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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-04-01
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AT THE THEATERS
Orchestra for the Opera Festlv:


An orchestra Of forty musicians under
two conductors, will be no small feature
of the four weeks English grand opera
festival that opened in st. Paul this week
with Verdi's brilliant masterpiece "Othel-
10. Henry W. Savage has supplied his
organization With a fine body Of. picked
musicians this season, under the musical
direction Of Chevalier Emanuel, the con-
ductor with the company last season, and
Elliott Schenck, the ,Wagnerian conductor
especially engaged for this season.
Another feature Of the festival in Min
neapois wilt--be n-elaborate "Parsifap'
concert in English, also under. Mr..
Schenck's direction. Mr.. Schenck ar
ranged and gave one of the first ''ParsifaP,
concerts heard tn this country shortly
after his return from Europe four years
ago, and zManag erssSavage promises to
present all the famous solo and chorus
numbers from agner's sublime religious
drama at asssacred concert on Sunday
night April To- at the close of the frst
week at thesMetropolita tam s. -
Opera festival seats were placed on sale
at the box office yesterday morning ana
the line Of ticket purchasers remained UNI
broken almost the entire day. Mail orders
have been pouring in from a number OF
surrounding towns, and indications point
to a remarkably successful engagement 81
this splendid aggregation of English sing
ing artists. =
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-04-01
! MAGAZINE 7MEANDERiNGS9

Changes In Outing.-The April number
of Outing shows that the editors are striv-
ing to make the magazine just the thing
the outdoor enthusiasts will want. - The
editor in chief is now in South America
getting atmosphere and other material
for future use in the pages Of the maya
zine; the cover has been improved, and
several new names appear in the list
of writers. The advent of John Bur-
roughs as the head of a Natural His
tory department Of the magazine is of
real importance to students along that
line Mr. Burroughs opens his depart
ment thus: ---.-.-E5 IT. ......
In this department. we purpose to print such
natural history notes as own observations
yield us, and to edit and comment upon such
notes and observations as the readers Of this
magazine may send us. We propose also to hold
the rod over offenders in natural history, and to
lay it on when it is deserved, and for my own
part, shall be just frank in commenting
on any mistakes or he sly conclusion of my own
in this direction. If my readers will point them
out to me. or If ! discover them myself as I
shall with those Of .other people. .sf,ss
He tells his readers to get. ready for
the birds and how to do so; he discusses
the question whether animals are weather.
wise, whether skunks may be carried with
impunity by the tail, whether ducks can
smell. !3@.g:
Governor Van SAINT as Merger Fighter.
Governor 8. r.. Van SAINT, as the man
who started the contest against the
Northern Securities merger" is given a
full-page portrait in The World To-day
for April. Mrs. S. e. York, whose trip
from Minneapolis to Portland, Me-, in an
automobile, with three friends, was re-
corded in The Journal last sum
mer, is mentioned in an article on "Au-
tomobiling for Women in the same mag
azine. The leading features Of the num-
Der relate to the war with Japan and I'd
the race problem. :Hst -
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-04-01

