to $29,000. Possibly these figures explain the reason that county showed such a falling off la the calamity vote last fall. BOOKS AND PERIODICALS One Conscientious Author. New York Times. There are two distinct types of litcr erary workers, those who make goods to suit the -market Irrespective of any per sonal relationship to their work, and those who have convictions, and conscientiously create such work as develops in their inner natures. James Lane Allen, the author of "The Kentucky Cardinal," "The Choir Invisi ble," and other books that are almost poetic prose, is a very tall, stately. South erner, with a formal manner of courtesy that suggests almost self-restraint to the democratic Bohemian. An acquaintance of his, a Bohemian free-lance writer, was in vited one evening to Join him in his library In a little whisky and water and a chat. Mr. Allen received his guest with much formal ceremony, the liquor was elaborate ly served, and the Bohemian was some what awed by aristocratic details that en tirely disposed of such a possibility as the Intimacy of pipes. Considering the warmth of impulse, the radiant imagina tion that shines through his books, the au thor's formality of manner was disturbing, though purely superficial, except that it was an Indication of a scrupulous discretion that marked the intense sensitiveness of his nature, as was proved toward the end of the evening. "I a'iways opposed the dramatization of my 'Choir Invisible,' for I never thought it was adapted to the theater," said Mr. Allen, looking so very serious as to indi cate that he was completely In earnest. "You thought it unsuited to the stage?" asked the guest. "There are some things we write that have little place, and that was a story to be read, not acted." "Hut look at the money there Is to be made in these dramatizations," said the visitor. Mr. Allen sat upright in the armchair wherein he had been lounging; something in the remark has stirred him. "Money is not my thought when I write a book," he said, with quiet, tense earnest ness. "Look here," and walking over to an old chest he lifted the cover and pointed to a pile of manuscrifts bundled careiessly In one corner of it. "The publishers were waiting for that novel It was over a year's hard work. I was already behind with my agreement when I finished it." The author paused a moment, then closed the lid. "Nobody has seen that manuscript since I hid it there, and it shall never go to print." "A year's work wasted?" "I disapproved-of the story when I fin ished it, and money could not buy it." said the author, vigorously. "I have convic tions about the responsibilities an author incurs when he publishes a new story." The Debatable) Lnnd. No. 12 of the "American Novel Series," Is sued by the Harpers during the past year, is a story whose scenes are laid in New England and the South during the time of the civil war. This novel, whose author Is Arthur Colton, is unusually attractive, for one reason, because it omits the descrip tions with which the accepted type of novel is so .abundantly supplied. No. "waving of white hands," no "fluttering of eyelids," no "drawing of herself up to her full height," no wild rhapsodies of adoration addressed to the photograph of the loved one attend the movements of the heroine. The lovers, two in number, are endowed with self-control and never betray their emotions by their agonizing expressions, clenched fists or other distressing symptoms indicative of lunacy. All is as it should be, composed, unaffected, with New Eng land common sense, reticence and humor the prevailing characteristics. Thaddeus Bourn and the much-married Paulus are admirable and amusing types. The pic tures of the civil war are graphically out lined and so clear and true they cannot be forgotten. The story throughout has a vig orous and inspiring tone. Mr. Colton may be congratulated on his ability to keep the love story somewhat in the background, meandering along casually,, as it were, while he entertains his readers with clever remarks through the lips of various char acters and occasionally his own, on sub jects entirely unconnected with the "ro mance," which, in most novels, is obtru sively prominent. "The Debatable Land" is an oasis in the great elesert of monotony through which love stories are wont to flounder. Harper & Brothers, New Y'ork. Curious Item of Hook Rinding. Literary Bulletin. It seems a somewhat surprising state ment to make that eggs, condensed milk, olive oil and vinegar are all used in tho binding of books. Y'et such Is the case. The white of eggs Is used for "sizing," to cause the delicate ornamental gold leaf to adhere to the leather. To make the "sizing" perform its adhesive work even more delicately a little milk Is added, and to help further in the Important work of adhesion a coating of olive oil or diluted vingear Is sometimes applied to the leather. The expert