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P'4 iTH E 30URNAL -LUOIAK'ftWPTv SUMe monthi .. ..........*.. jw Saturday Et*. mtupn, ao to 20 . . Delivered bj Carrier. . One week V^t-***V* One month ..- ^w.^^.tv'^ilSBtiR SSI! All papers are continued tfntll an explicit order la rtceiwd for dlacontinuan**, and until all ar- rcartfCB are paid VQH JOUBHA. t la published every *n!n*. except Sunday, at 47-48 Fourth Street South, Journal Building, Minneapolis, Ulna. 'Sew York Office. Tribune Building, cnlcajco. Office. M. LEB STARKE. Hgr. General Ad**. '' MANAGEK. . SUB8QBIPTIOX BATES BY KAtt. ^ . On* month..,.*. ' W. W. JKKMANB. Bepreaentatrrc. AN INVITATION Is extended to alll to visit the Press Room, which is the finest In the west. The battery of presses consists 6f thrt* toms* Goss Presses with a total eapaclty of *** M", eight-page Joomtli tn hour, printed,' - and counted. The best time to call. Is from StW to :) p. m. Inquire at the business ofdcej* be directed to the visitors' gallery of the press room. -!.*,. '- -s The Evening Paper. .,. "Morning papers, as a rule, sell only from one-third to a half as many pa pers as their evening competitors, and unvariable at twice the cost, and de ducting a possible one-third of this total that is brought down town to be read en route, it cuts the. possibilities of returns from an advertising stand point down to a very small percen tage, when compared with the fact that every single copy of an evening paper-reaches the home and family." Extract from article in Mahin's Magazine. The Great Daily of the Great Northwest Average Circulation for March, The best circulation in the North west, as it is almost entirely one edi- tionAN EVENING EDITION ^-which goes directly to the homes when people have time to read. THE JOURNAL is the only 2-c6at daily in Minneapolis. f* The Legislature. The legislative session of 1903 i&a part of the history of the state. Perhaps the best that can be said of it is that It was productive of little if any vicious legisla tion, and perhaps that fact is important enough to overbalance in a measure the failure of the legislature to do some things that it was expected to do, and which^it certainly ought to have accomplished. It has disappointed the people of the state in failing to create a tax commission, in failing to pass an inheritance tax law. in refusing to take the purely educational In stitutions out of the hahds of the board of control, in omittjng'tOMJreate a state high way commission, in failing to require cer tain corporations to come under the juris diction of the* state courts, in not sub mitting a proposition for a majority vote on constitutional amendments. But mosi, of all. it has failed to meet its responsi bilities in not providing for the submission i of a tax amendment to the constitution. On the other hand, the legislature has Bubmitted a simple gross earnings propo sition it has provided for the taxing of the fast freight lines separate ballots for ' constitutional amendments a new codi fication of the game laws has strength ened the pure food Jaws increased state aid to the public schools, and passed a bill regulating the use of trading stamps. ',These are .among the most important re - .suits of 'the session.: "While considerable radical and some vicious legislation, has made its appear- . since, nothing, .'o^tha&kind, so far as we can recall,^haa^been enacted Into law. The house, made up very largely of new and Inexperienced men. has responded more closely to the wishes of the people than : the senate. The latter body, spoken of as ultra-conservative, contains a strohg ele- . ment dominated by special Interests, to which must be credited the responsibility for failure to submit a constitutional tax amendment. On the whole, .the session has. been rather of a negative character, and on the theory that no legislation is better tnan vicious legislation, the session may be re viewed by the public with more, com- ' placency than if it had been productive of greater results, not always characterized by prudence and wisdom. . ., - In the last hours 6f the session the house voted lack of confidence In its pre siding officer. In the motion to appoint the last conference Committee we have the final verdict of the house on the wisdom of its choice.for speaker,. The Senate Kills Tax Reform. The gravest fault of the late legislature |t', was its failure at the last moment to give i' thy people of the state a tax reform "%mendment. One of the first and most ^Important matters to come before the leg islature, it was put off and put off by the senate till t he last hours of* the session and it Was too late to reach an agree ment. Thus we have nothing to Show for t t wo regular sessions of the legislature with an extra session between. In *he session of 1901 it was keenly felt that tax reform was ' imperative, so imperative that the work of the tax commission au thorized at that session was brought be fore a special session in 1902. TWs ses sion drafted and submitted to the people a tax reform amendment, which was hot so liberal, as It should have been. The people failed to adopt the amendment, and the legislature that has just ad-* journed has failed to give the an oppor tunity to pass on "another proposition. *"-.", The main responsibility for the blocking of tax reform* lies with the senate. It held the measure up for six weeks and EDITOR. { t Washington Office. J 45 Poet Building. v. J 25{! ajto ,, , Tribune