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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-09-12
Lyceum-VaudevllIe.

The second bill Of vaudeville at the
Lyceum is a distinct, improvement on the
opening one. While no single set Is equal
in sensational interest to that of the
mysterious "Zutka." the eight acts are
in livelier vein and better calculated to
please a miscellaneous audience.
Baby Lund, the dainty coincidence who
"as the sweet moon upon the horizons
verge is on the eve of womanhood, is
a bonnie lassie with sweet voice and
soubrettish ways Her songs were well
received. The "baby'' is an independent
little bit of femininity who seemed to say
to her audience: II don't wonder you
like it. Isn't it great?'
George Lewis is another top-liner who
plies her entertaining abilities with ex-
cellent success. Miss Lewis has the gen
Her sermon on "AppIes," in imitation OF
colored exhorter, was very funny Miss
Lewis whistling Of Sousa marches, how
ever, was the act that captivated the
audience. $500. .-... .,~.-.-...
Charles Brennan & Co., in a comedy
sketch, made, perhaps the biggest hit o.
the evening. The sketch was written BY
somebody with a deep knowledge Of hui
man nature, rather than a polished lit
erary style, and it's lesson went home.
Morris Silver in illustrated songs, Still
brothers in a novel plate-spinning stunt
Cliff Farrell and his electric dog anC
Howleye and Leslie are other Agreeable
acts. The motion pictures depicting scene:
about a coal mine, following an explosion
are horrible in their realism, but intensely
interesting.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-09-12

5000 acres, and to say that man who
owned stock in a coffee company might
not invest in sugar company or any
other agricultural enterprise, and to
prohibit a corporation to buy and sell
real estate was to exclude millions OF
capital that were ready to go in and
develop that rich and inviting field.
In addition to these restrictions, con-
gress required the Porto Rican council
to provide in every franchise that it
should be subject to amendment, alter
alton and repeal; that the property
covered by it might be taken by the
public and guaranteeing the effective
regulation of all charges.
To show how deplorably these re-
strictions ruined a splendid opportunity
it may be stated that sugar making in
Porto Rico has every advantage over
that of Cuba because the Cuban sugar
is subject to about $25 per ton duty in
the United States, while Porto Rico su-
gar and all other products come in free.
A good profit on the output was
provided for in the elimination
of this duty. 1t was but reasonable to
expect that dozen or twenty great
centrales should be in operation in
Porto Rico by this time, and indeed it
is said that as many sites for such OPP
erations were selected by American and
European capital when the projectors
were frightened away by the restric-
tions imposed .
Porto Rico should be producing half
million tons Of sugar annually. Its
output now is only about 100000,
which is less than under Spanish rule.
Porto Rico produces very fine cof-
fee, which found it's market in Spain
before the war. Against it, however,
has been raised since Porto Rico be-
came dependent of the United States
a high Spanish tariff and no market to
correspond has yet been found in the
| United States.
Porto Ricans have petitioned for the
repeal of the restrictions which have
frightened capital away from their
island, but the fear lest the promoter
Of the repeal may be accused of sympa
thy with the trusts and monopoly seems
to have deferred every member OF
either house or senate from presenting
for consideration the repeal of these
unfortunate restrictions.
In the meantime the wall of distress
from Porto Rico is such a commentary
upon our success in the administration
of colonial dependencies that it would
seem as if some one would be willing
to take the chances and inaugurate the
legislation which will speedily make
| this beautiful island one of the hap
piest and richest and most prosperous
in the sea.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-09-12
ANNALS OF SALTWATER, MIMI.
Detroit News.

