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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-05-15
BRITISH REASONS FOR THEATRICAL
DECADENCE

Tho first count is that the major part OF the
,ro,,hIa il due to the increasing preponderaice
NJ The busy idle rich, who, guiltleSs. many OF
,barn Of any native aesthetic sense, Sel are
nevertheless persuaded that even thdt glit Oi
tba gods can be laid if only the purchasing
Snip is forthcoming These are they who start
forrb Ia buv culture" precisely as they buy the
hest hair oil from the best haIrdresser IheSe
are they who collect the hammered liiASte4-
pieces" of a single painter because the town mas
gone nomentarily mad about him. having
hung these profound morbidities around their
I'D when told by the agent who has orders TO let
their house that Mr.. Blank will take II, ana on
their own terms. provided the masterpieces
in question are elected To one such-a sleek
American millionaire who arrived boast laden
last wear telling of what he had already &C
nlircd and of what he had further marked
down To ship home-his hostess made penSiVe
answer. But there q few things that are
not to he bought" With the upward sing OF
triumphant dollars in his voice. he replied. with
assurance: Il should like TO know what they
are?" Birth and breeding to start WITH she
gently rejoined.
To the American invasion and conquest is due
the reclamation. leaders. of the class that
demands that each day shall yield them its
birthright of peaSurc-a class, moreover, that
scrupulousy husbands all its cash for that al
truiStic purpose. This plan may be admirable.
The question is, What pleasure? None OF
your Irises for me- exclaimed a choice specf-
men irritated doubtless by a lively discussion
going forward on Mr.. Pinero's magnum opus.
He added with conviction: Il like To go TO bed
comfortable Here lies the answer 10 the oft
repeated wall why musical comedy and opera
bouffe have stolen theatre after theatre in Lon
don. For. after such meagre mental fare. fol-
lowed by the most filling of SupperS. what re-
mains save to go to bed cOmfortable?-(B. a.
Crackanthorpe. in The Fortnightly Review.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-05-15

many years were passed Abbas began to ap-
preciatc in It's true light not only their labors
in behalf of his country and the value Of the
virtual protectorate exercised over it by Great
Britain, but also the character Of those anti
English councillors to whom he had lent 4
too willing ear. He began to realize the eX-
tent to which these latter had taken advantage
of his youth and inexperence to further their
own selfish interests, and sometimes those OF
their respective governments. at his expense.
and after eliminating from his environment a
number of individuals whose presence at his
court was calculated to diminish rather than to
enhance its prestige more cordial and inti-
mate relations were brought about between the
palace and the British Residency, so that at the
present time the most complete confidence APP
pears to prevail between the English govern
rnent and the Khedive, concerning the loyalty OF
whose friendship no doubts are any longer en-
tertained on the banks of the Thames.
The position of the young Khedfve who boasts
that he has gaZed upon the midnight sun from
the North Cape. but has never made the ascent
of the Pyramid is to say the least peculiar
Theoretically he is subject TO the suzerainty of
the Sublime Porte. as far as Egypt proper is
concerned, though sovereign of Nubia and OF the
Soudan. which. while claimed By the Sultan as
provinces of his empire. gre nevertheless re-
gs,rdcd by the great powers distinct there
from. Abbas. moreover. pays annual tribute
to the Ottoman government for Egypt proper
although he bears the title of king of Egypt"
conferred as hereditary dignity upon his
grandfather Ismai by the Porte. Yet the Sui
tans authority does not extend over Egypt in
reality. and political fugitives from Constanti-
nople are in safety from pursuit on the part of
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-05-15
AN ANECDOTE OF TENNYsON.

