Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 28, 1892, Page 4

4 J { THE DATLY £ ROSEWATER, Fon MORNINC PUBLISHED EVERY * OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE CITY TERMS OF SUBSORIPTION. Do)y Bee (without Sunday) One Year... # & (0 Daily nnd Sunday, One Yen e 10 00 Eix M onths ¢ 500 Three Montha, ¢ Sunduy Hee, One Vear. . Buturday Bee, One Year Weekly Bee. One Year. OFFIC| Omaha. The Bee Building. Fouth Omahn, corner N ind h Streets. Council Blufrs, 12 Pearl Str Oh! (hamter of Commerce, N rial”, 14and 15, Tribune Bullding 3 Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE All_communications reluting to nows and ftorinl mattor should bo addressed tc the ditorial Dopartmen BUSTNESS LETTERS, Al business letters and_romittances shonld tenddressed to The Bee Publishing Campany. Ompnha. Drafus. chocks and postoflice orders 10 Ve mudo pryable to the order of the com- vany. 71£fl Eee fl:h]'i!h';fig CQMDHHV, fl‘(l}l‘lB'Dl: EWORN STATEMENT OF CIRCULATIO Hate of Nebraska () Cannty of Douglas. (* N, P. Fofl, business manager of The Bee Jublishine "Company, dos lomnly swear thut the actunl cireulation of THE DAILY BrE for the week ending March 26, 1802, was as followa: Tucadny, March 22, Wednoestay, March & hursdny, Mareh 24 Friduy, March €aturday. March % Average. N Eworn to Lefore me and_ suba rl'hi-'d in my vresence (his 2th day of My BEAL. E . ROGGEN, Notary Publie. Average Circulation for February 24,510, ——————————————— 0 LONG as the caucuses are allowed to select delogates to bo voted for at the primarics, just so long are the primary elections an unnecessary expense. THERE is very little use in calling the democratic national convention now. Congressman Bryan has issued his en- cyclical letter to the faithful in behalf of Horaco E. Boies. — EMreror WILLIAM proposes to pro- rogue tho Landtog and Reichstag. This is done probably so that he can shoot woodcock undisturbed in the Wartburg forest from April 10 to 15. ——— CoUNCIL BLUFFS will hereafter be a port of entry. The president has signed the bill conferring this dignity. Little by little our enterprising Iowa neighbor assumes metropolitan features. GOVERNOR BoIgs had the good seuse to decline an invitation to address the Missouri legislature. The governor knows ho cannot puff out his boom by aping anything Senator Hill has done. KANSAS Crry has not yet secured the #5,000 flouring mill concerning which her papers have said so much and said it so often. This is a hint to Omaha which some wide awake committee should take home to sleep and think over. GAs in Kansas City is sold at 8$1.50 per thousand feet aud an agitation has been in progress for many months look- ing to a reduction to $1. The rate in Des Moines has been $1.75 and efforts have been made to reduce it to $1.15. The price in Omaha is $1.75. Ex-SPEAKER REED’S sarcastic and cutting remarks calling attention to proceedings in the present house from time to time, the like of which in the 1ast congress brought abuse upon his de- voted head as speaker, are very irri- tating to the ex-speaker’s irrascible democratic successor. THE primary elections should be as closely guarded against fraud and cor- +ruption ns the general elections. The way to make these elections honest and fair is to eliminate the caucus and en- courage all republicans to participate in the primaries where they can vote for the best men as delogates to conventions without caucus domination. EX-MAYOR CREGIER’S son ds involved in the Chicago rottenness now being ex- posed by the grand jury. If the testi- mony offered is reliable he dppears to have been about the cheapest boodler in the lot. He is charged with taking 8350 in full payment for using his in- fluence with his father in furthering the plans of the disburser of boodle, — MR. BRYAN in a columu letter to his Omaha organ gives as the reason for nominating Governor Boies for the pres- idency the facts that he has no enemies, 18 a renogade republican, was born in New York, is a free trader, and can very cleverly straddle the free coinuge issue. These facts will, however, scarcely com- mend Governor Boies to eastern demo- crats, Like many other public men, Governor Boies is in greater danger from tho praise of his fool friends than from the abuse and eriticism of malicious enemies, OKLAHOMA, the land of booms, will this week experience another of those phenomena for which this country only is noted. The Cheyenne and Arapahoe lands are to be thrown open on the 1st of April, and already the region adjacent to the Indian reservation is filling up with boomers; The Cherokee strip of 6,000,000 acres will be available later in the season, and then the rush will be something like that of three years ago. Every settler in Oklahoma can thank a republican administration for his oppor- tunity to secure a home, S—— JupGE MCCONNELL in Chicago has rendered a decision in & gawmbling cuse which will bring joy to the gamblers of that city and elsewhere, but will hinder the enforcement of laws prohibiting gambling. He holds that gambling utensils obtained under an ordinary gearch-warrant cannot be*legally ae- stroyed by the police officers; hacauso the statute directing their destruction does not provide for notice to their owner or for amy trial whatever, and therefore violates the constitutional prineiple provision