THE SCRANTON TRIBUNE-TUESDAY, JULY 21, 1900. t(5e cranfon $ri6um Published IMIly, r.xeepl Sunilay, by The Trlli mo 1'ubllshltig Company, at I'ifty Cents a Month. I.IVV H. IMC IIAIll), K-lltor. U. 1". llV.lli:i;, liiisltiess MuniiRcr. New York Office I 1M Nassau M. S. S. V1UT.I. N, Solo .VRcnt fV 1'orrlftn Atlt rlinlnB. Entered at the l'ostolflco nt Peranton, Second-Class Mall Matter. Pa., as When space wilt permit, The Tribune is ah" fla! to print fhort letters from Its friends bear UK en current topics, hut iti rule Is that these mist he slerncel, lor publication, b) the writer's cal name; and the rntiillllnn pneeilent to ac irptanco Is that all contributions shall he subject :o editorial revision. SClt ANTON, JUIA 21, 1000. BEPUBLICAN NOMINATIONS. National. .Vrsldrnt-Wli.i.t.Wt McKISl.KY. nce-rreIJcnt-Tlli:OI)OIH: M0K r.W. State, Conerrssmrn-at-l.'iw OAI.rMI.V A. 011OW, JlUHKltr 11.' lOKUIH'.HDlt. County. rnncress-IVIM.IAM COSNi:i,T.. IuiIki ni'.omii; m. waimiv. Sheriff IOIIN II n:i.i.ovs. Iira.iinr .1. . SCHWIOW t'ntrlct Attorncv Ull.t.l.Wt 11. I.l'.WlS. I'r..the,mt.nv -JOHN" COl'IX.WD. .'lirk nf Cnurts-IIIOMvS 1. Dv.NIl.I.S. fmcoHler of Dceiis-l'.MlI. 110VN. IliBtstir of Wills W. K. HI.CK. Jurv (.onimlssloncr-l.DWAUD U. STL'ltGr.9. Legislative. First District TilOVIAS ,1. HKVNOUTs. Second District .IHIIV "W lir.tT.II, .111. lhlnl Distilet-I.DvvAHD .1 WII'.S, J1U fourth -District-!1. A. PIIlI.lil.N. The traveling public will heartily en dorse the remarks of Judge ,rchbald In lefcrenee to the Abington turn pike. Its Interest In the matter Is to have the road put and kept in lit con dition for use. Whether this shall bo done primarily by Mr. 1'aino's men or Street Commissioner Thomas' mon or both, Is of minor consequence, pro vided it is done, dono promptly nnd done well. Under the law if the city doesn't repair that part of the turn pike within the city limits the turn pike company may and must, charg ing the cost to the city. A thorough faro so important as this one is must not lapso into disrepair. Good Roads nnd the Trolley. ANKW ULAN to secure a com plete bystem of good roads in Pennsylvania, starting from the county seats and radiating in various directions, has been formulated by Arthur Kirk, a Ulttsbmg enthusiast upon the subject, the particular meilt of which, as set forth In Mr. Kltk's paper, the Im prover, is that It will not impose a life tenure of taxation upon tho land own eis of tho state. As drafted for presentation to the next legislature, Mr. Kirk's bill Is ex ceedingly voluminous, comprising 4ft sections. It provides for tho state office of chief engineer of highways, salary $3,000 a year, the occupant to be supremo over all details in his depart ment, and to name a chief highway engineer In every county, salary $300 a month. A council of three engineers, salary $2,000 a year apiece, Is to bo named by the state chief engineer, to help him in deciding on plans and to examine applicants for the county chieftainship. Tho county chief in turn is to appoint for each township a township engineer, salary $200 a month, nnd thes-e vaiious ollicers, after n certain date, are to take charge of alt the public highways within the com mouwcalth outside of tho boroughs and cities. Xo now load is to have more than 3 per cent, grade nor bo less than 40 feet wide. It must have in all 21 inches of stono, suitably rolled, layer upon layer, and suitably drained. Kvery county Isj to have at least four radial roads 60 feet wide, connecting with similar roads from the adjoining counties, all beginning nt the county seat, Piesent road taxes nre to be reduced one-halt and paid into a bank In each county, subject to tho state engineer's draft, this money to bo applied to old and new loads, except radial roads, and to lepalrs. For tho iatll.il roads the county commissioners, upon the stnte engineer's estimate, are to issue four per cent, bonds, payable in thirty years, tho proceeds to be paid out by the state engineer for the building of the loads upon voucheis signed by the county engineer. Taxes to pay these bonds nre to be levied by the county commissioners. All woik to be done by low bid after public advertisement and to be subject to specifications. Mile stones, guide boards