Has there not been tendency of late 10 de-
Inand from poets the same technical fauliieSt'o
ness that in painter Is all but lndlSleIiS'tpiF
Sitting one afternoon with Tennyson IN ms gar
den at AldWorth where he had been recalling
his youthful experience of the inCendarF acilol
of the RebeccahiteS. l observed that what
seemed to me two of his finest lines. though l
had never heard them quoted. must have neta
suggested TO Kim by what he had just described
And then L cited them:
Slowly comes hungry people, as lion drawing
higher
Glares at one that mods and winks behind slowly
dying lire.
do you know where I got that idea? he
asked. Il got it from n Methodist magazine
where 1 had read of explorers in desert LANDS
Of prey" You made good use of it,, said
yet perhaps there is what you would now re-
gard a slight blemish in the hrst me
What is that" he asked quickly, for his ar
tistic constituencies always on thu alert.
The close approximation of the same NoWe!
sound in lion and higher" 1 replied. You are
quite right" he Observed ''it is blemiSh. never
thought of it." NO" l took courage to say, Il
should be quite wrong if l really thought II
now would consider it such You have laid an
additional burden" 1 went somewhat boldly.
on all future writers of Verse by the tastdlOuS
finish of your own" 1T isn't artificial is it,
he asked with quick constituencies. And when
did not answer the question, he laid his hand
my arm and said: Tell me, It ism artificial,
is it?" l knew how he loved truthfuness above
all things so l replied, Yes II is: but'-for
would not have wounded him, then advanced in
years, for worldS-I suppose it is the right sort
of artifce."-(Alfred Austin, i'll The National
Review.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-05-15
THE GULF BETWEEN ENGLAND AND
INDIA.
INDIA.

It is in ideas, moral and religious. that the
gulf between us and our Indian subjects is I'M
fathomable, impossible. Their estimate Of virtues
and vices 10 almost inverted, and in some
respects improVed-a fact not infrequentiy for
gotten both in the civil and domestic govern
I.eat OF India. The writer can remember the
durwan, or lodgekeeper of his daughters home
in Calcutta, kindly and venerable man. who
but for his clothes and color might have been
seemed to be, an English clergyman The
illusion dispeiied when he heaped execra-
tior1 the head of an English nurse because
she had pluckcd some blossoms from a peepul
tree which oVerhung q little shrine in which he
daily worshpped. When the girl for whom
he had paternal fondneas. asked him what she
had done to offend him. he answered. "Wretched
one, you have hurt my god"
This strange confusion Of the material and
the spiritual enough in educated
durwan-seems stranger still in the native judge.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-05-15

n man Of ability and culture, who, as Sir Alfred
T.yaII tells us in one of his striking essays on
Indian life and thought carried III ms poem
I'VE small pebbIes. which he arranged i'll mys-
terious ways and worshipped with a Devotion
which none but a fool would ridicule- can We
imagine an English judge Worshpplhs HHe pTp7
hIas in his robing room, however subtly he
might distinguish the symbol from ITS meaning
-CBlaCkWood'S Magazine
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-05-10
ST. PAUL'S FIRE LOSS
BELOW MINNEAPOLIS
Premiums on Mil City Risks Amount to
Nearly Twice as Much as ST. Paul's.

Figures on fire insurance. compiled in
the office of Insurance Commissioner
DeaTth, show that during the past eleven
years the total losses in St Paul have
amounted to 81, $685. 1852, as against So
656, S22 in Minneapolis The difference
Is 2,O47,1 100, or nearly one-third leSs
The premium receipts in. MINNEAPOLIS.
however, amounted to $13,77 ,S99. while in
st Paul they aggregated $7,759, 495. a Diff
ference of nearly one-haH
Last years figures average nearly the
same as the totals for the past decade
The losses in St. Paul last year amounted
to $2S7,26 and the losses in MINNEAPOLIS
to SAB. 401. The premiums collected In
st. Paul amounted to $787, $40, and in Min
neapoHs 81, 442, 545.
Duluth paid $4,404.511 during the past
eleven years for fire insurance against
losses amounting to 1907, PAT. The pre-
miums paid in the Zenith city last year
amounted to $51S,9S0. and the losses ag-
gregated $114, 146.
The records for eleven years of some
of the other cities of the state are as
follows: Brainerd. premiums, 1901, OI0,
losses. $124,956; Faribault premiums
1892, 290, losses, 1919. 500; Hastings. pre-
miums, 1925, 064 losses, SCI, sos; Red Wing.
premiums. $32S,064, losses, s205, 430; st.
Cloud. premiums. $342, 917. losses, s29i, 534;
Saltwater, premiums, $3.50 525, losses
$40S,041; Winona, premiums, s912. S9I
losses. $326,OSS; Little Falls, premiums
$313.101. losses, 1886. 491; Mankato premi-
ums, $425, 77S, losses, S21, 669
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-05-10
NOW REPORT DEATHS
AND BIRTHS PROMPTLY
State Health Boards Warning to Town
Clerks Is Effective.

