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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-11-19

Copyright, 1902, by r. G. Mcclure.
If there had not been wedding at 326
Granville avenue, there might not have
been one exactly two months later at 1926.
just across the way.
The wedding had been the finest that
the pretty southern town had seen for
many day. Now that it was over there
was a small brigade of caterers and flo
rists' assistants scurrying about packing
up cut glass and candelabra and showing
camp chairs and portable palms into pro-
sale carts. Alice Dorothy, lattening her
little nose against the window pane in the
house opposite in her eagerness to see the
very last Of it, sighed regretfully.
Last night, for a brief, blissful moment,
mama had held her up to kiss the bride
in all her glory Of veil and flowers and
shimmering satin. Then she had been
hurried home with Hepzy.
: And this morning there was nothing left
of it all but a few wilted chrysanthemums
scattered on the walk and a trail
Of rice across the lawn. The beautiful
dream had vanished; but, oh, how she
longed to have a wedding Of her very own!
Mama had gone out, but perhaps Hepzy
would talk to her about it again.
Hepzy, the good-natured, was in the
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-11-19

TINE, Too7'
upper room making beds. Alice Dorothy
sped upstairs as fast as her dininutive
legs would carry her.
''Oh, Hepzy," she burst out, her bright
face rosy with running and ardent inter-
est, won't mama let us have a wedding
some time too?'
Dress yo' heart, honey, dar couldn't
be no weddin' 'thout bride nohow.''
But, Hepzy. mama could be that.
She's more prettier'n Miss Edit
Hepzy's fat sides began to heave as she
patted pillow into its proper rotundity,
her black palm sllhouetted against its
snowy, beruffled covering. Il don't reck
on, chile, yo' maw's much notion O marry
in ag'in, SEEM she's he'd one cTar' scape.'
whats a crarscape, Hepzy?"
'Lawd Dress de chile! 1t amt nothin'
dat consuns one Twin soul but hu'self,
honey. An howsumever dar amt nevah
bin no weddin' 'thout a bridegroom,
shuah's yo' bawn, liz gal"
"A bwidegoom?'
"Yaas, chile; suttin' shuah-de pusson
wot stan mex de bride an hol hui bokay
while she am a-fas men of hui Club
Alice Dorothy was, silent for a brief in
slant in the face of this unlooked-for OBJ
stacle: Then. with thoughtful quicker
on the little forehead, ''P'raps we could
get one, Hepzy.'
Nov yo is offn de trac', III gal. Oar
amt no gittin' bout it, He JUS come
an come hissef It'll by an by he leabe
off a-comin' an ticks de bride off t. his
own resdumps.''
"Oh.' explained the perplexed little
auestioner, with dimpling smile of iiu-
mira ton, mister Donar comes nearly
every day. P'raps he would be tn bwide-
goom."
'Fo' heaben's sake. chile, wot am de
mattah wifi yo' sawsh dat yo' nav done
tie so scrumptious fore she done gone
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-11-19
manifest Destiny" at Work.

The purchase by an American syndicate
Of 100000 acres of land in Ontario, part
of it directly north of Minnesota, adds
still another phase to the development
of Canada. It is one more step in the
great work Of fastening American owner
ship, American ideas and American popu-
lation on Canada. The development of
the Canadian west, so largely already in
American hands, turned the right flank
Of the Dominion. The movement on On
tario is cutting that flank off from east
ern Canada. Some of the mossback Can
adams are already growing and express
ing their fears of Americanization. Others
laugh at the possibility. But it is not
possible to stop the work without stopping
the development Of the Canadian west.
Canadian capitall and Canadian people
are not taking possession of the Canadian
west, and the talk about British popula-
ton will come to naught. For twenty
years the Canadian west lay ready for the
Canadian or British settler and Canadian
or British capital, but they did not come.
And they will not come. Eastern Canada
has not the population, and British money,
when it crosses the Atlantic, still comes
to the United Statse, as do also British
immigrants. The growth of population in
English speaking eastern Canada is very
slow, and considerable part of the young
people still come to. the United States
rather than to the Canadian west That
Canadian immigration. to the United
States has not stopped is shown by the
fact $1,5OO,OO0 worth Of settlers effects
we're exported last year from Canada to
the United States. Swarming French
Canada sends it's surplus thousands, not
to the west, but to the eastern part of
the United States. The Canadian immi-
grants are absorbed in the great crucible
of American population and lost to Can
ada. On the other hand the American
thousands are marching into an almost
unoccupied country. Instead Of plunging
into a seething mass of population in
which they will disappear, they are the
mass themselves and will tend to absorb
the people they settle among. -.
OF the 5000 new settlers the Canadian
5000 were American, and for the whole
season half were Americans, and that
numerical half represents 4 much larger
proportion of the Intelligence and energy
of the new corners. Despite all the efforts
of Canadians and British to encourage
British and other European immigration,
despite the hundreds of thousands of NOV
ing Americans that will continue to find
new homes in the American west and
south, it Is safe to predict that from this
time on much more than half the new
population Of western Canada will be
! American.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-11-19

