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The Saint Paul globe., 1905-01-15
THE CLUB WOMAN IN FICTION

1t was to be expected that as soon
as the club woman was sufficiently
evolved she would help to enliven-or
depress-the popular novel. So far, it
must be confessed, she has chiefly de-
pressed it, and if she were responsible
for it the public would owe her one for
this, since the majority of these publ
cations are sufficiently depressing
without her presence in them. If the
club woman were interviewed about
the matter she would probably declare
that the great mistake made by those
attempting to depict her lay in accept
ing the fact that she is type. But
the popular novelist (the English lam
guage certainly has some limitations)
would doubtless retort that types were
necessary to popular novels and that if
the club woman didn't represent a type,
who, for goodness sake, did, And while
this retort might not prove anything but
the sex of the one who uttered it. it is
unanswerable in a way.
The club woman is as much Of a
type, or the representative of it. as
anybody else who can be classed under
a generic title. She has certain hall
marks. hallmarks Of habit rather than
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-01-15
LOUISE MICHEL

A woman Of the revolution reduced
to the state of a termagant by the bar
riers with which society surrounded
her in the last days Of the nineteenth
century, Louise Michel had in her the
elements which, let loose, might have
given France another Reign of Terror.
Her death the other day passed al
most unnoticed, for she had lost pres
tige with the proletarians who had
worshiped her by her essay into poll
tics as a partisan in the Boulangist
fasco.
The Michel was Of the soil of France.
Embodying the fire that smolders un-
der the blouse Of that brother to the
OK" the French peasant, she was
brand Of fearful menace in the days Of
the Con1mune-when Paris was SO very
near in spirit to the French Revolution.
She had a grievance against an indi-
viduaI which she charged against a
class. Coming out Of the country with
this grievance warping her nature, she
found her opportunity for revenge in
the siege of Paris. From school teach
ing she turned to politics, and when the
Commune gave her license became a
bloody minded leader Of the sans Gu
lottes of 1870. Had she not lived
| al ohfu vaars habi,,d Lar f;,,o T o,,iea
Michel would have contributed another
figure to that dread gallery which con-
tains the red sisterhood of the Terror
women of aspect so horrid that his
tory has not been able to deal fairly by
them. Michel revived the Carmagnole,
she called to life the petroleuse, she
fought more fiercely than the men
whom she pushed aside that she might
the better rend her enemies. When ar
rested and arraigned before the coun-
ell of war she declared it was her pur-
pose to kill and burn. "I wanted to
slay Thiers,' she declared. IF you
are not towards you will execute me.'
She was sent to New Caledonia and
underground Paris mourned her as a
martyr. Exile tanned her unruly spirit.
When she returned to Paris, amnestied,
in 1880. she inflamed a people that
wanted new sensations. The police
suppressed without imprisoning her.
Lacking this evidence of suffering for
cause she fell into disrepute with her
followers. She lapsed into obscurity
when the Boulangist plot failed.
The times were out of joint for
Louise Michel. She became a scold
while she aimed at being heroine.
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-01-15
WHEN AN ARMY suRRENDERs

A correspondent writes us to the eff
feet that he has noticed published
statements saying that Port Arthur
capitulated Jan. 1. He calls attention
to the fact that the published letter
from Nogi to Stoessel, as reported by
the press dispatches, makes an ap-
pointment for Jan. 2 at Sushiyen for
the meeting of commissioners to con-
slider terms of surrender. These COM
missioners were empowered to assign
a convention for capitulation, at which
time the agreement was to take effect.
The writer of this communication asks
whether in our opinion the signed
agreement is not the capitulation, and
whether it can be said that the surren-
der actually took place. when the con-
ference was agreed upon.
1t seems clear to us that the view
held by our correspondent is technical
ly correct. AS matter of fact it was
certain when Gen. Stoessel consented
to discuss terms of peace that surren-
der would follow. One act. was the
practical equivalent of the other. Yet
the actual capitulation could date only
from the completion Of a mutual agree
ment It is conceivable that the COM
nissioners from the two sides might
not agree, at the meeting to discuss
terms. Conditions seemingly dishon-
orable might be imposed and battle re-
them. AS matter of history capit-
ulation. like any other formal docu-
ment, would date only from the day
when it became actually and legally
effective.
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-01-15
JIU JiTsU AND THE AMERICAN
GIRL