Some years ago when the telephone was
new and D. M. Sabin was United States
senator from Minnesota, a phone was
installed between the Sabin mansion and
mill in Saltwater to facilitate business.
The senator frequently issued directions
to the office force in the mill over the
wire, and was delighted at the saving In
boot-leather and exertion.
D. M. Sabin, Jr., was then young and
inclined to expend money with free
hand, and hence was kept under strict
rules by the elder Sabin.
One day the mill cashiof, who knew
the family situation and was confiden-
tial employe, received this phone mes
Senator Sabin:
ssay, Smith, If Dwight calls on you
for money today, under no circumstances
give him more than 5000"
"All right, sir" responded Smith.
An hour or two later young Sabin
strolled into the mill office with the re-
mark: &c.. - .-.--t +. .a-.s =
"smithy, let me have $500, will you?"
"Your father said not to let you have
over $780, responded the unsuspecting
Smith. --
.twon't take it, shifted young sabin,
hiking angrily out of the office, only TO
return few minutes later TO apologetl-
cally accept the $500.
When Senator Sabin entered the office
that afternoon Smith observed casually
Dwight was rather sore about the
way you cut him down, sir
.fwhat In Tophet are you talking
about?" inquired the senator.
.swhy, Dwight wanted $500 and wher
| I offered him the 5000 you told me by
phone to give him, he refused at frs
to take it, explained Smith.
"The fiends you say!" yelled the SEN
ator. dancing about the office in a frenzy
'eWhy, man alive! I never told you t.
give him a blankety blank cent; blanket1
blank, blank, blank it!'
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-09-12
PAT GROVE INVADES
". ]. BRYAN'S OFFICE

Lincoln, Neb., Sept. 12.-Pat Grove,
the noted outlaw, was in Lincoln yestey
day and talked for half an hour with
Richard Metcalfe, associate editor Of
William J. Bryan's Commoner. He was
here but q short time and then, as is
his custom, disappeared just before the
police heard of his presence.
Frank Gallagher, local newspaper
man had been asked by the Lincoln ,po-
lice to inform them if Grove called
upon him. The local police received
their tip from Omaha.
Grove entered the Commoner office
while several men, who knew him, were
there and asked to see Metcalfe alone.
They talked for some time and then
Grove disappeared.
There is now no reward for him and
the police could only file a charge OF
vagrancy if they caught him.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-09-12
ADJUSTMENTS
Metropo Robert Mantell In "RIch-
ard Ill.,

ard ILL.,"
Robert Mantell is no stranger in Min
neapolis. He has been here many times,
but never before did he come in such
state and with such capa BILE players. Mr..
Brady has surrounded his star with an
excellent company, and given them a
stage setting that is harmonious in
thought and correct in detail,
Mr.. Mantell chose to begin his week
in Minneapo with Shakspere's tragedy,
Richard ILL.,, perhaps the most popular
of all the tragedies, for the story Of a
mans overpowering ambition is within
the grasp of everyone, and there are no
subtle delineations Of soul or plot to tease
the mind. The character of Richard does
not groW-it is complete from the first.
From his entrance you understand the
hypocrisy and ambition that dominate his
! life. There is nothing elusive about Mr..
MantelPs Richard, but there does not
need to be- for the thin veil of his deceit
is rent time and again by Shakespeare with
one Of his wonderful soliloquies so that
we may see the very soul of the man.
Nothing is left to the imagination, for
the nature of the man is written SO plain
that he who looks may read.
The reading of the lines is a tremen-
dous piece of work. for the story is a
| grim one Its horror is lightened by only
such humor as is furnished by the dis
stimulation of the dominant figure. Rich
ard, with his distorted body and soul, is
yet sublime by virtue of his energy and
his power of intellect. Before his force
and audacity all obstacles give way, the
courage of men and the bitter animosity
! of wonderland Richard hates them all
with passionate envy. He takes a grim
pleasure in his hypocrisy, for thru it he
makes a cynical jest or q gross insult
| of the most sacred feelings. His wooing
of the Lady Anne is the very mOckery
of love, and his molding Of all things to
his will has the strength and relentless.
ness, of a demon. Mr.. Mantell's picture
| is stronger in it's hate than in it's fear
and he paints ambition with surer colors
! than renorSe.
Harry Leighton represented Henry vi.
the visionary, dethroned king, as well as
! his opposite, the young conquerOr, the
earl of Richmond. The role of the duke
of Buckingham, Richards companion II
| crime, was in the hands of, Alfred Hol.
| lingsworth. Little Lorraine Frost was {
very courageous prince of Wales, ant
Leila Frost, the young duke Of York, gave
an .impish caricature of her uncle O
Gloster's deformity. The part of the hap
less Lady Anne was we'll read by Marie
Booth Russell and Emily Dodd showed
force as Queen Elizabeth bereft of hus
band and robbed by Richard Of children
!; kinsmen and friends. Bell Theodore hat
81 the role of the duchess of York, an
cursed her relentless son right heartily.
Mr. Manteu and his company wer
greeted by large audience which showe'
its appreciation by frequent applause.
Il Frances r. Sterrett.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-09-12
The Russian Tariff Concessions.

