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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-11-13
Johann Sebastian Bach from the Ger
man of Ludwig Ziemssen
THE MAGAZINES

First Automobile Built In 7s9.-Those
who imagine that the automobile is a re-
cent invention will be surprised to learn
that it was invented over one hundred
and twenty-five years ago. Malcolm Nc
Dowell thus describes it's early history
in his article, '.Anti-Auto Riots of 1885, .
in the December Technical World Maya
zine.
The automobile seems to have been born, in
the form of idea in the year 1859, when a
Glasgow student threw out the suggestion that
the steam engine-then very crude low press-
ure ata1r-might be applied to the moving of
wheeled vehicles. This student afterwards
achleyed fame as DR.. Robinson, professor of
natural philosophy in the University of Edin-
purg. Ten years later Nicholas Joseph Cugnvt,
a French engineer, built the first automobile.
Inc machine was three-wheeled affair and its
course was quickly run, for its second or
third trip 1t turned a corner too fast and
TOPPED over with crash. The city officials
OF Paris refused to permit Cugnot to repair
MS machine. TO keep it from harming anyone
they locked it up in a church and there it
stayed for some years. - -, ~
Other articles In the same magazine
are "Story Of the Iron Industry" G. P
Blackiston; ION the Floes with a Hail
Sealer,' P. T. McGrath; "Wireless Sig.
nails Under Water" Robert McDuff
THE Great Canal Of China Frederick
Williams; ''When Men Wear Wings -
Gibson Gardner; "Hail the Electric House.
keeper" E. s. Walters -
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Steve Elkins' Little Game.

Steve Elkins, senator from West
Virginia, is convinced that congress will
pass measure relating to the regula-
tion Of railroads, but he does not know
what kind of a measure it will be. This
is somewhat encouraging. for if Mr..
Elkins knew what kind Of a bill it
would be it would most likely not be
the kind the people want.
Incidentally Mr.. Steve Elkins has
called the senate committee on rail
roads, Of which he is chairman, to meet
in Washington Nov. 81. The committee
has had several meetings this summer
and has taken an immense amount of
testimony. The meeting is to go over
this and try to reduce it, to order, but
Mr.. Steve Elkins regrets to report that
there is so much yet to do that the com
mittec will not be ready to report until
long after congress meets. Thereby
hangs plot. The senate committee, it
is claimed, will not make report until
after the house has passed railroad
measure. When the house bill comes to
the senate all the senate will have to do
will be to substitute the Elkins brand
of legislation after the enacting clause.
This parliamentary procedure will make
the senate bill the house bill with com
mittee amendments and no motion to
substitute the house bill be in order.
The real house bill will have to be Of
! fered in the senate as separate amend
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-11-13

"A SOUTHERN GIRL IN '61."-A title
like that is sure to attract attention. We
have had story after story involving the
daughters of the south during the civil
war, but not often have we had the recol-
lections of the period told by one of those
daughters herself. Therefore, A South
ern Girl In '61. a book of memories and
letters, by one who a girl saw the war
from the Confederate side, makes a spe-
clal appeal. The author is Mrs. D. Gil
raud Wright Of Baltimore, daughter of
Senator Louis Y. Wigfall Of Texas. She
shows admirably, by personal memories,
the interchange Of letters among members
Of the family, and letters sent to and re-
ceived from participants in the deadly
struggle, the varying fortunes of the con-
flict.. It is a record one reads with SYM
pathetic interest and with added admira-
ton for the south and its heroes.
We do not recall having seen a book of
the kind, but it seems to us there is a
place for. one-a book in diary form, by
such writer as Mrs. Wright, giving; not
the. story Of the great war as it reached
the people of the softh piecemeal, but a
story of the daily lifs) Of 4 southern girl as
colored by the events Of the war. We ex-
pected to find some such story when we
took up ga Southern Girl in ST. Per-
haps it is too much to ask; per-
haps such a, memoir as that suggested
would be held too sacred to give to the
public; but would it not serve a good pur-
pose--make for the new generation an6
for future generations part Of a tradi-
ton which would strengthen and
deepen the nations patriotism? We are
confident it would if approached in the
right spirit. We are sure such a record
would be read with wide interest.
Doubleday. Page & Co.. New York.
S2.75 net,
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Orpheum-VaudeviIIe,