The muscular young women of this
country have recently been demon
strating to the mingled satisfaction
and dismay of the general public that
they are able to punish irnpertinent
young men without calling upon the
police. And it now develops that the
introduction of the Japanese system
of self-defense into this country has
amply equipped her weaker sister to
cope with the bold, bad ogler. Just the
other day, for instance, a San Fran
cisco young woman who had no
muscle but plenty of aplomb and a
thorough knowledge of the jiu jitsu
was annoyed by a male loafer. In
stead of fainting or crying, this is
what she did eve quote the language
of an eyewitness): "She thrust her
right arm across Blonde Mustache's
unmanly bosom, under his chin, and
seized his left shoulder; put her right
foot across his ankles, grabbed the
small of his back with her left hand,
and with both arms gave him a pull
and a push
It does not sound simple. but
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-01-15

OF mind or disposition. however, which
make 1t easy to SO class her. But in
making her, or her actional prototype,
point always a moral and in never
permitting her to adorn tale. the
popular novelist has confessed her own
weakness-an awe of her reading pub
lie. This reading public has its own
idea Of the club woman and it must be
pleased, and So the club woman Of
fiction does not differ very greatly from
the club woman of the comic supple
ments She is drawn as relentlessly in
black and white, with just as few shad-
lngs, though both the hair and the
skirts of the club woman of fiction are
longer.
There is this to be said, however, for
the popular novelist: the club woman
mas been in existence such short time
that 1t would be almost impossible to
accept her as an Individual as well as
club woman and put in the neees-
sary Individual shadings. In time this
concession must be made to her, but
when that time comes it is probable
that the popular novelist will no longer
find the club woman useful and re-
munerative exploitation. Just when
the club woman becomes most worth
while, in fictional sense, she will
doubtless be dropped for some newer
type with fresher hallmarks.
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-01-15
BADLY RATIFIED

The Pioneer Press is old enough to
nave learned that primary lesson of
the newspaper business-not to lose
your temper when you are worsted in
| argument or mistaken in fact We
regret to observe, from it's comments
upon the scheme of bringing all cor
poratlons under the immediate direc-
lion of centralized government, that
it has not. We understand it's irrita-
ton at being obliged politically to
champion cause that its intelligence
abhors; but why proclaim it's plight to
an unsympathetic world?
Of course there is one idea which
we cannot expect ever to get into the
head Of our esteemed contemporary;
namely, that men and measures merit
praise or blame on grounds of princi-
pie entirely outside their party relation.
Such notions are too high for it. It's
test for Commissioner Garfield's plan,
for the Newlands bill, for everything,
is whether it carries a Republican or
| a Democratic label. Therefore it
| would be hopeless to try to make it
| understand how TIL e Globe, which
| believes in intelligent advocacy of
| party, based on principle, can actually
criticise and oppose measure brought
forward by a Democrat. 1t will just
have to accept that fact and that at
titude as one of the things beyond it's
ken.
It has never been our lot to light
| upon anything more exquisitely alb
surd than the ratified comment of our
| contemporary upon the proposed
| transfer of taxing power from the
state to the national government
| The underlying principle and the prac-
teal operation Of this have been set
| forth so fully in other articles in T e
Gl be that they need not be repeat
ed here. The sad state of the Pioneer
Press will, we think, be made suff1-
! .ciently evident by setting over against
each other extracts from its editorial
| columns only two days distant from
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-01-15
Contemporary Comment
If Rockefeller Never Had Been Born


If John D. Rockefeller had never
been born the people who get sure tips
from friends in Wall street would
never have discovered the real value Of
Amalgamated Copper engravings; the
editors who are consuming tons of
white paper in moralizing upon the
danger of concentrating western capt.
tai in the East would be compelled to
write learnedly on subjects involving
four figures instead of ten. The Demo-
cratic party would be deprived of trust
busting issues. Eugene Debs would be
confronted with a dearth of material
for his speeches on the brazen effron-
terry of capital. Tom Watson would
be driven to the compilation of biog-
raphies exclusively. The people would
lose their interest in red headlines; the
yellow newspapers would lose their
readers; the paragraphers would lose
their jobs, and the cartoonists would
lose their minds.-Chicago Inter Ocean.
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-01-15
SUNDAY, JAN. is, 1905
STAND PAT

