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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-11
Romani."

That strong, Hateful melodrama of re-
venge, "Fabio Ronani," drarnatized from
Marie Corellis popular romance, 1.-The
Vendetta is again to be seen in Min
neapolis for the first time in nearly TWEEN
ty years. Coming thus before the local
play goer as a new production, the play
shows itself to be a better dramatization
than are many current efforts at putting
books upon the stage. All the vigorous
strokes are retained that have made
Queen Victoria's favorite novelist more
noted for audacity than taste. There's
abundance of that cynicism that has
rendered the daintily pretty authoress so
interesting to her numerous readers. The
play, no less than the romance, proves
easily its power to rivet popular attention.
This story of a betrayed husband
who is buried alive by his wife's lover
and who returns from the dead SO
changed that he is able to betray the be-
trayer and himself deceive the twice false
wife, driving her to madness and to dea tn
i Attacks, with startling emphasis, the
frailty of womankind Feminine audi
tors gasped last night at Marie Corellis
accusations. Yet the ladies forgive in
| Sweet Marie such sentiments as nc
male dramatist would dare to breathe
across the footights. Not one woman is
| left above suspicion in "Fabio Romani''-
none, at least, save the little maid serv-
ant Lila, and even she's on trial. II
| Lila wasn't Miss Masie Cecil, in whom
Minneapolis has every confidence, wor-
shippers of the good and gentle sex would
leave the Lyceum with tears Of appre-
| hension.
Miss Grace Hayward, the heroine that
dares to prove how woman may surpass
mans feeble efforts in the art of treach-
cry, was never more appropriate pic
ture, her brunette charms appearing tc
best advantage. A. Byron Beasley at
tracted sympathy as the deceived and de-
.ceiving husband. Ben Johnson achieved
a personal triumph in his striking. sinister
portrayal of the old ragpicker, Raspetti
half maddened by his own remorse anC
the infidelity of his murdered wife. w
II. Murdoch, the false friend Guido, main.
/ tanned his atmosphere of baseness. Most
! Of the frequent laughter was stimulated
! by George Gilmore as the Scottish inn
/ keeper and assistant villain. The scenery
lin particular the view of the Bay Of
Naples and of an ancient Neapolitar
street-were above the Lyceum average
| HI. B. Curry,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-11
Rural Delivery and Parcels Post.

In his annual report, Postmaster
General Payne supports the recon-
mendation of Fourth Assistant Post
master General Bristow that the SAL
aries Of rural mail carriers be in
creased and that they be forbidden
to transact any private business on
their routes. Heretofore, in view Of
the small compensation received di-
rectly from the government, and as
an accommodation to the patrons of
routes, carriers have been permitted
TO carry on general express and
commission business. There has thus
grown up sort of unofficial parcels
post in the country. On some routes
this parcels or express business has
become SO important as to overshadow
in the estimation of the carrier the
regular mail business. Much of this
business is of a kind that would go
thru the malls in the regular way,
If 1t were not cheaper to handle it bv
express to the rural delivery town and
then turn 1t over to the rural carrier
to distribute in his private capacity.
In this way, argues the postmaster
general the postoffice department
loses a considerable revenue.
The government can get this rev.
enue and much more, If it wishes, by
establishing a parcels post system, but
the postoffice department prefers to
get 1t by denying to the rural carrier
the privilege of carrying anything but
regular mail. The local express side
of the rural delivery has become such
feature Of country life that there
Will certainly be a loud protest from
| country people If they are deprived
of Its benefits. The deprivation will
lead to a strong agitation for the es-
tablishment Of the parcels post
There is certain significance in
this connection Of the fact that it is
on account Of the great increase of
| money, remittances thru the mails
| since the introduction Of the rural
delivery service that the postmaster
general is especially moved to recon-
| mend the adoption Of some form of
postal check for the remittance of
small sums. Rural free delivery has
encouraged the farmers to order goods
thru the mails. The inevitable corol-
larry to this encouragement to order
Is the facilitation Of the means of
responding to the order. If the rural
carrier Is not to be permitted to make
such deliveries in his unofficial ca
| nacitv If is certain IN tho + tbaro 1r,,11 ~
a loud demand that it shall be made
possible for him to do so officially.
The campaign against the parcels
post which is being supported by
wholesale houses and country mer-
chants has not begun moment too
soon. The question will soon be a
very live one.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-11
invitation,