of an ancient civilization, an ingredient
Of semi savagery.
JAPANESE GIRLS AND WOMEN. BY Alice
Mabel Bacon. Boston, Houghton, Muffin &
Co. Minneapolis: n. Mccarthy. Price, 81.
Illustrated
This is an enlarged and revised edition
of the work published several years ago on
this subject by the author, who has added
much matter relating to Japan of the
present day, and the illustrations greatly
enhance the value Of the work as they are
chiefly by Keishu Takenouchi. leading
artist of Japan. His work shows the vast
difference between the Japanese and
Chinese conception of the canons of true
art, the Chinaman never having any true
idea Of perspective Mrs. Bacon has lived
in japanese homes and is competent to
write of the social life of that wonderfully
progressive people. She begins with Jap
anese childhood and babyhood and takes
the reader through all the phases Of Jap
anese life. customs and progress Thus
we have the Jap woman's life. from the
mothers arms to old age i'll all classes OF
society, urban and rual. AS to domestic
service the Jap housewife does not seem
to have the trouble American women have.
The servants work with the mistress: are
helpful and are treated as responsible
members OF the household. the mistress
whether princess or peasant. doing house
work like head servant. The closing
chapter enbodies a valuable account of the
last ten years of Japans progress.
DOCTOR BRYsoE. By F. Fl. Spearman. New
York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Minneapolis:
\. Mccarthy: Price. s1,5o.
This is medical novel we'll written and
full of sturdily good sentiments tale
not for doctors alone. although they can
get good points out of it. DR.. Bryson.
professor in a Chicago medical school, re-
stores to a little girl the use of her eyes
injured by Fourth of July gunpowder
Then he falls In love with the child's
mother, who is lovely but married to a
brute. ;. Bryson counsels divorce. but she
objects on the ground that she had no
right upder Gods law to marry him
While her husband lived. The difficulty
was removed by the sudden death of the
husband, but meantime, Mrs. Eliot loses
her sight and Bryson tries to restore it and
marries her, but gives her no release. The
clearing away of this cloud, related,
furnishes a deep study for ophthalmolo-
gists. The story of the love of Dr. Bryson
and Mrs Eliot is a masterpiece of pa
thetic writing.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-11-19

The president did not get bear yes
terday and the writer, who went down to
St. Paul late in the afternoon on book
hunting trip, was also disappointed. moth
ing Of value having appeared In the old
book stores of the capital city since the
last inspection. There is a number Of
book hunters in the two cities and the
ranks are added to by travelling sales
men and literary actors who do a little
photographed work on the side to while
away the idle hours. The picking Is
pretty poor now but in the latter part of
the eighties, when he first started in,
Eddie Brooks informs me that he used
to haul down an armful of first editions
at nearly every trip with prices marked
from 10 cents to so cents. Those were
exciting days.
If competition continues to grow as In
the past few years, there will have to be
a close season for photographers, say from
May to September.
Among the prizes found by the writer
within the last ten years In this city
and St. Paul have been autographed books
of Edwin Arnold. Franklin Pierce, James
Freeman Clark. the first editions of The
Scarlet Letter. and Twice Iold Iales
and much smaller game.
An interesting story is told in the Lon
don papers this month Of a find made
bv a London collector. IT was copy OF
George Meredith's Shaving Of Shagpat.
which Frederic Locker-Lampson, the
verse writer, possessed, and which bears
some doggerel lines II, Mr., Lockers auto
graph. The book had formerly belonged
to oscar Wilde, whose name Is on the
fyieaf, and who had jagged the edges III
the careless cutting, OF them. Ihereon
Mr.. f,ocker-Lampson wrote in his small,
neat handwriting:
Who is this Wilde-ts graceless cuss.
Whe- mutilates Merediths pages thus!
Who over his barber tales can't linger. -.
Who cleaves it's leaves with his fat 'forefnger?
would, o Wilde, had the luck been mine, ,
TO stick knife in that fist Of thine.
Wouldn't that have been a glorious
"fnd?1 -. 49,.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-11-19

