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The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-04-27
NEGRO MAKES STILL
 MORE CONFESSIONS
ASSAlLANT OF MISS SANBERG IN
 TEXAS IS CLOSELY GUARDED., coNFEssEs TO THREE FoRMER( MURDERS.

Austin Texas, April 26.-Henry Sim mons, the negro who stands accused and has confessed the murder of Miss Lula Sanberg at Manor on last Thursday. will. have his trial for murder on Friday oiI this week, and in the meantime he is be ing closely guarded in the county jaiy here, which is surrounded by an arme force of two hundred soldiers This pr caution was taken to give assurance tn no mob demonstrations shall be succesN fully made. The soldiers will be kept d duty until after the trial.
 This afternoon Simmons made a fur ther confession to three additional mur- ders, two being of negroes in Texas, and the other of white man whose name he did not know in the Creek Nation, Indian Territory on July g. 1903
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-04-27

An unframed throat should not be neg lected. Pisos Cure for consumption heals.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-04
THE MAGAZINES

Some New Poets-H. w. Boynton in
the Atlantic Monthly for January dis
cusses some Of the recent poetry. He pays
a high compliment to- Josephine Preston
Peabody. of whose latest book of poems,
stsThe Singing Leaves" mention was made
in this. column recently. He says: s.No
American writer of verse is now moved
by more sincere poetic impulse than
Miss Peabody. Her poetry has
a delicate SAVIOR Of its own, a mystical
sweetness, a purity of ways untrodden and
apart. yet not remote from the common
field Of this our strife Among the other
poets discussed are Josephine Daskam,
who made her name by other work, w. B.
Yeats, Charlton Miner Lewis and others
A somewhat technical but very interesting
article tells of theories as to what causes
the blue color Of the sky It is sunlight
reflected from solid particles in the air, but
there is much else to the article. The
number contains it's full quota Of excellent
fiction and much other material
Thomas Wentworth Higginson resumes
his reminiscent papers with a characteris-
tic account of 1.-THE Sunny Side Of the
Transcendenta1 Period Andrew D. White
contributes valuable paper (the first
half) on Fra Paola sarpi' terrible frate
- THE Sixteenth Century Controversialist
and Defender of His Native Venice
Against the Vatican" The frst Of several
papers on sorae phases Of contemporary
advertising, is furnished by Professor
Walter D. Scott, who writes on THE
Psychology of Advertising. = Jack Lon
don contributes an entertaining paper on
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-04
A WAY Out,

The statement In the morning dis
patches that at the last moment Rus
STA may satisfy Japan and avoid war
by agreeing to give Japan free hand
in Korea while she keeps Manchuria
for herself is very interesting in view
Of statement on that point made by
Muhammad Barakatullah in the cur
rent Forum. He. says: ,.'.....,..t. =
There are two questions which now
force themselves upon our attention:
F1rst-W1n war between Russia and Japan
be averted for good if Russia sticks to
Manchuria and valves her claim upon
Korea, leaving Japan a. free hand in the
latter country? This is, in fact, the trump
card in the hands Of Russia's diplomacy,
of it to extricate herself, from this en-
tanglement If the war party does not
get the upper hand in the council of the
car, Perhaps her delay in coming out
with this proposal May be a trick to tire
the patience of Japan and make her ac-
cept what Russia would only reluctantly
yield to her in the end. This arrangement
would be sort of compromise for the
time being and would deprive Japan 1of a
casus belli for the present.; but the larger
question Of the safety of the yellow race
would remain unsolVed. 4 go =. g
Possibly Russia, alarmed by the war
spirit in Japan, may now have reached
the point where she is willing to fore
go her claims on Korea; for the pres
ent at least, rather than fight: I:
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-04
Beers MAY REBEL

I Karl Won Boeckman, formerly Of Je-
hannesburg, South Africa, and now tray
cling in this country, does not believe that
South Africa will be under British DOM
ination. over ten years at the outside. Mr.
Won Boeckman says: 'oThe Transvaal, Ma
tai, 1.-THE Orange Free State, as at was
called ofayore, and Cape Colony, will at no
distant day form federation and become
as free of English control as Canada is
now. spent most of my life in South
Africa, but after the war with England
could never be .eontented to live there. It
is good land naturally, and would be-
come populeus and rich but for the way
the capitanstic combine which owns the
Kimberley diamond field and the gold
mines contrives to shut off development OF
native resources and to exclude foreign
ers who might come in and build Up the
country. The selfish and graspfng COM
bine does not look to the general welfare;
but seeks only its private ends It does
all it can to keep the outside world from
coming into any Of this territory (which
it now dominates and hopes to dominate
for all time"
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-04
A FRENCH GIANT LEAVES US.

