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#4 THE JOURNAL LUC1AN SWIFT, MANAGER. i "-', -, r Delivered by Carrier. Oat week - ,. On* month .- - - v - * v. " *l*I.^iiMt *.Vr AH papers are continued until an expUclt oru la lecelred for discontinuance, and until au ar rearages are paid. THB M. LEE ? eight-page Jurls an hour , printed,144.000 fouled i V-', to counted. The best call ti 1 p. m . Inquir e atimeeto t th businesis s offic and k r, be directed to the visitors' g Room. Average For Week Ending Oct. 31 Only 2-CENT Daily in Minneapolis. * REMEMBER, all this circulation is the 6 o'clock edition, which Is deliv ered directly to the homes. All the members of the family have time to read it. ^' The Journal ran 1,572 columns of advertising in October. This is 42 per cent more advertisi ng than was car ried by any other daily paper In Min neapol is and 3 per cent more than any dally and Sunday combined. Steel Pool's Headwinds. A n illustration of the difficulty en countered by an industrial combina tion organized with monopolistic i n tent in the attempt to destroy compe tition, is found in the rather awkward situation of the steel rail pool, grow ing out of the attitude of the great trunk lines,which have not placed their orders for 1904 delivery, for the reason, cblefly, that the steel rail pool holds up the price of rails to domestic buyers at $28, while fixing the export price for foreign buyers at $20 a ton, the cost of production being not more than $18 at the outside. Moreover, the trunk line customers are recognizing the fact that the price of Bessemer p ig has of late declined to $16 at Pittsburg, suggesting the b ig profit on rails coming to the steel rail pool at $28 a ton, which has been the selli ng price for some year s. The railway companies taking, these facts into consideration have asked for a reduction in the price of rails, when the United States Steel corpor a tion asked them for a large reduction in freight rates on -their shipments OU course, if the railway companies lower their freight rates, they, redu ce their earning power and they naturally seek compensation - and. recouping thru a cut in the b ig price of steel rails, which at present, yields* a profit of $10 a tori to the pool. Even at $20 a ton export price the pool clears : , JJ 2 a ton profit. \H? i\% m .sjsl*.. The Pittsburg correspondent of the New York Journ al of Commerce j states that the steel rail pool, of v. which the United States Steel cor-, '* ^oration is the principal member, is menaced with outside , competition *^ jfrom the Lackawanna company, which is constructi ng an immense ' modern steel plant at Buffalo, and from the Tennessee Coal and Iron 'company at Birmingham, Ala., ' and from the Republic Iron and Steel company, which owns a modern i*^,Bessemer plant at Youngstowp, Ohio s*Of course, these concerns may be all drawn into the pool by the allure ment of an offer of a fat "divvy" out of the pool profits, but, if the great trunk lines withhold'1904 orders, it will hit the pool hard In Its domest ic business and arty rail mill which has an independent ownership c an get the contracts and cut down the monopoly rate all around. The producti on of rails in this coun try' has increased from 1,C4V.S92 ,tons 1 of all weights in 1897, to .2,947,336 torts in 190,2, two-thirds of which was ' produo e cl by the. United States Steel corporation and its affiliated in terests. The demands of the railways have brought about this enormous increase in'production,' but, if the Mad lng- customers decline to pay the t enormous profit to the steel pool now " demanded and decline to reduce freight rat es for the pool until the price of rails is reduced, and, if out- "' TUESDAY EVEHIKd f* aide competitors wljh nejve to con front the steel pool en$er the mar ket, foreign buyers will not have such a large discrimination as $8 a toji jnade in' their favor* The . . priced hate fallen during the last thirty years from f 160 and $180 a ton, thru the application of the successive inven tions of new processes for cheapening the manufacturing cost of steel and steel ' rails, to the present rates. The cost is sure to go low er by further converting inventions, and industries depending more or less upon steel producti on ought to and will doubtless share in the benefits of the reduced cost of steel manufacture. J. S. McLAIN, EDITOR. 8UB80BIFK0N RATES BY MAIL. Otw month Thro* months AI"'"' Stlurday Ere. ditlon. 88 to SB pages .$0.35 '. 1.00 . 1.60 8 cants 35 cents JOURNALt Is publishedh Ty evening. 47-fc Fourth Street soutn, except Sundar . a 47-4 8 fourt s Journal Iluilulug, Minneapolis, Minn. STARKH,,1 Ugr. Uoneral Advg. New York Office, Tribune Building. Chicago Office, TribunOffice, e Building I Washington W. W. JERMANE. Representative. f 45 Post Building. AN INVITATION is extended to att to visit the I'rena Room, which is the flneiit in the west. i h't The battery of presses consists of three four-declt L'-,4 Uoss Presseso, witnha This is the day when New York' has as good a chance to demonstrate good judg ment as when it turned down Powie. If the town can give the laugh to the politi cal fakir as well as it did to the religious fakir all will be well. a total capacity of. fv frome TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO The Journal would be glad to re* calve by malt, or otherwise, the names of ail persons who were readers and sub* scrlbers to this paper when It started, twenty-five years ago this fall, or who became subscribers during the first year of Its existence, and their present ad dresses. The Journal would also be pleased to have the names of men living who were newsboys in Minneapolis twenty-five years ago, and their present addresses. The Great Daily ft:15 gallery of the Pres* sS^"' 1 . OF THEs.