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THE NASHVILLE AMERICAN. SITK AT ORXIX G-, DECEMBER 2, 1801. --O THREE LATE NOVELS. gshvitte JVmcvicmt. "FIRST OF ALL THE" NEWS." mopt fall, the author Is the thorough artist.

Trilby Is a sweet mixture cf the genuine women apparently, to the cye-nlanee, simple ami child-like, complex in fact with a bit of almost unconscious deviltry, flue can scareelv condemn, foreign to her. mere French laqucr-iuLr. with the woman always prevailing. Wvi, burly Taffy, loving, sweet-tempered, idled with divlncst human sympathies, with a latent capacity for impulsive punching of always the right head to be punched. TENNESSEE EDITORS.

Now. in all when it is now well-known that there is a difiVrenee of less than 1.0(H) votp. between the candidates for Governor as shown by returns obtained by the press, is it not exactly right to uphold I ho Neerutnry of State in his determination to obey Mru-tly the law of the It is right for both parties that the whole truth be known. Tenno.oe win not afford to lie under the reproach and disgrace nf corrupt elections. Whoever may be found to" have a majority of voles for Governor should be inaugurated its Chief Magistrate, if Henry administration of the State Government has been profligate, degraded and disgraceful.

The ex-Senator evidently has an eye to the future nnd considers that the Populates in Kansas have been laid on the for a good, long rest. The more the proceedings of that Trans-Mississippi Congress arc studied tho more apparent becomes the fact that to paternalism carried to an extreme limit the congress gave full allegiance. The General Government is calliid upon to do everything, it is called upon to help everybody, it is demanded by this congress to take a hand in affairs that it should have nothing to do with, and a plan is mapped out and demands made which if carried out aud granted would swamp the Government and kill the remnant of self-reliance tho people still have after thirty years of paternalistic misrule. PUBLIC OPINION. There will be more than a suspicion in the public mind that the Sugar Trust is simplv playing the usual game of blutY, und that 'it is not so mm-h necessity whieh compels it to close its refineries us a desire to prevent tho pasMige of a free-sugar bill.

The suspicion will lie strengthened, rather than otherwise, by Treasurer Seaiie'a stnttMnt'iit that the refineries will bo opened again next week, lln't if Mr. llnvcmeyer cannot run his refineries even with the aid of protection, what is tho use of continuing that protection, ami why should we not have free sugar at Clearly, there nro no American workmen to protect, as Mr. Ilavemeyor has thrown them out of employment, and as the Sugar Trust can make no money and has suspended business, the capitalist is not to be considered. Mr. 1 Juveineyer's action aud manifesto present the strongest sort of arguments for free sugar and the annihilation of trusts and monopolies.

Haltimoro Sun. The great Powers, who are responsible for the "Sick Man," and in particular those who were signatories of tho treaty of Merlin, by which the nature of Turkish government was in a measure defined, ought to take some steps to punish the Ottoman Porte for this massacre of Armenians, lor no other reason than that they were Christians, and to prevent the recurrence of such outrages in future. At the time of lho llulgurhin atrocities, Mr. Gladstone suggested that the unspeakable Turk should be driven "bag and baggage" out of Europe; ivhat should bo done with him in Asia for these similar atrocities, wc do not exactly know. But retribution swift and sharp should follow such devilish deeds, arid either Great Britain or Russia, acting singly or con join tl should visit upon tho should the rank and file worry Mr.

Crisp thinks it most important that there be legislation on finance and this includes the currency question, hut us is proper he does not attempt to anticipate the President's message or Secretary Carlisle's recommendations should lie make any on these subjects, though ho takes the proper position when he says the present system of issuing long-time bonds for obtaining funds for the temporary uses of the Treasury is wrong and should be corrected, as is also the system which allows the depiction of the gold reserveutany time a syndicate may sec lit to make a raid on the Treasury. But the belief expressed that there will be no further tariff legislation indicates that this session will only pass the appropriation bills, discuss at length other matters and pass them over to the next Congress. It is tins hopeless tone of the interview that disappoints the people, this willingness to let matters drift, this unwillingness to attempt to again influence the Senate to action. While it is true the Senate now must take the initiative in regard to the tariff bills passed by the House and still before the Senate, it is not probable that Senators will be very active in forcing these measures to a vote when tho Speaker of the House says he is satisfied they will not, and says it in a way that leads tho people to believe the Speaker of the House will be indifferent as to the result. The general public will come to the conclusion, from tlm tone of this interview, that Democratic leaders in the House have lost their courage and do not seem to enre whether the Senate acts or not.