that no one shall be deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law. WILL CONTINUE THE FIGHT. The repulso of the silver men in the house of representatives was a disap- pointment to them, but it appears that thoy are not wholly discournged. If Mr. Bland, the free silver leader, cor- rectly represents the sentiment of his followars, they propose to continue tho fight. By the action of the house last woek the free coinage bill was sent to the calendar, but n special order can bs made that will bring it beforoe the house at any time, and it is expected that the committee on rules will report such an ordor. Spoaker Crisp and Messrs Catchings and McMillin, who make up the majority of tho committee, can bo relicd upon to respond favorably to the de d of the free silver men, and then there will be another test of strength between the supporters and the oppon: ents of free silver, It would not be eafe to predict the re- sult of such a test. The vote of last Thursday in favor of laying the silver bill on the table would probably be re- paated, but more than 148 votes will be required to defeat another special order il the free silver democrats should be able to muster their full force. There is some probability that the opposition will bo found to have increased. Mr. Bland is reported to have said that the repulse of last week was directly due to his being betrayed by men whom he sup- posed. as they always claimed, to be his friends. A leader loses prestige and in- fluence after being beaten, and it is highly probable that Mr. Bland will have cause to complain of more be- rayals of his confidenco whenover another test of strength is made. The opposition to free silver will undoubtedly maintain an unbroken front. The anti-silver democrats hav been encouraged by the action of the re- publicans, and the statement of the re- publican leader of the house regarding the sentiment of the minority leaves no doubt as to where they will be found on this issue. All but about a dozen of them can bo counted with absolute tainty to vote against free silver and against all efforts in tne interesu of such legislation. Ex-Speaker Reed takes the view that the republicans should now stand up against bringing vhe Bland bill to a vote at ail, and while it is under- stood that some prominent members of the party in the house differ with him, on the ground that the oniy way to make sure of the future is to have a square vote for or against free coinage, it is hardly to be doubted that the view of the ox-speaker wi'l prevail. It should not be too hastily concluded from what has taken place that there will be no free silver legislation at this session of congress. The advocates of that policy are still very determined, and they will exhaust every resource at their command. But manifestly their chances of success have been greatly re- duced, and there ig much stronger reason now than a week ago to expect thut President Harrison will not be called upon to veto a free silver bill. ANIFOPTION LEGISLATION. The anti-option bills introduced in thosenate and house have not been lost sight of, although interest in them seomed to have very much abated. It appears, however, that tho ropresent- atives of the farmers in promoting this legislation have not been idle, and it is snid that there is now favorable promise of the Hatch bill being taken up at an early day in the house. It is expected to pass that body without much op- position, and there is very little doubt that it would promptly pass the senate. The eoxtended hearings that were given the friends and opponents of this proposed legislation by the house com- mittee on agriculture unquestionably strengthened the position of the former in the opinion of the committee, so far as the general princivle involved in the legislation sought is concerned. The Hatch bill as originally introduced will be amended in some particulars, but without impairing its prime purpose of putting an end to purely speculative transactions in “'options” and *‘futures.” It is not intended to interfere with legit- imate operations, and it makes suffi- ciently clear the difference between legitimate and illegitimate dealings. All the testimony submitted ny the op- ponents of anti-option legislation con- firmed the charge that a very large amount of the transactions on the p cipal bonrds of trade of the country is not legitimate speculation. The bucket shops are by no means the only offend- ors, and, although their business may fairly be described as wholly illogiti- mate, it is by no means certain that their offense is 50 harmful as that of the boards of trade which permitillegit- imate dealings. The heavy transnctions of the latter and the influense they exert upon the markets must reasonably be supposed to result in greator mis- chief than the bucket shops are capa- ble of, though there is nov a word to be said in defense of these gambling places. 