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The Minneapolis journal., 1903-12-04
NEWS OF THE BOOK WORLD
A Book Of Strong Stories that Should Help
Abolish the sweatshop- kipnng's "The
Five Natlons"-some Good Things in
the Magazines.

II the obliteration of the sweatshop and
the renovation of the Jewish quarter of
the East Side of New Y York can be brought
about by a book, those much desired
changes should not be long delayed. Bruno
Lessing's Children of Men ought to ac-
complish things there, if any book can.
The title admirably fits the book; it is
a series Of stories of men. There is no
attempt to picture the squalor and horrors
OF the sWeatshop of the East Side tene-
ments Those are the background But
before the readers mind are placed the
terrible pictures of the effects of sweat.
shop and tenement life. upon the human
\ soul; not, portrayed by tedious psycoogi-
cal analysis, but by showing the struggles
and the failures of those whom circum !.
stances and environment overcome and
rob OF the joys they seek to grasp.
Inc pictures are terriblyS sad ones for
the most part, but, just as the sunlight
does now and then reach the bottom of
tenement-house lghtwel, the light Of
JOY sometimes gets down into the gloom
/ IN which the Ghetto is usually wrapped,
and Mr. I4essing pictures the light and the
/ shadow with equal fidelity.
= 1t Is unsafe to attempt to abridge but
to give glimpse of 1.-The End of the
/ Task is worth the risk.
] Two sWeatshop lovers. both from Rus
sla but the girl (who is dying of consump-
tlon), from the country whose fields flow
Y 80 eIiAu ill she IlaQ loVeQ paSSlOnatG1y
lind their way into an art exhibit. Before
Corot's Spring Twilight the girl stops
entranced In whisper she says:
4 The picture. The green fields and that tree!
And the road! 1t stretches over the hill, The
] sun will set, too very soon. Then the sheep vii
come over the top of the hill. OH / can almos,
hear the lenders bell. And there is Il light
breeze. See the leaves of the tree; they arc
moving! Can't You feel the breeze? Oh, darling
isn't it wonderful?
But they are not permitted to enjoy
these wonders of art They are in short
put out. a few days later the girl i.
dying. Her supreme wish is for one more
look at the picture. Braun, her lover de
i termines that she shall have it. cost wha
1t may He goes to the exhibit and car
ries off the picture. No one sees him dt
IT. He takes it to Lizschen's room ant
hangs it at the foot Of her bed. 1t brings
! her the keenest delight. All day she ha
been looking at the picture, when Braun
comes to her from his days work. Thel
she falls asleep, to awake suddenly, he
eyes on the picture, and cry out:
l hear them: hear them plainly. Don't you
Liebchen? The sheep are coming They're com
ing over the hill Watch, Liebchen watch pre-
Icious.
And the life goes out from it's squali'
tenement to its fields, flowers and tree
again.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-12-04
The .Tourist Business.

In the discussions over proposed
forest reserves and national parks in
Minnesota the opponents of both OF
these projects have laughed derisively
when it has been suggested that what
may be called the tourist business"
affords very strong practical argu-
ment in favor OF the preservation in
a wild state of a considerable portion
of northern Minnesota.
The state of Maine, however,
laughs not derisively, but rather
smiles unctuously at the tourist
business Samuel w. Adams. COM
missioner of statistics for Maine, esti-
mates that summer visitors, hunters,
tourists, etc, bring $15,OO0,00O into
the state every year. In view of the
fact that there are 250.O00 of these
''transients," it is hardly possible that
the estimate of their financial contri-
button to the state is too small. Fif-
teen millions of dollars brought into
a state every year is not to be shifted
at. 1t is more, by way of Illustration,
than the value of the entire annual
| lumber output of the Minneapolis
saw mills.
No small portion Of this sum goes
directly to the farmers of Maine,
whose farms are near the favored re-
| sorts. 1t is calculated that the cot
tages and hotels frequented by the
| visitors buy each season $780, ,000
worth of farm produce of various
kinds.
No better business investment
could be made by the people of Min
| nesota than the creation of one or
more large forest reserves in the
| northern part of the state. The day
will come when the very people who
now oppose even the small reserve
around Leech Lake created by the
Morris law will be glad Of its exist.
ence. When you cut down the forests
! you have taken crop that it takes
fifty years to grow. Properly cult.
waited, the tourist is a profitable an
nual crop.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-12-04
JOURNALISM in RUSSIA