NJ. Hugo, the French giant, sailed the
other day in La Savoie to have his Christ
mas. dinner. at home. He weighs 43O,
pounds, is seven feet nine inches tall and.
requires bed ten feet long, so that the,
largest stateroome on the ship failed is-,
.noblg to meet the demand. To solve the
Difficulty. the partition between two state.l
rooms was cut away and a special bed
was constructed. Even at that. the giant
double up every now and then to keep
from knocking his towering head against
deck coverings, while companionways,
dining saloon chairs and tables and al 3of
the accommodations of the ship are many
sizes too small to comfortably accommo-
date the Frenchman. He is % years old,
and says he is still growing.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-04
AT THE THEATERS

6lJou-"The Lighthouse by the Sea-"
!. In ''The Lighthouse by the Sea- the
BijOu presents this week a melodrama Of
more than ordinary interest. With the
exception Of a single scene, it has been
constructed upon sane lines. The tight
rope walking feat of Minty, who crosses
from the crest Of a cliff to the lighthouses
top, is, of course, as glaringly impossible
as the most devoted adherent of 'sensa-
tional' melodrama could wish, but apart
from this, the play does no great violence
to the possibilities.
Owen Davis had a story TO tell when he
wrote "Ther Lighthouse by the Sea''-not
an altogether new story, perhaps, but a
tale worth the telling, and he has told it
we'll. The plot revolves about the efforts
Of a scoundrel to marry the granddaugh-
ter Of thes old and. blind lighthouse keeper;
whom he believes to be heress to $4,000.
Eo accomplish this end he first obtains the
old mans removal, but fails to secure the
coveted position himself. Next he at
tempts to murder his rival by extingujsh-
Ing the light when he. as pilot, needs it to
guide his ship to safety,sa plot which is
defeated by Minty's astonishing feat; and
last, abducts. the girl and prepares to
force her into marriage, only to be
foiled by his accomplice. who discovers
that the young woman is not the heiress
they had supposed her, but his own
daughter.
In little, this is the play, and Of it's kind
a. good play 1t is, its characters well drawn
and it's dialogue couched in good Anglo:
Saxon, occasionally dropping into the YER
nacular. but devoid Of what, for the want
Of" better term, may be called bombas
ticisms.
The melodrama has been we'll cast
Harry B. Bradley giving fine, well con
sfdered Interpretation Of the old lighthouse
keeper and Louis Haines presenting a
most amusing Characterization of coun-
try boy whose chief diversions are work
and water. Thad Shine, as Mike Larrity
has a makeup reminiscent Of Robson az
BERTHE the Lamb, and adds to the like.
ness by his manner Of speech which, while
, it lacks Bertie's drawl, occasionally re.
veals his lisp. Jack Dunn as the pilot, r
Barlow as the villain. and Della Clarke as
the heroine. do. good work in their re-
spective roles. Lem c. Reeves, as the as.
sistant villain, is less successful
The play is effectively mounted and the
sky effects in the third act are as fine
as anything ever seen here.
49, j. S.. IaWrnce
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-04
The Demand for Flour.

