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The Minneapolis journal., 1902-08-29
WASTED Opportunities

Detroit tNeWs-TriEune.
Z It would be an ideal community where
every one should be engaged In the best and
highest kind OF work of which The is capable.
But conditions must develop greatly before
such state can be reached. Meanwhile there
are a host OF people fitted only for what is
termed "unskilled labor, and it should be the
opportunity OF the more fortunate ones to
train these to higher planes.
Neyerth heless, the wife OF certain profess
sional man. herself a woman OF culture and
refinement after struggling for several years
with the problem of domestic service. solved
it by dismissing her help and attempting to
do all her work herself. including the care OF
her three small children. Her theory was that
by this method she found peace, and the fam
lily returned ito. a more simple method OF liy-
ing. The question arises Was she right? Is
It ia waste OF force and gifts for an educated
mother to spend her time washing dishes and
ironing Clothes when she could be- training
the minds and hearts OF her children that is,
assuming that she could not 1fnd time for
both Leaving the children to teachers and to
chance? It Is a question worth the while Of
a mothers thought before doing away with
home help and undertaking everything with
her own hands. Is she missing her opportuni-
ties1 IS IS
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-08-29
Washington Times.

..'In Hawaii we pray for Mount Kiluea to
become active. and the more eruptions there
are the better we like it,. said Philip Peck
banker OF IIi1o, last night. can eruption
does no harns.' he added naively..,
Doesn't do any harm? Well. 1t appears
that Mont Pelee did plenty of HARM
That was different kind of activity from
kilauea. In Hawaii, where Mount Kilauea
has not been disturbed for two years. the
eruption is OF slight consequence. But It Is
great sight to see the great lake Of lava
boil over the sides OF the crater and push Its
way down into the bowl-like valley, which has
been formed by eruptions more violent In the
ages past.
1.-THE sight is such al unusual one that II
causes great influx of visitors each year
and that naturally is a good thing for the
island financially. That's why we like the
volcano to be active Kilaueas crater is the
largest in the world. People used to go and
sit by its edges and watch for an overflow. OF
the lava. The guides could tell almost to the
minute when these overflows would occur. Z 's
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-08-29
THE MAGAZINES.

The National (Boston, Al W First
street, wv. w. Potter & Coz contains a
three-page condensation of the Philippine
civil government law, with explanatory
remarks by Senator Lodge, which should
be read by all who have not felt like read
ing the full text. Senator Paris Gibson.
of Montana, is one of the contributors n
the PHASES of American Affairs" depart
ment, writing on the question, "ShaH the
Public Domain Be Preserved for Home
Seekers?''
Lippincott's for September is attractive
to an unusual degree, with a completed
novel by that always good story-teller,
Ellen Olney Kirk. Josiah Flynt, the
writer on tramps and trampdom contrib
utes one of his good stories. entitled we
Won't Go Home y and A. P. zerhune, in
"a Park Row Galahad,'' tells little roe
nance Of newspaper office. Philadel-
phia: The Lippincott Company, 2s7-231
South Sixth street
Ainslee's series of ''Luxuries Of the
Millionaire tells in this number of
millionaires' yachts. with illustrations,
among them, those Of John Jacob Astof,
J. Pierpont Morgan, Mrs. Robert Goelet
and N. o. -Havemeyer,- -Jr. Mrs. Gerry
gives an illustrated account of Tho
Woman 8 Commonwealth at Washington,
D. c., community of women founded by
Mrs. Martha McWhirter, who processes to
L
women profess to be "sanctified' and do
all the domestic work and seem to b
remarkably submissive to their head. Mrs.
| McWhirter. Mr.. Eliot's account of Mex
tco'sS Tehaantepec raiIva-yZfrom the At
| lantic to the Pacific. 1872 miles, lis of de-
cided interest, as 1t Is to be partly recon.
structed and provided with terminal har-
bors for large steamers and will be COM
pieted In year or two. New York: 236
William street Street & Smith.
Everybody's Magazine contains d fpai
| character study of the British premier,
Mr.. A. J. Balfour, by T. p. O'Connor, with
! Illustrations, and there are three sugges-
| tive papers touching the labor question
Bessie Van yorsts .'The Woman That
Tolls Frank Norris's "Life in the MIN:
ing Region. and Booker washington's
| Work With the Hands In the hrst
| paper the reader will find a narrative OF
the experience of working girl in Pitts.
| burg pickle factories, revealing phase OF
grinding toll which dispirits and kills; tho
second showing the conditions Of human
| life In mining towns. and during 9.
strike, while the third shows the mofay
and uplifting value of manual training and
labor A clever paper is Mary Manners.
| The Unemployed Rich New York: tG
| q Ninth street. !,
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-08-29