and toadslde fruit und shade trees aie provided for. On radial loads thus built and on the basis of their cost, twenty year lease of franchise to operate double track trolley lines for freight und pas sengers Is to bo sold at public aue ton after duo advertisement to the highest responsible bidder whoso bid for .the 20 year lental shall exceed the totdl cost of road construction. This 1 i flic distinctive feajjre of the Kirk billon ml is expected nV 'u author to piqduce sufficient revenue to carry most if not all the expense of the hole system. He takes it foi grantel that there would bo a brltjk coinnell fori over those roadways. Ill iew of t'iclr connecting county seat with co in ty Heat, and he nyj.: "I in not nxar, geri.tlon, but perfectly within the line o Reason, to believe that traction com panies could, and will In numerous In stances pay double the original cost of tho roadway for the franchise. They would be enabled to get their cars running with far less outlay or money, and In less time, than If they adopted nn Independent line for their cars, They would have a roadbed pre pared for laying the rails, and string ing tho wires and In a few weeks could have cars running. On tho other hand, take any of the suburban roads for example and witness the costly bridges, the heavy tills, and cuts they we're placed under the expense of be fore they could operate a car, the cost oTy'hlch runs Into hundreds of thous ands of dollars, nnd It Is readily seen, thai to pay one hundred thousand dol lars total would be a largo saving thus It can be understood why a good road from one county seat to another, will be a source of brisk competition to secure It and bring bidders who would pay a liberal premium over cost of construction for the trolley rights." This argument Is reasonable In ret- creuce to populous nnd fertile coun ties where the rtirnl Inhabitants nte amply able to sustain first class coun try roads, with or without th? trollm accessory; ami a point to bo noted In this connection Is that such counties ns a rule nro already plentifully sup plied with trolley companies, rendering doubtful tin.1 organization or new ones. Its weakness Is in lefcrenee to the sparsely nettled and hilly counties, where good roads nre needed the most but where the Htral Inhabitants nro least able to afford them. The Kitk plan makes no provision for those In equalities. It alo lodges in the hands of the proposed chief engineer nt llnr rlslitirg a degree of authority calcu lated tinder existing conditions to set a liberal temptation before the so-called "spoilsmen." Its main Ideas, however, are undeniably sound and the next legislature could profitably take It as the basis for actual progress toward better roads. One thing it certain. The United States will do Its best o protect its ctltzens nnd Its Interests in China, with foreign help If possible, but with out it if necessary. The bickerings of the powers annoy but should not deter the government at Washington from performing Its whole duty to the ut most limit of Its ability. On this point public opinion Is unanimous. The Bear by the Tail. CCOIIDINO TO outgivings from Washington, the Inde pendence to be extended to Cuba in tho near future is likely to have a number of strings at tached to It. It Is asserted, not, how ever, on definite authority, that tho government at Washington Is contem plating the reservation of sufficient autboiity to (1) edit Cuba's foreign re lations; (2) prevent Cuba from declar ing war without our consent; (3) veto increase of the Cuban debt above n fixed limit; (4) control Cuban flscil affairs chiefly with a view to seeming honest accounting; and (",) retain con trol of Cuban fortifications. There Is no doubt that all of these leading strings would be very helpful to tho experiment of a fiee Cuba, and would, as a matter of fact, present the only probability of that experiment terminating successfully. Hut there nroJ very great difficulties in tho way of enfoiclng these reservations of author ity. Here, Is the language of the reso lution of congress under which we are in Cuba: Itcsolvcd. That the people of tho Islmel of Cuba are, anil of rluht onjjlit to he, free ami inch penitent. That (he United Statis heieby