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The Minneapolis journal., 1903-10-17
NEWS OF BOOK WORLD
Is Our Literary z Taste" Doomed 7--What
Publishers Say About Demand for.
Really Good Booi<s''-Fictlon for Wag-
nerIans-A Story OF Newspaper Life.

Has the recent increase in the sales Of
books, generally speaking, as yet resulted
in any measurable Improvement in the
public taste for books? Are really good
books. in the departments of biography,
history, poetry, and bellies lettres, bought
nowadays in much larger quantities than
they were five years ago? @
Here are questions that in these days
Of book deluges are Of great interest to the
thoughtful reader. AS publishers keep
their fingers on the pulse Of the reading
public to notice if possible any slightest
symptoms of change in taste or sentiment
in order to be ready to meet It promptly,
the New York Times Saturday Review
should be Of value as study in the de-
velopment in literary taste.
George p. Brett thinks that the atten-
tion paid to fiction has without doubt kept
more serious forms Of literary effort from
coming into their own. He believes, how
ever, that the spread Of education and the
growth i'll population will result in an in
creased demand for the best in literature.
While he speaks in high praise Of first
class fiction, as Of course he must he says
IAN attempt has been made to exploit and
to foist on the public works of fiction of a
very mediocre and third rate description" F."
Henry Holt gives ans emphatic negative
to the first and consequently to the Sec
Ond question thus:
Not by, any manner Of means The noise now
| made over. books that stand a chance of be-
coming popular is SO great that 1t is impossible
| to get the claims of other books heard at all,
except among the few whose attention is eager
| for them. The sale Of books of intrinsic value
| is not keeping up with the increase in popula-
| tion and education. A leading retailer lately
| told me that the question generally asked by a
customer on entering his store is: .'What are
! the latest sellers?''
George D. Dutton, William W., Appleton
and George H. Putnam give answers
which support this view Of Mr.. Holt's.
The question is, What's to be done
about it? 7N ~
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-10-17
BOOKS RECEIVED

{ +
THE HERMIT. a STORY OF THE WILDER
y Pocket Island,'' etc. illustrated by A. B.
shute. Boston: Lee & Shepard. sPrice 81. so.
SOUL WINNING STORIES, By Rev. Louis Al
bert Banks, ID. New York: American Tract
Society, $50 Nassau street. Minneapolis: N.
Mccarthy.
THE SEVEN CARDINAL VIRTUES, By Rev.
lanes James starker DD New York: american
GOOD BYE, SaouD 1RssR WoRID l1s By Ellen olney
Kirk Boston: Houghton, Mifatn & Co. Min
neapolis: N. Mccarthy. Price 81 so.
PRINCE HAGEN "A PHANTASY, BY Upton
Sinclair, author Of ''King Midas" etc. Bos-
ton: 7. G: Page & Co. Price 81. so.
THE MASTER ROGUE: THE CONFESSIONS
OF cRoEsUs, By David Graham Phillips.
Illustrated by Gordon H. Grant. New York
Mcclure, Phillips & Co. Minneapolis: Ma
thaniel Mccarthy. Price $3.50.
THE BLACK SHILLING: A TALE OF BOSTON
TOWNS, By Amelia e. Barr. Illustrated.
New York: Dodd, Mead & Co. Minneapolis:
William Donaldson. Price $3.50.
THE NEW THOUGHT sIMPLIFIED, By Henry
Wood, author OF Ideal Suggestion" etc.
Mccarthy. Price so cents.
A LAssIE OF THE ISLES, BY Adele E. Thomp-
son. author Of "Beck's Fortune. :" BETTY Sci
don, Patriot ''Braveheart Elizabeth, - etc.
illustrated by j. W. Kennedy. Boston: Lee &
Shepard Minneapolis: N. Mccarthy. Price
wfNIFRED's NE1GHBoRs, by Nina Rhoades
author Of 'Only Dolly s:The Little Cir
Next Door" etc. Illustrated by Bertha G
Davis Boston Lee & Shepard. Minneapo
lis: N. Mccarthy. Price 80 cents net
JOE THE SURVEYOR, By Edward stratemeyer
Boston: Lee & Shepard. Minneapolis:
Mccarthy. Price so cents net.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-10-17
AT THE THEATERS
Metropolitan-"The Rivals"