The attitude of the city is made plain
by the result Of an official conference
between it's representatives and those
of the street railway company. There is
nothing to be me, and nothing which
would not be treason to the public in
terest and betrayal of it's trust, except
to stand pat and let the litigation now
underh way proceed to it's final deter
mination by the supreme court, of the
United States.
There has been no chance for agree
ment, because the street railway COM
pany had nothing to propose 1t has
at least been consistent from first to
last. 1t has demanded certain valu-
able privileges from the city, and it
has not offered an iota in return. The
city has desired to be reasonable The
attitude of the council has at all times
been moderate in the extreme. If any
thing, it has leaned too much to the
side of concession in the hope that
avoided, and that the street railway
company might be persuaded to take
some reasonable ground on which
meeting would be possible. That is
now seen to be false hope. The
street railway company demands
everything and gives nothing. This is
not conciliation, and along these lines
no agreement can be reached
1t is a little tiresome and more than
little exasperating to have the street
railway company perpetually harping
on the oldstring that the things most
essential, to itself, most desired, in
separable from the very conduct of it's
own business, actual privileges that it
ardently desires to obtain from the city,
are concessions" to the city. 1t is this
sort of thing that ruf11es somewhat the
temper of our people and has blocked
the way to any agreement. We have
several times pointed out that the ad-
ditions and extensions now contem-
plated in st. Paul and included in the
schedule of subjects considered in these
conferences are vital to the company
Itself. Every one of them is money
maker, and every one is designed more
for the increase Of the company's rev.
enues than for the accommodation of
the public. 1t is the company that is
the suitor, and not the city.
We think that the public will he in
fuenced to a still more inflexible at
titude by what it is moderation to
call an error of taste and blunder of
tactics on the part of the company
In bringing out an empty and foolish
threat This community is not in the
habit of: being bulldozed. When the
street railway company declares that
1t will not build it's shops in st. Paul
unless ST. Paul gives it everything it
wants and gets nothing in return, it is
putting rather too fine an edge upon
the contemptuous attitude that it has
throughout maintained We should de-
Cline to cringe before the brandishing
of such a. club even if it were real
~ood. Is 1t is only stuffed with straw.
:, The company is building these shops
for the economical handling of its own
business. They must be built between
the two cities. because nowhere else
can the work for the two cities be
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-01-15
THE HuMoRs OF THE LAWMAk.

OnconSclOuSly the legislators of the
country who are now engaged in the
making Of laws, of which there is no
end until they are tested in the courts,
are contributing rather more than
their share to contemporary hiIarity.
bear heavily upon the harassed mind
Of the legislator who believes that leg
cropping up all over the country and it
is gratifying to notice that Kansas is
well in the forefront with a bill max
ing marriage a civil contract with a
ten-year limit.
Scoffers who had figured that lack
| Of an acquaintance with literature was
principally the matter with Kansas will
be properly rebuked by this evidence
that George Meredith is appreciated in
the tall grass regions Of the Sunf1ower
state. The father Of the limited mar
riage bill said, on introducing the
| measure, that he had been petitioned to
submit the law by a delegation of wom-
| en-, adding that women will be favor
ably impressed with the proposition"
To which we make rejoinder that it
| may be true; that the Kansas female
is unknown and unl1nowable in the
workings Of mind which is Influenced
| by the Kansas male
One Tubbs, an honorable Of Mis-
| souri,, has framed a law which aims at
the abolition Of tipping. He would
make it a misdemeanor for a hotel or
restaurant proprietor to permit an en-
ploye to accept gratuity. Tubbs has
| the right hunch undeniably, but
Tubbs is going to have most un-
happy time of it if he attempts to pro-
cure fodder for himself in a place of
public entertainment.
An Iowa legislative genius, as was
reported in these columns the other
day, is the author Of a bill which pro-
poses to prohibit the production of
Uncle Toms Cabin" His object is to
suppress play that is a libel on the
South and which should not be toll
Grated in these days. The Iowa man
builded better than he knew. The spe-
cific reason for the enactment Of his
bill into law is all right SO far as it
/ J,11f r. o1c
perennial horror should be suppressed
in the interest of the stage, the public
taste, art, decency and to the end that
| some very clever dogs might be re-
| leased from associating with many
very bad actors. he would be quite
| justified.
Jersey may have law providing for
| the determination of robins, and a
| Connecticut man would have wife beat
ers and men who took the liberty of
| beating women not their wives
| f1ogged. Many other states are flower
ing with the promise of statesmen in
! the making, but Minnesota is not as
yet in the freak sisterhood. This local
condition will most assuredly be
amended when the lawmakers get set
tied down to their work. 1t is one of
| the compensations that the man who
pays gets out of the session of the leg
islature-this enjoyment of the humors
of it, but the taxpayer need be under
no apprehension. The Minnesota leg
islator will get into the game-when
the statute revision commission re-
ports.
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-01-15
Courtship and Divorce