E President Roosevelt is entitled to
send in a hurry call for the police to
protect him against his friends. Since
his remarkable feat in holding the peace
conference together, he has been an
noyed by three kinds of gawks who
want to show him how much they APP
preciate him.
The first was crowd of misguided
Jenkineses in Washington who asked
his permission to get up a grand tri-
umphal entry for him on his return to
the capital. On these the president
sat heartily and effectively. The sec
ond class is made of a procession of
people who want to subscribe tosa hero
ic statue of the president as a peace
maker, to be erected on the grounds
of The Hague tribunal TO these the
president has applied the doctrine that
they are only mildly insane, and will
recover if given time and careful treat
ment.
The third is the great American
boomer who demands "TeddyI" for an.
other term. 3D. Their work was revealed
to the president while he was busy con
structing a critique of a bunch of rural
poems and made him so tired he nearly
roasted the poet. ii
| Meanwhile the president has received
| information of one result Of the peace
pie Of this country. The czar has gra
ciously reduced his tariff on certain
American manufactures. ~
| The Russian empire has been TO;
years collecting an extra tax upo1
American manufactures because Of thu
clause in the Dingley law, which put 8
special duty upon bountyfed sugar
This clause was in the Wilson law, bu-
in a different form. The Wilson bill
put definite tax on" bounty -aidet
many, but they got around it by in
creasing the bounties to equal the dis
eliminating tax. The wiseacres wht
got up the Dingley bill put in a clause
which made it incumbent upon the tax
| gatherers to collect a tariff equal t,
the bounty. This hurt the Russian
beetsugar industry and the empire re
taliated upon our manufactures savage
/ ly. So for six years the American
manufacturer has been losing trade il
order that sugar might be overprotect
| ed.
But still we do not need any revision
Of the tariff.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-09-12
Uniuue-Vaudeville,

A good, ~all-around bill, with no tagging
features, is presented at the Unique
theater this week.
:. The Alcarons, Spanish singers and
dancers, have one of the prettiest acts
seen at the little theater in some time.
All have excellent voices and can dance
as we'll as they can sing. They accom-
pany their songs with Spanish string in
struments, and the whole act is an I'M
usually high-class one. The Fay sisters
give their Juvenile singing and dancing
turn. They are mere children but and
10 years old, and are clever for their age.
Tom and Gertie Grimes have a laugh
able comedy sketch that convulses the
audience, and John S. Lyons gives some
excellent representations of different ma
tionalities, combined with good character
work.
The Markhams have sketch dealing
with the tirneworn matrimonial troubles
but they manage to make the skit go
Mr. and Mrs. Carter have a musica
speciality of merit, and Harold Beckrc
sings the illustrated song. His selection
this week is the new ballad, '"The Chape
in the Pines" The usual interesting Sc
ries 'of moving pictures closes the per.
Torrance. =
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-09-12
A Mistaken Idea.

A member of the school board is:
quoted as saying that the Minneapolis
high school cannot turn away pupils
from other parts Of the. state because
state, aid, which. is an important part
Of the school revenues, is. given on this
condition. State aid is not an import
ant part Of the revenues Of the schools
Of Minneapolis. The city receives for
it's four high schools exactly the
amount, four or five hundred dollars
each, which every other high school in
the state receives and the city pays in
taxes about two-fifths of all that state
aid costs the whole state of Minnesota.
State aid to high schools was recently
described by one Of the officials con-
nected with the system as an "educa-
tional graft'' and that is what it is.
It builds up the high schools in the
small towns at the expense of the large
cities, which have few high schools
in proportion to the taxes they pay,
and the rural communities which have
no high schools. It is distinctly small
town graft The rural communities
have Weakened to the Importance of
state aid, however, and have secured
a law which. gives state aid to rural
schools under some conditions.
The state aid system is perhaps all
! right, but it is not favor to Mime
apolis. No member Of the school board
ought to be so ignorant of it's workings
as to so describe it. ... ~ 4
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-09-12
THE MAGAZINES