^:i: y .-"- Great Northwest Daily Circulation, of THE JOURNAL Saturday, Oct. 3... Saturday, Oct. 10.. Saturday. Oct. 17 .. Saturday, Oct. 24 .. Saturday, Oct. 31.. :u v. . Something for Mr. Hill. J. J. Hill seems to have got a ship subsidy that will take care of ..his mamijaoth Minnesota and Dakota when'ithey beg in to ply the waters of the Pacific. Mr. Hill has been hinti ng that unless subsidies were forthcom ing, i might be necessary for him to put the b ig ships under some foreign flag in order operate them sd as to compete with the Other vessels, em ploying cheap and poorly fed sailors, which are unknown under the Ameri can flag. Yet with the virtual subsidy the navigation laws will give lilm after July 1 ne xt year, and the labor-savi ng devices that have been installed on his ships, he ought to be able to worry along and make a. profit after paying American Wages to American seamen. Whether Mr.' Hill was or was not instrument al in bringi ng about the vir tual subsidy legislation referred" to, it is certain to be of great benefit to h is interests. The last congress passed a law which exempts from the Philip pines export tax all products of the islands export ed directly to the United States. The same law also provides that after July 1, 19,04,. the .provision of the navigation laws restricting the American coastwise trade to American vessels shall be extended to the Phil ippines. This means that all of the trade between the United States and the Philippines must be carried in American Ships, just as much as the coastwi se tra de between New York and New Orleans Ttntjtst be so carried. . Ju ly l^iisoi, will beijabout the/time Mr. Hill'is ships^wlll JXe ready to take return cargoes from the Philippines. The effect of the law will be that all of the immense.amount of Manila hemp used in this country must be brought to.our ports in American ships. W e guess that Mr.. Hill will never put his b ig ships under a foreign flag and abandon this valuable trade to h is competitors who! fly the American flag over their ships. A s there are no American lines ply i ng between Atlantic ports and, the Philippines, the eastern,^aports'* will suffer by this legislation. It means that,.4he entire American importatio ns terests sometimes -have at. WtfusMngton' of hemp from the Philippines, which formerly canie"almost entirely thru Atr lantic ports by way of England, will now come directly to the Pacific ports It means, too, that there will be a long haul in it for Mr. Hil's transcon tinental railways. So far this year about 460,00b"baies of hemp have been brought to the ports of Boston and New York. After JUly 1, 1904, the Hill steamships and the Hill railways, instead of English ships,, will carry this immense freight from Mani la to Boston, New York and other interior ports. ' N o wonder the. Boston Transcript complains that congress has enacted class legislation. But this is legis lation which became class legislation in effect on ly thru the application of a. general principle that the tra de be tween American, ports must be carried in American ships. If there are no ships plying between New York and Mani la under the American, flag, it is time somebody "down east" began to wake up. ''.-. '... ' \,'i. ^,^-^- I n the meantime we refuHe to worry over the possibility that Mr. Hill may have to put the Minnesota and Da kota under a foreign flag. -' The refusal of Colonel L.. M. Higgins. to accede to. the request of General Balling ton Booth for a reunion of the members of the Booth family in America around trie bier of his dead sister and the colonel's subsequent offer to allow General Booth to view the THE MINNEAPOLIS JOURNAL. pagne taste ytfu will Just .naturally get champagne, whereas, if yotj are content with beer, beer you wlUvftkve to the end' of your days,.* The persdns #ho hajve learned It seems that the excuse given by the Rock Island passenger, department for getting out an advertisement of the foot ball game between Michigan and Minne sota at St. Paul is'that.Ithey didn't know that the University of Minnesota is in Minneapolis. There are.some things that should be told to nobody but the marines. |g|jTlie Trail of Beet Sugar. Now that congress is soon to meet to consider the treaty of reciprocity with Cuba, it is timely to remind the public of what a dangerous rider the beet sugar interests finally succeeded in at taching to the treaty as ratified by the senate. The rider is to be fou nd in the following clause of the law: ""Provided, that while this convention is in,force no sugar imported from the re public of Cuba, and being'the product of the soil or industry of the republic of Cuba, shall be admitted into the United States at a reduction of duty greater than 20 percentum of the rates of duty thereon, as provided by the tariff act of tKe United States approved. July 24, 1897,rand no sugar the product of any other ? country shall be admitted by treaty or convention into the United States while this conven tion is in force at a lower rate of duty than that provided by the tariff act/ of the United States, approved July 24, 1897. 