The office Of Judge of election is one OF
the most important in our political sys-
tenn, whether at the primary as now con-
Quoted at the regular election The
chances for the election frauds are mul-
tiplied by the primary system and hence
the necessity for special care on the part
that the work is done honestly. Several
candidates, whether with reason or not
we cannot say, complained that they were
counted out at the last primary either
through fraud or incompetence. The pen
alties for frauds committed by ,election
judges and clerks are not too severe.
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-08-29

manner as he sat down on the divan
beside her and began to talk as few
men and fewer. women had heard him
talk-brilliantly, with flashes of wit and
sarcasm relieving the underlying earnest
ness yof thought.
!. Cecil Travers was quite unconscious of
the metamorphosis she was producing.
She only thought that this big, blond man
was not nearly as 5unapproaLchable as he
looked. He was really charming. And,
what was the more, remarkable, he did
not talk about himself.
The girl found this an unusual ex-
perience. AS reader at one Of the maga-
zines and writer of short stories, she
had met many men of many minds. Yet
as. she said pathetically to herself, "the
minds always seem to turn inward. How
can they write about the world around
them when they are so absorbed In
|,self?'"' 50 " ,,-'+-"=' 'E--fs 49,.
Her wonder grew when she discovered
that he, too, was an author. She remenl-
bered now seeing his name signed te
several clever sketches. He had never
tried any with the Symposium. AS he
talked the desire to read some of his
stories became oyermastering. 81. (.
"Why don't you send something to me
at the Symposium" she asked at length
frankly.
He flushed up to the roots Of his hal,
as he said hesitatingly. II have been busy
about something else, but I will-some
time..'' :. - 60 "
|. It was his first trace of awkwardness
Cecil could not know that the some
thing else" was the novel which was the
work of many months and which was
even then seeking publisher. Not even
to her dared he trust himself to speak
of this child of his hopes. If the world
gave it a welcome, ah, then! His thoughts
were busy weaving a. beautiful day
dream, and it's central figure was this
dark eyed girl who was almost stranger
to him. ~ .-.*. Il s..f .--s.
/ He awoke to realities with start Miss
Travers puzzled at his silence, had risen
and was holding out her hand in goodby.
| ''You will come to see me some time
will you not, Mr.. Saunders?' she asked
with the frank smile that was her es-
| pecial charm. II have enjoyed my tall
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for the policy that might be pursued by
the inhabitants of the islands, =

for the policy that might be pursued by
the Inhabitants of the islands.
This is interesting. It is certainly not
a matter OF record that the anti Imperial
lists, either collectively or individually, be-
sought and advised the insurrectos to sur
render and lay down their arms. Their
resolutions and manifestos throughout the,
war were stimulative of hostility to the
United States on the part of the insur-i
rectos. Whether Mr.. Boutwell, desired or.
not, that the anti-imperialists should be
responsible, by advice or otherwise, for
aiding and giving comfort to the Filipinos
In arms against the United States, they
did incur responsibility for their utter
ances which gave the insurrectos false
hopes, Utterances Of Atkinson and others
were reproduced in the Philippines and
circulated among the natives to lead them
to believe that they had the earnest sup
port of a powerful element In the United
States. The Filipinos perfectly under
stood that there was an organization in
this country opposing our governments
every act in putting down the insurrec-
tion. It held, as Mr.. Boutwell, intimates,
that we had no right to be in the islands
and we should. without delay. abandon
the attempt to remain there. That OF
itself was directly construable by the ma
| tives as rather strong prodding to "drive
| the Americans into the sea-" The anti
| imperialists, so-called. are talking the
same way to-day, whatever Mr.. Boutwell,
may say about it. Only last Thursday al
EAshfield, Mass, at meeting presided
over by Professor Charles Eliot Norton Of
Harvard university, and attended by many
| anti-imperialists,~ Ehrich.za prorni-
nent Colorado anti-imperialist, IN the
course of his remarks, said: ~ +.
| when, in a few decades, the story ol
| our times shall be impartially set down
| the historian, in the characterization OF
our late lamented president, will tell O
his kindly, sunny disposition-of his ca.
pacity in winning and holding friends
| of his sweetness and devotion in the do.
| mestic relations of his having died like
a hero; and then, unfortunately, he Will
be constrained to add that the foules
stain on the pages of our history was his
signature of the benevolent assimilation
| proclamation Of December, 1898. That
document deliberately proclaimed to the
Filipinos: We have bought you and We
| shall impose our sovereignty upon you
fIf you resist we will shoot you down.
| Thank God. they resisted!'
! It was by such hysterical fealty to thu
cause of the insurrectos that the latter
| came to regard the so-called anti-imper
! ialists as their devoted friends. They
were stimulated to resist the United
! States government by these appeals from
4 NH = ~,
prayers and blessings Of Boutwell,, Atkin
son and all the other American >sympa
thizers with the Filipino revolt Il
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-08-29
THE, CRAZY DoUKHOB0Rs

