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MAT CmCTXATIOX.
VT. B. Crr. Business Manager of The St.
Louis Republic, being; duly sworn, says that
the actual number of full and compute
copies of the dally and Sunday Republic
printed (Junes' the month of May. 1S0O.
all In regular editions, was as per schedule
below:
Cats. Cosies
1 ....80,180
2 80,210
8 80,820
4 80,080
8 82,355
8 Sunday.. 84,200
7 80,090
8 79,240
0 86,560
10 85,970
U 84,460
90,280
18 Sunday.. 84,770
14 84,710
15 84,640
IB 84,460
Data, Copies
17 84,260
18 84,100
19 86,090
20 Sunday.. 84,120
21 83,060
2i 83,450
2S 82,410
24 82,570
35 82,840
26 84,970
27 Sunday.. 83,890
28 82,820
29 82,090
30 82,810
31 82,130
Total for tic month
.. 2,584,635
lee all copies spoiled In prist
ine;, left over or filed
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Net number distributed.... 2,531,492
Average daily distribution.... 81,661
And said W. B. Caxr further says that
th: number of copies returned or reported
unsold during; the month of May was
.05 per, cent.
W. B. CARR.
Sworn to and subscribed before me this
thirty-first day of May. 1S0O.
J. F. FAR1EH.
Notary Public City of St. Louis. Mo. My
term expires April 2$, 1901.
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NO TIME FOR. DELAY.
A new crisis has developed in tho
Hunting situation brought about by an
unfortunate uncertainty as to the will
ingness and ability of the Kern Incan
descent Gaslight Company to fulfill its
contract with the city, and the moment
has come when that company ninst
make a icost complete and definite
demonstration of such willingness and
ability if Its contract is not to. be for
feited. This the Kern company promises to
do, telegraphing to the Board of Public
Improvements that it will present such
proofs of measures undertaken "as will
insure satisfactory fulfillment and com
pliance with the contract." This proof
must be la hand for the meeting of the
Board of TuMIc Improvements next
Tuesday, at which time it is imperative
tliat conclusive action shall be taken.
There Is no time for delay.
The city's contract with the Kern com
pany promises certain advantages which
were not discernible when the bids were
submitted by the competing companies.
It Is not to be denied that the successful
bidder has been subjected to much em
barraasing obstructionist work since the
award of contract, and it may be that
these tactics have prevailed to bring
shout the present unsatisfactory condi
tions. It la to be hoped tliat the Kern
company will be able next Tuesday to so
fully prove its ability for the perform
ance of the service contracted for that
these conditions will bo removed and
this phase of the lighting problem dis
posed of satisfactorily.
THE PASSION PLAY.
Among the notable features presetted
In this morning's Republic Is the full
text. Illustrated, of the famous Passion
Flay of Oberammergau. This is the first
time that the authorized version of this
play, so Intimately connected with
Christian Interest throughout the uni
verse, has been presented in this way.
The accompanying pictures were drawn
from photographs taken at Oberamtaer
gau. The Republic takes this occasion to
. modestly draw public attention to sumo
of Its morning's offerings In the field
of news, where it stands, as usual, first
among Western journals that pursue the
world's happenings. Information from
China, hard to get and of immense Im
portance the world over, will bo found
in these columns, not only this morning,
but all mornings, completer and better
In all respects than It will be found In
any other newspaper in the Western
field.
When newspapers entered the field of
half-tone printing, The Sunday Republic
was one of the very first to present this
form of pictorial art to its readers.
Throughout a long period of experiment
ing and constant Improvement The Re
public, daily and 8unday, has continued
Its half-tone endeavors. Public atten
tion Is especially drawn to the examples
In this morning's paper real triumphs
In son and shade ton fast presses on
ordinary news paper.
UNION MARKET SALE.
' The project of obtaining, funds for the
erection of a new City Hospital by sell
ing Union Market, which the fiscal an
.thoritles of the city have well on the
way to completion, seems to render un
necessary the discussion which has been
going on os to whether the accumula
tions of the water rates shall be used
for the erection of a City Hospital or
for the' construction of. a filter plant to
supply St Louis with, clear, sightly
water, above suspicion as to purity.
There are. many reasons why It would
be better to obtain funds for the erec
jBon of a City Hospital by the sale of
XJaioft Market than by. a transfer of the
water rates accumulations. The transfer
would take some time and would neces
sitate a vote by the people of St. Louis
for the issuance of additional bonds. If
Union Market is sold for the amount
specified, work on the new hospital can
begin at once. The use of the water
rates accumulations for the erection of
a City Hospital would put it entirely
out of the power of St. Louis to build
a filter plant, which Is conceded on all
hands to be an urgent municipal need.
IT MEANS WAR.
In the late cable news of the murder
of the German Minister to China, the
destruction of all tho foreign legation
buildings In Pekln, and of the Dowager
Empress An's declaration that the in
ternational troops shall not be allowed
to enter that city, there Is to be noted
what is the cause and the probable be
ginning of a definite" war between China
and the AllleM Powers now represented
on the scene of action.