For Mr.. Middleton it was gift after gift
from the emir, and each one connected
with some adventure, and some of them,
as the above, with pecuniary profit, to
which Mr.. Middleton was not averse.
!. But the last gift almost stumped Mr..
Middleton. The emir in giving him
large package announced that it contained
an odalisque which had been sent from
Arabia 1t was to be Mr.. Middletons.
Now Mr.. Middleton did not know whether
an odalisque was a piece of statuary or
dromedary. Whatever it was, he could
not refuse it; consequently he took the
package to his rooms in carriage and
there opened it. Imagine the awful shock
to his nerves when he discovered that his
odalisque was Moslem woman-of
course, veritable flower of the morning.
Having seen to the odalisque's COM
forts-almost too tenderly-Mr. Middleton
retreated for the night to ponder over
the strange situation. Solve the problem
he did, but that is the rest of the story.
Mr.. Fields The Quest and Other
Poems is a collection of very uneven
verses. The title poem is pessimistic
performance. A twentieth century poet
who writes: ;'In dreams alone have I
found happiness" is not of the stuff that
leaders of men are made of. The other
poems are chiefly lyrics Of love, of which
= Ills is d ldiF ehdllple.
Sometimes the water lilies lay
Their cheeks to cool
Upon the bosom OF the pool
OF summers day;
And then the ripples kiss them when they dare.
I need not say
That there are many graceful ripples there.
Perhaps that's why the lilies sometimes lay
Their cheeks to cool
Upon the bosom of the pool
OF summers day,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-11
SHOULD TEACHER GET MAD

$50 McCleary Of Minnesota, says
school teacher should never get mad at q
pupil" observed Representative Jones OF
Washington state.
''Well, I taught school for ten years,
and am reminded of a statement by
young school teacher in this connection.
7 was assisting in county institute at
Carmi, White county, ILL.,, and this ques-
ton was being discussed in one Of the
classes.
1.-THE tender relations of pupil and teach
er had been discussed most beautifully by
different ones and the idea seemed to be
pretty general that our relation to the
child was a little bit higher than that OF
the parent, and that our treatment Of pu-
pills should be almost, If not quite. angelic
when a young man, who had been teach
ing for some time, arose and said:
"T guess agree with all of you in this
matter. never do get mad at any OF my
pupils, but do get awfully enthusiastic
occasionally
''I rather expect concluded Mr.. Jones.
"that expresses the experience OF every
teacher, even the most angelic
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-11
The Old CITY Hall,

One reason why the people of the
city do not favor the application Of the
Salvation Army to be granted the use
of the old city hall is that they SO gen.
orally wish to see the old building
down, and the triangle of land used
for park purposes. But why not give
the material of the old building to the
Salvation Army on condition that they
tear it down and use it in building for
themselves a home in some other
place? The Salvationists are doing a
good work, and probably no better use
can be found for the old material than
to give it to them for use in erecting a
building elsewhere. Doubtless the
city can afford to do this.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-11
The Buffalo Hunt.
The following dispatch appeared il
+ b e j O II Z u a ! Saturda Az.

The following dispatch appeared in
T h j o urn al Saturday:
Pierre, S. D., Jan. 9-Governor Herreid
and party returned last night after
hunt Of five days in which they secured a
fine buffalo bull in the Fox Ridge country,
about 100 miles northwest Of here. The
animal was one of band of four and was
secured after a chase which lasted from
8 o'clock in the morning until in the
afternoon, before a shot was fired. The
party brought the head and hide with
them and the carcass will be in the first
Of the week.
We have little doubt that every
reader of this dispatch deplored the
fact that the governor of South Dako-
ia should participate in hunting down
the only buffalo at liberty in South Da-
kota. Whether these four are ami
mails that have managed to elude the
hunters ever since the eliminating
massacre of the buffalo in 1883, or
whether they are animals that have
escaped from some private preserve
a shame to destroy one of the few re-
naming buffalo.
If these four were able to shift for
themselves would it not have been
better for the governor to assist in pro-
tect1ng instead of hunting them? A
considerable herd of buffalo might re-
suit from their multiplication. South
Dakota could we'll afford to spend a
large sum Of money in maintaining a
herd of real wild buffalo west of the
| Missouri river. If it took Governor
| Herried and his party six hours to get
one Of the four they must be fairly
able to take care Of themselves.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-11

