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3S3 High tr-et. That European representative of Colombia seems to be Indulging in dreams. lie would not bo half so bellicose if he were at home. That Colombian consul general to Belgium "who proposes to make war against the United States from Antwerp as a base is probably not dangerous. Parks, the labor grafter, having finally been sent to pi'ison, how would It do for the New York and New Jersey courts to go after the Krafters mixed up in the shipbuilding swindle with criminal proceedings? "Uncle Joe" Cannon declares that the country's prosperity is on a solid basis, and the people, are of the same opinion.

The way to kep it there is to keep Republican policies in force. Every day's Investigation of the shipbuilding trust scandal brings out new evidence of deliberate rascality on the part of Its promoters. Justice will be cheated unless some of them are mad to disgorge their stealings. A dispatch from Baris tells of another member of the demimonde found dead in her apartments, and adds, with French naivete, that 7no cause for suicide was known." Is not such a life as that amply sufficient cause' for suicide? The festive aid Insidious game of policy has again raided its head. The Book-Walter regime suppressed policy very effectively, and ll is to be hoped the present administration will be just as vigorous and successful against it.

Mr. Cannon's speech accepting the Republican caucus nomination for speaker was a model of good sense and good form. It Is evident that under his speakership there will be radical or experimental legislation If he can prevent iL It looks a Utile' as if the House and Senate may have a fight over the proper mode of providing for Cuban reciprocity whether by treaty or by bill originating in the House. Such a contest would bo merely one for precedence and prestige between the two houses, and would be a waste of time. The objective point of Congress should be practical reciprocity with Cuba, and it is not Important how this is brought about.

No lawyer with a proper conception of professional e'-hlc and not overcome by money greed would care to act as executor of a will drawn by himself and making a large bequest to himself and family. This is the position occupied by William J. Bryan. lu addition to this ho proposes to appeal from th9 decision of the court ruling against the admission of a letter drafted by himself as a part of the will, and to con test the right of the widow to the dece dent's estate. Those who have, always re garded Mr.

Bryan as a mountebank in politics would, hardly have believed he would voluntarily havo taken the position he is now in. Democratic members of Congress who are threatening to attack the administration for its course in the Panama uffdir should remember how little they made by a similar course in the Hawaiian affair. The cases are not similar, since in this one there Is no American flag to haul down, but In a gem ral way they resemble each other. The American people believe the government s-hould assert its rights and do Its duty In every ca3e where American Interests are involved, and they all support President. Roosevelt's action in the Panama case as they did that of Presidents Harri- lon and McKinley in Hawaii.

The President's action thus far ha3 been strictly within our treaty rights, and no one need fear that he will go beyond them.s A large manufacturing firm of Columbus, has takn a new departure by offering its workmen written contracts for thtlr signature. The proposed agreemeut provides, among -other things, that the laborer reserves the rlght to quit the service of the company if sick, incapacitated or ill-treated, but that he shall not so quit during the life of the coutract on account of the grievance of some other person or in order to accept higher wages elsewhere. It further gives the company the right to terminate or suspend the contract if at any time work may cease or slacken, or the services bf tho employe be found unsatisfactory, but the shall not have the right to terminate the contract for the purpose of procuring like services tor a les compensation. A penalty of li provided for violation of the contract by tlther party. As far as the Journal knows this is the first move by any manufacturing firm in this State to make such contracts with Its employes.

It is probably intended to prevent sympathetic strikes and insure greater stability for the relation between employer and employes. Its effect would be to place the relation on a legal basis above the reach of walking delegates or unions. IXIIIAXA MF. II II URS IX THE SEW COX Gilt ESS. Washington dispatches indicate that the Indiana delegation in Congress, at least the Republican members of it, are likely to be much in evidence in the organization of the House committees.

As the business of the House is all practically done and its records made through committees, their formation is a matter of importance to the country and prominent committee assignments testify the speaker's recognition of able and deserving members. It should therefore be gratifying to citizens of Indiana, that the Republican members of the delegation are being selected for important positions. The most Important of these will gx to Representative Ilemenway, of the First district, who will be chairman of the committee on appropriations and Republican Kader on the floor of the House. It has been understood ever since Mr. Cannon was slated for speaker that Mr.

Ilemenway was his choice for chairman of the committee on appropriations, and his appointment is as good as made. It will be a deserved recognition of his ability and public service and his excellent work as a member of the committee. It will make him, next to the speaker, the most prominent member of the House and will enable him to be of distinct service to the State. The next most Important assignment, which seems to be practically assured, is that of Representative Overstreet to the chairmanship of the committee on post-offices and post roads. This is an assignment much sought after on account of the prominence and influence it carries with it.

A peculiarity of Mr. Overstreet's appointment will be that he has not been a member of the committee, his last assignments being on the Judiciary, the banking and currency and the expenditures in the Department of Justice committees. His transfer from either of these committees to the chairmanship of the postoffice and post road3 committee will be a very marked recognition of his fitness for the position, and the dispatches say It will be cordially approved by the House. Representative Watson, who, in the last Congress, was a member of the naval affairs, the militia and the private land claims committees, is to become a member of the ways and means committee. This will be a promotion for Mr.