The outcome of this war is, of course,
a foregone conclusion. It Is the begin
ning of the end of China, a reckless
provocation for that dismemberment of
the Flowery Kingdom upon which the
great European Powers have evidently
been determined ever since the Chinese
Japanese war laid bare the weakness of
China. There is no extravagance in the
statement that the doom of China will
be sounded In tho first shot fired by the
allied forces outside the gates of Pekin.
The peril of the present situation,
however, is that It promises almost in
evitably to precipitate that "0001111 Eu
ropean war" which for years has been
the dread and nightmare of the civilized
world. It is almost Impossible of belief
that the conflicting Interests of Russia,
England and Japan may now be dis
posed of in the settlement of the new
Chinese question without a clash be
tween these hostile and jealous nations.
For this reason the most recent news
from China is ominous to a degree. It
begins to look as If the Nineteenth Cen
tury's closing year is to witness what
may not unlikely develop into the big
gest and bloodiest war known to his
tory. BOSTON'S BIG RECORD.
New York should not rejoice prema
turely over the statistics of comparative
crime which Magistrate Deuel of that
city has collected, which show that
"there were more arrests for drunken
ness per thousand of population in Bos
ton than In any city in the United
States," and that "more persons out of
every thousand were arrested for in
toxication In Boston than were arrested
in N,ew. York for all the crimes in the
calendar."
The statistics are rather creditable to
Boston, for the reason that Massachu
setts has a law making public drunken
ness a punishable offense without regard
to accompanying disorder or breach of
peace. Few States have such a law and
nowhere outside of Boston is such a law
strictly enforced. Public opinion in the
Hub City demands a stringent enforce
ment of the law, no matter what unfair
Inferences criminologists may draw
from the resulting statistics.
With this exceptional law Massachu
setts couples the system of probation for
criminals, in which a person who violates
the law is not punished for his first of
fense, but the punishment suspended
and the offender placed under the ob
servation of a "probation ofllcer" for a
stated period and allowed to pursue his
course unmolested so long as be does
not fall back into his objectionable hab
its. This treatment Is applied especial
ly to cases of public drunkenness, and
according to Herbert D. Ward, Commis
sioner of Prisons in Massachusetts, it
has achieved good results.
"Probation," he says in the Independ
dent, "has passed beyond the experi
mental stage. Under Its application,
theoretically at least, no one should be
sent to prison for the first offense. It
.means the closing of one-half the pris
ons in any State in which the system is
well organized. It means the saving of
thousands of lives to good citizenship
and of hundreds of thousands of dollars
to the treasury. Probation puts a man
on his honor and brings out the nerve
there is in him to rehabilitate hlinself in
society."
VIRTUE REWARDED.
Years ago a popular practice with
teachers of everyday ethics was to in
culcate their lessons by stories of well
doing rewarded in strange 'ways. They
told how a kind man stopped on his way
to a train to take care of a lost child,
how he missed his train as a result and
how he thus escaped death marvelously
when the train was wrecked and all on
board were killed.
An effort seems to have been made to
apply this method of Instruction to the
escape of Mrs. Russell Sage from serious
injury in a fall in which some bundle
she was carrying formed a cushion for
her head. "Had Mrs. Sage not been ho
democratic as to carry her own bundles
she would doubtless have been severely
Injured," moralizes the philosopher.
This method of Instruction may serve
a good purpose with very young chil
dren. It Is bard to sec bow It can serve
such a purpose with older children. That
philosophy Is healthier and saner which
leaves fortuitous rewards and punish
ments out entirely and teaches that
every act is rewarded or punished, as
it Is right or wrong, by Its natural, In
evitable consequences.
Such a philosophy would not be sub
ject to disheartening assaults from
scoffers like that carried In the story of
the two soldiers. One soldier was moral,
the other profligate. In a battle each
soldier was struck In the breast by a
rifle balL The ball which struck the
moral soldier Imbedded Itself harmlessly
in a small Bible he carried In the pocket
of bis coat The profligate soldier had
no Bible to stop the bullet that came at
him. He had a deck of cards.
LIKE PHILIPPINE WAR.
In one of his dispatches Lord Roberts
points out that If the Boers are deter
mined to maintain the struggle the
mountainous nature of the country in
which the fighting will be done is large
ly In their favor. As there the Boers
will see no reason to abandon the
struggle, believing they can lose nothing
by continuing and gain nothing by giv
ing up the fight, it is not unlikely the
war will go on in a way for months.
It will be a guerrilla warfare carried on
by men who. are at home and show no
Inclination to leave their home.
In this condition of things the BoertN
can deprive Great Britain of a large por
tlon of the gain it expected from the
war. Great Britain cannot remove her
soldiers from South Africa because the
weakening of her forces would mass
the Boers instantly and force tho re
sumption by the British of operations in
force.
The practical abandonment of Pretoria
and Johannesburg by the Boers, fol
lowed by the report of the capture of a
British squadron and the cutting of Lord
Roberts's communication with Blocm
fontein, shows that the Boers have
abandoned all idea of meeting the Brit
ish in force.