It must bo understood that these views are the Speaker's and not the result of a conference with other members, and that no programme has been decided upon, but it is easy to realize how readily the members will come to the same conclusions the Speaker does, when he has set the pace for them. The forecast given of the probable work of Congress is therefore not encouraging to Democrats who had hoped efforts would be made to rally the party upon Democratic measures and the fulfillment of the pledges of tho Democratic platform. "Lord Ormoui and His Andnta," by George When Thackeray found a model in the giwu Fiehiltig he a clear, e(mnL-eiyle mill a pure ulciion, the clearest and purest nf written Knglish, developed only the germs of good in his model, and avoided the abundant evil. Meredith seems to have studied Catiyle and Browning for style. The bold cllpces aud that expression of a whole by it pan, which make a paragraph of llrowninj; hi verse, or of Carlyle In prose EomtHtmus mj 1 wonderfully so crowded with liritfln fnitrnientary blu of meaning, marvel; ottsly cultiM-inr and takln? felt ape nnd unity-are but fiiubly represented 1 Meredith.

There are abundant eviduneea of Brownlngcse, and Caiitleaa influences. Muiey Wryuuru military enthusiast, with Geti, Lord Oiuiont Ids hero Amlnta, (Brownie) hU sweetheart. They meet again when he is Lord Ormoni'a secretary; the his witc Money lias discarded military dreamt, fur ambition to found a cosmopolitan school in 'the Alps, to be a great schoolmaster. This greatly dUgusts Atninta. What can he said of tide writfntcf "With that f-as relh-etion he bunded into the brown chivs und breatmi ihcm, and be bud about him the liviiif.

foamy fparKlu of i it? time, until the Countess of Orniunt breathed tho word when, at onei, it was dusty land wheni bimvuni waters had been, and the annliti of tbc ra'ets, in uniform drab, with suinc and lacvs ami a Miridtleaut surpliei-d lliruro decorously eoverinn thu wildest of cupid mareh.d the standard of tho winktnppold piw, whieh Is their miiirildnp sun and eellpser of all buns that fouler dreams." Shade of Hermann Melville and "Pierre, or the Ambiguities" This, from the opposite page, Is better: "His vi'tw of thf laisiii'jbft of the schoolmaster plucked him from whirl. She des plied it: he upheld ii. Her contempt of it, whether ns ii profession In IlM'if or as on! tfidtitble to td vounp eiithusiiist for arms, dwarfed it to uppi-ar like the plants under lireenland fkie.s. Hut lliof-n arc 01 a hliirdy genus; they mean to live: they live, perforce, of tlm rlpbt to. itve; tdee aill prova their rlpfil in cumUi-jr-rn-son, wbe'n Mme one vfeps near and wonders at them, und from more closely unserving, pets to understand, learning that ihu slpnilleiuioe and the unarm uf earth will bo as well rdinwn by tle-m as by )t iropjea) fair iluunieM or the tenderly nurtured exotics." Lord Orinont Is a story after study of.

French models, Its construction, morala and treatment of the universal sexual theme. A wife unloved worse than unloved, denied full recognition as a wife Is only Buvcd from Bbame almost Invited by a sore, vain, selfish husband by the presence Jn her homo of her schoolboy lover as her husband' Secretary. Neither her escape from a dreadful sin nor the extraordinary high character given Wcy-burn prevent their elopement no ordinary elopement. By no means. From having I once shared hifl young military enthusiasm and his worsh(p of Lord Ormoni's name aud fame, she eame to despise bis schoolmaster alms, uud then rose to embrace his newer and better dreams.

Without going Into the how of It, this saves her Irom a dangerous "masher." When she elopes with Weyburn, Secretary, It is to go and help him to carry out bis school purpose. The thought of tbc pure, simple, lovable, Bweet-miudcd, noble-hearted old Kewcomb comes to ihu student of the proud, crabbed, sore old Ormont, whose bitterness against his country and its fancied or real neglect, makes him contemptuously flaunt a beautiful woman In the face of the world, without introducing her to family or friends aB his wife, exposing' her to dangers in tho questionable circle intu which be Introduces her. Pricked to tho raw by criticism, salted upon tbc raw by fancied neglect, he bestows no thought upon thu effects of this upon her. The reader may pity her, but never him. It may ho puaslblc to sympathize with tho wrong-headed, but excellent and strongly drawn sister at Lord Ormont, never iviih him.

Most ridiculous conclusion; Lord Ormont, years after the elopement visits the Alps, goes to the school of Weyburn and Amlula, forgives, condones, begs that tbey take bis ward for bis education. Outside French novels the world Isn't quite ready yet to ncccpt that clop erne tal way out of marital troubles. The stores not without chapters evincing considerable power. In some of these are remarkably concentrated images of life much In a Utile; so that the reader feels that, where an ordinary writer putsaehapterful in a book Meridcth has utmost condensed a book In a chapter. Those who see neither depth nor sublimity in the clear profundities of ocean, aud pause open-iuoutbcd to gaze In admiration at the shallow opacity of a mudhole In the middle of the road believed deep to the earth's core because His obscure are balling Meredith us something vast, "analytical," BtupcndouB.