r
Even if Bob Acres had not been Joseph
Jefferson, The Rivals however far from
new, would have obtained a cordial recep-
tlon last night as the first high-class play
that Minneapolis has been permitted to
enjoy this season. And Mr.. Jeffcrson's
portrayal Of Bob has taken on a special in
terest IN recent years
The public that has long cultivated the
admiration that it inherited for the peren-
NAL comedian is invariably surprised at
his success in the role Of this very youth
full youth. A uninformed spectator, in
deed would seldom be suspicious. He
would never imagine that the actor was
turning back time full half a century,
Some 1ndlst1nctness of utterance would be
noticed, not necessarily connected with
age. A certain absent :mindedness would
be observed, whenever Mr.. u Jefferson rests
between his lines: but this abstraction
might follow many causes. AS Acres, MIR.
Jefferson triumps again in the subtleties
OF acting so painfully rare, in the wealth
Of suggestion. the fecundity of detail that
talent and experience may impart even
to character as transparent as the fee
BILE fop.
The heavy decisiveness Of Miss F,folliett
Pagets manner. together with her lucid
enunciation, make her admirable as Mrs.
Malaprop. Jefferson Winter, the we'll
known critics son, Joseph Jefferson jr.,
and William Jefferson sons Of the star,
interpret commendably the respective
parts of Captain Absolute, Sir Lucius
O,Trigger and Fag. H. B.l Curry.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-10-17
New York stock exchange seats sell for
$4,000 less than last year. Lambs are
scarce as t
Confidence.

& So often have we been assured that
in business and finance confidence is
everything that there is small possi-
bility that we shall remain ignorant
of it, tho we may not apply our
knowledge, and may even deliberately
proceed to undermine conf dence.
But confidence is not only the life
Of business. It is the foundation of
all social relations Of a peaceful
nature.
1t is only the confidence of men in
men that makes it possible to oper-
ate a single railway train. It is i'm
possible to remove the operation Of
railways from dependence on men.
IF every point of management could
be protected by mechanical devices
that would entirely remove the hu-
man element there would Still remain
the element of confidence in the gem
eral public. Every railway train that
pulls out Of a station does SO in the
full confidence of it's passengers and
operators that no man will undertake
to remove rail or dynamite 1t.
Not all the police in the country
could make the operation of rail-
road trains safe If a few hun ired
men should set out to wreck them at
every opportunity. If a single indi-
vidual aims to wreck a train he can
almost certainly accomplish his pur-
| pose, if he proceed with care. But
| so rare is the criminal who will
wreck a train that the engineer
| drives his iron and steel horse thru
| the stormy night at a mile-a-minute
and counts as almost infinitesin1al the
chance that he will meet injury or
| death thru the wilful act Of a man.
Every ocean voyage is an act OF
faith, Of confidence. The passen-
gers know nothing of ships or Of the
qualifications of the officers. They
take it for granted that if other men
have provided means of transport for
| them, they are safe 50 far as the ele-
ment of human reliability is con-
| cerned. a.: =, - y
| One does not take. a nouthful Of
food, mail a letter, buy the smalles
article without expressing confidence
in humanity. = a
= The exceptions, the instances of de.
ceived confidence, stand out so plain
ly; the support Of confidence is 81
| regular and unobtrusive, that W.
often experience a pessimism which il
controverted by a thousand facts O.
our daily existence. ..f .~ .:.te
/ We like to talk about the good, ole
times and the Immaculate virtue tha
we suppose characterized them. Blu
they are far Off and their defects are
obscured. The fact is that many O.
the. agencies of our civilization coull
not have been utilized, even tho in
vented, in a former age. Men coult
not be relied on then as9silow. There
was no foundation for that confidence
of man in, man which enables us t,
leave malicious human wickednes
altogether out of most of the trans
actions of life. T. ~ ~ - .''$. O. :. > s: ! z
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-10-17
N News

a ''You have to go away from home
to get the news" is a common saying;
after reading the current issue of the
Princeton News. we know it. Says
that esteemed exchange:
The fact that the Minnesota university
has permitted her football team to adopt
the name Of the Ames football team
shows how little regard IS paid to a mans
misdeeds if he has only the good will Of
the masses. sst.s3 M II
81 '.Ames' is a poor namesake for any or
gantzation, after the events Of the past
two years, and to have. the pet educational
institution Of the state name their pet
gamesters for him is a little too much
for good square conception Of American
citizenship. 5sse
we join with our Rum river con-
temporary in Its indignation. We
agree with it that .Ames Is a poor
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-10-17
GOODNIGHT