Watson which he has fairly earned. Representative Crumpacker is not seeking any change from his last assignments, which were on the committee on insular affairs, and the select committee on census, and will probably ob tain his wish of being continued on them. Representative Cromer has, it is said, made but one request, and that is that he be' continued on the committee on post-offices and postroads. though he will probably get some additional assignment. Representative Holliday was on the committees on invalid pensions and of war claims In the last Congress, and would be satisfied to receive the same assignments.

The two Landis brothers will be assigned according to their merits, though the younger one, Frederick, being a new member, must expect to take a back seat at first. In the last Congress Charles B. was on the committees on foreign affairs and on Pacific railroads. The two most Important assignments will bo those of Messrs. Ilemenway and Over-street, though some of the others will be a distinct recognition of the merits of the members.

This recognition will be mainly due to the fact that the continuous service of the members has brought them to the front and enabled them to make a record. It shows the wisdom of keeping good men In Congress. This was Illustrated also in the case of Hon. George W. Steele, who, in tho last Congress, was chairman of the committee on manufactures and a member of the ways and means committee.

This was after serving eight terms. Mr. Hem-enway is now serving his fifth term, Mr. Overstreet his fifth, Mr. Watson his fourth, Mr.

Crumpacker his fourth, Mr. Cromer his third, Mr. C. B. Landis his fourth and Mr.

Holliday his second. Important committee assignments generally -go according to length of service and demonstrated abil ity for hard work. When the new com mittees are announced it will probably be found that no State has fared better in pro portion to Its membership than Indiana, ACTION OF THE CONSUMERS' TRUST. The action of the new directors of the Consumers' Trust Gas Company at their meeting on Saturday will be a disappoint ment to some persons, yet it is strictly in the line of business and about what might have been expected from practical business men. The interests involved are too large and the legal questions too complicated to admit of rash or hasty action, and the directors should not take such action.

The decision of the board to have the books of the company examined by an expert auditor to be furnished by an auditing company of Chicago was certainly judicious and busi nesslike. It would have been unwise to have taken any definite steps towards deciding the future policy of the company with out such an examination and report. As to the action of the board providing for ob taining the opinion of three lawyers from outside the city as to the rights, powers and duties of the company to manufacture aud furnish artificial gas there may be some difference of opinion. Ardent advocates of the manufacturing policy argue that going outside of the city for a legal opinion indicates hostility to the policy, but this is not clear. Whatever the opinion may be it should be free from bias or local color, and such as the board will feel per fectly safe in acting upon.

An opinion from local lawyers might have met this require ment, but one from outside lawyers of equal ability would be more likely to. What is needed is the cold law of the case without any catering to public opinion or local clamor. From this point of view an opinion from outside lawyers is really preferable to one from local lawyers. The board also acted wisely in deciding to employ an ex pert engineer to aid it In ascertaining the approximate cost of establishing an artifi cial gas plant and the cost of manufactur ing. It would have been unwise and un businesslike to have taken any steps committing the company to the manufacturing policy without thorough examination as to cost and the advice of an expert, assuming.

of course, that the expert would be thoroughly competent and absolutely disinter- csted. In short, entire action of the board on Saturday rjecms to have been necessarily preliminary to announcing a definite decision as to the ultimate policy of the company, or foreshadowing such a decision by any deflate steps. As practical business men the oard seems to have ordered this preliminary work in a very judicious way. The! settlement of the questions thus raised will require a little time, but their settlement is necessary before further action canj be taken. When the board shall be fulfy advised on all these points it will be pre'iarcd to reach an intelligent decision as to future policy, which it could not do now.

1 THE EDUCATIONAL TEST. It is said that Mi. Watson, of this State, will again press upn tho attention of Con gress his immigration bill requiring an educational test. TKj measure passed the House at the last but died In the Senate for lack of time for consideration. It is a very important subject at any time, but now.

when trie Immigration figures show an unprecedented flood of immigration, made up mostly from the undesirable residents of southern and southeastern Europe, the question of how to winnow the mass becomes of. immediate importance. We want immlgratjon of the right kind, but the kind we are getting is not the kind we want. a The educational qualification is no new thought, and everybody in America, except those with cpecial interests to bo served through the kind It immigration we have, admits that It is .4. good thing, but, somehow we do not gej.

around to it. The first move we made wrs to absolutely shut out the Chinese. The, in order to prevent a form of quasi-HIavery. of Immigrants brought Over in clroves by means of con- tracts with padrores, we enacted the anti contract immigration law, which was fairly good in its way, 'though it did shut out some high-class arfjlsans and even musicians and writers. Then the pauper immigration law was enacted, it did not stop "assisted any more than the anti- contract law stopped the coming of people who had been given assurance on tho other side that work wa'i awaiting them here.

The only one these laws that Is ef fective is the Chinese exclusion law, because the Chlnamrin cannot so disguise him- self as to evade it. All that was aimed at in the subsequent legislation might have been reached just as easily and a great deal 2 more surely by means of an educational qualification not a set form of questions that immigrants could be coached to answer, but an examination of which the de tails should be leh to the discretion of the examiners. The safety of the Republic lies In the Intelligence of its people, and it is a very grave question if we are not at present accepting a mass pf ignorance too great to safely digest, ever with our splendid school system. THE COTljoX DESTROYER. While the whole' cotton crop of the United States is as large 'this year as last and rep resents about llCOiOOO.OOO more of money by reason of the increased price, the cotton growers of the country are profoundly alarmed over the northward march of the boll wevil which, for eight or nine years, has been working its way up through Texas from the Mexican border.

