Pennsylvania, poll-taxes paid for dead citizens in 271, effect of speed bonus, 291, division of Caxton's publications listed by G. Duff, 164, 165- Democratie opposition, 369-Supreme Court up- Clarke Papers, 320, 321-Cynewulf's Christ edit lecturers visiting Harvard, 380-Chopin, Liszt's ing, 62, anti-monopoly law sustained, by U. S. on, 130--Councils, Quentin's Great Collections, Supreme Court, 272–Topeka "Capital" edited 499. on Early Printed Books, 164, 165-A. P. De Tanner of minois falls of renomination, 2- Lisle's Life by Purcell, 263- Dictionary of Na- tional Blography, vols. 60, 61, 147. Trusts, Republican demand for taking away land in 19th Century, Oman's, 74, English protection, 138, 157, Democratic and Repub- Oxford Dictionary, 110, 360, English Imprints English Unitarianism and Protestant Dissent, Wisconsin Republican Convention on imperlalism, Lloyd's, 222, English Plays (17th century). 329—Appraiser Wakeman, efforts to remove Greg's List of, 284, English Public Schools Senator Wellington withdraws from Republican 360, Egyptology, Budge's Handbooks of, 186. party. 310–Senator Wolcott's apology for the Fredericq. Paul, on the sale of Indulgences in Sport in France, 223, French Colonization, ABROAD. Saussure's Psychology of, 186, French Revo- lutionists, Jephson's Real, 399. Garman, Samuel, Deep-Sea Pacific Fishes, 110– Giotto and his works in Padua, 419-Germany, Currents of higher education, 33, German Lit erature in the 19th Century, 438-Greek Comic Poets, Pickard-Cambridge's Fragments of, 380 -Gospel fragment from Coptic MS., 821. Ireland in speech to Primrose League, 371, Hartmann, J. P. E., deceased, 244–J. B. Halvor. sen deceased, 243-Otto Harnack's Essays on the History of Literature, 13-Heinze law, Ger- man protests against, 302-A, R. Hope's Ready- Made Romances, 263-Hausa language, Robin- son's Dictionary of, 13-Hindustani. Bride's Mirror text in, 111. tion, 177–Press on Delagoa Bay, award, 253, Ibsen's "When We Dead Awake," 94-Italy, Mod- ern, Orsi's, 419-Indian Child-Life, Deming's, 206-International Society of Painters, Sculptors and Gravers. 206-Indulgences, P. Fredericq on the sale of, in Utrecht, 264, 23-Madagascar war losses used against Gen. 302, 419, Jesuit Missions press, 166, Florens on ancient rituals, 302- Jesult Relations (vols. mot on capital and labor, 235-Success of Na- 65-58). 53, vols. 59-62, 244. Kempis, à, Thomas, Dutch monument to, 340. Lincoln's Life, by Miss F. M. Tarbell, 164-Alexan- der Leslie, Terry's Life of, 13-W. Lloyd's Story of Protestant Dissent, 222-Oliveira Lima's 'Noe Estados Unidos,' 54-Lucian, Hime's, 244, Martineau, James, deceased, 54-Madison's Notes of Debates in the Federal Convention, State Department edition, 477–James Monroe letters in New York Public Library, 185-Increase Mather's diary, 399-Massachusetts colonial smuggling, Gower papers on, 301-Mass, Colonial Society's third volume, 339, 340—Michigan Unl- versity's group courses in history, etc., 147, new requirements for admission, 418-Mexican archæology in Berlin Royal Ethnological Mu- seum's publication, 54-Memory Culture, Pick's, 12-Magazines for January, 32, 33, Feb ruary, 129. 130. March, 205, 206, April, 283, 284, May, 378, 379, June, 437, 438, 479- Mag- ters In Art," 148. Thomas to United States, 273. Newnes South Polar expedition's success, 284- RUSSIA: Acquires control of Persia and port on Nansen's Scient{fic Results or Norwegian North Polar expedition, 379. Nansen on educa. SOUTH AFRICA: Effect of war on gold supply, 3, tion, 400-Norway, national-tongue movement, supposed understanding with Germany for ac- 14, North Polar expedition's scientific results, 301. the Tugela after taking Spion Oxyrhyncus Papyrl contents, 74. and relleves Kimberley, 139, captures Cronje Pick's Memory Culture, 12-Thomas Paine, Life and his command, 157, formally occuples Bloem- by E. Sedgwick, 185–Poole's Historical Atlas, 340-Pacific Coast Philological Association 215, Gen. Roberts's report on Spion Kop affair, founded, 130. 