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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-12-19
THE MINNEAPOLIS. JOURNAL. !.


intrigues and temptations of the So
called smart set.
The company. includes Miss Pearl
Charlton Steward. Frank Holland,
Richard Allen Miss Florence Ash
brooke, Paul Burns, George Belts,
Carrie Eckert, Ambrose Rood, Mart
Stevens. Miss Monte Reynolds, Miss
Rosabelle 3Hearn, Harry sHearn, little
Minerva and Robert Morton.
In addition to the regular Wednes-
day and; Saturday matinees, the en-
gagement will include special holi-
day matinee Christmas Day, which
will commence at 8 o'clock.
ben zHur' to Return.
For the New Year in the amusement
line Manager Scott of the Metropoli-
tan announces a return, engagement
of KlaW & Erlangers sumptuous and
massive spectacular production of
General Lew Wallace's Ben Hur'' for
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BIJOU =.
LYCEUM
DEWEY.
Metropolitan--De Wolf Hopper
s.NJr pJrlxXyiclS3 - - 'cc s.. 49, :

Metropolitan-De Wolf Hopper in
mir. Pfckwick." 81 q, IL s..
The announcement that De Wolf;
Hopper and his company are to re-
appear here in Mr.. Pickwick" at the
Metropolitan for the half week, COM
mencing Tomorrow, evening, is an
event that is. sure to attract the at
tention OF theater-goers, sbook-levers
and admirers Of Charles Dickens
Mr.. Pickwick's" comedy is so de-
lightfully quaint, refined and unique;
its characters SO true to the famous
conception of Dickens and Crrik-
shank; the atmosphere of the days
OF the celebrated Mr.. Pickwick and
his contemporaries so delightful that
it appeals not only to the usual the
ater-goer,. but to every person who
enjoys the celebrated English authors
most famous work. =. - sa ILL.,. -
The company supporting Mr.. Hop
per, who, of course. will appear as
Mr.. Pickwick, is the same, as last
season, with but few exceptions. Dig
by Bell, the celebrated comedian who
for many years starred at the head
of his own organization, appears as
Sam Weller: Louis Payne as Alfred
Jingle; Frank Belcher as Tony We'll
Ter. Sans jovial father-he of width
and WISDOM" and Marguerite Clark
us Polly. Florine Murray plays Ara
bella and is the prima donna of the
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Miss Grace Hayward,s dramatization- of George
Barr McCutcheon's novel of the same name, will
be presented at the Lsceum for one week, COM
mencing Sunday evening, Jan. g. sss4.ss.!
Other January bookings at the metropolitan in
clude Sag Harbor. y the Bostonians Jane Ken
mark in the original Belasco production of tUnder
Two Flags 1.-THE Sultan OF Sulu' and Adelaide
Thurston in new play entitled 81 Polly ssPrim-
rose
The Orpheum show is underlined for an ap-
pearance at the Bijou this season The head
liners will be Mcintyre and Heath, the great
negro comedians. and Will also include Miss
Elizabeth Murray, the clever singing fcomedienne
and raconteur.i - r. rs 81 g5la
The age1nent of Mason and Mason in 'Ru-
dolph and Adolph'' promises tobe a very success
full one when these mirth- proyokers appear at
the Bijou. and local theater-goers: have been
looking forward eagerly to the annual visit of
cheese clever German diaiecticians
The list of Bijou.. booktngs for this season
includes many splendid attractions yet. to come
among them being Joseph Murphy, David Hig-
gins. in a new play: Al H. Wilson. the clever
German singing comedian; David Harum,' "a
Little outcast,''# and many Others
Nancy Brown with Marie sGahill in tie
title rolewill besthe offering at the metropolitan
! for half a week beginning Thursday, Jan. IA.
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vescent, light, and, airy musical plays
that are continually being evolved in
New Y DIRK, London and recently Chi
cagO. - 49,. Z - - > ~.
At. the Bijou thruout New. Years
week, including in addition to the
regular afternoon ;; performances. a
special holiday matinee which will be
given on New ears Day, one Of fthese
pieces Will be presented, namely the
operate comedy, THE Chaperons. ;"
Local theater 5goersG are. familiar with
the excellence of this attraction and
in the, past have always, accorded it
liberal patronage. This will be it's
first. presentation {. here at popular
prices. The Bijou management is to
be commended for having secured this
important offering for New, Years
week. .szsl, -. n
tTooTLIGHT FLASHES.
5 Miss tirore Hayward will return to the cast
in the Ferris colpaliy's productions in the lead
ing role in the comedy DRAMA AN Innocent
Sinner. y - 49, u
The Factory, Girl a z new comedy drama
which has already achieved marked success in
many cities. will have: its initial production i'll
this city shortly.
Carl IIagenbeck's trained wild animal show,
which made asach a tremendous hit at the Chi
cage worlds fair, is scheduled for appearance
ut the Bijou i'll January. $; Z
.'The Lighthouse BY the Sea- which will be
presented ut the Bjou soon. is said to be one of
the most elaborate attractions of the kind. pro-
duced in year. 1t. is Il sensational .melodraIna,
with plenty of excitement: =
A grand scenic 81 luction of ''(iraustark,' -
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PICTURES THAT THE BLIND SEE
Answers.