1t is possible that the proposed law would not accomplish all that its advo- cates hope for, but the experiment is worth trying, and it is the duty of con- gross to respect the almost unanimous demand of the agricultural producers of the country for this legislution, THE ELECTRICAL AGE AND THE FARM. The American farmer of the not very distant future will be the most indepen- dent citizen of the country. He may not cultivate so many acres of ground or own 80 large an area of land as at present, but he will be a little king upon his farm and envied by less fortunate neighbors. The electrical age into which we are entoring is big with promise for the agricultural communities. In two years more the telephone patents will expire and then for 3250 anybody can have an instrument and battery. Oae wire of the barbed wire fence may be isolated from the others and become the line of communication from houso to house and from neighborhood to the city. Eleetric lights will take the vlace of cundles, kerosene lamps and lanterne. When the farmor hears a disturbance in his barn or cowckoa coop he will press » button which will light up his eutire premises and place him in position to punish in- truders, A single stationary steam engine fed by a boy or girl will genc-ate electrie power that will work the churn, the knitting machine, the sewing machine THE OMAH and the washing machine for the use of tho housewife. The farmer’s corn shelier, threshing mnchine and other imple- ments will be run by electricity from tha samo source. He may and probably will have a storage battery which shall push his plow through the soil and another for his carriage or wagon for a trip to town, In fact electricity will take the place of horses in much of the farm work and relieve the farmer's wife of much of the dreaded drudgery she now performs. The electrical age will more com- pletely revolutioniza_the conditions of modern lifo than the age of steam changed those of sixty years ago. The present generation need not be sur prised if it shall be a common thing to see a telephone in cvery farm house, an cleatrical plant on every farm and elec- tric motors of one kind and another car- rying farmers to and from the city at their will, over fine ronds constructed purposely for their convenience. The isolation of farim life will be ended. Tho telephone will bring farm and city into closer union, and daily mail deliveries will keep the ngricultarist abreast of the progress of the intellectual life of he ideal farmer of tho future his his age. will be an educ family will be cultivated and conten he will make farming a business profit: able always, free from the hard drudg: ory now required, and attractive as the professions or other city occupations. This style of farmer will, of course, be a thrifty, industrioas oneinot the corner grocery whittler or the lazy fellow who is without ambition. The indifferent, ignorant or indolent farmer will not realize thesa conditions, FOREI INANCIERS ON BIMETALLISM The views of leading German finan- ciers on the subject of an international conference in the interestof bimetallism are not encouraging to the advocates of this method for reaching a settlement of the silver question. Germany would take part in o monetavy convention pro- vided Great Britain « ed to partici pute, but the judgment of these finan- ciersis that Ingland is not likely to make any change in its currency. One of them remarked as to Germany that it was very comfortably off now with its gold coinage, and he did not think that could be induced to materially s0 its silver coinage. Another re- marked that except a few agrarians no- body in Germany dreamed of such u thing as bimetaliism. Others held sim- ilar views, showing that there is no sen- timent in Germany at all worthy of con- sideration that is in favor of a bimetallic monetary systom, It need hardly be said that all these financiers agreed in the opinion that the adoption of freo silver coinage by the United States would have a very bad of- fect on American prosperity. Its effect would be to turn the current of gold still wore strongly toward Lurope, to lower American credit, and ultimately to hurt those who expected the greatest benefit from the law. Said one of them: **America is a rich country, abie to ated gentlemany stand tho vesults of serious errors, but there is a limit even to its resources. The turning over of its commerco to the silver men may bring America danger- ously close to these limits.” The deter- mination of the question of an inter- national agreement regarding silver manifestly rests wholly with Ingland, and there is not the slightest prospect of any change in the currency systom of that country. Secretavy Fostor found thero some sentiment i favor of bimetal- lism and he got the impression that it wus growing, but as a matter of fact there is no evidence that such is the case. Two or three years ago there ap- peared to be quite a movement in this divection, but it has very nearly if not entirely subsidgd, and tho financial in- terosts of Iingland aro now hoping that the United States will adopt freo silver coinage, thereby bringing about the single silver standard here and improv- ing the financial and commercial advan- tages of Great Britain. It is too much to expect that the extreme free sil- ver advocates will pay any attention to the intelligent and candid opinions of foreign financiers, but they ought to command the thoughtful consideration of those who are not bayond the reach of sound views and honest, disinterestod admonition, ECONOMY WITH A VENGEANCE, When the are-light streat lamps were introduced it was givenout that the city would ,be able to reduce its gas lighting bills very materialiy. This,like all other projects of economy in the interest of franchised corporations, has proved a delusion and a snare. 