Bulldlag. TXTESDAY EVENWm, insisted to the. last- o a a complex, .un- scientific amendment, which would be lit tle, Jf any of an. improvement on existing Conditions, ': The?: house did precisely. Fight to stand firm and r.efuse to' accept the senate's makeshift. The only? mistake ,tho house made/ wis in adjourning* befor&Va I&nal report on: conference W*SUreceiVfcd ' and while a 'conferenceL.v^m|n|ttee was' still out. /"*i'# J "**TT2 4 A fair analyst of iJie^Iiistor^vp^^at measure, howevsn will ,pliace t$a^ta$tt of responsibility for no action "Uflorf ttfe senate *w,hich delayed conference till the last hours Of thS session. If the senate had planned to prevent agreement with the house upon a matter with respect to which there was such a Wide difference of opinion it couid hardly have adopted a more certain method of accomplishing that result. W e think the public Will clearly understand this and place the blame where it belongs. Possibly enough members 6f the senate might'ha ve re ceded ait the last to accept the house amendment if the house had remained in session, but of that the house had no a s surance no encouragement - to hope for it. - , - . ^ Financier's View. An interesting article will be found on page 11, from, the New York Financier, in regard to the Northern Securities de cision. The Financier is one Of the ablest of the financial papers, and it is signifi cant of business sentiment outside the immediate Northern Securities circle that this decision is not regarded with disfavor or trepidation by the Financier, but, on the contrary, is spoken of as a wholesome check upon wild and reckless speculation. The Financier points out the fact that this decision does not destroy a dollar's worth of property ,, that there, will not be one less blade of Wheat or one lss ton of traffic that there will be" no less mer cantile and productive business done throughout the region traversed by these lines, although there may be less specula tive activity in Wall street, less reckless exploitation of securities which have ceased to be securities. The Financier, viewing the matter from the standpoint of the investor alone, min imizes the importance of the consolidation of parallel and competing lines, but it emphasizes with sound, financial instinct the danger threatened from disregard of sound business , and , public sentiment which has characterized the era of con solidation. On the whole, it regards the merger decision as an exceedingly valu able check on the unrestrained tide of financial inflation which would! undoubtt edly have risen still higher if the decision in the merger case had been in favor of the other side. A Strong Argument. ' While it is too early to conclude that a satisfactory settlement of the difficulty batween the railways and the northwest-^ erh flour mills has been arranged, it is pleasant to find that all the indications that are permitted to reach the public point to an understanding. If the out come of the' difficulty 'shall be as good as now .appears, 'the millers willv ly justified in making the desperate move. of Closing their mills. . The dispute, was such an 01d''pne that .the railway .officials had beconi,e calipus. Notwithstanding complaints, the mills had continued to riiii and the roads had con tinued to haul an immense volume of flour out of Miniieapolis and the northwest. It took a good, hard: blow to convince the railway men that the millers, really had, by, unjust rates, been reduced to despera tion. It turned but that no verbal argu ment the millers had, ever made was 'so powerful as the sudden collapse of the flour shipments from Minneapolis upon the closing of the mills. From average shipments of 50,000 or .60,00.0 barrels a day, and. occasionally- nWrfe S than 100,000, the shipments dropped to 18,000, and in an other day would have sbeerr practically nothing. At 40,000 pounds of flour to the car, 50,000 barrels means 250 'cars of freight a day, and a large number of trains. The loss Of such a traffic was enough to stir up the most blase railway man. One such demonstration ought to bei enough for a long time. : That Halting Ukase. Recent information as to the nrogress of - administrative reform and the estab lishment of religious freedom in Russia, based on the char's ukase, sho^s that even the "czar may be set at naught by this bureauerady and the various-official tentacles of , the- .central government* in the provinces,_ and that there is only.,a limited prospect of the actualization of religious liberty and local administrative reform. ' Local ' c6mmitte'ee recommending gov ernmental reforms have had little aid from the provincial authorities, "many of whom have prevented the local commit tees from discussingareforms and holding communications With the czar. In some of the provinces the committees have been packed with officials representing the central government. The provincial committee of the province of Nijni-Nov gorod adpted "resolutions which are said to express- the sentiment of the"rural population of the empire, and among them there are demands for free and accessible popular education, such: as primary popular ""schools free from the obtrusion of the ecclesiastical power and under the jurisdiction of the ministry of education, and liberally supported by the central government. Secular education Is insisted upon,'as is'the extension of the public library system. . The resolutions recommend reform in the taxation of the peasantry, abolition of corporal