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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-16
NEWS OF BOOK WORLD
Is There One RedeemIns Trait In the
Character Of TIttIebat Titmouse?--
Abridged Edition of "Ten Thousand a
Year."--Rebecca Popular Girl - A
chrysanthemun that Had Too Many
Leaves.

To many a man of watery morals tho
sudden acquisition of wealth has meant ir-
retrieyable ruin. 70 ,Tittlebat Titmouse.
the central figure in DR.. Samuel Warren S
Ten Thousand Year. which was first
published in 1S39-1S40, and has now been
abridged by Cyrus Townsend Brady, under
the title of TIttlebat TItmouse, it meant
"a display Of utter meanness Of character,
tho he thought it meant unlimited cigars.
roast beef, sausages, fowl, a seat in par
llament and other things that money, not
brains, could obtain. Titmouse hadn't
even Watery morals to ruin. IIe was hope
lessly, appallingly, pitiaby contemplate.
BY stripping off the medical, legal and
political detail and other features of the
story as originally published, cutting it
from three dense volumes to one, the
abridger has simply intensified the light
on and magnified the hideousness of Tit
mOuse's character.
1t is grotesquely yet sorrowfully repul-
siNe--this sight Of so puny soul Yet it
is not without a strong fascination. Hid
eous things sometimes are fascinating.
and Titmouse was a hideous little DEVIL
according to Oily Cannon, his master,
and a most ''delectable scoundrel.' In
Cannon there is that saving salt Of de-
lectability without which one would be
tempted to quit the book as tiresome
Cannon was masterful knave, and his
knayery found exercise only in operations
of huge proportions like this of putting an
APE into a paradise making Titmouse
the master Of a great estate with a rent
roll of 100000 year.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-16
Rijou-"The White Slave, J"

Rags are royal raiment when worn
for virtues sake!" Helen Collier made
this announcement at the Bijou yester-
day afternoon in her best style, and then
had to wait. for the, applause and whistling
to subside before she gould go on defying
the villain. and getting more applause
and yet more whistling, The play? Bart
ley Campbelrs THE White Slave a
melodrama which wass first presented in
Minneap polls when the town Boosted no
playhouse beyond the usual hail. and
which has outlived a long series of other
and less meritofieus melodramas: the
scene, that in f1ich LISA the white slava,
scorns her masters offer to place her
at5the head Of his shous ehold, and declares
instead her preference for any hardship
his malignant ingenuity may suggest. AL
of which forms a dramatic prelude to
the mefodramatfr- series of 11isfortunes
which subsequently gbefall herr liz - IS
The play is a. baker S. dozen in GUAM:
tity, for il requires a good three hours
for its presentations land Us written in six
acts However,. the time seemed none too
long to yestesday y sSaiihlerfce, which: pro-
claimed it's approval vociferously, fire.
quentiy andf with g6nstintedJ enthusiasm.
The piece abounds IL heroics. and not one
of them escaped applause ~
The company is about the average of
similar organizations which have appeared
at this playhouse in the past. The scenic
effects, particularly the storm scene in
the fourth act. are entirely adequate. The
costun1ing is Of varying Periods and SO
rather ircongruous! AS an example of
the melodrama: popular twenty-five years
ago, "The White Slave is worthy Of all
praise. 1t still passes muster in this
year of grace; 1909. j. s. Lawrence.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-16
Lyceum-aThe cowboy and the Lady"