2 We are paying for a large number of electric lamps at the rate of 3175 a year, when the same company offered to place arc lamps on the World’s fair grounds at Chicago at $38 for nine months and finally contracted for them ut $25. The spasm of economy in reducing the num- ber of gas lamps gave out last summer and at this time we have a larger num- ber of gas and gasoline lamps than we had when the electric lamps were sub- stituted for gas and gasoline, and now the council proposes to add several hun- dred to the number of gas and gasoline posts just because the charter permits a levy of three mills for street lighting and the increased assessed valuation will yield incroased revenue, This is economy with a vengeance. Instead of reducing the rate of taxes the policy seems to be o increase the veven- ues of the franchised corporations, E—— The Hope of the Hub, Boston Globe, Here's horing that tho German emperor's vacation in the woods may make s new man of him, mentally as well as physically, ana enuble him to raalizo what time 1t 1s on the world’s dial of prograss. e Advaace of Homes Rule, Scotlaud's aspirations toward home rule will belp Ireland in its crusade in the samo direction. Evidently the day of local parlia- meats in the different divisions of the United kingdom is near at ba.d. e Kum's Triumph, Philadelphia Reeord. In Iowa the river counties will still enjoy free rum while the iuterior counties go dry, definitely postponed the bill recentl; passed In the senate substituting counly option for probubition, The vote was striclly pariisun lwn.n the republicans ravged on the pro- the lower bouse of the legislature huving in- | MONDAY, MARCH 28, 1 hibition side. Tha political effect of this action will probabsy be the ranging of Towa with the solidig emooratic states of tho Union, o —— NoMon te Spare. Bgitrfes Democrat While the Domocrat stands pat upon its former position on tho stiver question, it re- grots to ses it Brought into this campaign, and particularly Wfas it regrot the position taken by Dr. Millgf and other ominent lead- orsinthe party, wherein they declaro that Mr. Bryan shallibe read out of the party because of his vi@s on tho silver question, and that he anad dther mon entertaining the samo views shall not ba permitted to attend the demncratic national convention as dole- gates. Tho democrats have much to lose and littlo to gain by forcing su fssuc bifors the people are ready for it. The tax question must bo settled first. It has been 8 long campaign of education and tho people have shown their faith in the principles of tariff reform. Weo should not introduce othor issues that will loso us votes in the east when we cannot hone for sufficient gain else where to carry a single republican state. On the other hand we do not endorse the attempt of any men or set of men to read out men o advanced idems on the currency question. Tho democracy of Nebraska has n0 mon to spare, and least of all, the briiliant, brainy congressman from the First district. itipwmcntensn A Helnous Offense. Minneapolis Tribune. Anotoer letter from Mr. Cleveland is in order, Kaitor Dana charges him with tho lieinous and undemocratic offense of wearing a night shirt adorned with a red rufife. Wil neral Bragg kinaly weite and ask the prophet about it! It won't do to let a story like that gallop over the country at the very beginning of a campaigi E purng Outlawry. Chicago Times. Towa republicans have defeated th e Gatch local option bill in the lezislaturs, thus riveting 1pon tho state for two years moro the prohibition law which the people have so thoroughly repudiated. Towa is a striking illustration of government by the minority. -— A Native Thrust, Chicazo Times, Peoplo who are bent upon abolishing cor- ruption in politics vy cutting down the vol- ume of immiceation may find a thome for cogitation in the fact that every one of the soven aldermen indictea for boodhng w born in the United State: & ety Beep Your der Dry. New York World. Look out for some new Standard Oil dev- iltry sor Whea a trust has a clever law- ver, a §20,000,000 surplus, and suddenly ad- vertises the acquisition of morality, it i3 timo for small spaculators to “‘cash in” and get out of the game. —-—— FRAUD REBUKED. Globe-Demoerag(rep.): Thosupreme court of Wisconsin has, set aside the apportion- ment bill passed by, the democratic legisla- ture of that state iast winter. Oh, for a su- preme court at Jefferson with nerve enough to knock the life out of the democratic gerry- mander of this state. New York Tribudo (ver.): The supreme court of Wisconsib'has eiven a righteous de- cision, declaringthat the democratic gerry- mandsr of senate¢and assembly districts is unconstitutionats’ @he character of‘the bad work dono by the democratic legislature nay be judgea from t{fi fact that tho decision of the court, consistidg of three democrats and two republicans,’1s (nanimots. St. Paul Pioneer'Press (rep.): The offect in Wisconsin is fariless important than the effect of this decision at large; affirming, as it does, the doctriug that even a state logisia- turo.caonot manjpajate, representation ns it pleases. cannot cub out "aistricts fer party purposes without tho shghtest. referenco to law or justice, caznot-chrry