punish ment, reform of the local, police system, abolition of all forced labor affecting un justly the peasantry ligher customs and excise duties a.progressive ihcbme tax, and reduction of cost or, exporting agri cultural products. ''"''\ One-provincial^-committee dared to. de-, mand a constitutional government and the author of the resolution was banished to Archangel. Some of the demands are embodied in the czar's.ukase. As to the decree of religious toleration It is in terpreted in Russia as giving small relief to the- Jews whose freedom is restricted chiefly by the civil laws, - J\- ^ - With the provincial* representatives of the central government generally against reforms, the czar can only carry out his limited reform program by asserting his autocracy, ''ds Agaittst ' the bureaucratic trammels, which are the curse ,of Russia, and prove himself, a cjsar, indeed,, even if reform shall limit his own powers and a j - .r r '':'"ft be thorb- parliament monarchy is established at St. .Petersburg. The reform discussion in the rural districts ofvRuesia shows that the leaven of broader ^crvil and political free dom is working lii that backward land. Shakspere's birthday anniversaryf^pril 23, Old style, will be elaborately celebrated at Stratford -on *yon. A feature o| Jj$6 procession to the church will be |tfd|g leading citizens carrying wreaths p iwi^- be placed over the tomb. Mp^fM^ Attacking the President. Some persons, impressed by^Pesidefrt Itoosevelt's great popularity, refuse t6*be- lieve that there can be any opposition to him worth mentioning, even'in'New ork. It is only necessary-to read the. editorial columns of Harper's Weekly to become convinced that-thfe attack Of special Inter ests on the president has already begun! Harper's was -very moderate* at lowing-only a word of mild reflection on the^re^ideht^fo)appear here and'even,.now it occasionally/gives-hhrtr a comp^itaentary notice that serves ^^i^f" bly to add to the force of the blows iti deals him.''.""After a longarid antagonistic review ' of the president's Mihheapolfs tafiff speech, Harper's says: / ^S. It would be idle to fbHow the president for the purpose of making further" expo* sures. of his bhinders,-- Moreover, we should thereby lay ourselves open to the charge of taking his oratorical economics seriously. Consciously - or unconsciously, he is^ut repeating, the lessons which have been taught the republican party and the country by the leading apostles of the pro tective principle. The difference between the apostles and the president isy very likely,. that while they ..know^that their talk is for the deception of the people and for the benefit of the beneficiaries of the present tariff, he may think that he is uttering economic truths ^ Whether he does! think BO or not, he knows that he is talking for personal and political effect, for hjisisown renomination and for his par- ty's*iF|umph in 1904. If he. is as ignorant as he seems he is to be pitied and his youth is to be deplored. If he is not, if he knows the truth, and says what is false, or what is only half true, for the welfare of his party, its leaders, its bene ficiaries, and himself, he' ought to be heartily ashamed of his task and of his performance.' We may expect to see more and more of this sort of criticism of the president, with Harper's Weekly and many other organs like it and many of the great financial in terests of the country prepared to support the democratic candidate for president in 1904, provided he be a "safe" man, and there be some hope of a democratic vic tory. " ' "*.= -^':-r: BUt if that black abyss to whose brink Ibsen leads us were the only destination possible to the sorr of a sinful father, the human race had long ere this sought and found its own. destruction. Pessimist that he is, Ibsen by no means overlooks the chief mystery of the law of heredity the fact that it is not of.universal appli cation. The other child of the man mon ster Whose sins are so frightfully, if Vicariously expiated in this play, is physically at least, normal and healthy. Her veins are full of the "joy of living," whatever may be said of her stunted moral nature. Of these two children, one is taken and the other is left. But, mark this, it is the child of a marriage of con venience who, tho morraily sound, suffers the awful penalty and Visits it terribly upon the mother whose heart did not go with her hand. And the child of love, perfect physically but true daughter of her father morally, is set free when the secret.-of her birth is revealed, to 'go forth upon her mission of destruction to. men. Thus :are the sins of- Captain Alv ing, .with their power "of causing death physiologically, also, gifted with an ap palling power of self-reproduction. But after all, the chief question in" considering such a play as "Ghosts" and its presentation on the stage is, can it be justified? It is art, but its power lies in the fascination of horror. It is truth, but shall such truth be spoken in such a way and in such a place? The defenders of Ibsen^ seek 4 justify him as the soul stirgeon who cuts deep that he may eradi cate the malignant seat of evil. That is the only justification possible and it is a doubtful one at best. Ibsen himself, worshiping at the fane of tx-uth, would scorn it and point merely to the goddess herself as answer to his accusers. It is art, therefore it is good .it is truth, there fore let it be spoken. Yet I doubt if many persons in that audience