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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-19

Out of ,Norine's disappearance and the
fair Isyl'ss coronation came results which
make altogether an entertaining yarn in
itself. The story telling stunts" Of the
various characters are well done but are
somewhat marred by the overworking of
the slang lexicon; not that the stories are
coarse, but that they get to be a bit tire
some thru the straining to be clever. The
first of these tales is perhaps freer from
this fault than the others. 1t is the story
Of Golcher, the innkeeper. or how Col
cher got married. It begins thus:
/ 81. had a hound pup once that would eat
! anything in the world if he only got the
idea that you was takin' it away from
him. Sawdust or grass or chunks of coal
it made no difference to the pup. Just
hold it out, an make like you was going
to haul it back again, an he'd grab it an
sink it SO quick he never knew how it
tasted. He only wanted it because he
couldn't get it,
Rather significant beginning that for
a matrimonial tale. Well, Golcher's style
is about up to that all the way thru, and
one can see that the interjected stories,
while they delay the impatient reader
are not likely. to spoil the entertainment
except for the blemish of too much eff
fort at manufacturing breezy American
| isms, to use a euphemism.
| A literary citizen of BEETLES, on the Koyukuk
river Alaska, recently ordered some books Of
Doubleday, Page s. Co., and sent a little can
!; vas bag Of gold dust to pay for them.
The new volumes of American poetry
| issuing from the presses give small prom
| Use of the coming of a master soul. Ye1
the spirit Of poetry, true and stimulating
is found in the beginning verses Of Edit
Thomas, Whitcomb Riley, Margaret Sang,
ster, Edwin Markham and some others o.
the living poets, but the real American
seer has not appeared. Mr.. Wiley, in hi:
Voices and Visions strikes a clear
ringing note occasionally, but, like dozel
others whose verses have been printed
during the last few years, he generally
misses the mark and collapses into bathos
| When a poet calls his own verses "poor
| imperfect blossoms it may we'll be asked
why he insists that the public shall tax,
| and read such output.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-19

There ID curious society in New
York called the New York State Associa-
ton Opposed to the Extension of the
Suffrage to Women. It is composed Of
women who think that the extension OF
the suffrage to their sex would be q
calamity. They spend about $1,000 q year
in intoxicating the idea that politics will
do more harm to women than they will
do good to politics. In view xof the In
difference to woman suffrage that now
prevails. there does not seem to4be much
for the association to do.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-19
AT THE THEATERS
Metropolitan-"Robin Hood"

Whether they were most eager to hear
the best American comic opera or the
best comic opera company in America;
whether they yearned to enjoy again, in
ideal setting, the winsone melodies that
every young girl practices" or to ap-
plaud Messrs. Barnabee, Macdonald and
those other modern mediaevals that they
had applauded years and years ago
in any event, a large audience, Of whom
many were socially prominent, greeted
with untiring approval last night the only
"Bostonians" and the only ''Robin Hood"
The old opera sounds all the sweeter
this season in contrast with thick crowd
ing memories of superficial musical COM
edy. The thoroness Of the performance
from every viewpoint is all the more
gratifying. The restful romance of that
far-off time when the outlaws horn star
tied the deer in Sherwood forest loses
but little from an occasional admixture Of
modern puns and Broadway slang.
The familiar comedians have become
but so much ripper in their experienced
drolery. Henry Clay Barnabee. whom no
English monarch could decline to reap
point high sheriff Of Nottingham, solves
easily the delicate problem of refined in
ebriety-at once dignified and maudlin. No
less individual remains George B. Froth-
ingham, that jolly old churchman, Friar
Tuck, with the Radicals mug embalm-
ing the words Of the first English comedy,
marry, can / drink good ale with any
that wears a hood
Musically however, this latest robin
is most delightful in its choral aspect. Vo-
cal harrnonies so full and rich have seldom
been heard of late at the Metropolitan.
OF the soloists, the Australian basso,
Howard Chambers (Win Scarlet) with
powerful tones as uniform as they are
seal smooth, is by far the most valuable
recruit. Douglas Ruthven, the Robin, sings
enficino tenor In all h11t tho INNER, roc.
lister. Miss Kate Condor, of engaging ro-
tundity in the doublet of Jessie Bartlett
Davis and Alan-a-Dale, is thoroly
good Promise Me-, contralto, if her notes
are not of uniform dulcitude. AS Maid
Marian, little Agnes Brown will employ
her careful and rather brilliant method
more effectively when her sopranoette
grows with herself. She is daintily piquant
and sincere Even more vivacious is the
| Annabel, Miss Blanche Morrison w. Fl
Macdonald, still in the ale line. retains his
| voice we'll H. Is. Curry.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-19
Cummins Stands by His Guns.

