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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-01-26

they were gratefully acknowledged.
l cannot remember back to a time when
he was not Tom Reed to me, nor to a
time when he would have been offended
at being so addressed by me. 1 cannot
remember back to a time when I could
let him alone in an after-dinner speech if
he was present, nor to time when hs
did not take my extravagances concern
ing him and misstatements about him in
good part. nor yet to a. time when he did
not pay them back with usury when his
turn came. The last speech he made was
at my birthday dinner at the end Of No
vember, when naturally I was his text.
My last word to him was in a letter the
next day; day later 1 was illustrating
a fantastic article on art" with his por
trait among others-a portrait now to be
laid reverently away among the jests that
begin in humor and end In pathos. These
things happened only eight days ago. and
now he is gone from us, and the nation Is
speaking Of him as one who was. 1t
seems incredible, impossible. Such man,
such a friend, seems to us a permanent
possession; his vanishing from our midst
is unthinkable, as unthinkable as was the
stood for a thousand years and was
turned to dust in a moment.
have no wish, at this time, to enter
upon light and humorous "reminiscences
connected with yachting voyages with Mr.
Reed in northern and southern seas, nor
with other recreations in his company in
other places-they do not belong In this
paper, they do not invite me, they would
jar upon me. I have only wished to say
how fine and beautiful was his life and
character, and to take him by the hand
and say goodbye, as to a fortunate friend
who has done well his work and goes 4
pleasant journey.
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TwAIN's TRIBUTE TO REED

Mark Twain in Harper's Weekly.
He wore no SHE'LL His ways were frank
and open, and the road to his large sym
pathies was straight and unrestricted.
His was a nature which invited affection
compelled 1t, in fact-and met it half
way. Hence he was Tom to the most of
his friends and to half of the nation. The
abbreviating of such a mans name is a
patent of nobility, and Is conferred from
the heart. Mr.. Reed had very strong
and decided character, and he may have
had enemies. / do not know. If he had
them, outside Of politics, they did not
know the man. He was transparency
honest and honorable, there were no fur
ILLNESSES about him, and whoever came
to know him trusted him and was not
disappointed. He was wise, he was
shrewd and alert, he was clear and cap
able thinker, a logical reasoner and
a strong and convincing speaker. His
manner was easy and engaging, his
speeches sparkled with feIicities of phra :
sing thrown off without apparent eff
fort, and when he needed the happy help
Of humor he had a mine of it as deep and
rich as Kimberley to draw from. His
services to his country were great, and
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PUT MY EAR AGAINST THE PANEL,

his generous approval. The game con-
cluded, went into the hall and asked the
porter If there we're any kilograms for
me. There were not. I noticed that the
porter-it was the night porter, and he
had just come on duty-seemed to have
a peculiarly honest and attractive face
Wishing him good night retired to bed.
At o'clock I awoke-not with a start.
but rather gradually. know it was ex-
actly o'clock because the striking of
a VIGOROUSLY noisy church clock in the
neighborhood was the first thing I heard.
But the clock had not awakened me. I
felt sure that something else, something
far more sinister than a church clock, had
been the origin of disturbance
I listened. Then I heard it again. Tt
was the sound of a groan in the next
room.
Some one indisposed either in body
or mind" I thought lightly and I tried
to go to sleep again. But I could not
sleep. The groans> continued, and grew
more poignant, more fearsome. At last
| jumped out of bed and turned on the
light. = - -a..ts .-s ...'...
THAT man, whoever he is, is dying -
The idea; as 1t were, sprang at my throat.
Only man who saw death by his side
and trembled before the apparition, could
groan like that" -
put on some clothes and went into
the corridor 1t seemed to stretch away
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Copyright, 1908, by L. c. Mcclure.