Such writers have their coterie of to-day never of to-morrow admirers, and ibey aren't common people either. They're always wise wise looking uud wise feeling. "Trilby," by George Du Mnurler. "Peter Ibbctson" was sensational, butted upon a wild notion, having Us origin In mesmeric, hypnotic, spiritistic and Uieosophio studies aud kindred stuir, In which a grain of real phenomenon always when understood of a very simple and natural kind supports planetary masses of stupid belief. In that Du Mnurler was anticipated by Uulwer in one of hts stories In "Pilgrims of the Rhine." Not that his treatment was plagaristlc, even If ho had read Bulwcr.

Like Marlon Crawford's Btralucd, far-mit-'o-the-way stories, Ibhetson was merely good for an Idle hour. "Trilby" goes many Btcps further. Tho author still rings In hts bit of hypnotic suggestion. Tho supernatural, or the yet unknown natural, Ib a. proper agenoy in poetry.

It may be U6cd iu the drama, or In tho novel the modern substitute for the drama but only Shukcspcat-e has used It effectively, because he alone, except In ttvo dramas pitched upon high plane of almost pure poetry, has used the supernatural as a more human belief affecting human thought, and hence human emotions, motives, moving to human actions. HoBts of others all, absolutely all. who've attempted it have strewn the paths of literature with falluro in the effort to use such agencies. Strange that only the great writers have learned that the successes In literature come by pursuing thu plain, Denten paths of humanity, not through presenting tho abnormal and extraordinary. Tho inside of man presents an infinite field.

The wrestle of man with wild men, with wild beasts, demons, hobgoblins, ghosts, unknown natural or supernatural forces soon cloyB the taste. These things may catch tbo cyo of grown children, hut even theso soon fling 'em aside to lie with babyhood's broken rattles. Not that these agencies may not bo legitimately and properly used by tho great artist, where they are used only iu so far as they touch, bring out, move, illustrate the Inner man of thought, sentiment, emotions, will, motive all mov-lug to action. Thus used' they furni6h a legitimate part of all that goes to weave the outer garment In which and through which alooo tho Inner man Is exhibited and revealed. Du 'Miiurler uses hypnotic suggestion only to stretch It beyond any known or yet developed power In an agency whose capacities and limitations science lias not yet deQuitely fixed, hi poetry this would not be amiss; in the drama and In the novel the author had better fall short In the use uf the known powers of his agency than go beyond.

Every man's life, If be has a fair literary capacity, supplies the materia! for one or two fairly good novels. Dumarler's life has been such as to till him beyond most men with abundant materials, furntshedby experience. Whether he Is the great artUt, to play upon a harp of a thousand btrlngs mny nut be now Bald. "Trilby" Is a personal experience or an artist with large acquaintance with Parisian and London lite, with tho added advantage of rellcciioti and now lights gained by years spent Iu America. While the story marred by that hypnotic agency, which can only Interest those who strain after tho outre and the sensational, it Is a brilliant ptoturo of artist's of hui'ian-lifc In Paris and London cleverest.

iot brilliant in its Parislau scenes. Its characters nre clearly, distinctly. and discrlminaiink'ly drawn. In this, where THE I'KOI'LK'S VKIKND. wh.i.

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1804. DllBillCHB. The business and trade interests of this country have beon demoralized by the patetmalistlc legislation which has been enacted by Congress for thirty years, just ns the tone of independence and self-reliance of nil citizens 1ms been lowered by such legislation. Hence it is that all business and trade centres during the past week complain to an extent because the new bond issue hart not appreciably affected business and made "things" boom. The entire business world has been following after fulse teachers and practicing false teachings until it has come to pass that business men now look to the General Government to make their markets for them instead of re-, me laboring- that government 1ms nothing1 to do with markets and prices, and that the action of the Government can only affect temporarily the immutable laws of supply and demand.

The General Government has served as wet nurse to bo many industries and so many business undertakings for so long a time that it is, perhaps, natural for the business and commercial interests to look to governmental action, especially by the Treasury Department, as necessary to start a revival In business and to insure a belief in the restoration of confidence. But, while this is true, it is a great misfortune, for it shows that the independence, self-reliance and energy which should characterize those engaged in trade, commerce and business have almost been wiped in their places there has been substituted the idea that the Government must lend a helping hand to every undertaking, that the Government must do this or must not do that or business men cannot get along, and the power the Treasury Department now has to influence prices must not be curtailed, but must be used to pull those who have acted imprudently, recklessly and without due judgment out of the sloughs of despair they have plunged themselves into. In short, instead of being independent, self-reliant, self-supporting bold and courageous, the business world lias been fed on such poor food and taught bo little self-reliance for thirty years, that in times of trouble It docs not know what to do and rushes to the Government, represented by the Treasury Department, for succor and relief. As long as this system continues there can be no stablu, lasting return of self-reliant business confidence. The reviews for the week past show, perhaps, a better condition of the general trade of the country than many expected.