'The effect of this clause is to make it impossible for Cuba to have any other than the specified tax on its sugar enteri ng the Unit ed States, even if, congress should abolish the* duty on sugar. Moreover, the United States, during the life of the treaty, cannot ent er into reciprocal relations with any other count ry it such relations should demand the reduction of the tariff on the sugar of that qther coun try by so much as a cent. - A s the Cubans did not ask lis to give up all hope of reciprocity with other sugar-producing countries, .this hob bling provision of the law must be attributed to the beet sugar influence, whichhopes to-keep out all but Cu-t ban sugar after having been compelled to yield on that point W e would like to see this work of the beet su'garites eliminated before the treaty finally goes into effect, but rather than see reciprocity with Cuba postponed again, we would have the treaty go thru, in its present form, rider iand'-aJl. But it will have its value as an object lesson as showing how much more influence little special i . than the people themselves. : - Our Ann Arbor correspondent denies all truth tB|avreport which was in circulation in Minneapolis yesterday. Thisrumofrhad it that Michigan had decided not tb^ play the rough game of football any^ longer but would send a ping pong team here next year. ~ !fa6e Grist for the Tariff Mill. The high tariff party in Canada is making the most of the Alaska boun dary incident. The Toronto Worl d, which is the organ of this party, is urging that the on ly way in which Canada can g et justice from' the United States, is to u se the tariff as a weapon. The World thinks that if Canada would beg in a tariff war on the United States, Uncle Sam would soon desce nd from his high horse. The reasoning, howeve r, seems td be a little involved, Assuming that Uncle Sam is on a high horse and that the Canadian tariff should be raised, there would be no inducement to your unc le to dismount unless the tariff were reduced. But that is just what the World opposes. It wants a per manent high tariff and would rejoice if not a dollar's worth of American goods were sold in Canada. It is to be feared that these Cana5 dian papers who are citing the Alaska boundary decision as a reason why the tariff should be raised-on Ameri can goods are much more,.interested in Canadi an factories than in the loss of a few hundred square miles of claimed territory in Alaska. ^ of his sister privately, suggests that probably some mistake was made whert Colonel Higglns was clothed with somuch authority. 'She incident is very unfortunate and we .can't see how it could have happened if it had not been for one Higgins. , \ 1 Xiving on $12 a Week. The income of the average Chicago family is on ly $12 a week. A com mittee of the Hull House Woman's club has been making an investigation to determine whether it is practicable for a family to live on that amount. I n view of the fact that the average Chicago family ,continues to exist, it was plain in advance, qi any inyestiga-. tion that it is practicable to live in Chicago'on $12 a week, but the com mittee wanted to know just how could be ddne. Jane Addams thinks that the poorer people, in this country could .gainv much by studying the lives of the small wage earners in France,: "wbo get mpre put of life than the poor elsewhere." Why, of course.! Our poorer classes ought to go to France and put in a year or two finding out how ^ they do* these things' better in Frkrtce. ' S- ' - .- /. But what will Professor Gunton say to this. The professor is. quite sure that the way to'get a larger incline is to have a larger disbursement. His theory is that if" you have a chain- It is very .unfortunate that the after math of" such a fine football game as that of last Saturday should be so unpleasant. Football owes Its popularity largely to the fact that It is an honest sport played al most altogether by amateurs and gentle men. It disgusts the public to listen to charges of slugging and other forms of unfair play. It Is equally unpleasant to listen to the sort of talk with Which, quite naturally, these charges are answered. We hope that the responsible ^officials at both Michigan and Minnesota wfiL altogether ignore this talk and arrange for another series of games between the two institu tions that are sure either to lead or be very near the top of th football list in the west.K$^V'f^:*^?^''--e ^ H^''i^. ^5 .v, fff^l^^'-A!! This is the-, way: Use $2.30 a w^ek for rent, $4 for food, $1.50 for clothing, $1 for fuel, $1.20 for personal ex penses, 50 cents for giving, $1.50 for savings, and amusements.. ^$^^ |i^ The average family consists otf four or five persons. Think of the, economy, planning^ and bargain hunting that must be required to clothe them all" on $78 a year! It will seerri 'to' the per son of comfortable' income an absolute impossibility. '-: ' - ''':i'.t . i'Well, football fanatic, the game with Wisconsin is worth talking about now. WHAT OTHER PEOPLE THINK - ".'!