840. king relieved, 391, end in sight, 409. INDIA: Famine and the South African war expendi- Reusch, Franz Heinrich, deceased, 224-Wilhelm ture, 103, Government efliciency testified to by von Riehl, H. Simonsfeld on, 13-Raphael, Oecumenical Conference (New York). 331, pre- Strachey's, 93-Rabelals in Urquhart's transla cautionary financial measures, 371-Gold stan- tion, 301-J. Royce's Conception of Immortall- ty, 460-Russian medical students limited in CHINA: Germany's troubles in colonizing Klao- number, 243-Royal Historical Society's Trans- actions. 73-Rubber, Ferguson's All About, 438 - Romantic Triumph, Omond's, 460, Shakspere's Warwickshire Dialect studied by A Morgan, 438-Henry Sweet's History of Lan- Notes. guage, 460-Signorelli, Crutwell's, 93-An- drea del Sarto, Guinness's, 93-L, de Saussure's Announcements, 10, 31, 52, 71, 91, 108, 127, 145, Psychology of French Colonization, 186—Spain, 162, 184, 203, 221, 242, 261, 281, 299, 319, 338, Main's Cities and Sights of, 360-Scandinaviang 358, 376, 397, 417, 436, 457, 475, 497-K. A. E. in United States, Nelson's History of, 147- Scottish Jacobites, Newbigging's, 223-Solway, ney in Spain, 207-Dr. Leo Arons removed from Neilson's Annals of, 186-Sudan, political divl. University of Berlin, 244-Gov. Andros's origi- slon, status of slavery, 321-South African His. nal Council Minutes, 359, 360-American School tory, Pratt's Leading Points in, 499—Solar of Classical Studies at Athens, good work at eclipse of May 28, preparations for, 223—State Corinth, 110, "American Historical Review' for scholarships desired for high schools, 243. January, 130- Asiatic Society of Japan's Trans- Toyama, M. S., deceased, 321-Tower of London, Brooke-Hunt's Prisoners of the 93-Transvaal Trouble, Hammond's, 499. Buchner, Ludwig, deceased, 165—Vittorio Bersezlo Virginia, colonial slavery in, 147—"Vanity Fair," 93. grevink on Newnes South Polar expedition, 284 Whitmore, William H., deceased, 478-Washing. Point cadets, origin of best scholars, 498, 499. Yorkshire, Norway's Highways and By-ways in, 74. 200 Free Trade, Domestic..... 65 25 Free Trade with the Coloples.... 64 178 From Blaine to Hay.... 122 296 392 26 Gold Bill Passed in Senate. 140 274 Government Deposits 24 44 4 Graveyard of Good Treatles. 199 412 86 Hadley, Ad 48 6 Erie Canal Policy, Our.. 85 Havana Post-ofice Scandal, 872 471 Es Oriente Lux... 178 201' Federal Corrupt-Practices Act... 84' Historical Pa els, Some...... 296 in of 31, Hoar's Speech 257 133 Dante's Ten Heavens (Gardner's) 377 216 277 Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie Danvis Pioneer (Robinson's)..... 303 319 Darwinism and La marcklsin 110 266 at Corinth Cyclopaedia of 303 Decatur, Stephen (Brady's). 497 Literature, (Fisher's) Deep-Sea Fish of Albatross Expe- General Survey of 19 dition (Garman's) Station 110 473 98 Life of 263 Des Indes à la Planete Marg (Herrinann's) 498 463 Anatomical Diagrams for Art Stu. Deutsche Litteratur des 19. 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(Jackson's) Thousand Days 111, 133 Dover, Statham's) History of... 402 Arden Massiter (Barry's). 72 Drama of Yesterday and To-day Asia, Heart of (Skripe's). 167 (Scott's) Bettering the Instruction 161 89 Durbam, (Lapsley's) County Pala- 503 tine of 170 and Quaker Colonies 153 (Fiske's) 180 Australia, Central, (Spencer and Early Printed Books (Dutt's). 164, 165 Gillen's) Native Races of. 113 East Tennessee and the Civil War 376 260 (Temple's) 247 321 Echoes of Greek Idylls (Miffin's) 265 216 279 165 Education au point de vue SO- ciologique (Elslander's) 37 186 gy (King's) Education, (Seeley's) History of. 210 Education Moderne des 496 Jeunes Adonis (Bormann's) 31 Filles (Dugard's) 221 Ballads of a Bookworm (Browne's) 265 Education of Children (Mon- 210 taigne's) 282 Education of the Young (Bosan- 144 Bamberger, Ludwig, Erinnerungen 12 quet's Plato's) 497 Bastille, (Funck-Brentano's) Leg- Egypt, (White's) Expansion of... 78 221 Egypt, (Worsfold's) Redemption of 171 220 Beatrice d'Este (Cartwright's).1. 