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The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1903-07-24

and was only returned to Rome at the
fall of Napoleon in 1914. He restored
the Jesuits. who were the secular school
masters within the church, but they
had fallen under the hostility of several
Of the kings and been for some time
suppressed Upon their return they
opened schools and gave the city Of
Rome something of it's old clerical and
literary character.
In 1917 the late pope's mother took
her sons to Rome and the next year
put them at school at Viterbo city on
a hill but a few hours carriage ride
from Rome This lady belonged to one
of the orders of the Franciscans and
when she died was buried in their
brown cloak and cord. Her death was
nearly at the same time with that Of
Plus VII.
The next pope, Leo XII, branched
out as an educator. The Jesuits' college
was opened in Rome in 1924 with l,4OO
students, and among these were the
two Pecci boys, Of whom Joseph was
Jesuit He was three years older than
his brother. These boys went home to
their mountain town on holidays, and
the pope was an active hunter and
them like any American city to fami-
ly which lived in the neighboring coun-
try and spent the winters in the city.
The name Of the pope was Joachim
Vincent Raphael Lodovico Pecci. he
always went by the name Of Vincent
Pecci until at certain period after his
mothers death, when he became gen
orally known as Joachim Pecci
He became fluent in the Latin and
wrote verses and orations in it and
gained prizes. After his mothers death
he lived with his uncle in the Mutt
palace In Rome. He somewhat knew
Pope Leo XII. and chose his papal
name with reference to that prelate.
He matriculated in 1880, graduated a
doctor of theology in 1882, which was
the time that he adopted the name of
Joachim, and he entered the diplomatic
class in the university called Sapienza,
or Wisdom, in Rome. Among his
friends and classmates were such no
bles as Duke Sforza Of the old Milan
lords.
He was acquainted with Leo, as well
as with Plus VIII, who lived but 8
short time, and then came Gregory
XVI, In whose household he was one
| of the prelates.
He first attracted special attention
during the cholera in Rome In 1887
when he was twenty-seven years old
He had nerve in an unusual degree
and his intrepid services among thu
cholera stricken people marked hin
among the more timid ecclesiasdcs al
a man who could be Of use to them IL
the dangerous condition Of the country
Made full priest in the Church o
st. Stanislaus, in Rome, Joachim Pecc
was made at the age Of twenty eigh
governor of Benevento, small state i
Naples about seven miles square an
only days Journey from that city
Benevento had given the title Of Primo
of Benevento to Talleyrand, the cele
brated French diplomatist, who in hl
early life had been Catholic bishop.
The little state was full Of reaction
airy guerrillas and brigands. The youn
ruler went there under the general e.
pectation that he would be the victil
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1903-07-24

vk violence. Fortunately for him, he
was almost Immediately taken i'll with
the typhoid fever, and his death was
supposed to be certain. This calamity
softened the nature Of the people, and
they began to talk about this intellectu-
al young priest who had exposed his
life in Rome to the pestilence, Instead
Of antagonizinA him they formed pro-
cessions and went to public prayers in
his behalf, and when he recovered it
was looked upon as in the nature OF q
miracle.
They were mistaken, however, as to
his worldly force.
There lived in mountain fastness in
the state a celebrated brigand named
Pasquale Colletta, who had band Of
fourteen murderers, and they had COM
mitted every species of offense The
priest governor laid his plans well, and
one day the people were surprised to
see come into the town, manacled and
under guard, the chief Of the band and
every one Of his myrmidons. In spite
of their threats, promises and penitence
they were executed.
Pecci now turned his attention to the
lawless mobiles who had countenanced
such trespasses, and when one Of these
undertook to browbeGt him and threat
ened to go to Rome and have him re-
called the governor said marquis, be-
| fore you get to the Vatican you shall
! pass through the castle Of st. Angelo
This was the state prison at Rome, and
Its name was ominous.
4 feeling grew that this young man
had special powers with the pope. EVIL
doors FASTENED to get out Of his terrific.
i ~ or make their peace.
4 He searched the lawless castles, be.
gan to build good roads, examined and
lowered the taxes, made the collec.
ton of the revenue effective, and thus
4 spent nearly three years making an or
derby state out Of a most disorderly
one.
Pope Gregory now recalled him to
q Rome and appointed him governor OF
Perugia, where he will always be re.
membered as one Of the wisest men
who ever took charge of her fortunes
y. This city stands near Assist, where Is
the monastery founded by st. Francis
n It was full Of Mazzini's revolutionary
4 societies. #
Il The object the papal authorities had
& was the suppression Of these plotting
4 spirits by Pecci, but he commenced ia q
different way.
Il Finding that the city was on high
mound or cone above plain or marsi
and had a road to 1t 30 steep that nc
4 vehicle could climb II without the aid
OF many yokes of oxen, the new gov
ernos set to work and in twenty days
built graded road up the height. over
q which in little while rode the pope
4 much to his wonder and satisfaction.
The pope was so delighted with his
L young engineer governor, then aged
i thirty-one. that he said as he, left {
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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-02-03
IN A NUTSHELL.
Growth tes-som Significant Figures