Persons who drought that Governor
Cummins Of Iowa had yielded his
convictions as to reciprocity and tariff
revision in return for some political
mess of pottage or other now see
their mistake.
The governor intends to send an
Iowa-idea delegation to the repub-
lican national convention. That dele
cation will stand for reciprocity in
general and will probably ask for an
explicit declaration in favor Of reci-
procity with Canada. The governor
believes that the shortest cut to reci-
procity with Canada now is thru a
declaration by the republican national
convention In favor of 1t. There is no
doubt that President Roosevelt, with
such a resolution behind him, would
undertake to bring about reciprocity
with the Dominion.
We have said before that Governor
Cummins is becoming the political
leader Of the reciprocity movement.
Senator Fairbanks had the chance to
identify his name with policy which
is bound to prevail in the near fu-
ture. He failed to seize the oppor-
tunity. Governor Cummins has done
better. .-.-. ST.
Devotion to the high tariff idea
carried William Mckinley into the
White House.
Devotion to the reciprocity idea
may yet, in good time, carry Albert
Cummins to the same august resi-
dence.
He would make a great president
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-19
The Great Daily
Ofthe
Great Northwest
A Record for 1908
that Counts.

THE JOURNAL in 1903 carried
1893, 756 inches of advertising or
t62, 1854 inches more than in 1902,
an increase Of about 20 per cent.
THE JOURNAL in 1903 carried
over 10000 inches more in it's
daily issues than any other Min
aneapolis or St. Paul paper carried
in it's daily or daily and Sunday
Issues combined.
The Journals Circulation
for December averaged 81, OO5
copies, which goes directly to the
homes. 49,. ,-.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-19

A Kansas City special to T h 0 u r
n a. yesterday characterized the Kansas
wheat situation as rather startling Attic
Kansas had a big crop, all but rs per
cent of It has been sold. The big demand
for flour and the profitable prices have
caused the millers to turn wheat into
-four as fast as possible. Along about
next July good milling wheat may be
kept in glass cases. ..n
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-19

Canada imposes no duty on rough lum-
Der; we do. The result is that in the west
American lumber made from our fast
diminishing Minnesota forests is being
poured into Canada at a low price, while
in the east we are importing Canadian
lumber at a high price. It would be pretty
hard to make the people Of Winnipeg be-
lieve that there ought to be a tariff on
lumber. 1t would also be pretty hard
to make the American people believe that
their tariff on lumber ought to remain.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-19

The house committee on Indian affairs
has decided in favor of reporting a bin
opening the Rosebud Indian reservation
in South Dakota. This won't interest the
land-grabbers much. There will be a
genuine farmer ready ito grab every
quarter.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-19
NEWS OF THE BOOK WORLD
An American Queen in an American
City; the Fair of San Jose Clever
Book Of Messrs. Burgess and Irwin
An Alaskan Remittance for Books.

AS il the eventful three days reign Of
Queen Isyl were not enough to furnish
material for a romantic comedy tale,
Gelett Burgess and Will Irwin in The
Reign OF Queen IsyI have adopted the
fore and since his time and spun, several
yarns of varying interest and cleverness
Within that about the lovely Isyl.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-19
Foyer Chat.