who manages the immense bindery of Harper & Brothers said to a visitor, who had gone there to watch the rush of work on the New Encylopedia of United States History, that he has seen wise old bookbinders use the light froth of ale as a coating over a binding of silk. The froth held the gold leaf with perfect success, and did not stain the silk. Many of the old expert bookbinders have little secret methods of their own by which to produce peculiarly fine re sults, and these secrets they guard as Jealously as the housewife does her favorite family recipes. The Unknown Sinterst. The singers represented in this volume are not known personally to the present generation of readers, but their songs have been , extant for a considerable length of time. The volume Is simply a reprint in the form of blank verse, with capitalized lines of a number of the psalms. Mr.' Chas. F. Dob, a literary compiler and hack work er, furnishes a brief table of contents in dicating the character of the psalms as he understands them. They can all be found in the Bible, with many others. Bos ton: L. C. Page fc Co. Ilnth Robe and Bachelor. This rather odd title appears fairly ap propriate to the little volume which bears it when one examines the contents. They consist of ten brief essays or sketches by different writers on topics pertaining to or calculated to Interest bachelors in their hours of ease. The list includes the title essay. "Rath Robes and Bachelors." by Arthur Gray; "My First Dress Coat." bv Aiphonse Daudet; "Slippers." by C. M. Skinner; "The Razor." by Frank R. Stock ton; "A Good Dinner." by John Alden; "Mv Pipe." by Julian Ralph: "The Chafing Dish." by William E. S. Fales; "Cigars." bv A. It. Tucker: "My First Latch Kev." by R. W. Criswell; "Some Watches I Have Known," by Ernest Jarrold. The book is issued in pretty form by the 11. M. Cald well Company, New York. In firent Water. The collection of stories, four In num ber, by Thomas A. Janvier, and called "In Great Waters." Is a record of wild, undis ciplined natures, which are developed in thedr most savage features by long-continued communion with the lonely waters of the ferocious ocean and the stormy lakes. The theme In each story is love and the murderous passions that run riot if a rival or treacery intervene. All the tales end In tragedy. They display the art of a strong writer, but are depressing In their effect on the rea.ier. The scene of one is an island near the Zuyder Zee, of another near Lake Superior, of the third on the English coast near the North sea. and of the fourth In Provence. Harper & Brothers, New Yorx. Before the Dawn. This story of Russian life, by Mr. Pimen- off-Noble. ought to be a correct portrayal of the characters, incidents and scenes It depicts, for it author has lived in Russia many years, and his collaborator, who Is his wife, is Russian by birth. The; seene of the story is laid in Russia thirty years ago, and the political excitement of that time, the demands for reform and the de nial of It by the government, the plottings and the spy system, the arrest and exile of students are strongly depicted. The story shows intimate knowledge of Russian life. Boston: Houghton. Mifflin & Co. The Traltor'n Way. An entertaining French historical novel Is "The Traitor's Way," by S. Levett Yeats.'the author of "The Honor of Sar- velll." It tells of such noble folk as Cath erln de Mellcis, Duke of Guise. Prince Conde and others equally famous. The story is Interesting and vividly told, and It seems a pity that it could not appear at some time when historical tales are not such a drug in the market In order that It might receive more attention and favor able comment than it is likely to do now. Frederick A. Stokes Company, New York. Where the Sugar Maple Crows. After perusing "Where the Sugar Maple Grows" the reader Is convinced that life in a Canadian village differs very, little from that in a village In the United States and that odd characters grow best In small places. The author of these character sketches. Adeline M. Teskey, has evidently studied her models carefully, ns the result In the volume proves. .R. F. Fcnno & Co., New Y'ork. The Most Famous Loha. "The Most Famous Loba" is a romance of Carcassonne, by Nellie K. Blissett, au thor of "From the Unsounded Sea." The story is much like many others published of late, telling of French loves, wars and history of the olden time. "Loba" is the name of the beautiful self-willed heroine, whose many adventures and whims are re counted by an onlooklng monk. D. Apple ton &. Co., New York. Current Periodicals. The "10 Story Book" (Chicago) contains In each issue nine short stories by living contributors and one masterpiece from an earlier period. The opening tale In the February Issue is by Cyrus Townsend Brady, y the closing one by Washington Irving. In the Home Magazine for February is an interesting paper on the industrial