The date was the 9Th of November II
was Friday-and yet there are people
who affect to believe that Friday Is not q
day singled out from it's six companions
for mystery, strangeness and disaster
The number of the room was 222. The
hotel shall call by the name of the
Grand Junction Terminus hotel.
The Grand Junction Is full every night
in the week except Friday, Saturday and
Sunday. Every commercial traveller
knows that, except on these nights, if he
wishes to secure a room he must write
or telegraph for it in advance. And there
are 400 bed rooms
It was somewhat late in the evening
When l arrived in L.. On the spur of
the moment I decided to stay at the Grand
junction, If there was space for me. 1t is
thus that fate works
walked into the hail. followed by a
platform porter with my bag. The place
seemed just as usual, the perfection of
the commonplace, the businesslike and the
unspiritual. . a'-
;, 'Have you room?" 1 asked the young
lady in black, whose yellow hair shone
gaily at the office window under the
electric light. ~
She glanced at her ledgers in the i'm
passive and detached manner which hotel
young ladies with yellow hair invariably
affect, and CALCULATED:
PITY you couldn't make it all twos,
yentured, with timid jocularity (How
could I guess the import of what 1 was
saying?) 49,,
she smiled very slightly with a dis
tant condescension. Manner" she de-
manded.
Edge"
In another moment I was in the ele-
vator.
No. 221 was the last door but one at
the end of the eastern corridor of the
fourth floor. 1t proved to be a double
bedded room, large, eXquisitely ugly but
perfectly appointed in all matters of COM
Tort; In short, it was characteristic Of the
hotel. knew that every bed room in that
corridor presented exactly the same as
pect. One instinctively felt the impossi-
bil1ty Of anything weird, anything biz
ARE, anything terrible, entering the pre-
c1ncts Of an abode so solid, cheerful, or
derby and middle class.
1t will be we'll for me to relate all that
l did that evening. I went down to the
billiard room and played hundred up
With the marker. To show that nv
nerves were at least as steady as usual
that night, I may mention that, although
the marker gave me fifty and beat me, I
made a break Of twenty odd which won
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ADJUSTMENTS
THE Heart of MarvIand,, A. ~.

ne Heart OF Maryland" at the RIiou,
Dav1d Belasco's war play, "The Heart
OF Maryland,' opened at the Bijou yester-
Jay AFTERNOON with Miss Alma kruger
TO- ia m ~ nS Calvert The play is fami-
mar to Minneapolis Until yesterday the
prayer was an unknown quantity. Miss
Kruger IS a young woman of plea sing ner
sonalltv and a certain ability in emotional
roles She, has a sympathetic voice of
good power and carries herself sracefu1ly
line Heart of Maryland' is the play
which won fame for Mrs. Leslie Carter
whose stage experience had been neither
extensive nor promising. AS MARYLAND
CaiVert she took the country by storm,
anu continued In the role for two seasons
Like all Of Belasco's plays, '"The Heart
OF Maryland" bears every evidence of hav-
ing neen written by master Of stage
technlque. 1t Is love melodrama, in
winch the comedy interest is of SLIGHT i'm
portance. It has been plentifully SUD-
phed with thrilling climaxes Of which.
cul1ously enough, the least powerful has
attfacted the widest attention. There
IS nothing particularly startling in the
spectacle of Maryland swinging to and
FRO, suspended from the clapper of a
church-toWer bell, yet that feature was.
IN the first instance, the source of the
dramas vogue. It is not to be compared
for dramatic intensity, to the strong cl-
max OF the second act; or to that scene in
the fourth act in which Colonel Thorpe of
the Confederate service. though over
whelmed by superior numbers, virtually
dictates terms to his conqueror because
ne holds Miss Calvert a prisoner and
sWears that he will kill her. unless he is
allowed to withdraw without molesta-
ton. AS his message is sent to Mary
lands lover the tensity of the scene NAV
readily be imagined. However, the belfrv
scene served good purpose if it added to
the plays longevity, for 1.-THE Heart of
Maryland" is excellent example of
American melodrama and should survive.
AS Maryland Calvert, Miss Alma Kru-
ger early won the regard Of yesterday's
audience. She carried off her stronger
scenes we'll, but, in the lighter passages,
was not so happy. Miss Kruger succeeded
~: In the scene in the old church. where
Maryland's attack upon Captain Thorpe
was depicted with realism that caused
the house to break into applause. She is
also deserving Of praise for her work in
the more strenuous passages Of the Sec
ond and fourth acts. AS a coincidence,
however, she is not success.
Herbert Bostwick, who is cast as COL
one1 Thorpe, played the part here last
season. SHe makes the colonel thor
oughly despicable character, and certain
ly earns the storm of Kisses with which
the gallery rewarded him. Tefft John
son is Colonel Alan Kendrick, Marylan.,s
lover, and gives a thoroughly manly and
hkable representation of the young fed
eral officer. B. J. Murphy also, the Cen
eral Hugh Kendrick of the cast, remains
from last year company. He handles
the role in an impressive manner and is
wholly satisfactory. Francis Justice is
good Lloyd Culvert.
J. s. Tawrence
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IN A NUTSHELL.....