Z =
James A. Herne's last play, ''sag Har-
bor," is frequently spoken Of as his best
work. Mr.. Herne lived among the people
in .Sag Harbor'' just as he lived among
the people in "Shore Acres A fine pro-
ductfon Of this comedy will be given at the
Metropolitan for three nights and Satur-
day matinee, beginning Thursday evening.
One of Henry w. Savages great sing
ing organizat lions, presenting George AIDES
successful musical satire, "The Sultan OF
Sulu,,' will be the offering at the Metro
politan for the half week commencing on
next Sunday.
Jane Remark as Cigarette in the orig
inal production Of Ouida's romance t'Un-
der Two Flags will be the attraction at
the Metropolitan the latter half Of next
week.
George Sidney won hosts Of friends last
year as a star in Busy Ivy and judg-
ing from the size of the audiences at the
Bijou this week, bids fair to duplicate the
success attained last season.
The Carl Hagenbeck Trained Wild AMI
NAL show will appear at the Bijou next
week. All the acts, eight in number, take
place in a huge steel cage covered with
of accidents. There will be daily
matinee.
Last evening the Ferris Stock company
presented Jim the Penman" to a large
audience.
"The1ma,' the dramatization OF Marie
Coreln's book, will be presented at the
Lyceum all next week.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-19
BOOKS RECEIVED

THE REIGN OF QUEEN 1sYL. By Geett
Burgess and Will Irwin. New York: Nc
Clure, Phillips & Co. Minneapolis: N. Nc
Carthy.
VOICES AND VISIONS. Collection of
Verse, Chiefly Occasional. BY Franklin Bald
win Wiley. Boston, Richard G. Badger.
The Gorham Press. Price $1.25.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-19

Southern grand juries continue to indict
planters for peonage. If this keeps on
much longer it will be q distinction dowr
south not to be indicted. Remember, too
that southern grand juries are doing the
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-19
MoRsELs FROM. THE MAGAZINES

The Most Corrupt City lin the World
It is our own city Of brotherly love, Phil
ade1phia. At least that is what Gus
tavus Myers says in the January National
Review, London. Mr.. Myers says: '.Chi-
cago, San Francisco, Minneapolis and
some other boss ridden cities Of few
years ago have risen from the muck Of
political theft" tho they are not wholly
clean yet. But Philadelphia! "Well may
the world contemplate this city of broth
erly love with justifiable disgust and hor-
ror.'' stFiscal Reform 1.-THE New Leader
of the Opposition British Manners
"Cotton, Golden and Chamberlain are
other leading articles in the number, Civ
ing British views Of British affairs Of
worldwide interest.
The Pope's Views as to Church Music
An editorial in The Outlook of Jan. 16
throws light. on the attitude of Plus x.
toward church music. His announced de-
cree, 1t seems, is but in line with a
previous effort of the Catholic church to
purge the church of inappropriate music.
The Outlook says: 1.-THE intrusion into
the services of the church Of dance mu-
sic, love songs and even the music set
to lewd, ballads, which the congregation
often sang to their original words while
the choir were singing the religious words,
came to be so pronounced that COM
mission Of cardinals was created by Plus
W. to carry out a resolution of the coun-
Gil Of Trent On the subject. The tendency
which the present pope is opposing is the
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-19

The Bryan dollar dinner in Lincoln last
night was very radical There generally
are more radicals at dollar than at double
eagle banauets. Now and then there is
a Hearst or a Tom Johnson, but radical
ism and wealth do not usually travel to-
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-19
WHAT OTHER PEOPLE THINK

People who have things to say to the pub
llc that ought to be said. are invited to
use this column. But the space Is In-
tied, and all communications must be
"boIIed down" ~ much as possible,
Three hundred words is safe limit.
To the Editor Of The Journal.
want to submit a puzzle. In reading
The ourn q l the other day about the
Nelson boys learned that they are to
be hanged for murder. They are boys
under age and were drunk when the crime
was committed. In another column there
was an item about an Indian who, while
drunk, murdered seven people, but who
only got forty years on account Of being
drunk while doing the crime Why does
not for q white man2 Curious.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-19

] AN INVITATION is extended to all to Visit
4 the Press Room, which is the finest IN the weSt
K deck 0oss Presses, with q total capacity OF
! IA. 900 eight-page Journals an hour, printed
folded and counted. The best time 70 car 10
I office and be directed TO the visitors gallery.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-19
MINNESOTA POLITICS

Judge colIlns Discovers That His News
paper Following Is Already About
Even with Dunn's-He Announces the
Result Of Checking Up in Letter to
Papers Which Are Friendly to Him
Attitude OF Reese, Warner and .schItf-
man Is No Mystery--Nho viii Be Ma
tional Committeeman?
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-19
TRAVELLERS ABROAD

