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The Saint Paul globe., 1904-05-16
At St. Paul Theaters


When the late Charles Dickens
penned the summing up of Sergeant
BuZfuz to the jury in the immortal
breach-o of-promise suit of BardelI vs.
Pickwick it is doubtful if he antici-
pated the speech would be borrowed to
f1t dramatization of one of Tolstoys
novels.
This overwhelming stunt was per-
formed at the Metropolitan last night
in the presentation of version of Toll
Stoy's gloomy Resurrection"
Instead of showing the jury room
scene, the only one in the play reveal
ing varying types of humanity as ex-
hibited by a jury in retirement, the
version perpetrated at the Metropolitan
last night boldly attempts to represent
in twenty minutes the entire trial of
the wretched Maslova and two code
PENDANTS seated beside her.
\ When Prince Dimitri, who served on
the jury, remarks after the verdict,
that the trial was ''travesty on JUS
tice," we quite agree with him. If he
had observed that it was a travesty on
anything and everything, possible or
impossible, no one would have dis
puted him. 1t battles description.
But the climax was reserved for
counsel for the defense when he
arose and began his address to the
Jury. His first sentence had a familiar
sound, his next was closer. We knew
his third and all the rest almost by
heart. Shade of Charles Dickens, IT
was the red-1noSed, clustering, bluff
fing, putting Sergeant BuZfuz, con-
vincing the jury that the benevolent
Pickwick had toyed with the affections
of the conf1ding Mrs. Bardell! And all
in a Russian court, with murder the
theme.
The audience at the Metropolitan did
not appear to detect the substitution of
Dickens for Tolstoy. They Uttered at
Sergeant Buzfuz's stilted rhetoric,
which was really delivered with good
relish by John L. WooderSon, and
seemed to think it quite appropriate.
Dickens can't protest. So what's the
odds? Possibly Tolstoy might object
to the liberty, but that should be his
punishment for giving to the world
such a repulsive study of depraved
woman.
No sound estimate of Miss Florence
Stones histrionic accomplishments can
be based upon her work in such a
misshapen vehicle as that presented
last night. That she possesses the
dramatic instinct was clearly demon
strated. She has a personality and
voice that awaken sympathy, but we
would prefer to see them exploited in
a saner and more human role. 1t
might be said that her makeup in
that awful trial scene, designed as it
was to indicate pallOr of cOuntenance,
was abSurdly exaggerated.
st. Paul is not one night stand.
F. G. H.
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-05-16
4Erik Of Sweden" at the Grand.

Mr.. Ben Hendricks, agreeably known
for some seasons past as an impersOn-
ator of Swedish homespun heroes, dis
covered a year ago that he could sing
as well as pronounce his g's and is as
though they were VS., whereupon he
branched out as a singing Swedish
comedian. Judging from his effort at
the Grand last night, Mr.. Hendricks
discovery was a happy one.
Though his voice is by no means
phenomenal in point of power or sweet
ness, it is a manly, substantial BARI
tone that sticks to the key and pleases
the ear when the dialogue of the
play threatens to become tiresome,
as it sometimes does in these
dramas written around a dialect
comedian. Mr.. Hendricks comes to
our relief with a song, and
all is forgiven. The melodies allotted
to him are fairly tuneful. The most
entertaining by reason of the "busi-
ness" and the introduction of two little
tots, is "a Swagger Swedish Swell"
but many of the others are quite fetch
ing. Mr.. Hendricks possesses two quail
ifications essential to Justify the print
ing of his name in larger type than that
Of his asSociates-an agreeable pres
ence and personal magnetism.
The story of the play serves well
enough. 1t is possible and romantic
The supporting company is satisfac-
tory. f. G. HI.
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-05-16
ASKS FEDERAL COURT
FOR CHILD'S CUSTODY
Mother Begins Action for Possession
Before United States Judge.