The Orpheum's bill this week is a
strong one and presents wide variety
of entertainment. Budd brothers open
with burlesque knockabout act which
puts the seatholders in a thoroly ami
able turn Of mind. Mr.. and Mrs Alfred
Kelley give "a Tale of a Turkey with
a finish that made a great hit with the
audience, the playlet being brimful of
fun and without a suggestive word or
situation It is one of the cleverest skits
seen here this season and the finish Of
the actors adds not little to it's success.
Youngson's "spook minstrels'' are good
and the combination Of pictures and un-
seen entertainers constitutes a novelty
more than pleasing. The moving pic
lures of the oldtime Ministries with the
action and singing behind the screen
formed novel combination. Ethel Rob-
lnson carried the crowd by storm with
her drolleries, and Carver and Pollard
have an act the eccentricity of which
made another big hit.
Harry Corson Clarke, supported by
Margaret Dale Owens, gave His Absent
Boy" another sketch in which the
laughmaker worked overtime and the au-
d1ences reaped the benefit. The Russian
dancers close the bill and the WhirlWind
dances of the steppes are given the same
dash and abandon which created
such sensation when the troupe was
here last season. The athletic training
necessary for these dances must have
been long and arduous. New pictures
on the kinodrome close the show. While
lacking In vaudeville stars the bill is
one that will furnish entertainment to
almost everyone. It is we'll selected and
goes thru with swing.
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Bijou-"The CRATER"

'The CRATER" which opened at the
Bijou yesterday, is very lively, clever
and amusing production. 1t abounds i'll
exciting, complicating situations, the
lines are clever and bright and the nlu-
steal numbers that are interpolated are
exceptionally we'll staged and well rem
dered. The piece is clever musical
farce comedy.
The chorus is worth drawing to and
would put to shame many more pre-
tentious aggregation. 1t sings well,
dances well and is good looking and well
costumed. There are any number Of
ingenious changes that give variety and
richness to the production. The piece is
handsomely staged thruout.
Lucy DAILY is easily the star of the
attraction. She does some extremely
clever singing and dancing in My
Bungalow Babe and independence
Day." William Friend, as Budd Wilson,
the friend in need divided with Miss
DAILY the honors Of the production. The
entire company is good Miss Winifred
Spaulding is sweet and sings we'll; William
Maxwell sings well a charming song,
I'm Dear Old Grandma's Day." Charles
Bates sings we'll and appears to advantage
with Miss Spaulding. Hap Ward ap-
pears as the CRATER.
There is a pleasing absence of trough
house, comedy turnout. All in all, the
production is one Of the best things in
the way Of light amusement that has
been here for some time.
M. c.. Bachelor.
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ADJUSTMENTS
MetropoIItan-nzweI wappen. },

The German speaking patrons Of the
Metropolitan had a treat last night when
the stock company from st. Paul appeared
in the clever little German comedy, 'tZwei
Wappen" 1.-TWO Escutcheons). The
sketch is the work of Blumenthal and
Kadelburg and has attained a consider
able vogue among German-American
playgoers. The story turns on the love
Of a German nobleman's son for the
daughter of a Chicago porkpacker, who
is seeing Europe with chaperone. The
lovers, with the aid Of the girls father,
who is sent for, manage to outwit the
other father and they are married. The
fathers quarrel bitterly, but eventually
they get better acquainted and finally be-
come fast friends. Thus all difficulties
fade away.
The acting was excellent all thru. M.
Eisman played the German nobleman in
good style, while Otto Sampler as the
Chicago porkpacker, mixed up German
and English in funny confusion. Pau
Fasoli as the young lover was very good,
while Vera Won Weidenbruch was a
charming young American girl. Others
in the cast were Hans Hanson and Eliz-
abeth Won Weidenbruch - # p
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1.-THE RIGHT OF WAY" ON THE
STAGE.-It is reported that Sir Gilbert
Parker's novel, The Right OF Way, is
to be dramatized by Eugene Presley
for Kyrle Bellows use next season. AL
tho 1.-THE Right of Way has been pub
lished since 1901, the storm of inquiry
and surmise as to the motives and actions
Of the principal characters Of this power
full tale has not yet entirely died down.
Sir Gilbert Parker recently wrote as fol-
lows to a friend in America: Il have re-
ceived a great many letters questioning
me upon various points and I have been
obliged in all cases to reply. that the
Interpretation of the characters and in
cidents in my book must be the office
of the reader. In real life we do not
always know the whole truth, and I do
not think that a book should be any
truer than life ITSELF @>" "
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-11-13

Put It on Sugar.