disclaims any disposition or iuttntion to exor else sovereignty, jurisdiction or control over paid island, cxicpt for the pacification thereof; and asserts its determination, when that Is accomplice d, to lcio the kov eminent and lontiol of the Isl mil to its people. Frankly, wo do not see any means of escape from tho Cuban dilemma but to let go at a certain time, absolutely, coupling our retliement with a declar ation of Intention to protect to tho uttermost every American Interest In the island or connected with it In con sequence of the Monroe doctrine. Then let them light it out until necessity or evolution or both shall, as it must and soon will, cause them to Invito our re-asssumptlon of control. If It were not for tho foreign interests in Cuba, this solution would bo the Ideal one. European representatives at Tien Tsln act as though they would inther have every white resident of IVkln murdered than to admit that a mlstnkt had been mado at tho beginning of hostilities. That Porto Rican Tariff. MMEDIATntVY ment of the tat lit law for after the enact llftcen per cent. Poito Itico, when wns being made as a matter of a gieat ado by tho Democrats politics, and by some Republicans un tile r a misconception of the actual facts, over this Innglnnry betrayal of national faith, tho New York Sun despatched to Porto Klco a trusted representative to limlto a thorough study of the conditions on that is land and to report what he found. Two days ngo appeared tho first In stalment of his leport, n most read able article several columns long. It tteated of a number nf topics very pertinent to his mission, but we shall now consider the tiuifi! question only, that theme of violent denunciation on the part of Colonel Ur.van's platform. Tlie first thing the Sun reporter found In Porto Kleo was that there neer was tiny honest opposition to the Imposition of 15 per cent, of the Dlngley tariff rales n imports Into the island or on tmpo s of the Island's pioducts Into tho Unlr 1 States. Men of prominence representing every shade of Intelligent native opinion ns sured him of this and ho soon dis covered the reason why. Two-thlids of the revenue of tho Island como from duties on Imports. As It re quires nil of the revenues of tho Island to pay the i mining expenses. If there weie no tnilff tho money now raised by tho tariff would have to bo raised by internal taxes. Tho burden not be ing scientifically distributed would have been felt tenfold. A tariff was absolutely necessary to raise money to pay the public expenses of the is land until such time ns a scientific sys tem ot 'ntcnml taxation could bo de vised to take the place of the system In vogue- under Spanish rule, which included a tax on everything that was eaten, eveiy thing that wns drunk, a tax on every Industry, tnxes an ex ports, a tax on skill, a tax on educa tion and even a tnx on b.-alns. Tho now tnilff In Porto lileo went Into operation on May 1. Under Its provisions the duty on all Imports from countries other than tho United States Is the snmo ns tho duty on like lm poits here. On all Imports froml the United Stntos tho duty is 15 per cent, of the Dlngley tariff rntcs. On all ar ticles entering the United States from Torto Hlco the rulo Is the same. The money collected In Potto Itlco, ex clusive of tho actual cost of collec tion, goes Into tho treasury for the benefit of the Island, and tho money collected hero on Imports from Porto Itlco, not oven deducting the cost ot collection, is sent to Porto Itlco and is used for the benefit of the Island, So Porto Hlco gets not only the tariff A. tax that her own people pay, but she gets also the tariff tnx that the Ameri can people pay on her productions. Hut further than this, many articles taxed under the Dlngley law are abso lutely exempt In Porto Itlco. Theso ate nrtlcles nf universal use, nrtlcles of food chiefly, such as Hour, codfish, rice, beans and salted meats. Arti cles needed by the Porto Ulcans In their business, such ns agricultural Implements, nro nlso free. Such In brief is the much abused and much denounced Porto lllcnn tar iff bill. This bill is operntlng, accord ing to the merchants nnd nccordlng to the officials, w Ith n minimum of hardship. The only complaints that