The Manufacturers Record has gathered together
figures briefly tell amazing Of Americas
growth the last twenty In 1880
manufactures s.,
output $500 900. cap
ita manufactures is $4,000 100000
SIS 0O0 100000 Then mined AZ
of bitunnous coal and made 100000
pig iron; mine 25o00o,0oo tons of buminous
and 900 tons of iron. Then
miles of railway. have than 100000. Then
5OO0OOO0 inhabitants have nearly $4,000
increasing at the of between
90 000. 900 the decade.
"The momentum Of development is world
The next ten must easily show
growth than the last twenty for have at home
3o0o0000 people to work than had In
$780, and by 1912 will have nearly 900 moreamost
total population 1880, then
facturers had but limited foreign market;
pushing worlds capture just
rapidly we push production beyond
sumptive requirements
in 1895 S5oooooo in 1901 it lat 900
16O.000,00o.
Hitherto industrial development has been chiefly the
north and west. The immense natural resources
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-02-03
A Modern Franchise.

The new urban traction franchise that
is being worked out in Chicago has a
modern aspect Instead of for fifty years
the franchise is to run for only twenty,
and at the end of that time it may be
renewed, or the city may purchase the
plant for its present valuation plus the
cost of improvements during the twenty
years.
People who are looking for a good OPP
portunity to invest their money in fifty
year traction company stocks and bonds
wise, but it has been a long time since
the general public thought So The age
| of mortgaging a city's future to bands
| Of capitalists has passed away never to
return. In the future we may expect
such franchises as that proposed In Chi
cago, or city ownership and operation or
| city ownership with operation by les
see.
The passing Of longtime franchises is
only another phase of the passing of the
time when all sorts of common wealth
was thrown open to the enterprising pro-
moter. In the future that is coming the
public will take more of the wealth it
produces, and the individual will be
thrown back more and more upon what
he himself produces.
'They show in the stockyards of Chi
cago,' says the Frenchman Urban Co
hier in the Independent, ''the picture of
pig who was so fat that he felt no in
convenience from the presence of col
ony of mice living in the thickness Of his
flesh. To-day the American people are
so gorged with wealth that they do not
! feel their parasites
This is right except that the parasites
are already beginning to tickle us little
and now and then give us a twinge as
they bite off nerve-end.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-02-03
ADJUSTMENTS