Its devas tation of the TexaJ crop this year was so ex tensive that planters in that State are seri ously considering1 turning to cereals rice where it is practicable, and wheat or corn elsewhere. This panicky feeling has spread through Oklahoma, Arkansas, the Indian Territory and all the cotton-growning country west of the Mississippi; and growers east are won dering whether the destructive bug will get across the Its pestiferous Mexican forerunner, the chlgger, found the Mississippi no obstacle at lU, and it is not likely that the boll wevll will find its progress barred by water. The efforts of the State of Texas and the federal "government's agricultural department have i been directed toward the discovery of some chemical or parasite that will kill this wevll. but these efforts have thus far been utterly unavailing. It looks, at thi3 distance, as if the pest would have to bej fought very much as they fight prairie and forest fires, by removing what it has to fed upon.

On the prairies this is done by njeans of a "back fire" that is kept under control. With a despotic government it wouljl be possible to mark a strip of say fifty miles wide, beyond the we- vil's present lineand forbid the growing of cotton In that stfrip for two or three years, thn move the stfrlo south for a period, and v. Ac en back over the itlo Grande. Whether such heroic measures hre possible to a free gov ernment is another question, but it surely seems that they would be Justified by the peril of one of the great staple crops of the country. When the prosperity of the country, and rit, nrrsoritr in tho hulldlne- line tt suffering severely irom tne enects or tne long lator troubles lrjst spring; at a time when two or three mcja are already beginning to ask for every jb that is open, the presi dent of the Bridge and Iron Workers has ordered another! strike to tie up all build ing operations Ii New York and a number of other cities throughout the country.

This is the merest madness. THE: HUMORISTS. tiame One. Yonkers StateamaA. Yeast Have you got another sore throatT Crimsonbeak No, it's the same throat.

Hope. Washington Star. "Did you tell that publisher that your novel waa entirely orlsnal." "Yea." "What did he sAy?" "He said it misfit be good in spite of that fact. but he doubted 1L" Some Park Persiflage. Automobile Magaalne.

Policeman Sparrow 'Tis the foine Frinch nurse yer afther tnakln, Ulddy. Iild3y Dabycai riage Frinch nurse, is it? Frlr.ch nurso? Of 11 give yez to understand that I'm just as much a chauffeur as th' operator uf any other horseless carriage. Ktjevv About It. Kansaa City Journal. Margie The man goes up In the balloon oh.

ever so high; and then he comes down In a parachute. If tb. parachute doesnft open, the man Is kllleJ. Janle I knew it. My mamma had a cousin onco that as parashot.

Would Get Ills Pay. Chicago Iot. "What will yoy charge us for a riffht of way your plaeeT" asked the trolley Una pro- through moter. replied the old farmer thoughtfully. "rather than have it go through some other place, I'll give you the right way for nothin an make my money out damages fer tho live stock you kill." School for Lndles.

Chicago News. "At last." said the old bachelor, as he glanced over his paper, "a school for young ladles has been discovered where something is taught that they will remember." 'Tell us about It," suggested the fair type writer boarder. "It's a school in Kansas," continued the O. "where the pupils are taught how to go through tho marriage ceremony." Getting; Personal. New York Times.

"They say that Rrook, a little town in Holland, Is the cleanest town In the world." said the New York girl. "Do you suppose that's truer' "I know it's true, from personal experience," answered the Chicago girl. "Some girl friends of mine in Chicago and I were there not long ago. and they wouldn't let us go Into any of the hounes without takln off our ehoes." "Yes, I suppose the houses there are rather small." mued the girl from New York. POINTS FROM COUNTY PAPERS.

A Neu- Game Bird. New Castle Press. Rev. Z. T.

Sweeney, Indiana's capable game warden, says that the Mongolian pheasants put out last year are doing well and that there are now lO.OuO in the State. Plenty of Qnnll. Warren Review. The quail are reported very plentiful throughout the county Tne game law is nnfrtr in of tho State. Game wardens arc scattered about everywhere ready to arrest any violatcr.

A One-Dollar Pearl. Attica Ledger. Pearl hunting in the Wabash has received ari imretus bv the rornt findine of a very nice one by Dan Cook, for which James Scribner paid him $1. There have been quite a number found, but none are of very great value. Concerning Witnesses.

Oxford Tribune. Men who go to church every Sunday morn ing and evening aud retire about 9 o'clock at night are not good witnesses before the grand jury in matters pertaining to viola tion of the liquor laws. The boys who do the boozing are the ones to tell whero they get it. L'sefnl Invention. Wolcott Enterprise.

Thomas Hughes, formerly of Sitka, but now clerking in the office of the Logansport Traction Company, has invented a system of figuring out the time and wages of the employes which enables him to get at the correct amount at a glance. The system eaves much time and brain worry and may be patented. Saw Prnetlcnl Examples. Seymour Republican. The Junior physics class spent their reci tation period in a new way yesterday after noon.