are made about the tnrlff generally re late to the Imposition of n duty on two nrtlcles of food. One Is rice nnd th other Is codfish. Hlce that Is grown in the United States is admitted fiee, but the complaint Is made that theie Is not enough rice grown in the United States to supply the Island. There Is a duty of two cents a pound on lice im ported from countries other than the United States, and the Porto Itlcans say that because tho United States do not produce sufficient rice for then consumption that duty should be re moved so that they could save this two cents a pound. Codfish Imported from the United States Is also free, but the Porto Itlcans havo been used to get ting the larger part of their supply of codfish from tho Canadians. The American codfish Is better than the Canadian codfish for the'United States, but the Porto Itlcans think that the Canadian codfish is better for them be cause it is cured differently. Tho Canadian codfish Is kiln-cured while the American Is sun-cured. The kiln cured fish lasts In the tropical climate much longer than the sun-cured. The Porto Itlcans think that in the matter of codfish they should bo permitted to get what they are used to having without paying any duty on It. In the Sun reporter's trip over the Island, the only complaint he heard from nny source whntever about the tariff was In regard to these two things, nnd every man to whom the question was put regarding tho necessity of tho tar iff answered In effect thus: "Why, yes, of course we had to have the tariff. How could we have paid ex penses if there hadn't been a tariff? Wo expected to have to ray 25 per cent. Instead of 15. It couldn't possi bly be nny lower." "While the duty on Imports Into the Island has been reduced to the point where only enough Is Imposed to raise tho money necessary to conduct the affairs of tho Island, the duty on ex ports of all kinds has," the Sun article continues, "boon abolished. The threu great products of Porto Hlco have al ways been coffee, sugar and tobaeo and on theso products the government of Spain always Imposed an export tax. Every quintal of coffee, that Is, every 100 pounds, exported from tho country had to pay an export tax of $1.50. The coffee production of the Island made up six-tenths of the total production. Every 100 pounds of tobacco had to pay a duty of $1 if It was exported. If manufactured Into cigarettes it had to pay $1.12 a thousand and if manu factured into cigars it had to pay $1.CS a thousand. Wood wns another export of the Island and that had to pay a duty of 13 cents for each 100 kilo grammes. The United States have al ways been the great market for the products of Porto Itlco. Now, ns an Instance of what tho tariff bill has done for Porto Itlco, sugar may be cited. Hefore tho tariff bill went Into effect the best profit the sugar plant ers could get was In the neighborhood of $3 a ton. The S5 per cent, reduction enables them now to make a profit of something like $37 a ton. Tho Import ance of this will bo understood when it is explained that the sugar land dis trict of Porto Hlco runs almost from end to end on each side of the island nnd extends Inland more than five miles. Tho Island, roughly speaking, Is 109 miles long and 50 miles wide. Under tho new tariff coffee Is admitted to the United States fiee and there Is no ex- port duty either. When these facts are considered It will be readily understood why the people of Porto Hlco are laughing at the Idea of Democrats making political capital out of Porto Itican affairs at this time." Citizens of Pike county contemplate offering n bounty for rattlesnake skins in order, If possible, to rid the locality of the dangerous leptlle. Hut for the presence of rattlesnakes In numbers al most beyond computation by the snake story correspondent, Pike county would be tho most delightful summer resort In tho land. At piesent, however, the place Is shunned by timid people whj can find little pleasure In contemplat ing the beauties of nature and keeping an eye open for snakes at the same time. Tho rattlesnake bounty will cot talnly be of more vnlue to the com munities of like than rewards offered for the scalps of wild animals and when the hunters get down to business we may