*' 'Poor Advertfslng^f^-hAM I3p To" the Editor of The Journal. ^s~- ,-ae. Before the Commercial club talks of advertising, Minneapolis to the ' outside world the city council should enforce the paving .contracts with \the asphalt com pany. For months past and at the pres ent :time there* are scores of holes on Second avenue* S from the Guaranty build ing to Sixth street in which one would wreck an automobile or drown a horse were he not an artful dodger. On Nicol let, avenue there' are nearly as many, and the cross streets are in nearly as bad a condition. I do not believe there is a town of over 20,000 inhabitants .hi the country that has such poor streets,, and I have visited a good, many the past few months. Truly the city is being adver tised daily to strangers, but in th& wrong way. F. D. Dibble. MINNESOTA POLITICS 1 to llv^ happily on a certain income are not the persons who are pressing for increases, of wages and salaries. Contentment here as elsewhere means stagnation. The way to lift a people up is to give them new tastes, desires and aspirations. But you cannot give them tho se things without making it necessary for them to spend more money. / .f&fi'i^ : Men and women should, of* course, learn to live on less than they earn, but they,should not learn to be con tent with living forever on what they earn to-day. ''.', : } Primary Election Law May Cause Trouble four Judge Baxter of" Fergus Falls -Younger Parole Bj,jl. Charged to Gov ernor Van 8antCity Election with Postofflce as StakesVasaly May Run for the Senate. V .-:- VT - The primary election law still applies to district judges, as the legislature refused to change it in thai particular last win ter. This may cause quite a disturbance in the seventh judicial district, which has heretofore held firmly for a nonpartisan judiciary. Judge I*. L. Baxter of Fergus falls, who is a democrat, comes up for re-election next year,, and, already there is talk of a republican- candidate., against him. F. A. Llndborg of "Little Falls and John W. Mason of Fergus Falls have been spoken of in that connection, The St. Cloud Journal-Press reports that a round robin has been circulated among the at torneys of the district' favorable to a change. The Sauk Center. Herald rides roughshod over those who are plotting Judge Baxter's retirement, saying in part: "fudges.Searle arid' Baxter were se lected originally for their'recognized-fit ness, and certainly their" years 'of honor able service have' not'made them -less competent. Both are in the full vigor- of splendid mental and physical manhood. They are exceptionally well" equipped by legal learning, ripe experience and public confidence to fulfil the duties which so nearly and vitally touch (the very founda tions of society. Judge Baxter's term will expire with the: next .calendar year, and the Herald does not hesitate to say that it would more than criminal* it would be Inexcusably stupid, to nanie any other than himself as his successor.,:. The judi ciary is above and beyond partisan consid eration.and to drag \he ermine thru the filth, of practical politics jis' to engender disrespect for law .which too often finds expression in red handed anarchy. This may be strong language, but none loo vigorous for the opcasio'n Which prompts it. ..It is not to be wondered at that the: cow.afdly. resort of .th e, 'round robin' be employedif such an effort'be made. It i is a clear indication that no man in the district has the temerity to head the list. One thirigV however, must" be borne in mindevery signatory attorney wilt be marked by the people of the district" who will with one consent declare the ermine is not for him." - ''.. '-'- That ought to hold them for a while. Just the same, there is nothing to .pre vent any (man in the district from, filing as the republican -candidate - for the judgeship, and if only one man files, his name will go on the general election bal lot. Judge Baxter .will either have to go on as the democratic candidate, or else renounce his polities and declare himself a republican. The-chances are that he would win even as- a ^democrat, but it will be a presidential ,-Vjear, and the dis trict is strongly republican, so stranger things might happen than his defeat. The primary law ought not, to apply to judgeship nominations, - .- ^- - With -. characteristic- unfairness, the Northneld News weaves into, an article on Cole Younger's career .a misstatement about Governor Van. Sant.. saying that the governor "succeeded in securing leg islation that made.'.',it. possible to liberate th e Joungers." The most ardent advo cates of the parole bill never claimed that - the governor had taken any stand upon it, and as a member of the board of pardons he could not have done so with propriety. The legislature passed the pa role bill with, special reference to the Youngers, and "it carn^jast ah order to the board of* pardons - * M ^isutiiorizing ,^Ke parole, they were onj|-^ffeying ourKthe expressed^wlll of the legislature. It is a Wphd* the'l%ws has not charged Governor yank Sant Jjjpith the wet sum mer. There would be just as much sense in it, and it would serve as well to illus- We4J*e ^^toateW&slo tje.aiUhe. go,yr, ernor with'fairness'ar'ajtiy 8 M '"" :.W ." A. ~3r'$ *jrfcci ff-*y\^S'r Thief River Falls is having an exciting mayoralty cdntSStT to-aa^witnSI&e post office as an extra stake. Frank Kratka, the present mayor, wants the Ftstorfice and Ira' C. Bichardson, whose term as postmaster soon expires, does not want him to have it. He} is endeavoring : to show his greater strength with the people of: the town by beating Kratka for mayor. Sam Fullerton has been made an issue in ,the contest, but he denies giving - either. one of them a permit to snare voters. Democrats in, the forty-eighth senator ial district talk of running Charles I5 Vasaly, the able editor of the Little Falls Herald, for the senatorial vacancy next year. The republicans .will ..nominate a Brainerd man, probably, John G. Frater." They will nominate two Morrison county men for the