Before the Americans discovered Cam
ada, which was about A. D., 1900, the
citizens, or rather, subjects, Of that Roun-
try were greatly disturbed because of
their fewness. When Sir Wilfrid Laur--
Ter came into power in 1897 he made haste
to increase the number of his people. He
didn't care much about the quality, what
he wanted was numbers. So there were
brought to Manitoba from Russian perse-
cution 5000 'Doukhobors, fanatical re-
ligionists Of distorted Mennonite or
Quaker type
Since settling in Manitoba they have
become even more .fanatical than when
they arrived. Their religious dementia,
for such it is, has reached such a stage
g now that they are a great annoyance as
well as concern to their neighbors. Cam
ada would probably pay twice as much to
get rid OF them It paid five years ago
to get them. The influx of better settlers
since Americans found out the good Of
western Canada makes few Thousand
settlers Of an inferior type Of no value to
the country.
It was known when the Doukhobors
came that they were opposed to military
service and 1t was promised that such
service would not be required Of them.
Since landing in Manitoba they have be-
come yegetarians. Nobody objected to
that but the outgrowths Of their vegetar-
ianism are fantastic. From refusing to
kin any animal or use animal flesh for
food they passed on to the rejection Of all
animal products, not only for food but
for clothing, and then to the conclusion
that man has no right to exercise dominion
over any of Gods creatures Thereupon
they relieved animals ri OF burden, horses
and oxen, OF their labprs and freed them
frorn slavery turning them out to seek
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-08-29
THE STATE FAIR

The Journals State Fair and In
dustrial edition to-day will effectively
serve to call attention to the prosperity
Of Minneapolis and the northwest and
the magnitude and excellence of the state
fair, which will be the Mecca of the peo-
pie of Minnesota next week.
The state fair has become a remarkable
institution. In years Of prosperity and
years of stringency it has steadily moved
forward to better things. We think it is
safe to say that there has been no year
for seven or eight when it could not be
said of the latest fair that it was the
best of all. This advance has been SYM
metrical. It has not been confined to one
Of the many elements that are required to
make up a successful state fair. AS a
week Of amusement and diversion the
fair of next week will be better than ever.
AS display Of the immense, varied and
remarkably excellent agricultural products
Of Minnesota it is without peer among
it's predecessors. The exhibitions of fine
live stock will be the largest and best in
the history of the institution. The as
semblage Of the products Of manufacture
will be by far the most satisfactory we
have ever had. -. 49, &.
OF late years the fair management has
more than ever endeavored to make the
fair instructive and helpful to the people
OF Minnesota. Take, for example, the
demonstration Of good roads making,
which Is to continue throughout the week,
and the good roads convention which is to
inaugurate the demonstration. There is
scarcely any one thing the rural districts
OF Minnesota need more than good roads
What greater work, then, can the state
fair do than to teach the people how to
make good roads? Take the cattle ex-
hibits. The special attention given to them
and the special efforts made to interest
the breeders associations, are resulting
giving us better grade of live stock and
they have attracted the attention of stock
| men to Minnesota as state that pro.
vides suitable environment and conditions
for cattle raising.
! The social aspect of the fair Is not its
least. 1t has come to pass that the Min
nesota State Fair Is a great annual con-
vention of the people Of Minnesota, west
ern Wisconsin, northern Iowa, the two
Dakotas and even OF Manitoba. Friends
meet again, families are reunited, new
acquaintances are made. city people NEE
country people, new purposes are born o.
contact with others, people are broadened
educated and uplifted.
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-08-29
ADJUSTMENTS