awakening of the South. A description of the curios in the shops of any large city's "Chinatown" makes up another contribu tion. "Presidents and Presidential Suc cession" is the theme of a third. A va riety of fiction, a review of the theater for the month, matters of special interest to women and a department for children make up the number. Joel Chandler Harris's serial, "Gabriel Tolliver," is to be an important feature of the Era (Philadelphia) this year, the Feb ruary number containing three chapters. The article which will probably attract most attention In this number Is that by Thomson Jay Hudson on "The Rise. Prog ress and Decline of Modern Spiritism." Themes of other papers are: "Prehistoric Ruins of Southern Colorado." "Jay Cook, Federal Financier," "Hawthorne's Lone liness" and "Literary Landmarks of Lon don." . Your true collector, whatever may be his particular hobby, has a fellow-feeling for every other collector. Therefore it Is, presumably, that the editor of the Literary Collector has given space In his periodical to an article by G. Wharton James on "The Collecting of Indian Baskets." Mr. James offers a variety of interesting information. Among the features dealing with the in terest of the book lover are "Bookbinding for Bibliophiles," "Meditations of an Auto graph Collector," "Some Early Hudson River Imprints" and "The Year's Highest Book Prices." The publishers of the Army and Navy Register, Washington, D. C, issued with that publication on Feb. 1 an illustrated supplement that . adds materially to the value of the paper. It is their intention to continue this feature on the first Saturday of each month. The illustrations of army and navy subjects will prove valuable and are exceptionally Interesting now that both branches of the service are stationed in foreign parts, doing duty where the sur roundings are peculiar and making history under novel circumstances. The pictures in this issue of a troop of American caval ry under the great Chinese wall and again In the Avenue of Statues, where huge stone elephants guard the flanks of the troop, are unique and worth preservation. The naval pictures, too, are out of the or dinary. That the experiences of the aspiring au thor are a perennial source of interest to a considerable class of readers all other as piring authors, to wit is evidently the opin ion of the editors of literary periodicals, judging by the space they are willing to give them. In the current number of the Bookman a young woman who confesses herself to be a would-be writer presents a chapter of her experience with editors. In the course of it she says: "I have found the courtesy of editors, particularly that of magazine editors, unfailing, their pa tience wonderful and their tact amazing. Only once have I ever met with anything but the utmost courtesy from an editor, and that, I am sorry to say, was from a woman. She had just been elevated to the editorial chair of a prominent woman's magazine, and evidently did not know the traditions of the office. I need riot tell here how she endeavored to make me feel the great gulf fixed between her position and mine the editor's and the unknown writ er's. But she is the only editor I have ever met whose manner even remotely sug gested the office boy's." Now, what editor can this be? Among; the Publishers. F. M. Buckles & Co., New York, an nounce a new novel, "The Lovely Mrs. Pemberton," by Florence Warden, author of "The House on the Marsh." C. M. McClurg & Co., Chicago, announce several novels on their spring list, among them "The Point of Honor." a story of Irish life, and "The Recall of Lelf the Lucky," a tale in which Leif Ericsson figures. Probably no book available for the gen eral reaMer gives a clearer account of that very complicated matter, the ancestry of the English people, and consequently of our own early ancestry, than Dr. Tappan's new book. "England's Story." (Little, Brown & Co. It is asserted by Strong and Schafer, in their recent book on "The Government of the American People" (Little. Brown & Co.), that the difference in opinion as to the extent to which all the people ouht to have a direct voice in the affairs of gov ernment is at the bottom of the difference that divides political parties to-day. The Bowen-Mcrrill Company announces that the sixth edition of Mr. George Hor ton'! Cretan romance 'Like Another Helen" has come from the press. Mr. Horlon's book wrs one of the most suc cessful of the novels published in the spring of i:"l and the demand is still such as to i warrant this new and large edition. Mr. Benjamin Kidd's work. "Principles of Western Civilization," though complete In 1 itself, is described as the first volume of l LUI II UIU1IU.1ÜI J J 1U 1JKJ J II, . U will be published in February by the Mac millan Company, who Issued his now tam ous work on "Social Evolution." Stephen Phillip's next poem will be "Ulysses." It