Banks. by a rich American, who learned
how the lady had hired out as
housemaid in London; tried the Vo-
cation Of a flower girl and swept
London street crossings and lived on So
a week. Miss Banks did all this for the
fun of the thing and to have some new eX-
periences The rich American, evidently
wanting wife who could live at the low
est minimum Of expense thought she
would snap at his proposal. but she amused
herself by printing his letters in her book.
Is that a violation of confidence? Not at
all. The man took his own risk like any
adventurer. Miss Banks was under: no
obligation to keep. the letters from tast-
ing type. She knew she could thus en-
nance the attractions Of her book.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-11-19
The Nonpareil Man
Casually Observed,

Casually Observed,
This autopsy that so many people are
having now seems to be quite fatal
disease. .r.,. ,,:. - =.
Aesop AIDES books are, being sold in
London. They are source Of deep study
there, only two living Englishn1en hav-
ing solved their curves. 49,: -
. The Mississippi hunters find the presi-
dent quite affable. There is no need of a
man being glum and sore just because
he is president.
Hall Game is said. to be suffering from
dyspepsia. Having read two of Halls
earlier books, we do not wonder at 1T.
A Chicago actress swallowed her watch
while asleep. We fear that the lady who
sings in the fiat under us will swallow
the music rack some day when taking
high H. -: has:. $780,,
A person in the East who did not call in
the regular doctors has just died and
they are making a fuss about it.. We
knew a person once who did call in the
regular doctors and he died, too.
1t is up to the Leon1ds to fail to give
their free show again. h~'*''
$50 = r. J. Il =
II the president, wants to tighten up his
message a little, d few sketchy notes on
the bear hunt thrown in among the tariff
ideas would be very acceptable.
Our old friend Lady Colebrook is taking
an active part in inner political circles,
according to the cable dispatches from
London, and is now regarded as the idea
ex machina'' of. Lord Fosebery's section of
the liberal party, as Opposed to Sir Henry
Campbell Bannermanis faction Lady
Colebrook is altogether a charming per-
son and she could easily affect our vote
on almost anything ecept on the free
silver question. On that our opinions are
settled.
A Chinese laundry pictured by the Chi
cago news is run BY Wun Punk Lung.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-11-19

, It would cause no comment in France
or Germany for long separated friends to
embrace each other, but when Generals
Chaffee and Wheaton embraced in Chi
cago last night it was really an extra
ordinary event. The two good soldiers
simply gave way to an affectionate i'm
pulse that often exists between American
men, but the manifestation Of which is
almost always vigorously suppressed.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-11-19

About half of Minneapolis would be at
the Michigan Minnesota game if they
could only be sure that Van Valkenburg
and Thorpe would crash through the
Michigan line the way they did through
Wisconsin. s-...< 49,
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49, ~ 49, go
but not an over
whelming one, of
suchepistolary liter
allure, not spurious,
but genuine.
The London cor
respondent Of the
Critic says that our
enterprising Amer
lean girl, Miss Eliz-
abeth Banks in her
book, THE Auto
biography Of a
Newspaper Girl
embodies a batch
Of real love letters
written to Miss
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-11-19

The New York Sun bemoans the pres
ence of the speaker who reads his speech
The moan is justified. Generally the man
WHO reads speech might just as well cut
out the reading and distribute printed
copies of his remarks. -:
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-11-19
THE WORLDS STANDARD
Buffalo Exnress