Congress should comply with the post
master generals recommendation that
small appropriation be made to enable the
department to experiment with the plan
Of telephoning special delivery letters adj
dressed to persons residing on rural. de-
livery routes. The special delivery stamp
on such a letter would be notice to the
postmaster to telephone. the 4person to
whom the letter Is, addressed, notifying
him Of it's receipt. Then, upon the order
of the recipient, the postmaster would
open the letter and telephone it's contents.
At present the special delivery service
is OF no value to the person who gets his
mail by rural delivery AS the rural tele-
phone now reaches or soon will reach
about every person who is reached by
rural mail delivery, the system Of special
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-11
Last Years Fire Record.

According to the record Of fire de-
struction in the United States and
Canada, kept by the New York
Journal of Commerce, the money
value which went. up in smoke 3and
fame, in 1908 was $156,195,70O, as
compared with $149,26O,S5O in 1902;
$164, 347,45O in 1901, and $163,362,-
the fire loss was considerably below
the record Of 1893, which was $780,
445,s75, the highest figures being
those of 1899, when the loss reached
$136, 773,2OO. . o.: .,.s~f
1t would appear that, with all the
efforts Of human inventive genius to
prevent the ravages of fire, there is
always a concurrent increase of hu-
man carelessness and neglect where,
indeed, a destructive fire is not
started by some devil of an incen-
diary.
OF fire extinguishing apparatus it
can hardly be said that there is a de-
ficiency. Steamers and chemicals
and standpipes and other apparatus
for reaching the blaze quickly
abound, and can be had for the buy
ing by every little or big town want
ing such protection.
The insurance patrol, the fire alarm
telegraph, trained and fearless fire.
men, horses trained to fire duty and
acting with almost human sintelli-
gence-all these things ought to de-
crease the possibilities of fire loss.
But they do not. The small boy
fooling with matches in d barn; the
full-grown man lighting his cigar and
throwing the blazing match into a lot
of combustibles; the careless handling
of a house: furnace; the falling of a
burning coal from an open CRATE; the
subsection Of an electric wire to cur
rent it is too small to carry, resulting
in the burning of the sheathing and
the ignition of the nearest wood-all
''accidents" wrought the fire loss of
$156,195,700 in the year 1903. The
smallest percentage Of this loss was
due to what some people are pleased
to call "the act Of CO." lightning.
The penalty the public have to pay
for human carelessness, such as dis
tinguished the Iroquois theater trag-
edy, Is the wholesale roasting and
asphyxiating of thousands of human
beings and the advance of insurance
rates and greater discrimination as to
risks. The insurance company which
takes risks on theaters or any other
buildings where the canons Of security
for human life are continually defied
and violated, is unworthy of public
confidence and the municipal govern
ment which neglects the enforcement
of the statutory prescriptions for the
, safety of the public in halls of as
sembly or theaters, ought to he con-
demned officially and by public senti-
ment until it does it's duty to the pub
lie. It is to be hoped that the public
| interests now taken in the movement
to abolish the so-called holocaust
tragedy as an insufferable barbarism
will not pass away as a feeting out
| cry Of justifiable virtuous indignation.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-11

The steady knocking of the president
ory that constant dripping wears away
stone, his enemies hope gradually to over
come his popularity by insisting continu-
ally that he is not a safe man. A GER
tain class of business men think that a
very easy way to win a reputation for
great profundity Of thought is; to declare
that Roosevelt is not safe'' Fortunately
the president is blessed in his friends,
friends that are not of the kind to be
cooled off by the most cunning attacks of
his enemies.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-11
NEWS OF THE BOOK WORLD
Bliss carmans Protest Against the Trash
Which Publishers lssue-some Strange
Adventures In chIcaso--A New Book
Of :