As a matter of fact the British In
South Africa are face to face with a
situation precisely similar to that which
confronts the Americans in the Philip
pines, and there is little outlook for an
early end of hostilities In either place.
The. way of the imperialist is hard.
PARTY ABOVE ALL.
The best Democrat Is the man who
puts party safety above self. The worst
Democrat is the man who allows his
personal ambitions to Btimd In the way
of party supremacy.
Democratic interests In Missouri at tho
present moment are such as to demand
absolute unselfishness among the lead
ers. While The Republic cannot echo
the pessimistic note of Governor Stone's
speech at the Jefferson City convention,
it must insist upon the need of unflinch
ing party devotion at the present stage
of the campaign. The party's principles
and programme must not suffer because
two or four or eight men have personal
differences or private ambitions.
The past two weeks have been fiaught
with much that is of grave concern to
the party's organization in this State.
The forthcoming fortnight may develop
for good or ill to Missouri's Democracy.
The friends of two of the best known
leaders In the State have done the un
wise thing of making open declarations
Lof hostility one to the other.
This is not Democracy; it is not a
vote-making policy.
If these men and their supporters de
sire to deservo the best of their party
they will have no more quarreling in the
public eye nor will they permit their
personal differences to become a part of
the Democratic record in Missouri.
This is a time for the effacement of
self. Paraphrasing a sentence from Gov
ernor Stone's Jefferson'City speech, are
the quarreling leaders to be party men
of practice or of pretense?
OBSERVERS DIFFER.
One fact that stands ont clear and tin-
obscured from the mass of testimony
taken by the Coroner at the inquiry into
the Washington avenue riot of last Sun
day is that man is a poor observer. The
remarkable variance in the stories of
eyewitnesses and the lack of corrobora
tive facts such as Identifications prove
this amply. The fact that the witnesses
appear to be following their oaths by
trying to tell the truth, the whole truth
and nothing but the truth makes the
variation in the stories all the more re
markable. Man is a poor observer. Even where
he regards an event without any ex
citement, where he has full possession
of bis faculties, his observation is de
fective and inaccurate. Astronomers are
forced In all their calculations to allow
a margin for the "personal equation" of
the observer; that is, for the time It
takes for sensation to produce thought
and for thought to produce action. This
equation varies with each observer.
Astronomers regarding the sun's corona
during an eclipse will draw their obser
vations differently, and only by making
a composite or average of all these draw
ings can accurate results be reached.
When such difficulties arise where ex
citement and danger do not Impair the
faculties of the spectator it can well be
understood that observations would dif
fer very widely where excitement and
danger and bloodshed play a iiart. This
is the case in the Coroner's inquiry.
In such a case the truth can only be
approximated by means of averages and
composites based on a comparison of
those of the statements by witnesses of
good credit and known veracity whoso
accounts agree In general substance.
Recitals which run parallel in no im
portant particular merged into a com
posite would work nothing but deception
and confusion.
It Is easy to end a war when a treaty
of peace concludes it, otherwise the
lighting is long drawn out and troublc
Bome. The principals to the St. Louis
street car strlko should learn a lesson
from the South African and Philippine
wars.
There would bo greater rejoicing over
the news that the eclipse pictures have
'proved uniformly successful were It not
for the fear that most of them will get
into the magazines and make life a bur
den. The vote of the campaign poets will
probably be divided between Iiliss and
Long for the ttepubltcan vico presiden
tial nomination. The poets would have
to scratch to lind rhymes for Dolllver.
The Ilepublicans who thought that the
fall of Pretoria took the Boer war out
of the campaign seem to have reckoned
without Oom Paul Kruger and bis capi
tal on a railroad car.
When the Congress of American Re
publics assembles In the City of Mexico
next year it is to be hoped that Uncle
Sam will not bo barred as representing
an Empire.
It's pure stubbornness that makes the
Boers and the Filipinos keep on fighting,
but it's a stubbornness that has been a
characteristic of all patriots known to
history.
As a combination of Charley Ross and
Humpty Duinpty the great and only
mysteriously missing Buffoon Mayor of
St. Louis is an unqualified success.
That ninety-pound 'Alton woman who
chastised her 100-pound husband at least
proved that she was worth more than
her weight In husbands.
The Special Gift.
Ktver a cool but a (1ft doth own
For dolnr tome good thine well.
And In its fsitltful dclnr alons
Th Joys of tiring dwell;
lAuihttr and sent to Its work btlons.
That makes oar lives complete.
For tbe soul's content Is with It blent.
And the use of the gift Is sweet!
Great or small In the world's esteem.
What need It mean to ysu?
Good work Is cood in the i!asUrs scheme
Who says what eaxh shall do;
And the things that last when your days past.
They come from the soul's uplift
That U felt alooe In the rapture knows
To the work of Uw special gift!
KIPXiET D. SAUNDEBS.
THE CLOSING DAYS
PERSONALITIES IN THE SENATE.
