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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-09
AID THALlARcHUM !

("Vides, tut alta stet nive -'')
White with the winters SHOWS, Soracte
E stands in isolation,
Gaze on the laboring trees that bend in
the deep Of the woods;
See how the frozen streams conspire to
stop navigation.
(Some of that four year-old booze, Tha-
liarchus. Deliver the goodsD
Turn on the steam, Oh friend. (My, but
the weather is chillyD
Press, thou the button divine, letting the
gods do the rest.
Ask not the fate of o-morrow-worry is
terribly silly
While there is love to be made and while
there are lips to be pressed.
Campus of Mars, resound with words that
are lovingly spoken!
Streets of the city. be filled with the
laugh of the belle and the beau!
There from the arms of the maid the raw
fishing youth steals a token
There are the ladies and-come, Oh my
s Thalia rehus, lets go 5s-
Horace B. l.. ode 9, tr. by Barrett
Eastman
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-09
Good Recommendations.

Mayor Haynes has made a state
ment of the precautions which he
thinks the Minneapolis theaters
should pc required to take against
ire and its consequences in crowded
aud1torums. One or two of his rec
concentrations especially interest US.
Inc Idea of opening the emergency
exits at the close of each performance
is good eone. It would familiarize
theater goers with their location and
the means Of reaching them. It would
also insure doors that could always
be easily opened. %ET
Inc recommendation in favor of
separate and distinct entrances to the
street for each floor, balcony and gal
Iery is good one. 1T would be prac-
tical1y impossible to construct any
theater so that the lower. floor exits
would be able safely to pass the
crowds that would be concentrated
at them from all the floors in. case of
a rush forget out. Wegare. pleased
to observe that tMay OF Haynes and his
associates lathe discrimination Of the
local theaters are especially emphatic
In recommending the provision Of
separate exits. -.
lit is not to be thought that theater
managers an will object to the proposed
improvements on the ground of :ex-
pense. In view OF the disaster at the
Iroquois theater, such objections
would scarcely be tolerated by the
public, and, anyway, we do not think
that our local theater proprietors and
managers would be inclined to make
them. n,
The mayor has made some good
recommendations, but it is understood
that other members of the commit
tee are insistent upon more aggressive
measures to carry them out than the
mayor seems inclined to employ. and
that something further, may be heard
from the committee or from certain
members of it.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-09
Time to Begin to Think.

There were some interesting
speeches made at the banquet in St.
Paul last night to President Howard
Elliott of the Northern Pacific.
President j. j. Hill Of the Great
Northern touched on question that
ought to interest the people Of this
country good deal more than it
does, viz, the effect of the realization
of ,Chamberlain's protective and pref
erential tariff scheme for the British
empire. A tax Of cents a bushel
on every bushel of American wheat
that goes into the English markets
and a proportionate tax on other
American products that can be raised
in the British colonies is going to be
very serious matter for this coun-;
try.
Mr.. Hill seems to think it is COM
ing, for he spoke of the necessity of
hunting up other markets to take the
place of the English market. He re-
ferred ironically to Cuba and to South
America and the slow development of
| their: trade as compared with the pres
ent Immense trade we enjoy with
| Canada. There was sort of implica-
| ton in Mr.. HilPs remarks that our
folly has already cost us the loss of
better trade relations with Canada.
At the same time he spoke of the
| necessity of modifying the tariffs if
the northwest is to have during the
next five years the unparalleled pros
perity it has enjoyed during the past
| five. --.~-@... sr--g
| Mr.. Hill made one remark that will
go a long way toward allaying the
indignation he stirred up in western
Canada by the uncomplimentary
things he said about that country. in
his speech at the Bismarck irrigation
| convention. That was this:
| I remember that in this room an able
| Canadian, two years ago. think, stood
here with the olive branch held out and
we had an opportunity as a nation to
| make reasonable conditions of trade with
our neighboa' on the north, Canada-people
who wear overcoats in the winter. ~ Now
want to say to you that that is a good
sign A man who lives in country where
they wear Overcoats is very apt to pay
his debts. They read our books, and as
a people you can collect a claim from
| them. Commercially they are what you
| call good : ="
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-09
HOME OF THE TooTHPlck
Sr,nnassfnl American

