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The Quaker Reign Of Gram.

r The friends OF the Standard Oil COM
pany, the wildcat spectators Of Wall
street and the apologists for corrupt
political and business methods in mod
! ern life have endeavored to break the
force of Mr.. Lawson's exposures of
high finance at the present time, on
the grounds that he has been part of
the same System" which he now so
vigorously aSSailS. But no such charge
can be made against the great civic
leader, Rudolph Blankenburg, whose
high standing in social and public life
gives special force to mis- bold and
mastery exposure of the reign of graft
and corruption in Pennsylvania, now
being made in "The Arena" These
papers give a vivid and compelling
story of the rise and onward march of
corruption and political debauchery I'M
der the CameronQuay machine and
aided by the powerful corporations
which have through the Vaccinations
OF INSCRIPTIONS politicians ruled Penn
sylvania as absolutely as an autocrat
rules his realm. The February Arena
contains the second paper of this not
able series. 1t is devoted chiefly to
the career of the late Matthew Stanley
Quay and deals with the sprouting and
spreading of corruption in the Key
stone state. 1t contains ten portraits
of leading statesmen and politicians
of the period described.
Another paper in the February
Arena" of special interest to Ameri-
cas- millions is the amazing exposure
of the Armour Refrigerator Car Trust
conspiracy. Many facts dealt with in
this contribution are so astounding as
to be almost incredible; yet the most
amazing of these confessions and revel-
atoms are those recently brought out
under oath at the investigation con-
Quoted by the interstate commerce
commission. The evidence thus adj
duced is further emphasized and Illus
trated by the testimony of other prom
inent citizens and by the citation of
special cases, making the whole expos
ure one of the most appalling disclose
ures of oppression and moral turpi-
tude that has yet been brought to the
attention Of the American people.
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1905-02-16
Not Too Much Cotton

L
Editor Independent: Oh! what pros
porous times we farmers are going to
have, now that the people are spend
ing a few million dollars in the west
to increase the production of cotton
and few million dollars in the south
to decrease the cotton production, and
with few million dollars tied up in
retired cotton and with cotton and cot
ton goods practically cornered by the
cotton exchange-the Wall street man
ipulators-and with hundreds and
thousands of laborers out of work, out
of bread to eat, out of clothes to wear,
out OF bedding to sleep on, out of
spirits, out of courage, with all neces-
stiles of life cornered, with a few more
fools to cry over-production we are
going to have prosperous times. We
are going to decrease our acreage of
cotton and thereby give the specula-
tors such little handful of cotton to
export, and speculate on at home, that
they will put up the price little. Then
we are going to increase the acreage of
corn, ETC., and give the spectators
such big handful that they will de-
crease the price of the same fully
equivalent to the increase in the price
OF cotton, and then We will cry under
production of cotton and history will
repeat itself.
Just word now about over-pro-
duction. There is no over-production
OF cotton, and never Was and never
will be. There is no reproduction
of any necessity of life and don't fear,
boys, for there never will be. But let
me tell you what we have got an over
production OF, viz, of railroad lobby
list, Of beef trust lobbyist, of cotton ex-
change lobbyist, Of Standard Oil lobby
list, of steel trust lobbyist, or hired
politicians, and of hundred and one
other illegal corporations and COM
bines. This, boys, is what drives down
the prices of your products, but real
production never does. Give us
real government of equal rights to
all and special privileges to none
Take the yoke Of oppression off OF
the real people and you will see what
we can consume. Each individual
would not consume as much per an
mum as Mrs. Aston and others of her
stripe and | think she and her stripe
would soon decrease their consump-
ton, but, boys, wouldn't we increase
our consumption tremendously?
Talk about twelve million bales of
cotton being an production for
eighty million people? Regardless of
exporting any cotton whatever, it i
would take, at least, fifty million bales
of cotton to supply the homes of the
United States with the necessary
smount of cotton goods to make the
home comfortable and tidy, in the way
of holdings, hangings, coverings, etc.
1t would take another forty million
bales to furnish the necessary amount
of wearing apparel for the eighty mil
lion people. These amounts are re-
sardless of the amount it would take
to furnish the necessary roping, sack
ing, etc., that the people would buy
If they were able to afford them; re-
CARELESS Of the eighty . one hundred |
million bales it would take to put the |
homes and people of the United States
In immediate good shape SO far as |
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1905-02-16
shown from the comptroller's abb
stracts, at the following dates, viz:

SHOWN from the comptroller aD-
stracts, at the following dates, viz:
September 20, 1898. 80. 1874 1884,, 210 GA
February 4, 1899. ....... .123, 796,173 Is
September Z, 1899. ...... .154, 514,6 91 GA
February IL, 1900. 1873 ,813, ut SO
September 5, 1900. .176, 731 ,918 O8
February 5, 1901. .180, 818, 1893 81
September 80, 1901. .216, 763, 488 "a
February rs, 1902. ...222, 49,, 652 70
September Is, 1902. 253 ,515, 055 81
February 6, 1903. ....... .225, 716,444 "a
september 8, 1903. 227, 780,147 OF
March %, 1904. ....... 1884, 982, 1871 go
The casual reader should not con-
fuse reserve deposits by national
banks with their business deposits in
the same institution; reserve deposits
can not be used for ordinary business
purposes The amount-"Due from ap-
proved reserve agents." in central re-
serve cities, March %, 1904, to 200
banks in "other reserve cities" was
1888, 209, 720 68--or business balances of
$62,595, 121.31, in excess of $120,614,-
599.37, their reserve deposits as above
shown.
Reserves of lawful money should
have been kept intact by every bank
for the only justifiable purpose Of law
in compelling money to be withheld
as reserves from public use-protection
OF depositors.
Better no compulsory reserves what
ever than their wrongful distribution
and use, and disbursement at favored
localities.
And is it not grave constitutional
question whether money denied by ma
tional law to general public use, for
bank reserves, can be permitted by law
to be afterwards supplied in great vol
ume for use at few localities only?
What is it but creation thereby of
fostering parent of trusts and false
capitalizations, and a basic cause for
unjust distribution of wealth?
The permissions or uses made of
them have converted the plain demand
of the law that banks shall at all
times have on hand" their reserves,
lin lawful money of the United
States" to it's very opposite, and have
made the entire national banking sys-
tenn tender for money supply to
three central reserve cities, and espe-
cially to Wall street and the New York
stock exchange.
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Perhaps the most noteworthy appli-
cation of the principle of Direct Legis-
lation in California during the last
election was in the city of Oakland.
This city is the county seat of Alameda
county, one of the wealthiest counties
in the state. 1t has population of
about $4,000. 1t has long suffered from
an insufficient and An impure water
supply, furnished by private corpora
ton. The present mayor grasped the
New-York tribune., 1905-02-19
The hook ODeDS

,,vsyoprnent of this romance. The book opens
= beautiful Campanian scene in which one
rqsEius AniciuS MaXimus is exhibited as brood
,,e over the loss of power which he shares with
,,he- Roman Senator's. and awaiting with
,,,orlv resignation the death which he knows
4-orn the state OF his health. he must soon have
"a face His sister, Petronilla. spinster de-
o,ted 10 the Church is with him. and by his
sje also is his nephew Basil, the hero of the
-ouance The dying head of the Anician house
rss Ions denied himself to his daughter Au-
-sfa she having married a Goth and adopted
,is Arianism As the end draws near. how
srer his love for her revives, and they are re-
,a1ciled before he breathes his last Then the
drama steadily quickens in interest. Petronilla
ard Aurelia confront one another across the
b,sy Of MaXinus and declare their mutual en-
nifty. Basil. under ordinary circumstances,
would have remained fairly Indifferent TO the
5uzrrel but he has fallen in love with Veran-
1da a Gothic princess, who is the companion of
aurelia, and his actions are determined accord
l1gly Petronilla is intimate with powerful
snd unscrupulous churchman, the deacon Lean
5sr and early in the narrative the evil influence
n their collaboration makes itself felt Au-
New-York tribune., 1905-02-19

Ts-a and her protege are kidnapped, and Basil
Is started upon a search for Veranilda which
leads him into one exciting situation after an
other. Plainly, Gissing has an absorbing story
10 tell in this book, one which the reader is
bound to follow with breathless attention But
We are here concerned not so much with the
Story as with the authors way Of telling it.
He telIs il with an oId-fashioned dignity and
deliberati0n with a kind of quiet fervor that
lends 2 glow to his pages. yet never threatens
the iutegritv Of that atmosphere Of stateliness
which We associate with ancient Rome. He had
50 absorbed himself in the spirit of antiquity
ehat when he came to write his book he found
himself as much at ease in realizing the life OF
the past as though it were the life of the pres
ent So restrained so artistic in his style, that
une is not Immediately conscious Of the richness
Of his local color" There is nothing here of
The faulboyant scene painting which has done
50 much TO discredit the modern novel of old
Rome But there is, instead, breadth Of style
Il the handling of his pictures in their main
relations as there is a delicacy of touch in his
Treatment Of the details, by which, as the story
moves on the imagination is taken completely
captive. Many phases of Roman civilization
are studied In '@Veranilda-" We taken into
city and country dwellings; We mingle with
mobiles and peasants. soldiers and priests; we are
made 70 realize their political, religious, and
literary ways Of thought, and we catch giimpses
Of the superstition which endured so far INTO the
Christian era The appearance of Rome under
the governorship Of Bessas is put vividly before
Us, and the Italian landscape is painted with
equal skill Through all the authors wonder
fully convincing scenes there move not only the
main figures in his drama, but historic person
ages Ike Totila and Benedict and they, too, are
portrayed with the authority of a master. To
that authority we yield the most cordial homage,
but We must pay tribute also TO the indefinable
spirit the charm of feeling and individuality,
which runs through these pages. Gissing put
al that was most engaging in his genius into
"Veranilda"; he made it not only a mastery
but q loYable book.
New-York tribune., 1905-02-19