:
The names Of Clyde. Fitch .as author
and Of Nat Goodwin as a former star in
the principal role lend unWarranted i'm
portanee to- s.The Cowboy and the Lady,
1t succeeded in. the east There Fitch lis
a fashion, like the Gibson girl and other
examples Of pretentieus: bad taste diluted
with superficial zdexterity, Moreover Mr..
Fitch has displayed a lady like cleverness
in the gossip and the by-play of his mod
ish funerals and weddings and lawfully
lovely parties" But he chatters. in such
cases, of society that he knows thru
comparative intimacy. When he tries to
describe Colorado he uses the enlightened
eye Of the comic supplement artist. THE
Cowboy Snd Ne Lady is a group OF
Of revolvers, profanity !. and sombreros.
framing the achievements Of that greater
Alexander, '.the college gradua te from the
east
One cannot travel far toward the Mis-
sissippi and accept Mr.. Fitch's West, Mr..
Fitch's Westerners, as anything more en-
PERTAINING than hackneyed distortion. We
must premise that any young man OF
Harvard, &C., will fight more fiercely.
wrestle more adroitly, ride harder, shoot
sharper, than any vulgar cowboy; that
"Silveryille, Col.,'' a mining town amid
mountain peaks, contains no miners. but
many cowboys; that these. cowboys never,
ny any Chance, re1eE TO CdIIle. IflaL cow
boys and dainty ladies' rningle, in Colorado,
on a social level; that the daughter and
associate of a. drunken criminal is horri-
fed. in Colorado, to hear a single d. - .
that the peroxide woman professor
playing the piano in a Colorado dance
hall has all the coy ways Of a New Eng
land old maid; that-but one could recite
the whole play without touching a dozen
sane ideas. Even as drama tized anecdote
the compound is only mediocre fun
Miss Maisie Cecil, the impossible inno-
cent, the Esrneralda No. 1901, and Miss
Maude Gilbert, as another of Mr.. Fitch's
arch society matrons, are well cast. Der
Johnson upon. whose return the company
is to be congratulated, represents taste
fully what a cowboy is supposed to- be
And Dick Ferris. following the Teddy
North of Nat Goodwin, errs chiefly lin be.
Iieving that an ideal graduate from the
east" could possibly be bashful. The
scenic effects are good. III. B. Curry.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-16

The Great Northern is to put on a
four-hour train between finnea polls and
Duluth Four hours is not too short for
trip between Minneapolis and the lively
city at the head of the lakes. The pas
senger. traffic between the twin cities and
Duluth Superior is large and is entitled
to good time.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-16

Henry LOOMS Nelson has figured it out
that Colombia has got just what that 'bad
little country was entitled to in the
Panama revolution, but he thinks the
United States made mistake in giving
Colombia her deserts. In other words
Colombia should have expected what she
got but shouldn't have got it. H L. N.
might have made it good deal worse
than this.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-16
PLAY THE GREAT DEVELOPER

n Play distinguishes the higher from the
lower animals. and it signifies possibility
Of education. Fishes do not play atsall:
the: lower mammals can hardly be taught
to- play. and birds are entirely devoid of
the instinct. But the kitten and tho lamb
are essentially playing animals The hui
man young. however, are the true players
and. in reality. it is play that develops
them into manhood. Children, says DIR.
Hutchinson, are born little amorphous
bundles of possibilities, and are played in
to shape
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-16

North Dakota is not thru growing yet
by a good deal. At Bowbells it win take
$500, 900 to pay for the wheat crop this
year, as compared with s1so,ooO last year,
and at the little village of Kuhn the banks
have been averaging $500 day in pay
ments for wheat.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-16
UNSATISFACTORY RuREAU

AN INVITATION Is extended to all to visit
the Press Room, which Is the finest in the west.
The battery of presses consists Of three fourdeck
Goss Presses, with total capacity OF 144.ooV
eigEt-page our ma / s an hour. printed, foided
TO 4:30 p. M Inquire at the business Office and
be directed to the visitors gallery OF the Press
prpp = .
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-16

There is loud talk at Bogota of waging
war on Panama. Why not? There is no
way to< get from Bogota to Panama = e
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-16
olL CONSUMPTION AND PRODUCTION

For. two years the OIL consumption of the
world, has exceeded the production. The
stock of crude Pennsylvania petroleum
above ground in December, 1900, was
313,174,717 barrels, while in December. 1902.
the amount thus stored was only $500. 127
barrels. PENNSYLVANIA has the greatest
American oil field.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-16