It is natural in courtship for the
man to put his best foot forward.
Sometimes the girl, too, may convey
ideas about her lineage and wealth,
and even her beauty, that the facts do
not bear out. If deception either before
or after marriage were good ground
for divorce, the other divorce laws
might as well be abolished.-New York
World.
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-01-15
Among the Merrymakers
A Mere Novice

II bet I get into more trouble than any
fellow who had come in and ordered a
scotch highball. Nothing in the trouble
line overlooks me. Why, I'd be afraid to
marry
what, amt you married?" calculated
the red-nosed elderly party who was how
ering over the gratis lunch. "Boy, you
don't know what trouble is.'-Louisville
Courier Journal
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-01-15
Beef Trust Conspiracy

The public, or at least the reading
ana observant part of it, agrees with
Attorney General Moody's statement
IN the brief submitted to the supreme
court in the beef trust case that there
is a conspiracy to control the market
of the nation for fresh meats that it
does control it, and that it's control is
merclless and Chicago
Tribune.
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-01-15
A MediaexaI Relic

The Pennypacker suggestion is in
teresting only as any other medieval
relic is interesting. Plehve is dead, but
his soul goes marching on and in
Pennsylvania, too, where Ben Franklin
used to edit newspaper, print an
almanac and bedevil the Pennypackers
of his day to the delight of the popu-
lace.-New York World.
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-01-15

The man who ran for president on
the Liberal ticket last fall must have
been assembling when he made the
issue anti-imperialisnl. He has taken
job as janitor of fiat building.
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-01-15
More Money Needed

A mistake was made when the taxes
imposed for war purposes during the
little spat with Spain were abolished.
No one felt those taxes. Had they
been retained we should be having an
income something like SIS, 100000 more
than at present, and that would be
sufficient for everything ng.-Philadelphia
Inquirer
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-01-15
Pennypacker's New Toy

Gov. Pennypacker, of Pennsylvania,
wants a law passed giving him power
to suppress newspapers which dis
please him. Yet there are persons in
the keystone state who will still criti-
else the methods of Russia.-BuffaIo
Courier
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-01-15
Courts and Commissions

Senator Ellsins' proposal to vest the
control of the railroad rates in a court
of commerce rather than in the inter-
state commerce commission is really
reversion to the older practice under
which the English jurisprudence de-
veloped.-Kansas City Star.
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-01-15
ImpIacabIe Pennypacker

Gov. Pennypacker, Of Pennsylvania,
continues to think freedom of the press
is unnecessary in this country. Penny
packer will never be able to forgive
the newspapers for discovering his lit
tleness.-Chicago Record-Herald.
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-01-15
coIorado,s eovernorsbin

The entire conduct of the Adams
campaign since the election has been
comedy of errors and it is high time
that legislators calling themselves Re
publicans should at once sever the
bonds Of unholy alliance with Demo-
cratic marplots.-Denver Republican.
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-01-15
The Americas Gun

If wars and other exciting things
happen to be engaging public attention
next summer Sir Thomas may not con-
slider it worth while being a jolly good
fellow for another year or so-Chi-
cago RecOrd-Herald.
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-01-15
ApprehensIye

First Tramp was worried to death
when was in de hospital
Second Tramp-T' ought you was goin'
to die? -.
First Tramp-No; but I was scared dey
might gimme one of dem cures for de
drink habit.-Brooklyn Life.
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-01-15
Revised

tell,
Who went to the market her eggs for to
sell;
A dozen was all that her basket would
And she traded them off for basket of
Chicago Chronicle.
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-01-15
Peace Possible

