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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-15
THE DANGEROUS PLuTocRAT
The Spectator.

ne spectator. l.lE
Is there any real danger In the accumu-
latton Of great riches in the hands of one
man? Can the multimillionaire be re-
garded in any sense as "a new peril?
Probably not. In the first place the man
who has amassed large sums of money
himself seldom or never squanders it. He
knows its value too well; he must be a
good business man to have become rich,
and good business men do not play ducks
and brakes with what, they have hardly
earned.
There would seem indeed to be only one
dangerous form of multimillionaire, and
that Is the man who uses his wealth for
political objects He can, or he can try
to, smash a constitution. He can organ
lie and he can bribe.a He can make men
rich or poor. But he cannot do so every
where. and he is not a danger to a state
possessing sound legislature and gov
erned by sound men. He might be dam
ger, perhaps, to q ring fence community
such as South Africa contained before the
war, but he could never be a danger in
q community better organized. The best
men-the men who alone could forward or
thwart his political projects be
neither allured nor frightened by his
money }. .st 53a5a
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-15

n & Z 4
Quoting the Office. that her service was
simply because she was personally objec-
tionable to Senator Alice The fact that
Alice is the Addicks senator from Della
ware, adds to the gravity OF the case.
for the public does not like to see any
special favors granted to Addicksim.
The president has now called upon POST
master General Payne for full state
ment OF the case, and may reinstate Miss
Todd. #
While an injustice may have been done
Miss Todd and she may have her office
back. the affair Is hardly one to be worthy
of so much indignation as 1t has stirred
up, keeping in mind the fact that the
spoils system still applies to so many
federal offices. It Is revolving, Of course,
to think OF faithful public official being
ousted to make room for favorite, but
that Is part Of the political game as 1t
IS still played in this country. Miss Todd.
tho a woman, belonged to the anti
Addicks faction, and probably spoke her
mind regarding the Addicks crowd and
senator Alice Under the system Of sena-
torial appointments which prevails in fact,
tho unknown to the constitution, Miss
Todd was thus criticizing her superior,
which is something that is not tolerated
in any branch Of the government. II Miss
Todd was Senator Allee's political OPP
ponent it was only natural that he should
use his influence as senator to remove her
from office.
IT, however. she has not been guilty OF
offense against him as her superior, but
suffers simply because he wishes the Of
flee for some one else, the case is differ
ent, and Miss Todd should be reinstated
This is not only justice to her, but to
prevent the establishment Of precedent
in favor Of senator's changing fourth
class postmasters whenever they feel
like it.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-15
At THE THEATERS
observation-disclosures Mastodon MIN

Observation-Disclosures Mastodon MIN
strels.
They have the straight wool" the red
lips, the china" eye, the sooty features
that distinguish the "Christy minstrel,
from the genuine negro. But the COM
pany now known as Haverly's Mastodons
have gone SO. far in search of twentieth
century improvements that they have lost
the comic charms Of the plantation
''darky'' and the charms, as well, of the
old-time Imitation. What the present
Haverlys presume to be no ethnologist
could determine. They aren't "cullud
pussons." they are by no means lilly
whites" and they don't make satisfactory
Indians They have not only "laid down
de shovel and de hoe but they have
cast aside the banjo and the s"bones.''
They have practically abandoned negro
dialect. And for all these losses they
can count no gains, except more snowy
costumes, more elaborate scenecy.
q No compensation was afforded the small
audience last night in the way Of original
jokes, frst-class jokes revised, superior
voices or enticing melodies. The ieux
desprit were commonplace puns, the
single voice to attract attention was the
sympathetic, If unframed, bass Of George
M Vail Dan Waldron, retaining a trace
OF the negro's unctuous humor, proved the
best OF the comedians. Eddie Leonard, q
graceful man with some vocal ability,
foundered aimlessly thru song and con-
tortion like the historic calf that dunno
whar he's gwire, kase he dun chewed he
tag. Billy Van, the assassin Of sor-
row, " could not convict himself of more
than simple assault. He has Sir Henry
gurgles that is funny. But.in countenance
and accent he suggests a chimney sweep
rather than negro He can be congrat-
ulated only upon his monologue which is
probably the most pointless gibberish that
has ever oppressed the Metropolitan stage
The whole performance, indeed, of the
minstrels proper demanded redemption by
the vaudeville turns that followed.
The turns" came to the rescue. Mar
Gus and Gartelle revived the roller skat.
ing craze in a diverting picture of roller
school. They added a, clever break.
down. dance on skates. Garden and
Somers, musicians, introduced novelties
into the long list Of freak instruments
The Young brothers, BLACK chinks," to-
wit, Afro Chinese, manifested surprising
agility and strength.
H. B. Curry.
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The public never sees John D. Rookie
teller. No personal items about him ever
find their way into publication. Yet
everybody who knows the results of his
work agrees, writes q New York CORE
spondent, that he is incomparably the
ablest man Of business that was ever
born.
Illness has left him wholly and repul-
sively bald. The skin Of his head Is like
parchment. But outside his personal ap-
pearance he has no striking peculiarities.
He never talks about business affairs; he
has not been to his office in the Standard
Oil building for six or seven years; he
talks with his chief business agent only
by telephone.
He is a man Of the conventional cul-
.ture. He speaks in low tones-a quiet,
unexcitable man. He might be taken fol-
a man OF leisure. His tastes are SIM
pie, and he has conducted his household
as pious Baptist should His religious
feeling Is genuine-or he thinks it is.
Love Of the great game of financial
wor-or warts his dominant passion
He knows the underlying Psychology as
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-15
THE POWER OF THE PAST

