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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-10-29
The New Brigandism.

a Seattle dispatch reports an att
tempt to blow up the city with dyna-
mite which was frustrated by, the dis
covery Of the explosive in t,'antity suf-
ficient to accomplish til "'~tructive
r1ork OF late there seel. - he a
,dispc sition Of the lawless toeE: pom
a regular system Of brigandage sed
on medieval practice, its characters
tic being a demand for a certain sum
of money from a town., accompanied
by a threat to- the effect that "efusal
will be followed by the burning of
the place without any ceremony. Sew
eral towns in the west have recently
been destroyed by this kind Of revived
brjgandage, which indicates the vital
ity of anarchism in this country, where
such business ought to be impossible.
The Seattle incident does not seem
to. have been accentuated by any de-
mand for ransom money, altho such
demand might have been made later
but that such practice is possible in a
country reputed to be one of the most
highly civilized portions of the earth,
is not a very comfortable thought. The
modern brigand may either make his
threat and, If refused, apply the torch,
or he may locate his explosive and sue
cessfully conceal it and demand ran
som of either a town or city and
menace it with sudden disaster.
b About twenty years ago the explo-
sion Of thirty pounds of dynamite in
London within a few hundred yards
Of the houses of parliament stirred up
the civilized world to a realization of
the peril which seemed to Turk in the
large accessibility of the public, in
Guiding the groups of anarchists, to
the various explosives of the nitro-car-
bon order. 1t was predicted that the
Whitehall explosion was the forerun-
ner of deadly war against law and
order and society all over the civilized
world. Anarchists and all individuals
seeking to revenge themselves for
wrongs, real or imaginary, were to be-
gin this decorating warfare against all
government. The chemists continued
to invent new forms of explosives
which, however, have been utilized
more for blasting and war purposes
than for the predicted war agains
civilization. The picrates, chlorides
CELEBRATES and other bases of high ex
plosves like nitroglycerin, gun cotton
dynamite, blasting gelatine, ETC., con
tinue to be used thruout the civilized
world with a much smaller record O.
criminal use than was predicted il
1850.
q These high explosives have figured
1 IN considerable number of cases o
private vengeance and king-killint
and abortive attempts of regicides ant
anarchists, and criminal destruction o
buildings, public and private, but. Ger
calmly, not up to the measure Of tn
predictions. Nitroglycerin with it
absorbents continues to be the mos
formidable explosive in the world. ]
Is the active principle of dynamite
Which is a mixture of porous earth an
aaitroglycerin and a blasting agent Q
great power and Of wide use in wa
and peace. The bridge destruction il
4 the Anglo-Boer war was largely, &C
leomplished by dynamite.
q So far, the American brigands hav
Backed their demands for ransom
from communities with the threat Q
~. = + rs ,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-10-29

The st. Louis trust companies met the
run on them boldly and successfully. Not
withstanding the rumors OF weakness they
were able to accomm odate their scared
,depositors without accepting the preferred
help from other Institutions. In the end
the st. Louis excitement may have q
good effect on the suspicious public every
where. There is nothing that so quickly
allays the apprehension Of the average
depositor as to find that he can get his
money when he feared he couldnt t.
Stories are common Of panicky depositors
fighting for a place in the line at run.
and, after waiting hours, promptly rede-
posting their money when they got it.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-10-29
THE MAGAZINES

4 Modern Dramas Literary Merit. The
modern drama is not without literary
merit On the contrary the critic who
says it is displays appalling ignorance.
So says Brander Matthews in substance in
the November number of Scribner's. Lit
erary merit, he adds is not something
external, something added to the play,
something adjusted to the structure it
is not "stringing flowers of speech Lit
erary merit is in the content. Dramas ex-
ternally like those popular in the theater
of to-day may be made internally of the
highest literary merit. Professor Matthews
cites the work of Mr.. Pinero as an exam
pie of his contention. Senator Lodge for
the same number writes an article on the
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-10-29
Hudson Bay Route =.