Instead of reciting in the room they went down Walnut street to where a house is being moved and examined the levers and pulleys. This morning they went out to the wreck and saw other uses of the same things. The class is studying the lever and pulley and it is very useful to see practical examples along with the study or the books. Down in Fayette. Connersville Courier.

Although corn was planted late this year and early frost came, yet the corn crop in this section is good. Corn is averaging from fifty to sixty-five bushels per acre. Several farmers have been showing samples or corn. The yellow corn seems to be mak ing the best yield. We saw a medium sized year not lonjj-slnce trat was thirteen inches long, weighed one and one-half pounds, had twenty rows of grains and sixty grains in each row.

Of course, there is larger corn than this, but yet this was a fair sample of this, year crop. More Big: Corn. Warren Review. Joe simmerman brought in some corn Saturday that is large enough to satlfy any corn raiser on the black prairie land, But Joe's corn was raised on the timber land up near Ralnsville, and seems all the bigger on uiai account, as uie winuer ia.nu is us- i a. a.

a i i a i ually considered poor corn land. He had seven ears white and yellow mostly white. Whltft Five of the ears weighed a little more than eight pounds. It would be considered good corn in any year and on any land. But raised on timber land, and this year when corn "wouldn't amount to anything' it is better than good.

INDIANA EDITORIAL NOTES. Mr. John L. Zimmerman, of Springfield, who was robbed of over 200 votes in the convention that nominated Tom L. John son, is avenged.

South Bend Times (Dem.) The precise nature of John R. McLean's political activities in the Ohio campaign Is fairly well disclosed by the symmetrical and sufficient majority for Herrick with which Tom Johnson was bumped Hamilton county. Fort Wayne Sentinel (Dem.) The Hon George B. McClellan, the Tarn many mayor-elect of Greater New York, wm come aDOUt as near running that city as his father did in capturing Richmond work and permit Mr. McClellan to hold the title.

Hartford City Times. The verdict In the Kid Vaughn case, giv ing him the limit under the law, gives gen eral satisfaction. It should deal a telling blow to those things for which Vaughn or McClure stood a libertine, a pugilist and a masher, three of the most reprehensible stripes of mankind. uoshen Times-News County pride alone should not and does net argue that it is the imperative duty of th to support the local candidate if I they believe some other candidate can ren der them and their country better service. in such instances the nobler emotion, patriotism, not politics, should control.

Mid-dletown News. In the course of time, perhaps, men who own and manage railroads may arrive at the rational conclusion that it is cheaper in the long run to provide for the better safe guarding of human life than it is to pay dearly for accidents that are clearly due to lack or preparation ior preventing them. Lafayette courier. The annexation sentiment in Cuba seems to be growing stronger as the days go by. Self-government, so far, has been bank rupted by voting a big debt on the nation to pay the claims of would-be defenders during the late unpleasantness with Snaln.

Annex Cuba by all means and obviate all this worry and trouble over reciprocity leg islation. iticnmond l'aiiauium. The attempt to shift the responsibility for the Big Four wreck at Indianapolis on the train crew pulling the special has developed the fact that the men were running accord ing to orders, as they understood them, und the engineer and conductor demand that their orders be submitted to any set of trainmen for interpretation. From this it would appear that train orders are some times susceptible of a double construction. Tipton Tribune.

There is one mitigating circumstance In connection with the victory of the Democrats over the fusionists in New York city Tuesday it was a knockout blow for mug- wumpery. beth Lowe is a good man and made a good mayor, gave the city a clean. efficient administration, and if he had gone down to defeat battling under the old Re publican banner he would have had our proiound sympamy. uui wnere a man gets too good in lis own estimation to run for office on the Republican ticket he is too good to be elected by Republican votes. There is nothing in the glorious history of the Republican party of which any of its members need be asnamed, Kockport Jour nal.

Dnrnnd Leaven 31adrld. MADRID. Nov. 8. Sir Henry Mortimer Durand, the newly appointed British ambassador at Washington, yesterday pre sented his letters of recall to King Alfonso and left lor London.

THE DRIFT OF POLITICS There have been so many hints and even open charges that Governor Durbln has been shaping his political affairs to become a candidate for the United States Senate, to succeed Senator Beveridge, and so many politicians have expressed a desire to know Just what the Governor's attitude in this matter may be, that an expression from him was sought yesterday by the Journal. The Governor replied frankly and emphatically that he is not and rhas no intention of becoming a candidate f.Sr senator and expressed the opinion that: Senator Beveridce will be re-elected without opposition. He also took occasion to give his views on the reorganization of the Republican State committee and indicated unmistakably a belief that the best Interests of the party will hf conserved by the re-election of State Chairman James P. Goodrich, of Winchester. "My attention has ibeen directed frequently during the past few weeks to the statement freely circulated through the press and otherwise the effect that I am a candidate fur the Senate to succeed Senator BevWidge," said the Governor.