Most Of American toothpicks come from
Franklin county, in Maine, near the for
est home of the white birch, out of which
95 per cent of the domestic toothpicks are
made This wood is soft and pllable and
of admirable resistance for the purpose
for which it is used. Whole mills in
Maine are devoted to supplying the coun
try with toothpicks, and in the industry
is to be found some of the finest and most
intricate of machinery. So tremendous is
the output of these machines that in. brief
season, during the spring, enough tooth
picks can be made to supply the markets
of the entire country for the year to come.
A further idea of the capacity of the ma
chimes may be had from the fact that only
a hundred men are necessary to operate
and run all the mills in Franklin county.
Other mills of this kind are scattered
thruout Pennsylvania and Massachusetts
and western New York but the real home
of the toothpick is in Maine. White birch
is not the only wood used for the domes-
tic toothpicll, maple and poplar being en-
ployed well; but birch has the property
of retaining its forest odor and sweetness.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-09

preston, and go out of doors only with
the greatest reluctance.
To such people these days, calm, clear
days when the sun may be enjoyed,
tho the thermometer does not at the
warmest part Of the day rise much
above the freezing point and is below
it most of the time, are positively deli
cious. The air is now tonic to them
instead of depressing. They find joy
In the GOODNESS of the air on the eye
ball and in the exhilaration that fol-
lows few deep breaths Of this pure
air bathed in vivifying sunlight. They
take on new life, turn from pessimism
to optimism, rise from their nervous
depression and face their tasks with
buoyancy and strength.
Blessed indeed are these days Of the
January thaW, which scarce becomes
thaw in this latitude, but is rather
ideal cold weather.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-09
Good Weather.

Weather like this we have been en-
joying for a few days is ininical to the
interests of Florida, California, Louis
lana and Mississippi. It has nipped in
the bud many a fair resolution to go
south snd increase the currency circu-
lation down there.
Such mild weather in January does
a lot of good. The very cold weather
of this country, when long continued
gets on the nerves of irritable persons
or those who do not enjoy good
health. While it merely stirs UP
the strong and we'll to renewed activ
ity and serves as stimulant without
dangerous reaction, it is too much for
the weak. 1t prostrates them. they
go to pieces to use the common ex-
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-09
TIE NONPAREJL MAN

The Wonderful Placard in Fireproof
Minnesota Hotel That Caught and
Riveted the Attention of an Eighth
Ward Travelling Man, Who Objected
to Sleeping Over sIumberina Vol.
cano.
G. 3. Moses came in again yesterday to
speak of his troubles in the various fire.
proof hotels he visits in his journeys thru
the northwest selling spice, etc. Having
jumped to the roof of a neighboring build
ing one cold night in January in his
mighty Mr.. Moses is always particular
to locate the fire escape of the hotels at
which he stops, if there is a fire escape.
and if there isn't he looks out and meas
ures with his eye the distance to the
ground or to the nearest roof.
The hotel of which Mr.. Moses complains
now is at -, Mimi, three-story
non fireproof structure built on what is
known as the quick burning, Undertook
esque style of architecture. If any one
scratches a match on it, it looks as tho
it would go up at once without notifying
the fire department or waiting for the
fire ladies" to thaw out the water sup
ply, when there is any. When Mr.: Moses
took his room on the third story Of this
hotel last week his attention was caught
by a placard on the wall which read rs
follows:
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-09

There was an election riot at, yCien7
fuegos, Cuba yesterday. Our hair trigger
commentators will now tell US that the
republic of Cuba has been tried and found
wanting. They haven't time to recall the
large amount of shooting that takes place
on election day in the largest and strong
est republic in the world. 4
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-09