The wreck Of the Hudson Bay COM
pany's supply ship in the shoal waters
or the Canadian sea-" will remind the
public that interest in the Hudson bay
route to Europe is not etgsdead. The
Dominion government has sent an
other expedition to gather data asxto
the feasibility Of the route for a heavy
commerce. The question to 'be de-
cided is whether the straits leading5=to
the bay are open long enough each
year to make it worth while to 4es-
tablish o port on the bay and whether
navigation during the open period can
befundertake with a. reasonable pros
pect of safety.
The latest testimony is rather
against the Hudson bay route. A mis-
sionary bishop Of the Episcopal church
who has travelled over and around the
bay for years has recently been in
terviewed by the Canadian papers.
He says the straits are open from
about the middle of June to nearly
the last of September. This would
give only three months Of navigation.
He adds that during the entire open
season ice foes are to be encountered
in the bay. He thinks that navigation
of the bay would have to be restricted
to vessels built especially for the pur-
pose, that would be of no use when
not engaged in this trade-that is to
say during about eight months in the
year. E...t ~ "s :
| Hudson bay. has. been more or less
navigated since the days Of Henry
Hudson. o. For more than two CEN
turtles the ships Of the Hudson Bay
company have brought In supplies and
taken out furs, and the northern part
of the bay has long been a resort OF
| American whalers, who are now to be
driven out by the Canadian expedition
But this navigation is of no value as
a. guide to the. feasibility Of the BAY
for the uses Of an extensive modern
ocean commerce The short season
alone is enough to make it question
able whether any port on Hudson bay
even with railroad behind it,, viii
ever amount to much. The Whea
crop of western Canada is not ready
for export much before Oct. /. which
is just the time ice begins to seal VI
the entrance to the bay, and whe1
there are still two months of ope1
water on the Great Lakes.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-10-29
COURT ORDERS "JlM crow Hi1LEs

Six new bibles have been ordered by the
Judge OF the superior court OF New Kan
over county, N. c.. while the old ones are
to be burned Back Of this simple fact
lies a new development of the race ques-
ton, for the judge has decided that mere
after the court must use separate bibles
in the swearing of white and negro wit
nesses There will be white bible and
a black bible. or, rather, bible for white
witnesses and another for black witnesses.
No reason can DE ina gined for this de-
parture except The fear OF race amalga-
nation The mere sanitary reason for
drawing the color line around bibles does
not seem sound, since white men carry
around about as many disease germs ss
black men.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-10-29
AT THE THEATERS
Enxer Chat.


There is great. rush for seats for the
Friday and Saturday night performances
Of 1.-THE Tenderfoot'' at the Metropolitan
Local demand would probably fill the
house for both evenings, but orders are
coming in by mail and Telegraph from OUT
of-town parties coming to see the foot
ball game Richard earle Is getting ready
the football fans. on3Yboth@ occasions and
will spring some new formations. z
Good old Peter Stuyvesant as "The
Burgonaster'' will stump around on the
stage of the Metropolitan next Sunday
night and advise the audience to ''just
keep COOL" s - -
'The Eternal City" with Edward Nor
gan as the star in his original role of
David Rossi, will be the offering at the
Metropolitan for the week commencing
next Monday. The original New York
production of the piece is to be shown
here. &<s &4..2- a,~,a-. ssss.E@ $
''Wages Of SIM" as presented by the
Ferris Stock company at the Lyceum this
week, is doing a big business. The last
matinee will be given Saturday. For the
coming week the company will appear In
the clever Irish play colleen Bawn..'
Miss Maude Gilbert, who has been i'll all
summer, will again take UP her work. b,
Ward and vokes continue to play tt
big business at the Biiou in "a Pair OF
Pinks." Arrangements have been made
to give returns from the stage on Satur-
day afternoon of the Minnesota Michigan
football contest.
The sale Of seats for the engagement
Of Eugenie4 Blair at the Bijou opened
this morning. Miss Blair viii be seen ii
..Zaza" Sunday matinee and evening
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday night:
and Saturday matinee and night. Wednes
day matinee and Thursday and FRIDAY
nights she will appear in "Magda." q
Shore Acres is booked at the Bijou
following E1genie Blair 800 49,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-10-29
NEW Works. FALSE PROPHETS