house, probably I. W Bouck and H. A. Rider," who were in Ij-.e last legislature, and the democrats will nom inate two from CroW -Wing county. Con O'Brien and Charles Johnson are proba bilities, according to the Brainerd Tribune. James A. Larson is not going to leave Redwood county after all. He has bought a farm near Walnut Grove, and will still make his home there. According to the Lambertdn Star, it '-Is** still possible that he will be a, candidate for'railroad and warehouse commissioner. Any more out In the seventh district? r ? Senator Clapp is home from a campaign .tour in Ohio, where he did yeoman ser vice for Mark Hanna, Myron T. Herrick and the rest of the republican ticket. He -declares that there is no doubt about the result to-day. The republicans Will win ^hands down. \ -^-Charles B. Cheney. NEWS OF BOOK WORLD '' Ghastly Picture of Life and Times of Mary Queen of Scots^-Ah Apostle of the Gold StandardGbpd Things In Novem ber Magazines. A new-picture, of Mary Queen of Scots, whose life should be counted by trage dies rather than by years, has been drawn by Martin Hume, editor of The Calendars of Spanish State Papers (Public Record Office, London), in his The Love Affairs of Mary Queen of ScotW While Mr. Hume is fn sympathy with the queen, his aim in the preparation of the bo6k has been to'tell the truth, and the truth he.tells with an almost horrible bluntness some time's He calls her "the most pathetic ally interesting Woman'in the"-an rials of our country" and then "puts":the cause of hter ruin thus: ' ----- "We shall see that-the deplorable errors and follies that led her downward- from freedom to lifelong- -inprisonment, from happiness to misery, from a throne to a scaffold that warped her goodness, made her a helpless plaything for her cunning enemies, and ruined the religious cause she. loved better than life, were the out come, not of deliberate wickedness, or even of habitual political unwisdom, but of fits of undisciplined * sexual passion, amount ing in certain instances ,to temporary mania, combined. with the unquenchable ambition inherited from, her mother's house." i. '..''..'.'. - Put thus baldly the picture ..is almost ghastly rather than "pathetically Inter esting." But Mr. Hume is not given to euphemisms. H e calls'. Francis de Valois, Mary's first "lover," "a poor, bilious, de generate weakling,' "istuhted of* figure aha unprepossessing of face." He refers to Darhley as "a tippling young booby-of a con^brt," and' to Bothwell as "a coarse blackguard, whose masculinity had mas tered her." There is some inconsistency in''say- ing that Mary's religious cause was -loved by her better than life and then drawing such a picture of her love affairs as Mr. Hume does, One cannot Jong believe, under the array of facts presented.^ that Mary cared anything like so much forsany religious cause a.s she djd' for her life and other-things. But there, is.no use in threshing over old straw-'1 woman or that portion of it which had. a bearing upon the great political issues of the.time. . There are.few wasted word* Mr, Hume goes to the'marrow of the mat ter with- a masterly precision. He does, however, turn aside to compare Mary With Queen Elizabeth, as follows: "Mary in most respects possessed a much finer and nobler nature than Eliza beth she was a woman of higher courage, of greater conviction, more generous, magnanimous and confiding, and, apart from her incomparably greater beauty and fascination, possessed mental endowments fully equal if not superior to those of the English queen. sn - v -,j-%?v\u- - ' - * *$'H: * -: "She was warm-hearted and trustful Elizabeth was cold and suspicious. Eliza beth had always by her side the judicious, clear-sighted Cecil to save her from her self In her hours of weakness, and Leices ter as a permanent matrimonial possibil ity and a foil to other suitors Mary was surrounded by the most self-seeking set of traitors and scoundrels the world ever saw and both the men she thought she loved were utterly unworthy of her, and, above all, Elizabeth had the strength to remain, single whilst Mary had not." Wilbur Aldrich, in the revised edi tion of Money and Credit, stands for gold ais the Sole monetary basis, for a Withdrawal .of, greenbacks and national bank, notes arid the issue of gold and sil ver Certificates . in their place, for banks unrestricted in size or number of branches. He believes the money problem is to be Settled permanently and that the finan cial delusions will be shorn of their power to impair general and sound financial con-, ditions. This will obstruct the unlim ited currency issue theory of the specu lative element, which acts on the "get rich-quick" principle, and the pernicious tendency to start banks .with entirely in adequate capital. Mr. Aldrich, in dis cussing future financial legls'.ation, em phasizes the probable enormous increase in the output of gold. Its abundance has to be dealt with, not its scarcity. . Mr. Payne was born on a farm in White side county, Illinois. The descent is pure ly from New England, running back in a traceable line to 16something, and em bracing several parsons. ,...'. Mr. Payne began to write about 1885. His latest novel "Mr. Salt" has just been published by Houghton, Mifflin & Co. It is a vigorous story of American business life to-day with its scene laid mostly in Chicago. r : ! ..! C 1 VTHE.MAGAZINES. ' ""- ! ', Prison Mirror," the First Prison Paper "No. 1500" wrting in The Bookman for November tells of prison journalism from a prison editor's standpoint. He was the founder of Star of Hope, the. prison paper of Sing Sing, and was its editor for four years.