The fact that thn' United States
needs about $oO,OOO.OOO Of additional
revenue has set a number of Dhilan-
thropists IT work figuring on how to"
get it fcr him without hurting ANYBODY
"A reduction Of the tariff on certain arti
eles would stimulate importations and
produce the cash, but the idea Of buy
ing more from the foreigners is painful
to all standpatters who believe that the
foreigner pays the tax. On humanitarian
grounds they are against it. 1t is quite
evident to them that there is no for
eigner VINO can afford to pay us an addi-
tional $20,O0O,0OO without going broke.
Another dollar a barrel on beer would
do it, but the brewers would object An
increased tax on tobacco would do it,
but there are the retail and wholesale
tobacco men to kick on that. Three
cents pound on coffee would turn the
trick, but for the fact that the grocers
would see the government in Jamaica
before they would give their consent.
How is Uncle Sam to get that $780,
100000 without doing anything to any,
body that anybody would object to his
doing. The American grocer has solved
the problem. Put another half cent i'm
port duty on sugar. We import about
four billion pounds Of sugar. Four bill
lions multiplied by $O.OO5, whoopee! it
comes to 500, 100000, just what we want.
Ism It it q fortuitous condolences Put
it On sugar. Sugar is cheap and nobody
would miss the half-cent s worth in the
pound. There is another advantage
which perhaps you haven thought of
1t would enable the domestic producer
to put his sugar up half notch. 1t was
the happiest idea in the world to put it
on sugar.
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Monday Evening,

panies to accept liability for their
surplus over and above the reserve. This
should be returned to the, policyholder
annually either in cash or credit and
the tontine gambling should be stopped.
! Then with a proper sense of response
bility on the part Of managers it would
not matter whether the premiums were
little higher than was necessary to
safeguard the business. The surplus
would be coming back. On the other
hand if the premiums were made too
low more harm might come to the bust
ness in general and to the poicyholders
of certain companies than all the saw
ing in reduced premiums the world over
would balance - - =
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NEVER GAVE ROYALTIES
The Anoka Free Press saws:

Jacob Lift, who died recently, after
having acquired fortune, made one rule
unique in the theatrical business. He
never paid a, royalty to an author. Play
wrights commonly receive a percentage
of receipts for the use of their work. Mr..
Lift would only agree to pay fixed sum
every time a play was acted. This was
usually SIS. He believed the arrange
Inent more equitable to him and to the
dramatist. 1t certainly enabled both to
make great deal of money when sue
cess was genuine The writer of TN
Old Kentucky" which. did more to make
Mr. Lifts fortune than any other play,
drew for ten years SIS for every per-
Torrance. Sometimes three companies
were acting the piece simultaneously.
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Are Premiums Too High?

Notwithstanding many friends Of life
insurance reform maintain that the in
surance premiums are too high T h e
j ournal is Of the opinion that the
point to be gained in the reform is not
the reduction Of the premiums, but the
return of the business to decent meth
DDS and economical administration. The
only. great failures in life, insurance
have been of companies whose premiums
were too low. The policyholders in
these companies have been obliged to
stand a great assessment in the form
of an Increased premium or see their
investment entirely wiped out. 1t is
surely better to stand slightly excess
sive premium than to take the chance
of an entire loss.
The life insurance premium is like the
tariff. Inasmuch as it is impossible to
exactly fix the point at which American
industry is protected from destructive
foreign competition the tariff makers
prefer to err on the safe side by max
ing the tariff little higher than it
needs to be to accomplish it's purpose.
So with the life insurance premium.
The American table tells the company
how many men of given age will on
the average die in year. From this
it follows that if all men were insured
and all in one company that company
could pretty closely guess the exact
mortality each year. But this is not
the case. All men are not insured and
those who are insured are scattered
thru many companies. The selection of
risks then becomes a matter of !udg-
ment.. Some companies are much more
successful than others in making good
selections tho all try to get only the
best.
Another uncertain factor is the rate
Of interest obtainable from the invest
ments of the company. Most insurance
is now written on 3 per cent reserve
and at the present time the companies
are earning on the average from l to
j "a per cent over that. But life insur-
ance contracts run away into the
future. Is there any insurance com
pany which knows that 4 or 3 per cent
will be earned thirty or fifty years from
now? -4: u
A third element in the insurance ex-
pense is the administration and it is the
scandal of the insurance business that
this element is the one in which the
greatest looseness has prevailed. The
reduction of life insurance premiums is
therefore not the pressing problem
The important question is the prohibi.
tion. Of deferred dividend contracts and
the compelling Of the insurance com
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Foyer Chat.