Special to The Globe.
SIOUX FALLS, S. D., May 15.-The
struggle for possession of Lille Michel,
the nine-year- -old daughter Of AdOIph
G. Michel and wife, who were divorced
several years ago, which is pending in
the United States district court in this
city, has developed into a decidedly
lively legal battle.
The plaintiff is Anna B. Wood, of
Illinois, former wife of Michel and
mother of the child. AS a part of her
case she cites a modified decision Of
the state circuit court for Scott cOun-
ty, Iowa, awarding her the custody of
the child.
Michel resides in SanbOrn county,
this state. A few days ago the plain
tiff secured a temporary writ of habeas
corpus, and Michel was compelled to
appear before Judge Garland, of the
United States court, with the little girl.
Only one or two instances can be
found in the federal law reports in
which United States courts have had
to determine such cases, state courts
having heretofore had virtually a mon
opOly of settling disputes between di-
vOrced couples in reference to the Gus
tody of children, and Michel has taken
advantage Of this by filing an answer
in which it is contended that the fed
eral court is without jurisdiction in the
case.
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-05-16
THE ATTACK ON THE PIPE.

One McClintock-and the name Of
him would indicate him possessed of
better sense-a professor in that sink
of learning, the University of Chicago,
would Danish the pipe from the face
of the undergraduate world. 1t is not
the little paper pipe of evil report that
the professor attacks, but the classic
brier Of business seeming and evil
odor which has been a part of the kit
of every collegian since tobacco was
introduced to the learned in the Spa
cious times of great Elizabeth"
We have no knowledge of McClin-
took or his works. Fame, brazen-
tongued and undiscerning runagate,
never met up with Mac before he at
tackled the tobacco pipe. But yester-
day he was a peg in one of the holes
bored by Rockefeller for the founda-
tions of the University of Chicago.
Today he is eminent in that galaxy OF
advertising geniuses who have done so
much to make good to John D. the
advances he has made from the pub
LEFTY fund for the promotion of learn
ing in Chicago and its environs.
And we greatly fear that Mac IS
going to have little better luck than
his fellows Of the faculty who have, on
occasion, pulled the bays from the
brow of Shakespeare or demonstrated
the weakness of the Bible as liter
ary and inspired work. For the pipe
is mightier than him that inveighs
against it. And it comes with bad
grace from a McClintock, this attack
on the pipe. A proper regard for the
traditions of his ancestors, who were
no doubt much given to admiration Of
pipes and pipers Of another sort,
should have kept McCIintock in line
for the brier affair that undergradu-
ates use to decorate their faces and
stimulate their intellects.
McClintock has put himself into the
ranks of the philfstines. He will
presently be trying to abolish student
lamps, and then John D. will get him
and the sacred institutions of classic
pursuits will no longer be in danger
or internal attack from Prof. McClin-
tock
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-05-16
PHILANTHROPY AND THE FLESH
POTS.

New York city is considering very
seriously just now the problem of the
hundredth girl. She is the girl who
has wandered into the big city from the
home fold in some small town, not with
a frivolous or evil intent, but for the
purpose of improving her condition.
Gotham is shocked to discover that
frequently the hundredth girl comes to
grief; that many of her kind have died
of want and that the weaker ones have
been led astray. And Gotham is
amazed to learn that as a rule this
hundredth girl is but poorly equipped
for her struggle with the relentless
city; that she brings nothing superior
to cope with forces that have so many
times crushed genuine superiority.
why does she Gomez" it is asking,
and What can we do to prevent her
coming?"
And in looking about for answers to
these questions, the city finds that it
must ask itself and find an answer to
another, "How can we make philan-
thropies philanthropic? ?" For in it's in
vestigation of the hundredth girl prob
lem it has discovered that those very
societies and organizations which are
supposed to offer help>in time of trou-
bic have turned the hundredth girl
away. The various friendly societies
and Christian organizations apparently
look with as much suspicion upon the
friendless girl as they would were their
sole object in life the detection of
fraud. One society which has branches
in every city of any size in the Union
and which is supposed to give shelter
to girls out of employment had filled
its rooms, so it was reported, with girls
who We're able to pay for shelter, and
had refused for several years to take
in penniless strangers.
Not in New York alone but in many
other large cities philanthropies found
ed in spirit of genuine good will fire.
quently degenerate into institutions
whose object is merely commercial.
Those in charge of others come, in
time, to think more of the philanthropy
itself and less of the welfare Of those
for whom it was planned. Still others
maintain the best intentions, but their
government is placed in charge of peo-
pie who are not in sympathy with
these intentions and interfere with
their being carried out Perhaps the
arousing of public sentiment in New
York through the investigation of the
hundredth girl problem will regenerate
those philanthropies that have become
too strongly attached to the comforta-
bic things of life, and 1t is possible that
the regeneration may spread to similar
philanthropies in other large cities.
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-05-16
METHODISTS WILL
SELECT BISHOPS
Conference to FIN the Vacans
Cies Caused by Enforced
Retirement.

