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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-01-27
Of years and bring to us again the dear
old sRobin Hood, of wore.

OF years and bring to us again the dear
old Robin Hood Of yore.
And the newcomers disappoint us hap
PLY by proving quite as acceptable. speak
Ing generally. as the favorites who once
sang the roles. The name part has never
been better illustrated than by William c.
Weeden, for whose high and strong, yet
sweet tenor voice the tremendous demands
OF, the score have no terrOrs. He is be-
sides personable young man, who really
looks as If he could bend a stout bow Of
yew and wing SHAFT SO true to the target
that he would be accepted as their leader
! by the merry men in green. Grace Van
| Studdiford makes stunning Maid Marian
| "a bit too tall perhaps, for those who re-
member the small and gracious Juliette
Gordon. But this impression disappears
when Maid Marian returns to skirts, and
the singer steadily grows in favor as the
beauties of her pure, flexible soprano and
! the graces of her acting are revealed.
Only in the .coloratura work is her vocal
/ ization disappointing. She is heard at her
best in the fine duet of the first act with
Robin. " -.
Howard Chambers accomplishes the diff
ficult task of filling Eugene Cowles' role
of Will Scarlet acceptably He has a rich,
strong bass voice and sings the "Tailors
Song with fine effect. His Interpretation
of the "Armorer's Song" too, was strik-
ingly good, though he lacks the physique
WHICH lent realism TO MT. COWleS' rend1-
ton. Olive Celeste Moore, as Alan-a-
Dale, shows an excellent contralto voice,
somewhat marred by a tendency to vibra-
to. She makes q pleasing impression,
though as yet apparently somewhat ill at
ease In the habiliments of that Jealous
young man. Miss Moore is a st. Cloud
girl, whose friends are justly proud of her
attainments. Campbell Donald is the
best Guy of Osborne In the operas his.
tory, and gets more out of the comedy OF
the role than had been supposed possible
His voice, too, is very pleasing. Alice
Judson as Annabel completes the cast
She is coquettish and pretty girl who
suits the part WE'LL although her voice ir
the upper register is rather shrill and un-
musical
The Bostonians put the production on ir
finer style than ever before and the reviva
is in every respect sumptuous success
The audience at the Metropolitan last
night filled every seat and seemingly en-
joyed every moment of the evening.
w. B. Chamberlain
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IN a NUTSHEII,s..,.,...........
How the Rattle Of Harvester continually Enoirces the

The worlds crop always being harvested.
such continuous OF natures the
of great famines averted by Of the
perfect communication transportation
world boasts oday Russia the remaining country
famlnes, s a of few railways.
In May Morocco gathers in the grain, and Agiers
$4,000 bushels Then Tuns Trpoli
their standing wheat and also Central Asia, China
and Texas June California. Spain, Portugal Italy
Greece, Alabama, Oregon, Georgia. Kansas Colorado
Missouri their harvesting %s7s* x$ @@z$s
July. Austria Hungary, Rumana, Southern
Russia Nebraska Minnesota New England Ontario
their wheat $3.50:
In August England and Ireland Belgium Germany Hol-
Denmark Poland, Manitoba
sh Columbia, find their ripe ..-.sz
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PoNDERoUs PULPIT ENGLISH.
Chicago Post.


DR.. David James Burren takes occa-
sion in his little book Of homilies, "A
CULVER of Arrows to poke some de-
served ridicule at the ponderous English
Of some of his ecclesiastical brethren. He
says: g.
True religion is simplicity itself. Here's
quotation from philosophic preacher: The IN.
comprehensibilty of the apparatus developed In
the machinery of the universe may be considered
n supereminent manifestation Of stupendous maj
estes whether stands upon the platform
Of his own mind nd-ronders scrutinizfngly on
It's undecipherable characters. or whether he
looks abroad over tile magnificent equipments
and royalties Of nature, surveying it's ampli
tudes in all their scope and Its uhfathomahilities
III ill their profundities.
What is this man trying to say? This!
when 7 consider the heavens, the work
Of Thy fingers, the moon and the stars
which Thou hast ordained, what is man
that Thou are mindful of him and the Son
of man that Thou regardest him?" Then
why did he not say it? Is not this mon
strous trifiing?