which funereally filed out of the Metropolitan last night, sickened and stunned, could pos sibly feel that the exhibition of doddering idiocy on Which the curtain Went down was justified by the. frightful warning ii conveyed: The quintet of players Who participated In the presentation gave tragic value and meaning to every phase of the play. His trionism could do no more than they ac complished in those brief hours passed in the narrow confines of that gloomy house. For Ibsen has reverted in this play to the old unities Of time, place and action. Each characterization fitted into the marvelously perfect framework of the play so nicely that the dramatic illusion was irresistible. Viewed merely as. an achievement in acting, with few of the aids which playfolk habitually use'to pro duce affects, this production of "Ghosts" is wonderful. Mary Shaw, in the character of th woman in bondage to law ahd duty, is so convincing that it is impossible to separate her in thought from -Mrs. Alving. From her first appearance in the inter view with Pastor Manders, wherein her quiet, tense manner reveals the woman who has suffered and still has an immense capacity for suffering, until that final scene wherein mdther love-is called on for the supreme sacrifice, her impersonation is pitched in a very crescendo of woe Could anything more heart-rending be conceived that that awful mother, cry to -the soul which has faded out of th% face of her boy, leaving behind, but a human wreck, unknowing and unseeYirg? There is,never any straining for effect in Mrs, ShaW's work, nor, indeed, in that of any - !"'"-- - ''-" . AT THE THEATERS MetropolitanIbsen's "Ghosts." The drama is the most catholic of arts. As blroad as life itself, it must have a charter as large as the wind to blow on whom it pleases. That terrible pessi mist, Henrik Ibsen, for whom no other light shines than the remorseless One of truth, has chosen the drama as the'art form in which to .give expression to what he conceives to be the eternal verities'of life. A master beyond compare of dra matic construction, a vivisectionist of the* human soul, a fearless investigator who gazes into the stony eyes of fate unafraid, he treads a path into Which ho other play maker bas dared to turn his feet. And he follows i|.,relentlessly to the .bitter end,, turning fside" for none of the "supersti tions^ th at enthrall most men,, and ,gtv*, ing heed to no consideration of dramatic effect or social conventionality. "Ghosts" is a study in heredity,- a dra-' fnatic. treatment of that inexorable and inexplicable law that the sins of the fath ers shall be visited upon the childrena law not always operative but one whose penalties are so terrible because so unde served by the innocent ones upon whorh they fall. It is this great mystery /Of life that appeals to Ibsen as a phase of that o'ermasteririg fate which hblds-man^ kind in its graspas inscrutable as it is inevitable.. The concrete working out of the studyo in "Ghosts" is intended neither as a lesson nor a demonstration. It is rather an illustration. And what a terri ble one! Given the five characters whom he introduces at the outset, given their life histories up to that point, and the horrible denouement follows as uhescap ably as a Q. E. D. of Euclid. THE MINNEAPOLIS JOURNAL. vfirst, of her colleagues, which is marked by that artistic reflMcOo'heeessa.ry in'de noting strong emotions. Frederick Lewis is the son and presents an ideal impersonation of the, youth whose neurotic* temperament mflkes the B/wful battle against fate so much more' tragie. His pure diction, his fine carriage and his power of expression are all elements in his success. Maurice Wilkinson declares-a bice ap preciation, of , character - in, the role of Pastor Manderg that strangd compound or goodness arfd-smallness,t|i generosity and narrowness, of gentleness and se -Verity It is a very human, if not a Very admirable priest that Mr. Wilkinson por trays, and he ^ contrives to let it be seen thru all the inan"s pettiness-that he is striving to do right as he sees it. ~ Charles A. Gay, as the carpenter who takes' the sins of others upon his own already well-laden.shoulders, is admirable, * ahd is seen at his.^besl in the ^cene where in the excess of' hj^umflity he twists the pastor about' hlsp^ersi . The- fifth. memr ber of the* cast fs^Migs Virginia KIin'e, whose picture of hfe putative "daughter is strltk.inglyJap^^^e transformation' in her actipn|- thafi^ses place When the secret of- Her birtfiKijjK ^e*$jedS!^howj-jthat Miss, Kline isari 'ac'tres&of,:^bilityir^t, ' ' - , In/sflOKti if'Ohe dbesjirti mlhd'thfc-'hbr-i rors one, $a,n-!%.^nhs.vi]^%p] bdu^lon'-o '''{SfcostB/'^aii strong -a^^p^^ano^lSr fine acting* as-ever^OSineto^theiv.i. ^' '^*"^' , '/-_- X -itt-^--, - '^rftfC&K Ch^nti^erlaBi:/! A ^hlc% al- f and, there,- Lyceum''My friend ^ro^ India.",,i'^.... , The Ferris cdmpWLyh^t^hed its at tention to farce, this t^^k,f,-and with gratifying success. The bill is Dii Sou chet'sj "My Friend Fro j(hdia," m' which, Dick Ferris,' plays rthe ,. theosophlcal, bar ber Ben Johnson, 'the^Kansas. 3ity pork packer and W. D. Coibeft,:%fe bibQlous ly inclined son, wltli.a^nanta for window smashing. The farce fe uproariously fun ny and it kept la^t ..nightlsJaudiencev i-n laughter most 'Of t|piP-time^^-^ r' The fun of farce* arises aimost-Vhblly from the ludicrous :- situations into which a playwright, plunges his characters. In pure comedy the dialogue is usually of. primal importance. - In farce it is unim portant. Character studies *are useless in farce they have, frequently turned a lame opihed into ia.