Los ANGELES, Cal, May 15.-To-
day was welcomed by the delegates to
the Methodist general conference as a
day of rest after a week of continu-
Gus sessions. While enough visiting
bishops and ministers volunteered their
services to the pulpit supply commit
tee to fill every pulpit in the citv and
suburban towns, both morning and
evening services, the great BODY or
oelegates rested and talked over the
events of yesterdays session of thn
conference.
The proceedings at Yesterdays $685.
sion OF the general conference. when
a vote was taken upon the Retirement
OF t1ve bishops, furnished a live tonic
Of discussion among the delegates III
day. The general opinion of the dele
gates is that when the report is made
tomorrow morning a decided major
lly VIII favor the report of the
eplscOpacy committee recommending
the retirement of Bishops Vincent
walden, Andrews, Mallalieu and Foss
The prompt and determined manner
IN which the subject was put through
the conference yesterday in the face of
strong efforts to postpone definite ac-
tlon until Monday was much COM
mented upon. There are a certain
number of delegates, especially among
the laymen, who are disposed to criti-
clze the manner in which the five
aged bishops were deprived of their
high offices, but the leaders seem to
feel relieved that the most unpleasant
duty of the conference has been per-
formed and that the way is now clear
to take up other pressing and import
ant legislation.
1t is quite likely that the election
OF eight, possibly more, bishops will
take place during the present week.
The day has not yet been decided upon
put 1t is generally believed that it will
be Wednesday or Thursday.
Other matters that will come before
the conference this week are: Action
of the Methodist church upon divorce,
consolidation of the various branches
of the book concern, limiting the ten
ure of pastorates placing the church
on record in the matter Of anus ements,
VIZ: dancing, card playing, theater-
going, and many other matters that
have been brought up in memorials
from different conferences. The num-
Der of candidates for bishops grows
daily and no less than thirty-fiv names
are now mentioned in this connection.
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-05-16
"The White Horse Tavern" at Mozart
Hall

The Milwaukee German Theater
company began it's third season at
Mozart hall last night in Bulmenthal
and Kadelburg's comedy, "Im Weissen
Roess1," C'The White Horse Tavern.")
A large audience welcomed the first To-
cal performance of this excellent Ger
man play, the English version of which
was applauded throughout America a
few years ago.
Among the players last night were
several comedians who have
spread the fame of the Pabst
theater. Miss Leona Bergere,
Messrs. Ludwig Kreiss and Albert
GTos realized especially the hopes
of their admirers. AS the hostess Of
the Inn, Miss Bergere defended her
heart vainly, yet with amusing inge-
nuity, against the ambitions of Mr..
Kreiss, the waiter Leopold. Other COM
plications of the evening were set forth
in spirit more farcical, but none the
less appropriate, by Mr.. Gros as the
tesFy, bare-knee private tutor. The
good stage management redounded to
the credit of Mr.. PRESS as director
Three plays will be produced by the
Pabst company during the current en-
gagement. After several additional
performances of '"The White Horse
Tavern" the more serious Father and
Sons" by Walther and Stein. will
change the bill Wednesday night. This
will be followed next Sunday by the
sequel of THE White Horse Tavern"
to-wit, "Als Ich Wiederkam" GAS
Returned") a farcical comedy, said to
be as droIl as the conceit that it con-
tinues.
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-05-16
LETTERS FROM THEPEOPLE
One Man Who Believes That Or. Ames
Is Being Prosecuted.