Sir Mortimer Ferne, true as steel to his
country and his fellow countrymen in
arms, caught by the Spanish enemy, is
put on the rack. He is tortured until
he loses all knowledge of his words. He
awakes to find his captors in possession
of information of the plans of his coun-
trymen to take the Spanish stronghold
The Spanish repulse the English attack
and Sir Mortimer's dearest friend, with
other stalwart Britons falls. De Guardiola
then sends him back to his fellow officers
The author may tell what occurred there
The face was CHASTITY in it's cleaning pallor,
in its effect Of beautiful mask fitted to tragedy
too utter for aught but stiffness. He wore nc
doublet and his shirt was torn and stained with
blood, but in a last and subtlest mockery De
Guardiola had restored to him his sword, He
drew it now, held the blade across his knee, and
with one effort Of all his strength broke the
steel in twain, then threw the pieces from him
and turned his sunken eyes upon his admiral
'tIrbeg the shortest shrift that you may give, =
he said. SIT was who, when they tormented
me, told them all. Hang Inc now, John Nevil, ii
the starlight. f"'
One likes the uncompromising spirit O.
this. It Is characteristic Of the men wht
made England great upon the seas. Whel
it came to honor, at least as Mrs. John
ston paints these men, there was NJ
fiinching, no seeking for excuses 1t il
this show of spirit, ~;of trueness to, one
ideal Of honor, that gives these character
a grip on one, and the same is true o
| any story character or of any ,liying char
acter; 1t: is that in a character in fictiol
that makes him live to the reader.
Another fine example. of this is foun
in Damaris Sedley, who, before Sir Nor
timer went away on his voyage, had prom
ised to be his wife. She is a maid o
honor to the queen; and she shares he
apartments with a girl from her owl
countryside. d, This girl, Cecily, the flee
| having returned to England, tells Dana
| ris: .'~
| 1.-THE queen hath letters from Sir John Nevil-
he tn sent for him to the privy council--''
| Z '.Sir John Nevil hath been sent for? Why nc
Sir Mortimer Ferne? y I" Is he i'll? Is
Fwounded?" H. '....'' g. =" = =. -
4 Cecily wrung her hands ''Now, I must te
| thee. y 1t is his honor that doth suffer
There is thing that he did. He hath confesse
or surely. there were no believing. - i" DE-
maris, they cali him traitor. Ah!'' -. .
! say, and I'll strike thee again an thou sa
| that again" cried Danlaris. -.
| This fidelity is what we like to see j
men or women. It is something Of ;
pity that have to go, or at least thu
we do go, to fiction for it,. - 80.
But in what has been told is the has
for a fine story, which The Uneasy Cha
! frankly ,confesses a liking for, even If :
is a historical novel. H.. ,.,:Y..I e: .s,=
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-04-01
WHEN THE JAPs WE'RE PIRATES

In the eleventh or twelfth century the
Japanese were the most dashing pirates
of the east; in fact, we might almost
call them the vikings of the east. They
used iunks-small ships with a scrap
of sail, but quite as seaworthy as, ,, for
instance, the little vessels in which the
Danes once raided the English coast, or
as the craft which the Penzance fisher
men have to-day. With these junks the
Japanese roaned the seas going every
where along the Chinese main, ravag-
ing the coast trading and bringing
home priceless works of art from China.
It was not until long afterward that the
ruling authorities Of Japan, under the
great Emperor Hideyoshi. decided that
It suited their purpose to shut off COM
munication with the outside world and
to live to themselves trading merely
among their own islands. The old jan
anese vikings were reduced to simple
fishermen, and the period Of internal
feudatory wars began, for at that time
they loved it,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-04-01
The High School Debaters.

The High School Debating league
contests have finally been reduced to
the last battle for supremacy be-
tween Fergus Falls and st. Paul Cen
trail High school teams.
The young people have been debat-
ing this year Municipal Ownership
of Public Utilities" and it is interest:
ing to note that business men in the
various towns where these debates
have been held have been much in
terested in the arguments presented
on both sides. They. have been a
good deal surprised, too. we learn, at
the ability with which the high school
pupils have gathered up the. argu-
ments on this practical. live municipal
question, and presented them to the
public, Busy, men who are neverthe-
less practically interested in the ques-
ton have found 1t Instructive to listen
to the facts marshaled by the young
debaters.] And, incidentally, they have
learned TO think better of the work
Of the. high. schools. This Is the third
year Of the league, and it is a very
live and swideawake institution. ~,
A new feature this year is:%a prize
also offered by T h J o n a, l. In
addition to the cup for which the
debaters contest, in the shape of q
gold medal for the winner Of prize
essay contest. The general topic has
been known for some time as one Of
three aspects of the Lake school of
poetry, but. what particular phase of
it would be selected for :theItopic was
not given out until the day and the
hour the young people were. assem-
bled to write for the prize. The writ
ing, it was prescribed, must be done
in the presence Of the teacher within
ia certain length of time, and without
opportunity to refer to books or mag,
azines or any other helps. The stu
dents are supposed to have studied the
general subject sufficiently to be quail
fled to write an essay on any particu-
lar phase Of it at one sitting of four
hours. The gold medal provided by
r u n a for this, contest will
be publicly, awarded on the evening OF
the final high school debate in this
city, April 15. L = -. @
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-04-01
A Foolish Movement.