Since Secretary H. NJ. Bracken, of the
state board of health, sent warnings last
March to town clerks and health officers
those functionaTies have reported more
systematieall the increase and decrease
Of population
Physicians, or the Oldest persons next of
kin to the going or coming inhabitant, are
required by the Minnesota law to report
births and deaths to the town clerk or
health officer of the community interested
But some physicians have been too busy
or too Indifferent to promulgate the joy of
Jones. the sorrow of Smith; other medical
men have insisted that they We're not
obliged to assist the census officers.
This is a mistake, - said Secretary
Brac1en yesterday. 1.-The law not only
directs physicians to make such reports,
but imposes convincing penalty in case
the doctor neglects his duty. Formerly
that penalty was a fine only. But in order
to reach offenders whose money was elu-
sive, We secured, about five years ago, an
amendment fixing Imprisonment as an
alternative punishment.
These records are important; first as
part of the local. state and federal census,
and next in the settlement of legal claims.
We often get letters from surviving rela-
tives or their attorneys that want official
death certificates in order to collect pay
ment on insurance policies. Some times
these deaths have never been reported,
though they really took place. Then the
trouble begins"
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-05-10
MINNEAPOLIS
STATES WITNESSES
END TALE OF GRAFT
Defense in Ames Case Argues
In Support of Motion to
Dismiss.

The state rested yesterday after
noon in the case against former
Mayor Ames, on trial for accepting a
bride, and the attorneys for the de-
Tense at once presented a lengthy ar
gument in support of their motion for
a dismissal The grounds urged We're
lack of proof to corroborate accom-
plices, former jeopardy and the alleged
showing of more than one crime un-
der the indictment Arguments were
not completed and will be renewed this
morning.
The last witness called was Capt.
Charles Hill, whose testimony was
brief, though important Capt. Hill
stated that Mayor Ames had been told
repeatedly that Gardner was collect
ing graft" but that he had never made
any move to put stop to the prac-
tice.
Officer Sinclair was the first witness
called when court convened yesterday
morning. He testified that he had, on
one occasion, been summoned to May
or Ames' Office and, with other officers,
had been ordered TO go out and collect
evidence against women Of the town,
Irwin A. Gardner giving him expense
money to be used in the work. His
orders, he said, had come through
Gardner and Norbeck, and he had not
seen the mayor personally.
Patrolnen John Knight and Frank
Fern gave similar testimony and then
the state proceeded to call to the stand
a number of women who had paid for
protection Most of them were I'M
willing witnesses, but all admitted that
they had paid money to Gardner in or
der to save themselves from arrest.
County Attorney Boardman sought
to compel one or two of the women
to admit that they had talked over
their testimony with the attorneys for
the defense, his line Of questioning in
dicating that the stories they had told
him before going on the stand were
somewhat at variance with their tes-
tiTnony given under oath. However, as
he could not be allowed to impeach his
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-05-10
RAILROAD NOTES.

A twenty consignment of
steel rails for use of the Alaska Central
reached Seattle last week from, Kansas
City. The consignment goes north on
the Alaska Pacific Navigation company's
steamer James Dollar sailing Wednesday
for Seward, the sea terminus of the road.
The longest single-span railroad bridge
in America Is the new bridge of the Wa
bash road over the Monongahela at Pitts
burg. The clear span is 812 feet, and it
is 1902 feet long between the anchor
piers.
The Burlington and the Chicago & Al
ton are to inaugurate a new passenger
train service between st. Louis and Kan
sas City, via Louisiana. Mo-, commencing
day-will be put on. The trains will. use
the tracks of the Burlington between
Louisiana and st. Louis and the line Of
the Alton between Louisiana and Kansas
City.
An order was entered by Judge G. c.
Kohlsaat in the United States circuit
court at Chicago, restraining sixteen tick
ct brokers in that city from dealing in
tickets to and from the st. Louis Louisi-
ana Purchase exposition. The complain
ing companies are the Baltimore & Ohio,
Burlington and Michigan Central
Only FIVE of the union machinists ap-
peared for work yesterday at Topeka in
response to the order issued on Saturday
by the Santa Fe giving the striking shop
men until Monday to secure their old po-
SltlOnS. Later eighteen union mdcnlnlSIS
apprentices were called out by President
Buckalew. and all quietly laid down their
tools.
The Denver. Woodward & Southeastern
Railroad company with capital stock of
$50, 900 600 was chartered at Guthrie.
Okla. yesterday, to construct lines of
railroad extending from Denver, Col, in
a southeasterly direction through Okla
homa and Indian territory to Tex
arkana. Ark, a distance Of 900 miles.
President Howard Elliott, of the North
ern Pacific, who has been In the East
for the past three weeks. returned to ST.
Paul yesterday. Mr.. Elliott stopped over
in St. Louis to visit his family en- route
to St Paul
Fifteen locomotives and fifty gondola
cars for use in Japan and Korea viii be
shipped to the far East on the Boston
Steamship company,s fremont, which
viii sail from Seattle today.
w. s. Thorne assistant general passen-
ger agent of the 500 line, returned yes
terday from an extensive trip. Mr..
ThOTne said that Eastern railway bust
ness is prosperous.
The Chicago & Alton. it Is said. will
soon open a Northwestern passenger Of
fee in st. Paul. George II. Lennartz will
be in charge Of the headquarters.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-05-10
SANTA FE ADVERTISES
FOR BOILERMAKERS
Opens Employment Agency in St. Paul to
Secure Men.