This bond issue was awaited and for reasons heretofore stated affected trade movements. For this month it is not reasonable to expect great movements of products or great changes in prices of commodities. The month is essentially a month of holiday buying. Tho chief business in all cities and centers will bo the purchase and sale of holiday goods, and beyond this other trade movements will bo slight. Tho Sugar Trust announces tho laying off of half of its employes, and tho Bethlehem Steel works a resumption of business in all departments.

These are the most noticeable features of tho week affecting wage-earners. Some idle iron works have gone into operation, all the furnaces that were in blast a week ago are still making iron, and while there has been a slight drop in prico demand for the output continues, Cotton advanced slightly, probably because the figures upon which experts have based their reports of an extraordinarily large crop are not believed to be correct and also because the bear movement has not been able to hold the price down. Tho bank clearings wore fairly satisfactory and advices from all tho States show that no ground has been lost and that during the week the business world has more than held its own, which is not by any means a bad showing for this time of (he year. Meeting of Congress. It must be confessed that the Inter-view with Mr.

Speaker Crisp sent out from Washington and published yesterday is disappointing to all Democrats who had hoped that further ef- forts would bo made during this session to carry on the work of reform which this Congress was elected to perfect Speaker Crisp docs not say efforts will not be made, but he says nothing will be done, and If this is the opinion i of the Speaker of the House of Representatives, it is readily understood will bo made to carry Vratlo instructions; If one of ftnt leaders throwB up the ebafly stage of tho fight why is a am pie of ihe best English characteristics a reminder, In some respects without puggcFtion of copying of Col. Newcome Svengali is strongly sketched the vain, sel-lish, egntlrtic musician. Wrought after a ftudy of French models in novel writing, with a Gallic trimming, galctv, wit aud culture, the solid characteristics of the book are English, Ji deals with the universal sexual theme. The i author leads us to expect thorough French He deliberately leads us to look for nothing short of Cousin Bett if we even 1 cseape Sappho treatment, and yet It exhibits only absolute purity of purpose and treat- incut, unexceptionable In morals, fulfilling all i the moral requirements of the English and the American why not the human mind, I whicti French novels 60 consistently violate. Us brilliant pictures of social life bear upon their face the sure and unmistakable impress of truth.

Pity that a pardonable spirit of In- qulry into the not yet fully known of hypnot- ism, mesmerism and hypnotic- suggestion should have tempted the author of this brilliant book as it baB tempted Hulwcr and many others, to mar in design and construction and that, loo, needlessly one of thu most charming novels of the day, by one in every line of whose wrlttnps crops out in all Its proper purity and simplicity that at once broad and delicate human sympathy, which Is the first characteristic- of the great artist. "The Manxman," by Hall Calne. Same old story. Is there no escape from it? Couldn't we have a novel with men only, or women only? No complaint. On the contrary, perhaps, bless God for the necessity for mixing 'em Perhaps 'tis best as 'tie.

At least, years and years as have rolled by turning out novels, always variation harmonics some times more than lines of melody upon the old theme from Bocaccio and Cervantes down there's no "kick coming" If such stqrles as "Tho Manxman" cau be still evolved. Since Adam Bede nothing stronger has been thought by the artist sense, touched by the old theme. The author is distinguished by a lofty ideal of human duty and devotion lofiler than the age will applaud loftfer than our sympathies with the erring characters allow us to approve. He h.ts a keen perception of character and motive, and a strong, genuine human sympathy alloyed and clogged by that high Ideal of human duty, which Is almost beyond human powers to attain. In speaking of Adam Bede no comparison Is Intended.

It Is only variant harmony In minor chords upon the same theme. The trials, temptations, yieldings, agonies, penitences, of ihe one remind us of the other. To state only a radical dltlercnee, where iu detail no Incident, character or situation of the one resembles any character, Bltuatlou or Incident of the other, Adam Ucde Is a tragedy, wherein retribution followB sin as unerringly as In Hamlet or Macbeth the fatalistic mural law. The Manxman, too, is tragic in Us agonies, its sin, Us Bufferings; but there is ntouement in confession and a hint of pardon In a new life to be lived. The hero, who Is drawn by temptation, almost beyond tbo power of human endurance to resist, Into betrayal of his trusting friend Into embracing his own In fact, not In law; the woman entrusted to hfB care Into leaving her to marrlugo with his trusting friend when he owed her marriage; into triumphs aud honors won through concealment, when confession right us wo know it Is seems almost a crime and a folly, Is so deftly Bhlcldcd by excuses, founded In powerful temptations and weak humanity, that we scarce condemn although we know that he is eondemnablc.

When he dually casts all honors to the winds, confesses hts faults and takes the poor partner of Ills' guilt upon his arm to share his disgrace and Ids home, for weal or for woe, we know that men despise the mortal man who confesses to man to aught in the universe save the Almighty. He may lie pitied, but pity Ib contempt. For all this we dare not condemn the high standard of the author, while wo anplaud the consistency with which he has held his hero up to his standard. The scene Is laid In the IbIc of Man, where Erse Is yet spoken, although English Is understood und spoken. Dialect is used sparingly, with good taste, never obscuring the sense.