226 Egyptian Hleroglyphics (Budge's). 186 372 108 188 or Egyptian Ideas the Future 186 .143, 162 Beyond the Hills of Dream (Camp- 52 Egyptian Magic (Budge's) 186 bell's) 362 Emancipation de la Femme Mu. Bible Dictionary (Davis's) 11 sulmane (Lededer's) 477 Bird Homes (Dugmore's). 18 Degrees, Irregular Bird Notes Afeld (Keeler's). 162 Emhroidery and Lace (Lefébure's) 18 Despotism in College Administra- Invertebrates 317 Erinneringen an 11 (Korscheldt and Holder's) 262 89 Boccacio, (Zenatti's) Dal Commen- Emersons of Ipswich (Emerson 491 and Gordon's) 422 Boccaclo, (Jacobs's) Tales from.. 11 Encyclopædia Bíblica (Cheyne's). 245 24 Boers, (Van der Hoogt's) Story of England in 19th Century (Oman's) 74 the 284 England Saved How Europe, (Fitcbett's) 52 Great, (Cloete's) His- .54, 263 tory of 37 English Faust. Book of 1692 (Loge. Fellowships for Women...... 203, 260 Botanizing (Bailey's) 398 man's) 237 435 Bounty, (Bligh's) Mutiny on the. 876 English Literature, (Pattee's), Brahms, Johannes, (Dietrich and Foundations of 242 Hand is on Us 240 Widmann's) Recollections of. 188 English Literature, (Painter's) Bride's Mirror (Nazir Ahmad's).. 111 240 History of 262 British Army, (Fortescue's) Hig- English Novel, (Cross's) Devel- 313 268 opment of 440 5 British Breeding Birds, (Kear- English Novel, (Stoddard's) Evo- 89 304 440 lution of 337 31 Briton and Boer.. English Plays 1643-1700 (Greg's). 284 152 English Poor Law, (Mackay's) 211 396, 435 132 Buddha, (Davids's) Dialogues of. 444 English Radicals (Kent's) 92 English woman's Year book Imperialism, Unselfishness of. 202 Byzantine (Janes's) 72 Constantinople (Van 225 Enoch Willoughby (Wickersham's) 303 392 183 Enseignement supérieur de l'Hig- Cambridge Compositions (Archer- 319 117 377 toire (Fredericq's) 298 "Enterprise, Lucky Little Kentucky and the Boss. 107 359 (Hill's) 275 Kentucky, Only One Issue in.... 496 Epileptice, (Letchworth's) Care of 339 229 Essays and Addresses (Pfiel- derer's) 437 49 McKinley Beer in Manila. 90 Etchingham Letters (Pollock and 210 16 "On the Hip". 397 Ethics, (Thilly's) Introduction to. 480 7 210 Eton College, (Cust's) History of. 886 49 77 European Fauna, (Scharff's) Hle- Cathedral Builders (Scott's) 424 tory of 386 Evangelienfragment, (Jacoby's) Electricity Sup. 821 Ein Neues 128 ply (Gay and Yeaman's). 437 Exhibition (1900), Paris Phantomnation 127 18 Eye. (Davis's) Refraction of the. 339 Famous Actors of the Day 88 Charterhouse (Tod's), 72 (Strang's) dla. 335 Chase, Salmon P. (Hart's). 207 242 ead (Roberts's) Protestant Principle Federal Clearing-honses (GII. 398 484 Chaucer Canon (Skeat's). 443 223 126 Finland and the Tsars (Fieber's) 135 of Fish Culture, Modern Mather's). 242 317 172 Florilegium Latinum (Thackeray 117 383 Folk-Songs from the Spanish 71 Chopin, Liszt's) Life of. 419 285 263 Forms of Proge Literature (Gar. 338 diner's) 819 51 Civil War (U. S.), (Schouler's) France. 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Crevelli, Carlo (Rushforth's) 242 Garthowen (Raine's) 402 11 Geber (Benton's) 303 38 284 Cuba and International Relations German Sectarians of Pennsyl- 325 (Pennypacker's) 69 Settlement of 438 377 Gesammelte Aufsätze (Schon- 146 of maps) d'Amérique (Blanc's, 362 D.. bacb's) 303 Saëns's) 800 Sovereign Ladies of Europe (Both- 16 mer's) 859 163 Practical Agitation (Chapman's) 346 Spain, (Main's) Cities and Sights 360 223 Hunt's) (Quen- 93 Stalr-Building, (Mowat's) Treatise on 443 186 and Color (Raymond's), 343 Stalky & Co. (Kipling's) 16 Stanley Lady (Adeane's) Early 222 Married Life of 884 mnents of Smith's) 160 ::::...... 