Illl
HRrrnaN for, the scndat RErunuc.
The first session of the Fifty-sixth Con
gress ended In an exhibition of good fellow
ship, which -was In marked contrast to the
party passion and personal rancor shown
In both ends of tho Capitol in the last six
months. When President Pro Tcm Frye
and Speaker Henderson laid down their
gavels. It was at the conclusion of one of
the most eventful ar.d exciting sessions In
the long and varied history of the American
Congress. The inspiring and picturesque
scenes which directly proceeded the ad
journment, ns the members of the House
rose en masse and sans patrlotlo songs,
and the Senate passed with a cheer resolu
tion of thanks to their presiding ofllcer,
were but characteristic Incidents, indicative
of the universal good-will of the typical
American. Several times throughout the
winter, prolonged legislative encounters
and sharp passages of repartee have taken
place In both the House and Senate, which
almost brought those bodies to tho brink
of actual riot. Particularly was this blue
grass condition of affairs true of the last
f
End of the season.
weary hours of the closing days of the session. .
Chief among this Interesting category must bo placed perhaps the most emphatic
"turn down" "Uncle Joe" Cannon has received during his long and honorable career
as Chairman of the House Committee on Appropriations. What must have added bit
ter humiliation to this decisive triumph of the veteran IlUnoisan's enemies was that
It was accomplished after ho had virtually won the light. In other words, "Uncle
Joe" had bulldozed the. House Into accepting his measure, when Amos Cummings of
New York, young Mr. Foss of Illinois and Mr. Dayton of West Virginia Jumped Into
the fray and succeeded In making that very puzzling body relent and completely re
verse Its former vote.
Messrs. Foss. Dayton and Cummings of the House Naval Committee brought In a
conferenco report on the hydrographlc survey feature of the Naval hill, to which
c Cannon took exception and determined to defeat. The old hero of a hundred legis
lative battles entered the lists vigorously, aided by such earnest fighters as John
Bhafroth of Colorado, an old Mlssourian, Moody of Massachusetts, Hemenway of
Indiana and Burton of Ohio. In the excitement of the debate, the old man took off
his collar and necktie, and with sleeves rolled up. aroused the House to a tre
mendous pitch of enthusiasm as hs dealt tho conferees sledge-hammer blows. That
settled It. Tho veteran's evident determination "fixed" the conferees, and scuttled
their report, and the House almost broke a precedent by reversing the unanimous
recommendation of Its own committee.
However, all of Cannon's exhausting labors availed him not. for his victory was
but temporary. After being so sorely humiliated, the old conferees withdrew nnd
the Speaker named new ones, led by Cannon. Ho accepted the appointment with
alacrity and the next morning-, confident of success, brought In a report more to his
liking. But a night had wrought marvels. Tho House had evidently sobered up and
In a burst of good feeling accepted the original bill as It came from the Senate, push
ing "Uncle Joe's" compromise most emphatically, distinctly and Ignomlnlously aside,
much to that worthy's Intense disgust. For onca in a long time ho was outmastered.
outgeneraled and outwitted. To an Impromptu speech by Amos Cummings Is due
much of this overwhelming triumph of the old "Watchdog's" opponents. It was the
New Yorker's premier effort of the session and abounded in sarcasm and sparkled
with wit. .
"Mr. Speaker," said Mr. Cummings, among other good things. "I want to say again,
referring to tho apology Just made by the gentleman from Massachusetts, (Mr. Moody),
that I thought we had a Jackal in the House. Jackals always precede the lion; and
when this magnificent beast from Illinois was lashing his sides with his tall in his fury,
and roaring because he smelled fresh meat, the Jackal had rushed to the front."
"Why." he concluded, addressing himself to tho gentleman from Illinois, with a con
temptuous wave of the hand, "why did you not stand by the proposition which the
House made at the first Instance? Why are you backing down at the first fire. You
are misnamed. You are no cannon; you are a toy musket." This shot convulsed the
house nnd It was several minutes before order could be restored.
Shortly after the echoes of Cannon's defeat had reached the Senate, a simple little
STORIES AND STUDIES
OF STEPHEN CRANE.
WRITTEX FOR THE SUNDAY KUPUBLIC.
Stephen Crane, novelist, poet and news
paper correspondent, died of consumption
at Badenweiler. Baden, June 5, before he
had reached the ago of 30. Some say hit
death cut short a brilliant career; others
that it rama only- after he had exhausted
himself. Some say a few years more of
life would havo enabled him to do work
which would have proven that the charm
ing writings of his early life were but Ira
mature products of a growing literary giant:
others that half a century more of existence
and work would not have placed him on
a taller pedestal of fame. All agree that
some of tho work he did was entitled to
rank with the best literature of the Nine
teenth Century, and that he was a very
odd person. Charles Mtchelson. a. Phila
delphia newspaper man, thus describes
him: "An estimate of Stephen Crane must
be an analysis of two peop'e. Crane tho
writer waa everything that Crane the man
waa not. The artist was sensitive, serious,
painstaking, conscientious ar.d Industrious.