To the Editor OF The Globe:
Reading about the way they are hound
ing poor old Doc. Ames at Minneapolis
is very aggravating to say the least. We
cannot make out from the reports that
they have a decent witness to testify
against him, but it seems that a gang
of a peculiar sort of inhumanity are bound
to send him to prison or worry the life
out of him with the aid of such testi-
mony as they are able to gather from
the worst elements and slums of the city.
Some years ago we heard quite a diff
ferent story when their city treasurer
Mr.. Haugan, aeeced the city out of some
where between $50, 900 and $100, 600 on
good evidence. He was provided with
something like a sky parlOr at the top
story of the court house with plenty of
attendants and a crack team with car
riage to take him out riding when he
needed fresh air, and that was called q
jail sentence, where he was kept about
one month. Are we not. then, to pre-
sumo that denizens Of Minneapolis are
clOse- unto the old maxim-hang the little
thieves and let the big thieves go free?
1 never saw DR.. Ames that l know of
But l have heard SO many nice stories
told about his work in line with the golden
rule. acting as the good Samaritan for
suffering humanity, that / am inclined to
think he has had his share of suffering
even if there should be some truth in
the testimony of TaScals and prostitutes
which is hardly reliable.
"A ferguson
Glenwood. MAY 12 1904
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-05-16
FOLKLORE.

Norway has taken up the study of
its traditions and folklore with quite
as much seriousness as Ireland. A
score or more of years ago there was
organized in Christiania a society
whose members were pledged to devote
themselves to an investigation of the
folklore of the country, but at that
time the folklore revival movement
had just commenced and the society
came to naught. Just recently, how
ever, it was reorganized and is now
Dialect society. 1t has two purposes,
the study of the life and traditions Of
the Norwegian people and a scientific
investigation of the Norwegian dia-
lects
This revival of an interest in the
folklore of nations is now merely a fad
of the scholars, but it promises to de-
velop into something stronger and
more permanent. Nowadays when am
pie facilities for travelling impart a
surface cosmopolitanism, at least to
even the most remote peoples, evi-
dences of an intense national life are
somewhat difficult to find. But the
great mass of people in any land can
not long remain unaffected by a move
ment that compels a nation to look
backward to. examine carefully it's
beginnings and to read the tales which
were the expression as we'll as the in
spiration of the men who were the
founders of its national life. The eff
feet of the movement must be to in
tensify the national feeling, although
all scholars may not have set about
their work with this end in>view as
deliberately as the poet Yeats and his
confreres. who started the movement
in Ireland.
Even the United States has not re-
mained unaffected by. this international
fad. Such folklore as We have here is
being studied assiduously. Out on the
Western plains are scholars who are
conscientiously analyzing the yodeI
calls Of the cattlemen. Others have
taken up their residence with the diff
ferent existing tribes of American In
dians, and still others are in the South
studying the folklore and the folk
song of the Southern negro. Litera-
ture and music have already benefited
by this interest in folklore, but in the
end it will not be two arts merely but
all humanity that will find itself
benefited by the folklore movement
The world must continue to grow
more cosmopolitan and national life
must continue to grow less intense.
But the world viii not become cosmo-
politan until peoples understand each
other better, and they win not under
stand each other until they are better
acquainted with their own and others
beginnings. Folklore establishes the
close kinshfp of all peoples, and the
ultimate result of its study must be to
draw all closer together.
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-05-16
What the Editors Say

fonucS In Minnesota are most pc
cullar, II 1t be true that candidates do
not know who contributes to their cam
pa1gn fund. Among all the disinterested
men in the world, the man who sub
Scr1beS thousands to a campaign and
allows the candidate to remain ignor-
ant of the fact stands easily at the
head. He is a patriot And the can
didate who knew not of the good deed
is AN innocent, even among infants
Wabasha Herald.
Considerable opposition is being
stirred up over the state against the
bucket shops that are being operated
in nearly every community. They are
gambling concerns Of the very worst
character, as the trader has no possible
show to win. Thousands of dollars
are being sent out of every country Of
1ce of these concerns that is stolen
from persons who are so unwise as to
put in their money.-Madison Times
Messenger.
Mayor Robert A. Smith and the en-
tire Democratic ticket at st. Paul won
a sweeping victory, electing the entire
ticket by heavy majOrities, the mayor
and treasurer receiving each over A.
600 majority. There is one lone Re-
publican in the assembly and two in
the council. The mud throwing cam
paign INDUCED in by the Republicans
proved a boomerang" ."-Chaska Her
aid
The report has gained pretty general
circulation and is probably true that
Mr.. Jones, of Hennepin county, is to be
renominated for lieutenant governor.
Should the Republican party again give
him place upon the ticket we hope the
voters will have the good sense to vote
for the man who runs against him on
the opposition ticket.-Madison Inde-
pendent Press.
No Individual CRATER can rob the
people so persistently, so remorseless-
ly and in such great volume as does
the So-caIled protective tariff system.
A system of taxation which raises rev.
enue on what the poor man eats and
wears is dishonest and vicious sys-
tenn. Taxes should be levied on wealth
not on blood-St. James Journal.
Why not lock Collins and Dunn UP
together in a bat house to fight it out
among themselves? There are a num-
Der of good Democrats with honorable
records who would be a real credit to
the state.-Brainerd Arena.
To read the Republican Dunn and
Collins papers, a new citizen, or even
an old one, would make up his mind
that neither Dunn nor Collins is fit to
be governor of the great state of Min
nesota.-Fulda Free Press.
The returns from the recent city
election would seem to indicate that
Republicans are pretty "skase" articles
in st. Paul.-Redwood Falls Reveille.
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-05-16
Transatlantic BurIesquers at the Star.