the gerrymandex to the extremo that has beed threatened without judicial reproof and restraint. New York Herald (ind.): In theso days of reapportioumeats and gerrymanders the de- cision rendered yestorday by the supremo court of Wisconsin will bave a .widespread interest ana should have a wholesome effect. ‘Tho court holds that under the constitution of that state a county may not be divided in ho formation of assembly tistricts. That is to say, every district must be composed of ono or more counties entire. None can law- fully take in & part only of any county. Chicago Herald (dem.): The decision is probably correct. But the conclusion 1n many minds is irresistiblo that 1f the gerry- mander had been made by a republican in- stead of a democratio legislature nobody would have thought of attacking its legalivy, and even if such an attack had been made the chances would havo been that the same court which has just hela the democratic measurs invalid would have sustained an equally partisan republican apportionmant and never doubted that it was doing its wholo duty. Chicago Inter-Oczan (rop.): In all north- ern stutes and among the best men of all parties, thero 1s an awakening of conscionce as Lo crimes ugainst the ballot; wany things that once were deemed as justifiabiy “smart practice’” now are beld infamous. It is com- Ing to be the beliof of tho people that govern- ment by a Buropean despot is not worse than government by a lot of heolers and bosses who manage to deprive the majority of the votors of their votes and to substitute gov- ornment by & minority for government of the people, by the people and for the people. Cuicago Tribune (rep.): This decision is of special importance because it is the first in- volving the power of the judiciary to review the uction of the legislaturoe in a matter sup- posed to be as peculiarly its own as the S ing of an apportionwent. It was claimed by those 1uterested in the maintenance of tho las that tha supromo court had no jurisdic- tiou whutevor; that the power of the lagisla- ture was absolute, and that the only appeal from 1t lay to the people. Tho Wisconsin su- premo court has determined otherwise and has decidod that no community can be de- prived of tho right of equal representation, and that a temporary and accidontal majority canuot mako an apportionment wiich wiil Kkeep it 1n power after it becomos a mmority. o —— COMICAL CRITICS. Now York Horald: Tho handle to his name, 1f he has one, 18 the thing to work when pump- fng o mon. Somorville Journal: To somo of his audi- tors a great proacher wlways seomed to aet as if he thought he was doins the bible «u AL honor by 0 ot 4, Dassago from it for his toxt O11 Clty Bitzzard: "The follow who steals fuel feom his naighbor's wood pile and tinds some of the sticks charged with dynumite way be said to stejke,a responsive sord. Okt wost “Hamlet” is baing Dilluring title, * Was H.s Ludraws beter that way. Lostess-Can you carve wi—snould be 1soston Herald Kluyml unde Nibis O Iis Nut Pharmac Young 8 delizhred. $he walked 1nyo ¢ dry zoods store One mo nlllwl attan tho¥hitios of evening foll Bho ixsucd fobthiag ain; Augd when her husband isked her why 116 LOOK 50 Lo Lo range Within thiat s1ora, shy toia him that she did it for { ange. Washington Star: “ It was observed that the romarks of the nan who sut down on the tick were short und Lo Lue poiut. Jewelers' Cireulur: Buboony—ficllo, Loonoy ! Whatire you doinz now? Looney=Traveling tor u jewslry house. Baboony—=Ah! selling goods, eh? Looucy=—No-o—just traveling. 1 saw Mrs. Bunkerton he looked nugnty hand- 'S un odlous woman," returned Mrs. cks. Y ou neve suid Hicks, ¥y Aid adm re any of my old gir it 15 ouly oue, aud I thing porte hono wi s that? querled W Mrs. Hicks. Yourself,” retorved Hivks, Boston Transeripts A young wor presse s iy seutiment. “Where | noranc U iss "ty £0.1y o be wives x- o st There Is generally * an al» in the neighborhood of the pu- uetory. troleum “THE POET OF THE PEOPLE" Rominisoonces of Walt Whitman, Poet and Philosopher, DEATH LOVES A SHINING MARK A Strange and Striking Personality Rounds Out A Long and Varled Carcer— Leaves from an Active, Usefal Lafe, Walt Whitman, the aged poet and philoso- vher, has passed the portals of eternity. His death was not unexpected. Ior over four months ho has been gradually, under the spoll of an insidious disease, sinkiug into that “sleep that knows no waking,” and assed away as one who had ‘Wrapped thedrapery of his couch about him. And lies down to pleasant dreams.” The *‘good gray poet.’ as he was familiarly known, lived a varied life. Ho sprang from good old Puritan stock on bis father's side, and from a rugged Dutch maternal ancestry, which may account for his striking virility of thought, He was born at West Hills, Long Island, March 81, 1819, but was brought up in Brookiyn, whero he learned the print- ors’ trade. There he afterwards edited a paper called the Freeman and wroto bis “‘Leaves of Grass.” During the war period and up to he lived in Wash- inglon, where his strong, well-knit fieuro was a familiar object around the streets, clnd as ho always was in a loosely fitting suit of gray and an oldwslouch bat. He developed a wurked fondness for riding on strect cars, He always rodo on the front platform, seek- ing the friendship of the driver, and 1t is