A man blind from birth, speaking of
the mental pictures which unfortu-
mates like himself have Of external
things, said:
Eve get some idea of shape, more
than we do Of size. OF color, we have
an idea of black and white and of
red, but think few, if any, of us can
comprehend any other hue. We pic
ture the sun as an immense mass,
with red rays shooting about it, and
daylight as a million white shafts
floating above the earth.
2 when a blind man dreams his
dreams are not like those of other
people, but consist almost entirely of
sensations of sound. He cannot dream
of scenes and places, for he has never
seen them. For instance, when we
dream of hearing of our friends we
dream of hearing Of their voices.
The sensation of sound and motion
take the place in the dreams of the
blind of the objects which appear in
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ular favor in the United States, and
was produced i'm New, York about.
twentysyears ago. sss -. 81. !
The story, Of the piece is the story
Of young man and his wife; who
have gone to London to- seek their
fortune. After many reverses they
return and the husband asks, his
father@for, assistance, but is dismissed
in anger. "a cousin learning that he
is in. disgrace at home robs the. house,
and while the squire is chasing. him he
(the squirrel lis killed: 7 he cousin lays
the crime on the son and he is put
into prison. but escapes and goes to
his wife. who is very i'll. She is being
taken care of by "a travelling show
company. One of the actors exchanges
clothes with him and when the Off
GERS come TO arrest him they take the
actor instead. The police at the sta
ton discover their mistake and when
they come back to get the right man.
he is among friends There is one
more attempt made to arrest him and
this time the cousin, who. killed the
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the visions of the night to those who
can see. 1 speak Of those who have
been blind always, for, of course, with
those who once could see, their
dreams may be filed with visions of
people and places which their waking
eyes cannot now behold, but which
may appear wildly to them in sleep.
But one who has been blind always
cannot dream of seeing"
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an idea that he
was very keen in
ferretingr O. u t
crime. His anxiety
to get at the bot
tom Of whatever
occurred in Stony
Lonesome h a d
won for him the
dislike Of all the
other boys, who
did not care to
have, such little
dereictions a S
window smashing
and apple stealing
traced to them,
and for this rea-
son they had ac-
oJ1jrad the habit
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of laying all these crimes to Peewee's
door. Because of these unjust
charges, Peewee's face. had come to
wear, an expression of panied surprise.
Shorty Hitchcock, Spot. Maloney
and Slim Jones, who is, called slim
because he is very fat, did not associ-
ate much with Peewee. because he
did not associate with the STONY
Lonesome Gang
frankie Foster was the model child
of Stony Lonesome, and when Spot
Maloney sat on Frankie's new stiff
hat and then kicked him in the shins
for having it, great was the JOY in
Stony Lonesome schoolhouse yard.
Fight! Fight! Fight!
Here is the story of Stony Lone
some fight:
"'All right, come on said Spot
proposing to take the crowd for a
treat at Chuck and squib's sweet fern
leaf cigar store, whore cigars were
sold for pins. Hold on there, durn
you, what are you doing?1
What's the matter, Spot?' asked
Shorty.
It's dead sure to rain Saturday.
What do you mean?, continued
Spot, evidently growing .angrier.
We're goin' berryin' Saturday,
The fat boy grinned.
You needn't, be SO burned par
tickerler. Guess fellow can spit if
he wants ter. They amt no law
against it.
More words passed, and off came
Spots coat: and the battle was on.
CORY! Slim Jones and Spots a.
fghtin'!'
"a yell of delight arose.
Row! Row! Make a ring! Make
a ring!'
The boys gathered into ring and
encouraged the combatants with loud
shouts.
swipe him, Spot. 90, wasn't
| that a good one!" =
Meller his head!
Lam him, Spot!
Two or three men passed. but did
not attempt to interfere. Slim Jones
] soon had his opponent down and was
sitting on him, while Spot bit
scratched, kicked and pummeled
blindly.
''At this point Mrs. Jackson, an.
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company: Laura Joyce Bell will APP
pear as Mrs. Bardell. Others of the
cast are: j. K. Adams as Mr. Wardle,
George Chapman as Mr., Wink lie, : Au-
gustus Colleti as Mr.. Snodgrass,,t #. r.
Willing as Mr.. 4Tupman, Viva Ogden
as Miss Wardle, Guy Bartlett; as. the
Fat Boy. George ROLAND as. Col. Bull
der, CD. Williams; as Dr. Slammer,
Gertrude Taylor as Miss Tompkins
and Grace Wallace as Liza :. =: -;
Charles, Klein is the. author OF the
dramatfzation, and his brother, !, Man
uel Klein, recently engaged as musical
director, for Daniel Frohman. COM
posed the music The entire COM
pany consists of seventy persons, and
the scenery and general properties
are the same that made the = produc-
ton a favorite Broadway attraction
for three months lat T." the Z. Herald
Square theater.- t--,~s,,:,, = -, &. Fs.5
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squire is arrested. The squire before
dying left his property to his son. The
nephew is convicted and sent to prison
and the son once more regains his
good name. -, s5a
A. Byron ,Beasley is cast as Squire
Armytage, son of Squire Armytage;
E.. p. Jerome as Squire Armytage, Of
Armytage Hall; William H. Murdoch
as Clifford Armytage, his nephew;
George j. Gilmore as Marks, lodge
keeper at the hall; Charles G. Burn
ham as Seth Preene, Bess' father; Ben
johnson as Jarvis, Joseph, Totten as
Shakspere Jarvis of the legitimate;
Miss Maude Gilbert as Bess; Eva Sar-
CANT as Janet, servant at the Inn; and
Maisie Cecil as Hetty Preene, Seth's
daughter. :. ~
1.-THE Chaperons" Coming.
This appears to be the era of must
cal comedies, and nothing seems to suit
the public taste better than the effer-
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Arthur Ruls Stony Lonesome"Its Sturdy
Renewing sketchesA olden Glory the
Days Gone By
Days Gone By.