The Santa Fe has opened an employment
ONCE IN the Merchants hotel and is ad-
vertising for machinists and boiler1nal-
ers to take the place of its striking me-
chanics.
The employment Office is in charge of
the Pinherton Detective agency, which
concern is searching for men in all the
large. cities to fill the vacancies caused
by the walkout on the Santa F'e sys-
TEN.
Permanent work at good wages is prom
ised to all applicants and they are guar
anteed that they will not be moIested by
the strikers as injunctions have been is
sued by various courts prohibiting the
striking machinists from Interfering with
the non union men.
railroad machinist in discussing the
Santa Fes action said that the employ-
ment agency in st. Paul will find few men
looking for work. I'VE are all satisfied
with the treatment accorded us by the
Northern lines, and don't know of three
men who would give up their jobs to seek
work on a strange railroad.
The Santa Fe officials will find out
that there are few unemployed machinists
In the Northwest, and those who are not
at work are too lazy to labor, for the
railroads here need all the men they can
secure"
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-05-10

NATIONS WILL MEET
Officers of Eastern Star VIII
Assemble Today.

Many prominent Masonic women
from all parts of the state will attend
tomorrow, at Masonic temple, the
twenty sixth annual meeting of the
grand chapter of Minnesota Order of
the Eastern Star
The delegates will include, as voting
members of the grand chapter, the
worthy matrons, worthy patrons, and
associate matrons or their proxies, of
all subordinate chapters in the grand
jurisdiction; such past grand matrons.
past grand patrons, past associate ma
irons, past associate grand patrons
past grand secretaries, and past grand
treasurers of this grand jurisdiction
as are members in good standing of
subordinate chapters
Inc worthy grand ma tron, worthy
grand patron, associate grand natron
and grand secretary will welcome all
delegates at 4 o'clock this afternoon
at rooms 55 and 56, of the Windsor
hotel, which will be the official head
quarters.
This evening a reception will be ten
dered to the grand officers and dele
gates by the five local chapters. A
snort musical programme will be fol-
lowed by special meeting of Con-
Stellation chapter, at which degrees
will be conferred
The grand chapter session will be-
e3A4A q ~ " N4OCA IOI0OTTOW morning.
Gov. Van SAINT, Ivanhoe No. 1875. will
deliver an address Of welcome on be-
half of the state. Mrs. Mary T. Ear
huff, worthy matron, Mistletoe (96).
will give an address of welcome for the
order. Ezra G. Valentine, Jacoby (44),
will respond. Committees will be APP
pointed, and the grand matron will de-
liver her address.
At the afternoon session the grand
patron viii speak. Reports will be
submitted by the grand secretary and
the grand treasurer
In the evening the officers of Win
nebago Chapter No. 143 will present
the guiding star and floral offering
with after drill" The full corps of off,
GERS will be present.
Thursday morning will be devoted to
reports of committees, routine business
and election of officers, and Thursday
afternoon to unfinished business and
the installation of officers.
The ladies of Constellation chapter.
VIII furnish luncheons and supper at
Masonic temple.
Mrs. Elizabeth Thomas, of Minneap-
oils, the associate grand patron, will
probably succeed Mrs. Carrie w. Me-
Cauley, of McCauleyville, as worthy
grand matron at the head of the grand
chapter. The grand secretary and the
grand treasurer will doubtless be re-
elected.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-05-10
IN CONSTANT MISERY
Relief Comes at Last to a
St. Paul Citizen.