Walker Whiteside In 1.-THE Merchant OF
Venice" at the Metropolitan.
If history Of the Shylocks Of the stage
from Shakspere's time till now could be
written, it would be found to be the his
tory of the gradual subsistence Of anti
semitism among English-speaking peo-
pies. 1t is related that, when the play was
produced in Shakspere's time and after
ward. the part was played in q spirit of
broad and boisterous farce and the audi
ences jeered at the lonely and tragic fig
ure." So far are the actors and audiences
Of to-day from taking such an attitude
that compassion is now the dominant note
in the regard in which Shylock is held.
His fierce desire for vengeance is not JUS
titled but excused by the fact that he is
the logical product of the prosecution that
was the lot of his tribe. ~;
Mr.. Wh1teSide, who now essays the i'm
PRESERVATION of the Jew of Venice, offers
a conception of the most modern and adj
vanced type. His Shylock not merely
moves our compassion, but compels our
respect. It is a powerful and LUMINOSITY
subjective treatment of the chara cter.
We are, as it were, let into the interior,
permitted to see the secret springs and
motives of his actions and made to- see
the world and it's relentless attitude toward
him through his eyes. The power of the
climax of the play is greatly enhanced by
the introduction of this note, which Mr..
Whiteside--although he is, Of course, by
no means the first to sound it-strikes
with great clearness and effect When
crushed beneath the wreck of his for
tunes, thWarted. in his one great purpose
of vengeance on the enemy who persona
fed for him the cruelty of the world
Shylock totters out of court, Mr.. White.
side has forced upon us realization of the
fact that here is the ruin of man fiji
for nobler destiny. Throughout the play
his touch is both deft and sure The sub.
mergence Of self in the role, it's cumula
tive interest and perfect poise, are notable
qualities of the impersonation THE
Whiteside Shylock is, in brief, an artistic
achievement of the greatest merit.
The production at the Metropolitan las
night. taken as a whole, was one of sthe
best seen in recent years.. Theacompany
was cast to good advantage. Miss VOL.
especially in the trying court scene and ii
the pretty ring episode with which the
play ends. Her declamat esypsty4e mars
some passages which though written il
blank verse should sbe spoken converse.
tionally, and her voice lacks variety ofSex.
preston. The Antonio of Mr.. Sears was
digniied and tinged with becoming mel.
ancholy.sz Though Mr.. Evart somehow
failed to infuse his Bassanio with thu
baoyancy that made his Buckingham 81
good, he played the part with discrin1ina
tive good judgment. Miss Villa Keyes
was an impulsive Jessicas and Miss Kath
ryn Reyes a sweet Nerissa. Among the
other roles, all well bestowed. should be
mentioned the Gobbo of Mr.. Williams who
interpreted the clownish humor Of this
Enthusiastically Shaksperean servant
with rare understanding. The settings
were elaborate and in good taste.s 20
.ss w. B. Chamberlain
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-02-03
The Nonparell Man.
Casually Observed.
Coal $50 per throw! Now will you sft your ashes!

owswinyou your
Ralph to
in the first
heather
Chnanan o
Unless the
or
Kiplng is
not write the letter published
D1sheartened
distinguished pianist
II Mr.
initiative he
Guilome sheradi
Mr. in
directory sputers and
Of
fast food and WEIGHING
looks Mr.
glasses hgh-cas
shot at deer He intends
hitting the
will
that the
mortality
IN northern Wisconsin and Michigan
this reason white and spotted
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-02-03


south await the and enterprise future The
star of industrial empire takes its West
Virginia and southwest Virginia the centers
greatest coal activity in America has only
scratched hisdes its deposits
has only 5000 square miles of area
SO0000000 tons West Virginia has 10000
miles and only mines 25,O00,00O tons 49,
The time will come, says the Manufacturers Record
when West Virginia will mine much Great Britain
Then North Carolina, state larger than Pennsy
yana, probably around the wonderfully endowed
state in the unona state whose mineral industrial
potentialities simply without limit then South
Carolina, Massachusetts, the leading
turing state Of the union and Georgia.
Alabama the basis
West Virginia it ground
just it's business Tennessee
and Mississippi = @szsS HI $
The fuel of Beaumont. the isthmian canal
peton Of the occupation Of the will Undoubtedly send
south during the coming population
money advantages Of the
of that Of the union The industrial just dawning
in the south relations with
surplus capital population
north will south to the southern beyond them
to the whole South American continent
trail America. ~ i#t+-
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-02-03
FROM EVERYWHERE

Switzerland has seven sanatoriums for
consumptives. France has twenty eight,
of which only two are for paying patients.
Ocos formerly one Of the principal Mex
lean ports on the Pacific coast, has almost
completely disappeared in the sea, owing
to the sinking of the harbor bottom after
an earthquake.
Some Of the birds, notably the blue
throat, accomplish the whole of their mi
gratory journey in one stupendous effort.
At Westminster county court, London, a
defendant owing G47 offered to pay shil-
ling month. AS it would be 1880 before
the debt could be paid off at this rate, no
order was made.
Water is so scarce in the Japanese
island Of Oshima that it is the custom for
a bride to take large tub of drinking
vat, water with her to Der new home as kind
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-02-03
GOOD ONE ON DR.. PARKER