Goodnight! Until the dawn-light comes,
beloved, sleep.
Within thy dreams travel a north
woods trail
Beneath thy feet let piney needles slip
And at the portage ending, seize thy
sail.
And thou and !, within the night, will
journey on,
Across a noonbeam pathway-on to
where 2 55
The Giant Blue Bell rang the yesper CALL
And lake. and land, and life bowed down
in prayer IS ..
Farewell! Aye! Fare thee well, where'er
thou be!
The shadows and the n1oonbeams fold
s thee tight,
And And B. rock thee, in thy dream canoe, to
sleep 55
Until E' i the q dawn light comes, my friend,
GoodniEhtl
Me- wa.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-10-17
The Wheat Situation.

During the week there was not
Minneapolis to meet requirements,
even tho the -four mills are not grind
ing at full capacity, and some wheat
was drawn out of terminal elevator
stocks to help out Cash wheat has
been at a good premium over Decem
Der, and the cash wheat strength here
was the feature, Minneapolis again
leading all markets in advance. This
Is the natural result Of the long period
of continued bad weather thru which
the northwest passed this fall. For
a week or more good weather has
ruled, but many farmers are now busy
with fall plowing, and as the roads
are bad anyway, wheat receipts at
country points have been light. Mean
while the Minneapolis mills have been
doing a good business in flour, and
so the strength and higher prices for
December wheat in Minneapolis were
based on conditions legitimate and
not manipulative.
If the northwest situation were the
controlling factor, much higher prices
would be seen very shortly. Perhaps
the northwest will control finally, but
just at present it is contest between
strength at home and weakness abroad
and the result Is being worked out and
Is indeterminate as yet.
The great difficulty is in the atti-
tude of Liverpool. That market re-
fuses to follow advances on our side.
Even the Japan-Russia war scare and
the report that Japan had bought
wheat in India Jared Liverpool only
slightly. -
And why, indeed, should Liverpool
worry about wheat supplies, when
Russia is sending out about 100000
bushels week, the ports Of Danube
100000 bushels and India about
100000 bushels?
Of course this movement has got
to end before long. Then Liverpool
will probably turn stronger, especially
If anything should come upon Argen-
tine to lessen the present good prom
ise there for the new crop.
. Almost every northwestern wheat
man is bull at heart for long pull
The question at the moment would
appear to be one as to the advisability
of a bull campaign at this time. Can
we drag up Liverpool or can we put
our prices out of line with Liverpool
without hurting our export business
Can we go ahead and bull wheat or
the admittedly strong domestic stu.
alton, or must we wait for the foreign
bearish factors to wear themselves ou
before we can maintain prices on {
much higher range?
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-10-17

Irrigation will have much to its credit
If it shall succeed in redeeming the rotten
Mr.. F. H. Newell, the chief photographer
of the geological survey predicts. To-day
the state has only 40, 900 people, but Mr..
Newell says that irrigation will increase
this population to half a million within
thirty to fifty years. AS Nevada is prob
ably the most arid and barren Of all the
states and territories, it will be great
triumph to make it capable Of supporting
as large population as South Dakota has
to-day.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-10-17

The Railway Age Is one of those friends
Of mergers that do not rise above a slight
deception in order to make point. It
cites the request Of Pacific coast lumber
manufacturers to the Great Northern and
the Northern Pacific companies to rescind
the order forbidding their cars to go on
loaded over the Burlington; it calls atten-
ton to the fact that the state Of Wash
ington opposed the merger, and contends
that now the manufacturers favor COM
5ination and not separation. The Age
knows, Of course that the thru routing Of
cars over the Burlington has nothing to do
with the merits of consolidation Of the
Great Northern and the Northern Pacific.
And furthermore, where are the advan-
tages Of combination If it does not pro-
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-10-17
Opportunity.