tions-and they stick to me even after the
stage door is passed
81 know an American who played tho
role of an Englishman for an entire sea-
son in road company. Before he knew
what he was about he was giving certain
words the broad English accent in his
every day conversation. And the habit
stuck.
1.-THE woman who plays the weepy hero
inc roles often becomes a much more sub
dued and quiet person at the end Of the
season than she was in the beginning.
For the character gets into one quite az
much as one gets into the character
"Of course. if one does not play the
same role night in and night out, but has
a chance to change occasionally, why.
the characteristics and mannerisms Of the
role are dropped in the theater and are
not obtruded nor obtrusive when one goes
out.
"But the same role played thru an en-
tire season Is bound to leave its Inn
press. And SO, II I'm talking loud or
laughing loud-welI. you'n have to ex-
lcuse me, that's au.'.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-15
DEAR1E ASKS A FEW QUESTIONS

news. IS er.
s'Dearier
sWell?"
..Please tell me. I'm perfectly sure you
did. Now, didn't you?"
81 forget
ct know that's false. You must rernem-
Der. You can go up north on that hunts
ing trip If you tell me. Now, didn't you
kiss herr"
.Dou mean that? That you won't cry
over my coat and think I've shot myself?
Well, then, never kissed her Where's
my hunting suit and leggings?"
81 don't believe you. know you did.
I know that's not true
"Well why in the nation would you
rather have me say did kiss her?"
Because want the truth and you've
told me two
"well, how in creation do you know
that? I say that
'You don't remember and then that you
didn't
'Well. then, now I say I did: Now,
let's hunt up those toys"
"Well, I'm glad you got up courage
enough to tell me the truth at last, only
could have believed you easier If you
had said yes at first instead Of
well, my dear?"
But as it is YOU ye-why, you've told
me three different stories. Three differ
ent, totally different, stories about sim
pie little matter. Now, haven't you?"
your enumeration is practically corr
rect, my dear
well, then o, I've caught you
red handed. You do tell fbs. But you
told the truth at last"
80 you have, said before"
tBut did your q
''You have said it,
...But which thing am to believer
my dear, your choice is unbiased. I
have at least told you the truth. And the
important outcome to me is that the day
after tomorrow / start on that forbidden
trip. I'm ever so much obliged my DEAR"
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-15
THE MAN BEHIND THE BILLION

no other man ever knew it. He knows
the right moment to act. the right man
to act with and thru. You feel said
a man who often saw him when more
accessible, that he has a quiet power
which enables him to see what you are
thinking about"
John D., Jr.. is a chip Of the old block.
He has a similarly inmobile countenance.
Not that he is purposely secretive; he is
constitutionally secretive. He has COM
plete control over himself, and is deliber-
ately and industriously learning the meth
eds of his father, whom he holds in rev.
erence.
If he lives thirty or forty years Che Is
robust man Of % or 29) the Rockefeller
fortune, now able to control thousand
millions should have increased almost be-
You'd calculation. The rate Of accumula-
ton is by no means the sheer piling up
of interest at 8 per cent or per cent or
per cent; Rockefeller is the most capa-
BILE money-maker In history.
Where other men make reasonable
profits. he seizes opportunities to make
colossal profits, and nothing is wasted;
no chances are taken.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-15
THE DOCTORS ADVICE
Cincinnati Post