This is not good time for strikes.
When some men are looking for employ
ment it is a good time for those that
have it to hang on -.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-16

Minnesota's football machine is now so
perfect that it gets little credit for good
work; but lots of blame for even a mo-
mentary lapse. r*a,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-16

Congress was convened to pass the
Cuban reciprocity treaty-and it seems
to be doing it!
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-16
MONDAY EVENING,

At any rate. it will not be. possible
to ascertain the true situation until
the United States Is ready to act. and
that moment will remain in. the dis
tant future until the question of reci-
procity with Canada is made, by the
action of it's friends, one Of the ma
tional questions that must be settled
at once. The opportunity must be
made-not waited for.
The outcome of the interstate con-
ference in Chicago on Saturday is a
step in the right direction. Not until
they have been marshaled by strong
organization will it be generally
known how numerous and influential
are the believers in reciprocity with
Canada.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-16

1t is denied that ]. Pierpont Morgan
is to resign. When this sturdy old col
lector of tolls from promoters retires it
will not be until after he has made an
attempt to regain his lost position as the
tdemigod of American finance.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-16
The HIGHER THOUGHT
Chicago 1.ribul1e.

iSs1t7 " ~ ~ 10
Some OF our abiest thinkers are of tho
opinion that it is safe now to take down
your screen doors.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-16

+ y . :.
Riding home from the east on the tooty
cars this fall we were struck forcibly by
the similarity of the asininity every
where displayed by man, especially by.
young man, in cases where his friend had,
become entangled in matrimonial alliance
and was taking the Pullman car with the
Loved Object to 30 on his bridal tour and
to obtain a little retirement from the COM
ments Of a harsh, unfeeling world. On
the way from the Atlantic ocean to Chi
cago, there were on the Pullman car
along the route at least a half dozen
bridal parties Of two, and on every occa-
sion there was riot tall hated, kid
gloved, good-natured riot, but riot that
must have been NORWOOD to every ten
der feeling In the bridegrooIn's breast.
And the variety of riot in Vermont was
exactly the same as the riot turned out by
barrels full in Indiana. The bridal party
was in each case slugged with half pound
bags of rice and large placard was hung
over the seat in the car. There were sew
eral varieties Of motto on this placard, but
the favorite designs were:
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-16

No more jokes about bears in Duluth
Will go until Minneapolis kills off all its
wolves. Rs.8's
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-16

A literary man who tries to live COM
fortahly at the present prices. of groceries,
oil. COAL ETC., is likely to suffer from
writer's cramp of the pocketbook.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-16
FOYER Chat.

Seats. were placed on sale at the. Metro
politan this morning. for the engagement
of Lulu Chaser. who will open Thursday
evening In Dolly Warden. z, the comic
opera written by. stanislaus STANCE and
Julian Edwards. ~. s. -, ST -
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-16

The journal ran 1872 columns Of
advertising in October. This is AZ per
cent more advertising than was car
ried by any other daily paper In Min
neapolis and per cent more than any
daily and Sunday combined.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-16

J. P Morgan threatens to retire. He
must have read some Of the paragra plls on
steel and just felt as If he would sink.
Have, We been too harsh? g.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-16

Mary MacIsane is said to be out hunt
ing for 'local color for a novel. Moth
ing is SO tiresone as d novel chock full
Of local color, local color just shoveled
into it by the barrel full, crammed in as
a mattress is stuffed with straw, crowded
down and running over. The best kind of
a novel tells the story and lets the local
color take care of itself.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-16
THE NONPAREIL MAN

Striking Similarity In the Fooiishness
Displayed by the Friends Of the Groom
from Vermont to indIana-How Newly
Married People Are Annoyed by the
Well Meaning, But IIl-considered Jests'
of the Thouehtless.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-16