Dowie is not the only prophet" now
working New York city. John the Bap-
tist' is there. He is somewhat an i'm
provement on Dowie in that he is not
looking for money The visitor said his
name was John Hoop and that his home
was in Minnesota, but that he arrived
there recently to fight DR.. Dowie and his
hosts. HE is no prophet" said Hoop;
"he is faker. The only real prophet is
myself" Peter and Paul the seconds are
already evangelizing Brooklyn and drown
ing out the voice CT the woman Messiah
who opened shop two weeks ago.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-10-29

apolis. This is said to handle in a
manner the questions
about things: religious .oftenest. asked by
the modern man. The author is described,
says the New y ork. Times Saturday Re-
view, as "a. mans man" His theology
is not Cup In the air" and, as Senator
Platt has said, men like him "for good
many reasons besides he is a friend of
publicans-I may say republicans-and
Sinners '"' ~
Lillian Bell will be, wise if she remains
away from Denver until The Interference
of Patricia is forgotten A few months at
the most will probably suffice; it will
for the rest Of the world if not for Den
yer. The picture she draws Of Denver So
ciety is not in the least f1attering, and
Lillian might be s1u bbed if she went there
too soon. Patricia's interference is to
smash a, scheme of her fathers in order
to save an English lord who wears a
bracelet watch and whom she loves. She
succeeds but proves her cleverness by
enabling her father to "land on his feet"
But the story is not a credit to the author
in comparison with other work she has
done and she would do better to stick to
other fields, at least until she has pro-
duced something better than Patricia. -
Whether it is a good thing to retell a
story like Dickens David Copperfield,"
in closely: condensed way for the bene-
fit of children, is somewhat doubtful. 1t
would seem that David Copperfeld" in
full text has been read by children ever
since it was first published. It is, in
deed, better that the full text should
be read. Mr.. Knowles has told the story
in reduced form very cleverly in Little
David, in the famous Children of Lit
erature'' series, but it is safe to bet that
the young ones will prefer the unabridged
tale of David, Traddles, Betsy Trotwood
and the rest. m ~. H.. Il
!. A right lively story is Amy LIE Feuvres
TWO Tranps, telling the adventures of a
small Anglo Indian boy, who with his
uncle tramped thru rural England for
health and recreation and got both. The
boys name was Rollo and those who have
read the old favorites, the "Rollo Books, y
will be reminded Of Rolloss adventures in
the north New England mountains and
elsewhere. The English Rollo was a boy
of wit and humor and bold as lion, a
good and amusing talker and mature fol
his age.
Miss Geraldine Anthony, in her Four-i in
Hand, discloses life in the rather extreme
fashionable and smart set lin New York
in an original and amusing way. Effie
| Fenwick, the heroine. is not the most
lovable character in the world. Her aunt
/ is an interesting type in the story how.
ever. When Elites grandfather died foul
| grandchildren, including EHie, found tina
the active guardian under whom they were
placed, was fashionable man., Sidney
/ PercivaI, a cub-haunter not suspected o.
entering into serious business. Effie re
scented angrily every assumption, on hi:
part, Of guardianship, and thru the story
4 this disposition seemed to dominate he
+ and the guardianship seemed a burden t,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-10-29
On to the Coast.

Reports from time to time that the
Milwaukee intends to build a line of
railway to the Pacific coast are very
interesting. The earnings of the Bur-
lington must have the effect Of caus-
ing the officials of the Milwaukee to
yearn for a coast line Of their own.
The advantages Of the close connec-
ton the Burlington has with the
Northern Pacific and Great Northern
the close connection Of ownership,
in fact-are counting in the increased
business the Burlington Is getting thru
it's cooperation with the northern
roads at the twin cities and also at
Billings. s%A h..
There is little hope for it's future
participation in the traffic between the
the Pacific coast and the east-both
that originating on the coast and that
brought from trans-Pacidc points to
the ports Of California, Oregon and
Observation-Disclosures the Milwaukee
shall build line Of it's own. There
Is no line it can buy or with which it
can enter into advantageous relations.
On the other hand, 1t IS a big UNI
dertaking to build a railway thru a
country which for the most part must
always be sparsely populated, in or
der to, divide with several other trans
continental roads the business Of the
Pacific coast. Yet In the mines OF
the Black Hills, of Wyoming, idaho
and Oregon the Milwaukee may find
profitable local traffic, to say moth
ing Of the cattle business that will
come to it all the way from the Mis-.
souri, to the coast. Much of the coun.
try Of the states named will never be
developed and utilized to anywhere
near the limit of it's capacity unit
some such line is built. -: =
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-10-29
HOW TO KEEP AN UMBRELLA