"In view of" the fact that this theory seems to have been made to some extent, at least, the basis for factional contention throughout the State, which, if continued, may endanger the success of the Republican party In Indiana next year and result in the permanent establishment of factional lines within ocr party, I desire to say emphatically that I am not an aspirant to Senator Beveridge's seat and that I know ot no one who Is. "Just as frankly and emphatically I desire to say that I favor the re-election of Mr. Goodrich as chairman of the Republican State committee and on the same grounds as those which afford the justification for the return of Senator Beveridge, namely: that successful experience qualities for usefulness. The Republicans of Indiana have never had a better managed or more successful campaign than that conducted by Chairman Goodrich year, and opposition to a second term fr a successful State chairman is entirely out of harmony, not only with all party precedent, but with good party policy. "The function of a political committee is to conduct campaigns, not to nominate can didates, and never up 1 this time have we had asserted in Indian the theory now ad vanced by persons manifesting more zeal than judgment In their friendship for the Junior senator, that the selection of the members of a State committee should be based on any grounds pother than the.

domestic political affairs each congressional district, or organized for any purpose other than the promotion of "general party inter ests throughout the State. I am aware of the assertion that two ago the State committee was selected In the interests of the senior senator, but Ihe memory of every well-informed Republlc-m in the State will bear me out in the statement that there was at that time no thought or talk that per sonal ends ought to berserved in such mat ters, and certainly no one claims that the present committee a factional course, understand hat as a committee should not be selected or organized for. neither should it be Selected or organized against any but no sensible per son believes that the State committee as at present existing or organized has any dis position or intention of- seeking to interfere with the re-election of the Junior senator. I personally know that nothing is further from the thought of the State chairman than such a procedurr, and I may say in addition that in no conversation with me has he ever expressed desire or intention to oppose or embarrass Senator Beveridge. Finally, in view of the fact that there is no opposition to Senator Beveridge, it is preposterous to assurre that a committee hostile to his interests would be selected but for the activity some of those who claim to specially represent nis interests.

x- "In line with the statement that I am a candidate for senator, the Governor continued, "is the chargle that I personally have brought out a 'candidate or candi dates for membership on the State committee, which I understand has been sent out in circular form in one of the districts of the State. There If absolutely no truth in the statement, and, I regret exceedingly the spirit of hostility in which.it is evi dently made. No marl can lay a finger on any appointee of this; administration who has been called upon to serve any personal purpose of mine in party organization, and I nroDOse to go out of office free from anv Just charge made to the effect that I have employed the power conferred upon me by the people of Indlanrt for the attainment of personal ends, believing, as I do, that the most admirable aspect of Indiana poll tics has been its comriratlve freedom from any attempt on the part of an individual to attain dictatorship, or exercise undue influence in the directum of Dartv affairs 'I mv all this In he utmost ktndnpaa and with no purposes whatever but the elimination of this rising spirit of faction alism which is so full of menace to Indiana Republicanism that tKe party has a right. in the face of an anprbaching campaign, to demand Its immediate and complete sun I 1 T7 ,1 1 1 pression. Senator Bvveridge's re-election depends upon the election of a Republican Legislature next year, and that consummation will reaulre.

in my opinion, the co operation of all elements and the present ing of a united iront to tne real opposition. President Roosevelt recently sought to Im press upon the Republicans of Maryland the absolute necessity of party unity, and the result in that State, the outcome of factional and personal quarrels within the party, is evidence that it would have been well to accept his advice. The President's suggestions apply to Indiana. "It is high time tnat suspicion and re crimination were at rm end, foa the cause of Indiana Republicans for 1904 is common the triumphant election of their State ticket, the choice of fifteen Roosevelt elec tors, and the selection of a Republican Legislature. As we ae on common ground.

and as we need all bur strength for the real battle, let us have harmony, and we shall have victory." XXX A. M. Glossbrenner, of this city, who was mentioned some day; ago as a probable candidate for the Republican chairmanship I Ia this district, has not to enter the lists against Floyd A. Woods. He stated to the Journal last night, when asked If he had reached a decision: "Yes, I have decided that I shall not be a candidate for district chairman, since it was first suggested to me by my friends that I enter the race I have had the matter under careful consideration, and have con cluded that I cannot make the sacrifice I or time necessary to tne contest and to fulfilling the duties i of the position if I should be elected.

My business affairs are I i ,3 -II I sucn as 10 ucuiiiuu xtt jujr lime, aim have practically determined to quit politics." Mr. Glossbrenner was asked if he be lieved there would be any opposition to Mr. Woods, and repued that so far as he knew the present chairman win have a clear field for re-eleitlon. This opinion Is shared by many other local politicians. Since Mr.

Woods has'manifested his friend liness toward Senator; Beveridge, by stating publicly that he favors the re-election of the senator. It is not probable that the senator's political managers will bring out a candidate for the chairmanship. xxx "Jim" Robinson, the Democratic member of Congress from the Twelfth district, has made a series of bad breaks recently that will undoubtedly make It extremely difficult for him to secure a renomination from his party next year, and. In the event that he secures that, practically Impossible for him to carry the electloa over the Republican candidate. First, Representative Robinson, while in Chicago, many miles from his own bailiwick, indiscreetly expressed uncompli mentary opinions of former President rover cieveiana in tne presence or a re porter.