The nlaximunl-a tariff idea, ae embodied in
e resolution recently introduced in Senator
Lodge, has directed public attention form tariff
legislation that is unfamiliar United States The
treasury bureau of statistics has
thing OF an account Of such legislation elsewhere
The maximum minimum is distin-
gushed from others, first Of all, Instead of
having two rates for few articles on
articles on which duties imposed this
frequently called the double tariff system the applica
ton OF these rates the maximum to the
general schedule and the minimum the special
schedules arranged by treaty minimum tariffs
are given only to those the most
1aVored-nat1on treatment. tariff in
this country SO far as we have reciprocity
conventions in
But true minimum tariff directly established by law
just as much the Ximun1. treaty.
making but of law making That legislative power
IAes tne rates OF article
NIX the limit of taxation articles from whatever
country they the rates fix the minimum
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model child a. and burn his father
barn. It gaS tho writer a bias against
reilgion that 1t took nearly forty tSesv to
I.oyercome.
Another Sunday school book that is well
remembered was called 1.-THE Midnight
Conf11ct It was 80 frightfu1 trayesty
| on life that the writer stole it and still
! mas 1t somewhere as horrible example. -
Although a good child, as children 20. the
present writer after reading Little Ag-
| gle and THE Midnight Conflict" Ionged
to go out and break bunch Of command
ments
We were hoping that the character of
the present day Sunday school library
| had changed.
OF course everything good has it's ini-
tatlons. They are now making Rouue-
tort cheese in Chicago that has to wear
pail and chain on its leg The aroma Of
the real imported Roquefort is a bouquet.
a dream, a song of spring. But the at
! tempt to s1mpound a similar aroma in
Ch1cago. of all places, and to crowd If
I INTO rake cheese, put up in the same
shape ise a. crime against nature. The
ooor, OF" the fake Chicago cheese, COM
pared to the imported aroma, is a Polish
riot. The cheese ought to be taken out
ana 'frisked with an ak. This false .odor
mas Knocked down stout observation-disclosures
Keepers and has thrown the inanimate ice
oox into cold perspiration. Before we
attack Roquefort cheese let US find out
whether the French goat or some Chicago
apattolr Is guilty. There is an article
going the rounds on this cheese which
says:
Thyme is kind of aromatic plant with :.
pungent odor, and after 1t has been converted
into Roquefort cheese it is the pungentest thing
known to man. After this cheese is made it ia
put into solitary confinement until it's whistors
begin to turn grey and gangcene sets n
He1ore 1t is served 1t is chloroformed or Knocked
In the head with an AK - - AI' eAed
or course the writer has been victim
lied by the Chicago article. -,
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to make commercial treaties time
show the exact limits between which the
s. to be fixed.
The countries at present using the ma ximum- and
minimum tariff system Spain Brazil
Greece and Norway The idea essentially of French origin
but Spain the first country adopt 1892 The ag
tation for such system began in France in 1881 and it
adopted there after the Spaniars adopted The
dissatisfaction with conventional
treaty tariffs formerly in force between and other
countries. In France the maximum minimum tariff
plan really proectionist desired
to fix sufficient minimum below which treaty could
reduce duties The maxmum about To- cent
higher Under the rules of applying the double tariff only
Portugal made wholly subject maximum tariff
and the United States to part of it. - -.
The double tariff not kept intact however. After
three of tariff Switzerland reductions
thirty articles. Russia and Italy
lions. conventional a
general maximum minimum. Norway maximum
rates used only in Of tariff The
true Of Russia. - .-.-,, -
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Grip Van Wrinkle" at the Lvceun