Cincinnati Post.
The humorist, Marshall P. Wilder, was
not unnaturally. in the best Of spirits at
his recent wedding in New York. One OF
tho things he said was this:
II am going to tell you about an ex-
perience that an Irishman had with a
doctor. This will be appropriate, for the
reason that my wife is a doctor 8
daughter, and thought seriously of
studying medicine in my youth.
There was an Irishman who rushed,
late one night, to a Doctors house in
great haste and terror. He rang the doc
tor out Of bed, and he said, nearly weep
ing:
Doctor, doctor, dear; my little son
Pat has swallowed a mouse, What in
the world Is to be done?'
81 " Swallowed a mouse, has he? said
the doctor, gruffly. Well, go back home
and tell him to swallow L cat''
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-15
TREATISE ON ANATOMY
Philadelphia Inquirer.

The study Of anatomy, recently intro
duced in the public schools, may be q
good thing in some instances, but it was
very evidently thrown away on a certain
boy whose essay on the human body was
read at an examination not long ago.
This Is what he has discovered after a
careful perusal Of the textbooks:
The human body consists OF the head,
thorax, abdomen and legs. The head con-
tains the brains in case there are any.
The thorax contains the heart and lungs,
also the liver and lights. The abdomen
contains the bowels, Of which there are
ave--a, g, !. o. U. and sometimes w and y.
The legs extend from the abdomen to the
floor. and have hinges at the top and
middle to enable q fellow to sit when
standing or to stand when sitting.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-15
LOVE is THE HANDSPRING

Grew Lyman Abbott in the September
Atlantic.)
Political economists have told us that
self-interest is the handspring Of Industry.
It Is not true. Love is the handspring
Of industry. It is love for the home and
the wife and the children that keeps all
the busy wheels OF, industry revolving,
that calls the factory hands early to the
mill, that nerves the arm Of the black
smith working at his forge that inspires
the farmer at his plow and the merchant
at his desk, that gives courage to the SOL
der and patience to the teacher
Erskine was asked how he dared as, an
unknown barrister, face hostile court
and insist on his right to be heard ST
felt my children he replied. ''tugging at
my robe and saying: Here is your
chance, father, to get US bread" It is
this vision Of the children dependent. on
US that inspires us all in the battle Of
life Eas @z
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-15
Chicago Post.

Chicago Post.
/; Helen Marvin, who appears as the great
hearted, loud-laughing, broad talking
Devonshire lass in "A Country Girl at
the Illinois theater, Is struggling with the
unique experience which says much for
the argument that an actor or actress is
affected by the role he or she plays in a
theater. There are many who believe
that the characteristics that an artist
enacts on the stage clings to them when
off, and follows them into their life even
when they pass without the stage door.
"A year ago." says Miss Marvin, II had
a low voice and correspondingly low
laugh. I have been playing Nan night
after night-a character that is Audrey
like, rough. uncouth. She speaks in a
loud tone Of voice and has a laugh that
is like calliope in tone. It's more than
q laugh: it's loud, coarse laugh-just as
an English country girl would give.
Night after night I have played the
role. mind you. Now. what is the result
* can't leave that laugh IN the theater
nor the loud voice either. The voice has
lhsen trained to the certain high infiec-
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-15
BREADTH or COURTESY
philadelphia LEDGER.