- He says of the Minnesota peni tentiary paper: "The pioneer of prison papers is the Prison Mirror issued from the prison at Stillwater, Minn. It was founded in 1878 by. the prisoners and is. edited and man aged by them. Its objects are to be a home newspaper, to encourage moral and intellectual improvement among the pris oners, to acquaint the public with the true status of the prisoners, and the dissemin ation of penological information and to aid in dispelling that prejudice which has ever been the bar to a fallen man's self redemption." Among the very interesting, reading in the same number of the Bookman is Charles Reade's estimate of himself as compared with George Eliot. Charles was not consumed with modesty. v-: :: NOVEMBER 3, 1903. 8C0XS. By Martin Hume, editor of the Cal endars of Spanish State Papers and author of "The' Courtship of Queen Elisabeth." New York: McClure, Phillips & Co. Minneapolis: jtf. McCarthy. HONE? AND CREDIT. By. Wilbur Aldrich, an. thor of "Fannin* Corporations." Bovlsed edi tion. .'-/New York: The GPafton Press. - THE BOOK OF CHILDREN'S PASTIES. By Mary and Sara White. Illustrated. A Book of Suggestions for the Amusement of Children. New York: The Century company. Minneap olis N. McCarthy. Price ?1 net. 9 AT THE THEATERS %.$* $ & t t Metropolitan''The Eternal City." % When Hall Caihe left the Isle of Man and established the "Republic of Man" in Rome he left a field In which he was quite at home and adventured into one he .did not understand. Italian character and Italian Institutions he doubtless stud ied in preparation for the writing of his book, "The Eternal City," and the later dramatization of the story, but neither play nor book gives evidence that he has succeeded in understanding them. That most complex and marvelous of Italian In stitutions, the papacy, is dragged into the melodrama in a manner quite impossible. Mr. Caine has not treated it irreverently and he has attempted to forestall for the play the criticism that followed the book by. explaining that the action is supposed to take place in the future, so that no reference to any past or present pope or premier can be intended. Yet it is not so much the -personality of the pope to which he does violencetho the very id?a of a pope with a son Is repugnant it is the traditions and the spirit of the papacy that surfer under his treatment. Even r-upposing that the present pope brings about a rapprochement with the govern ment of Italy, and that the church is finally reconciled to the loss of its tem poral power and forgives the House of Savoy for robbing It of its possessions, such a scene as Hall Caine asks us to accept between the pope of Rome and the premier of Italy would be not merely im possible but highly absurd. Considered merely as a drama, without reference to the probabilities, "The Eter nal City" exhibits the tense action, the strong play of elemental passion charac teristic of Mr. Caine's work. Like matiy another maker of melodramas, Mr. Caine is sometimes guilty of supplying insuffi cient motive for the deeds of his charac ters, but the people in the play are very human and the action* moves swiftly. In deed, the eight tableaux Into which the story has been condensed are remarkable for their intensity and continuity, when one considers how difficult is the transmu tation of novel Into play. Where there is so much to tell, the delineation of char acter becomes a matter of great diffi culty. It is revealed by the successive flashes of a moving picture machine rather than by the delicate touches and shadings an artist uses. The most serious structural weakness in the play is the de nouement, which Is weak and disappoint ing. The announcement of tremendous changes In the government of Italy, the unraveling of all the snarls of intrigue and the - reunion of the loversl, freshly snatched from the brink k of the grave, are all accomplishedn swiftly and with so little foundation J A "Bubble'* at Kit- Carson's Hbrne^ Kit Carson's last home and an automo bilethere is something incongruous in the combination. Kit Carson was a pio neer and^ "bubbles" are not things for pioneers "as we are accustomed to think of pioneers. But we may have to revise .Our notions, for Philip Delany tells of "Frontiering In an Automobile" in the November Outing. His trip was from Colorado Springs westward and judging from pictures and text there were, a good many thrills for himself and companion, Not the least interesting experience could have been that of filling up the car with redskins and then "pulling her wide open." The redskins "whooped her up" too. The number is full of highly en tertaining reading. - Renewed Interest in Mme. PattiInterr est in Mme. Adelina Patti has grown enormously with the announcement that she is coming to this country for a con cert tour. Her name, is known to all. Comparatively few, however, know much of her biography,,, The November Current Literature meets tne renewed curiosity concerning her life with a brief sketch and an excellent full page half-tone likeness. The number contains much informing ma terial gathered from widely scattered sources. , / ' Reproductions of Glorgione's Paintings Masters In Art, a series of illustrated monographs, for November is devoted to Giorgibne, and contains, some very fine reprodutions of that artist's paintings. . What to Eat Thanksgiving DayA timely question with the good housewife just now is what to serve for Thanks giving dinner. . "Turkey, of course," some one says. "Yes, but what else and how?" asks the housewife again. What to Eat for November seks to answer the question. In it there are menus and menus. There are also "easoriable recipes for the holiday table" in general. Then there are good things to read which do not make such a direct gastronomic' appeal to the reader/*?