Nine. Jeanne Marni, Nine. Arvede Barine, Nine.
Thomas Benton, Nine Catulle Mendes, the
poet Of symbolism; Nine Pierre de Coulevain,
author of Eve Victorieuse," "Noblesse Ameri-
caine' and Sur La Branche": Nine Judith
Gautier, Nine. Lucie-Felix Faur6- Goyau,
highly distinguished woman of letters and
daughter of the late President of the French
Republic; Nine. Alphonse Daudet and Nine.
Severine This jury assembled under the presi-
dency of the Countess Matthew de Noailles,
Rumanian by birth, whose poems hold place
in the front rank of the poetic output of the last
four years in France. Like Nine. Marcelle Tin
ayre, the countess her first substantial sue
cess in literature in 1903, when she wrote her
"Nouvelles Esp&rances." Such is the constitu-
tion of the female areopagus to which $50
didates for literary honors submitted their work.
After two months deiberation the jury ac-
corded the prize of 5000 francs and a golden
laurel wreath to Nine. Myriam Harry. Strange
to say, the verdict of these eminent women
unanimous The gifted laureate is young and
attractive. Her life has been full of stirring
episodes that of the heroine of of Nine.
Lesueur's novels. 1t has been passed on three
continents. She born in Jerusalem; her
father was a Russian explorer of Polish descent,
and her mother the daughter of German
missionary Her maternal grandmother was
English. She was brought up by Arab nurse,
with Bedouns gazelles and hyenas for playfel-
lows She received instruction from equally
picturesque variety of sources; German pastor
taught her Latin, a Jewish rabbi astronomy,
an escaped Arab nun from Beyrouth gave her
French lessons. At nine years she had read
Schopenhauer, Dante and Goethe; at thirteen
she was familiar with Hegel, Shelley and Mil
ton and had even celebrated a temporarily
broken heart by writing novelette, which was
published by a Leipsic newspaper. She had
wandered with her father through Samaria,
Arabia, Egypt and Corfu. drinking in the beauty
and the mystery of the East and readily assiIn-
Hating all it's superstitions. In her fourteenth
year she lost her father by a sudden and tragic
event. and her mother took the child to her old
home in South Germany. Fer the next three
years the untaned daughter Of the East, thus
suddenly transferred to the most conventional
New-York tribune., 1905-02-19
M4D4ME H4RRY.
The Lazy Laureate Of Paris IN
Her Home.

Paris, February Z.
Feminisme,' the expressive but unacademic
French term for intellectual. literary and
ustc feminiTity-"cerebral squawdom," sug-
gested by a Partisan woman hater-is rapidly
gaining power and vitality, and every year it
assumes more practical shape. The French
Academy of Women has become accom-
plished fact. The first laureate is Nine. Myriam
Harry. author of La Conquete de Jerusalem"
who has just received the prize of 81 900 for
the best original book of the year" The jury
that awarded the prize composed of Nine.
Daniel Lesueur, who has written large num-
Der of novels of psychological observation; Nine.
Marcelle Tinayre, whose novel, La Maison de
P9che,' a literary success in 1903; Nine
j. Dieulafoy, the female arch9ologist and eX-
plorer, who, by special enactment of the French
Parliament, is authorized to wear masculine at
tire, and whose relics of Assyrian temples fill
two rooms in the Louvre; Nine Juliette Adam,
New-York tribune., 1905-02-19

of surroundings, studied and suffered in Ber-
lin boarding school. Her unusual accomplish
ments won for her the reputation of youth
full prodigy and she exhibited with pride
when the school was visited by persons of dis
tinction. One such visitor was the late Empress
Frederick, who addressed some questions on the
condition of Christianity in Jerusalem to the
little Arab, and expressed surprise at the ma
turty and fearlessness of her replies-and the
fairness of her complexion.
Freed at last from the restraints of the school
ROOM Nine. Harry made her way to Paris, and
after publishing two novels in German has
abandoned that language, devoting herself to
study of the tongue of Chateaubriand, Michelet
and Iamartine With occasional flights to the
New-York tribune., 1905-02-19
New York-G. p. Putnam's SOns-London