Tho colloquialisms are perfect. The author has small store of wit and humor; but he makes few attempts at cither. Hts theme Is life on the island skillfully and clearly sketched, with a dark skein of human affections involved tn dark fate, trust, treachery almost pardonable, if ever 'tis pardonable remorse, misery, penitence. The picture Is not all shadows, although the prevailing tints are gloomy. The characters are sketched with delicate care and differentiation not frec-haud drawing, but nice discrimination.

Tho Deempstcr, the leading character, Is Btrongly drawn, with explanatory suggestions of heredity, cleverly interwoven, not discussed. Kate Ib simply a natural woman, pursuing tho bent of her own strong affections without regard to whom they may Involve, whom they may grieve, whom destroy, without thought of or care for consequences. The reader feels sometimes like accusing her; but, then, from Adam down, tho woman has been accused. In this tangled web of conflicting a fleet Ions, duties and Interests the reader accuses her, accuses the Deempstcr, where perhaps he la least excusable, of want of proper regard for his own Interests a pru-deutial consideration younger readers may avoid. Sometimes one even feels disposed to accuse big-bodied, big-hearted, lUtlc-bralncd Pete, friend and rival of the Deempster, to whom he has entrusted bis betrothed while he goes to the diamond fields of South Africa.

Wo accuse his perfect love, his perfect trust-accuse him as a bungling fool and mnr-Bport, a faith-blind ass, who Ib in tho way of lovers. We accuse his best qualities. 'five story Is complex, but so slmplj told that lb wears an air of perfect simplicity. There ts no waste of words, no piling up of adjectives, no effort at that fine writing which is always the worst of writing no Ruskluslan, or Bob Ingcrsolllan "party talk" If one. may couple genius gone wrong with sham-born wrong.

Such touches of description and bits of reflection or sentiment as occur are mere bits of Illustrative Bunllght flashed here and there upon the landscape. Not without one, two, three or mOro minor faults in development, some of which seem mcro negligence, in a writer whose style Is singularly free from taint of carelessness, it Is a strong, a powerful, a thoroughly artistic story. H. M. Lawyers on Strike A strike of a novel kiud has (our Paris correspondent tells us) broken out at St.

Amand, a small district town iu the department of Cher. Ttie proMdiug judge of tho district court look severely to task the local barristers, who are in the detestable habit, according to the learned judge, of stir-riug up litigants against each other, of fanning misunderstautiing into hatred, and of setting the whole population of the formerly peaceful town of St. Amand by the ears. The barristers have left tho court, and have agreed not to plead until the judge apolizcs for his words. London Daily News.

Tlint liloctlon Tubiu. Mr. Wm. J. Ewing, night editor of The Amkuican, compiled last week a most valuable tabuluted statement of the recent election, and it should be preserved by all who expect to have anything to do with the elections in the future.

Get it and paste it up for future reference. "Billy" is one of the finest printers aud all-round newspaper men in tho country, and lias the thanks of all of us newspaper men for the valuable table lifXyUle Globe. ciay r.vansnas been ule-eteil by a majority of one vote he is entitled to the governoridiip, und if Peter Turne has received a majority oi one vote be should be declared elected. The clamor raised that this is tho first time that any Secretary of State has required full returns from the Sheriffs is simply ridiculous, and the reason is the stronger that it is high time that a commencement should lie made in obeying the law as it stands. Gallatin Examiner.

The Chattanooga Times is a funny newspaper. Each day, in its effort to seat II. Clay Evans, whether he has received a majority of the votes cast at the late election or not, it reproduces in its columns editorials appearing in the Nashville Banner, Memphis Scimitar and Avalanche, and after the credit it places "democratic" in parenthesis, inteuding, no doubt, to convey the idea to Its readers that it is quoting Democratic authority. The Times should not attempt to prejudice the minds of the people by misrepresentation to bolster up its own un Democratic doctrine. Any person acquainted witii the three papers above, know we state a fact when wo say that neither is a Democratic organ, but one of thof-e papers classed ns "independent." The editor of the Times is fully aware of this fact but refuses to publish the full truth and inform its readers that they are quoting from "independent" authority and not from "Democratic" sources.

Athens News. We can sec no danger in going behind the face of the returns to investigate alleged fraud. Investigations can hurt no honest man. Indeed, Mr. Evaus presents a ludicrous spectacle posing as the representative of honest politics and at the same time carrying his heart in his mouth when honest and sworn officials talk about investigations.

If tho Jlepubiicaiis of East Tennessee are the white-winged angels that the Times, ct id omnia genus, would have us bojieve, why not throw open the doors and invite those curious gentlemen to investigate to their hearts' content. Sparta Expositor. The Itevicw does not want Tnrnoy seated as Governor if he has not been fairly elected, but it is willing to submit to Republican rule if such be tho choice of -the people. But a full tfud complete investigation is necessary to determine tho rightH of both Turney and Evans, and no sane, fair-minded man will object to this. Smith villo Review.