Some years ago the late DR.. Parker of
the City Temple, London, believing that
people were tired of sermons, determined
to write a novel to be published in the
United States without his name on the
title page. He was convinced that the
book would meet with such success that
"a demand for its republication in England
would be inevitable, when he intended to
disclose the authors name and proceed
with the writing of other works of fc-
ton which should express his views upon
religion. The novel was duly published,
but fell absolutely fat-killed, it is said.
by its 'turgid style" DR.. j. M. Buckley,
who was in Dr. Parker's confidence, and
had arranged for the publication of the
book in the United States, says: $50 far
as 1 am aware, DR.. Parker never acknowl-
edged it; he did not refer to the subject in
our various subsequent interviews, and
never have I met a person in the United
States who owned Or had read a copy
of it,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-02-03

three years writing one story, as Mrs.
humphrey Ward does. In that
time he can work off fifteen or twenty
stories, like Captain Kettle" and it is
no. grief to him that his English is very
Iar from being as good and elegant as Mrs
Wards. But, so long as Mr.. Hvne and
writers like him can dispose Of their
nigh pressure literary work at remunera-
tive prices, what's the differenceo The
only trouble is that these writer's will play
out sooner. You can't make a field pro-
duce continuously good crops unless it is
fertilized by the application of the proper
chemical ingredients. George Francis
Train is said to have written his s.Remin-
iscences'' in seventy-two hours One can
believe almost anything about Train. but
ne is not a very good example to follow,
is he?
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-02-03
Food for the Starving.

With nearly three quarters of a million
people starving to death in the northern
end Of the Scandinavian peninsula and
Finland, there is no time to lose in or
ganizing and forwarding relief. The facts
which are beginning to reach the outside
world with regard to conditions in that
quarter of the globe, particularly In Fin
land, are APPALLING and call for vigorous
and generous effort. With the best that
can be done it appears to be morally GER
tain that thousands, if not tens of thou
Esands, must perish before help can reach
them.
Minneapolis will not be behind in min
1stering to the necessities of these strick-
en- people. 1t is probable that Norway will
be able to take care of her own famine
sufferers and that Sweden may not need
much outside help; but Finland must have
help and have 1t quick. The scene of
done here must for that reason be done
promptly If it is to be thoroughly effective.
It is gratifying to know that Mr.. Walker
has agreed to take the lead in organizing
the relief work in this city, which he said
at the relief meeting last night ought to
provide aid in the form of money and
supplies to the amount of 100000 That
may seem to some like large sum, but
what we do should be measured by the
necessities of the case, as we'll as by our
own ability to help. The facts will be
laid before the people Of this comm unity,
and we believe that when they come to
realize the great distress which exists and
contrast it with their own opulent plenty,
they will not be slow to respond literally.
If we are to provide anywhere near the
volume of relief which Mr.. Walker indi-
Gates, it will mean not only generous con-
tributions from men of large means, but
that every. one must do his share. When
could an appeal for aid like this have
been made to us when we were better
able to respond than we are to-day? Our
country, and particularly our great north
west, is prosperous beyond precedent. We
| have plenty and to spare and surely we
will not turn a deaf ear to this appeal
| from starving men, women and children,
or deal out our succor with miserly hand.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-02-03

OF course. Minneapolis ought to have an
inquiry into the coal situation Mayor
Haynes could not have made good as a
progressive mayor If he had not urged the
council to make an investigation. The
meetings Of the committee will be the
subject of local gossip for few days.
and when it's work is, over coal will be as
high and scarce as ever, and the general
result Of the committees deliberations
VIII be some such revelation as that the
basic cause for the present situation
is the long strike in the Pennsylvania
anthracite regions
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-02-03