184 Puritad as Colonist and Reform. Steam-Engine Theory and Prac. er (Byington's) 221 tice (Ripper's) 128 Pyramids and Progress (Ward's). 171 Steinert, Morris, Reminiscences.. 463 Mechanics applied to Engineering 128 Quaker Campaigns in Peace and Stevenson, Robert Louis (Corn- 884 ford's) Mediæval Music (Hope's). 800 96 Quaker Government in Pennsyl- Stony Point, (Johnston's) Storm- 12 885 Queen's Twin (Jewett's) 244 Stories from Old-Fashioned Chil- War Days (Rusling's). 11 31 268 Strength of Gideon (Dunbar's).: 481 109 118 462 265 303 191 264 33 Recollectiong (West's) 877 13 Millais, Jobn E., (Millais's) Life Reden und Vorträge (Ribbeck's). 92 Taxation, State, Studies in. 800 398 33 Red Pottage (Cholmondeley's). 244 Teck, Duchess of (Cooke's) 864 Millet (Hurll's) 417 and Mili the 248 382 (Harrison's) 483 Reformation in England, (Mait. 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Shall We Drink 877 Rubber and Gutta-Percha, (Fer- 438 Winter Holiday (Carman's). 204 188 478 Rugby (Bradby's) Wireless Telegraphy (Bottone's): 417 Rural Wealth and Welfare Wireless Telegraphy, (Fabie's) duction to Text of. (Falrchild's) 78 265 Ruskin, John (Spielman's) 242 Wit and Humor of Bench and Russian Literature, (Wallszew- 92 ski's) History of 845 With a Palette in Eastern Pal. 16 On Trial Russian Province of the North aces (Merrick's) 262 362 (Engelhardt's) 282 Women's International Congress, 361 Osbern and Ursyne (Craigie's). Russia on the Pacific (Vladimir's) 287 Transactions 859 Our Fleet To-day (Eardley-Wil- Sailing around the World (Slo- World and the Individual (Royce's) 267 497 cum's) 320 World in a Garden (Neish's). .116, 476 Paine, Thomas (Sedgwick's). 859 Wotan, and Brünn- 77 San Isidro (Crowninshield's) 188 bilde (Chapin's) English Dictionary Writing-Table of the 20th Oen- 866 Valley, and Beyond Paradiso Dante's) 361 (Bishop's) 403 Scandinavians in 8. D., (Nelson's) Yorkshire, (Norway's) Highways 417 History of 147 and Byways in 417 163 437 Persons and Places (Champ- lin's) 476 Paris, Harper's Guide to. 166 Yule and Christmas (Tille's) 36 Paris, (Martin's) Stones of., Scottish Jacobites (Newbigging's) 223 265 Books of the Week. Primer of Selected Poems (Matheson's) 362 Seton Family (Seton's) 305 20, 39, 60, 79, 99, 118, 136, 154, 173. 480 Life of 323, 341 347, 367, 387, 406, 424, 445, 465, 485, Sextus Empiricus and Greek Step- 505. ro's) 59 ERRATA 222 Shakespeare-Vorträge (Vischer's). 31 Shakspere, (Quiller-Couch's) His. Page 52. col. fi., line 36 from bottom: torical' Tales from 340 l'or January" read * December.' 58 Shipping and Craft, (Pritchett's) Line 9 from bottom. For "Wenn" Pepss's Ghost (Emerson's). :::::. 109 Pen and Pencil Sketches of.. 152 read "Wann.' 93 Page 77, col. 1., line 18 from bottom. Writings of Silence of Love (Holmes's) 362 For "fire-red" read "fine red." 16 Page 90, col, 11. Dele third paragraph 14 Sill, Edward R. Prose' Writings. 300 from bottom (Peacock). 92 Slavery and Four Years of War Page 127. col. ii., line 3 from bottom. (Keifer's) 417 For phantoinnate or phantomda- Socialism, (Le Bon's) Psychology tion" read “phantomate or phanto- Elementary 221 385 mation." the tom. For "T. Codman" read “J. 244 362 (Rawnsley's) ....... T. Codman." moirs of 114 Soul and the Hainmer (Ditson's) 402 Page 162, col. 111., Ude 32. For "Mac- 163 18 South Africa, (Devereux's) Side- millan" read “Henry Frowde." 362 of 37 Page 221, col fil., lipes 19 and 30 68 from bottom. For "Monsieur" read 499 *Mademoiselle." Poole's Historical Atlas. 810 Soutb Africa, (Hobson's) War in. 284 Page 343. col. lll., line 30. For "a 303 South Carolina, (McCrady's) His- glass, marble, or a brass ball" rend "a glass marble," etc. tory of on 60 91, 377 .... 