Show of humanly he or she punished the bad and rewarded the good showed that every cloud had a silver lining and took very good care that optimism it not truth should prevail the conditions are now changed there has been a reaction the optimistic view has given way to the pessimistic si and what Is worse the pessimistic 19 accepted as the only attitude possible to an honest observer some hundreds of people are regarding life with an eye shut and the other fixed immutably on the aberrations of man themselves realists and satirists and psychologists and many other loud names they arc producing stories that zola might have written had he been bom purblind devoid of daring and mentally feeble some fiction poured out by tho publishers during the summer s cason now ended can be compared in its unlikeness to sane experience to nothing but an arabian nights entertainment choin 1 of imagination and composed of wanderings in slimy by paths paltry good strives to push paltry evil into the this fiction deals mostly with what is cantli as smart society find it necessary to situate their heroines in houses where the furniture is impeccable that Is the word mostly in use where no employment can be found except talking scandal and getting into mischief where neither fathers nor mothers are true to the ideal ot married life where a dollars is of no more consequence than a hayseed where few callers are admitted unless they can give evidence of unlimited means and in this world of tho novelists imagination the phot for every adventure is so called love love of ahe kind which one gathers from a wide experience of these stor acs enters largely into the existence of every man and even child born to rejoice and oa the earth supposing tho novels of this summer should by some extraordinary chanca survive to be revived and reread by archaeological charts in the year A D tho notion of our descendants would get of the year 1903 A D would be that it saw tho fabric of american society come to aita teof rottenness and corruption and a whole people living in a sort of night bestiality supposing fate so to misrepresent us tho faraway far away archaeologists would experience peri ence great difficulty in reconciling the life of the period as displayed in its novels to the life of the period as manifested in its history they will wonder how a nation which could engage itself to such an extent in morbid problems could possibly find time to rule the waves to found new colonies to wield a high influence over other nations and in brief to do what britain Is doing today returning from that fantastic glance into the future to the books under consideration we arc enabled to realize how meagre is their art compared to the breadth of the national life not only our natural conceit of ourselves but positive evidences tell us that we live in a great age in an age of development of changing conditions of progress of high ideals and substantial achievements there Is as much romance in the world as ever it might be argued with much show of reason that there is mote and the younger novelists ever were lead by contemporary readers we say nothing of the intelligence of the reading which does not come into the question these younger novelists are throwing away their opportunities of being influential 1 for good by fixing their eyes upon one dark corner of the social system the corner where dust most gathers and where the spiders weave their webs this Is not reason it Is not even intellectual tel honesty it la distorted vision in he autumn publishing season which is just beginning we may sec a return to something approaching sanity of outlook meanwhile the only consolation Is that tho dustman dustmen do not build very strongly their paper houlos from the dust dust before they havo been leased to literature such art does comparative ly little harm because it is short lived the pity of it Is tho egregious waste of opportunity it be tokens when contemporary life Is so long and broad and deep there is oue relief though to this dark picture during tho past reason some ot tho novels published iu aimer sea have been really good not only in contrast to their sinning contemporaries but when judged by standards which more approach the absolute i to their own interests or alms thear readiness in the use of violent and re methods illustrates not merely alic character recklessness but a talent for conspiracy and a love of lighting for its own sake it Is of course manifest destiny that cuba first or last Is tb become american territory and there Is serious danger that the timo will come too soon as an immediate as well as a of the responsibility which we assumed in making war on spain in order to put an end to the cruelties cruel ties and to cure tho blight of the old legame the danger if cuba shall como lo 10 us in a period approximately close at hand is that it will bo in tho character of a slate in spite of its incapacity for statehood and of tho unregulated political character of its population tho hope is that the day of cuban annexation will be postponed until such timo as american ideas with the growth of american interests n the island shall havo had time to work a real revolution to have prepared the people in somo measure at least for the duties and responsibilities of self government better still until we shall have developed in connection with borlo rico and the philippines a bat is factory working system under which cuba with these territories may be held under a political subordination which nevertheless shall not be inconsistent with the fundamental principles of american government and therefore not damaging either to the american people themselves or to thoad n dependency depend enco upon their political leadership and direction no greater political misfortune we think could come to tho american nation at this time than annexation of cuba upon conditions giving it equal rank with the several states of tho union and with a proportionate sharo in tho general government and yet this Is almost inevitable it the question of annexation should i now come up there would in the conflict of political parties surely arise a movement for its independent state hood which it would be difficult or am to resist the real hope I 1 therefore is that the present status unsatisfactory as it is may continue until tho growth within the island of american interests the development of popular education and the passing away of old leaders shall have cleared the ground tor a more orderly and sta ble political organization than is possible at this time from the fields which contain the desired microorganisms micro organisms cow peas need not be inoculated because the cow pea bacteria are usually either present in the soil or are introduced with the seed in sufficient numbers cow peas grown on infected soil on the university of illinois experiment field contained however amt times as much nitrogen as the same kind ot cow peas grown oo 00 similar land which was not infected As a rule soy bean fields should ba inoculated when first seeded to soy beans further investigations conclusively prove that infected sweet cloar fields can bo used tor inoculating almalta fields with the same results as are obtained with the infected soil from an old alfalfa field electric stations have been divided into two grand classes first those operated by individuals or corporations and second those operated under municipal control each of these classes is subdivided into first those doing a purely electric business and second those operated in connection with other industries tho latter are designated corn post to stations further subdivisions have been made one being based upon the population of the place in tho station is located and the other upon the horsepower horse power capacity of the generating apparatus of the station tho growth ol 01 this industry is shown by tho following figures from 8 stations beginning operation in 1881 the number rose to in 1886 to in 1889 and to in 1892 during the following years of depression the number of new stations tell but in 1895 though a time of financial stringency it again rose to in 1898 it reached or more than the number beginning operation in the entire period from 1881 to inclusive clu sive the number for 1901 was and for five months of 1902 it was in the twenty years from 1881 to 1901 inclusive an average of private and municipal stations have begun operation each year the spread of the agitation tor municipal ownership of public service enterprises is illustrated in a somewhat striking manner of the municipal stations enumerated only 68 had been installed up to 1889 in that year 40 were introduced and in 1895 tho number of new stations reached 73 increasing in 1898 to 82 the returns tor 1902 indicate that the ratio was fully maintained in the census year in 1902 thero were in the united states central electric stations with a cost of construction and equipment of employed were salaried officials and clerks with salaries amounting to and wage earners with wages amounting to the gross income was comprising for sale of current and from other sources total expenses were the total output of stations tor the year in kilowatt hours was the number of arc lamps was and at incandescent lamps |