The time seems ripe for some literary re-
former to organize crusade, one could
almost say brick throwing strike,
against the "indiscriminate issuance Of
worthless books Despite the fact that
encouraging notes are heard now and
then, as in the Bookman for January,
there is a vast deal Of rubbish pouring
from the presses to-day. The tide ought
to be stemmed by crusade of prayer to
the publishers, and if that should fall
then by a holy war. Bliss Carman in the
Literary World for January voices a
growing sentiment against unfeeling pub
fishers who encourage the production Of
worthless stuff. He says in part:
Perhaps one book in hundred is worth
reading. Perhaps one in a thousand is
worth preserving. But, to the critical
mind, with it's cultivated taste for the
best, there is something discouraging in
the complete worthlessness of the vast
majority of current books.
L do not believe that the ambitious,
but wholly unqualified, author is to blame
for this enormous waste Of energy. I very
much blame the publishers. The publish
er-the average publisher of today-is so
greedy, so afraid of missing a successful
novel, that he takes every chance, and
puts his imprint on anything that offers
of success He is no longer a discrimin-
ator for the public. His imprint is no
longer any assurance of excellence, and the
beWildered reader must make his own way
among the confused mass Of volumes pre-
Sented to him.
And again, I do not blame the writer
more than I do the publisher. If pub
fishers were more scrupulous, more careful
! of the quality and worth of their publica-
ton, we should have fewer writer's and
better books"
According to Mr.. Middleton, whose ex-
periences in Chicago are chronicled en-
tertainingly by Warden A. Curtis in The
Strange, Adventures Of Mr.. Middleton
Chicago is as good a place as Arabia OF
central Africa or any other place for ad
ventures. At least, Mr.. Middleton, one
night on his way to return rented ''dres:
suit to a pawnbroker, found veritablt
hatchery for adventures.
| Mr.. Middleton lodged thru a doorway
! to escape from a downpour Of rain which
| threatened to destroy the set of his Dor
roWed trousers, and found himself in the
presence of Achmed Ben Daoud, emir O
the tribe of Al-Yam Of Arabia, man O.
wealth and of inventive genius in his owl
| peculiar way. The emir took a liking tt
| the young man who had stumbled int
his place. Learning that he was study
ing law, he thought he could help hi
! newly found young friend by giving hin
a copy of the Koran. The gift was ;
rare old copy kept in costly sandalwoot
/ box. Mr.. Middleton could discover no us,
for either Koran or box, SO he sold tn,
| book for $500 and sent the box to youns
| lady in Englewood for a kerchief case
Of course, he said nothing of this to tn,
emlr when he called again on the emir':
| invitation.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-11
Will It Be Harmony?

The conspicuous political event of
this week will be the meeting Of the
national democratic committee at
Washington to decide upon the place
of meeting of the next democratic ma
tional convention
Obviously, the first important bust
ness before the committee will be to
ascertain whether HARMONY exists
within the democratic party. The
meeting Of the committee is there
fore Of special importance to the
democracy and engages also the at
tention of the republican party, for,
If the democracy is harmonious and
operating In consolidated form, sink
ing differences and in subsection to
shrewd leadership, the republican
campaign managers will have need
to proceed with more wariness than
usual. In the two past campaigns the
republican party, indeed, had to make
a very hard fight against extraordi
narily, fallacious money fads, but the
logic of the educative campaigns
demonstrated the existence of the
covert assault upon the public credit
and the national prosperity, underly
ing the democratic pleading for fiat
money, and the radical revolution of
our monetary system. ~
The utterances at recent democratic
harmony meetings reveal rather
strong tendency Of the party leaders,
even those who were among the loud
est champions Of irrational money
policies. to abandon the policies which
brought them to blistering defeats and
humilations and to modify even the
old democratic shibboleth of free
trade, and substitute moderate tariff
reduction so as not to appear as an
tagonistic to manufacturers and the
industrial labor element. ,..+
Notwithstanding the indications of
this kind, the rhetorical fourishes of
Jackson Day banquets. the residuum
of militant Organism still exists, al
tho the colonel himself has declared
that he is going to fight only as a pri-
vate in the ranks. with reservation
that his influence would be thrown in
where it will do the most good. Yet
even with eastern, western and south
ern democracy in harmony, program
OF turn the rascals out" and brim-
ming with charges Of concealment OF
rottenness in administration, will
hardly "go' when the thoughtful peo-
Die Of the country consider, not only
the source of such charges, but that
such distinguished democratic states
men as Richard Olney. with whose
views many democrats are in accord
plead with their fellow countrymen
to return to normal conditions" as
against the advanced position to which
the country has been brought by the
republican party, which has shown it.
self ready and able to accept the great
Responsibilities Of national greatness
imposed by manifold destiny" If you
please.
1The nation is certainly favorable tC
the acceptance Of the new RESPONSE
bilities as they come, and, having rec
ognized the fact that the republican
party has shown itself the only party
able to meet these new conditions
these accommodating questions nationa
and international is not likely to turr
the party out and put at the helm E
party whose leaders call upon the
voters to return to normal cOndi
tions,'' with all that the term implies
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-11
month series of articles of extraordinary
interest, including the first chapters of a
novel by w. D. Howels. THE Son of
Royal Langbrith."