Running n newspaper in Russia is pre-
eminently a risky operation. The czar's
government spends more on the press CEN
sorship than it does on educa ton, and
quite recently the staff Of press censors
has been increased by eight Certainly the
censor earns his salary in Russia. Last
year eighty-three newspapers were sus-
pended for periods amounting in all to
thirty one years and ten days. twenty six
papers were forbidden to accept adver-
tisements, and 259 editors were officially
threatened with Siberia if they did not
mend their ways The censorship even
pursues the unfortunate editor after it
elects him. One eminent conductor Of a
scientific journal who was dismissed at
the instance of the censor Is practically
condemned to starve or emigrate. All
tae papers and publishers in Russia are
forbidden to accept "conY,, from him.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-12-04
POPE Plus DlsREeARDs CUSTOM

4 Pope Plus is giving constant reminders
Of the fact that he intends to be master
in his own house, even tho by doing so he
upsets precedent The other day he an
nounced that he intended to have his sis
tiers lunch with him in the vatican. An at
tending dignitary pointed out in guarded
Language that such thing had not oc-
Cured in the annals of the papacy since
the Rhange in regime of the Italian gov
ernment. His holiness replied that in the
past he had always entertained whom he
pleased in his own apartments, and he saw
no reason to change his habits. Accord
ingly his sisters lunched with him at the
time set.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-12-04

which the state auditor refused to pay,
altho the state legislature had provided
that such bounty should be paid and had
practically guaranteed a bonus Of that
amount to the people who should estab-
slish the factory at st. Louis Park. The
claim does not seem to be collectable,
but we have no doubt as to the moral
obligation of the state to pay it, No
business man careful of his reputation
for square dealing would repudiate such
a claim
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-12-04
THE wickEDEsT AGE

Merely as an Illustration that the wick
eldest age of man is between 20 and 80, the
following is mentioned: From April 1 to
June so, inclusive, of this year, 1896 ar
rests were made by the police of New
York 35,S44 of which were made in Man
haitian and the Bronx. The greater ma
jority Of these arrests We're men. the num-
Der being in the neighborhood of 10000.
OF the men arrested $500 were under 20
years of age, 1929 were between 90 and SO
years Old 1881 were between 80 and 40
years, 4,111 were between 40 and SO years,
and 1902 were over 80 years.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-12-04
THE NEW BRITISH MINISTER

One who has served under Sir Mortimer
Durard, the new British ambassador to
this country. sums up the baronet In this
fashion: "He has always been my beau
ideal of an English gentleman and diplo-
matist, without fear and without reproacn.
It has been said that he is one Of the few
men who can wear the diplomatic uniform,
without looking ridiculous in it With
strangers he has a grayea dignifed and
very polite. tho somewhat distant. man
ner, but in reality he possesses most ge-
NAL disposition, and is gentle and tender
hearted as n woman"
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-12-04
BOOKS RECEIVED
CHILDREN OF MEN BY Bruno Lessing. \

CHILDREN OF MEN. BY Bruno Lessing. New
York. Mcclure. Phillips & Co. Minneapolis:
NJ Mccarthy.
THE FIVE NATIONS. BY Rudyard Kipling.
New York: Doubleday. Page & Co. Mime
apolis: n. Mccarthy. Price S1.4o net
CHAMPLAIN, THE FOUNDER OF NEW
FRANCE. Ry Edwin Asa Dix. NJ. A., LII. b.
author of Deacon Bradbury ''Old Bowen
Legacy" etc. Illustrated. New. York: d.
Appleton & Co. Price 81 net. Postage, IL
cents.
SIXTY BRIDGE HANDS. BY Charles Stuart
Street, author OF bridge Up to Date" etc
New York: Dodd, Mead & Co. Minneapolis
William Donaldson & Co. Price $1.25 net
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-12-04
THE MAGAZINES

4 s r. . y /. ' Z ~ IT, s .
The Hope Of Imnnortaiity--In the great
feast of material which The Literary Di-
gest Of Nov. % offers no single item is
of wider interest than that under the
above title. 1t is a review of a book--..Im
mortality a Rational Faith Rev. Viii
liam Chester. formerly pastor if Imman-
uel Presbyterian church. Milwaukee. a
position which he resigned to go to Europe
to study. II next to reading a book is
reading a good review of the book" this
review of Mr.. Chester's book should be
largely read. Mr.. Chester holds as a
premise that the belief in Immortality Is
based neither in science, nor in philosophy
nor in religion but in all three of the
realms of thought.
Parslfal--The arrangement to give Wag-
ner's great work in New York. and the
/ interest that has been aroused thereby
have called forth an interesting article
/ from the pen of T. A. Dupont Coleman Il
the excellent December number Of Ths
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-12-04
War on the White Plague.