President Hays: Of the Grand Trunk is
said to be playing for a Sir to his name,
He might better distinguish himself by
refusing the honor, in view of the fact
that he is an American. The ''sirs' of
Shaughnessy and Van Horne are enough,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-09

Mr.. Hill again last night reiterated his
rather narrow view of the Panama canal.
He has no interest in it, he says, because
he can't see how it will do the northwest
any good and will, divert commerce from
its natural channels. The natural chan
nels, Of course, are those which Mr.. Hill
controls.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-09

Poor Mr. Hill! Here he was doing his
best to open up new market in Asia for
the northwestern farmers, and they turned
on him and made him defendant in a law
suit for doing his best to help them That
Is the way Mr.. Hill put 1t in his speech
at the Elliott banquet last night.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-09
BOOKS RECEIVED

THE DEVILS LETTERS TO MARY MACLANE.
By Himself. Chicago: Interstate Book COM
pany. Price $1.50.
THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE DRAMA. BY
Brander Matthews. Lift. D. (Yale), professor
of dramatic literature. Columbia university.
New York: Z Charles Scribner's Sons Mime
apolis: N. Mccarthy. Price $1.25 net.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-09

1t is wonderful what a good effect a
ilttle law enforcement has on law observ-
ance. Already the street cars are so per
cent cleaner than they were, tho not one
splitter in a hundred has been arrested.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-09

Women are flocking to the Jail to see
the man of-many- wives. In view of his
record, they would better keep away 1t
will do none of them any good in their
regulations to be seen there.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-09

The clerks in the departments at Wash
ington will now have to work seven hours
a day. Still, they are opposed to the
eight-hour day.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-09

The mercury got from ? to 10 below
zero off the Maine. and Massachusetts
coast this week. Below zero is all right
on land, but on salt water it is like biting
into a file.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-09

The editor of the Litchvile (N.-D.) Bull
letin, who received an imposing certificate
done in sky-blue ink on heavy linen ledger
paper, authorizing the editor to partici-
pate and liquidate in all the meetings and
deliberations Of the North Dakota irri-
cation congress as an honorary member
rushed out and bought corkscrew.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-09

credit the aldermen with closing up a
couple of low theaters- mot Mayor Haynes
The mayor had the chance, but didn't
avail himself of it.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-09
tional chess Tournaments,, Emil KEN

To the Exclusive Arctic Circle by Auto
Charles J. Glidden in The New England
magazine, for January tells how he got
there, and incidentally gives this com
forting assurance to those who are trying
to ind excuses for buying machines: In
my estimation automobiling is the best
and cheapest way of seeing a country.
Leaving out of consideration the original
cost of the machines four people can
travel in this way quite as economically
as they could by rail, and much more
cheaply than they could by carriage" The
number shows a tendency on the part of
the management to broaden the scope
or the magazine so as to make it appeal
to a wider constituency. One of the fea-
lures that will appeal to general readers
is 'Ne1ghborhood Sketches by Judge
Henry A. Shute. author Of "rhe Real
Diary Of Real Boy"
Caucus Diseases"-William Hemstreet,
out once again the danger from corrup-
ton Of politics thru the neglect of the
caucus by the better classes. He says:
The absence from the caucus and pri-
maries Of the scientists. authors, mer-
chants, inventors, bankers, professional
men generally, clergynen, builders, engi-
neers and all who make up the grandeur
Of the nation, is glaringly marked. Poll
tics abhors a vacuum; where the good
keeps out the bad rushes in
Other features of the magazine are an
editorial discussion of the presidential ad-
ADMINISTRATION, ASIA in Transition by w.
G. Jameson Reid, Omitted States Consular
Service by Professor Edwin Maxey,
Realism Of de Maupassant," by Pauline
Darlington Bouve and ''Maeterlinck, by
Anna Mcclure Sholl.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-09

The silver statue of Ada Rehan shown at the
Columbian exposition. which has lain the base
ment of Il Topeka. Kan., dry goods store for
long time. is to be melted into bullion. Il
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-09

Kansas City authorities are setting fire
to the freproof theater curtains to see
if they will burn. So far, they refuse
to ignite. But will they come down at the
psychological moment?
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-09