: One effect of the low record price which
silver has made in the last few days has
been the appointment of a committee by
Mr. Chamberlain to report on the wisdom
OF establishing a gold standard in the
Straits Settlements and the neighboring
Malay states. 1t would seem that Mexico
would soon be driven to the gold stand
: ~.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-11-19

Mrs James, cooking expert, has been
employed by the state board Of control to
visit the state institutions and improve
the bills of fare When some of the uni,
versity students hear this they will wish
the board of control had jurisdiction over
the university and the appertaining board
ing houses.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-11-19

rRetribution has overtaken the@New York
anthracite coal retailers who undertook
to gouge the public during the strike. The
coal companies are now setting up their
own retail offices, and the greedy dealers
are recalling an ancient fable concerning
executing the goose that lays the golden
eggs .t
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-11-19
FINANCES OF THE WEST.
Rncfoy, [IJoro1 Ia

The CHEEKY secretary of agriculture
brings back word from the bounteous
west that all the farmers out there have
got more money than they know
what to do with Perhaps they might be
induced to loan some of it to Wall
street. They are furnishing for it there.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-11-19
Haven't Been Around.

----"|---- INEW IOFK OOIIl1Il4TC1dI.
Colorado prohibitionists who denounce
in burning language General Funston be-
cause of his advocacy of the army can
teen have never visited the buzzard's dens
that thrive around our military posts since
the canteens have been abolished.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-11-19

The St. Vincent New Era, which has
fought with all it's might and main for
the poor, wn-trodden. long, suffering,
uch-abused Mr.. j. J. Hill, says: ITO
say that we are surprised by the e-elec-
ton Of Governor Van SAINT is to state the
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-11-19

The last performance of "The Penitent"
will be given at the Metropolitan tonight
at s:15.
Tomorrow night E. Fl. Sothern will
begin an engagement of three nights and
Saturday matinee at the Metropolitan,
presenting Justin Huntly McCarthys four
act romantic play, IF I Were King"
Whatever Mr.. Sothern does. he does WE'LL
but in the role of the poet Villon he is
said quite to surpass himself. During the
Sothern engagement the curtain will rise
at in the evening and at 2:15 for the
matinee. ;
The title roles in 1.-THE Liberty Bellies
are played by Katie Rooney, daughter Of
the famous comedian Of two decades ago.
Pat Rooney, who is one Of the cleverest
singing and dancing comedians on the
American stag. and Violet Dale. who pos
sesses wide reputation as an interpreter
Of comedy roles and as a mimic
Reuben Fax, the leading comedian in
the support of J. H. Stoddard in "The Bon
ME Brier Bush at the Metropolitan next
week, will be we'll remembered by. local
theatergoers who saw his interesting
SVengali in "Trilby' several seasons ago.
In "'rhe Bonnie Brier Bush he appears
as ,bbulous but entirely philosophical ]
the New York Tribune declares that this
is a.. classic creation. by long odds the
best thing Mr. Fax has ever done The
engagement begins with the matinee on
Thanksgiving day.
The William IT. West Big Minstrel
Jubilee. will entertain the patrons of the
Bijou Thanksgiving week, and in addition
to the regular matinees, a special holiday
matinee will be given on THANKSGIVING
day at p. NJ, with what is claimed to be
one of the most brilliant performances In
the minstrel line ever conceived by MI.
West. The. company includes many per-
formers and vocalists of distinction on the
minstrel stage, and will present what Is
promised as an Entertainment full of
| novelty and merit
'On the Suwanee River" with it's well
told story is attracting large audiences
at the Bijou this week. p.
The first matinee performance Of "a
Texas Steer" was given at the Lyceum
yesterday to one Of the largest Tuesday
| audiences of the season. "a Texas Steer
has broken all records at this theater.
Starting Sunday evening the Ferris COM
pany will be seen in a play which has en-
joyed eight seasons of success, yet has
never been as far west as Minneapolis,
"Coon Hollow" by name.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-11-19

Women are doing much more work in
Minnesota than formerly, says Labor
Commissioner O'Donnell. We had sus-
pected as much from our observations in
the street cars. =. ~.S.S<s
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-11-19

truth mildly" At the same time the New
Era comedies that Mr.. Hill was on one
side Of the battle--the side that was
licked =, -"
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-11-19

who have bound themselves to eat MOTH
ing but "pure foods bought ON the mar
ket until they are dead or have proved
that the foods are harmless.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-11-19

Talk about your martyrs! Where can
YOU And any self sacrifice that will beat
that Of those young men in Washington
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-11-19

Hair is alleged to be restored to the bald
and plumage to naked birds by the waters
Of Casciana, North Italy.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-11-19
Books and Authors
LOVE LETTER LITERATURE.