expect some snake stories from Shohola nnd Mllford that will break all records. Winnie Wakefield, of Maine, has spoken to no one but his mother In 28 years, and only a few words In that Instunce. It Is possible that Winnie mny become a 1G to 1 orator this fall In order to make up for lost time. Hon. Ohauncey Ulack states that Mr. Wanumaker and Mr. Quay both fuvor his ideas of a constitutional convention for ballot reform. Where experts agree laymen have little excuse for differing. A few days at furthest ought to de cide whether Wu Ting Fang or the yel low newspapers can furnish the most reliable war news. THE ROOT OF AXL EVIL. I!. S. Martin, In Harper's Weekly. It sometimes trims as if, in the abundance of crganlred opposition In this country to such de tails of iniquity as Intemperance and cigarette smoking, there was a rather dcfcctlte abhorrencs of the root of all nil, which, tho Scripturrs maintain, Is the n cf money. There are no soi lilies or organizations to wean folks from the hue of money. Even the churches don't do It; at least not ery definitely. And yet if we were better philosophers, or een better Christians, we might find reasons for thinking that it was a more dangirous propensity, and one more omin ous to the welfare of our country, than any other tbat could be nair SIR ROBERT This brilliant English director of the Chinese imperial maritime customs, to which post he was appointed in :88;, was offered the assistance of Prince Clung and other miluentiu! mandarins, but refused to abandon his countrymtn in Pekln, and is reported massacred. Some Imperialism Uery N?ar to Home From the Hochcter l'ost-l'.xpress. i T WAS Ilenjamin It. Tlllnnn, popularly known as Pitchfork Tillman, the senior senator from South Caiolina, who lead the platform to the national Dtmoiratlc con vention at Kansas 1'ity and moved its adoption. The platform declares imperialism to be the "paramount issue" and Tillman i$ so de lighted with tills particular resolution that he read it three times to the comention. Subse quently he has denned imperialism as "i;oorn mint without consent and without rcpieienta. lion." lie is opposed to It. And jet, aicept inE Tillman's definition, the fact is that the wort c.unplo of impcrlaliMii before the Ameri can people todsy i not in tha Philippines but in Senator Tillman h own slate of south Caro lina! And for the condition of affairs there tills blatant demagogue, more than any other man, is personally and directly responsible. Wc hae prepired the following Hble showing, first, the total sote; second, the lhmocratle ote; third, the Itepubllcan ote, and, fourth, the party mi jority in each of the last si presidential elec tions In South Carolina: Total. Pern. Hep. MsJ. IS78 183,021 91,510 0J,O5l fill ltep ISM) 170.3S3 112,312 SS.OTI 111,211 Hem 1SS1 1,57S CU.815 21,7.13 43,112 I)ein 1SSS 70,501 Cj,b2j 13,73(1 fij.iwj Dem 1W2 OS.037 11.1S02 13,3" 41,317 Dem 1SWJ 63,079 G'vOS 0,2sl 17,517 1km South Carolina is one of the three Mates in the American Union in which the colored people outnumber the whites, tho others being Louisi ana and Mississippi. In IS1) tliero were 227,00,) more negroes than whites In South Carolina, in the dajs of reconstruction tho negroes oted, secured control cf the go eminent, and under tho leadership of dishonest whites, showed an Incapacity to gocin wisely. In tluir ignoranee, their inevpcrlcnc'', their innocence, tho negroes made deplorable mistakes. The wliltes, instead of trying to do something for the education and uplifting of tho negroes, instead of pointing out the errors that the negroes had made, resole, d to rob the negro of the ballot and by force and fraud substitute the rule of the minority for the rule of the majority. A reign of terror was Inaugurated;, midnight raiders committed un speiliable outrages upon negm oters und their families; thousands of negioes were frightened from appearing at the polling places; of those that did appear to Insist upon ixcriislng the rights granted by the constitutions of their country and their state, many were drieen away by armed men; some of the lemainder had the courage to sote, but it was useless, for white mon did the counting. This went on for seural years, until by force and baud