Some gallant gentlemen seem to think
that they can get out Of their trouble and
end it all by shooting the lady and then
killing themselves. We believe they are
going to get badly fooled There seems
to be a principle of justice bound up in
the constitution Of things.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-09

worked off in the cotton and coffee
market, there is, without doubt,
great volume of outside pent-up spec
ulative energy seeking an outlet. This
may not appear in wheat, but should
it seek for vent in that direction, no
one could foresee what price advances
might follow.
With the far eastern situation so
serious that there has appeared little
possibility of averting war, the worlds
financial markets have been much
disturbed all week. To fight or not
to fight has been the question, and
the markets have been turning on the
varying reports from day to day and
from hour to hour. A tone of con-
servatism has been noted, due not
so much to any fear as to results
likely to follow a war between the
two nations properly at odds, but to
desire to go slow until there shall
appear something a little more def
mite as to the likelihood of a general
conf1agration. English consols have
been affected by the bad reports and
recovery has followed the more favor
able news. Our own country has been
unaffected except in so far as some
little selling out of American holdings
by London has weakened the securi-
ties market, and the New York banks
have in some instances drawn the
lines a little closer
From the country at large, and
especially from the interior, the re-
ports are seasonably good. Merchants
are not complaining Of the slight dull
ness shown in some lines, as it is
quite to be expected at this time. Col
orally expected, and on the whole,
money is plentiful.
There is the prospect of good
building year. Everything in sight
points to construction work on a
larger scale in the cities of the west
and northwest, easy money, improved
labor conditions and lower material
making more favorable inducement to
Improvement work than has been the
case for several years. --.
The trade outlook is favorable.
There is excellent demand reported
for merchandise from the country,
Iron prices are firmer and the worst
is over in that industry.
has been some falling off, the rail-
roads Of the west are handling A..
large volume of business. A note
worthy feature was the protest of
some Of the steel workers against
wage reduction This was not ex-
pected, the impression having existed
that the new scale would be accepted
without demur. Several steel plants
were closed on this account, but an
adjustment of a permanent nature ap-
pears likely. Not less than 10000
men temporarily idle since before the
the steel mills.
High cotton is the wonder of the
day, and the greatest source of wealth
to the country. The south is pros
porous beyond precedent, and this is
certain to benefit the country in its
entirety in it's final effect. On the
basis Of recent high prices, the cotton
crop of the south is worth approx
mately s65o,0Oo,0O0. This is more
than the value of all gold produced in
the United States for ten years past.
Locally there has been a good week.
Minneapolis bank clearings are just
even with the total Of the correspond
ing week year ago. which is good
showing, considering that of the first
eleven cities in Importance, nine show
decreases for the week.
Good Weather.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-09

The reading public now has the merger
and antimerger arguments by heart
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-09

Our sympathies may be with Japan.
but we sell the goods to either party or
both.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-09

Somerville, Mass, elected the nlill5man
for mayor, and what did he do but devote
a large part Of his first inaugural address
to the great waste Of water in his city.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-09

The price of wheat is making the farm
er talk thru his horse collar.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-09

Ten more spitters paid the court for
that Simple pleasure yesterday.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-09
THE MAGAZINES