After years and years of constant mis-
cry from backache and the many an
noying complications that accompany
sick kidneys, a citizen of ST. Paul
finds relief and cure. The public
statement which follows will help
many a reader.
Mrs. William P. Richter, of 1888 Ar
cade street, says: ''Mr. Richter fire.
Quently speaks Of the wonderful value
of poan's Kidney Pills, which he pro-
cured at F. NJ. Parker's drug store.
corner Of Wabasha and Fifth streets.
Imperfect action of his kidneys caused
him much trouble, and the final result
was rheumatism. which frequea&ly laid
him up for week or more at q time
Doan's Kidney Pills wrought such
great change IN his condition that he
has not lost a day since he used them.
There can be no stronger Endorsement
of their value than this"
For sale by all dealers. Price. 80
cents. Foster Miiburn Co., Buffalo. n
Y, sole agents for the United States.
Remember the name-Doan's-an
take no substitute.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-05-10
YOUNG Woman MISSING.

Miss Clara Peters. twenty years old,
has been missing from her home, 161
Goodrich avenue, since last Wednes-
day. Miss Peters has lived with her
sister, Mrs. Hanson. who is unable to
account for her disappearance. She
said that the girl asked last Wednes-
day to go down town. Permission was
given, and that was the last seen of
her. She is tall, dark and slender.
When she left her sisters home she
wore black straw hat, white Shirt
waist, dark skirt and patent leather
shoes. She came from Henning, Mimi,
a year ago.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-05-10
GIBBONS WAS WELL
KNOWN IN MINNEAPOLIS
Coroner Miller Locates Relatives of ST.
Anthony Park Suicide.

Benjamin c. Gibbons, the young man
who ended his life Sunday afternoon in St.
Anthony Park by firing a bullet through
his brain, was of a well-known family,
Minneapolis people. Rev Huntspeller, of
the Hennepin Avenue Methodist church.
and B. c. Gibbons, formerly city assessor
Of Minneapolis, but now of Grand Haven,
Mich. are uncles. He had brother-in-
law. Judge H. w. Colthrop. of Macarthur,
Ohio
The body was removed from the county
morgue yesterday and placed in the hands
of an undertaken, who will ship it to CALI
opolis, Ohio. where the young mans moth
er resides. and where his father, who was
well-known contributor to Methodist
ments for the shiDment of the body were
made by F. L. Palmer, OF Minneapolis,
grand regent of the Royal Arcanum.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-05-10
GEN. SANBORN is
SINKING RAPIDLY
Attending Physicians Admit Pioneers
Death Is but Question of Days.

Gen. John B. Sanborn, who is i'll at his
to be sinking, and yesterday it was said
that his recovery could not be expected.
He is now not able to leave his bed and
no visitors are allowed to see him.
Gen. Sanborn is a pioneer of ST. Paul
and is well known throughout the state
and the Northwest He has been identi-
fed with the public life of the city for
half century, and until he was taken
i'll two months ago was. engaged in the
practice of law in St Paul. He is presi-
dent of the Minnesota Historical society.
having succeeded the late Alexander
Ramsey. who died year ago last month.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-05-10
"FLYER" WILL CARE
FOR LOCAL TRAFFIC
Great Northern Announces Change West
Of Spokane.

The Great Northern Flyer west Of
Spokane will become the local train and
the local train VIII be changed into the
Flyer on May 8. Both the east and
bound flyers cover the distance from
Spokane to the coast mostly in daytime
and the local trains in the nighttime. The
real object of the local train, to run as an
accommodation. is missed because the peo-
pie are compelled to board or leave 1t at
all hours of the night. Nos ! and will
stop at the station where Nos. and now
ston and vice versa.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-05-10
New York Police Are Accused.

NEW YORK, May Sin a sweeping
investigation into naturalization frauds
which has been in progress here during
the past fifteen months, the authorities
have been informed that many mem
bers of the police force hold papers
said to have been secured by methods
not in accord with the law. Most of
the men under suspicion are said to
have been on the force some years.
1t is likely every uaturalized policeman
in Greater New York win be examined.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-05-10
CASToREA.
Bears the n The Kind You Have Always BOugta
''s Of &NZ ztzMY
Examinations Staved.

NEW YORK. May 9.-Judge Holt, in
the United States district court, today
signed an order suspending and stay
ing all further examinations of Edwin
HaWley and Frank H. Ray, in connec-
ton with the bankruptcy proceeding of
Daniel ]. Sully & Co, pending the de-
cision Of the United States circuit court
of appeals on the petition in review.