I
interest, including the first chapters of a
novel by W. p. Howells. THE Son OF
+ Significance of TWO Musical Events
John Talbot Smith, in Donahoe's for Jam
uary, writes of "Parsifal" and 1.-THE
Dream Of Gerontius,'' Cardinal Newman's
poem, as presented in New York. thus:
How can we help seeing the significance of
these events. "ParsifaP and 1.-THE Dream Of
Gerontius'? What other meaning in that tre-
mendous impression which they make upon the
passing multitude than that the reaction against
the Voltaires and Tyndalls and Spencers and
Cl1fords has come? SCOTS novels, the Ok
"Idylls of the King Wagner's music drama,
and Cigars masterpiece, events that lie far
apart and seem to have little connection; yet
who will be rash enough to deny that New York
at the beginning Of the century has been en-
phatically and impressively brought face to face
with the reaction expressed in them by wonder
full ''ParsifaP' and 1.-The Dream of Gerontius"?
Other features of the number are "The
Salesian Boy Savers" "A Famous Old
Turnpike and Soldiers of the Vatican"
Queer Craft for a Dangerous Cruise
Men who have explored the west have
used all sorts of queer craft in navigating
streams, but we doubt whether any have
used quite such queer one as that used
by A. L.. Fellows, one of the engineers of
ment. The exploration to be accomplished
was that of particularly dangerous por-
ton of the Gunneson river in Colorado
The use Of boats had failed those who
had tried before so Mr.. Fellows and an
assistant used pneumatic rubber bed as
a raft for ten days trip. They got
| thru without a puncture.
The story is part of an article on the
Proclamation Of the West" in The Ma
tionaI Geographic Magazine for January,
published by the National Geographic So
ciety. The magazine in addition contains
a large map showing the Alaskan boun-
dairy under the recent decision; "The
Alaskan Boundary Tribunal written of
by John w. Foster, formerly secretary of
state; 1.-THE United States Weather Bu-
reau," by James S. Wilson, secretary of
agriculture, and other interesting ar
| ticles.
The Open Court for january contains
the following: Frontispiece, Herbert Spen-
Ger; Herbert Spencer editor; Christ
mas on the Nativity of Mithras,'' Rev
Robert Sinker; 1.-THE Japanese Floral Cal
endar'' Gllustrated), Ernest w. Clement
M. A.; 'DiG William Shakspere Write
Shakspere?" J. Warren Keifer; "The Cos
pels Of Jesus and Paul. Rev. J. c. Allen
''Stone- Worship Cllustrated), editor, ant
several other articles in the magazines
special field. -/
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-11
LETTER TOO PERFECT
PHILADELPHIA Ledger.

General phil Cook, when secretary Of
state of Georgia, observed that a young
clerk, fresh from one Of the small towns,
daily received letter over which he hung
long and tenderly. The general knew that
this daily missive was from the young
fellows sweetheart. and one day when
the letter seemed especially distracting,
he said:
..Well, John, suppose she writes a very
nice letter.?
John colored but was too gallant to let
the challenge pass. 3.
"a nice letter! Why. general, she dots
her rs and crosses her It's with a fastidious
levity that disdains all pursuit
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-11

Travel is great educator 1t is more
than likely that before Mr.. Bryan went
to Europe he would have opposed any
measure providing that permanent resi-
dences be provided for our ambassadors
and ministers in the chief European capi-S
tails He now returns from Europe
strongly in favor of such measure