Wo know there are shallow-brained critics who are insinuating that the Governor is not what his friends claim for him, but such insinuations only show the ignorance of thc.parties themselves and does Gov. Turney no harm. Such partisan critics can do no man or cause injury. Carroll County Democrat. If tho official returns show Mr.

Evans received more votes than were cast for Gov. Turney he should be inaugurated as Governor. It will ouly be for two years, anyway, ns in Ib'iXI our people will go to the polls aud knock the Republicans out for another ten or twelve years. Manchester Times. The "holler than thou" press of the State is paruding around in the guise of a lion, but tho earmarks of the ass is not hidden, and what is intended as the roar of tho honest, bravo king of unimals is but the common bray of an animal whose purpose is to deceive and becloud tho real facts.

Obion Democrat. "Give mo a seat In the Ilouse aud I'll get you tho solid vote of my State in tho convention," is tho song that is being softly sung into the ears of Czar Reed by Republican contestants. Centrcvillo News. The greatest source of benefit now in sight for Tennessee is the Centennial Exposition, and it behooves her sons to stir themselves in behalf of the project. Giles County Record.

PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT. Fraulein Roeser. a resident of Halle, Germany, has donated hor whole fortune murks personal property besides a valuable piece of real estate to her native city for tho founding of an orphan asylum, reserving for herself only a small life rent until her demise. Count Constantino Nigra, the poet, at present Italian Ambassador at Vienna, relates in his latest book that as a child of 0 he once played the role of an angel at some private theatricals, adding this comment: "As a child, an angel; as a man, a diplomatist -how' are the mighty fallen." In the United States of Columbia the national Congress has voted in favor of erecting in Independence Square at Carthcgena a marble monument to tho memory of the late President, Dr. D.

Rafael Nunez. It was voted also that he should have a bronze statute at the same time in the capital at Bogota. Tho Italian King made Geo. M. Pullman a Marquis iu recognition of his introduction of the Pullman car in Italy, and now King Oscar of Sweden has honored another Chicugoan with a title, lie has decorated and made a Baron of E.

D. Winslow, who acquainted Uis Majesty with the fascination of the electric stock "ticker." udge Juan Jose San Pablo, N. MM orgaui.ed a meeting In the closing idays of the recent campaign, and, having gathered his crowd, had just mounted tho platform and begnu speech, when Pablo llerera, of similar name, but of opposite party, came into the room fully armed, held up the Judge, made him give place, and then delivered a rousiug address for the independent nominees. Hon. William Everett, of Massachusetts, is credited with having said rer cently: "1 have felt it an honor to belong to the Fifty-third Congress.

I make no account of that talk which habitually speaks of it as au ordinary or inferior body. It is not so; the great majority of its members are picked men, and there are plenty of them who have not been returned to the Forty-fourth whom their bitterest opponents will sadly miss from the fioor." Alarming, You'll find holes in our coats for the buttons aud the arms. Bailey, Berry Merchant Tailors, 510 Church street. Kxperioneu ilio Teacher. I learned too late, the benedict said, Wlini man Is slow to understand, That woman is only thu weaker vessel The while she yet rutnaluB unmanned.

Mn. Speakeu Citisp is satisfied that the effort to defeat the appropriation for carrying into effect the income tax law will fail, and that the tariff law when it gets fully in operation will raise all tho revenue needed by the Government. The bond sale has increased the gold reserve to and all payments for the bonds have not yet been made. The reserve is there; how long it will remain is a different matter. Yale not only retrieved the defeat Princeton administered last year, but ran up a score beyond the point the most ardent admirers of the Boys in Blue had anticipated.

Tun sugar trust magnates have answered the question: Docs protection protect? They say it does not, unless they are allowed to fix the rato of duty. Uncle Sam spent ouly 156, 307 more than ho collected last month. He was anticipating his income, that was all. "bits of fun. "Did you ever see an nctive volcano?" "Well, I guess you might call it that; I took home a piece of silk that didn't match." Chicago Inter Ocean.

Mrs. Goodfeed: Will you ask a Guest? Mr. Guest (casting his eye admiringly over the table): Really, my dear madam, it doesn't need it. New York Press. "flow dare you kiss me, sir?" "I'm awfully sorry, but did you not encourage me?" "And pray, sir, how did I encourage you?" "Well you took off your glassesl" Boston Beacon.

Friend: Well, Ethel, how do you like married life? Ethel (enthusiastically): It's simply delightful. We've been married a week and have had eight quarrels, and I got tho best of it every time. Fun. Mrs. Strongmind: If women would only stand shoulder to shoulder they would soon win the suffrage.