Imbued with almost perfect taste The :r.an
was flippant, careless. Indolent, selfish and
an offense against most of the canons of
society."
Crane was born in Newark. N. J. in 1S70.
He was educated In Lafayette College- and
Syracuse University. He used to spend
his spare time In his college daya In tho
typesetting rooms ef local newspapers. He
explained that was how he came to think
of writing.
He went to New York In 1S32 full of am
bition to do newspaper work. He was un
successful In obtaining a situation, how
ever, and got a position In a mercantile
hcuse. His wages at that time barely kept
him alive. His chief recreation was in
writing stories, nor.e of which ever was
printed, and his out-of-door cxercls con
sisted of tours of the East 8lde. He em
bodied what he saw in these excursions In
a study which he called "Maggie. Child of
the-Streets." When he offered the manu
script to publishers, however, none would
have It. One was found who ottered to
print It at Crane's expense. Believing
thoroughly In the worth of the book. Crane
took the offer as a hint and published the
book at his own expense. He lived en
bread and water to save money with which
to pay the publisher. When It appeared In
print it disappointed the author. It at
tracted no attention whatever for a time.
Crane had sent a copy of "Maggie" to
William Dean Howclls. asking him to tell
him frankly If the book shewed any merit.
Before Mr. Howells had given his reply to
Crane, he waa asked In. the course of an
Interview, who ho thought was the coming
American writer. He answered unhesitat
ingly: "Stephen Crane."
"But who Is her was asked.
"Well." replied Mr. Howells. "I havo
never seen him. but here ! a book he ha
oent me. and he says he published It him
self. If he develops the talent shown In
tho study of 'Maggie' I prophesy he will cot
have an equal in a generation."
And that is how Crane became famous.
His book was reprinted, in rart. by a New
Tfork raper. and, while It did not receive
unanimous and unstinted praise. It secured
for Crane a newspaper position nd expe
rience. It was while be was thus engaged
In tbe winter of 18-that he wrote "The
Red Badge of Courage."
"The Red Badge of Courage" was first
published In serial form, by a syndicate of
newspapers. It was read, but did not Im
mediately attract unusual attention. Later
he wrote a number of short stories, and,
armed with a letter of introduction from
Mr, Howells. took them to a publisher. The
publisher thought them good.
"But," he said, "there are not enough of
them for a book. Have you anything elsa
that could be used?"
Crane told btm of "The Red Badge of
Courage" and that work waa used as the
first tory of tho book. It almost at once
attracted attention, and Crane's fortune
was made. Old soldiers we e the most ar
dent admirers of UJ book, for It told so
graphically of the battle of Chancellors
ville of the death scenes and blood scene
and firing scenes that they were taken
back to the battlefield. They were aatound-
OF THE FIRST SESSION OF THE FIFTY-SIXTH CONGRESS.
Cannon. Cut
Muket."
week of Congress, when several sensational conflicts oc
curred which served admirably to help while away the
ed when they learned that the book was
not the work of an old soldier, but of a
boy Crane was but 23 years old when he
wrote it who had never witnessed a battle
and scarcely a regimental drill; who knew
nothing of the sceno except what be had
read and studied out from maps and plats,
and who had never seen a man killed.
The book reached London, and so flatter
ing were the London reviews of It that
Crane was induced to go there. He was
received In the most exclusive of literary
circles, and his Instantaneous literary suc
cess may have turned his head or dulled his
pen. for he appears to have reached his
zenith about that time. His home was at
a country place near London, where he en
tertained lavishly until his departure for
the Continent to die.
Crane's wonderful word-painting of bat
tle scenes In "The Red Badge of Courage"
made him very much in demand with the
newspapers In the Graeco-Turkish War, and,
later. In tho Spanish-American War In Cuba,
and Torto Rico. His entire success as a
war correspondent is not conceded by all,
but he was undoubtedly a plcturesquo fig
ure In the army. Mr. Mtchelson. who holds
tho negative view as to Crane's success as
a correspondent, siys:
"Yet Crane saw it all. War showed In
him a cold courage remarkable even at a
time when bravery was a commonplace,
nnd an endurance totally at a variance with
bis slight physique. Wherever men were
being killed most lavishly, there was Crane.
In the trenches at Guantanamo. with tho
marines, at Caney, helping to bring In tho
wounded Rough Riders, at San Juan mil.
In Porto Rico. Crane was ever In the thick
of It, always the same desolate, disconso
late figure, with his ragged overalls and
buttcniers shirt flapping about his emaci
ated limbs. He was the dirtiest man in an
army, that had no time to wash nnd no
clothes to change. But while the soldlera
were bound to their posts and could not
trim up, the novelist was almost every day
In contact with the zone of razors and clean
raiment. But the contact never seduced
him from his untidy Jeans."