said that there was scarcely a driver in the city With whom he wus not on terms of consider- avle intimacy. Walt's sauntering habits clung to him at Washington, end Goneral Garfleld was ono of those fond of meeting him on the avenue. He always greoted Whit- man with a remark or a quotation from some of his poems. Those of a literary turn of mind who visited the capital always sought out Wall. He was of an economical turn of mind and lived in the attic of a frame builc- ing opposite the treasury and where the Cor- coran building now stands. rly in the war his brother, a colonel 1n the army, was wounded ana the guod gray en an unknown man, came on Lo visit For a year Walt spent all his time in the miiitary hospitals in Washington, giving comfort to the suffering soldiers, Writing their letters for them and roading aloud. In the spring of 1563 he began to write let- ters for the New York Times, He first ob- tained a position in the Interior department at $1,200, aud devoted his leisure time to writing. Some departmeat oficial took of- fenso at some of Whitman's writings and at once bhad him dismissed. His friends rose to his defense and he was transferred to the Department of Justico at an incicased salary. Later ho was traus ferred to tho office of the solicitor general of the treasury, Whitman remained in ofic living in the garret 2all this time, nntil 187 when the news of the death of his morher brought on a stroke of paralysis, He then went to live with his brother av Camden, and there he has remained ever since. Whitman began his literary career thirty years ago as an athlete, and poured enough of the essence of his robust vitality, into bis poctry to make it live, while the more metrical and harmonious verse of some con temporary poets has been forgott The verdancy of what an Euglish writer calls his *‘freshest of sveeck’ was prophesied in tho title of his book, “Leaves of Grass,” which remain perennially green ana are, like the grass, the hiding place of many beautiful floners. We will not believe, says a writer in the Detrott Free Press, that we should never have discovered the merit of Whitman's prssionate prose pootry f lmer- son had oot told us that he was @ possible genius; or tho Mussachusetts attorney had not given his volumo the eclut_of forbidden reading, by suppressing it. But there is no doudt that Emerson’s kindly word of recog- nition and the temporary sonsation of the law's interference did attract attention to the work and its author and help to make Loth pobular, ‘The uncouth personality of the mon and his hatred of shams; bis loynlty to nature and hus impassioned faith in democracy ; his mysticism, which never diverged iato irre- ligion; his unabashed descriptions and illus- trations of truth, which few writers dare ex- press even in veiled metaphor—all these surged and beat through bis rhythwm, and the reader was made aware at every line of the strong personality of the writer.. A few years ago a little neplew of Walt Whitman died. In the middle of the room lay the dead cnild in its white cofin. Near it. in a great chair, sat the poot, surrounded by children and holding a beautiful little girl on s lap, She looked wonderingly into tho old mav's face, overcome by the specta- cloof death. “You don't know whatitjs, do you, dear?” said he, and aaded: “We don’t, either.” There were 2 great many opportunities of meeting with congenial spirits, and among Lis recollections are those of a supper at Boston, at Young's, where merson, Joaguin Miller, the poet of the Slerras, and John Boylo O'Reilly were present. It was then that Ismerson gave him an exquisite pleasure by reciting from memory pages of selections from “Leaves of ¢irass.” Then Miller fol- lowed with his own opals of verse descrip- tive of Californiw life, and a temperate ban- quet crowned the felicity of the hour, Whitman has been called tho poev of dem- ocracy, and bis “'Leaves of Grass open with this oold statement: o myself, 1 assume you shall assume, very atom beionging o me as good be- longs to you. It may be said to be the declaration of the universul individual, As to his form of com- position, not attractive to readors of verse at 1irst sight ne **discharges himself quite alto- gether from thoold laws of poetry, consider- ing them and their results unfit’ for present needs and_cspecially unfit for tho United States.” His claiu was that of inaugurativg “an originat modorn style,’ and the theory thereof is “'that our times exhivit the advent of especially two new creativo worlds or 1n- fluences, giving a radically changed form to civilization—namely, the world of science for ono und the world of democratic republicau- ism for another, and that & third influenco, a new pootic world of character and forin, uJ)uswu to tho new splrit and facts and consistent with democracy and science, is indispensivle,” He saiu that here we “must found our own 1maginative litera- ture and poetry and that nothing morely copied fromn and following the feudal world will do, And I dismiss,” be has olten said, “witbout ceremony all the orthodox ac: coutrements, tropes, haberdashery of words, feet measurs, that form the entire stock iu trade of risvme-talking heroes and heroines, My metre is loose and free, Tholines are of irregular leugth, apparently lawless at first perusal, but on closer acquaintauce