While one reads the pages of STONY
J. lonesome" an admirable book of boy
life, by Arthur j. RUSSELL the Non.
parell Man" of Til e Journal, he
who sat UP with the book the other
night, the first after the arrival of
the first copy in the city, says that
for three straight hours he was boy
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a TRAIN or THouaHT.

Ph1IadeIphfa Press.
II suppose you heard that Gayboy taken
suddenly Ill this morning and died this after
noon.,' said the siburbanite.
NO" replied the other WELL Well, ushered
into eternity, Ell? BY the way, that reminds
me, have you got the furnace fire going at your
house yet!'
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-12-19
GRAsPED THE MEANING.

: It was aboard the modern ocean liner
Twenty dollars for extra SERVICE said tho
steward. making out his list.
The American tourist sighed.
s. Now know what they mean by the high
seas he said, handing over orange note.
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Metropolitan for the entire week commencing
Sunday evening, Dec. q. with matinees Wednes-
day, New Years Day. and Saturday.
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PLAYING Indian:is as n,

Playing Indian is as natural to ear
&ly youth, as eating, and Spot, Shorty
and Slim Jones have their, equipment
for the game as played by boys.
Say, let's paint and go down to
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THAT'S ALL.

T
Tommy-Pop. why do people have to pay
duty on things they bring from Europe?
Tommy's Pop--Just matter, of custom, my
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like a chapter out
of his own life was
STONY Lonesome"
This is high praise
for the book, for it
is best evidence"
as to the fidelity
with which the pic
lures are drawn.
The book is a.
succession of pic
lures of boylife all
bound together and
worked in as Incl
dental to the de-
velopment of a plot
in which "TN,wee"
Jackson, the Sher-,
lock Holmes of
Stony Lonesome, is
the silent but deep
conspirator an d
discoverer of crime.
In reading it. one,
by a strange mag
ic, finds hinnseli.
with the .delectable
youth of Stony
Lonesome chasing
after the village
hand power fire
engine, or playing
knife on the vii
lage green, smok-
ing -cornsilk cigars,
shrinking f r o. m
touching a toad for
fear Of warts. or
uJorlxipr q oooioo1
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NIetropolitan-TiIn Murphy in "The
Man From Missouri j3s.t r.
Tim Murphy will play an engage
ment of three nights, and Christmas
and Saturday matinees at; the Metro
politan, commencing Thursday, even
ing, Dec. "a, in his new play, THE
Man From Missouri. written :: by
George V. Hobart and Edward E.
Rose for Mr.. Murphy, and said to- be
the best play in which he has ap-
peared. ~ - :, - be-. > -
The play has all the, delightfully."- re-
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cure for. warts started by handling
toads, playing Indian, hiding in a
pirates cave, hunting birds eggs,
going in "swimmin' and staying in all
afternoon and having his shirt tied in
hard knot and soaked in water,
working the "tick-tack" on some lone
~ old lady, and going after q left
handed monkey wrench or sending
some other boy after. one, It is worth
something to do all these things again,
and Mr.. Russell has made 1t possible.
If one doesn't avail himself of the
opportunity he loses a chance to make
the spirit young again and help to keep
it so, and after all, that is the great
thing. 80
But to come to the story:
-. Stony Lonesome Characters.
Z, "Peewee's parents had called him
Henry because he had an uncle of
that name; but the boys had rechrist-
ened him EPeeweey because; the name