H. J. Whigham, who wa with Crane In
Cuba, and who plnce has been war corre
spondent In South Africa, once related this
Incident of Crane's career In Cuba:
Whigham, Crane, Davis and some of the
other newspaper stars with the Fifth Army
Corps had gene up to the flrmir line during
one of the most bothersome periods of the
fighting around El Caney. The party was
under a pretty hot fire and Crane was
watching the progress of the bitter work
with absorbed attention. Readers of "The
Red Badge of Courage" will remember how
he describes with much elaboration the ac
tions of a man wounded to the death In
battle, how he dilated on the sound tho
stricken man made as he lurched to the
ground a sound that was scream, a
moan, and n cry of surprise, but more than
anything else a scream. This bit of de
scription was the source of much argument.
Some old soldiers who had seen men die In
battle denied the accuracy of Crane's de
scription; others only mildly questioned It;
still others said a man who could write
with such amazing exactitude about the
death of a soldier must have seen many
men fall at his side.
Crane could not answer the adverse crit
ics. He had never seen that which he de
scribed, but he dreamily said that he knew
he was right, that It must be so.
That day at El Caney, while he was
watching the fighting from an unwhole
some but highly advantageous position, a
soldier was struck In the stomach by a
bullet. The wound was Instantly mortal.
The man lurched, as Crano had said men
In their death sgony did lurch, and uttervd
that cry which it so wholly beyond descrip
tion that only 8tepbn Crane, who never
had heard It. had succeeded In describing.
As the wounded soldier felt Crane looked
up at Whigham and said: "There, you
heard that; What did I tell you 7"
Mr. J. O'Donnell Bennett, a Chicago
newspaper writer, who also knew Crane In
Cuba, declares of this remarkable man:
"He had a curious, dreamy, maundering
wny with him. Unless hts Interest was
very thoroughly aroused he talked like a
man halt asleep, and seemed always to be
looking afar off. But he could be amaz
ingly energetic when occasion required.
While men who thought themselves more
practical than he were falling and falling
down and getting sick and westing money
in Cuba the poet and the dreamer got his
marvelously exquisite bits of description
out of the Island and home to his paper In
some way or another, how nobody ever Just
knew. Tbe only Impression of energy hs
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question by Senator Pcttlgrew, threw that
solemn tribunal into spasms of laughter.
Senator Beverldge had asked unanimous
consent to pass a Joint resolution w hich had
Just come from the House. The clerk be
gan to read the bill by Its title:
"A Joint resolution to donate a con
demned ennnon "
"Docs that bill," Interrupted Pcttlgrew.
like a flash, "refer to the Chairman of the
Committee on Appropriations In the House
of Representatives.?" The merriment
which this sally created gradually swelled
Into applause as the full s'gnlflcance of It
dawned upon the authors.
Another Incident which added much to
the gayety of Congress waa a sensational
rpeech by the Hon. Marcus Alonzo Hanna.
It w?s perhaps the most marvelous emana
tion which has been perpetrated upon a
long-suffering Senate in many years, and
succeeded In bringing on one of the bitter
est debate- heard this session. In which
the general receiver of the trusts. In matters
of legislation, was held up by representa
tives of the "plain people" and told just
a iu-
what they thought of him. As it was practically the Senator's maiden effort, he must,
be allowed extenuating circumstances, although he did succeed In stirring up a regu
lar "mare's nest."
This edifying fpectacle was occasioned when he stood In the Senate Chamber and
defended the manufacturers of armor plate, saying' among other remarkable state
ments that "$GC0 would be a fair rrice per ton and certainly not a bis price for plat
ing our warships. Then the atorm broke and the air began to crackle in the
chamber as If an electric storm had been waging. Senator Wellington of Maryland, a
Republican, but an independently fearless one. quickly arose, ar.d. in response to the
Ohloan's last declaration retorted that "the Illinois Steel Company offered to mako
armor for C5 per ton. but because it was not In th combine Its offer was rejected."
Mr. Pcttlgrew paid his respects to Mr. Hanna by declaring that he was trying to pay
back the J'OO.OW collected from the Bethlehem Steel Company in the last campaign
by means of contracts made at robber prices, and Mr. Allen accused him of being the
agent of the Armor Trust in the Senate. Mr. Tillman, after a sharp exchange with
the gentleman from Ohio, complained, speaking In general terms, that "all million
aires were thieves nnd liars anyway." and Mr. Teller ended the- agony by bitterly de
claring that "tho chief representative of the Republican party in the United States"
dared to get up In the Senate and defend trusts, that he- might the more easily levy
contributions in the complng campaign and stated that if the people knew the truth
about the doings of the present administration they would overturn It In an hour.
All together, it was a most uncomfortable hour for Mr. Hanna. to which most of
the free lances In the Senate contributed and "they do say" here in Washington that
he has sines become a firm believer in tho old adage, "discretion Is the better part of
valor."