420 72 of .. Me. 405 The Week. success NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JANUARY 4, 1900. the Argentine treaty, is that free-trade Ludlow, who, it says, "has governed by arguments are so innocently used by men means of ukases signed with the point of who have gone all their lives in horror his sword." These are but indications of them. "In any other mouth," said of the swarming difficulties which will Pascal's Jesuit, "these opinions would try the patience and tact of Gen. Wood The reported of Secretary be orthodox”; coming from a Jansenist, in his new and arduous position, but Hay's efforts to obtain a joint interna of course they were heretical. So we which we think he will surmount. tional guarantee of the "open door" in say, if anybody but Mr. McKinley talk ed as he does about the French and China will constitute, if real, a great di We suppose that the incorporation of plomatic achievement. Argentine treaties, he would be a free- the Panama Canal Campany in New ernment has been working for this end Jersey on Wednesday of last week is inhas been no secret. The President alluded to the matter in his message, when Appraiser Wakeman continues to be a tended partly to remove the deadly rehe said that no infringement of our thorn in the side of New York importers. proach that it was a “foreign” enterprise. treaty rights in China had yet occurred, it has seemed to be his view all along This was used as a fatal taunt in the last Congress. It will be no longer availand that the purpose of the Adminis- that importing is an immoral act, which tration was to see that none should oc- has somehow been recognized and tole- abie, however, now that the incorpora tors are able to announce “the Americur. That expression suggests the rarated by the United States Government, canization of the Panama Canal. This tionale of the affair-to maintain unimbut which good men should discounte mahes the Panama route at least as papaired our commercial rights in China nance and prevent as much as possible. triotic as the Nicaragua plan, and thus enjoyed under existing treaties. The dan- So he takes all possible means to check the eminent engineers who are investiger was, of course, that the successive this kind of misdemeanor. The result annexations, or "leases” for ninety-nine is that foreign trade really belonging to rating the comparative technical merits of the two are at liberty to dismiss all years as the wise it call, might have the New York seeks other ports, where less effect of snuffing out our treaties. China fanatical appraisers are stationed. It invidious questions about the flag, and look only for the better place to dig a would be disposed still to observe them, would not be surprising if New York but would the European Powers who had should receive the bulk of her dry-goods canal. Their report cannot, in all prob ability, be laid before Congress in its taken over Chinese territory? The ex- of foreign make through the Boston ample of English experience in Madacustom-house before the expiration of present session. The President evidently does not expect that it will be, as he said gascar is instructive. When France, not Wakeman's term. So, as we cannot have in his message that “a comprehensive without some diplomatic trickery, sud Wakemans at all our ports, we should denly declared Madagascar French terrinot be suppressing the evil practice of and complete investigation is called for, which will require much labor and consitory, instead of merely a French protec- importing, but only changing its lurk derable time for its accomplishment.” torate, British treaty rights of trade in ing-place. A report comes from Washthat island were at once extinguished. ington that Wakeman will not be re Yet this, of course, has not prevented the impetuous Hepburn and the fiery Lord Salisbury complained, but M. Hano moved from office, but that ne will be taux was firm, and the English were left warned to mend his ways. Such leniency Morgan from announcing that they pro pose to push