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Is There a. Conspiracy?

At the annual banquet Of the western
society. Army Of the Potomac, last night,
in Chicago, Major General Macarthur,
comma nding the Department Of the Lakes.
stated in his speech that hostile cabinets
in Europe were discussing with secret
satisfaction the question whether the
United States can stand the strain which
must inevitably arise as a consequence
of it's own great prosperity" Underlying
this discussion the general declared that
there was purpose of interference in the
affairs of the western hemisphere, when
ever there was favorable opportunity.
Perhaps General Macarthur speaks adj
visedly. Perhaps he is drawing on his
imagination. This nation, however, has
had three precedents to contemplate, sug
costing the readiness of the old world
powers to interfere on this side of the
Atlantic.
There was the. hostile movement of the
Holy Alliance, so-called, eighty years ago.
Then it may be recalled how, during our
civil war, Europe looked with satisfaction
upon what it believed to be the imminent
disintegration and collapse Of the Ameri-
can union, which would afford oppor-
tunities for interference and territorial &C
QUESTION. -, ... ...- H. gee
Again: When events were fastening us
to "a war with Spain in behalf Of Cuban
freedom, it is known that a combination
for interference between us and Spain ex-
listed, and was frustrated only by the re-
fusal of Great Britain to be a party to the
conspiracy. The latter movement is toe
recent to be forgotten. Fortunately, the
only power which has anything like g
commanding position near this country is
Great Britain, with whom we are or
friendly terms which it is certainly desira-
BILE to maintain Great Britain has
strongholds at Halifax, the Bermudas
Bahamas, Turks island, Virgin islands
Windward Islands, Tobago, LeewarG
islands, Trinidad and jamaica while one
OF her strongest naval and military sta
tons is on Vancouver Island. France has
few West Indian Islands, but German,
s has no stronghold on this side of the At
lantic, and Is itching to secure {
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Average daily circulation Of
The Journal for Dec. 1902,
. 57,O93
A Moral Obligation.

! A bill is before the Minnesota legisla-
ture providing for the payment Of ap
proximately $50, 900 to the Minnesota Su-
gar company.
In 1895 the legislature provided by law
for the payment of bounty of one cent
a pound for each pound of sugar manufao-
tured from beets In the state Of Mime
sofa. This bounty was paid In 1898 and
In 1885, but the legislature Of 1899 amend
ed the law so that no more than $4,000
should be paid to sugar manufacturers In
any congressional district in any one year,
and further, that the low should only con-
tinue in force until Jan. 1, 1901.
g. The state auditor, however, refused to
pay the claim for 19O0 on the ground that
he believed the act to be unconstitutional
The refusal of the state officer was final,
since a state official cannot be manda
unused. The only remdy is an act Of the
legislature and an appeal to that body
on the ground Of moral obligation. The
question as to whether sugar bounties are
necessary or iustifable is not the ISSUE
Minnesota agreed to pay a bounty and
the bounty was earned. These facts are
HoL ulSpuLeu lie ODSIdCle Is Lie
conclusion Of the state auditor that the
law providing for the bounty is uncon-
stitutional. and that the claim cannot be
collected by law That puts the state Of
Minnesota in an attitude Of lodging it's
obliga lions simply because it can. But
that is q good deal worse for the state of
Minnesota than the payment Of the boun-
ty We cannot afford for $2O,000 or for
any other sum, 3 to have It understood
that the state Of Minnesota is not a strict
ly honorable institution. No private in
dividual who was jealous Of his reputa-
ton and private personal honor would
hide behind any such transparent screen
as that.
Furthermore, Minnesota has some his
tory along that line. She undertook to
repudiate some bonds in her younger days
and got into deep disgrace on account of
1t. IT was only when such high minded
and determined citizen Governor Pills
bury took the helm. Of state that the course
of our good, ship Minnesota was righted
Let's be equally honest and equally SEN
sitive to our moral obligations when the
payment of them will impose so slight a
burden that it win never be felt. 1t Is a
question of moral obligation, of state hon
Or, and nothing else; but these are pretty
important considerations.