Dr. Guffyt But, madam, that is something they can't do with the present styles in sleeves. Harper's Bazar. "What's tho matter with Smith today? He looks as if he had been drawn through a rolling mill." "Jones has a 3-year old boy and he took Smith up to his house last night to seo 'his cunning ways and hear his cute talk." 2s ew York Press. Applicant for Situation as Zoological Keeper: May I ask why you think it necessary that candidates should be married men, sir? Secretary: My good man, how on earth do you expect auy one else could stand tho continual row? Half Holiday.

"Yes, he's completely a business man, Hasn't a sentiment to his soul." But he surely warms up a little during the holidays." "No, he doesn't. He regards Thanksgiving us simply a shrewd move on the part of some Puritan poultry dealer to bull the market." Washington Star. CONDENSED TELEGRAMS. Senator Shoup, of Idaho, ImB announced himself as a candidate for reelection. The Southern Pacific Railroad began a wholesalo reduction of salaries yesterday.

The Federal grand jury Is again investigating the collapse of tho Capitol National Bank of Lincoln, Nob. It is generally bclieveU that the Nicaragua Canal will receive early ut-attention from tho approaching Congress. A now Russian loan of 8100,000,000 will be issued before Christmas. It is understood that the Rothschilds will take it. The plate glass manufacturers of the country will meet at Pittsburg, Tuesday for the purpose of effecting a combination.

It is reported that 300 Canadian Creek Indians are up in arms against the whites in Montana, and cattle are being killed and stolen. Charles Gcska has confessed to the murder of Wm. Glcetzcr at Elyria, O. Alike Blake and Chas. Flood, both of Cleveland, assisted him.

After Jan. 1 sugar" will bo shipped direct from Honolulu to New York, around the Horn. High railroad rates is tho cause of tho movement. James 0. Wilson, of Baltimore, and E.

0. Hopkins, of Indianapolis, have been appointed receivers for the Louisville, Evansvillc fc St. Louis Consolidated Railroad Company. Ex-City Treasurer Schwarzkopf, of Valparaiso, has been fouud short in his accounts to the extcut of $11,435. The city will proceed at once to collect from him or his bondsmen.

Morrison McLane, a full-blooded Cherokee, is iu jail at Ardmore, I. for killing White Ross. Tho latter's alleged intimacy with McLanc's wife was the cause of tho tragedy. C. W.

Fisher, of Wichita, has beon arrested at Hot Springs, charged with Heecing a young Englishman named W. B. Watson and others In a fraudulent mining scheme. Over 15,000 persons heard the reading of the royal proclamation announcing tho rupture of relations between Franco and Madagascar at the capital of the latter country. There was great applause.

Clarence Clark, who married Miss Gertrude Hutch ins, a Denver beauCy, after two day's acquaintance, and lo now serving a jail sentence for larceny, is believed to be W. if. Souser, Paul married man. x.ir. Life fstcal, life la earnest, And tho moment's speed away, Id a manner far top rapid When we have a note to pay.

Detroit FreePrcM, foul son of Islam the vengeful wrath tif shocked Christendom. New Orleans Times-Democrat. Nothing could tit in nicer with a long career of fraud and peculation than for the criminal, finding himself at last being driven into a enrner. to secure a large life insurance for the benefit of his family before putting himself beyond tho reach of the law. The people he has defrauded can levy upon what property he has left, but they cannot touch his family's insurance money.

Altogether this Shoe nnd Leather Bunk defalcation forms a notable episode In the initials of crime. Comptroller Eckels is nut bashful about expressing an opinion on various matters connected with his department. It would be interesting just now to have his opinion on it system of bank examination which cannot detect a hole in a bank's funds big enough for the whole institution to bury itself it. Springfield, Republican, lud. In conclusion the Governor reviews, from a personal and partisan stand-' point, his political career up to this time, and we properly refer the reader to the message itself for information us to his views on that subject.

yo have nothing to add here to the comments we have made on his conduct as Governor, as occasion required, and there is nothing tbn.t, wo have said In the way of comment heretofore that we feel impelled to recall or modify in any particular. It is enough for this occasion for us to say simply, with tho Governor himself, that his "record as Governor is made would it were worthier." Charleston News and Courier. Of course, tho monopoly cannot expect Congress to increase the duty on refined sugar, but it hopes to prevent the passage of the free sugar bill. The Picayune does not believe that this bill can become a law, hence, tho throwing out of employment of so many thousauds of workinginen is an entirely useless and heartless move. "Thanksgiving Day" was, moreover, an ill-timed date for the inauguration of such a movement, as it only serves to emplmsizo the terrible hardship so many thousands of honest laborers will be compelled to suffer.

Orleans Picayune. It would be well for the small-boro statesmen and professional agitators who want all legislation in favor of commerce and manufactures to cast their eyes over the annual report of the Secretary of Agriculture. Nearly three-fourths of our exports come from the farms. Agriculture is our greatest interest and engages the greater part of our population. A little more recognition of these facts would let in a world of light on Congressional dollb! orations.