Far East-China, Japan, Tonquin, India, Bur-
nah. AMMAN and Ceylon-she now makes her
home and headquarters in this city. Nine.
Harrys husband is accomplished sculptor.
who makes speciality of statuettes of animals,
somewhat in the style of Barge. They occupy
cosey little fiat near the Lycee' Sally.
The writer called this morning on the Partisan
lady laureate to congratulate her. The walls OF
her study covered with books. On the man
tel a portrait of Anatole France, and beside
it photograph of Maxim Gorky. with a letter
from the Russian novelist describing the present
liberal movement against autocracy. In few
moments the laureate entered the room. She
was becomingly and comfortably attired In
loose fitting silver-gray corduroy velvet gown
New-York tribune., 1905-02-19

The big slang dictionary. "Slang and Its
AnologUes," has just been issued In an abridged
Engie volume edition
New-York tribune., 1905-02-19
mr. Stanley Weymans Nezu
THE ABBESS OF VLAYE
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4 ROMANCE
By STANLEY J. WEYMAN

Hannibal
Frontsp Crown 8vo,
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other Books.

Bright and amusing though it Is. Mr..
George Tisdale Bromey's volume Of recol-
lections The Long Ago and the Later On
CA NJ. Robertson, San Francisco), Is ex-
tremey provoking. Here we have a young
gentleman OF 81 Of the most variegated ex-
periences, a good fellow through all Of
them, and with a remarkably vivid memory,
who starts to toll the story Of his life. He
begins charningy with the Norwich Of
1880; we look for a delightful picture OF
the bygone New England life. when he
sw itches of suddenly to a whaler and the
African coast. Hardly have we become
reoonciled to the change when the scene
shifts and we find ourselves in the California
OF the Pioneers. Here. too, we catch only
gimpses Of the authors varied experiences
till be lands in the Bohemian Club and his
later vocation Of a welcome afterdinner
speaker. or this and his oonsulship in
China the account Is satisfactory, but we
cannot forgive Mr.. Bromley fer the con-
densation of the q st fifty years Of his life.
He is much more interesting than the many
distinguished guests Of the Bohemians.
The book fairly beams with geniality, and
liquor flows on every page as generously
as in the Piokwick Papers. 1t will not be
approved by the W. c. T. U.
An extremely useful and comprehensive
work has been written by Mr. Thomas Gold
Fro st In A Treatise on the Incorporation
and Organization Of Corporations (Little,
Brown & Coz Tho law on this important
subject has been thoroughly digested and is
presented in 50 clear and methodical a man.
ner as to be Understood even by laymen.
It is put briefly and compactly. Next fol-
lows an elaborate 'synopsis-digest' OF tho
statutes Of the several States and Terri
tories; then comes an extensive collection
Of forms and precedents. Apart from its
importance to lawyers it must be found very
useful in many business offices.
The most interesting part Of Mr.. Edgar
NJ. Coadits Two Years in Three Continents
tFleming II .RevellCompany) is the four pages
Of autobiography with which he introduces
himself. If he must write, he has a good
book at the end Of his pen in tho story OF his
life as q country bog. followed perhaps by
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PUBLICATIONS.

day-long exhouations. Il may be that
this scholarly account OF preaching will
prove more attractive thar the sermons
themselves.
There Ia too much IN La Gran Quibira, =
by Clara A. Corbyn. published by the author
at Los Angeles, CAL, for ordinary In
tellects 20 grasp. There ia musical
strain and a philosophic-mystio strain
min led with romance. which seems
to be partly photographed, and with the
story OF the hunt for the lost Seven Cities
OF Ciboly, ono Of which the author states
lies under ground belonging to her in New
Mexico. There Is no doubt about the
authors earnestness
History may be written In various ways,
and like most pioneers Mr Royden Page
Whitcomb in writing the First History Of
Bayonne, n. j. Os- p Whitoomb, Bayonne,
n. Jo. has chosen the form Of annals, a
species Of historical writing in which &C
olracy predonlinates over interest The
immediate incentive seems 10 be the APP
preaching 2soth celebration Of the first
settlement at Constable Hook. Mr.. Whit
comb has put together great deal OF
valuable material, and his account OF the
early settlements Is interesting and careful.
When he reaches modern times, particularly
after Bayonne acquires It's ma me and cor
porate existence, he follows official records
perhaps too closely for general readers.
He has. at any rate, put together material
that will be Indispensable to later historians
Of the metropolis Of the Kill Won kull. We
cannot have too many Of these conscientious
local histories