Beginning tonight Charming Pollock's
exciting play, I'm the Bishops Carriage"
in which thrills and laughter predominant,
will open what promises to be a largely
attended weeks engagement at the Met
ropol1tan. The play is a dramatiza ton
in four acts of the novel of the same
title by Miriam Nicholson, and in the
play Mr.. Pollock has brought out all the
strong points Of the book and reproduces
with telling effect the life lesson taught
in the novel. The development of Nance
Olden from thief to the charming and
conscientious girl who is to marry Lati-
mer shows the change that love can make
in her nature under the right influence
A splendid cast Of players is said to have
much to do with the success Of the play
College boys are certain to recognize
many familiar types in .'Strongheart,"
which comes to the Metropolitan the first
part Of next week. Foremost there is the
college-bred Indian, in which role Rob-
ert Edeson has won the success Of his
career. Strongheart is the "P. G." His
companions are respectively a senior, a
senior by courtesy, a Junior, special a
soph, freshie, a sport, a coach, a grind,
a back, trainer, a rubber and a mascot.
Lady Teazle' will be given its first
presentation at the Auditorium tonight,
with Grace Van Studdiford to interpret
the title role, and such other well-known
players as William Henry West, J. Par
ker Coombs, Charles DUNCAN, John Dud-
ley, John Taylor, Grace Gresham, LII
liam Spencer, Margaret Taylor and Della
Niven in the other leading roles. There
is a large chorus and the play is said to
be handsomely staged. Lady TeaZle''
will run all the week.
The famous Frank L.. Perley opera
company in that enormous success, THE
Girl and the Bandit" will be seen at the
Auditorium Nov 20-21-22. Among the
company of 100 are Viola Gillette, Mabel
Hite, Joseph Miron. John G. Stubs. T.
Henry Coote, George MacFarlape,
Frances Ann Wear and Marion Wilder
Rose Melville will pay her annual visit
to the Bijou next week, appearing in her
original character creation, isis Hopkins, y
the queer little Posey county girl, so full
of philosophy and quaintness.
The Lyceum will present this week an
attraction fraught with sentimental in
terest Mrs Tom Thumb and the Count
and Baron Magri, the three smallest hui
man beings in the world. WILL appear in
a sketch. Ryders monkey and baboon
acrobatS, another hlgh-prlced act, Will
also be a conspicuous feature.
The Unique presents as Its greatest
novelty this week the sharp-shooters,
Smith and Winchester, who make diff
\ cult rifle shots while performing aero
batic feats Miss Marie Laurens, the
sweet singer, formerly soloist with
Ellery's band, is another top liner. Louis
A. Hanvey's company in new songs and
brilliant sketch, are other meritorious
acts.
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"REMINISCENCES AND ANECDOTES
BY COLONEL N.-Thomas
Wentworth FIigginson's Part of Mans
Life is made up Of "Reminiscences and auto
biography woven into essay form in a
most charming manner It deals in a
somewhat disjointed;sbut not the less val
liable way, with important phases of life
of Which the colonel has either been a
part himself or else to which he has close
ly approached The names of many great
men add to the interest with which timely
topics are discussed. The chapter titles,
coupled with the authors name, will show
the book to be Of high rank among the
books of the year. They include 'The
Cowardice of Culture American Audi
ences," THE Close of the Victorian
Epoch Letters of Mark, ''The Sunny
Side Of the Transcendental PERIOD"
English and American Cousins Books
Unread" 'The Aristocracy of the Dollar y
and History in Easy Lessons"
Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston.
$3.50 net.
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CYNlC'S CALENDAR