It was on a Spruce street car. All the
seats were occupied. At Broad street the
car stopped to allow an enormously stout
woman to get on. Not seeing any vacant
seats she chung to a strap right in front
OF a rather thin man, who was tightly
wedged in between two other men. The
mans innate politeness could not let him
see a lady stand, but it was out Of the
question that she should occupy the small
space he was filing. However, he was
equal to the occasion. With look at his
neighbors and half rising, he said: .1'n
be one Of two to get up and give this lady
seat II 81
She got it.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-15
"TIM" HEALY's TALL HAT

The appearance Of Tim Healy in the
house OF commons wearing new silk hat
brought out. the fact that for ten years
his high hat was smashed, Mr. Healy had
worn high hat sent him by the corpora
ton Of Alexandria. He priced the hat high
ily, and wore It to its utmost limits. Last
week he was forced to buy new tile, and
the present from the corporation Of Alex
andria is carefully preserved on a shelf as
q relic OF strenuous days for home rule.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-15

A farmer near Fort Smelling, crazed by
the effect Of the bad weather on his crops,
hung himself. If there is anything that
will test mans strength, it is to so thru
a farmers experience In a bad year, with
ruin at the end, after alternating periods
of hope and despair.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-15
HOW He KNEW ALLEN

Howard Bell the New York publisher,
was being shaved the other day do you
like James Lane Aliens new book?'' asked
his barber, striving for an appropriate
subject Of conversation. why, yes said
the publisher, but just now am inter-
ested In a-book by William Dean How
ellis. Do you read him % mo" replied
the barber; never heard OF him. What,
never heard Of Mr.. Novelist Why, he
surely Is better known than Mr.. Allen y
THAT may be, sir; but, you see, shave
Mr. Alden -
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-15

after he has, title he can do what he
pleases with it.
So long as the law is In operation no
blame can attach to the individual who
profits by 1t. but the interests Of the peo-
pie as whole demand its repeal at once.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-15

Charles J. Bonaparte is going to probe
the Indian Territory land frauds. May
he fall on the rascals as his illustrous
uncle several times removed was wont
to fall upon his enemies!
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-
The Mountain Lake View man asked a
friend, who visited the state fair and
stopped over night, If he had been for
tunate enough to see Dan Patch. He re-
eeived this reply:
ooh, no, didn't get there Monday, but
you know he was there right along, and
heard him speak another day. A great
fellow, isn't he?"
Wouldn't that poison your live stock
breakfast food?
The Dallas News, after telling that
Texas has produced $500, 100000 worth of
stuff this year, adds that the state is
tn peerless, pluperfect, preponderous,
prodigious, pandiculated, panoramic,
papescent, petaliferous, proligerous,
purpurogenous, petroliferous panjandarum
and the indispensable, untouchabble, un-
matchable, unabolishable, unapproach-
able, unfadable, unbeatable and unlickable
1T Of the whole universal situation" We
submit that this Is not the language OF
moderation.
The Memphis Commercial Appeal says
that the happy negro working in his
little cotton patch has no conception that
he is a problem.
Mr.. Carnegie is buying UP few Scotch
,battlefields. They are indeed scenes OF
memorable valor. Yet there are many
many people who show no trepidation IN
going against the hot scotch.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-15

Milwaukee is to get the wisconsin
Minnesota football game this year. It
was about time that the Wisconsin me-
tropolis got some.recognition Of this sort.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-15

A new blackberry is causing some COM
ment in the southwest 1t is yellow when
it is green and white when 1t is black.
Hold on there-hold on--what's the matter
with us? Yes, on second thought, those
are the exact facts.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-15

Speaking Of human wolves. what about
the loan agent that took SIP in interest
on $40 loan, and is still trying to get
back the principal?
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-15

The whole crop outlook IS not gloomy.
The potato crop at the Minneapolis work
house has been saved.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-15
NEW BOOKS