j It seems to be generally agreed that
the past year has baen a prosperous
one for flour millers. A large factor
contributing TO this prosperity has
been the increased domestic consump-
ton of wheat flour. The United States
now consumes 100000 bushels OF
wheat more each year than ten years
ago. Not only is consumption in
creasing in proportion to the, aug
menting numbers Of our population.
but the per capita consumption, for.
some reason or other, is increasing.
A few years ago the consumption
was reckoned at a. barrel of flour a.
year, or about Az bushels per capita.
It is now considered to be about 5 n
bushels per capita, and some think il;
is nearly six bushels. The population
of the United States is calculated by
experts to be s0,30o,0OO. At the Fate
sof six, bushels Of wheat per capita it
would require $4,000 900, bushels of
wheat to provide for domestic con-
sumption.
A Chicago correspondent of the
New York Post gives some interesting,
II fanciful, reasons for the increased
per capita consumption. He declares
that new Immigrants, now coming in
great numbers are very much larger
consumers of wheat bread than the
natives, because they are poor and
have to make bread their chief food.
The high price of meat has also had q
tendency to increase consumption OF
bread among persons of limited in
comes. 49, .ssg3 ~, tlr ',.5e
The increased per capita. consump-
ton Of wheat, and the augmentation
of the total volume of eonsumption
are interesting to the wheat merchant
and the farmer, as well as the miller
They contribute valuable data to the
consideration Of the important ques-
ton Of whether wheat is not going to
rule much higher in the future than in
the past. -, "E
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-04
Lyceum-"Graustark."

Miss Grace Hayward's romantic play,
which proved so successful at it's first
presentation here year ago at the Metro
politan ra-house, will probably enjoy
an even more prosperous run this week at
the Lyceum. Miss. Hayward is said to
have improved, in some points, her dram
atization7 of George Barr McCutcheon's
novel, while more elaborate costumes and
scenery have been provided. The first
act, showing the grounds Of the Regenetz
hotel in Graustark, is particularly attrac-
tive.
It is unnecessary to remind readers Of
the book that the play tells how Grenfall
Lorry, a rich young American and his
friend, Harry Anguish, travel into a re-
mote part of Europe in search Of a mys-
ferrous Miss Gugenslocker, with whom
Mr.. Lorry had fallen in love at first sight
upon meeting her in the United States,
where she was travelling. She asks him
to visit. her at a town which, as he finds
after great effort, is located in the out-of-
the-way principality Of Graustark. Hardly
have the two; friends arrived when they
accidentally overhear a plot to abduct the
Princess Yetive, who occupies the throne.
They recognize the voice as that Of GER
tain Prince Gabriel of Dawsbergen, whom
they had seen a few hours before the
same day. They undertake the bold plan
Of going themselves to the palace and de-
feating the cOnspirators. What comes of
this adventure makes up a story full OF
narrow escapes and romantic devotion.
AS the heroine, Miss Gugenslocker. -
Miss Hayward was never more acceptable,
fitting the part exactly even to the per-
sonal description. Dick Ferris is also gal
liant and convincing in the role of the
American hero. Ben Johnson made de-
cided hit as the princess old servant and
protector, Baron Danglos. The usual sue
I L. AT...
in the character Of the villain, Prince
Gabriel. OF the subordinate actors, Jo-
seph Totten did well as young Mr.. An.
guish, Miss Maisie Cecil as the Countess
Dagmar, friend Of the princess, and Miss
Frances Murdoch as Aunt Yvonne.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-04
NEWS OF TIE BOOK WORLD !
The Might Of Right as Demonstrates
by Jacob Riis---The Nature OF Man as
Seen by sciertIst-The Magazines
Discuss Poets, Panama and Problems

The Macmillan company has issued a
sketch Of the life and work of Jacob
Riis. with a portrait. 1t is in pamphlet
FORM. but is an extremely interesting
glimpse Of a thoroly admirable character.
As a sample of the style of the little pam
phlets and at the same time Of the quail
tiles of the man, the following serves ex-
cellently aa'sft'
He has plunged into everything worth
while that came his way, and by sheer
force of his personality has made himself
felt wherever there was good to be DONE
Absolutely his sole power or backing, alb
solutely his only point of appeal, at the
beginning, lay in the fact that he was
right and that nearly everybody else was
wrong or Indifferent. He stuck to it I'M
til he won, and his life and his story of it
contain the greatest moral lesson of re-
cent years to every young man and woman
IN this land, whether Of American or Of
foreign birth.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-04
aRen HurD opens To.niqht.