^gaily ambling success. The~aj)peai ^.farce^ is to the risibilities thru the eye. The deaf c%h "enjoy Its humor the blind find it only tedious. It is a light form of entertainment, entailing no involved process^of mental digestion and hence popular J 'j: ,y* '{ '- Du Souchet was" a tefegraph.operator when he turned out "My Friehd From In- dia," and on the night of jifcs first produc tion he had the pleasure of receiving the news of its success over his 'own wires and from .his awn instmments.., And it was a success. No farce since "Charlie's Aunt" had created such a furore.. An oc casional critic. swore' at it, but the public swore by it, which was more to the point, and the new plajrwright became a ce lebrity in a night. '"'- -'-- The ium.of "My. Friend From-India" is fast:and furious. Jt begins with the rise of the' curtain upon the first act and fol lows the audience out mto the foyei\ on their way home.' However, the farpe Is no-longer /fiew, nor Js^t j ^ ueedof puffery. Dick FerrjSi .ioufe pj st6e|ca,s:t eral weeks, has returned to the Lyceum stage as "A. Keen Shaver," an adept in theosophy and in tonsorialism. The actor-manager of our stock company is at his best in roles of this kind, and his rbarber is^ a laugh-pi-o^^lng -.^l'^Wt well worth knowing. The, company, as a vwholeV'ls weir list. -BaSlfehnson fe most amusing as the choleric nork-packer and W. D. CorTtett is igood as fils^son. W. H. Murdock, however, is not happily be stowed as th&JRefc Jijnes^weedle. Miss Grace Hay ward as .Marian Hayste, and Misfe'Maude Gilbert as daughter, are excellent^ their respective roles, and.'Miss Laurette Allen is Very funny as Mrs. .3eekma%-#treet.'. :^.^ri^ mirror scene, played by S^iss Allen and Mr.1 Ferris, was ^ohe* of ^hevdistiritit' hit's of the evening^, ^^ ^ i sHJ?|Sl L&,wrence^ JUSTUS MILES FORNIAN. Speaking recently of the fallacy that a new and unknown Wr3ter has "no Chance to get into print, Jthe. eolitpr pj^ The. Smart Set Observed': "I how, just about two y$ars ago, when, the late Arthur Grissom was, editor of. The Smart Set, a* short stoy 6f Mri Formari's came in ...with the usual .amount of , daily mail Efts i mandS^-opw was-' read m its turn.'and was BdnHlllld excellent by every reader on the* staff. When it was passed up to Mr. Grissom for a final de cision it was immediately accepted. Two more tales 'Came inand very good they wereand then we Were ill' so interested that we asked the author to call, not knowing whether he would b.e'^young, old, little-, or big. We. found his personality as charming as his stories,' and he told us that he had never befor^ written anyi thing. A novelette was suggested to him, and everybody knows that since then Mr. Forrhan's work has -bgen appearing constantly in all the leading magazines." BRIDES WHO MUST NOT BE KISSED. Grand Rapids* (Micli^. Herald. In Switzerland the^ bride , on her wed ding will permit no onenot" even her parentsto kiss her upon the lips. In many 6f the provinces the'cook pours hot water over the threshold after the bridal couple have gone in order to keep it Warm for another bride. A favorite wedding day in Scotland is Dec. 31, po 'that'th^ ftroung couple can leave their. old lifS With the old year, and begin their married life with the new one -surely a pretty idea. ...,. The Italians /per^rt^-Bo'JWeading'' gifts that are sharp: br. .fpo|ii(tedf practice emanates our 'superstition that the gift Of a knife severs friendship. One of the most beautiful of all marriage customs is that of the bride immediately after the ceremony flinging her bouquet among the maiden friends. The one who catches it is supposed "to be the next bride. THEY ARE ALL SWEET. "My best girl is a peach." "Then she must be from Baltimore." ""flo, sir. She's not only a peach, but a star.'% "Ah, I see. New Orleans." "No. She's not- only a peach and a star, but a warm baby.." .:..-',v.-..:'.: .*- "Florida." ' , ,. "Guess again. I might say that,.In ad ditibh to the things I have mentioned, she is hot stuff." ".".-.. .-- "Kentucky?" . , "Not yet.. And, besides all these, she Is a ^winner." f "Ah, I know. . Saratoga." '. "You must do better than that. Per haps I should also remark that she is a dream.," "Now I know. Philadelphia." "Once mOre to the front. Remember, now, she's a peach and a star, a warm baby and hot stuff, a winner and a dream." \ "Now York?" - s, , ( . - "Right:" ' ' ' 1 " BUT SHE ALSO SHOOK HIM Yonkers Statesman. Molly: *'You say you shook all over when you proposed to her?" . Cholly: "Yes, I did." "And how about the girl?" "Oh, she only shook her- head." - 'WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN." - ^ Tv '' Tacoma Ledger. A correspondent who tried to follow the president into the park was arrested and his dog shot. Such consideration is Worth appreciating. The authorities might have arretted the dog and shot the correspond ent. .