will be published in a volume by itself by the Macmillan Company. Shakspeaie's "Twelfth Night" is the latest Issue (No. lt.q In the Riverside Lit erature Series, of which Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. are the publishers. Text and notes are taken from the Riverside Shak- speare. edited by Richard Grant White. ! A further equipment which will commend the edition to those Interested in amateur j dramatics Is a practical arrangement of j the comedy for the private stage. The book t is bound in paper covers. ! "Uncle Sam, Trustee," is the title of a volume now In preparation by Mr. John Kendrick Bangs. The book will be issued in the spring by the Riggs Publishing Com rl tmildinar. New York. Th ! text of his work will be devoted to Cuba, : beginning with a description of its condi tion at the outbreak of th Spanish-American war. followed by a brief chapter on the war itself, the remaining ten or twelve chapters describing the magnificent work of the United States army in converting a fair land, devastated by a century of Spanish misrule, into a clean community of inspiring cities. In Mr. Frederick Upham Adams's unique novel, "The Kidnaped Millionaires," re viewed at some length In the Journal last summer, the author advances some novel Ideas concerning the trust question and the remedy for whatever evils trusts bring about. Several of the millionaires who figure in the tale under a thin disguise are paid to have spoken approvingly of Mr. Adams's economical theories, as have also ex-President Cleveland and a number of men In Washington public life. As a mere story "The Kidnaped Millionaires" has in terest and its plans for commercial re form seem likely to give it a place not unlike that attained by Bellamy's "Look ing Backward." Other Hooks Itecebfil. "Oakford," the story of a Virginia plan tation. by Terry B. Gordon. New York: F. Tennyson Nedy Company. "Mark Everard." a semi-historical novel, by Knox Magee. the scene of which is laid In the time of Charles II. New York: R. F. Fen no & Co. "The Supreme Sacrifice; or. Gillette's Marriage," a story of English life, by Mamie Bowk-s. New York: O. W. Dilling ham Company. "Toothsome Tales Told in Slang," by Billy Burgundy, Is a collection of poor, would-be humorous short sketches, pub lished by Street & Smith, of New York. "What a Young Wife Ought to Know," a book of practical Information and wis advice for young wives and mothers, by Dr. Emma F. Ar.gell Drake. Philadelphia: The Vie Publishing Company. Another collection which has absolutely no merit whatever is "Down the Lines with John Henry." told 'n sorting dialect. Th author is Hugh Mcllugh. Published by G. W. Dillingham ic Co.. New York. "Helen Parker" is the title of a mediocre novel by Charles Homer Steele. Helen Is a working girl and It is the record of her many vicissitudes which fills the page of the book. Published by the llvnnebt-rr Company, Chicago. EDUCATION OF FILIPINOS. Governor Taft Tells of Superintend rnt Atkliifton'a Work. NEW YORK. Feb. ll.-Governor Taft, of the Philippines, has arrived in the city from Washington. "My vis-it to this city la purely a family affair." he said. "V have arranged a kind of reunion my moth er anl aunt and my brother s family. I probably shall consult my physician within the next few days, but nothing will be done toward an operation until the Philippine committee has finished with me. I am in improved health, but It looks as if an oper ation will be necessary later. 1 am due before the committee en Friday, so 1 shall have to leave for Vashington on Thursday. Meanwhile I am under order to ay noth ing about the Philippine sltuatin." Governor Taft consented, howevtr, to talk about native education. He said: "You will remember that it was proposed to educate a few young Filipinos at Yalo as an experiment. So far nothing has bet n done. But 1 had a talk with l'r sident Hadley the other day in Washington, and 1 may run up to New Haven soon, as too matter is ot Importance. Of course the oimrulty is that a native cannot be sud denly imported to this country and thrust into the higher education, lie must bo caught young and adequately prepared. Looking to this end we shall have high schools in the islam! that will be a step ping stone to our universities. Mr. Atkin son, superintendent of schools, tells ma that high schools will not be possible un til next year at least. In the meantime he is pushing ahead with primary schools. It Is desirable, however, that a set of young leaders, who can return to the islands, be educated in this country as soon as practicable, in order that they may learn the unity of American institutions and get a grip on American life." DEMING CASE DECISION. Judge Advocate Gcnernl Davis Say It Is Not Very Important. WASHINGTON. Feb. 11. General Davis, Judge advocate general of the army, said to-day that he had no oificial information in regard to the