No recent public welfare movement
in Minneapolis has surpassed in i'm
portance the caUpaign about to be
inaugurated against tuberculosis. The
people have too long given aid and as
sistance to this terrible disease. The
we'll have lived side by side with those
suffering from tuberculosis with as
little concern as if the patient had a
trouble no more contagious than a
broken limb. Thousands have suf-
fered and died because they did not
take proper precautions to prevent the
communication Of the disease after
conditions had arisen which should
have warned them to look to them
selves. Those who have been so un-
fortunate as to contract the dread dis
ease have not been afforded the means
of checking it's progress or curing it.
The consumptive father, with family
dependent on him, has kept at work
lat the sacrifice of his chances Of liv-
| ing and to the peril of his family and
associates.
! The new organization to fight con.
/ sumption purposes to educate the peo-
pie regarding the communicating OF
the disease, precautions to take agains
/ 1t and methods of cure. But it will be
/ something more than an academic
body. 1t will endeavor to take the
consumptive out of an environment il
i which he is a menace to himself ant
others. To do this twill be,necessar,
to provide for the support Of those de
s pendent on him during the period O
separation, whether that be long o.
short.
This is a matter to be handled will
great care and consideration, but tn,
time has passed when false sentinen
regarding the rights of a suffere
/ from consumption should be permit
ted to operate to the injury of him
self, his family and the whole com
munity.
Il The Minnesota Sugar company lose
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-12-04

The Bible readings conducted every. af-
ternoon and evening at Westminster
church by Rev. Mr. Gray are attracting
wide attention Mr.. Gray is an exceed
ingly interesting man. He has something
new for the people. His interpretations of
the oldest and greatest of all books are
and those who do not hear him are miss
ing something of value.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-12-04

A renewal of the Chicago street car
strike is threatened. The leaders Of the
union claim that the company is discrim-
mating unfairly against men active in the
strike. The company settled on the basis
that men who had been guilty of violence
and destruction Of property should not be
taken back. There is lots of room for dis
pute as to who was guilty Of violence and
1t seems to have commenced.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-12-04

The late William L. Elkins of Phila-
delphia made a codicil to. his will within
thirty days of his death devising large
sum of money for an orphanage. The
court has held that the codicil is not bind
ing because made within SO short time
of death The heirs, however, have de-
cided that the codicil shall be observed
exactly as if it were legally binding. This
is unusua-they must have had enough,
anyway
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-12-04
An Indian Hunt.

At the time of the shooting affray
between Indians and sheriff's posse
in Wyoming, in which four Indians
were killed and two wounded, while
the sheriff and one of his posse We're
killed, The ournal expressed
the opinion that the affair was the
outcome of a survival of the account
able but brutal contempt and hatred
for the Indians SO often entertained
by cowboys and other frontiersmen.
Later developments support this
opinion. The sheriff and his men We're
spelling for a fight with the Indians,
who were not looking for trouble and
maintained that they were quite with
in their legal rights. But, whether
right or wrong, there was no occasion
for Miller to attempt to use force as
he did.
The fact that the surviving Indians
were discharged on the charge Of nurs
der, after brief Incarceration, is suf-
ficient proof that they were not to
blame for the fray in which the six
persons lost their lives.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-12-04