-*'' - i'\:- * ^i , ^iS-MISSlON OF THE AUTO. - * ' Sioux City Tribune. ?fe%^*t^ The automobile seems to be killing off French barons* at a great Tate. - 'the pork pacKerVs : remember distinctly Life. :from which r v,:. - i '..'": s f ^SSf^^T-'-'^AHBL W, Books and Authors A NEW LITERARY OPPORTUNITY Charles Marriott* doubt there will be for a year or so a good mariyi experiences revealed in special lines of work ip the work-a-day world. Among thosewhich should not be neglected is,the Waitress, -in a, restaurant, whoV no doubt, can-ive some interesting reading oh.the subject. ,of the exasperating quality of some,of,the- people waited on, and the pre cise conditions under which food is cooked and served in the kitchen division. The Woman cashier may also have some thrill ing things to relate. In. this new lihe of literature there is an almost limitless op portunity to minister, to the curiosity of the public. USES AND LEAVJEN. A New Yotk Story of To-day. Iiy Edward W. Townsend, author of "Ohlwmte Fodden" and "Major Max," etc. New York: MfClure. Phillips & Co. : Isaac Bunton, who dealt in coal and pig iron,, borrowed $5,000 one day from Dr. PaxtOtt and made a deed'of some land to him as securitj'. The doctor went off without taking his deed, and Bunton^ when he discovered the fact, sent it by his clerk, Hari'y Lawton, to deliver at Pax ton's house, and with it some money to be given to the village minister for his sal ary. Harry went forth, but not on his errands. At the railway station he found his employer's daughter Daisy waiting for him-, and the two took the first train, and at a, town near by they were married. A few days after, Bunton went for them sent Harry off, givihg him ?500 to stay away, and took his daughter home.. Harry tookva train for New York, having the Paxton deed in his pocket. .Dr. Paxton was killed by accident a few hours after he loaned the $5,000 to Bunton. Bunton had the money Harry had the deed, which Paxton's family should have had. These incidents form the basis of an elaborate story. Bunton kept silent and, learning that Harry had been reported killed in a railway wreck in which the cars were bumedjfcjp, he thought his secret was se cure. The Paxton family, thru detective ingenuity,, entered upon a search for the deed, discovering that Harry had not been killed, and the story chiefly relates there after to the following of clues and the ul timate righting of wrongs. The author has introduced almost too many charac ters and-has so cohfused himself, ahd he gets a little tiresome. Harry and Daisy are very forlorn and repulsive characters. The author of "Chimmie Faddeh" might have done better. 1 *-' for sev- THE BEAI, BENEDICT ARNOLD. By Charles Burr Todd, author of "The True Aaron Burr," Cttv N6w York: A. S. ^Barnes & Co. Price $1.39... . .... - , . .. .., The author, believes'that Arnold has not been fairly treated in the histoi'ies of our country, and he proceeds to exercise-his ingenuity in vindicating him, while he ad mits his atrocious treason. chapters of the book aite biographical, ex tolling. th*, thrd several years of the struggle against Great Britain, demonstrated in his heroic march! thru the wilderness, .the Quebec campalgn^and the battles of Sali&tbga. When A.rrio!dy was military governor of Philadelphia fife was dazzled by the beauty of Miss Peggy Shippen, of a leading Tory family,'arid a strong British partisan, and married her. Soon after, the supreme council of Pennsylvania brought serious charges against him for dereliction in duty and Tory tendencies. A court-mar tial sat on the case and recommended that he t splendid patriotism of Arnold l be reprimanded by Washington, who mHdty carried out,the finding. His wife, meantime, Imd carried on. secret negotia tions with Clinton, the British general at New York, and hoped to persuade her husband to betray the. post,of West Point, the. command of which Washington had intrusted to. him. Arnold yielded to the solicitations. of the beautiful Peggy and his treason became a matter of history. The. author thinks that Peggy Shippen, who was ambitious to have her'husband made a British peer, was the party to be blamed more than Arnold. The fact of Mrs. Arnold's abominable conduct does not abate one iota the severity of the judgment of history upon Arnold. To at tempt to lay the responsibility at all on Mrs. Arnold is like the attempt of Adam to saddle his delinquency Upon Eve. The author says the treason would not have been accomplished had Arnold married a patriotic Wife. How does he knoW? The effort to whitewash Benedict Arnold-is as lame as the attempt to perform that operation oh Aaron Burr. YOUTH and Twp Other Stories. By Joseph Con rad, author of "The Children of the Sea," etc. New York: Mcdure, Phillips & Co. Mr. Conrad stands in the front rank of present-day writers of sea tales. Clark Russell does not surpass him in de scriptive power and appreciation of the mysteries of the sea. The title story re lates to the. career of . a ship which seemed to deserve the epithet "unlucky." Starting for Sankok from an English port With a load of coal, she made several efforts to get there, each time being bat tered by storms and pestered by leaks, and, having to turn back. When she neared Bankok her cargo ignited and the unlucky craft was destroyed. Such in cidents are common, but the author makes a very thrilling narrative of it. The old "Judea" was a sailing- vessel, and that kind of craft is decreasing in numbers be fore the growth of the steam merchant marine there would seem to be more romance about the sailing ship. Herman Melville's books embody much of this quality and bring out the mysteries and superstitions of the sea in a very fascinat ing way. Mr. Conrad's familiarity With the technique of sailing ships and sea life Is a breessy feature of his style. But in "The Land of the Tether" he introduces the steamer Sofula, which steamed in ori ental waters and gives us an atmosphere