you will tind that there 1s regularity, like the recur- rence, for example, of the lesser aud larger waves on the seushore, rolling iu without in termission, and fitfully rising and falling.” Whitman was uot a doubter nor a caviler where the bible and relinion aro concerned, Hu believed tirmly iu the immortality of the soul, though be did not pretend to under- stand the profouna mystery of death, When in Pailadelphia on the occasion of the recent great celovration i his honor he met his friend and eulogist, Colonel Ingersoll. “Good-bye, Wall, 1 hope you may live wmany years yor,"” said the colonel, “You might have wished me sometbing betier than that,” said Mr., Wnitman, sadly. His own verse furnishes miny sweet aud s00thing words on \be pariiog hour. tlis “Whispers of Heavenly Death” comprise a chapter of poems. Tu.re ara many passages of devout belief, shora of creeds, in his writin Var posms are among the fiuost of bis Lerowe versoe. “Lbhe Wound-Dresser’’ 1s a faithful history of hisown work smong the soldiers, And be it recorded to bis Louor Compreiended all nortnera and iu bis ministrations of mercy aud +slighted none,” Tu the summer and wutumn months before of his vleasures was to drive out 10 " aud superintend the ou of o vault, which is 1o bo bis last rsting place 5 iles from the Pailagelphia ferries aud casy of access by road or rail lays Har leigh o metary, beautifully situated on ong son, patriot and statesman, Charles Stawart Parnell, and recounts his brilliant achiove- ments and the great sacrifices and heroio- doeds of a life devoted to his country, It alsp includes the life and public services of tho ereat emancipator Daniel O'Connell, and an outline of important events in Ivish his. tory, the latter being from the ready pen of Thomas Clarke Luby. Thero are lhkewise oxcellent portraits and biographical skotches of the most notable characters engaged in the strugglo for Irish solf-government, togother with a graphio account of the incl of the few ploturesque spots aroucd Camden. The main road to Haddonfleld is directly past its gates and the firdt impression on entering these is of a splendidly appointed park, Iaid out on a landscape lawn principle. Beautiful oval lawns of soft volvety grass, shafts, col- umns and monuments of granite and marbie 1n perfect uniformity are scattered avout, horo and there are lovely beds of flowers artistically arrangod with exquisito taste, while in the valley lies a boautiful lake fod from the hill, in which tas beon erected the vault of the ““Good Gray Poot.” It s hero among a plantation of beech and | dents botween 1548 and 1875, magnolia trees, at tho head of the lake, that Fow can form any adequate idea of the Walt Whitman selected the spot for his last | stupendous amount of work necessary to tho resting place. The vault is built into the | production of such a large volumo as the one hill on the west side of, the ¢rounds and is | under notice. composod of enormous bouiders of granite. The history of the Irish people is naturally The stone door itself, although hune on mas- | an intensely interesting one and 1ts perusal sive brass hinges, requires tho united effort [ is as fascinating as would be that of any of throe strong men to closo its portals, The | romance. It has apparently been the aim of 1wo front stones, standing there like immo- | tho writer to bo thoroughly impartial ln the vable sontries, are vory imposing. A solid | treatment of the subject and the alt is a place is lmd across theso on the top and a | a volume which can be read with both profiv heavy handsome triangular stoue is placed [ ana pleasure wheraverthe English language agnin on these, with the simple inseription, | 18 understood. As tho author romarks in his “Walt Whitmar carved oul of this solid | proface: “In the writing of this work my cap stone. The wholo structure, in its retir- | sole ondeavor has been to eive a truthfut ing unostentatious situation, {8 in entire | narrative of the life and patriotio services of keeping with the man to whose memory it | Ireland’s last great leader, without projudice stauds as a hiving remembrance. or without entecing nto the versonal and controversial matters whioh have occupiea tho attention of the Irish raco during the past ton months. 1o order to accomplish this purpose I have quoted more ofton from M r Parnell’s enomies rathor than from friendly writiugs." Witliout any great pretonsions to & high standard of literary excellenco this enter- taining work may truthfuily bo describoed a a valuablo addition to tho literature of, America. Puolished by Gay Brothers & Co. 84 Iteade street, New York SELECTIONS FROM WHITMAN, THE PIONEERS, Come, my tan-facod children, Follow well in order: got vou Have you y s, have edized woapons roady you your sharp LT P St xos, Plon 5! O, ploneers! Have tho elder races huited? Do they droop and end their lesson, wearled Over there beyond the seas? We tike up the tisk oternal. and the burden ana the lesson, Ploneer “The Golden Idol” by M. C. Walsh, is a tale of adventures in Australia and New Zealand and is full of oxeiting scenes and tragic evonts. It has, however, a well sus- tained plot and the various sharactors which avpear in it are vortrayed with artistio skill. 