fuuydFu hlpllnS ! ne rive Nations,
contains Kipling's poems of recent years.
Some of them are new and some are not
so new, but are nevertheless those which
one who cares to keep a record of events
will wish to have on his shelves. For ex-
ample there is ''The Truce Of the Bear
wherein Russia is portrayed as Adam
lad, ''the Bear that walks like man. );
the Song of the Wise Children; 1.-THE
White Mans Burden; "our Lady Of the
Shows" favoring imperial federation EFT
Dona Ferentes,' "The Lesson; "The Is
landers,'' wherein he blasts his country
men as "fannelled fools at the wicket or
the muddied OATS at the goals and the
famous 'Recessional.' There are many
ballads of the Boer war.
Mr.. DiS's story of Samuel de Champlain,
who founded the French power on the st.
Lawrence, making the first permanent set
tlement It Quebec, as told in ChampIain,
i the Founder of New France, is favored
with the romance of exploration and dis
covery i'll the seventeenth century. Cham
Fplain had lofty ambitions and believed he
was destined to found a great French EN-
! pire of the New World. Jacques Cartier
had sailed into the Gulf Of st. Lawrence
and up the big river as far as the site OF
/! the future Montreal and he sailed away
again. That was sixty odd years before
Champlain got there in 1903 and acquired
some knowledge of the country In 1905
/ EChanlplain came from France again anG
flaid the foundations of Quebec. The story
Iof the exploits of ..The Father of New
France thereafter is intensely interest
ing. Champlain's dream of a great French
empire on this continent was made i'm.
possible by the English occupation of the
French territory about a hundred ant
thirty years after his DEATH
4 Mr.. Streets Sixty Bridge Hands is de
signed to show players of that game some
extra tricks which will make them vii
oftener. if they have their wits abou
i them.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-12-04

In the early part of the past century
the west was ready to fight for the Mis-
sissippi river outlet to the Gulf of Mexico.
The west has long since acquired the
habit Of using the Atlantic coast outlets.
but just now the eastern roads seem to
be fighting hard to force it TO turn to the
gulf again. Already 80 per- cent of the
grain raised in Nebraska coca to Calves
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-12-04

Now that the Clayton -Bulwer treaty and
the Alaska boundary question are out of
the way, there is an agitation in favor OF
an arbitration treaty with England. Our
Canadian friends will put it this way
The United States, having had it's way
and there being nothing more to arbi-
trate, proposes arbitration.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-12-04

The Pennsylvania railway has issued an
order that its thru trains passing thru
Philadelphia shall stop at a suburban sta
ton instead of entering the central Broad
street station. This order has stirred the
old, town up 50 much that it has lost even
a curious interest in the plans the local
gang is laying to rob the city of 100000, 900.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-12-04
FRIDAY EVENING,

ton and New Orleans. and now Minneap-
oils flour Is Beginning to go that way.
Nothing could be more beneficial to the
northwest than the establishment of q
cheap and direct gulf connection The
eastern roads would then be sweetly rea-
sonable
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-12-04

The Texas Daughters Of the Confed-
eracy are delighted because President
Roosevelt has Endorsed the principle of
secession. Secession that succeeds usual
ly is indorsed. The trouble with southern
secession was that it didn't succeed. It
matters little whether the south had a
constitutional right to secede or not; the
north didn't propose to let it go.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-12-04

Herriclz. the governor -eleot of Ohio, is
said to be the presidents choice for vice
president. Why, certainly. He must be
an Ohio man, of course.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-12-04

A member Of the Writers league last
night discussed the question, rs the Art
Of Poetry Destined to Die?" Not unless
the Writer'S league dies.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-12-04

An Italian village has just been visited
by shower of ashes. They will have
ashes to burn.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-12-04

The stormy weather seems to have nc
effect on the attendance at the Iyceum.
Large audiences witnessed the Ferris com
pany's production of THE Power of the
Press, at both performances Yesterday
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-12-04

Labor Conditions In HaWaii-They are
discussed in the December American Fed
erationist, by Edward Rosenberg, who
would see Hawaii made q field for white
labor and not for Mongolan. Mr.. Rosen-
berg writing further OF Japan, looks for
suffering there.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-12-04

Next week the Ferris Stock con1pan,
will present big scenic production O
& Around the World in Eighty Days. =
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-12-04

There was decrease of over 30 per cent in
the exports of cheese from the United States in
the fiscal year ending June 30 1908, as COM
pared with the year preceding.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-12-04
HAS rwo SONS IN CONGRESS-

In all the big crowds who attended the
opening of congress none among the ris-
itors was more proud than Mrs. Mary
Kumler Landis of Kokomo, Ind. who from
{, seat in the members gallery looked
down and saw her two sons, Frederick II.
and Charles b.. take their seats among
the nations legislators. Mrs Lands is 90
years old and she enjoyed to the full an
opportunity given to but few American
mothers
In the center of Kilaine. an island in the North
sea. Is perhaps the most curious lake In the
world. The surface of it's waters is quite fresh
and supports fresh-water creatures but deep
down it is US salt as the greatest depths Of tho
sea and saltwater fish live in it
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-12-04