church's Power Not In Money.--Rev
DR.. George f. Pentecost, a Presbyterian
clergyman of fame, in The Arena for
September, enters the tainted money
controversy. Among other things he
says:
5 The church cannot thrive under the patronage
of such a system as that represented by the
Standard Oil and the beef trusts. To cringe and
fawn before these corporations or the men who
represent and manage them is to stultify every
principle for which the church stands or ought
to stand. No good can come of any compromise
or partnership with them. Indeed, to accept the
gifts Of such men and the corporations they
represent is for the church to sell her birth
right and betray her master for SO many pieces
OF money. The church's power is not In money
but in the favor Of God and the presence Of thu
Holy spirit. -.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-09-12

Those ambitious young men, John D.
Rockefeller and James J. Hill, have both
said to reporters within the last forty
eight hours that they are much encour-
aged by the outlook for young men and
that by the exercise of energy and indus
try, they hope to get a foothold and per-
haps accumulate a snug little fortune
apiece. They pooh-pooh the idea that
the opportunities for the young man are
not as good as they ever were and pro-
fess their willingness to take their
chances for success &c. .-
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-09-12
THE lcoNocLAsT

A tale is told about an ancient king,
Who worshipped idols with love sincere;
When he embraced the Christian faith tear
Stole down his cheek, for could he ever bring
His mind to think SO marvellous a thing
As leaving them? But yet 1t does appear
That he repented, and his idols dear
He crushed-and then, beyond imagining
Within each image, swarthy, savage-faced.
Found yotaries had stored their gems and gold,
And at his feet the diamonds that had graced
Fine coronets in shining splendor rolled,
And he, who left his idols, now was placed
In opulence whose bounds could not be told.
--Alonso Rice, in Mppincott's Magazine for
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-09-12
SHAkSPERE IN A SHAkSPEREAN

SHAKESPEARE IN A SHAkSPEREAN
TMOsPHERE.-A r. CUTLER Couch, in
a book Of short stories which bears the
title of the first, shakspere's Christmas,
gives a picture of Shaksperes time with
the great dramatist as the central figure.
The atmosphere Of the time and place
harmonizes perfectly with. that which
one sees in Shakspere's dramas of his
own merry England And there is here
and there thru the tale a taste Of Sha1s-
perean humor. Indeed the story is an
other evidence of the authors already
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-09-12
KILLS her HUSBAND
IN DEFENSE OF LIFE

Butte, Mont, Sept. 12-William
Frost a mining promoter from Battle
Creek. Neb., was killed today by his
wife. after he had tried to cut her
throat with a razor. The woman blew
Frost 's head from his shoulders with
two charges from a shotgun. Frost
had been drinking.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-09-12
A TRUSTWORTHY INFORMANT
Chicago Skandinaven.

w. B. Chamberlain, managing
editor of The Minneapolis Journal,
who went to Norway and Sweden
this summer to observe the condi-
tions at close hand, has now re-
turned. His accounts were thoroly
correct, unpartizan, and gave
clear exposition Of the conditions
for American readers. The Ameri
can press has presented a series of
correspondence from the north
during the crisis; but Chamber
lain's letters are the most reliable
and the best Of all that Skandina-
ven has seen. Possibly this is ex-
planned in part by the fact that he
lives in a Scandinavian city,
and consequently in advance had
a good acquaintance with the two
peoples. But aside from this, his
letters show that he is a closer OBJ
server and a more trustworthy in
formant than, fer example, William
e. Curtis showed himself to be in
his letters from the north some
years ago.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-09-12
Dangerous Stunts.