CYNlC'S CALENDAR FOR 1906
Some wisdom, a good deal of folly and
not little real cyncsm are to be found
in The Complete Cynic's Calendar for
1906 by Ethel Watts Mumford, Oliver
HEREFORD and Addison Miner. As bit
of wisdom take '"The wages Of gin is
debt There is a dash of wisdom and
cynicism both in '"The doors Of opportun-
ity are marked Push and Pull" For
folly you have ''You will never miss
water while the champagne runs dry"
ditto, when folly is bliss it's ignorance
to be otherwise If you want pure Gym
icism it is to be found in such things as
''Only the young die good = For a bit
of pure humor, the student Of the calen-
dar will pause at picture of AUTOMOBILE
lists toiling under and over their machine,
under which picture is the line from
Shakspere: Bubble, bubble, toll and
trouble -
Paul Elder g. Co., San Francisco.
10 cents.
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I STANDARD BIOGRAPHIES = LIFE
STORIES FOR YOUNG FcLk.-A. c.
McClurg &. Co., Chicago, are issuing a
STANDARD Biography Series intended for
those who want recognized biographies
Of great historical characters at moderate
cost. Four volumes have just been issued
in this series. They are: Agnes Strick
lands Life of Queen Elizabeth" John
G. Lockharts Life Of Sir Walter
Scott Thomas Carlyles "Oliver Crom-
WE'LL and John G. Lockhart's Life Of
Robert Burns
The same firm is issuing a series called
Life Stories for Young People. Just
issued in this series are, Frederick the
Great and the Seven Years War; from
the German of Ferdinand Schrader;
Maria Theresa" from the German of
w. d. Van Horn; THE Little Dauphin,"
from the German of Franz Hoffman;
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"GoD SPEED THE PLoW"

'.I.et the wealthy and the great
Roll in splendor and state.
envy them not, I declare 1t,
eat my own lamb,
NY chickens and ham;
shear my own fleece and gear It.
have lawns, I have bowers,
have fruit, I have flowers:
The lark is my morning a1armer;
So my jolly boys now,
Here's God speed the plough,
Long life and success to the farmer
Old English Farmers Thast.
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cLEvELAND's SISTER WEALTHY.

Miss Rose Elizabeth Cleveland, sister of
former President Cleveland. is now q
wealthy woman score of years ago
she invested $4,000 In an island off the
Maine coast, near Camden. Fashion has
turned it's eyes in that direction and Miss
Cleveland has just sold part of her
island for 100000.
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SHORT STORIES OF STRIKING SIM
PLICITY AND FORCE.-Margaret Col
lier Grahan1's The Wizards Daughter
and Other Stories is a book of Cali
fornia tales Of unusual vigor. There is
a distinctness, g. vividness and point to
them as sharp as the outlines of noun
tain details in high attitudes. They make
a strong appeal to the interest and SYM
pathy .s-
Houghton, Miflin & Co., Boston.
w. .'-5' F. .s... - ST, 90 49,.
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1t takes 15,847 policemen and. con
stables to protect London, and they cost
$6,500,00O year. This is nothing New
York has about half as many policemen,
who cost twice as much, and you can
do as you please in New York. e
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Engineer John F. Wallace, who was
handled so roughly by the government
when he resigned, is turning the other
cheek. lie has been participating in a
conference with the advisory board of
canal engineers to determine whether
the .sea-level plan shall be chosen. Mr..
.Wallace's willingness. has impressed the
canal commission most favorably. It IS
the most sensible course.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-11-13

The west says MI. Hill is very much
disturbed over the methods Of high
finance, which have been revealed. Mr..
Hill has always lived and worked in
the west and apparently it affords him
a little amusement to condole with the
eastern brethren Of finance once in a
WHILE
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Prince Louis Of Battenberg was i'm
pressed with the ease with which New
York could be destroyed by naval
attack. But the prince was talking
upon a ship which had been towed in
past six forts and three batteries Of
disappearing guns, any one of which
could stop a feet. Evidently Bob
Evans did not show the prince his whole
hand
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Senator Lodge has reciprocity beat
by one-tenth of one-third Of l per cent
of the vote cast. This remarkable vic
tory was achieved by his giving his
personal attention to the campaign and
coniuring frequently with the word
Roosevelt.