Louisville Courier-Journal. Lady Henry Somerset hnsannounccd her intention of making war on our living pictures, She says they are a' menace to public morals, and she thinks they ought to bo put down. Lady Henry has a large field of variegated vice in London to which sho could give her attention if she really wished to push the purity business, and it would be a great deal more patriotic if sho gave her purifying efforts to her own land instead of to a stranger's. New Yorlc Evening World. Perhaps Mr.

Addicks may be right when he remarks that his domcstio difficulties are not going to injure his chances for a United States senator-ship. Nevertheless, Delaware is an old Commonwealth, with decorous traditions and a corporate self-respect, and she has always been represented in Congress by high-minded men. Boston Herald. Tom Reed lias no objection to Mr. McKinley eating a New England Thanksgiving dinner, but when it eoraesto New England delegates to the next Republican National Convention he expects McKinley to experience a fust.

Washington Post. Should htiKlittn HI tn. Every good citizen should sustain Secretary of State Morgan in his effort to carry out the law compelling1 sheriffs to make full and proper election returns. Just as soon as Mr. Morgan saw that the result would bo close, he adopted a policy of a strict -compliance with the law, and he has steadily adhered to that policy in tho face of bitter opposition and vigorous criticism from unirci's from which ho had a right to expect support and sympathy.

Lie would have made a great mistake hud he pursued any other course. From the very hour that tho returns indicated any doubt as to who was elected, charges and countercharges of fraud came thick and fast. In view of the situation, how could a prudent official do auything else but follow the strict letter of the law'? Had his action been otherwise, ho would have violated his oath of otllce. It is in just such times that the Stuto needs officials who know their duty, and who are honest and brave enough to do it. Stand to your guns.

Secretary Morgan; the honest Djtnocracy of the State is at your buck. Obion Democrat. Hiulttest of All. Of all the sad things In the lot of man Thu one imm full of wo Ii paying the price That Is due on tee He used three months iudlanapyfia Journal, Peace Reigns. Capt.

R. I''. Ivolb had himself sworn in as Governor of Alabama yesterday, a performance any other citizen could have gone through with provided lie could have induced a Justice of tho Peace or a Judge to administer tho oath. Capt. Kolb's associates who were also defeated by tho voters of Alabama for the other State offices went through the forms of taking the oaths of 113 co, aim now Alabama has a would-be Governor and other officials with no power to exercise the duties of the ofilces in which they will claim they have been installed.

Gov. Wm. Oates was also sworn into office and was inaugurated in accordance with tho laws and customs governing in Alabama, in tho presonce of the Legislature and other citizens. The threatened hostilities were not commouccd, tho streets of Montgomery did not run with blood, death and destruction did not follow tho march of the militia, and instead of tumult and violence, peace and quiet marked the passage of the day. As The Amicuican said yesterday, Capt.

Kolb is too shrewd a politician to engage in open violation by force of existing laws, and his actions in regard to his claim to the office of Governor fully carry out this conclusion. What course tho Legislature may pursue or what efforts may be tried to get tho matter before the United State Senate by a contest for Senator Morgan's scat time will tell, but It is most satisfactory to note that care, prudence and caution marked the proceedings of all parties yesterday and as a result law, order and peace were maintained. FuRTiiRfi reports of additional Turkish atrocities perpetrated and permitted to be perpetrated by Turkish officials in Armenia arc mudo public. While in some respects these stories may be exaggerated and colored to suit tho animosities of those telling Ilium, it may be considered as definitely settled that in this province the officials have not only permitted but have encouraged and incited tho soldiery to terrible and most atrocious deeds of violence and of rapine against tho Armenians because they claim to bo Christians, An Intervention by other powers affecting the conduct of the officials of Turkey in their administration of homo affairs is a delicate matter, and it will require evidence of the strongest and most positive character to induce Great Britain to bring strong pressure to boar upon tho Sultan's Government. If this proof is forthcoming, it is almost a certainty that the English Government will take notice of the atrocities, and other European powers will join with her.

Then tho Turks will say, Such is fate. It Is a matter of the greatest moment to tho entire city that the Howard Library should be kept open, and the determination of the trustees to da so should receive tho active support of all progressive citizens. Tho library is a benefit and the source of great pleasure to thousands, and all citizens can aid tho trustees in keeping it on its feet. Give them ussuranccs of support and aid and it will not only remain opeu, but its usefulness can be Tub Standard Oil Trust magnates who were indicted by a Texas grand jury, though thoy will not bo carried to Texas for trial, Gov. Flower refusing to honor Gov.

Hogg's requisitions, will bo careful in future not to enter the Lone Star State. They have a way In Texas of remembering indictments and pouncing down on men when they least expect It. If the forecasts sent out from Wash ington are true indications of what Congress will do, or rather of what it will not do, the sugar planters will not have much show for obtaiuiug the bounty they claim they have earned, and the sugar trust will not receive that additional protection without which it says It cannot do business. The Fopulites of in addition to suffering the fate of tho defeated, have to endure the diatribes of ex-Senator charges that their i.