Dangerous Stunts.
To the Editor of The Journal:
People who pay to see dangerous
stunts have blood-guiltiness in their
hearts. There is nothing attractive in
the performance but the chance of seeing
mangled and bleeding body without the
trouble Of haunting the morgue. They
who, patronize them like to have this
chance dangled constantly before their
lustful eyes, even if they are never
blessed with the actual sight of it. Moth
ing increases the popularity Of such shows
like the killing of a man or a woman.
OF what moral stuff are the people made
who go to see them ?-Editorial in Sill
day Tribune.
The above is not so much a malicious
libel Of the most virile people on earth
| as it is bad m1sconception in analysing
their motives The intent constitutes the
crime. Crowds do not go to see danger
GUS stunts in order to see 'mangled
and bleeding body without the trouble of
haunting the morgue," nor to have the
chance of such a sight "dangled constant
ly before their lustful eyes," Their eyes
are not lustful. Neither are the people
| brutal in their tastes. They attend dan
| gerous performances to witness a display
Of nerve and skill, and the proportions OF
fatalities in these exhibitions we know
| are very small II the Tribune can see
nothing attractive in dangerous stunts
but the "chance of seeing a mangled
| body" 1t has missed the true meaning OF
athletic exhibitions, all Of which are at
| tended with more or less danger. When
| a dangerous stunt Is advertised we
know that the performer will almost al
| ways be successful in his exhibition OF
| skill, and 1t Is this fact that draws the
crowds. If it were otherwise, and the
chances were that the performer would
be killed. then the Tribune would be
correct. If the people were so blood
| thirsty as the Tribune would make out
4 we think they would find more effective
| way to crafty their desires than by pay
ing gate money merely for the remote
chance Of gratifying their appetite fo
gore.
No, Mr.. Tribune, great crowds do no
visit the state fair with the same i'm
pulses that prompt a visit to slaughter
house. The skill and self reliance of tn
man who Hoops the loop" are what at
tract them. They like to look at sucl
people. And these qualities have Away
been and always be admirable.
e. A. Benjamin.
Minneapolis, Sept. 8.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-09-12
ASSIGNED TO CHURCHES.

The following twin city appointments
were announced at the closing session OF
the Iowa conference of the African NJ. q.
church in ST. Paul yesterday: st. James,
ST. Paul, Rev. R. Seymour; st. Peter
Minneapolis, E. Wilson; ST. James, Min.
neapolis, Rev. G. w. Wade.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-09-12
BILLYUN AND ]

Billyun has a million acres, I-'
Not rood have /; liSt
Billyun has hundred servants,
But he'll have to die.
Billyun has feeble stomach
Which revolts at pie,
Still, in that respect, confound It,
He's as good as /.
Bil1yun finds that there are pleasures
Money cannot buy;
Billyun often has headache
Bless you, so have l;
Billyuu cannot take it with him,
He will have to lie
Pallid, some day. In his coffin,
All, well, SO viii 1.
Chicago Record Herald.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-09-12

Somebody keeps starting the report
that the Equitable's illness gets worse
and worse. There is certainly a danger
Gus number of doctors in attendance, but
the patient shows tenacious vitality.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-09-12

Colonel Harvey, the editor Of the North
American Review, gave a dinner to the
Russian ENJOYS in New York at which
the speakers were President Hadley of
Yale, Wayne McVeagh, General Horace
Porter and Dr. Lyman Abbott. The list
of speakers is indicative of sincere ef-
fort on the part of New York to break the
Depew habit. -.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-09-12

A German governess wrote her name in
a visitors book just below that of the
king of Saxony, and she is now being
prosecuted for lese majestic. And this old
world groans: II am tired Of kings"
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-09-12
THE MINNEAPOLIS JOURNAL.

he is temperate, intelligent and Indus
trious. He avoids trouble, altho he will
defend himself yaliantly against agrees
sion. It is seldom that a Jap appears as
defendant in police court. He is cleanly
to degree. Even the japanese who
work on the railroads and ranches keep
themselves neat and free from dirt or
offensive odor. No wonder the coast
fears him.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-09-12

Steve Elkins has hopes of bringing the
president around to This views" on the
railroad question. Isn't Steve a funny
old joker?
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-09-12

There are few more Havana cigars
on the market in this country than the
whole of the last crop of Havana tobacco.
When you get a pure Havana you may be
smoking up a Wisconsin bungstarter. 1t
is all in the draw. s.-e4+
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-09-12

The Brooklyn Eagle wants the quack
firms shut out Of the mails. The postal
deficit would be considerably increased
by this policy. -. ~
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-09-12

The top story of New York's proposed
forty story hotel should be well above the
fly line and good residence property fol-
bald headed men.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-09-12

tain -speech habit. It is a growing mem
ace to the elevation Of the stage.