of romance ahd tragedy, and a notable character in Captain Whally, who had walked in darkness to the very verge of crime and insistently went down into the deep With the. black mass, which repre sented the ^Old Sofula. The "Heart of Darkness" is more Of a land than a sea tale, with spurts of fighting in It and a love episode in far-aWay Burmah.. "Christendom" is the title of a new paper published in Chicago, of which Shailer Mathews, John R. Slater and James M. Campbell will be the editors. Among the contributing and associate ed itors are "Dr. Douglas MacKenzie, Profes sor Richard T. Ely and President E. A. Alderman of Tulane - university. Chris tendom, has a long list of contributors^ comprising many of the moat emirient^meh qualified to discuss national and interna tional affairs, political reforms, historical, biographical and literary subjects, educa tional matters, social movements, eco nomic-questions and religion and morals. It corresponds in form to the Outlook and Independent, and promises to be a very interesting and able publication. ^,^i The Van Vorsts have very effectively written up their ex periences and obser vations during their voluntary participa- tion in various pha ses of female labor in factories. An en terprising lady has given her experien- ces as a housemaid and cook in private families. Another has given her expe rience as a sales woman in depart ment stores. No NEW BOOKS A New Weekly. V MADE IT HOT FOR HIM Philadelphia Press. "I wonder," said the new benedfch dreamily, "if 'there is anything warmer than, a woman's love?" "Sure," replied Oldbache "two Woman's love. I heard of a bigamist once who found that out."- r The first :*%&: A strong vision enables one to see Charlie's necktie. , The English church is giving parliament a good deal of trouble because of fKe various wlhgs of the church and their tendencies and the protests arising from - these tendencies. In speaking of the "Broad," "High" and "Low" church parties '* the other day Mr. Emmott, M. P., in a speech in the house of commons, hit them Off tersely as "the Broad and hazy, the Low and lazy, and the High and crazy parties." It is a wrong brain that has no learning. Fine feathers make fine beds. A hair on the head is worth two on the brush. There's many a "nip'* 'twixt the cup and the lip. It's a strong cane that leads to learning. , A weak heart makes a fainting lady. Too much broth spoils the dinner. The want of money is the rbotof evil. A stitch in time is its own reward. , A friend in need is a friend to bleed. Honesty is the best policy. True, but the premium is high. Never 160k a clotheshorse in the mouth. All it not fried that fritters. ' . It is a long loan that has no returning. A rolling stone sees much and gains polish. When the mice are Away the cat cannot slay. A thorn in the bush is worth two in the hand. Silence is the wisdom of fools speech the instinct of after dinner. Spare the rod, if you cannot fish. It's no use crying over Watered milk. Fine words butter no margarin. As the twig is bent the boy inclines. Wilful (compressing of the) waist makes woful want (of breath). Don't count on chickensyou may get hash. Necessity was the invention of mothers. Mischief finds some idle hands for satan still to do. Early to bed and early to rise makes a man peevish and breakfast despise. Where there's a will there's a won't. Whitaker Wright, the storm-tossed financier, lived in Philadelphia before he went to London, and advocated in Philadelphia, though not with any notable suc- cess, the same startling and bizarre business methods that later on, In England, gave such questionable prominence to him. In floating a Philadelphia company once, Mr. Wright had Some difficulty in persuading a staid board of directors to adopt his suggestions. He talked to them two hours, and in conclusion he said: "Gentlemen, you remind me a little of a Bucks county farmer my father used to know. This farmer took, every Saturday, a bag of grain to the mill to be ground, in one end of the bag he put the grain In the other he put a big stone that about equaled it in weight, and then he threw the bag, balanced in this way, over his horse's back, and getting up behind, he rode oft. "This farmer educated his eon to take the bag to the mill in his place. He showed the boy how to balance it by putting the grain ih one end and a rock in the other. But the boy was shrewd, enterprising and inventive. On a certain morn- ing, somehow, he happened to get half the grain at one end, and the other half at the othei and behold, the bag balanced of itself now, and there was no need of any stone. He threw it over the horse With a pleased air, and called his father out to see. " 'Look, father," he said. "Look what I have done. I have found a way to bal- ance the sack, a way to carry the grain to mill without carrying at the same time an equal weight of stone.' " 'Boy,' said the old man, 'take down that sack at once. Shake all the grain back to one end and put the rock in the other end immediately. That is how your- grandfather carried' grain to mill in his day, and it is how I carried It in mine. You have a dangerous bent of mind, boy.' 1* "Gentlemen," Mr. Wright ended, "let Us not be, here in Philadelphia, like this old Bucks county farmer." . T-, ",". ' . . "S : ' " AND HE WAS A GENTLEMAN. The absurdity of race prejudice is illus trated by a story that is told of an inci dent that occurred on the Pittsfleld, Mass., street railway. Near