escapades usually ,astrikes the American
play going public as distinctly humorous.
But unlike the transplanted French
farces, "The Man from Mexico" is an
American play, 1t is not risque, and it
does not rely for favor upon complications
growing out Of. a light regard for the
seventh commandment
In THE Man from Mexico" as well as
IN his other work. "My Friend from
India, !" Du Souchet has shown himself to
be an excellent artihcer of situation. His
dialogue Is clever, but his ingenuity Of
plot is cleverer still. The sea Of troubles
| in which 'the man. Is involved and from
| Which he finally energies triumphant,
Keeps the audience in a roar of laughter
most of the time. Moreover, it is limo
cent merriment.
When Du Souchet wrote his first farce
| ne was railroad telegraph operator,
| stationed at a jerk-water town in Texas.
success came in a night and great things
We're predicted for him. Again he went
to work and again applause rewarded his
efforts. But that was the end Had
! the playwright concluded his epilogue,
as did his old Latin predecessors, "valete
&C plaudite' farewell and grant us your
applause-he could not have more clear
~ indicated his5subsequent course. ''The
Man from Mexico was his swan song.
and though the bird chortled right mer-
| rily, Du Souchet himself dropped out Of
sight.
The Ferris revival is a worthy effort,
iuny ueserVlns OF the large attendance
| accorded its opening performances Dick
| FERRIS himself is lively comedian of
legitimate methods and in BENJAMIN
F1tzhugh he has found a character well
| sulted to his personality In fact, the
part is better played than anything Mr..
serrls mas done here Before. Next to
! MI. Ferris the hit of the performance
Is made by Ben Johnson as Deputy Sheriff
| COOK Robert Folsom as Won Buelow
Bismarck Schmidt, Herbert Brennon as
EDWARD Farrar, and W. D. Corbett as
| Colonel Majors all do acceptable work in
thelr several roles. w. H. Murdoch, cast
as warden Loveall, is ill, and his part
m nas oeen entrusted to Lou Deane. Miss
Grace Hayward plays Clementina Fit
hugh, Miss Maude Gilbert is the sa]lie
Gfalce and Miss Cecil the Nettte Majors.
=. =. Gunther is overweighted with the
part OF Richard Daunton. His acting
was so bad last night that he ruined every
scene he had, both for himself and for
1SA-7' y. 5. Lawrence.
Foyer Chat
Walker Whiteside will appear as Ham
let at the Metropolitan tonight, to-mor-
row afternoon as Shylock in "The Mer
chant of Venice and tomorrow night he
villa close his engagement with "Rich-
ard ILL.,
David Warf1eld WILL on Thursday eve
ming, at the Metropolitan, present his de-
ightful picture Of the kindly, shrewd and
amusing old Hebrew, Simon Levi, in 1.-THE
Anctioneer.'
Crosby Hops and a select chorus of
twelve other local singers, are furnish
ing the Incidental vocal music for the
Whiteside productions here and in St.
! Paul.
| OWlng to numerous requests from all
over the city to Dick Ferris for q, renett-
ton Of Way Out West" he has decided
to present the play for one night only
next Saturday.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-02-03
New Wisconsin :. Primary Election
Ri11

s8 The La Toilette following in the Wis
sconsin legislature has come up smilingly
with new primary election bill that is
about as radical and sweeping as the
Stevens bill, on which the party split in
sthe legislature two years ago and sub
.sequently in the gubernatorial contest.
@s The new bill, which has just been re-
sported by the house committee on privi-
sleges and elections, applies to all offices
except state superintendent of schools,
Etown, village and school district officers
sand to judicial officers Excepting police
justices and justices of the peace in cities).
at includes United States senators, con-
gressmen and all state officers. The in
%clusion of the latter shows that the La
Toilette people have not receded an inch
sfrom the advanced position take two years
sago. The principal objection made to the
Z Stevens bill was that it abolished state
Aconventions, through the primary nomina-
zion Of state officers The state conven-
tion in a real sense stands abolished under
the new bill, but provision is made for the
assembling Of the nominated state and
Esenate assembly candidates Of each party
Ito adopt a state platform. The same
sgathering is empowered to elect the state
gcentral committee and choose its chair
s1nen.
81 The method Of voting at the primaries,
under the proposed bill, insures secrecy
sof the ballot even as to party utilization.
1.-The voter is to be given the primary
tickets Of all parties securely fastened to-
sgether. In the booth he chooses one and
4properly marks it. That ballot is placed
Gin the box for marked ballots and the
@blanll ballots are deposited in another box
It will be interesting to see whether a