Lord Curzon, the viceroy of India,
has gained a fine reputation for saga
cious craftsmanship. but, certainly, he
has committed a great b1under in Or
dering Colonel Younghusband and
body of Indian troops to march over
the Himalayas into Tibet for the pur-
pose, as avowed, of bullying the grand
lama and his counsellors into making
a commercial treaty with the British
government. A dispatch from Tuna,
India, announces that Younghusband
has been heard from. He ran against
Tibetan official with a retinue and
was asked that he retire to Yatung,
where there might be held a confer
ence. The colonel declined and an
nounced that retirement was now i'm
possible, and the Tibetan official with
drew and about $500 Tibetans gath
cred to oppose the British progress.
A battle ensued, In which several hum
dred Tibetans, who were armed with
matchbox guns, were killed, or, rath-
err, massacred
This Is the old story Of British con-
quest. The interest in this case CEN
ters in the fact that Tibet Is under
the suzerainty Of China and has been
so under the successive Mongol, Ming
and the present Manchu dynasties. the
supreme local authority being vested
in the Dalai lama, who resides in
the great temple palace of Potala al
the capital, Lhasa, whittier Young
husband was marching when the
Tibetan commander at Lhasa met him
turn him back.
Since the beginning Of the seven.
teenth century, when the Capuchir
friars were allowed to spend severa
years In Lhasa, taking notes of the
country, people and of the dominan
Buddhist religion, very few foreigners
have ever sojourned in the sacred city
and the Tibetans have. in fact sough
to keep every inquisitive traveller ou
of their country, and guard their Ian
guage and literature, customs and ten
denotes. as far as they are able, from
Obtrusion. . ~ e.. ,.- =
The invasion of Tibet by British
troops is an act of war. The countr.
was entered with the avowed purpos,
of compelling the Lhasa authorize
to trade with India. Along with thi
avowed purpose was Lord Curzon'
Russophobia a disease affecting near
ly all Englishmen, more or less severe
1y. He, spent much time trying t
get the Shah Of Persia to resist tn
persuasive power, Of Russia to zee
concessions hostile to British interest
In India, and the Tibet expedition
was designed to keep that countr
from inclining toward Russia, alth
Younghusband has taken d very alb
surd course to secure Tibetan friend
ship. ;S.ai so ,sx..ss
Practically, Lord Curzon . has ,or
dered the invasion of, dependency Q
China by an armed force, and ha
placed the British government in TIL
category of Russia as a ruthless in
vader Of Chinese territory. Such ar
Of war, II sustained by the BIRTHS
parliament, may Justly be regarded b
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-04-01

The ways and means committee Of the
house Of representatives is known around
the capitol at Washington as the lullaby
committee" IT is the committee in which
every proposition to amend the tariff or
1naugurate reciprocity in any way issput
TO sleep. - = tsss
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-04-01

A st. Paul Judge favors the establish
ment Of the whipping post in jails fol
the punishment of men who refuse OF
neglect toeprovide reasonably for the sup.
port Of their families He arrives at this
conclusion because the nonsupport law
he says. Is a farce. The judge is prob
ably right: A good spanking seems. te
be about the only. argument that will ap.
peal tosa lot of good-for- nothings who
neglect wives and children, ;Eeither thr,
Indifference to their wants or sheer lazi.
ness. Ea4z.Sz54sts- ~,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-04-01
He WAS TERRIBLY SWOLLEN

Sir William Harcourt, who has just re-
tired from public life, is big, burly
man. He paid a. visit to a man-of-war Off
the Hampshire coast. and accepted-un-
known to the captains servant-an offer
to sleep in the captains berth. Next morn
ing the servant entered the cabin with a
c1Ip 81 coffee. but was amazed at the gil
gantic figure under the sheets. Rushing
on board to the ships doctor. he said:
Come at once, sir, to the captain. Hes
in a terrible state, He's swollen to ten
times his natural size in the night.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-04-01
BOOKS RECEIVED
SIR MORT

SIR MORTIMER. A Novel. BY Mary Johnston,
of Hope" etc. New York: Harper & Broth
ers. Minneapolis: N. Mccarthy. Price 81. 80.
EDWARD LINCOLN ATKINSON, 1s85-1902. By
Charles Lewis Slattery, dean of the cathedral
In Faribault. New York: Longmans Green
!. s. Co. Price 81 net.
sHAKsPERE. Personal Recol1ections. BIZ Colo
mel John A. Joyce. New York: Broadway
Publishing company.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-04-01