WIN find The Journal file as follows:
LoNDoN-U. S. Express Co., 30 s psans Amef''
pENMARK--U. s. Legation. ~.
pARIs--Eagle Bureau. rs rue Cannon. hes 81
kilograms sent care Of this Bureau ana t s
same Will be forwarded to them or held ZOE
= their arrival.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-19

j. F. jacobson, the new chairman Of
the board Of control, arrived from Madi-
son this morning and took up his duties.
He has wound up his private business at
Madison, and will give his entire time
hereafter to the state He took the APP
pointment with the understanding that
he have time to close up his home affairs,
and the story in q democratic paper to-
day that he has been rounding up votes
for Collins is a complete fabrication.
Charles B. Cheney.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-19

.Thelma," the dramatization OF Marie
Coreln's book, will be presented at Thu
Lyceum all next week.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-19

Last evening the Ferris Stock company
presented Jim the Penman" to large
audience
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-19

A literary citizen Of Bett1es on the Koyukuk
river. Alaska, recently ordered some books Of
Doubleday, Page & Co., and sent little can
vas bag of gold dust to pay for them.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-19

If you drank your share of the booze
consumed in the United States last year
you put away 1879 gallons of alcoholic
stinulant. We have known certain brill
liant geniuses who tried to consume their
per capita in an evening rather than be
behind at the end of the year. The at
tempt, while a mastery one, was not
wholly successful.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-05-26
HOsnifaI Ambulance.

As stated in the Gazette Of that day
the ambulance for the Alexandra
Hospital, which was ordered some time
ago. was turned over to that institution
Yesterday. 1t is quite a handsome
vehicle, the body being OF an olive green
color, with trimmings of black and gilt
artistically combined, while the wheels
are maroon with black trimmings. The
drivers seat is upholstered in olive
green leather, with handsome lamps on
either side, while in front, at the drivers
feet, is large, sweet-toned gong. The
two windows of bevel glass on either
side are stationary, while just above are
ventilators in the natural wood. The
windows TO the doors are of the same
quality of glass, only they can be raised
or lowered. The interior is finished in
natural wood, and supplied with stretch
err. mattress, seat for the doctor or at
tendant, with provision made for heat
ing. The wheels are rubber tired, and
on the sides of the vehicle the let
tering, alexandria Hospital Ambu-
lance" is in block letters, with
out ornamentation. Altogether the
whole is simple and elegant, yet not
ostentatious. The money for this much
needed adiuct to the hospital was raised
by the generosity of: A friend, 50
Sharps and Flats, $3.50; a friend, $50
friends, sl5; Washington-So1thern Il
WV. through w. d. Duke, 500; through
II. C. A., 800; DR.. NJ. w. O'Brien
$50; friend, Soc; p. Aitcheson, So
Mrs. J. c. Smoot, $40; a friend, Sl.25
friend, 81 and a friend, $25. To then
due acknowledgment is made and t
them our community owes a debt O
gratitude, but more particularly thos'
nnfortunates who have occasion to nee
it. The Gazette congratulates the hosp
tal and the city upon IFS receipt
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-05-26
ueovv Freight Traffic.

Traffic over the Southern and Wash
ington-Southern Railways has beenvery
heavy recently. Large strings of freight
trains have been passing over these
roads continuously day and night, and
there has been at times a congestion.
Hundreds of cars are stretched on the
five or six tracks of the two roads which
extend from Payne street several miles
west, while the track running from st.
Asaph Junction to Portner's Brewery
is always occupied by freight trains.
Double header trains three squares long
are passing through the city at all times,
ard the congestion at the Long bridge
seriously interferes with the running OF
the electric trains between this city and
Washington, one train having been kept
at the bridge about forty minutes this
morning. There are nearly five hun
dred cars of goods lying in the Pennsyl-
vania yards in Washington, and more
are coming in daily. A number of coin-
plants were made to the Pennsylvania
Yesterday by Southern railway men, but
SO far no relief is in sight. The freight
now lying il Washington was brought
from the South and southwest by the
Chesapeake and Ohio, the Southern, the
Atlantic Coast Line, the Seaboard Air
Line, the Richmond, Fredericksburg
and Potomac, and the Norfolk and
Western. II is said that the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad is making an attempt to
move only the perishable matter. 1t
is also said the freight is coming in
faster than it is being removed. 1t is
estimated that more than 900 cars OF
freight are blocked in this city and
Washington. The congestion is said to
be result of the strike of the freight
handlers in New York. The officials OF
the railroads running into Washington
from the South and West and operating
to the North by agreement with the
Pennsylvania system are confronted with
a freight congestion which promises to
cause a complete blockade of freight in
Washington.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-05-26
Fell and Broke His Neck.