Lahesboro a China- man boarded the car. which was pretty well filled, and took a very small portion of the end of a seat by the side of a well dressed woman. The Chinaman wore the costume of his.people, which was made of the richest materials and he was neat and thoroly gentlemanly in appearance and demeanor. He had not ridden far When the woman called the conductor and re quested him to have the man cliange his seat, as she was "not in the habit of riding with Chinamen." Without Waiting for the conductor to act the Chinaman rose, and in the most polished English said: "Madame, I am a Chinaman, but I have been in this country fourteen years, am an Comparative Advertising^ ,,,- Including Three Big Sunday Tribune Editions. \ , *** ' . ,. ,(22 Inches to the Column) ^ * ,,/ TRIBUNE 4 /. Cols. , Sunday, April 19, Monday, April 20, 52 10 Totals, (Vg&T) 1160 7 1212 17 imiSi^fffiP Trii Nofiplleil Man! 1 " * ' Casually Observed. y\^\X,i. Girls who know how to scream and giggle when an eligible "fh&rt is mentioned are empowered to..start a branch of the Old Maids', society. ,, , -.^'fr: .*---- $$ $ $ .$ , ^ ^is^,^' FableA Chicago man who was out in his automobile for three days from Ber- ^ \ lin to Paris, the rain falling all the time, was condoled with by the Parisians, who ^ groaned deeply over the wretched weather. "Oh, well," said the Chicago man, who * . had been brought up to bad weather, "it was better than none." Hearing which, ~iy the Parisians understood why Chicago'kills two million pigs a minute. *' V^ ! " ' '."''''' $$$ ' " Between the ravages of an unusually severe winter and the breaking out of a malignant disease known as "big head" among their flocks within the past few Weeks* the Salt Lake Herald says the sheepmen of Utah, southern Idaho and east- ern Nevada are,afraid that the season's losses will be unusually heavy. The sheep is the last person one would expect to suffer from an attack of the big head. But ' it is sometimes the most simple and apparently modest people who are subject to this terrible disease. W e are continually keeping tab on ourselves in this corner /,"- of the paper. There are good 'Gene Field stories in circulation, some of which, like Burns* un- published poetry, are not printable. Many of the kind that can be reduced to type, would doubtless be as new and fresh to Field himself, were he- to come back, as they are to the public. The point is that good story tellers are always anxious to hang their inventions on some other party. During and after the war all the good, and many of the bad, stories were placed on Lincoln's shoulders. There is, in a similar manner to-day, a new Arabian Nights growing up around Field. The Christian Register, think of that, even a religious paper, says that Fieldf used to amuse him. self sometimes with his visitors. When he was talking3 he would suddenly stop to think a minute, and call his assistant, who woulo d snatch up a pad and listen os- tentatiously. Then, with just enough hesitation to be impressive, Field would re- peat from memory some poem Between lines or stanzas he would resume his commonplace chat with the guest, as If reeling off poetry was the merest incident. Often the most difficult part was to keep from laughing at the visitor's amazement. When, the poem was read to Field, he would apparently listen for a chance to correct but he never found it. After that the visitor always had a good story to tell of the Way '"Gene" composed. When the writer visited Field in 1892, he saw a wohderful instance of the re- markable poetic touch possessed by the Chicago genius. A well known doctor Of divinity from Toledo, who had been much impressed by Field's child poetry, was passing through Chicago and came in to call on the poet. It Was during this short, but pathetic interview, which I shall never forget, that Mr. Field touched his visitor for $6and got it. He was very proud of this achievement, which Was- but one of a thousand similar incidents in his wonderful career. A. J. R. Spare the rod and spank the child. One man may lead a horse to the water, but gallons won't make him drunk. Who cannot be cured should be insured. Never put. on to-day What you want clean for to-morrow. Too many cooks are better than none. ,-..._-. "Do" or you will be "done" by and by. A kiss is as good as a smile. Look before you lend. Only a wise politician knows his own bill. Hard earned, seldom spurned. Bet not, fret not. Continual dropping in wears away welcome. One swallow does not make a drink. Birds of a feather should go and buy overcoats. A bad husbahd beats a good wife. - " -'- 4 S $ $ i.f '".:/ '. - * NEW VERSIONS OF OLD PROVERBS WHITAKER WRIGHT FIGURES Watch the Journal Figures Grow $ S 3 ' $$$4 tha t m&y hav London Truth. ( . : American citizen and a graduate of Har vard. It will not be necessary for the conductor to compel me to change my Seat," and. with this he withdrew and found a seat in another part of the car. while the passengers Were so pleased that there was. a hearty round of hand clap ping. A look of deep chagrin overspread the* countenance of the woman, who had occa sion to leave the car at a white post that was soon reached, and which seemed, to mark no particular place. Tiji Cklcr"-~Let me tell you, sir, that ronr contradiction of my statement has sared yont i life? . MissionarySaved iny life? How Is that, sir? Fiji ChiefWhy, I e*er tat anything that I*. know disagrees with me. 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