REMEMBER, all this circulation is
the 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. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-16

That sect known as the Holy Jumpers
cannot have q very high sense of humor
if they named themselves. The name
would indicate a row of active and agrees
sive thumb tacks in every pew.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-16

Governor Pcase says that the boys Of
Anoka should have big long credit mark.
They didn't do a single mean thing on
Halloween night. Halloween destruction
is a good deal Of a chestnut and if new
crops of boys were not continually spring
ing up, its meanness would die out. The
trouble with Halloween is the Unframed
kid, hand in glove with crime and reek
ing with villainy. -
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-16

The unfeeling world as represented by
the passengers in the car enjoyed these
occasions deeply and the porter swept up
about a barrel Of rice. In fact the dining
car had rice pudding on the list during
the whole trip.
Say, isn't it about time to come off the
roost? On these solemn occasions of life
man desires privacy to consider the
serious step he is taking and to become
acquainted with the Loved Object.
Why should we furnish him with Of
fensive publicity and contumelyr
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-16

The company at the Dewey this week
gives an excellent vaudeville performance
There will be a ladies' souvenir matinee
Friday.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-16

There's a certain brand of joke that
your wife does not enjoy. Such for in
stance as the one worked out with In
finite pains by the Yonkers Statesman
humorist This joke was about man who
all his life had been thinking UP his last
words but when he came to die, his wife
talked so much that he couldn't get them
off and so went into the other world last
wordless. We are thankful we did not
spring this. 1t was unkind.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-16

Without being prophet or a seventh
son or daughter we predict that Colombia
is putting herself in a position to be
pounded to a pulp.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-16

Columbia is experiencing that sense of
hot rebellion that the farmers child has
when father bears down hard on the
grindstone.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-16

Considerable ammunition was wasted on
Governor Van SAINT after his interview. on
the assumption that he would be candi-
date for a third term. The Park Rapids
Enterprise used UP column of good
editorial space in showing why the gov
ernor was not entitled to denomination.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-16

The Schwarg boom for treasurer has
worked it's way as far north as Aitkin, and
the Republican OF that city has come out
for Schwarg and against a third term for
julius Block. Charles B. Cheney.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-16

The new edition Of John Bunyan's Pill.
grim's Progress is. a beautiful specimen
of up-to-date mechanical execution and
a notable example of modern illustrative
art. There are thirty-one Illustrations.
and the text has been revised to follow
that of the last edition issued in Bunyan's
lifetime lGS6).
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-16

DR.. Williams "hawless machine as
the Chicago papers now call the gopher
football eleven was not once derailed on
Saturday There will be moro obstruc-
tions on the track at Madison on Thanks
giving day, however.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-16

Anticipating the resignation of Judge
Collins from the supreme bench and the
possible promotion of Judge G. B. Elliott,
attorneys are INDUCING in considerable
speculation over the district bench ap-
pointment. There are at least half a
dozen candidates for the benche already
in sight, and If any one Of them received
an appointment it would go long way
toward insuring his nomination later on.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-16

: Mrs. Virgins Rebecca of Sunnybrook
Farm is reported as the best selling book
in New York: Thomas Bailey Aldrich,
author Of 1.-The Story Of a Bad Boy does
not profess to be an authority on girls,
but he considers that Rebecca sis just
the very incest child in American liter
ature.''
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-16

Mr.. Barnard's Conceits Of General
Lover is an impressive demonstration of
the rhyming talent. The number Of maids
whose beauties he exto,s is enormous
The "conceits'' run thru thirty pages.
leaving about 140 pages for his variant
moods, filings at little follies, sonnets, etc.
There is wit in his quatrains, and in his
ballads will be found some real poetry,
as in Ballads of April Weather and
Ballads of October Dusk
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-16

The Harmony News. from down near the
Iowa line, says:
Some think that w. II. Eustis ought
to be the republican candidate for gov
ernor again next year. 1t would be fair
shake to give Mr.. Eustis another chance.
His one successful attempt was not al
together his fault
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-16