- "Sapho" by the Fawcett Company
. LET me see,'' emarked a woman in last
nights audience at the Metropolitan,
"sappho was Greek goddess, wasn't
she; and this woman was called Sapho
because she was so beautiful?' The re-
mark passed unchallenged, although
Sappho was not a Greek goddess, but a
Greek poetess who hourished about 900
yeasr before Christ, and of whose writings
only fragments survive. Daudet's
sapho, however, is quite different per-
son. Reared in Paris, in quarter where
morality was considered ridiculous, her
friends, women in, whom love was moth
differed only from the common cocotte In
that she was usually successful in what
ever she attempted.
Around such a woman Alphonse Dau-
det contrived to write an interesting
story; and from the novel there has been
constructed a play that retains the hopeless
vulgarity Of it's prototype without the
charm of its literary excellence. The play
has been termed suggestive. 1t is not
It Is simply and brutally vulgar. Much
of its dialogue is indecent and Its wit finds
pungency only at the expense of virtue.
It teaches no lesson, and serves no pur-
pose, beyond the questionable end of
swelling box office receipts. Yet, good
people go, to see the play and applaud it
INTO the bargain. &tss. ssEs.gS5.s ~
tbs popularity of human nature that
the woman who is not herself pure, de-
lights most inN the integrity OF perse-
cuted heroine of melodrama; while her
more fortunate sister is content to greet,
from across the footlights. wanton
from whom she would shrink In disgust
were the conditions changed. The mod
ern woman; like the Athenian Of old, is
always on the lookout for some new thing.
Her own experience, no matter what It's
character, appears to her uneventful.
while the antithesis possesses all the
charm OF novelty. And that is the rea-
son for ''Sapho's' success.
/ am quite well aware that to condemn
the immortality of this play is only to
increase Its drawing powers, yet there is
no other way out Of it. There are twen-
sty-six characters In the piece, as pre-
sented at the Metropolit itan, among them a
child, a. young girl, fresh from the con-
vent, and one good woman. OF the
others, all are unclean, with q moral un-
cleanliness to be compared only to the
physical condition OF a. leper.
From a technical view point the produc-
tion is good one It has been well
staged and, in the main, is well casts The
costumes and accessoriessof the first act
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-08-29
MORRIS TRIES AGAIN

Congressman Page Morris has. written
Congressman Loren Fletcher an amusing
letter, wherein he points to the bill before
the Cuban congress to appropriate money
for the relief Of the sugar planters as q
vindication of himself and others who IA
vored the psuedo-reciprocity or rebate
plan as against the real reciprocity asked
for by President Roosevelt. .l-s: 2f
Congressman Morris reasons this way:
money out of the American treasury for
the benefit of the Cubans.
Now the Cuban congress is appropriat-
ing money for the benefit of its own peo-
ple. T..
Therefore we, the insurgents, are right
There are too many holes in this syl-
logism for us to follow it through.
We prefer to ask why the Cuban con-
gress is appropriating money for the re-
lief Of the planters. Is it not because we
denied them a market for their products
and therefore made artificial relief neces-
sary? If Mr.. Morris and Mr.. Fletcher had
voted right and had worked for genuine
reciprocity with q good margin of reduc-
tion in tariff duties the Cuban planter
would not be beggar to-day.
The planters knew what they wanted
They didn't ask subsidies or bounties OF
aims from their government or any other
All they asked was reciprocity, chance
to make a living. What Cubans favor the
rebate plan? We have not heard Of one
They didn't want charity. They wanted
chance to work for a living. There /.
| a great difference here. It is the differ
ence between the beggar and the self-re.
| specting victim of hard luck. The former
begs for money, the latter begs for Z
chance to make money. Mr.. Morris said
| mo, when the Cubans asked for chanc.
to make a living, but offered them aims
BY the way, those aims were to be giver
to the Cuban government, not to the Gu
ban planters. They might by this time b,
in the hands OF former Cuban soldiers, in
stead Of in the purses Of planters or ii
/ the pockets OF their laborers. 55 F.7
The Cuban government needs all tn
money 1t can get for the ordinary ex
Ipenditures ofagoVernme without makin.
disbursements for the benefit Of agricul
ture, but Mr. Morris, Mr. Fletcher ant
other insurgents have reduced It to tn
extremity Of drawing on its slender treas
ury to give artificial aid to those who witt
fair legislation on our part, solemnl,
promised legislation, too, would have beer
independent and self supporting.
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-08-29
Copyright. 1902, by McClures Newspaper
Syndicate