R. L. Douglass, brakeman on the
Southern Railway, fell from box car
at Culpeper yesterday evening and broke
his neck. He was picked up placed in
a caboose and reached the depot in this
city early in the night. A message was
sent to the Alexandria Hospital and the
new ambulance was brought into requisl-
ton for the first time. The vehicle as 1t
passed up Fairfax into King streets sound
ing It's gong attracted considerable atten-
ton. The injured man was soon taken
to the hospital where he was attended
by the company's surgeon. He died
shortly after 8 O'Clock this afternoon.
| The unfortunate man was a native OF AL
| hemarle county
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-05-26
Will Appeal Cases,

Mayor Simpson will in future request
Corporation Attorney Boothe to attend
sessions of the Police Court when cases
are tried in which the question OF
licenses is involved, and where parties
charged with conducting business with
out licenses are dismissed appeals will
be taken. A few days ago colored man
who had contracted for some carpenter
work was arrested and arraigned in the
Police Court and Justice Cation in sum-
ming up the case decided that the law
requiring contracting carpenters to OBJ
tain licenses was not intended to apply
to the accused, who, it appeared, had
executed some minor work, and dismiss
ed the charge against him.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-05-26
Decoration DaY.

AS has heretofore been stated, the
National Cemetery, under the suPerin-
tendency Of Capt. J. V. Davis, affords
a charming picture, everything being
ready for Decoration Day services, on
Monday next at $3.50 p. m. The follow
ing will be the programme OF exercises
Assembly, bugle; "God Bless Our Ma
tive Land" choir; invocation, Rev. D..
A. Jeflers; Gloria, choir; reading Lin
coins Gettysburg Speech, w. r.
Graves; freedoms Banner" choir
Grafton, Rev. John A. Wray; "All
Hail Victorious Emblem" choir; adj
dress. Rev. J. A. Jeflers; "Nearer my
God 10 Thee" choir; benediction, Rev.
John A. Wray volley, Alexandra
Light Infantry; taps, bugle. The music
will be under the direction of Prof. j.
s. Renner. A cordial invitation is ex-
tended to all Alexandrians to partici-
pate in the exercises. Contributions OF
flowers are earnestly solicited, and they
will be thankfully received.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-05-26
Deaths.

Mrs. Matte J. Saunders died at her
home, l13 north Payne street, yester-
day. The deceased was native OF Gull
pepper. She was 80 years old.
George P. Dumont, native of Penn
sylvania, died at the Alexandria Hospi-
tai at an early hour this morning. The
deceased had been a sufferer from typhoid
fever. He was SO years old. The re-
mains will be shipped to ElIenton, Ly-
coming county, Pa, for interment.
Alexander Beander, colored, died at
512 Gibbon street yesterday. The de-
ceased was barber by occupation.
w. Domaine & Son will ship the re-
mains of James Strother, who was &C
cidentally shot and killed Tuesday
night by a colored man named Fairfax,
to Dover, Loudoun county, for inter
ment.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-05-26
Personal.

Mr.. Isador Brown has returned from
visit to Bluemont.
Mr.. r w. Whaley, chief clerk in the
city postoffice, left here last night with
his family for Crookston, MINI. de
will take the place of Mr.. +. >. Nep-
tune, who has been transferred to this
city.
Miss Lucy Brookes, who has been visit
ing Miss Lisa Atkinson in the Green
Spring Valley, near Baltimore, has re-
turned to her home in this city.
Mrs. Charles F. Nash arrived in town
Yesterday from New London, Conn, on
a visit to her sisters, the Misses Monroe.
Miss Sarah Stuart left this morning for
New York whence on Saturday she sails
for tour of Europe. She takes with
her the best wishes of large circle OF
friends in this city and throughout the
State for a pleasant visit and safe re-
furn