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The custodian of the new White House
asks for $110,o to maintain it during the
next year. For the old White House s35,-
900 was enough. These figures remind US
that the president of the United States
really receives much more than his $780,
600 salary. With his house and its
maintenance and its servants and clerks
paid for out of the public revenues, the
total amount Of money annually expended
for the president approximates about "a
quarter of a million. Our presidents are
well provided for, but our ministers ard
ambassadors are but shabbily treated. 1t
is a shame that the salaries paid to our
more important representatives abroa d
are not such as to make it possible fbr
a poor man to be one of them. The CON
sequence is that those places are no long :
er offered to poor men. A republic ca n
not afford to permit it to be a fact that
lack Of private means shall prevent any
worthy man from taking any office.
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Senator Morgan Of Alabama, the I'M
convertible friend and champion of the
Nicaragua route for the isthmian canal
is accused Of an intention to flibuster
against the Panama treaty with Colon
bia. and seems already to have begun such
tactics. The old senator ought not to
work so hard to dissociate his name with
an isthmian canal. Even though he has
Always preferred the Nicaragua route, he
has been the great senatorial champion of
an interoceanic canal. Now that the de-
cision has been made for the Panama, he
ought to identify himself with the par
ticular project, else he will lose in history
the honor that is rightly his as states
manlike champion Of an undertaking
which promises so much for the future of
America.
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Ehe United Nation.

How far We are getting away from the
civil war-its hatreds and it's bitterness
and how near we are getting to tits
heroism and it's grandeur. -
Last night in New York southerners
toasted Lincoln, and northerners toasted
Jefferson Davis; now and for many years
both sides have honored Grant and Lee.
Tonight that veteran journalist and
statesman, A. K. Mcclure, is to appear
before Pennsylvania legislative commit
tees in favor of bill providing that
Pennsylvania and Virginia shall unite to
erect an equestrian statue to Robert E.
Lee on Seminary HILL
One of the speakers at the thirteenth
annual banquet of the New York Confed-
| crate Veterans encampment last night
was Charles Francis Adams himself a
! in the highest terms that noble vAmeri-
can whom we have all come to love and
| respect-Robert E.. Lee. r. Il 800 =
| A few weeks ago in a speech in Charles
| ton, Mr.. Adams made the point that in
a sense both sides were right in the civil
war. Slavery, Of course, was wrong, and
emancipation was right, but the war
commenced over question of constitu-
tional Interpretation and of conflicting
views Of the nature of the federal repub-
| lie. The south held the state above the
union; the north held the union above
the state. It was truly an inevitable
struggle. - r.. r 81.
| There was no way to decide it peace-
ably, no way to decide it but by the ar
| bitrament Of arms. Here might was
right The irrepressible conflict came, and
the nation prevailed over. the states.
Viewed from a political as We'll as from
the moral standpoint, the right side won
proof Of it is. that in no southern state
could a corporals guard be mustered to-
day to rebuild the south on state supre.
macy lines, even If the north were tc
remain passive and let the south go its
way. AS Henry Watterson said last
night the irrepressible conflict found III
a. huddle of petty sovereignties, held to-
gether by rope of sand. 1t made an6
left us nation. Esto perpetual"
The day has come at last when we car
all look back on the great epic struggle
not as northerners or as southerners bu
as Americans, profoundly proud Of thu
: heroes of that greatest Of wars, whethe1
they wore the blue or the gray, whether
they marched at the command of Gran
or of Lee, whether they died facing tn.
north or facing the south.
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In September Scotland, northwestern Canada, Sweden
and Norway take THE wheat from the heldsaas
October, northern Russia Siberia their
time.
November, Peru Africa rejoicing
bringing in the sfeaves''
December Is harvest time with Burma, New Zealand
Chile g .f@*# $50 %Isss@ So 49,
January lis the crop taking month with Australia and
. Argentina. &zssssSzss %" t % ssE%5 @~@s ~.
In February the wheat fields Of India yield $50 oOo,
! 900 bushels OF wheat 81 Hte g ~ ~ ~ IE#s
Upper Egypt ,lses the SICKLE March Il +#a
And In April lower Egypt, Mexico Turkey. Persia
Asia Minor find that 1t time to Ameri
harvesters and bind the wheat by machinery while the
displaced native aborers pic
turesque and violent of hot countries.