|[^|^i.4:^||^ The/value' of Mr. Hume's book lies in the succinct ness of his statement of the life of the Defective Page n A third fine impersonation was that of Frank C. Bangs as the holy father. De spite the incongruity of some of the scenes in which he appears and the false position in which the pope is put, Mr. Bangs invests the character with a sweet saintllness quite in keeping with the tra ditions of the holy office. Frederick de Belleville is a fine actor whose usefulness is somewhat circum scribed by his mannerisms. It happens, however, that the role of the premier, of Italy is one into which his mannerisms fit very well, while his courtly grace of man ner sits well on the scheming and not overscrupulous statesman. Of the rest of the long cast of char acters, it is necessary to mention but two. W. E. Bonney gives a strong picture of the young leader's faithful lieutenanta picture homely and wholesome. Henry Harmon is entitled to credit for his po lice spy, which quite satisfies the imagin ation. . "''." : The whole production is managed with taste and money has-not been stinted in the properties. The Mascagni music writ ten for the entr'actes is appropriate with out being especially impressive. .W. B. Chamberlain. Lew Dockstader and his great minstrel company will be the attraction at the Metropolitan for four nights and Wednes day matinee, commencing next Sunday evening. : *v v v -., ' Among the most pronounced song hits of ^'The Prince of Pllsen," billed for pro duction at the Metropolitan the latter half of next week, are "The Tale of the Sea Shell," "The Message of the Violet," "Pictures in the Smoke." "Keep It Dark" and "The American Girl." ^ Eugenie Blair has opened to big busi ness at the Bijou In "Zaza." and indica tions point to a most successful engage ment for the week. "Za*a" will again be the bill to-night and Wednesday night and Saturday matinee and evening. "Mag da" will be presented Wednesday matinee and Thursday and Friday nights. - James A. Heme's fampus comedy drama, "Shore Acres," opens at the Bijou for a week's, engagement next Sunday afternoon. :?? The first matinee of the Ferris Stock company's excellent production of that beautiful play, "Colleen Bawn," will be given at the Lyceum to-morrow at 2:30 p. m. Commencing next Sunday evening and .continuing-all the week the company will present Mark E. Swan* extraordinary farce, "Brown's in Town."^* s ."^f^ -: '-.., 5 Differences Among NegroesTribal dif ferences among the negroes of the south are pointed out by William Baxter Toe, "a southern farmer," as a factor that needs consideration in the study of the negro question. Mr. Poe writing for last week's Outlook-says: "The individual emigrants to this country exemplified these distinctions. Many of them had been slaves' before coming to America a few had been men of authority. A' strangely tattooed negro woman who once lived in thist community claimed' to t have " been a - princess. To indicate the contrasting types, it is enough to say that near my son's home are the ruins of a cabin in which a Guinea cannibal once lived, while a SVHmington (N. C.) slave who died a few'! years ago w as found to be a good Arabic scholar and could speak several tribal languages." The same number of the "Outlook contains an article on "The United States. 'Navy and Peace," by George Grafton' Wilson, lecturer In in ternational law of the" United States Naval War college. BOOKS RECEIVED ^ - - THE LOVE AFFAIRS OF KARY QUEEN OF Miss Eugenie Blair Is scoring a pro nounced success at the Bijou in David Belasco's famous play. "Zaza," which she will continue to present to-night, to-mbr- rpW night and Saturday matinee sand night. A change of bill will be made for the Wednesday matinee and -Thursday and Friday nights, when Miss Blair will assume the title role of Sudermann's cele brated play, "Magda." The. same version used by Bernhardt and Duse will be pre sented. James A. Herhe's "Shore Acres" will be the next attraction at the Bijou, com mencing an engagement of one week next Sunday afternoon. This remarkable drama is now in its twelfth year of unin terrupted success. \ The present company is virtually the same that has appeared in "Shote Acres" for the past ten years, and includes .rnany. players of .recognised ability: "p& ,_iV- fr THE NONPAREIL MAN -i ^ ^vlcasually Observed/ , . " What Is there about football that-im-,* pels an enthusiast to fill up on Kentucky? baby food in the evening? ,v Mary MacLane says she does not knowc what she is going to write her next bookfl about. It is about time for Mary to throw ? a strong light upon the subject of re* ligion. ' '-. " , . .'