the whites obtained control, and then, to make their control permanent, they put into the con stitution an educational test for the voters, leuting Democratic election judges to detei mlno whether or not the citlren was intelligent enough to esercise the right of sufTiagcl Na turally the negro was barred because be was a llrpuhbcan, while his white neighbor, though he might be unable to read or write, and to defi cient in understanding as to be virtually an idiot, was admitted to the fianelrsr iiecause he was a Democrat. The icsult is seen fn the stcadv decua-so in the lie publican ote f(om 02,0si In 1S70 to !,25l in WC. o Tillman, one e.f the rankest demagogues In tho United States today and one of tho most dangerous men in public life, not only took an active part in the robbery and dlfianchismont of the negro, but hn actually hid the audac ity to brag of his crimes, even going to far ae to insert In the Congressic.nil Hecord of the lu-t congress the franK liut iniamous speeeii wmen he delivered In the ciinstltulinn.il convention ot South Carolina five jcars ago. In this s-pmh Tillman confesses to fraud and eiults in its til- uniph. "How did we recover our Illicit .'" h asked, and answered the qui f Hon by saving, "Ily fraud and violence," adding, "V tried to over come tho 30,0i0 majority by honest methods, which was a mathematical impossibility, lfow did we bring It about? Hvery white man sunlr his personal feelings and ambitions. Ihe whilu people of the state, illustrating our glorious motto, 'Heady with their lives and fortunes,' came together as one. Ily fraud and violence, if jou please, we threw- It off. In lf78 he had tt resort to more fraud and v. lolence, and si again in 15S0 " In the constitutional eonien tinn it was propoc-cd by some of the more de cent Democrats to put in a property qualifica tion, so that no man could vote unless he owned property valued at $-100, but Tillman oppo-cl the plan because it would disfranchise 30,000 whltis; he demanded the educational tesl, and said. "Some lave said there is a fraud in this under standing clause. Some poisons In small doses are very salutary and valuable medicines. If jou put it in here that a man mnjt understand, and jou vest the right to judge whether he under, stands In an ollleer, it Is a constitutional nit. That officer is responsible to his con(hnee and his fiod he is responsible to nobody else. There is nn partlile of fraud or Illegality in it. IT IS JUST bIMIi.Y SHOWING I'AItTIAI.lTY, I'EIUIAPS, OR DlSCRIMISATIXn." o Tho census shows that in 1W) there were 233,. GOfl persons in South Carolina of voting age, hut the total vote cast in 1S10 was onlv fi.(l7(i. The election returns show that the Republican vote has practlcilly been wiped out in South Carolina by force and fraud and Tillman glories In that fact, while he denounces "imperialism.' Is there not government In South Carolina without consent; is there not taxation there without representation! Are not thousands of voters di.franchlsed by fraud? Are not provi sions of the 1'edcral constitution virtually over riden? Ie not crime triumphant? And et Senator Tillman, the instigator of crimes against the franchise, the pareg.vrlst of fraud, has tho amailng audacity to stand up before the Ameri can people to denounce "Imperialism" and weep for Aguinaldo and the savages of Luzon I Was anything like It ever seen before? o Mcanwlillo South Carolina that cast C3.O70 votes in tho last presidential election, has ns many senators and representatives in the con gress of the United States as California, that cast 278, 0111; as many as Kansas, that east 33.1,131, and as many as Minnesota, that cast 311,081, . !,.! . I! .. . Ill I LITETtAUY NOTES. Two books are announceel for early publlev Hon by the Ilaker & Taj lor Co. which ought to bo widely welcomed, One, .by Dr. Jo.lali Strong, author of "Our Country," Is entitled "Kxpanslon Under New World Conditions" and Is to be a thorough summary of tho reasons be. hind this great movement. Tho other, by V. M, Collier, civil service commissioner in New HART, BART. York state, is called "Trmts: What Can We Do Willi 'Mini' What f .in Tiny In Willi Is " Tins is announced as "a ear ful discussion of the economic and polltirnl