The production Of make-believe love
letters is becoming something Of bore.
There is in store for readers, however,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-11-19

Lady Henry Somerset, leader of the
English temperance movement, remarked
just before she sailed for, England last
week that her chief surprise in America
had been the general sobriety of the
American people. She attributed to- it
their greater alertness and energy" We
are not SO sober as we might be, but
drunkenness does not exist at all in this
country as it does in some. Very few of
our drinkers are drunkards. and a major
ity of our people. probably, do not drink
liquor at all. While strong drink does
stupefy and benumb, it is probable that
we do not drink because we are alert
and energetic as much as that. We are
such because we do not drink. The man
who drinks to excess, and sometimes the
man who drinks even a little, cannot
keep up with the an>who doesn't. The
pace Of American life is too. swift for
the drinker.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-11-19
As the Senate VIII Vote.
ADJUSTMENTS
Foyer Chat.

Foyer Chat.
The last performance of 'The Penitent''
will be given at the Metropolitan tonight
at S:15.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-11-19

1t is nothing more than justice to the
great city Of Detroit that the Michigan
Minnesota football game for the cham
pionship Of the west be played in that
city. We are not surprised at the in
dignation Of the Detroit people that the
game has been changed to Ann Arbor.
"A game of this kind ought to be played
in Michigans greatest population center.
so that the largest number of people may
attend it. That is justice to Michigan
people. The Minnesota 'rooters'' who will
attend the game are entitled to fair
chance to get something to eat. With the
memory of last year in Madison and even
of the year before in Lincoln, the Min
nesota "rooters" have got all they want
of small towns for big football games.
The accommodations at Ann Arbor are
not nearly so good as those at Madison.
BY the contract the game was to be
played either in Detroit or in Ann Arbor,
but Minnesota had expressed preference
for Detroit and Manager Baird Of Michi-
gan orally agreed to play the. game in
Detroit. That being the case it is the
University of Minnesota athletic manage
ment, not that of Michigan, that has the
right to say whether the place for the
game shall be changed.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-11-19
Book Hunting.

A Chinese laundry pictured by the Chi
cago news is run by, Wun Punk Lung.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-11-19

g.. "On the Suwanee River" with it's well
told story Is attracting large audiences
at the Bijou this week
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The Right Spirit.

BY the time the Chicago school teachers
are safely in the American Federation of
Labor and the pupil strikers complete
organized. If the pupils apply for admis-
sion to the federation, however, there will
be trouble, for If we must reduce the pub
lie school system to terms OF industrial
opposition the teachers are surely capital
lists and the pupils workers.
In the meantime the hearts Of the
American people go out to the boys who
are striking in Chicago. We feel for them
almost as deeply as we did for the anthra-
cite coal miners. On the whole, there is
something in the five points of the Haynes
school strikers that strongly reminds us
of Mitchells four points. The demands
Of these juvenile strikers are:
First-Reinstatemen Of "Scotty' and
Taylor, who were suspended.
Second-A four hour school day.
Third-Three days holiday, instead of
one, at Lincoln's birthday.
Fourth-Week's vacation at Thanks
giving.
Fifth-Two weeks Christmas vacation.
Now we would like to see any slave
driving commissioner Of education or any
hard hearted teacher stand up and show
why each and every one of these demands
is not right. "Scotty' and Taylor are out
and want to get back. Simple justice de-
mands that they should be reinstated.
They were elected without their consent
in this free country. If an eight-hour day
is right for grown men, four hours are
enough for feeble children. 1t is an insult
to the memory Of the first American to
spend less than three days celebrating his
birthday. The high claims Of patriotism
must always be considered. A week S
vacation at Thanksgiving is unassaiably
just. Anything less than two weeks va
cation at Christmas is an infringement
upon the right of every free born Ameri
can kid to rest all he can.