Associations, benefit of, 69 German, debt to, 452 good due to, 340 Athens, Ga., postmaster of, 515 Atlanta, Ga., surveyorship of, 515 “Constitution,” 518 Atlantic Ocean, 338, 372, 393 interests in, our, 97 line, coast, 393 Attorney-General, United States, 279, 281, 283, 331, 612, 623, 660, 662 report of the, 660 Auditor, United States, report of, 675 Augusta, Me., 124 Aycock, Charles B., Governor, 27 Aylesworth, A. B., 666 B Babylon, 113, 151, 170 Baltimore, Maryland, 449 mingling of races in, 450 saved to the Union, 451 Turn Verein, 451 Bangor, Maine, 126 Banking Law, National, 554 Banks, circulation and the, 617 servants of commerce, 617 Savings, as corporations, 174 deposits in, 608 Barstow, California, 372 Battleships, crews for new, 583 need of more, 581 use for good, 582 Bayard, Thomas F., Secretary, 705 Beaupré, Arthur M., Consul, 699, 747 Beef Trust, injunction against, 282-283 investigation of, 283 Beirut, Syria, troubles at, 673 Belgium, 668, 669 Berkeley, California, 404 Betterment, progressive, 466 Blaine, James G., Secretary, 124, 622 Blake, Homer C., Admiral, 579 Blumenberg, General, 451 Board of Trade, National, 225 Body, strength in the, 30, 393 Bogota, American Minister at, 715 718 Colombian gunboat, 730 government, the, 721 insurrection at (1853), 700 Bookbinders, Brotherhood of, 519 Boston, Massachusetts, 108, 401 United States ship, 727 Boundaries, National, 676 Boxer uprising in China, 10, 601-602 Boynton, General, 165 Brakes, locomotive, law on, 310 Bravery expected, not praised, 463 Breckinridge, General, 39, 505 Bremerton, Washington, 420 Brest, France, cable from, 626 Bribery, corruption and, 662-664 enormity of, 663 extradition for, 662 popular government and, 663 treaties touching, 662 Briesen, Arthur von, 657 British Ambassador, the, 261 Empire, sympathy in the, 605 steamships, 656 Brooklyn, Borough of, N. Y., 29 Brotherhood, example of, an, 486 civil and military, 14 feeling of, decline in, 101 human, cause of, 449 international, 50 lesson of, 357 military and civil, 14 right of, the, 491 rule of, indispensable, 548 Brotherhood of Bookbinders, 519 “Brother Jonathan,” a descendant of, 37 Buchanan, James, President, 2 Buffalo, New York, 597 Bull Run, battle of, 141 Burden-bearing, blessing of, need of, 498 Burleigh, Edwin C., Governor, 124 Burr, Aaron, 6