Our city council Is to be commended for
tabolishing' the Saloon free lunch" thus
cutting off free board from a lot Of va
grants. If the council win go a little fur
Their and provide. a municipal lodging
house, with work test for the able bod
led, It will take an equally important step
in the further Reduction Of vagrancy and
crime. Wherever, tried the municipal
lodging-house has proven. a great aid to
the police department in maintaining or
der, and it largely relieves the city of an
undesirable contingent u Il - <
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-04-01

s Mr. cambridge, business manager Of the
Brotherhood Of Painters, Decorators and
takes exception to the
treatment OF the action brought to pre-
vent the capitol commissioners from car
rying out their contract for decorating the
new state capitol He thinks the news
papers and the courts are not fair to the
organization which he represents. His
communication is published in another
column Whether the action was brought
by labor organization, or, not, it was
brought in the interest Of such organiza-
ton and was so understood by the court
before which all the arguments were
presented. There is one point which Mr.
Cambridge makes that is deserving Of
special consideration at the hands Of the
court, the capitol commissioners and the
press, and that Is that If. local talent is
qualified to do the work 1t ought to have
the preference. It is only a question as
to whether the results are likely to be
as satisfactory when the work is thrown
open to competition, as they probably win
be under the arrangement made by the
commissioners. The court makes the
point that it is important for one mind
to lay out and carry out the general
scheme of decoration, a point which Mr..
cambridge does not regard with much
respect but which, seems to US very rea-
sonable. However, Mr.. cambridge is en-
titled to his says and, In accordance with
the policy ;of ThtejlJ ur ma to give
all sides a hearing, she gets it to-day, at
considerable. length. 4:ty ..tr ssa.S<
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-04-01
.cHrcAeo,s SIDEWALK LOSSES

Chicago stands in danger of being
bankrupted by it's sidewalks. Nearly 1000
personal injury suits, with damage claims
amounting to s33,666,952, are pending
against the city. Bad sidewalks are the
cause Of 772 Of the suits.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-04-01
The Journal Goes Home!
Russia as in the interest of Japan to

Russia as in the interest Of Japan to
create a diversion. 1t suggests the
frequency with which the. British gov.
eminent is drawn into bloody wars
by the imprudence Of the managers OF,
its possessions all around the world.
1t would seem to be a more, prudent
policy for the British government to
realize the responsibility undertaken
by the sanctioning Of Lord. Lans-
downe's treaty with Japan, which di-
rectly involves England in the swirl
Of war possibilities, the outcome Of
which it is very difficult to predict.
Great Britain is now, indeed, concen-
trating troops in Canada in readiness
for f. possible call for them from the
storm center in farther Asia. !.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-04-01

The supervising architect of the treas
ury department may have thought that
Mr.. Lind was new member aid that he
could sidetraelssth approximation for ele-
vators IN the puBi,c bltflding without dan
ger of-successrul- protest Mr.. Lind, how
ever, learned the opes some time ago, and
the supervising architect will use the
money appropriated for elevators in the
public building in Minneapolis and. not
somewhere else, as he originally intended.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-04-01

Tams ,Bixby.s personal organ, the Red
Wing Republican, is calling for an In
vestigation Of the .worn-out scandal COM
corning the shoe contract at the state
prison: Why not send for Charles 8.
Bonaparte. whose report on the dealings
Of the Dawes commission made such in
teresting reading?
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-04-01

The local Hearst movement is becoming
formidable. Men who seem to have plenty
Of leisure are in charge of 1t and are per-
fecting an organization which promises to
control the situation They are talking
about Hearst club with a membership Of
1000
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-04-01
THE wEALTH OF THE RoTHscHILDs