bills for the construction without redress. Mr. Hay foresaw a simi will be a mistake on the part of the of a Nicaragua Canal, without waiting lar peril to our interests in China, and for any little thing like a Government took steps to forestall it diplomatically. ceived many warnings to “be decent," report. They will be more than ever but they have been of no avail, because inclined to make haste when they learn the crime of importing was constantly that the Americanized Panama Company Mr. Kasson has taken a hand in ex- going on before his eyes. As well expect proposes to raise American capital and plaining the French reciprocity treaty. a Puritan of the seventeenth century to He is naturally displeased at the asser- keep his hands off an image in a Catholic complete its canal without asking money from Congress. tion of the French Government that they church. Foreign goods are a kind of godgot quite the better of him in the bar- iess idolatry to the Wakeman vision, and gain. As a matter of fact, he is certain an importer, although he may be a pro President McKinley must see the abthat he worsted them. They were sim- tective tariff man himself and a member surdity or forbidding Federal office-holdply in despair at his superior craft and of the very League of which Wakeman ers to attend the Republican national cunning in the negotiation, and at one was Secretary, is in his eyes an object of convention for two or three days next time ruefully thought of abandoning the sleepless vigilance and never ending sus June, and at the same time allowing one whole treaty, which was such a monu- picion. of the chief among such office-holders ment of their diplomatic defeat; but to act for nearly a year as chairman of finally they concluded to put a bold face The native Cuban press treated Gen. an important partisan committee. It on it and tell the Chamber that they Brooke's farewell proclamation with would be logical to let First Assistant had got the better of the wily Améri grave humor. “We look around us," Postmaster-General Heath be head of cans. Mr. Kasson, however, is not put- said the Diario de la Jarini, "as Gen. the "committee on organization and liteting a bold face on it when he affirms Brooke urges us to do, but we do not rature" just established by the Repubthat he completely outmaneuvred the see the things he says we shall.” One of lican national committee, and also Frenchmen; he is telling the simple them was judicial and prison reform, to let as many postmasters throughout historic truth, and has no thought of upon which Gen. Wood seems now to be the country go to the convention at influencing the action of the Senate. entering with vigor. Towards the new Philadelphia as could secure election Truthful James could not be more sol- Military Governor all factions are very as delegates. It would be logical also emn than he in assuring the troubled respectful. This, however, may be only to prohibit such partisan activity by California fruit-growers that their inte provisional, until Wood chooses his Ca- both superior and subordinates. But to rests are dear to his heart, and have binet; then he will be apt to hear things say that Mr. Heath of Indiana may turn not been neglected in the least. But the said in fluent Castilian. The Cubano himself into a partisan worker for the amusing thing about all this, as about already demands the dismissal of Gen. I next ten months, as First Assistant re at Postmaster-General Washington, York Regiment does not deserve the bad less than in Illinois, will rejoice at the while he could not even be a delegate preëminence recently given it of put- news that Gov. Tanner of that State has to the national convention if he were ting in the largest number of claims for reached the end of his career, He has a postmaster at home, seems too ridi- pensions yet received from any