The reporter knew "good copy" when he ran across it and hastened to put the Fort Wayne statesman on record. Upon his return home Robinson found that his interview had stirred up a small tempest for him. and he immediately sought to square himself with fthe large number of conservative, Cleveland-admiring Demo crats of his district by repudiating the Chicago interview. But his repudiation was not permitted to go unchallenged. The Chicago reporter was heard from, and he not only reiterated that uomnson naa said everv thing attributed to him, but gave the cir- cumstauces of the interview with such de-tali as to leave no room for doubt as to its authenticity.

So much for the bad break that has created a chasm, difficult to bridge, between Robinson and renomi nation. Now it comes to light that upon his de parture for Washington last week, to take his seat In the Fifty-eighth Congress, Representative Robinson practiced a little econ omy by sending his personal effects to Washington by mail under his congressional frank, instead of shipping them by freight or express and raying a neat sum in charges. The excess baggage which he thus gets to Washington free of charge weighed a trifle of 1,500 pounds. Therein lies the brake that will unquestionably be used ef fectlvely against Mr. Robinson If the Democrats put him up as their candidate again next year.

AMERICAN INVASION. Thousands of Yankee Farmers Have Settled In Canada. Collier's Weekly. In the vast wheat-growing area of Mani toba, where the red, hump-backed elevators dot the lines of railroads that are being built in all directions, 47,000 American citizens have settled this year. They mostly belong to the class of younger sons who.

moving westward, generation by generation, until they reached Minnesota, the Dakotas or Montana, are now crossing the border into fresh fields. Their character and their experience make their influence predominant. Their ways are becoming the ways of the newcomers from conti nental Europe, who equal them In numbers. rom the northern part of Montana, around Great Falls, a new "overland" route has been created. The individuals follow this in the same way that their fathers crossed the plains.

Journeying by prairie schooners, their practiced eyes can Judge the Quality of the soli until they find a prospect that pleases. With all the good wheat land nearly taken up in our rortn-west and becoming more and more valuable, the virgin soil of Manitoba is still cheap. Many who have sold out to men from rarther east look forward to building up another property and selling it to ad vantage, and then returning to the SLites. one syndicate which is bringing in settlers bought over 3,000,000 acres. There are four new Mormon towns.

Cardston was founded by Mrs. Card, one of the daughters of Brlgham Young, and known as "Aunt ZIna, who is the ruling spirit of a community of 5.0U0 people. Two years ago tho site of Raymond, which Is also Mormon, was covered with tawny range grass. Today it has 2.000 people, with schools and churches and lawyers, doctors and mer chants, not to mention a beet sugar factory. The Mormon and Doukhobor are about the only colonies that have remained Intact.

The Doukhobors are not as unreasonable as painted. Those who start on fanatical migrations1 in a condition of nudity form a minority not approved of by the average Doukhobor at all. Anglo-Saxon surroundings are already having their usual effecL Instead of holding their property in common, many of the young men are now securlnsr deeds to the farms tney occupy. One Peter Verigen has become the leader of the progressives. He has convinced his people that education is a good tning.

ana so a schoolhouse is to be built in each of the sixty villages. They are also concluding that it is not vital to their religion that they draw their plows themselves ana are beginning to use horses instead. It is the Englishmen, especially the city dwellers, whose ingenuousness furnishes the hard-headed emigrants from Ontario and Minnesota with a great deal of amuse- menL The Barr colony of some 3,000 Britons proposed to be very exclusive. They were going to have a community of their own and allow no Americans or other foreigners in it. Only 900 of them are now left in their settlement of Brlttania, though not a wozen In all have returned to England.

The rest have followed the natural law, which distributes the members of society to places where they find the best opportu nities. The newcomer who Is least welcome in Manitoba is the "remittance man." He is frequently the son of a good family who is not wanted In Lngland. His principal occupation is waiting for his monthly allowance. COLONEL SAID CHARGE. Bat Colombians Retreated When They Saw American Bayonets.

New York Tribune. The Panama Railroad and Steamship Company and the Pacific Mall Steamship Company have received dispatches from Panama confirming the reports of the evacuation of Colon by the Colombian troops. The advices received by the Panama Company give additional particulars of how narrowly a conflict between the American marines from the gunboat Nash ville and the Colombian troops under Col. Abajos was averted. According to the dispatch the marines were landed on Thursday morning and threw up Intrcnchments near the steamship pier.

They were further protected by freight cars near the trenches. Some four hundred Colombian troops were drawn up near the American lines, and things looked threatening for the handful of Americans. Colonel Abajos Jumped out before his troops and ordered them to advance on the Americans. The Colombians had no desire to impale themselves on the bayonets of the marines and refused to advance. They retreated, and were followed by their fire-eating commander after he had broken his sword across his knee.

Fifty American residents of Panama had been armed in the meantime, and the lieutenant in command of the marines sent word to the Colombian camp that while his men were there simply to protect American property, they had no intention of dodging any trouble that might come their way. "The revolt of the isthmians," said the secretary of the Panama Company, "is a popular one. The report that it was fomented in this city is absurd. For years the Bogota government has bled the Department of Panama. All their sources of revenue are on the isthmus, and Panama practically maintained the government.