The current underneath is running
peaceword regardless of surface indi-
cations. The fall of Port Arthur is al
most sure to be the beginning of the
end of the war.-Galveston Daily
News.
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-01-15
Refuses a Railroad pass

The governor of Indiana has refused
to accept a railroad pass. He will be
formally expelled from the Republican
party at an early date.-Memphis Com
mercial Appeal.
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-01-15
One Way to Raise Funds

If Gen. Nogi could only wind up his
fighting business in time to come over
here and take a swing around the
Chautauqua lecture circuit he could
make enough money to carry Japan
lican.
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-01-15
Up Against Fine Proposition

The czar's proposal to court-martial
Stoessel shows that while he is willing
to take credit for all the victories his
poor generals must assume the reSpon-
sibility for all failures.-Atlanta Jour-
nal
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-01-15
A Herald SUGGESTION

| The New York Herald wickedIy and
| wittily suggests the establishment Of
| department stores in Utah as means
| of breaking the back of the Mormon
| Observation-Disclosures Record
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-01-15
Not Mentioning No Names

DR.. Spitzka declares the brains of
criminals are no different from other
peoples, but perhaps in some recent
cases it was the brains of the victims
which were Geffcient.-BrookIyn Union.
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-01-15

A Chicago young woman took car
bolic acid by mistake for castor oil
Queer taste some of those Chicago peo-
pie have.
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-01-15
Erenzied EInance

The Farmer (excitedly)-Say, Mister
ev-ry durn cent,
The Policeman (irritably)-Wen don't
holler to me, you come-on. I amt no
magazine publisheri-Puck
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-01-15
AppIe and Amounted

George III. was wondering how the ap-
pie got into the dumpling
Because the policeman on our beat pre-
fers it that way" explained Queen Char
lotte.
From that moment the Kings mind be-
gan to totter.-New York Sun
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-01-15
Couldn't Remember All

Mrs. Crimsonbeak = Do you remember
what told you last night when you came
home?
Mr.. Crimsonbeal-Good gracious. deari
What sort of mind do you suppose I've
got?-Yonkers Statesman So.
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-01-15
Torpedo Boats

Is a battleship better than torpedo
boats? 1t all depends on which gets in
the first lick. Both look good to an
admiral-St. Louis Republic
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-01-15
Outdo the ColIeaians

Those terrible Mormon oaths' requir-
ed in the endowment house show that
the Mormons outdo the college secret
ocieties.-Philadelphi Ledger.
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-01-15
EnaIand's Gibraltar

Since the fall of Port Arthur, Great
Britain must feel somewhat sceptical
as to the impregnability of its own
Gibraltar.-Kansas City Star.
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-01-15
Maybe That Would Scare Them

1t might be good idea to condemn
the federal official grafters to life serv-
ice in Doc Wiley's poison squad."-
Atlanta Constitution.
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-01-15
His Decision

Diogenes was asked why he had ceased
his quest for an honest man and fingered
all day in his homelke tub
What is the use?" he returned, pes
be born for more than a thousand years
yet"
With that he blew out his lantern
Puck.
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-01-15
Doesn't Feel Like Takino Chances

When Senator -Depew enters the
chamber he will no doubt run his hand
over the seat of his chair through fear
that Odell may have put a bent pin in
it-Denver Post.
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-01-15
Automobiles

There are now about one hundred
automobiles in Memphis. We are
speeding along.-Memphis Commercial
Appeal.
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-01-15
Change

do you think this weather will ever
changer"
Sure" answered the morose citizen.
eth probably be worse before night. -
Washington Star.
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-01-15
"The Drummer"

drummer. while drumming for drums,
Met drummer a-drumming drum
Said the drummer for drums, I'D rather
drum drums
Than drum ON the drums that drum
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-01-15

A Delaware dispatch announces that
there is division in the Addick ranks"
The figures are probably too great for
mental arithmetic.-Faribault Journal.
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-01-15

Peaches and crean,

Teacher What is the plural of mar
riage?
Pupil-Mormonism.-New York Press.
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-01-15

Minnesota's old constitution is get
ting frayed round the edges and a new
one is badly needed.-Red Wing Re-
publican.
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-01-15

Chinmie (fondly)-You're a peachr
Maggie tsignificantly)-P Peaches is al.
ways served wit cream.-Princeton Tiger