Tho foregoing Incidents, however, wero as Joe FloTys chances against Alec
Dockcry, when Senators Carter and Pettigrew had their sulphurous set-to on the floor
of the Senate two days before Congress adjourned. The wholo difficulty was stirred
up by Pettigrew disclosing some of the more startling facts connected with the Re
publican campaign fund of 1S32. The Senator, who was then a loyal Republican. In
trusted with the secrets of his party. Is now a Populist, and always going forth like
tho lion In the Bible, seeking whom he may devour In the administration. The result
of his lying In wait for the ex-chalnnan of his old party will not fade from the
memory of the Senate for some little time,
Senate for a decade reached its climax a
tho Democratic Senators not to associate
who He down with dogs may expect to get
est character were exchanged and for almost an hour the Senate was swept off its feet.
The lie by implication was frequent, and only by the most skillful maneuvering was
the lie direct avoided. Had the s-ene occurred In a Kentucky Legislature the air would
have been blue with gunpowder long before the Montanan classed Mr. Pettigrew with
the canines. Nothing like It has occurred since the day when Senator Woleott declined
to enter Into a controversy with Senator Carey "because it is a waste of lather to
shave an ess." Had the gentlemen Implicated been from the South, It Is altogether
probable that even the dignity of the United States Senate would have been disre
garded and guns pulled. As it was, both parties took to their respective seats after It
was all over and did nothing.
ever conveyed to the careless eye was that
he smoked many cigarettes."
Crane was generous and thoughtless. It
is told of him that on the return from
Porto Rico after the war he brought a
joung colored boy he had picked up at St.
Thomas. The lad had never been off the
little Island, where he was born, but Crane
thought he would look well among his
Greek servants souvenirs of the Graeco
Turklsh War In the home he had estab
lished In a suburb of London. Crane waa
very fond of the boy. On the way up the
tropic-reared lad suffered from the cold,
and his master gave him his overcoat and
shivered in the evenings himself. Crane did
not go to England at once, but charged off
to Havana to describe the transformation
from Spanish to American- He never gave
the West Indian boy a thought, but cut
him adrift In New York, and never even
made inquiry about him when be passed
through the city montha later on his way
to England. He had simply forgotten all
about him.
In Cuba Crane was not a lion
among the army officers. He never
told good stories, his costume al
ways suggested a tramp, and he
was not sociable. But be nevertheless did
not lack society. "By the same Instinct
that a quail set freo In a strange country
ignores pigeons, doves and pirtrtdges. and
knows the bob-white for his kind, so Crane
In Porto Rico discovered the rebels against
conventionality among the natives," de
clares Mr. Mlchclson. Far In advance of
tho last American outpost. In this disturbed
village or that. Crane found unerringly the
town scapegrace, the local ne'er-do-well,
and the rest of the coterie, which hung
around the fonda, while honest people were
tending store or working in the coffee or
cane. Though he did not know their lan
guage, and they knew no word cf his, he
led their revels, and they opened their arms
to him, and all the town held for such as
they was his.
"When the steamer that was n ram?
Crane and his fellaw-correspondenta back
to the United States was ready to sail,
everybody elso waa on board, but there was
no sign of Crane. The steamer's whistle
blew, and blow In vain, and finally we
started a. search expedition after him. In
a clump cf banana trees we found Crane,
standing beside the white, flea-bitten pony
that had carried him all over the Island.
The tears were running down his cheeks.
"Oodd-by, El D03. good-by." Crane biub
bred, and then he put his arms around
tho pony's neck and cried again.
"Crane did not speak a word on the way
to the steamer. Once on board he turned
to look back, and there, at the edge of the
banana patch, stood his borae, watching
him. As long as that .white spot ngal.tst
the dark green could bo seen from the chip
Crane waved his handkerchief."
A New Orleans newspaper man recalls
Crane's unique experience of living to read
hl own obituary not only on one occasion,
but twice. Ho says:
"When the Cubans were fighting on their
own account, before the Intervention of Un
cle Sam, Crane shipped ns a common sailor
on an old tub of a steamer bound for the
Island with a cargo of contraband arms.
The vessel foundered off tho East Floridlan
Coast and all hands were supposed to be
lost. The news reached Elbert Hubbard,
the poet-sage of East Aurora. N. T., and.
as the novelist had once been one of his
famous. 'Philistine' household, he immedi
ately sat down and wrote a beautiful and
touching tribute for the next Issue of that
pprlghtly periodical. As the Philistine was
going to press, with the 'obituary as its
chief feature, word was received that Crane
and four others had escaped In an open
boat. Hubbard was rejoiced, of course, but,
not liking to lose such an admirable piece
of composition, he let-the obituary go any
how.wlth a foot note running something like
this: 'Later I have Just learned that Steve
was net drowned after all. He swam out on
a hencoop.' That singular composite caused
Crane many a hearty laugh. Afterward,
when the war waa on. he went to Cuba as a
correspondent and disappeared for over a
month, wrestling with an attack of fever.
In the Interim somebody wired back that
he was dead, and again the newspapers all
over the country blossomed out with post
mortem 'appreciations of his genius. Rich
ard Harding; Davis and others who saw htm
under fire, both In Cuba and during the
Turko-Gfeclan campaign, have testified to
bis absolute disregard of danger. His te
merity staggered the o!d soldiers. They ey
he had to be dragged by main strength
down Into the trenches during the flghtlag
before Santiago."