''Well, carry a cane in fair weather,
and I don't care If it's proper or not, !"
said Philadelphia man, the other day.
Don't you know that the man who car
ries a stick never loses an umbrella? 1t S
a fact. I carry cane all the time, and as
a. result get SO accustomed to having
something in my hand that If [ start away
without it miss it before I've gone doz-
en- steps. So when it rains and have my
umbrella the habit to carry something is
so strong that can't possibly lose that
rain-p rorector. Try it. :
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-10-29
BOOKS RECEIVED

THE INTERFERENCE OF PATRICIA. By
Lillian Bell. Boston: Z. G. Page & Co.
Price 81.
THE STORY OF LITTLE DAVID. From the
David Copperfeld of Charles Dickens. Illus
trated by E. B. Barry and Others Boston:
Dana, Estes & Co. Price Is cents. Famous
Children Of Literature series, edited by Fred
eric Lawrence Knowles.
THE TWO TRAMPs. By Amy LIE Feuvre, au-
thor of 'The Odd One. etc. New York and
Chicago: Fleming H. Revell company. Price
rs cents. H., II a-.5
FoUR.1N. HAND. "A STORY OF SMART LIFE
IN NEW YORK AND AT A COUNTRY CLUB.
BY Geraldine Anthony. New York: D. APP
pleton e. Co. Price 1.5O. s ~
SIX GIRLS. A HOME STORY. BY Fannie
Belle Irving. Illustrated. Boston: Dana,
Estes. & Co. Price 81 .25.
WINIFRED'S NEIGHBORS. By Nina Rhoades.
Boston: Lee & Shepard. Price so cents net
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-10-29
The Glories Of Kansas.

Kansas is now gaily enjoying herself.
Prosperity refuses to let the state
alone. Farmers laugh at the loan
agents who implore them to renew
loans. TO the bounties Of the soil it
is now discovered that nature has add
ed subterranean wealth. Petroleum is
being produced in large quantities in
the southeastern portion OF the state,
and wide In the land. This subterranean
wealth is being collected chiefly by
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-10-29
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO

The journal would be glad to re.
ceive by mall, or otherwise, the names Of
al! persons who were readers and SUBJ
ssrIbers to this paper when It started,
twenty-five years ago this fall, or who
became subscribers during the first year
Of Its existence, and their present ad-
dresses.
The Journa 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. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-10-29

William M. X. Olcott told the other day
story of the days when he was dis
trict attorney OF New York. Mr.. Olcott
had asked a young South Carolina lawyer
living in the city to be one Of his assist
ants. and by way Of celebrating his ac-
ceptance asked the young man to dine
with him and afterward to see Irving play
"Othello." After the play, Mr.. Olcott
asked his guest what he thought of the
performance. Tt was q fine show re-
coon did as we'll as any Of en-.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-10-29
River improvement.

OF course, the Interstate Mississippi
River Improvement and Levee asso-
citation convention at New Orleans
adopted resolutions in favor Of river
Improvement and food protection at
the convention in New Orleans yester-
day. The convention wishes congress
to take up the great task of complet-
ing deep waterway from the Great
Lakes to the gulf and the related and
equally stupendous task of prevent
ing the floods which make it impossi-
BILE to utilize 100000 acres Of the
richest land in the world. @.
The United States Is now fully COM
mitted to the policy Of extensive in
ternal improvements. After having UNI
dertaken the great and beneflcent work
Of redeeming 100,0o0,e0o acres of the
arid west, there is no reason why the
government should fail when the time
comes to take up the colossal task Of
impounding the flood waters Of a con-
tinent, thereby preventing destructive
overhows, rescuing some land from
a surplus of water and pouring it out
ou ldllu ~IdI ldShS III "aIeis WAAiic SdV-
ing some to keep the river channels
full in time of normal low water.
The improvement Of the Mississippi is
the corollary Of that other great ma
tional work, the isthmian canal. If
the Pacific is to be the great CONNER
cial ocean of the future it is i'm
portant that the bulky products Of the
Mississippi valley shall have the
cheapest possible transportation to
tidewater. -- lG
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-10-29
Wan waits neryously thru many week