Prosperity or Depression Hooking for
ward, four writer's in The American
Monthly Review of Reviews, offer predic-
lions as to business conditions in the
United States in 1904. c. Kirchhoff, editor
OF Iron Age. says of the outlook for steel
and iron: The outlook for the iron trade
for the coming year is not therefore a. very
bright one since. aside from the uncer-
ta1nty of a sharply reduced consumption.
the leaders of the industry must solve the
many perplexing questions which follow
in the wake of BOOM: R. w. Martin,
speaking Of the railroads. says ''the
promise is that the causes which have in
creased expenses in 1903 will be gradually
adjusted in the coming year, and that at
it's close it will be found that railway
profits have been, at least. mainta ined at
as high a level as of late.'' Charles Nor
eau Harger says of good crops and good
times in the west: 1.-THE coming six
months will be marked by caution, but
will see no din1inution in the vests
steady. progress. +. W. Hawthorne of
trade in general gives this encouraging
word: We are gradually but surely find
ing our financial and Industrial level, and
the chances just at present seem to be in
creasingly against the recurrence of any
thing like a crisis within at least a
decade and a half from that of 1897
Other important features Of the number.
are an illustrated article on 1.-THE Status
y,
Day Allen Wiley; an account Of the long
and successful fight waged by science
against the Texas cattle fever, by Pro-
fessor Charles S. Potts; character sketch
of Elihu Root by Walter Wellman; the
career of Fourth Assistant Postmaster
General Bristow, the investigator of the
postal frauds, by Clarence II. Matson.
A Reasonable Prosperity-A D. Noyes,
reviewing, in the January-March Forum,
the financial history of the last quarter,
examines in detail the causes Of the pes
sirnistic feeling prevailing in the east. and
discusses to what degree the trade con-
ditions of this section may be expected to
extend beyond their present sphere. He !
predicts that reasonable prosperity may
continue. resting upon the normal basis |
of prices fairly in line, with the outside !
commercial world. In the same number
Henry Litchfeld West considers the com
ing political campaign. which he thinks
will be fought out upon the tariff issue
and that continuance of the present
business conditions will result in vote
of confidence in the administration
4 Thea:special articles in the number areil
The Russo-Japanese Innbroglio'' Mu-
hammad Barakatullah, and "Interna-
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-09

The typhoid epidemics are becoming
common. Even our grandfathers knew
better than to throw their sewage into the
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-09

The st. Cloud Journal-Press saws:
Fred Schfffnlan of st. Paul who was
appointed by Governor Van SAINT as chief
oil Inspector, and then joined the demo-
Gratis in the vain effort to elect Rosing. is
said to be one of the Dunn managers in
Ramsey county. Dunn should not be
condemned. however. until he has had a
chance to disprove the rumor.''
1t is not likely that Bob would deny
the support of the big Four He Ger
tainly would not care to drive 1T away.
Charles B. Cheney.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-09
NEWS OF THE BOOK WORLD
Some Letters the Public Won't Read If
IT is Missionaries Matthews Book
on the Development of the Drama
Magazines Discuss the Business Out
look for 1904.

md9S<'neS DISCUSS the Business OUT
look for 1904.
Some one who wisely withholds her
name 1--WE understand it is woman)
has written a series Of letters which
nave been issued under the title The
Devils Letters to Mary MacLane. His
omlnous majesty made to gloat over
MS hold upon the unwise little Eve sup
pose she is little) Montana girl. OF course,
Mary could. not possibly get better adver-
Using than is to be found in such an at
TACK. Perhaps it might be well to remind
the author that devils have been cast out
ana that neither she nor the devil should
be sure that Mary is hopelessly lost. The
probability is that when Mary gets a lit
tie older and a little wiser she will be
teaching Sunday school class, giving her
time to social settlement work or other
wise trying to atone for past mistakes
of her pen by good works Consequently
these letters should remain as dead let
ters In the office which attempted to foist
them upon the public. They will if the
reading public knows what is good for
itself, and there is some evidence that
it does.
Professor Brander Matthews The De-
Velopment of the Drama embodies ten lee
lures, some of which he delivered before
the National Institute of Arts and Let
tiers, the Brooklyn Institute, the Royal In
stitution Of Great Britain and at Column
bia university, where he occupies the chair
of dramatic literature. Professor Mat
thews is recognized as an able and fas-
cinating literary and dramatic critic, al
tho his originality and charming way of
presenting his thoughts do not attract at
tention wholly from his faults, which GER
tainly are not numerous. In this volume
he sets forth, first. his conception of the
dramatic art. To the professor, dramatic
literature is the highest manifestation Of
the dramatic instinct universal in man
kind and supplies abundantly the special
pleasure which only the art Of the dram
atist can provide