regi- earnestly sought to secure another nomiculous for the President to permit-to ment which took part in the war with nation from the Republicans next year, say nothing of the scandal involved in Spain. Its applications at last accounts but the opposition within his own party the license to neglect his public duties numbered only 311, while 650 have come proved so strong that on Friday he made thus given the official who stands next in from the Ninth Massachusetts. This formal announcement of his withdrawal to the head in a great department. latter regiment never had a strength ex- from the field, Tanner is the worst spe ceeding 1,200 men. It was not mustered cimen of the boss building up a State The news which Elliot Danforth, for- into the service until May, 1898, and was machine after the manner of Platt in merly our leading silver and Bryan Dem-mustered out six months later. The re- New York and Quay in Pennsylvania, ocrat in this State, has brought from the markable and discreditable contrast be- that has been seen beyond the AlleghaSouth confirms similar information from tween the rush for pensions by soldiers nies. Without a single qualification for Washington. He says that the Southern in the brief Spanish war and the spirit high office himself, he managed to seDemocratic leaders are not insisting upon manifested by the men who served in cure the Republican nomination for the making free silver the main issue in next the Union army during the four years' governorship in a year when he could year's campaign, that they acknowledge struggle against the Southern Confede. run nearly 20,000 votes behind his parthat the situation has changed since 1896, racy, is best shown by comparing these ty's candidate for President and still get and that they now think Trusts and figures for the Seventy-first New York a plurality of much over 100,000. In imperialism will be the dominant issues and the Ninth Massachusetts with the stalled in the chief office, he used all in 1900. As for candidates, they mention figures for the Pennsylvania regiment his influence to lower the standard in only Bryan for first place, with some which was commanded during the civil other positions, and to organize a maEastern man for second. Why not throw war by Col. Beaver, afterward Governor chine which should permanently control over Bryan with the free-silver issue? of the State. This regiment had 2,094. the politics of the State. He had as litHe never had any other excuse for being enlistments from the beginning to the tle respect for law as for public sentia candidate, and, without that issue, he ending of the war. Up to the close of ment, and shocked the nation a year ago will have no claim to a renomination. 1882, seventeen years after the end of by usurping the power to forbid the enIf he consents to be separated from his the war, only 475 applications for pen- trance into Illinois of men from other issue, he will be repudiated by the free- sions had been filed, of which 90 came States seeking work in her mines, and 'silverites and other Populistic elements, from widows, 23 from minors, and 53 threatening to "blow to pieces with Gatwhich were attracted to him by that from dependent relatives. Most of the sol- ling guns" any body of such offenders. alone, and he will have great difficulty diers of Col. Beaver's regiment on whose In short, he has been a disgrace not only in gaining the confidence of other ele- account pensions were granted, were ac- to his State, but to the whole country, ments, both in and out of the Democrat- tually killed in battle or died of their and his final downfall is cause for uniic party. Distrust of the man is as strong wounds. versal satisfaction. as distrust in his issue, and if the party has the sagacity to see its opportunity, it will make thorough work of its un The plan to increase the number of It is