Copyright, 1902, by McClure's Newspaper
Syndicate.
Miss Cecil Travers-Mr. Philip Saun-
ders.''
Some benevolent individual introduced
them at the Pen and Pencil club. Sann-
ders afterward spoke OF him as the hand
OF fate. But then he was under the
sway Of the blind god and 50 unrespon-
,sible for either his remarks or his eye
sight.
It was certainly case Of love at first
sight-on the part of Saunders. When he
looked down into. the dark eyes raised Sc
frankly to his own, he gave UP his heart
Internationally. In all his 81 years moth
Ing had sent the blood rushing SO riot
ously through his veins as the firm, warm
clasp Of her hand.
But he was a quiet, self controlled fell
low, with a composure born Of years OF
struggle up the uncertain literary ladder
So he did not hold the little hand a sec.
ond longer than politeness demanded
There was no trace Of eagerness in his
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-08-29
IN a NUTSHELL....
State.

Jusserand is Is Of the
the Frenchman who is to Jules Cambon
ambassador United States He has quail
1fcaons place. incudingwhch is getting to be
senta ministers ambassadors the United States
Herbert. lately appointed British
ambassador has British wife, and NJ his
American wife, nee Richards, will just much
pun' Washington Mr. Herbert M. Jusserand speaks
English fuently written number books
subjects His LA Vie Noade ct les Routes
Steele Crowned by the French He
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-08-29

are elaborate and picturesque. There are
lines in "Sapho,' allotted to the cabman.
which are utterly foreign to the plot OF the
play and which are SO glaringly indecent
as to be out of place even in low grog-
gerry.
It is. only kindness to omit any men
tion OF. the individual players who go to
make up the cast.
j. S. Lawrence.
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-08-29

The existing situation on the republican
side ought to be worth good deal to the
democrats as an indication of the wise
course for them to pursue with respect to
the mayoralty. 1t: remains to be seen
whether they have the political sense to
take advantage of it. S4
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-08-29

Claus Spreckles will start a sugar re-,
finery in Canada. The Canadian tariff is
getting to be merely an arrangement by
which one set Of American capitalists can
work Canadian trade more advantageous
ly than the others. The Canadians seem
to be up against the necessity Of buying
American goods made in Canada or Amer
ican goods made in the United States
The Canadian can. take his choice and the
American capitalist takes the profits.
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-08-29

American United Fruit company and the
American market Now the United Fruit
company has gobbled the company that
was exporting TO England and the Ja-
maicans and English find themselves put
ting up 100000 year to help an Ameri-
can trust get Its goods to market. Since
they are practicallya owned and supported
by an American trust the Jamaicans nat
;urally conclude that they might as well
enter the American union.
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-08-29

Porto Rico, among the other West
Indian islands, may be compared to a lft-
tie colored boy with a melon, surrounded
by a group of his fellows without melons.
Porto Rico's melon is American pros
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-08-29

Much interest is being awakened over
the opening of the new Lyceum theater
on Sunday night by the Ferris Stock
company in .".My jim" which will run all
next week. The second weeks bill will be
a production Of Hall Gaines 1.-THE Chris
tian" on splendid scale. This will be
the first presentation of this great semi
religious drama at popular prices. "A
special Labor Day matinee performance
Of my Jim will be given on Monday
afternoon.
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-08-29
The island Of Jamaica is having SO,

The island Of Jamaica is having some
.edifying experiences with the subsidy idea
In practice under modern conditions. II
united with the imperial government to
subsidke q line ef freight steamers from
Jamaica to London, the chief purpose OF
which line was to encourage the exporta-
tion Of fruit to England and thus relieve
the island from Its dependence on the
The Minneapolis journal., 1902-08-29

/ To ride one horse eightytwo miles in
something over six hours is an impressive
demonstration Of what horse nature will
stand, but it is horrible cruelty to kill
horses in that way A. '..... s-r