fitted him. -
.'sPeewee had started to grow, but
had been caught in an eddy. His lit
tie. trousers had begun to bag at the
knees, but they had been cut off in
the middle of the bag, and looked as
if they had been stopped too sud
denly and were suffering from the
shock. *#,$* Having :, built
himself up on detective stories, he had
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- e.
the week of Jan, A.. with matinees on
Wednesday and Saturday. <.
Unlike SO many, plays taken from
novels, EG;Ben Hur'''5 has been deity
handled: The dramatization brings
out the bone and. sineW OF. that great
story. and holds the interest from the
first to the. last curtain, as, if one were
enthralled. The. demands, of dramatic
sequence are: strictly adhered to at all
times, while the5:work Of setting the
story before the public, gaze is SO adj
mirablyt1done. that Ben Hur,' aside
from it's natural beauties, should live
as an:example of what vast possibili-
ties the stage holds out when the right
conjunction of author, dramatist, pro-
Queer and; stage director is reached.
Usually one approaches a play made
on a really powerful novel with mis-
givings, but with ben 'Hur'' this is
different, and herein lies one of it's
greatest charms. "a; - =.
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observation-disclosures o. London"

Lights O. London an English
drama, will be produced at the Ly-
ceum by: the Ferris stock company
for one week starting to- morrow
night, Dec. 20, at -8:15, with bargain
matinees= on,r Tuesday, Thursday. and
Saturday, and a special matinee on
Christmas. This excellent play was
first produced in London about TWEEN,
ty-fiye Years ago and was a signal sue
cess from the very first. 1t was the
first English piece that met.with pop
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Playing Indian.

noyed by the fray under her windows,
h0llncad ont -.------ >, 49, -
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OF his hand
md carefully
spit on it.
Then, with the
forefnger Of
the o t h e r,
h a n d, h e
struck a quick
blow. T h e
omen flew in,
a direction
away from the
church, and
the boys were
much relieved.
1t says,
keep a w a v
from t b e
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-12-19
A BOOK TO. MAKE OLD BOYS YOUNG

and there was Pewee Jackson, the
sleuth of Stony Lonesome. There you
have the ground for serious situa-
ton in dom,-"the plot" How it
worked out is for Mr.. Russell to tell.
just Everyday Franks.
The book is rich in incidents-inci-
dents that every male person who has
spent his boyhood in small town, es-
pecially, will recognize as remarkably
faithful to life
Spot and Shorty had "set'' the bell
Of the Baptist church. That is, had
turned it upside down on its mount
ings, so that when the rope was pulled
the bell would swing down with
great clangor. Tt was the afternoon
of prayer meeting evening. Then
Shorty, as time for prayer meeting
drew on, and his Imagination began
to work, got nervous, as he still was
over the pencils. He was afraid the
rope as it was jerked up by the fall
ing bell, might catch the sexton about
the neck and hang him.
&, " 1T would be murder, wouldn't,
it?". he asked Spot.
Say, we'd better go down and tell
int
.'.tP'raps 'twouldn't be murder if we
didn't go to do it,
LETS try and see what we'd bet
ter do
"spot Maloney held out the back
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CAUGHT RED-HANDED.

Iio1H II CAUGHT RED-HANDED.
church,"
And the boys climbed the barn roof
to wait for the clamor of the falling
bell and the noise was sweet to their
ears
New-York tribune., 1903-06-07
TRAIN WRECK HORRORS.
Plan to Mitigate THem-Emp ployes
to ReceiUe Instruction.