Several SpecialtieS of exceptional
merit are included in the olio of the
Transatlantic BurlesqHers company,
which opened a weeks engagement at
the Star yesterday. Ben Jansen in
the character of a Hebrew, sings sew
eral clever parodies composed by him
self. Miss Belle Veole, a contortionist
singer and dancer, is as 1.-THE as she is
petite. Miss Florence Sweetman ap-
pears in an odd SKETCH assisted by
a chorus garbed quantity as frogs
Josie and Willie Barrows are good
dancers, but the speciality in which
they appear would be more acceptable
if the latter was a better singer Van
tello and Nina are probably the best
gymnasts that have appeared at the
Star this year.
Carmelita D'Arcos in a European
novelty" in which she poses against
a canvas upon which different views
are thrown, is the feature of the olio
and was enthusiastically received. The
burlesque entitled Two Hot Knights. !"
in which the company appears, is fair
though the chorus Is above the aver
age.
The Saint Paul globe., 1904-05-16
show that the Hon. Bill is not quite so
dead one as the esteemed Tribune Of
Chicago would have us think.
rHE suPERFLuous WOMAN.


Mrs. Charlotte Perkins Gilman de-
clared in recent book that women can
neither keep house nor take care of
children. Mrs. Flora Mcdonald
Thompson asserts with equal positive
ness in a magazine article that women
are failures in Industrial work. Mrs.
Gilman has been married twice, so it
is to be presumed that she knows
whereof she speaks. Mrs. Thompson,
by her own confession, has been
breadwinner, SO she, too, speaks with
the voice Of one having experience if
not authority.
OF course, both those women take
the average woman for the subject of
their pessimistic sermons. Mrs. Gill
mans charge against her in the home
is incompetency; Mrs. Thompson's
charge against her in shop or Office is
lack of physical strength to compete
with men and also lack of independ-
ence. The conclusion both those wom-
en- seek to thrust upon the reading
public is that the average woman is
the superfuous woman. Unless she is
content to initiate the lilies Of the field
and neither toll nor spin, she becomes
a nuisance and really retards instead
of Fastening the worlds progress.
The feminine mind is especially liza
BILE to bias. 1t is impossible not to
suspect that unpleasant personal ex-
perience has Influenced the point of
view of both those writer's. Acute pes
simism comes from within generally;
it is seldom occasioned. by a broad
view of world conditions. Perhaps it
is not unfair to either Mrs. Gilman or
to Mrs. Thompson to believe that they
have looked upon the average woman
with jaundiced eye.
For neither in the home nor out in
the workaday world is she quite as
bad as those two sisters of her have
painted her. She is occasionally a
failure in the home and she is more
frequently a failure in industrial life,
but in neither sphere can a sufficient
number of failures be scored against
her to prove that she is the superfuous
woman. Many people regret that cir
cumstances force so many women into
the factory, the shop and the Office. but
few will agree with Mrs. Thompson
that the majority are failures in these.
Many people regret, too, that all houses
are not so we'll looked after nor all
children so well brought up as they
wish, but few will believe that the
average woman is an incompetent
housekeeper and mother. For a su-
perfiuous woman she has managed to
do very well, and while there is room
for improvement, there is little excuse
for the sweeping charges which two of
her own sex have brought against her.