PLACE AND POWER. BY Ellen Thornycroft
Fowler (Mrs. Alfred Lawrence Felkin), author
Of "A Double Thread etc. Illustrated. New
York: d. Appleton & Co. Minneapolis: N
! Mccarthy. Price $1.5O.
This is one of Miss Fowler's domestic
novels Of a didactic kind designed to show
the error of mere righteousness and cant,
as compared with the substantial COM
fort Of religion actualized In daily life.
The Claytons, father and SON, rich, sordid,
mamman- worshipers, detested both re-
ligton and righteousness. The son, heart
less and ambitious for public career.
married Griselda, a, daughter Of the house
Of Gaukrodger, whose heads had such an
excess of Righteousness that they almost
Illustrated the tradition of the man who
killed his cat on Monday for, killing a
mouse on Sunday" The three old maids,
the Miss Gaukrodgers, are decidedly in
teresting examples of theS authors char
acter- stretching ability.
THE HISTORY AND USE OF HYMNS AND
HYMN TUNES. By Rev. David R. Breed.
World for Christi Chicago: Fleming 81.
Reyell company. Minneapolis: N. Mccarthy.
Price 1.50.
DR.. Breed was formerly pastor Of the
House Of Hope Presbyterian church in
st. Paul and is now q professor in the
Western theological seminary. In this
ogy, and especially the subject Of hymn
tunes, in a manner far more attractive
than have other writer's on the subject.
After a brief discussion of the ancient
pagan and Hebrew hymns he reviews
the early Christian hymn literature which
was voluminous, and Is echoed to-day in
the singing Of the Gloria in Excelsis, the
Gloria Patri, Tu Sanctus, Benedicite and
TIE Deum of the Episcopal prayer book.
Pliny reports in one Of his official letters
from Bythinia to the Emperor Trojan
that the Christians at dawn Sang hymns
to Christ as Cod" and in Paul's epistles
there were quotations from hymns cur
rently sung by the Christian assemblies
Citations are given from the Greek and
Latin German hymns writer's, and there
is an account of the metrical versions OF
the Psalms and Of the prominent writers
in that line. About 100 pages are de-
voted TO English hymnology, the subject
being divided into three periods, including
Bishop Ken, Watts, Doddridge, Wesley
Cowper, Toplady, Montgomery, Hebes
Keble, Doane. Cardinal Newman, Miss
Prentiss, Ray Tolrner, Bonar, ~Faber, Miss
| Frances Havergal and other noted writers
! of hymns. The second part Is devoted tt
hymn tunes, beginning with the Greek
scale and Ambrose, with selections from
| the hymn tunes Of the ages. In his re.
tunes DR.. Breed is finely discriminative
and modest. The final chapter on the
place of singing In public worship, its re.
lation to preaching and the real function
| of music, is suggestive and valuable.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-15

After the cold wave passes on summer
may yet put in a little time swinging on
the front. gate Of fall.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-15

wild West show-Poorest Ever-Gang
OF Jail Birds and Thieves Robbers-Evil
Influences" were the headlines over the
,Nodaway, Mo-, Forums account Of the
recent visit Of the James & Younger cir
Gus in Maryville. The circus men got
back at Editor Golden by proving abso-
lutely that he was a member of the Mis-
souri, legislature last winter.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-15

The Turkish eleven went right thru the
center for 700 yards.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-15
THE NONPAREIL MAN

"Drat this rain,': remarked Noaf1's
Senegambian cook as she stuck her head
out of the window, 'tAin't it never going
to quit? This looks like the line storm
in Nebrasky.'
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-15
THE SECRET

I have secret; how shall I bring 1t
Home to all mortals, wherever they be
Say 1t or sing It Shoe it or wing IT.?
So 1t may outrun and outfy me
Merest cocoon web whence 1t broke free7
Only one secret can save from disaster, ss
Only one magic Is that Of the Master
Set it to music: give It a tune.
Tune the brook sings you, tune the breeze brings
~ " you, 81 81 49, a
That is the secrets 50 simple, you see.
s. Easy as loving, easy as kissing,
y Easy as-well. let me ponder--as missing.
Known, since the world was, to scarce two or
thgeo- Il -1AlnaA -RuaAaN LnueA1l.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-15
Casually Observed.

The Langley airship is suffering from
cold feet.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-15

Congressman Davis removal of Post
master Fichthorn of ST. Peter has set the
third district tongues to wagging. Mr..
Fichthorn was appointed on Congressman
McCleary's recommendation two years
ago. and hence had two years more to
serve. His paper, the ST. Peter Tribune,
supported G. S. Ives for the congressional
nomination last year. The reason of his
removal is not stated but MS successor,
II. G. Miller, is editor of the ST. Peter
Free Press, which was an ardent sup
porter of Davis. Charles B. Cheney.