Accidents will happen the best regulated
railroads, despite the most elaborate system of
precautions. Recognizing the hopelessness of
baaishing forever the horror of collisions, Amer
lean railroad men are concentrating their at
tention on plan for mitigating the awfulness
Of passenger train wrecks. The intention is
to SO educate every railroad employe as to
make him capable of rendering skilled assist
to the injured in the event of disaster to
the train. The initiative has been taken by the
anagement of the Pennsylvania and Philadel-
phia and Reading railroads. Every man on
these two systems IS to be thoroughly educated
in first aid to the injured methods Such of the
members CT train crew themselves survive
the wreck will be qualified to attend to the
wants of the wounded, to set broken limbs, bind
up cuts and bandage fractured jaws. Appli-
ances for this purpose will be carried on the
engines, being the most substantial part of
the train and the one least likely to be smashed
into hopeless wreckage in a railroad collision.
Besides bandageS and restOratves a stretcher
will be carried on the engine and the train crew
taught how to raise wounded passenger from
the ground and place him on this means of
transportation TO the nearest hospital.
The lessons to be given to the trainmen, how
ever, will not take into consideration the ap-
p.iances carried the train 1t will be taken
for granted that in nine collisions out of ten the
medicine chest will be wrecked with the train
The men will be taught how to minister to the
needs of the wounded with such material as is
ready at hand from the wreckage. They will
be shown how to improvise a stretcher from
one of the car seats from board picked out Of
the debris, or from the nearest fence No time
will be lost in looking for the bandages provided
by the railroad; the men will learn how to make
a crude but serviceable bandage by tearing
sleeve from shirt or the lining from a coat
Wood for splints viii always be obtainable in
railroad wreck and the train crew will know
how to take stick and tie it in place on
fractured limb so that the broken bone will stay
New-York tribune., 1903-06-07

yer sentence for mansaughter, and with eight
years still to run makes cribbage boards and
Jewel boxes. The ivory pegs of the cribbage
boards are carved eaborately and delicately-
Japanese carvings are not more charming
yet they were originally mutton and beef bones
that the carver picked from his soup.
The best of the cabinetmakers is a frebug.
He is nearing the end of long sentence
for arson, and during his confinement, with
law and knife, he has mSde, he says himself,
boxes of inlaid and carved woods such as he did
pot dream of making when he was free. for in
the past he was a wood carver, and some of the
best of the wood carving in the house at Broad
St and Girard-ave which was formerly the z.
A. B. Widener residence and is now the Widener
Free Library is his work.
There glistens in his cell an octagonal jewel
bex of silver gray maple and salmon birch
which has such delicate and brilliant hues that
Ill who see it declare the maple must have been
dyed silver and the birch pink. That, though, is
not true. These colorS natural, only the
mans skill has brought them out of the wood in
a wonderful way. box Of his making has
place of honor among the treasures of E T.
Stotesbury, who is noted as a collector of dis
cretion.
In Block there is painted a cell wall a
river scene-a blue stream that reflects white
clouds, sailbGat, rowboat, a rushy bank and
a white walled house with a red roof A coal
miner, under life sentence for the killing of
two men, painted this picture with brushes that
he made of his own hair. The paint left
over in the cans CT house painters who had been
decorating the prison.
OVerseer Devices has in his room a locomotive
carved in wood Every detail of the machine is
perfect. A prisoner made it from tobacco boxes.
A cell in Block l is filed with paintings in oil,
he Of iS nd gold
study of an old feeding a paroquet there
panel nearly Ifesize, of girl in a pink frock
and black hat dancing, and on the walls hang
landscapes and flower pieces in gold frames
Tie frames that look firm and elegant are
made of gilded newspaper pulp.
on an upper tier old whiles away his
time making miniature ships, for in his youth
he was sailor. The ropes of these ships are
raVellings, the bodies old boxes, the guns
are nails of various Sizes and the black port
holes the eyelets of old shoes.
New-York tribune., 1903-06-07

church did. the other endeavored to surpass
Both were in course of renovation one summer
and as the work went on they watched each
other anxiously to escape being outdOne.
1.-TWO spies from the first church, visiting the
second as the renovations neared their end, saw
to Men
Ha,' they said this won't do. We have no
motto over our chancel. We must get one, and
one that beats our neighbors' here
Accordingly they placed above their
chancel the words Good Will to Women And
that a of catering to the ladies, which
was hardly apropOs"