1t is believed that the Rothschild FAM
lily, as a whole, is worth about s1,500, :
00D, 900, the French section being repre-
scented by about $3.50. 900, 900 and: the Eng
1ish branch by considerably more.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-04-01
THE MINNEAPOLIS JOURNALt

have their rooms or their residence
near the university are required to-
leave their homes as early as Z o'clock
in the morning, spending the efittrss
day at the university. and returning
at or 6 o'clock in the evening. Surely.
under. such conditions ADEQUATE and.
comfortable accommoda atoms OF the;
kind asked for have become an abso-
lutte necessity. $50 -
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-04-01
NEWS OF THE BOOK WORLD
Torture as a Fine Art-Mrs. Mary john
ston's Study In "slr Northumberland
Book by Dean Charles I. sIattery Of
q FarIbault. 81

{ Put poison into a mans mind, make
him do something he loathes and which
he feels puts an ineffaceable blot upon his
character, and you destroy his happiness
for life. Physical torture is not to be
compared with this. Physical torture
passes or ends before long in death, but
souls agony may go on for long life
time, and, at the end of that .tperchance
to dream" Of the same old horror may be
ones fate. In other words the spiritual
agony is far the greater. Novelists have
realized this, and Mary Johnston has made
excellent use Of it in Sir Mortimer.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-04-01
:.rhere may be those who know or VIII

There may be those who know or who
think they know exactly what ought to
be done In the matter Of securing city
water supply. To such persons the ap-
pointment of the commission Of experts
to investigate and report would mean a
useless delay We strongly suspect, how
ever. that ;the best plan to pursue Issnot|
yet quite clear to the majority Of the
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-04-01

The Japs may: not have succeeded in
bottling up the Russian fleet at Port Ar
thur, but they have corked up the news
paper correspondents all right. >.,'5@l.~..
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-04-01
Foyer Chat. :


That comic opera presented in an ar
tistic manneraretains strong hold on the
affections of: the theater-going public is
attested byssthee.large audiences that
crowd the Metropolitan this week to see
Francis Wilson and his star organization
in the elaborate revival Of 'Erminie.,
Performances tonight and tomorrow aft
ernoon and might will finish the engage
ment. rsi
"For Her !. Children's Sake" the melo-
drama which is delghting large audiences
at the Bijou, this week, possesses a story
Of much vim and vigor.
Unique, sensational and startling is the
melodramatic offering, Welded and
Parted" which comes to the Bijou next
week. It is from the pen OF that past
master OF writing sensation, Theodore
Kremer, and has proved a decided nov
Eelty. ss
"a Soldier of the Empire, - the play at
the Lyceum,s was witnessed by two large
audiences yesterday afternoon and even
ing. Opening Sunday evening the com
/ pany will be seen in Guy Cartons Ameri-
can comedy, IA Gilded FOOL
The Bohemian Burlesquers, with the
presented by HenshaW and F'ranciola. arr
pleasing crowds at the Dewey. Next week
the Fay Foster company. with a three ac1
musical comedy, will furnish the amuse.
ment.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-04-01
In March The Journal:
Kept Them All ! !, ]
Hust1ing !.

IN MARCH The Journal carried go per advertising than
other Minneapolis daily paper or Halliday paper
IN MARCH The advertising than
other Minneapolis Daily and Sunday paper
IN MARCH The 10 advertising than
any ST. Paul Daily paper. .
In MARCH The Journal 70 advertising than
any st. Paul Daily and Sunday paper " **s= -
MARCH carried Foreign adver
Using than any other Minneapolis Daily paper
MARCH carried 20 per Foreign adver
Using than other Minneapolis Daily Sunday -
great Of advertising eloquent
sion the conservative business The Journal
the best advertising medium the metropolis OF the
northwest shows concuve that The Journal the best
sults held in HIGHEST favor by advertisers.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-04-01
..' go AN APRIL FOOL. 3 :...ll.sa
There's something subtle in the air -
d. That thru my easement tloats- ~.
Away with cumbrous things to wear; f..
Caps, mitts and overcoats. r-< =
Edwin. L. Sabin in April Lippincott's
AN APRIL EOOI

Dean Charles L. Slattery of the cathe-
dral in F'aribault has written a very in
teresting and helpful sketch Of a helpful
life, that Of Edward Lincoln Atkinson:
rector of the Church of the Ascension in
Boston for several years, and afterward
of the Church Of the Epiphany in New
York. The book is of kind to perpetuate
the influence Of the man Of whom it tells.
The Uneasy Chair.