All her industries have been heavily taxed for years, ijesides paying tne expenses of the government Banama has maintained the government army, and kept its ejes closed to the corruption of officials, out of loyalty to the government. When the government turned down the canal treaty it was the last straw. It looked to the merchants of Panama as though all the government wanted was more money at their expense. and they could see nothing ahead but the blighting and ultimate ruin of their indus tries by the rejection of the canal proposi tion. Tnen tnere was so nttie opposition to their secession that the affair can hardly be called a revolt, but It will be a hard blow to Colombia." Marie Twain at Florence.

FLORENCE, Italy, Nov. 8. Samuel L. I Clemens and family, accompanied by George Gregory Smith, have arrived here and taken possession of the Villa Quarto, three and one-half miles from the city. The villa rormeny was the property of a Russian grand duchess and was afterward occupied by the King of Wurtemberg.

It is now owned by Count Reybaudi Massiglle. Italian minister to Persia, who was formerly consul at Philadelphia, where he married Miss paxton. Gypsy Prince Killed anil Robbed. Luuib, rov. s.

Sampson cooper, a prince of gypsies. was stabbed through the heart and robbed under an electric light in Alton, 111., to-night by a negro, for whom the police and the gypsy band, with their bloodhounds, are searching. Cooper is said to have a slstcr-ln-law, Mrs. Bessie. Wells, in Indianapolis, and a nephew, Arthur Wells, in vv lnona.

Miss. Three Men Killed, Four Hurt. HARRISONBURG, Nov. 8. Three men were killed by a dynamite explosion here yesterday.

The dead are: W. H. Bowman, former superintendent of waterworks; Grant Dunable and Louis Tarns, both negroes. Four men were injured. The men tried to thaw out frozen dynamite, which exlpoded.

Col. W. T. Illnckvrell Dying. CHARLOTTE, N.

Nov. W. T. Blackwell, of Durham, was stricken with paralysis to-day, and no hope is held out for his recovery. Starting out as a poor boy he amassed a fortune in the manufac ture of tobacco.

In late years ho lost his fortune. He ws postmaster at Durham under President Cleveland's administration. Csecha Alo Want Concessions. VIENNA, Nov. 8.

Encouraged by the concessions granted to Hungary by the government the three principal Czech parties have drawn up a programme of obstructionists tactics in the Iteischsrath with the object of securing similar concessions for the Czech nationality. Hawaiian Home Ralers Win. HONOLULU. Nov. 8.

The returns of the elections for county offices are now complete. They show that the Home Rule party has achieved a sweeping victory in the Island of Maui and most of their candi dates in Hawaii Island have also been elected. Minister LI man tour's Return. MEXICO CITY, Nov. 8.

Finance Minis ter Limantour returned from the United States on the special traiu that had been sent to El Paso to meet him. SOMPOF THE NEW BOOKS The Vagabond. Frederick Palmer's splendid story. "The Vagabond." first appearing as a serial in Collier's Weekly, has been published In book form by the Scrlbners. Illustrator Harrison Fisher, who ha? the knack of doing more than drawing, pretty dre.cfes.

tailor-made men, and drawing room odd and end3, has caught the spirit of the story in six excellent pictures. The book is neatly got up and lacks that llashlnesa and gaudi-uess which have sailed the appearance of many good publications. As to that which lies in wait between the covers for a surprised aud delighted reader the only needtul thing to say is read it. Frederick Palm has already gained distinction as a correspondent for metropolitan papers, bur "The Vagabond" Is his first novel. It is a clean, direct, mat-ter-of-fact, remarkably telling story, without any nonsense or exaggeration; perfectly probable, logical, yet quite far enough away from the commonplace to be interesting iu every page, in the title ther is a hint of Owen Wister's famous book; in the story itself there Is more than hint The Vagabond is much the same sort of chap as The Virginian, self-reliant.

unselfish, indomitable, big-hearted, cool-headed, with a sense of humor deep as a river, altogether a tremeuduously striking type of the plain American. And yet Mr. Palmer has been entirely original la hit treatment, the books are widely divergent on other points. 'The Vagabond begins with the longings of a little boy to find a mountain, a mine and a girl. "liilly" Williams la a.

youngbter of singular maKe-up, queer Ideas queer longing's, queer ways of doing thing'. In his troubled little heart a. seed of vagabondage grows until heartily disgusted with the kindly but unsympathetic people of the old New England town, he runs away. The image of a sweet little girl whom he saw a few minutes one afternooa goes with him. The process of "running away" covers a good many years, takes the vagabond to California, where he finds his mountain and his mine, but not thi girl.

The civil war breaks out and the vagabond. instln -tively loyal, raises a troop of horse. His adventures as the fearless, resourceful cavalry leader eventually win for him high distinction and the glii of his dreams. Not the least notable feature of the book is a sketch of Abraham Lincoln at his inauguration. "The Vagabond" needs none of the trappings of history to adorn it; It Is not an 'historical novel;" but nonetheless it gives a clear view of that most interesting time, the few months that preceded the firing on Fort Sumter.

The talents of the author are not entirely expended on his chief character; there are others in the book that are flesh and blood. Captain Bob, the judge. Miss Felicia and Volllla, Lanley the girl are delightful conceptior Mr. Palmer has skillfully thrown Into contrast the personality of two men. Tae Vagabond," typical of the North, and CoL Southbridge, a paladin of the South.