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AT Hartford. Conn.,, last week Mr.. Will
lard, the actor, stopped the performance
near the close Of the last act and an
nounced that he had done so to accom-
modate those who were so DESTROYS of
leaving, after which he would resume for
the benefit Of those who wished and had
right to see the play properly concluded
The rebuke was deserved. The excessive
ly bad manners of those who spoil the
climax Of a beautiful or effective scene
by getting upsand putting on their wraps
may be only those who cannot appreciate
what is offered them fro mthe stage, but
they might at least have a sufficient re-
gard for the rest of the audience to keer
still till the end.
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If drug authorizations are az common
in the rest of the country as they appear
to be in New. York, it is a wonder that
when we fall sick of eating adulterated
foods, we are ever able to find drugs to
cure US. Investigations in New York show
that not only are commonly used house
hold remedies. such as phenacetin, adul-
terated, but that they are adulterated with
drugs which are both cheap and danger
Gus. Thus phenacetin, which costs about
81 per ounce. wholesale, is adulterated
with acetanalid. which costs. 21s cents an
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something Of a disciplinary period for the
southern people. Incidents of the period
abound, including the KukluX feature and,
through 1t all, the love Of Gabriel Tolliver
for Nan persisted, and although it was
long before pretty Nan surrendered, it
was SO grateful a surrender in Gabriers
mind that, as he lay upon the warm,
himself to be the happiest person in the
wide, wide world. Not the least interest
ing character in the book is Tasma It'd,
the faithful negro maid of Nan.
LOVE WITH HONOR. By Charles Marriott,
Author of 1.-The Column New York: John
Lane, e. Fifth avenue. Price, $3.50.
This is a fairly good English love story,
the hero, Mark Surtees, gaining the read
ers sympathy progressively. For, start
ing with G1,30O, left him by his father,
he demanded and obtained from his quon
dam lawyer the control of his fortune.
but subsequently lost that through the
lawyers incautious investment in rotten
stocks, and went bravely to work in the
cold world to extract a living. The love
episode is the strong thing in the story.
THE WINNING OF sARENNE. By St. Clair
Beall. Illustrated. New York: The Fed
eral Book company.
This is sixteenth century romance OF
|tempestuous France, when might was sup
posed to make legal right, and the strong
lords overcame the weak and the weak
fercely struggled for their own. So, ir
this dashinge story of the struggle Of Geof-
frey of Sarenne for his overlordship, Of
which he had been deprived by Duke Bay
mont, called 1.-THE Black Raymond anG
his ultimate triumph through bloody con.
f1ict, is revealed a picture Of condition OF
society in that period. - .,1 e. a..
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ADJUSTMENTS
The -Bostonlans In "Robin Hood" at the
90 Metropolitan.

The 4Bostonlans In "'Robin Hood" at the
" Metropolitan.
With the passage of years robin Hood
remains the highest and best achieve
ment in romantic light opera. What might
have seemed overpraise in the days Of
it's early successes is now justified by
the perennial freshness Of its youth and
beauty. A masterpiece never grows old.
And this first product of the collabora-
ton of Reginald De Koven and Harry B.