Mr. Bennett thus tells of Crane's person
ality: "Crane wore his honors, such as they
were, lightly. The adulation of America
and England did not intoxicate hlro.though,
especially to far as England was concerned,
H waa adulation aucb as no man of bis
years ever has received at the hands of as
austere and sober press. There wero soma
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at least. The roost sensational debate In the
Mr. Carter, driven to desperation, warned
with Senator Pettigrew, "because those
up with fleas." Personalities of the sharp
kinds of praise that appealed to him very
deeply, however, but he did not 1st tho
world know of the pathetic satisfaction ha
got out of them Last summer a man in
ternationally famous, who knew Crane bet
ter probably than any other man living,
was visiting with him at his chambers In
London. Crane pulled out a battered dis
patch box and drew forth a copy cf an offi
cial report sent to Washington shortly
after an important movement of a large de
tachment of the Fifth Army Corps. He
ran a shaky finger over the lines atatlng
that 'this Important operation was success
ful through information furnished as a re
sult of the courage and promptitude of a
Mr. Stephen Crane, a newspaper corre
spondent ef New York.
"Crane hated sham and deceit. His tem
perament was subtle, elusive, nervous, and
sometimes presented contradictory aspects
of the oddest kind. He had the soul of a
poet, and yet would often affect the bear
ing and speaking of a Bowery boy. His
conversation, therefore, was curiously un
even. He would dreamily speak some
beautiful and brilliant thing, and. almost
before the lofty words bad reached the ears
of his hearers, he would come down to the
pavement and talk like a street child. No
amount of respectful listening or tacit en
couragement would lift him back to the
heights whence he Just had thrown him- j
self In. It seemed, a spirit of sheer wanton- V.
"nesa. '
"There was a singular lack of resistance
both In his character and bis temperament.
His mind was eminently plastic. He pos
sessed an almost uncanny power of pro
jecting himself into a given situation and
coming up soaked with Impressions, in
formation, sympathies.
"His mind offered no resistance to sug
gestion. And the way be could convey the
atmosphere of a scene was more than ef
fective, it was scaring."
Stephen Crane's earliest recognition as a
literary man was In the acceptance by John
Brlaben .Walker of a manuscript entitled
"A Tent in Agony." which was published
In the Cosmopolitan Magazine In the sum
.mer of 1S9S. Mr. Walker related the Inci
dent to me. He was sitting at his office
in Madison Square one morning much Im
mersed with accumulated work, when a
pale, lank, queer-looking young man came
In with a roll of paper. The caller, Mr.
Walker said, had a singular, furtive look
that suggested the alertness of a hunted
animal. Thero was scarcely time for the
editor to become nervous over the pecul
iarity of the young man's manner, for the
visitor placed the roll before the editor
and In one breath said:
"This Is a fish story. I will be here in
week."
Having thui spoken. Stephen Crane (for
It was he, then utterly to fortune and
fame unknown), withdrew as swiftly and
as Informally as he had made his en
trance. Mr. Walker, a man of much af
fability, could only answer. "I will look It
over," before the door's sharp crack sig
nalized the odd caller's departure.
The editor read the manuscript himself
the first time, a thing a magazine editor
never does save in exceptional circum
stances, and ho quickly divined its choica
quality. He sent for Dan Beard, the artist,
and within three days a half dozen photo
etchings had been placed on the editor's
desk with the manuscript. The story re
counted the experience of three youngsters
who had gone to Sullivan County and,
camped by "a wet spot" for recreation from
college Jade, and mainly "for to fish." A "
bear made Its way Into the tent In the ab
sence of the campers and proceeded to make
merry around the center pole, whereupon
the tent fall and there ensues a terriflo
struggle of the fallen tent oyer, a large area
of ground, to the consternation of the re
turning college Jades, now much cheered
and Inspirited by a visit to a madhouse in
adjacent precincts. Beard's drawings served
forth most exquisitely the sentiment and
quaint humor of the narrative. It was thus
that a tent fell Into agony, and thus that
Stephen Crane first became known as a
writer of fiction which, Mr. Walker sur
mised, was quite as much a recital of fact
as an enon or ine imagination.
At tho exrjiratfnnr nf , l- . - hvti
Stephen Crane returned. Tie immMi.
by the editor with a. kind reserve that .,
v-ranes sensitiveness from many rebuffs de
noted to him as the rejection of his staff.
"I know. I know.'.'- he said: "let me bars
It back."
"What do you think of these Ulostrs
tionsT said Mr. Walker.
The pained and hunted visage In an In
stant shone with Interest and a raljo of
exceeding sweetness. "He has put s tot
on .the devU's tall." said Crane: "that Is
right. He has left out the Jug; that Is bet
ter. Yon ought to have seen the fan catch
ing that bear with the tent wrapped around
him!"
The article .made six pages. Crane left
with Mr. Walker s check for Jl on an
AfJlor.p'3ci' ank- He said simply:
"It Is all a Utile too rood to be true."
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