Rip Van Winkle," Washington Irving
pathetic story of the Catskills familiar
zed to the American theater-goins pub
lie by Joseph Jefferson, has been revived
at the Lyceum this week by the Ferris;
company with Ben Johnson in the name
part. From whatever standpoint it NAV
be regarded the revival is a conspicuous
success. Mr.. Johnson's Rip is a rarely
sympathetic characterization. Upon his
shoulders rests the burden of the play,
and he carries it bravely.
Kip Van Winkle' Is character study
AS work of fiction it won fame for
Washington Irving both at home and in
England, where he was the first American
to receive literary recognition. AS a play
1t has endeared Joseph Jefferson to the
people and fixed his place as dean of
American players. So closely has his name
become associated with Rip that, in GER
tain quarters, there has been a tendency
to resent the appearance Of any other
actor In the part. Nothing of this feel
ing, however, was evidenced at the Ly-
ceum last Night, where Mr.. Johnson's in
depreciation was received with every dem
onstration of approval by an, audience
that filled every seat and crowded the
aisles as well.
Mr.. JOhnSOn's finest work comes in the
last act, where Rip returns after his
twentyyear sleep. His amazement at
beholding the changes, his incredulous
grief at. the reported death of the men
for whom he asks and the poignant re-
gret Of, his pathetic query: "Are we
so soon forgot when we are gone?' are
indicated with appellant clarity. Yet
there are flashes of the old, happy-go-
lucky Rip showing through the veneer Of
passing years. .
1t must not be inferred, however. that
the actor fails in his delineation of the
registering Rip Of earlier times. Here
Is nicely developed, and the audience.
like Gretchen, is compelled to love the
man despite his worthlessness. Rips
tenderness with little children, his native
shrewdness, his fear of his wife and his
oft-repeated toast, Here's to your good
health and your family's. May YOU live
long and prosper" all serve to gain the
affections of his auditors; and Mr.. John
sons Rip Of the opening acts is scarcely
less effective. in its way, than his brok-
en- old man Of the '1ast act of all that
ends this strange, eventfu1 history"
rip Van Wrinkle is distinctly a one
part play. Outside Of Rip and Gretchen
the other roles are untmportant, and even
the shrewish Gretchen is utilized largely
as a feeder for Rip. For this reason.
Miss Gilbert is in this weeks cast. Miss
Dora Horne plays Dame Van Wrinkle, and
gives good performance Of the part
Robert Folsom is Derrick Won Beekman:
w. D.. Corbett, Heinrich Vedder; w. N.
Murdoch, Seth; and Herbert Brennon.
Cookies In the earlier acts Baby Bles-
sing plays Meenie while Master Harry
Cour Is the Heinrich.
j. S. Lawrence.
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Alaska Boundary Settlement.

This is good news that comes from
Washington about an agreement between
the British and American governments
to refer the Alaska boundary dispute to
an international joint commission COM
posed of three representatives of Britain
and three of the United States
This is the original American PROPOSE
ton for settling the dispute When the
international joint high commission was
in session at Quebec, the American mem
bers. while refusing to agree to any arbi-
tration that might leave the final decision
to European umpire, proposed a COM
mission of six, three from each nation,
so confident were the Americans that no
fair-minded Engl1shman could deny the
Justice of the American contention as to
the boundary, and being perfectly will
ing to take the chances that one of the
Americans might be converted to what
seems to US the absurd Canadian con-
struction Of the terms of the treaty be-
tween Russia and England delimiting the
boundary of the region we acquired from
Russia in 1857. This, by the way, was
the method the Olney-Pauncefote treaty
provided for settling disputes between the
United States and the British empire af-
fecting national honor or territorial in
tegrity.
The fact that there is no umpire leaves
1t possible. of course, that the commits
sion's labors may come to nothing, the
three from each country voting solidly
for their own country's contention. New
ertheless, the game is worth the candle.
While the commission is in session there
will be no danger of good feeling between
the two countries being disturbed by
boundary rows and disputes. And If the
joint commission, after hearing all the
evidence, does not find in favor Of the
American position, it may be able to point
way out Of the difficulty that will be
acceptable to us, even though less than
what we consider our due.
The agreement to proceed in this man
ner to settle the only serious difficulty
between the American and British nations
Is one more proof Of the fixed policy of
Great Britain to cement at any cost the
existing friendship between the two great
English nations. Britain will
not permit little Canadian cockiness to
stand between the empire and the good
will of the mighty republic, any more than
it will permit the present unhappy alliance
with Germany to do so. - -..
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Taxes in New York.