aAll Minnesota is. interested in General
Lew Wallace's famous religious romance.
ben Hur,s.'I and its return to the Metro
politan for the week beginning tonight.
Requests for seats have been pouring in
from all sections. while North Dakota and
Wisconsin are also represented Orders
began to come in two weeks ago from
ben Hur' clubs formed especially to
visit Minneapolis and see this great play.
This is the last opportunity that resi-.
dents of this section will have to see
this great spectacle. as it is not likely that
Klaw & Erlanger will ever again send this
attraction thru the northwest.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-04
DRUNKENNESS AS A COMIC INCL
S $50 - DENT .,agt..y ~ !. ri
London Daily News:

London Daily News.
It Is some years since Mr.. zangwill. IN
his comic days, laid it down as an axiom
that popular British hufnor dealt with two
subjects only: nothers-in-law and drunk
en- persons. We are reminded of the OBJ
servation by a paper contributed to the
British journal. Of Inebriety, by Or. G. Fl.
R. Dabbs on the treatment OF drunken
ness in fiction and the. drama He says:
81 was once speaking to man who
held thesrecord OF police convictions for
drunkenness. Il He was a gentleman born,
and had been great athlete. met him
in a prolonged parenthesis of sobriety, and
Z believe his brain cells were at the time
he conversed with me fairly free from al
coholic soakage. He said: Depend upon
it, the. habit that society has Of treating
drunkenness as a. comic incident has
something to say in the matter OF how the
drunkard is led to regard it. have often
thought over this phrase, and not always
with absolute eQuaninity. took UP an
old volume of an Illustrated comic paper
the other day. and, I found allusion after
allusion to drunkenness, and always from
the hughable side.
Il Dr. Dahbs .dwells on his view that, even
the mest serious and .purposeful. works
'Danesbury House have not any deter
rent effect on the victim OF alcoholism. He
adds: Perhaps book written with an
others purpose mean. Esther Waters
more truly than any book of fiction known
! to me. shows how alcoholic addiction in
! tensiaes the parasitic habit and italicises
the down grade details OF cloth and lust.
But as a rule, fiction that typifies, or tries
, to typify, moral degradation thru drink
occupies itself too much with effects on
the lives Of others and too little with the
sliding scale Of continuity lii tho personal
downward path.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-04
JANUARY 4, 1904.

FThe Scab," and goes to prove that every
body, all the world, is a scab or non-scab
at intervals, or alternately. Edwin Bur-
rift Smith discusses Street Railway Leg
slation in Illinois,
i Has the Non Unionist a Right to Work
How, When and Where He pIeases9--
Frank H. Foster in the January American
FederationIst takes the negative in the
debate. Mr.. Foster5puts the situation as
he views it thus in one of disclosing para
graphs: And yet the strike breaker
plays the part of an ally to those who con-
fine men in the narrow dungeon of unre-
Quilted toll; with his mephitic breath he
would extinguish the breath which shows
the way to freedom" Labor conditions
in New Zealand are written Of by DR.. Vic
tor S. Clark. EDITORIAL comment is made
on the recent convention in Boston.
Down to Business In Panama Canal Mat
ter-The solution Of the isthmian canal
problem will be found in The Engineering
Magazine for January. General Henry L..
Abbott cracks the nut for the magazine.
He considers. the dangers escaped by
choosing the route by Panama Following
this article is one ON Organization and
Personnel in the Panama Canal by Full
lerton L. Waldo, alsoEa high authority. Hc
explodes the wild stories about the number
dying in the process of#erecting the Pana-
ma ra1roaaySarad OF the cost or maintain
ing the canal, once tbs built, says: 1.-THE
maintenanpe sof the canal, according to the
official .esttHhate, @wiA enlist the services
Of at least 645s persons, exclusive of the
management Of the railway. The COM
plete cost, of annual maintenance is about
$2,000,000." Among. other things discussed
in the number are the high speed trolley
car tests in Germany, IAN Example OF
Modern Development of the Apprentice
ship System, - The Homes of the Great
Engineering Societies, y 1.-THE Limits and
Possibilities Of Deep Mining etc.
New Magazine from lowa-Thrft is a
brand new magazine 'for thrifty people and
those, who desire to become such,' pub
ltshed at Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The editor
says in his salutatory: 1--WE do not expect
make Thrift the greatest publication in the
world Immediately, nor do we dare hope
to clear up.a million in a short time, bu,
1--we intend to give the people of iowa ano
the west as clean a liter ry ssnd 2duca.
tional magazine as ever issuad from 6
printing press" The first nnraper Is Ger.
/ tainly promising. It is fine and dandy
and crisp and has an Inviting look I
ought to succeed. So here's wishing it
happy new year and many of EN- Thi:
first number contains fiction, biography. O
which Governor Cummins is the subject
travel, discussions Of practical question:
and other material in generous quantit.
and Of high quality.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-04
.fs4t ~
a GREENLAND PLUTocRAT