decision of the Circuit Court of Appeals at St. Louis in the case of Capt. Peter C. Doming, formerly a vol unteer officer in the subsistence depart ment, who was court-martialed for alleged financial irregularities and sentenced to dis missal and Imprisonment In the government prison at Fort Leavenworth. The Judge advocate general further states! that he had telegraphed for a copy of the opinion of the court, and that no action would be taken bv the War Department until after Secretary Root has had an opportunity f reading it. The report of the court. Mr. Davis said, is not necessarily final, as thj United States still has the right of appeal to the United States Supreme Court. Whether that course will b taken will de pend on Secretary Roofs view of the opin ion. , According to General Davis, the opinion of the court, as published In the news papers, will not have nearly as serious an effect as represented. There are compara tively few prisoners at present whose cases Involve the principle determined in tha Deining case, that is. that a military court composed in whole or in part of officers of the regular army had no Jurisdiction over offenses committed by volunteers. A case involving the same legal questions raised in the Deming case is that of Capt. James G. Read, convicted In the Philippines some time ago of complicity in the commissary frauds in Manila. Another similar ease U that of Lieutenant Buyer, alleged to havo been connected with the same transaction. TO STOP SEAL POACHING. Hmlicnl Instruction Issued by an Alaskan Collector of Customs. SEATTLE. Wash.. Feb. 11. The Post In telligencer, in a special dispatch from Un nlaska. says that no more startling action has been taken in the much-talked-of seal ing question than the following letter writ ten by Collector J. W. Ivey, of Alaska, to his deputy at Unalaska: "I am advised that British vessels from Canadian ports, engaged In pelagic sealing In and about Bering sea, are in the habit of calling at Unalaska and Dutch Harbor for protection in bad weather, and the pur chase of supplies, and of enjoying the priv ilepes of the port until the reason opens fr them to engage In the unlawful and bar barous extermination of the fur seal herd in violation of the laws of the United States and the International agreement with Great Britain. Until further advised on the subject you are Instructed to cease the collection of tonnag- duo on vesels from all countries, and to refuse them the privilege of the port. watr or fiKl. and to treat them, in all respects, as cfl en gaged in illegal poaching. Any such v ssels arriving at your port shall 1- notified to depart forthwith, and In case of refusal to obey proinptlv you shall neize arxl d. lay such vessels and call the United Stat. marshal and rev nu cutter to your assi.-t-ance. Should you lind from personal ex amination th;it any such vessel arrives in absdute distre ss. yu will allow lo r to ob tain such relief only s will enable her to return to h- r heme port." CASE OF MRS. B0TKIN. Supreme Court Possibly Jlny Grant Application for lismliil. WASHINGTON. Feb. 11 When the Su preme Court of the Unite.l States recon venes on the 24th Inst. i). stipulation will be filed for the dismissal of the case of Mrs. Cornelia B. Botkin vs. the State of Cal ifornia, and doubtless the court. a ting in accordance with unvarying precedent, will grant the motion. The plaintiff In this cas was In lSfs tri-d fr munbr in San Fran ciso, on the charge of murdering Mrs. J. P. Dunning by sending to h r a box of poisoned candy. She was ?o;r.d guilty ar d sentenced to life imprisonment. The case comes to the United Stats Sut.remc Court on a writ (4 error to th- Superior Curt of the city of San Fmnc-Iseo or. a habeas corpus proceeding In Mrs. Botklu's leh.ilf. The api-eal was attacked by the S:nt of California on the gru:nd that the Supreme Court Is without jurisdiction, r-nd a motion has been filed with the court by the state to dismiss the case fr this ar.d other rei sen?. The court i now in recess, and wi'.I not reconvene ur.til the I'ith. At that time Representative Coombs, of California, will appear for Mrs. Botkln's cur.sl and en sent by stipulation on her behalf that the case shall be dismissed. In order that pro ceedings for a new trial may be instituted in California. ev Athletic Committee for Yale. NEW YORK. Feb. tl.-Yab is to have a new athletic committee cunpoed of rep resentatives of the four leading athletic teams, the track, football and biehnll teams and boating cr. w. and three ulumr.1. It is expected that Wnltcr Camp, athletic adviser of the university, will be a mem ber. A constitution Is now being drafted for the committee and It will b presented soon to the undergraduate body for adop tion. The undergraduate dement will have a majority of one on the committee, thus maintaining the old Yale tradition of un dergraduate control of athletics. t ?