The rivalry of these men, so antipodal In everything, is There is a new ring in "The Vagabond." It gets away from the ordinary type. It is out of the common, above the mediocre, very well worth while. Again the best criticism of It Is the ad-, vice read iL Charles Scrlbner's Sons, New, York. Flodden Field. One is so accustomed to hear sport made of England's laureate that, in taking up a book by him, the ironical attitude is likely to be felt before the cover is opened.

To be fair to Mr. Austin it must be said that "Flodden Field" is a well-sustained drnma written In good blank verse that Is, gcod so far as technique Is concerned. He tells a story which is very well conceived, and divides interest between the dramatic action and the underlying philosophy of the affections. The tragedy is worked out quietly, without great show of spirit, and for that reason it takes greater hold upon the subtler emotions of the reader. The language is simple, not poetic enough to detract through excessive embellishment.

is-sometimes the case with Phillips, frim the plot interest or what there may be of purely intellectual Interest. In this respect it is like Maeterlinck. It will not be remembered for fine and apt eptthets or ringing epigrams, and. making, as It does, an impression as a whole, it is all the better as a dramatic composition. The working out of the story follows the expectancy and hope of the normal Anglo-Saxon mind, and on this very account the drama will fall of greatness to many, me aesir ror the morbid is great among many who affect literature.

Such language as this is not mere idle moralizing nor a sugrrr-coared Sunday-school lesson. Lady Heron, deploring her fall into wantonness, laments as follows: Ah, too late! too late! When once the dew has vanished from tht Or the frail petals fallen from tha flower. Who can bring back the rresnnesa 01 tne atwn Or who refold the rose? Margery I love you beat When you discourse like that. And, lady, d-ar, He sure of this: Through life unsurenees, Who made us all In innocency can Revoke us, if we would. Occasionally there Is an Insertion of phil osophy, like to Pope's, indirectly connected with the current of the story: There are three sorts of women: They who move Men to warm tenderness, not hot desire.

And these are best and noblest. Then thtre are Those who o'erbrlmmlngly unslulce the blood And set It flowing and fuming In men's velua. Then straightway tranquillize it In their own More deep, continuous current; nor would I Defame such natures, for. in sooth, they are Honest, though ofttlmea differently named; Hut would reserve reproving and reproach For those, the last and lowest sure of ail. Who kindle tires to see how these will burn And not for need or comfort.

Is not especially good for acting, at least from the commercial standpoint. The story concerns the romance and heroism of Flodden, the battle fought between James IV of Scotland and the English under the Earl of Surrey. The beautiful Lady Heron betrays one leader Into' the hands of the other and is the figure around whom the action revolves. There are three acts. Harper New York.

The Hose of Joy. "Why did Mary FIndlater name her book 'The Rose of is a "question readers will ask long before they reach the last chapter. It is true the name Is accounted for by the author, but sadness dominates tha story from the time the heroine is Introduced until she finds the so-called rose In the pUcld waters of single blessedness. There Waa no Joy in her home, little In her courtship and her marriage was a' tragedy. Susan Crawford, the heroine, lives In a slatternly-kept home, her widowed mother being poor housekeeper, with a large family to take care of on a small bank account.

Susan's childhood is spent mostly in tha fields, where she learn the mysterlen of plant and animal life nnd comes to know the meaning of the voices of nature tha Eongs of the birds and the cries of the littl four-footed creatures to be found in field and hedge. This knowledge and her application of it makes her appear strange and mystical to city people with whom aha comes in contact, and her disregard cf personal appearance causes anxiety to at least one friend. Juliet Clephare, who remaina true throughout Susan's later troubles. Susan marries Darnley Stair and li happjr for a time, despite the fact that her husband takes her to a home even more uncongenial than the one she lefL Darnley is a fairly good sort of person In Hmi ways, but he has a "past and It is thla "past" that causes a domestic tragedy. While at college he married a foolish girl, according -to the Scotch law, and when ha took Susan for a wife he committed bigamy.

The first wife blackmails him until he can stand it no longer, lit sends her to Canada, but she returns and exposes her husband. Susan is ilea rt broken, for she finds that in the eyes of the law she is neither wife nor widow. Her husband Is hurried out of the country and Susan goea into retirement. Finally she takes up painting and sketching, makes a name for herself and finds "the rose of Joy" in tha contentment of Independence and th ability to do something of value. As already stated, the vein of rorrow that runa through the book Is Its chief characterlstiCL but it is a work that will Interest reders' of fiction.

McClure, Phillips New York. The Diary of Year. This diary, by Mrs. Charles Brookfteld, purports to contain some of tho experiences of a woman of the world who, har-ing entered Into a marriage de convennnca in compliance with the wishes of her parents, is neglected and almost ignored by a dissipated husband. While at a summer resort she meets "the first love of her life" a clever, fascinating and unprincipled rqan.

An elopement is she is saved by his failing to keep tha tryst, which he had apparently forgotten. Her diary now records her chagrin at this unexpected termination of her first lova affair. Another opportunity for th elopement presenting itself, she discovers that tiio no longer cares xor mo xorgctrul lovi.