Smith "wrinkled care derides'& with the
jollity of it's rollicking choruses, the TO-
mantle beauty of it's songs and rounde-
lays, the absorbing interest Of it's tale
of merry old England and the spontaneous
effervescence of it's comedy SO nicely SUBJ
ordfnated to the main purpose of the OPP
era. It is remarkable that the two men,
one contributing the fran ework OF the
opera and the lyrics with which it is set,
and the other the music with which the
whole is clothed, should have succeeded
in producing work of art so harmonious
and so marked by unity of purpose and
feeling Only in this way could have been
attained that delightful atmosphere which
pervades the entire production, SO that
we seem in very sooth to be brea thing
the air and smelling the greenth Of Sher-
wood Forest. The language, the cos
tunes, the manners, the very songs of
that far-off day are made to live again
for us in robin Hood .-5 y
1t is a happy circumstance that some
of those fortunate Bostonians who shared
in the first popularity of the opera, seem
to have drunk deep drafts of It's remark
able elixir, and thus to have shared its
perennial youth. And they have been the
chief agents in the present revival Of its
delights. II Henry Clay Barnabee,' in the
person of that sublime egotist, the High
Sheriff of nottingham, issnotr immo rtal she
ought to be. Surely neither his. unctltous
humor nor his pleasant and permeating
voice has suffered any deterioration since
first the sheriff began his piottings against
the estates and person OF Robin. Dis
guised as a tinker, he capers as frol1c-
somely, drinks as deeply and is as tip
silly funny as Of yore. And does not w
II. Macdonald still sing Of the wholesome
ness of Brown October Ale" with all the
sturdy richness and vigor which have al
ways made that great composition ring
! ing memory? George rockingham, too
still draws the holy circle of the church
roundabout that graceiess Friar Tuck
whose tonsured head COMFORTS SO oddly
with the grinning audacity of his wit
There is still the same pnngency in his
iunhallowed outlawry that erstwhile tfckleo
our nostrils. Josephine Bartlett 81 Dame
burden is as picturesque as ever. These
lare old friends who bridge over the achasn
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The event recorded in the press dis
patches from West Superior of the burial
Of an ex-Confederate soldier by a Grand
Army post, evinces more than that the
flight Of time serves to obliterate the ha-
treds engendered by war. 1t shows that
men who saw service at the front learned
to respect the fortitude and the magnif
cent courage Of their whilom enemies and
have for them only the kindliest feelings,
In the heart OF the veteran of the Unipn
army there is warm spot for the hero
in gray only second to. that occupied by
his comrade who wore the blue
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interests Of their constituents they will
take up this matter Of street car accom-
modations and compel our prosperous
street railway company to- furnish better
service not only to the SHADY Side"
people who have asked for it by petition
but to many other sections which would
food the council with petitions if they
thought the council would pay any atten-
ton to- them. - : seEl.ss 8
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= 's- 'e cious taste for fic-
t1on is engendered and nourished by con-
tact with veally literature
publishers. however. are largely in
clined to publish anything they think will
sell. They take their chances on MANY
books, but generally arrange so that an
unknown author must take his chances of
Tightening his purse also. So long as the
publishers are willing to take their
chances, there will be dead stock on their
hands at the end Of a year. One sue
cessful venture may compensate them for
their losses and leave some net profit be
sides, but the boom novels are not
turned out very frequently. The people
who can write them are comparatively
few In number. All the publishers would
like to get manuscripts which develop
into ''boom" novels; but that is impos-
sible. If they reduce the output of fic-
ton, as proposed. let them be careful To
improve the literary quality of the books
they do publish. -. a. .,-.s '~..- II.
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Copyright, 1908, by T. c. Mcclure.

e = .
.Why don't you ask me what she looks
like?" l asked somewhat petulantly.
Averill stretched himself in his easy
chair and turned so as to hold me directly
within his lazy view. "For the very ex-
cellent reason that have not the slight
est curiosity to know, ma cherie."
I shrugged impatiently at the address.
You would best keep to your English l
said. your accent is atrocious." ~
He laughed, So
Since they are due now at any mo-
ment," went on, ignoring the laugh, II
should think you would want to know
what to prepare for 4.ss -
What doth it profit a mani he
spread out his hands deprecatingly.
"She has liquid brown eyes and red
hair" I pursued triumphantly.
"A type much overrated,' he murmured.
"And a mouth like al searched for a
smile rosebud I ended, somewhat
tamely.' p. +. -. .tn..-'...
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worte in answer to this request were: If
ever L see on bush or tree. young birds
in their pretty nest; Mary had little
lamb and several others we'll known
at that time. They were published In
Boston in 1880, in a, small pamphlet, with
stiff, yellowish covers. and were largely
used in the public schools. copy OF
This pamphlet is in possession of her fami-
ly. Mrs. Hale always stated that there
never was a real Mary or a real lamb,
the incident being entirely imaginary, and
written to inculcate kindness to animals"
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powder is sold at retail at the rate of ST.
an ounce. Acetanalid is. moreover, a heart
depressant, and therefore dangerous to
life in instances where the patient has "a
weak heart. The greed Of the adulterator
stops at nothing ,.-.. E.
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dorado Taft says that the Fjelde statue
Of Hiawatha is fairly good piece of work
and worthy of a place in Minnehaha park.
Mr. Taft, however, made this statement
before he knew what the Minneapolis art
commission had decided aboutqit.