They are trying to do some tax re-
forming under the Low administration in
New York, and loud roar is heard from
some of the large property interests.
They are making an assessment on the
basis of actual valuation, and the assess
ment board has undertaken to go over
the property lists Of New York city and
place values upon property of the rich
and poor alike, acting upon the princi-
pie that the full market value is the
only just and scientific method of taxa
ton. Furthermore, in New York, as in
Minnesota, it is the basis of valuation
recognized by law. The commissioners
say that their deputies have endeavored
to find the true value which they believe
to be the price a willing purchaser is
prepared to pay and a willing seller is
willing to accept. On that proposition
they have raised the values of such i'm
portant pieces of property as the Wal
dorf-Astoria from $4,000, 900 to SO, 900, 900;
the Astor House from 81. 900, 900 to So, 00O,-
600; Madison Square Garden from $780,
900 to s2,000,000; the Metropolitan opera
house from $1,50O,OO0 to $3.50, 900; the
Savoy hotel from $1,000, 900 to $4,000, 900;
the Equitable building from $3.50, 900 to
$4,000, 900; the Mills building from s2,1o0,-
900 to s4,OOOOOO, etc.
Private residences show an increase in
valuation; J. Pierpont Morgan's, for ex-
ample, from 100000 to $4,000 Mayor
Seth Lows from $1,000 to $135, 900; Rus
sci Sage's from 100000 to 5000, 900, John
D. Rockefeller's from $4,000 to s45O, 900,
Andrew Carnegie's from 100000 to So
0O0 900, and others in like proportion To
the objection that it is difficult, if not
impossible, for assessors to determine the
actual value of property, the appraisers
contend that it is as easy to determine
the true value as 1t is to determine so
or 60 per cent of it. They find, however,
in New York an enormous discrimination
which they are trying to equalize. They
have practically doubled the assessed
valuation and promise to reduce the rate
Of taxation about one-half of the pre-
vious figures. 1t will be interesting to
see that done. There is no evidence that
the increases have been unfairly made,
but some Of the largest property owners
who supported the Low administration
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Mr.. Hill in Sanguine Mood.

When President Hill of the Great
Northern was asked in New York the
other day how he would reconcile the
outlook recently credited to him in Chi
cago, st. Paul and Toronto; he replied
pointing to an old painting of the Falls
OF st. Anthony, that when the time came
when man would stand at the foot of
those falls and see Lake Itasca he might
expect to be correctly quoted in the news
papers. :;.r2a' =.
Mr.. Hill probably does think that he has
been misquoted in these interviews on
the business situation. 1t is possible that
they may not be altogether correct. Per-
maps IN some sentences Mr.. Hill has been
made to say what he did not intend to
say, but the general tone Of all three in
terviews was probably faithful. Mr.. Hill.
like other men, Is more or less a creature
OF moods. When he gave out that rather
pessimistic Chicago interview he was evil
IDENTIFY IN mood to feel that the country
was riding for a fall The cause of the
mood may have been something so large as
IL,
so small as a temporarily disordered
stomach. Some traffic plans foiled may
have turned Mr.. Hills mind to thoughts
of gloom, jdst as a defeated candidate
for the congressional nomination in the
Minneapolis district declared the day after
the primaries that the political situation
IN America was such that there would
soon be bloodshed. Now, however, Mr..
Hill Is telling all right again, and through
the Toronto World, he gives us such radi-
ant words of hope as these
What do think Off, business conditions
generally In North America? Frankly I
do not agree with many who think that
the apex Of prosperity has been reached.
In fact I do not even believe we have
high level Z. TO my mind the era of good
times has just begun Not since the dis
covery of America, in my estimation,
have conditions offered more genuine op-
{portunities for; acquisition Of wealth by
the masses than to-day. The next decade
appears to be pregnant with great events.
The means Of Wrestling wealth from ma
ture were never so numerous as to-day
OF course it will not be thrust upon the
masses. but will come as a natural con-
sequence of intelligent effort.
We prefer Mr.. Hill sanguine to Mr.. Hill
gloomy. We hold with him that the
good times are only fairly started, and
that great opportunities for wealth and
power are stored up in the next few years
for those who have the ability and the
will to seize them.
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Isl The possibility of further complications
in the Venezuelan matter will be greatly
reduced the moment the blockade is
raised. In view of the reported anti
American mood of the German people,
the early removal OF possibilities of pro-
sNoking American public opinion is, de-
of the high handed actions of the Ger
man naval representatives in Venezue-