4 0 The New York Post dwells upon
the remarkable conversion OF the most
unpromising human raw material into
valuable American citizenship. 1t
remarks how the Irish, now so con-
spicuous in all departments Of Ameri-
can life, We're the despised "mudsills of
society" two or three generations ago,
and 1t declares that races seemingly
much inferior naturally to the Irish,
such as the Russian Jews, are already
rapidly climbing the social scale. The
cause Of this success of Americaniza-
ton is thus stated by the Post:
B, Inc real underlying cause is our free
institutions. To say this is. to seem gull
" or Fourth OF July rhetoric, Of making
the eagle scream; but exaggeration is
scarcely possible in describing the stin-
ulus of liberty. Americans who have
Hved more In Europe than at home talk
tlangu1dly about the failure Of demo-
cratic government. But no man who has
seen that line of state uniyersities-Mich-
lgan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Nebraska,
ana SO on to California-no man who has
heard the surge Of our western beaches,
can deny that the same spirit of liberty
Whlch was displayed in the revolution
Is the most potent factor in American
progress to-day. The prospect Of mount
Ing from the very gutter to the proud
est place in the professions, in pol
ltlcs IN literature. has fired every boy
and girl who has a spark Of ambition;
and has made our schools, tho seriously
deficient at many points, the best in the
world, because they are the visible sigr
and opportunity Of the career open tc
talent s$s *tsfs - : :
That is well said. Americanism is
opportunity. We must keep the door
of opportunity open. It means vivi-
tying currents Of national. life, il
means, national strength and vigor, ii
means life worth living. for every
child born here. -
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-10-17
South Dakota's Prosperity.

a. It may seem impossible to believe
that South Dakota is the most pros
porous state in the union. But if by
duction of wealth per capita, there
seems to be little reason to doubt that
it is. For six years now the state has
enjoyed a larger per capita production
Of wealth than any other state in the
union. This year a. population of
100000 has produced $3.50, 100000 of
wealth. AS about 40,00O,000 of this
wealth was produced on the farm, it
is safe to say that there are few richer
farming communities in the world,
measured by annual production, than
South Dakota. !. :ssgrs. a-.>% n. .
The census of 1900 found 52,622
farmers in South Dakota. Assuming
that there are $4,000 now, each South
Dakota farmer produces more than
$4,000 worth of wealth each year.
Undoubtedly, this is too high an es-
timate. It is about twice the produc-
ton shown by the census in 1899. Ac-
cording to the census, North Dakota
did better than South Dakota in the
production Of agricultural wealth,
each farm yielding in the former state
$1,417 to $1,256 for the latter.
Still the, farmers of South Dakota
are much more prosperous now than
they were four years ago, and it is
quite possible that the income per
farm is as: high as it was in Iowa in
1899, where it was $1,59S per farm.
In other words, South Dakota is prob
ably producing as much wealth per
farm to-day as any state where irriga-
ton is not practiced.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-10-17

nanesake ne for any organization, after
the events OF the last two years. 4 Il
We are utterly unable to understand
why the university should name its.
football eleven after the former
mayor. We are equally unable to
understand how the editor Of any
Minnesota paper should make such
an egregious and ridiculous mistake
as our Princeton friend has.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-10-17


The sample canvass OF the residence portion
Of Minneapolis two BIZ cks of which The Journal
published daily for the past year, shows 7o7e
residences canrassed-
Journal subscribers .......... 5,642
Tribune (evening) subscribers. !, ,514
Tribune (morning) subscribers. S32
The canvass of ninety-three apartment and fiat
buildings, showed:
Journal subscribers ......... 1922
Tribune (evening) subscribers. 2O6
Tribune (morning) subscribers 1873
The canvass of nineteen leading office build
inGs showed regular subscribers to the daily
papers receiving their paper either at the office
their home:
Journals 2,153
Tribunes (evening) .......... 39S
Tribunes (morning) ......... 48O
The canvass Of the two afternoon trains to
Lake Minnetonka the Minneapolis & st.
Louis and Great Northern railroads showed:
Journals 451
Tribunes (evening) .......... 46
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-10-17
An intimate of King Edward, and of all

bA@S l. -OAA - SSSA SAAS@ ~ "
Europe, M. Henri de
Blowitz, left upon
his death the "Mem :
oirs'' Of his life
W h i c h Doubleday,
P a 6 e & Co. are
publishing, M. d e
Blowitz, a diplomat
himself. W as f Or
twenty-five We ar S
Paris correspondent
of the London Times.
The Memoirs" form
a history Of the con :
tinent S C e t h E
Franco-Prussian wal
from the standpoin!
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-10-17
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO

ceive by mail, or otherwise, the names Of
all persons who were readers and sub
scrIbers to this paper when 1t started,
twenty-five years ago this fall, or who
became subscribers during the first year
Of Its existence, and their present ad-
dresses, E---t
The Journal would also be pleased
to have the names Of men living who
were newsboys In Minneapolis twenty-five
years ago, and their present addresses.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-10-17

illustrations are rather carelessly done and
printed.
A refined blood and thunder story is .'Joe
the Surveyor. in which by a series of extra
ordinary condolences, one boy circumyents half
q dozen villains and saves his fathers fortune.
For those who enjoy this class of stories, Joe
the Surveyor, will prove interesting reading.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-10-17
LITERARY NOTES

Henry Wood who has written several books
on what he calls the New Thought Move
ment' in his last volume, 1.-The New Thought
SiNplifed. = epitomizes in. perspicuous form his
views previously expressed, adding series OF
exercises, intrespeetive in character, designed
for those who desire to attain the righteousness
and satisfaction which Mr.. Wood assures us is
attainable, by abandoning the theology OF the
churches and making oEeselt the only mediator
b.tw -en God andl man.
Flora Macdonald. the Highland maid who
saved Charles Edward Stuart the young pre-
tender, from captpre and death in his last strug-
gle for a throne, has long been haloed by ro-
IA Lassie Of the Isles. has added any mate
rial interest to the facts already known and to
be had for the seeking by young people who
may be Interested In her life romance, which
culminated on this side Of the Atlantic The
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-10-17

Formerly the Canadians stopepd nego-
tlations for reciprocity because the Alaska
boundary question was unsettled. Next
they may refuse to resume them because
it is settled "a ~. @...& &E.'.' e -..'.-
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-10-17

They are trying to figure out whether
the steel trust owes $500, 000, 900 or $780,
600, 900. Morg. and Schwab do not seem
to care which it is. It looks at this dis
tance as tho even Elijah the Restorer
couldn't restore confidence in this COR
poration.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-10-17

q 4 *
oppose Mr.. Eddy when that gentleman
comes out openly and approves Governor
Van SAINTS record as an official and en-
phasizes particularly his stand on the
merger question in which the people are
interested. II you will come out as en-
phatically and openly in opposition to the
merger as embodied in the Northern Sc
curities company and all similar mergers
that may be attempted in the future, these
same papers will be in no position to crit
icise you and will have nothing but kind
words to say Of your candidacy.
The Preston Times says:
Rumors are persistent to the effect
that Judge Collins WILL at the beginning
of the new year resign from the supreme
court bench and become an active candi-
date for governor. Should the little judge
conclude to do this there would be a woe
full smashing Of states, but as he has been
mentioned SO many times in the past, peo-
pie will wait for something more than
mere runors before espousing his cause
now
Charles B. Cheney
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-10-17

1t will be up to the New York bar asso-
citation to set the New York Structural
Iron and Steel Workers union a good ex-
ample by expelling the lawyer who con-
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-10-17

Carrie Nation is arranging a visit to the
White House If there is anybody who
can tell the president exactly what he
ought to do, Carrie is that lady. -
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-10-17
THE NONPAREIL MAN
Casually Observed.

When DR.. Dowie's host begins to dis
tribute the Leaves Of Healing at one end
Of Wall street. they are likely to see some
Heels Of Leaving at the other.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-10-17

successfully burning up their ashes In
their heating furnaces. A learned chemist
says the thing is impossible Here: is a
deadlock which every householder must
break for himself. If you can burn up
your ashes by following Mr.. Tomlinson's S
recipe Of mixing them with water, you
don't care what the professor says On
the other hand, if you can't burn them up,
it doesn't help you much to know that
your nefghbor says he can burn his ashes
It is certain that as soon as the weather
is cold enough to permit there will be
several hundred domestic firemen expert
menting with the Tomlinson recipe in Min
neapolis.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-10-17

REMEMBER, all this circulation is
the S o'clock edition, which is deliv-
cred directly to the homes. All the
members of the family have time to
read it.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-10-17

spired to protect Parks and induced a
walking delegate to commit perjury in or
der to shield Parks s
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-10-17

York of a $500 diamond ornament. May
be one of the ravens took It, tH-t5
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-10-17
THE MINNEAPOLIS JOURNAL.

duce such simple conveniences as thru
routing over connecting lines In the CONS
bination? 53s