Man waits nervously thru many weeks
for decisive football game; pays 81 for
plank; spends two hours asking his neigh
Dor what the last play was and aDes home
in sadness II the home team lose or In joy
and in glee II they win. 81
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-10-29
United States senate Edith Wharton
concludes Sanctuary

Some High Waves.-Pictures Of waves
that throw their spray to a height OF goo
feet are shown in the November number
of Country Life in America. They are
storm waves on the coast OF southern Call.
fornia. The number is brim full of good
things for the country gentleman and for
the man who makes a living out Of the
small farm.
Our Place In the Universe Again.-Al-
fred r. Wallace makes reply to those who
criticised recent article by him urging
the Importance Of mans place in the uni
verse and the theory that the solar sys-
tenn is very near if not in the very center
of the stellar universe. His reply in the
November Living Age makes interesting
reading. His critics have not caused him
to shift his position at ALL He says:
have found that such delicate adjustments
and such numerous: combinations Of ply
steal and chemical conditions are required
for the development and maintenance OF
life as to render it in the highest degree
improbable that they should all be again
found combined in any planet; while with
in the solar system this improbability ap-
proaches very near indeed to a certainty. !"
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-10-29
UNCLE SANS WOMEN EMPLOYEES

The largest number of women employees
in any line of work are in the United
States postoffice department. More than
one third Of them are past middle age
and some are past 40. n They fill all kinds
sof positions. even many of the rural free
delivery routes being filled by them.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-10-29

A Halifax paper advocates the indie
always have been a little slow. This idea
OF independence in Canada has come
about 1877 years late.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-10-29
WHAT . THER Pc PLE THINK

oeopie who have things TO say to the pub.
lie that ought 20 be said, are invited to
Use this column. But the space Is Him.
tied, and all communications must be
"boIied down. as much as possible.
Three hundred words is a safe limit.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-10-29

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. = ~ - "a
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-10-29

If this weather would last about three.
months the coal mans trip to the Holy
Land next summer would be considerably
abbreviated.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-10-29
THE suLTAN's WIVES NAMES

! The following are said to be the names
Of the sultan Of Jolo's wives: Scent of
Lilies, Hearts Desire. Honey of Life,
Dancing Sunbeam. Blush of Morning,
Oasis in the Desert, Moon Upon the Wa
tiers, Song of Nightingales, Whisper of
the West Wind and Rose in Bloom.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-10-29

Halloween is about due. The next
morning we look to see James L. john
sons woodshed reposing on top Of the
Methodist church. Funny? Well, that de-
ponds on whether you are 13 years old
or 81. FL
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-10-29
THE NONPARElL MAN
Casually Observed.

Signor Marconi does not seem to be-
picking as much conversation out Of the
air as he did a few months ago. Yet we
sometimes are tempted to think there is
an overplus of 1t there.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-10-29

Germany's new electric cars moved 1870
miles an hour the other day, about the
speed made by the barefooted colored man
off Of the red-hot horse shoe he
stepped on.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-10-29

The new book, Who's Who in Amer
ica,' is out. We do not know who's who,
but we know who's 'Hoo-Hoo.' Any
lumberman could tell you that.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-10-29

A pensioner of the war Of 1872 is still
living. He hasn't worried any since that
war closed.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-10-29

Russia and Japan seem to be on the
point of coming to an understanding, but
it wouldn't be safe for anybody to come
along and slap the nikkydoo good
naturally on his vaccination scab.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-10-29
he WAS a BRIGHT "NIeeER1

Shore Acres is booked at the Bijou
GLOWING Eugene Blair.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-10-29

Only 2-CENT, Daily in Minneapolis.