quisilniH smin"lng cut of tlie great tiut problem, ch liing v. Ith the Industrial benefits and evils ol tmsts, and alo the necessary icstrictlons and liinitnuons that must be put upon them. Mr. Colliei liov in what way lirge industrial crganiitlui.s ,nc liccrssaiy fcr the piepcT niromplls'iin nt of the gigantic business undertakings of Hu d.iv, n pre Lilly in developing and extending our for eign trade and in securin; market i fcr our surplus prduels, and he also considers tlie ex tent to which tiny linit competition and nie monopolies. He di-cus-os the inline and scipo of legislative powers over frusta, Hie evil of evcr-capitilkation, the effect of trusts ,v n vvage-c amirs end farmers, and the proper nine dies for the evils of trust I 'lN e sen .at phase of tlie question Is considered In a ch.-nter entiibd 'Tin- Man and (he Dul'jr,' witli spei i il Kfir emeto William J. Ilrj.m's fimous sprei li nt Hie Chicago trust conference. The lelitioni of 'he tarilf nnd of territorial expansion to the ttu-ts ari t'.haustivily eonsidctcd." T). Appleton .t ro, announce fir early publi cation Mr. 11. Honch's romance of Hie plains, "lhe Girl at the? Hiltvvay House," which his hem called an American epic by critics who have read the manuscript. A dramatic pie lure of a battle In the civil war, which has been compared to scenes In "The Red Hailgo of Coinage," opens the story. After tills "Hiv of War" there conies "The Day of the llmlalo." Tlie reader follows the course of tlie hero and bis friend, a picturesque old army vetiran, to the frontier then found on the western plains. The third part of tlie story is cilleel 'The Dry of the llittle" and the fourth part ot tho sloiy "The Day of the Plow " While this story is a novel with a live motive it Is perhaps must striking as .1 rcmance of the plcturcsipie and dramatic da.vs of ciriy western life'. It shows tlie movement westward and tlie free play cf primitive forics in the opening of a new coun try. Nothing it is said has been wilttcn on the opening of (he west to excel this romance In epic qinlltv and its historic interrst ae well as its freshness, vividness and absorbing Intcicit shouht appeal tei ev.ry mirionn rcaeler. llndcl. Mead k Co. will publish this fall the latest book of Mule Corelll, entltleel "The Mas. ter ( hrlslian." This is consielercd by Mis CorclH to hi her most important novel, which was begun some thice vears ago alter ilnWilng her short sbry called "lane." The mar.v admirers of Hi" wilting of Paul Leicester I'ord will be delighted to learn that in tho early fall a new woik from his pen will rp I ear firm tlie press of Dodd, Mcael & 1j. It is to be called "Wanted A Matelim iker." The Ilookman announces for next vear a scrips of lllustiatod articles dialing with the great newspapers of Hie United States, their history, their ownership, how they are made and who the more prominent makcis are. MASSACRES FAMOUS TORY. IN HIS- I'rom the Chicago Tlmes-Ilerahl. SSI II. C. Two tlmusaml inlnbilants of Tjre crucified nnd s.uiO bun hen-el by the sol diers of Alexander the (.re.it. C. Celts kill Nun) Roman toldieis at Auranslo, on the Rhone. C. slaughter of Teutons near Al, in which 2011.010 haili.ul.ins were slain. 103 It. n. 102 7(. A. I). Destruction of Jirusalriu. Above 1,- lUO.lsW .Itws put to lhe swcul by Horn in army. 115 A. D.Siveral thousand Orecks ami Romans murdered by Jews under Andrae, leader of resolution. 11E3 A. D. Massacre at Acre of 1 OW Moham med ins by order of King Richard I., in the iruadcs. A. D. Maughtcr of tho Inhabitants of Aleppo by the Mongols. A. 1). "Sicilian Vespers," About 8,00.1 Trench killed in Sicily. A. I). St. llartholomew's Day. Massacre of lOO.OeiO men, women and children Huguenots in 1'iaiie. A. D. Turks slaughter G3.00J ( hristians in Cioatla. A. D. Settlers in Java slaushtcr 12,000 Chinese at Hatavia. A. D. "'e popery" riots. Mob led by Lorel ffi'iuge (iordon killed 4j0 Human Catholics In London A. D. Chinse murder 21,000 Christians l'C0 1M 1572 1592 1710 17S0 15S1 at Kuang-Tl, In Annim. In Cochin Chilli thu tame .vear 22.OU0 native Chris, tians were mivcacicd. IS0J A. D. Tuiks kill between 3,0u0 and 5,000 Armenians In ma Minor. 1000 A. 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