Even Greenland's Icy mountains have s
their plutocrats. One Kor-ko-ya Of East i
Baffinsland literally stupefies his fellow
tribesmen with his luxury. He lives in a
wooden house, owns a table. and g. paraffin
lamp and recently, to celebrate the for
tieth anniversary of the foundation of his
business he stood cod liver oil all around
to his employees. Such a scene of unre-
strained revelry had never been witnessed
in the country before.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-04

4 The Minnesota State Sanitary associa-
In Minneapolis next week. This associa-
4ion.is not confined either iIlsmembership
or interest to members of themedical pro-
fession. Questions relating to the public
health concern all of uE The association
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-04

Il The London Spectator fears that civil
ization may be destroyed in the threatened
wars. In this country the state ef mind
that produces such opinions is usually at
tributed to holiday turkey and mince pie
and such like" but we do not know what
causes 1t in England.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-04

Senator Hanna is spoken Of as a. safe
candidate. and yet the Ohio senator stood
for Rathbone in the Wood inquiry and al
lows it to be understood that he still IA
vors Heath.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-04

Miss Baier, the Minneapolis girl who en-
tered in the New York beauty show, took
the second prize. That may help to COM
pensate for some Of the regret more Or less
general that any Minneapolis girl had par
ticipated in that competition. .>f,-~.'.a-
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-04
BOOKS RECEIVED

THE NATURE OF MAN. Studies in Optimistic
Philosophy. By Ellie Metchnikof, professor at
Pasteur Institute. Edited by P. Chalmers
Mitchell, NJ. A., D. S., Oxford, secretary zolog
1cal society Of London. New York: G. P. Put
mans Sons. Price 81. -:
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-04

district, probably marks the turning.
pdint.,in lumber manufacturing in both.
Minneapolis and Duluth have seen their
spalmiest days as lumber manufacturers
They have made their records
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-04

The alumni. of the University Of Min
nesota are trying to form an association
that will be able to justify it's existence
1t is strange that $50 strong an institution
should have no influential alumni organi-
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-04

Basket ball is not much of college
game, compared with football It doesn't
seem to divert many students from their
proper business.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-04

is DESTROYS of a good attendance repre-
senting. the general pubblicb. and all per-
sons directly interested In sanitary mat
ters Of public bearing-such as munich
pal sanitation and public hygiene-should
attend.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-04

'Doc'' Ames has written a history Of
graft in Minneapolis. Nobody will. ques-
ton his knowledge Of his subject.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-04
eoER LEADER AND MUSIC HALL
SINGER

The London Daily Express says that
General Viljoen, the Boer leader, Is be
trothed to May Belfort, an English music
hall singer. It is expected that their mari
rage will take place in February.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-04

This is a great day for this shop
A new dad remembered the editor
and all the assistants with a peck of
nice peanuts. -;
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-04

Everybody thinks we have a good year
ahead of us. In such cases there is some
- -
thing in the mind sure.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-04

Perhaps you will change your mind after
reading the presidents defense Of the
governments course in Panama, ]:
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-04

The Miller, s. d.. Sun ran bump into a.
red letter day. It says:
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-04

The market decline in the cut Of pine
lumber at Minneapolis and in the Duluth
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-04

Strange how some days everything
seems to come our way. - SO
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-04

Our coal bin is beginning to have a bad
taste in it's mouth.