1t 18 well worth reading and onoo started is not liable to be laid down until tinished. Published by Donohue, Henneberry & Co., 107-425 Dearborn stroet, Chicago. €, Ploncors! WAR RONG. Sons of the mother of All, you shall orious, hall yot laugh toscorn the attacks of all nder of the varth, lotida perfumos shall tenderly yot be The musical hero of the day is Ignace Pad- erewski, to whom in the March Contury are dovotea a portrait, a critical study, a bio- graphical sketeh, and a poom, tho last by R. W. Gilder. The eritical study terms him ‘‘an inspired and phenomenal artist,” and finds wafted b Tho dependes Tlio coutinuance of equality shall be ) rty shall be lover m- o5 shall tio you and band you stronzer 1 hoops of iron, ), pariners: O, land, with the love s tie you! . . . . that his ability to hold an audience of tho Plag of stars; thick sprinklod buntin highest culture and to interest one of loss in- Long yet your road, fateful fiag, lon tellivence and taste 1s of the rarest kind. Bi- Yot your road, and lined with bloody death! ographically considered, 1t appears that he is of au old Polish family, having been born irty-two years ago in Podolin. His tastes and ability were pronounced in early life, so that at ‘sixteen young Paderowski mado tour through Russia. During thisjournoy he played his own compositions and those of othier people: but, as he naively confessed, they were all bis' own, no mattor what ho played, for ho did not know the music, and as ne had httle technich and could not manage the hard places, he improvised to fill up tho gaps. There was ono concerto by Hensolt of which he could play the first and themes, but neither the extensions n sages, But ho played it audionces and got peoplo to listen to it. It must have been a_protty sight. The boy, with his bright hair and delicate mobile face, sensitive and sby, but trustful in his power to win and _charm, gathered about him the audience, often poor and rough, submitting unawares to the old spell of genius—the ®enius of the singer—the very same type of musician that the Greeks understood so well, and gathered up in all its lovely detail into the myth of Orpheus. The journoy was of great value. The voung artist learned to watoh bis audiences and to play to them, just as he does today. Ho tested his powers and his bright boy’s eyes noticed every detaii of costume, adventure, nauonai holiday or aance. He stored away among his artistic material the characteristic intonations of every dialect and the melody of every folk- song he met. Married at 19, a widower at 20, with hoped crushed out of him, Paderowski threw -his whole life passionately into music. He went to Kiel in Berlin and stud- ied composition. Kiel was a wonderful teacher of counterpoint. ‘You will soon “hear” very differently,’ he used to say to his new pupils, as ho taught them to braid the strands of polyphony. The one composer who carried 1nto modern life the musical feeliug of the preceding century, his own style was simple, unaffected and noble. Pad erewski declares Bach thoe ‘poet of musi- cuaus.’ But it was inovitable that bo whoso ardent spirit belongs to our own age, should reject for his own _compositiou the tradition of a past epoch. Paderewski's pure, trans- parent and well balanced fague playing is probably the best result ot Kiel's influence. IResolving to becomo & virtuoso, he sought Leschetitzky in 1586, and set to work with his accustomed onerey. With Paderewski practice and study pever ceaso, Beforo overy concert he is accustomed to shut him- solf up and to practice all night, going care- fully over his wholo, programme. No point of phrasing, technic or execution escapes him, When all is securely thought and worked out, the artist is ready for his hear- ors. Tho next day he goes to the piano-mas- torof his materiul, and freo from concern about notes or moechanical means, plays with perfect abandon out of his inner feelings. 'his, his own statement, is borne out by his oxprossivo face whon playing, The spirit that speaks through Paderewski’s music is o spintof ight.” A popuiar offier For the prize I'sco at Issue is the world! POETIC IN Did you nsi dulcet rhy, Did you find thut what [ to follow and understand? inzerewhilo for you to fol- Nor am 1 now. poet as 17 There- NDENCE, 05 from me? erewhile so hard Why, I was not si low and under: What to su fore leavo my works And vo Jull yourself with what you can un- derstand, For I lull nobody—and you will never under- stand me. RS you. sue A PAREWELL. Thanks in old nge—thanks ere I 2o, For health, the midday sun, the impalpable air—for life, mere life, . g X For beings, groups, love, deeds, words, books-= for ¢olors. form, For all the brave, strong men—devoted, hardy men—who've torwurd sprang in freedom’s help, all rs, all lands, For braver, stronger, more devoted men—(a special laurel ere I go to life's war's chosen onos, The cannoneers of song and thought—the great artilierymen—tho foremost leaders, captains of the soul.) As *Oxldlr from an ended war return'd—as traveler out of myriads, to the long pro- cession retrospective, ok Thanks—joyful thunks?—a soldier's traveler's thanks. NEW BOOKS . ND PERIODICAL S It may not be gencrally known, but never- theless it is o fact that Goldthwaite's Geo- graphical Magazine is one of the mostin- structive and entertainicg perlodicals issued from the American press. 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