Mrs. Peatties selections of Poems You
Ought to Know, one of which has APP
peared in the Chicago Tribune each day
for some time, have been published in
a handsome volume, and they are from the
very best sources and are highly cred
liable to her literary taste and Judgment
A brief biography of each poet is ap-
pended to each selection.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-16

The Fleming II. Revell company reports
that Sidney u. Gulick's book, The Evo-
luton Of the Japanese, has been barred
out of Japan because the chrysanthemum
design on the cover of the book had six
teen petals. 1t seems that there is an old
law in Japan reserving the sixteen-leaved
chrysanthemum as the Japanese imperial
crest. The publishers have been notified
that the ban would be removed from the
book if they will make the chrysanthemum
have fourteen or twenty leaves.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-16

j. o. Haugland of Montevideo, a prom
inent member of the last two legislatures,
was in ST. Paul Saturday. He says Judge
Collins candidacy finds considerable favor
in their locality. Eddy is not strong. Dunn
has quite following, but many are
strongly opposed to him. Mr. Haugland
says that feeling against Dunn is quite as
strong on account of his attitude toward
the tax code as on the merger PROPOSE
ton 35
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-16

This is contest between republicans
and while it will be strenuous, it should be
none the less friendly. The friends Of
Judge Collins understand the situation,
and are ready for the contest
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-16

The Morton, Mimi, Enterprise Growl
er's column finds the air in that town full
of rumors of scandal, Of ''horsewhippings"
Holbrook argus., 1903-05-16

The first place reached where water can be found is Snowflake, a slight depression in the desert, natural and without an outlet. It is in reality an oasis; vegeta- tion thrives for the planting. 1t is a Mormon settlement of about 700 peaceful, sturdy and honest followers of Joseph Smith and his sect. They till the soil and seem content with the little world in which they live. They thrive, it seems, in their seclu- sion; raise large families, and some are quite wealthy in world ly goods, owning focks of sheep and herds of cattle. In no in- stance do they practice poly gamy.
 On the Apache trail are several Mormon towns, but none as large as Snowflake. To the north of Holbrook is the Moki Indian reservation and several small towns.
 1t is estimated conservatively that 10000 people secure their supplies through the six or eight stores at Holbrook. It is also a large wool shipping point, but not the headquarters of many cattlemen, as in former years. The Santa Fe built into Holbrook in 1881, and for some time after the terminals were there, then it was a cattle shipping station.
 Cattle were driven to Holbrook
Holbrook argus., 1903-05-16

two troops of cavalry and one company of infantry. They get their supplies from Holbrook, where they are shipped by the government. The Fort Apache trail, well known to the veterans of the plains because of it's early tragical history, is still the scene of the high-topped stage coach like army amDulances and the mule team freight wagon. And it is hard trail. The first thirty miles after leaving the railroad is burning scope of sand without a single watering place.
Holbrook argus., 1903-05-16

in those days for shipment from all over Arizona, New Mexico and even California and Mexico.
 1t was a lively place in those days. Money was plenty, and so were corpses. It was nothing of note for a cowboy to be killed in Holbrook in the years between the advent of the railroad and 1889, and not such a greatevent the several years following. In June of the year 1888 the town, with the exception of a few buildings north of the railroad, went up in smoke. The fire was a blow from which Holbrook never fully recovered. Part of the town was rebuilt, but not half of what burned. Where there were ten saloons before the fire, there is one now, and the same ratio may be applied to the amount of money and people to be found there then and now.
 But Holbrook is still import ant. 1t will always be source of supplying the people of the country which it now rules. And it may grow. The petrifed forest of Arizona, the greatest yet discovered, is best visited out from Holbrook. Tourists are learning this, notwithstanding the people of Holbrook have made no effort in this line. 1t is seventeen miles to the forest