characteristic of a happy-goloading, and throw both overboard to chaplains in the army, which is now be- lucky nation that, after looking with ing urged by the War Department, pleased curiosity for fifteen years at the gether. should meet with little public encourage- digging of a drainage canal from the city of Chicago to the outfall of the Des The reaction of sentiment in the House ment. For years past the clergymen apof Representatives regarding the treat-pointed to the army have largely been Plaines River, we have suddenly awakment of the Roberts case from Utah at men who failed to do well in civil life, ened to the fact that this ditch is intendthe opening of the session encourages and who got their positions only by using ed to carry the city's sewage down to the the hope that the Constitution may re political pulls. Once in the service they Illinois River and thence to the Missisceive attention when another have been of little value, except as teach-sippi and the Gulf of Mexico. This fact claim to a seat comes before that body. ers in far-away posts, and have been re- was proclaimed in many ways by the and Most Representatives now concede that tired within comparatively few years af- Chicago authorities, newspapers, the Mormon claimant ought to have been ter their appointment, the average period financiers. Loans were negotiated to the amount of $30,000,000 or more, for that admitted upon his regular credentials, of service of those now on the retired and then expelled with all the impres- while scandals have by no means been list being little more than twelve years, express purpose. Meetings of engineers and men of science were held to discuss siveness which such deliberate action would have commanded. These Con infrequent in the corps. For many years plans for carrying out this design, and thoughtfui army officers have favored considerable éclat was earned by the gressmen will be disposed to pay more heed to the fundamental law when the the total abolition of the office, and fore- energetic contractors. Pictorial illustracase of Gen. Wheeler of Alabama comes most among these was Gen. Sherman, tions of their machinery were published from time to time and widely circulated. before the present House than was paid who, loyal churchman as he was, never in the last. And yet, on the very eve of opening the failed to denounce the clerical scramThe Federal Constitution bling for office which these places caus drainage canal (on January 2), there says that “no person holding any ofed. In view of the fact that the War a sudden demand from downfice under the United States shall be a Department is now member of either house during his con trying Chaplain stream that the opening of the canal Shields for intoxication, that charges are be deferred until Congress, or the courts, tinuance in office.” Gen. Wheeler held somebody should have time to the office of general in the United States pending against another, and that, when stop it altogether. ordered to Manila recently, several chap What effect the volunteers during the last Congress, but lains resorted to all sorts of curious de drainage scheme may have on the health still claimed the right to a seat in the vices to escape duty in the field, the de and beauty of the communities downHouse when he chose to appear there, sire of the War Department to increase stream we do not attempt to divine, and the claim was allowed. It is safe to this class of non-combatant officers has but we submit that that question ought say that he will not be permitted to do much need of justification. to have been put beyond the bounds of the same thing again in this Congress. controversy bekore the first dollar was expended on the present scheme, and It turns out that the Seventy-first New Good citizens all over the country, no that it is unreasonable to expect that more arose or |