Souvenirs for the ladies' in conjunction
with one of the best shows seer, at the
Dewey theater attracted a large audience
to this cosy playhouse this afternoon.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-12-04

Critic. The article is brief and discusses
Wagner's source Of material and the theme
of his work With the article are several
full page pictures from Autographs illus
trative Of Parsifal. A good review of Nor
ley's life of Gladstone" which is in large
demand is given, pointing out Mr. Nor
ley's conclusion that lit is only as a
statesman that Gladstone's fame will en-
DIR =
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-12-04

The Minnesota Sugar company loses
It's case before the supreme court It
sued to recover about .s1s, 900 of bounty
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-12-04

This seasons production of the ever
popular 'McFadden's Row of Flats. .
which opens at the Bijou Sunday after
noon, will offer a treat for those who
enjoy a hearty laugh. good singing, beau
tiful scenery and costumes and a bevy of
pretty girls.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-12-04

Croker is credited with urging Bryan to
run for president again. What for?
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-12-04

The Chicago News claims that every
frst-c,ass liar owns a dog. Let the dog
owner apply the rules of logic and he
will at once see that not every dog owner
is liar even conceding that every liar
is a dog owner. It's rather subtle.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-12-04

1t is permissible to slip out the door and
stand on the curb when the street car
starts to whistle on it's fingers and to
catch ride on the cowcatcher of the fast
freight train.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-12-04

If the president of the senate would al
low Senator Morgan to be chlorofornled
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-12-04

While running my shears thru the st.
Cloud Journal-Press for Wednesday /
burned my fingers on one of the editorials
L managed to cut it out, but before giving
it. wider circulation will wait for some
one else to .cut loose
Charles B. Cheney
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-12-04

The Chicago grand jury is after the
plumbing trust. Doubtless the trust goes
up to the house. looks over the job, goes
back to the office for tool, returns to
the house, goes back after another tool.
ETC., etc, charging time for the trips.
It is such plumbing as this that endan-
gers our free institutions.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-12-04

| Mr.. Streets Sixty Bridge Hands is de-
signed to show players of that game some
extra tricks which will make them win
oftener. if they have their wits about
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-12-04
Foyer Chat.

Ezra Kendall appears at the Metropolitan
the first half Of next week in the three
act comedy '..Fhe Vinegar Buyer This
funny effort. which is the work of Her
bert Hall Winslow, gives Mr.. Kendall an
excellent opportunity to entertain an au-
dience.
III Quincy Adams Sawyer to be the
Metropolitan's attraction the last half OF
next week. the essential features OF
Charles Felton, Pidgin's famous New Eng
land novel of the same name have been
handled to extremely clever advantage
One of the conspicuous features of ',Fhe
Beauty Doctor at the Rijou this week. is
the chorus, which is noted for attractive
ness. Performances tonight, Tomorrow
afternoon and evening will terminate the
engagement
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-12-04

A hearing is now going on before the
superior civil tribunal of Paris. in the
case of the Swedish Baron de Adelsward
and Count de Warren, a Belgian. who
are accused of carrying on the practice of
devil worship in their apartments where
they We're caught by raid of the police
1t is said the count and the baron had
dedicated q room to Lucifer. and there.
with skulls, crossbones, birthstone and
other devilish devices initiated neophytes
into the worship of his Satanic majesty
Devil worship as cult has not secured
a lfoothold in the new world yet, tho there
are many people who do the works of
their father. the devil and many others
who act like him. Personally, we have
always considered the devil a cheap fake
He lied TO us when we were quite young.
and it was not until after many years
that we got next to his game. If We
had our way the devil would be doing
time on the workhouse stonepile on an
indeterminate sentence. and if we were
on the board OF pardons ne wouldn't get
out for million years. A j. r.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-12-04

No. we don't. But not because they are
caught. but because we don't like the
taste of them. Now please do not go off
and call us a vegetarian crank because VIC
do not enjoy killing It's such thing.
We are able to eat our section OF beef
steak with more or less gustatory pleas
ure, but that does not argue that We en-
joy numbering the cow.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-12-04

The native of Somaiiland is said to
the most self-satisfied man on earth. He
not only suspects that he is the only oasis
n the desert, but he knows it. An Eng
lish traveller has recently given a literal
translation of Sonnalf poem. 1t runs