-$ A scientist estimated that the earttjjr*, will laBt for 100,000,000 years longer. ThuF will give ma time to look in the glass ones or twice more before starting for the the-*- ater. _.v, ' A chair of dressmaking has been es-j tablished at Ruskin university, Glen Eilyn^ 111. If they leave that chair out on the^ porch over night, father is likely to hit it with "a ax." ^1 Owing . to its practice of flinging off particles of itself, a piece of radium, it is estimated, will last only 30,000 years. , Judging by Its present price our hunk wiltig have to last about thirty billion years or\ '*#* we'll worry along without the stuff. - Santo Domingo has revolted against the** "h rule of Wos y Gil. Wos 1st los? - * J. P. Morgan goes right on about his business just as If he didn't recognize, the fact that he had been discredited. A" man who can haul ten or twenty millions out of a little stock jobbing deal has some excuse for neglecting the financial proph ets and clairvoyants and keeping right on in business. - -ft The milk gentlemen of Chicago have de cided to make but one delivery a day be- , ginning at 8 a. m. Nine-tenths of the people in the city have breakfast before 8 o'clock, and therefore almost all breakfast milk and cream will be twenty-four hours older when used than under the present system in other words, it will be from thirty-six to forty-eight hours old when placed on the breakfast table. Slop a lit tle more formaldehyde into it. Some one. has discovered that the blank ets on the Pullman cars are changed every six months. What for? -ST The Boston Globe has discovered the es sential difference between "the Boston man" and the Chicago man. The Globe says: In cases where the Boston man "shiv ers with apprehension," the Chicago man "throws a fit." : A naval board is investigating liquid fuel. Almost any Kentuckian could give the board points as to what he personally uses, ' - .- -,'. William Scheffler, Cincinnati's champion whisky, drinker, is dead at the ripe age of 27. Mr. Scheffler was a brick molder and the New York Press says that if he had not let brick molding interfere with his whisky drinking he would have made a great record. Evidently he did not let it seriously interfere for he consumed daily five pint bottles" of whisky before the noon hour. What he did after the noon hour history dees not relate. At any rate he is dead now, and his loss will be felt by the whisky trust. But there art others. The good work is going on. % previously laid that the W iot' e thIn S sou dsso li e a com G Edward Morgan plays the young Italian reformer with a repression that makes it highly effective. The ascetic idealism of the leader of the people who had thru hardship and bitter experience learned to know life and who yet could hold a steady hand on the throttle that controlled the boiling and seething aspirations of democ racy, was denoted in the expressive face and the alert, yet masterful manner of the actor. The softening effect of a great love, and then the desolation of despair that settled upon his soul when it seemed cer tain that his - love was* unworthily be stowed, Were truthfully depicted. Mr. Morgan has a voice to match his face and his manner. The role is one that fits him well. Miss Sarah Truax is gifted with emotional power? that are taxed to the utmost, in- relating the-'Heart history of the woman whose fate is so strangely bound up with that of the young leader. Her art lias that pictorial quality which convinces. There is sincerity in the tones of her voice, in the expression of her mo bile face and in her natural gestures. Her impersonation Of Roma is such as to prom ise for her a widening career on the stage. 0Pera One of the Minnesota eleven said "durn it!" and Coach Yost was so shocked that he won't play us again. Mr. Yost Is right. His players should not be subjected to such degrading influences. If Algy Sartoris brings Canada over and forces it on us, we might take it as a giftbut no fighting. It's too expensive. Ida Tarbell has again started on her diagnosis of Brother Rockefeller's loss of appetite. ^ JHalloween. ^wasn't. o. bad.. The gang. _ was a little annoyed by the fact that the' moon was out. Nevertheless James Gray bill's woodshed was found on top of ths , Methodist church. .^' -.-v ...-i. Mr. Morgan is credited with starting a little talk boom for Gorman for presi dent. With Roosevelt in the running, Mr. Gorman could hardly be said to be more than strolling on the other ticket.. Carnegie has helped found 760 libraries 'and has 800 more under advisement. It will soon be arranged so that no young American boy shall be deprived of his "Life of Jesse James." When Mr. Moses explained to his wife how the poets in his library had come down out of their picture frames and held a little conversazione on the evening when he returned rather late from the football celebration. Mrs. Moses' nose took a slight tilt towards the ceiling as she remarked that she thought she had de tected the odor of sack near the picture of Will Shakspere. She also added that Mr. Shakspere was something of a roy stering blade whose company she did not know as she cared to have her hus band keep. She would think it over. Mr. Moses thought he detected some veiled satire in the remarks of his spouse, but he was wise enough not to argue with a woman who seemed to think that she had a grievance, so he departed for the office unconvinced of error and much elated still over the fine literary treat that he had enjoyed. That evening as he sat rather late In hl library fingering some of his literary treas ures and browsing here and there among . the books, he was startled to see the bookcase doors open and old Ben Jon ton step out. The old dramatist closed, the doors carefully behind him, bowed to Mr. Moses, waved his hand in salute to the picture of Shakspere and sat down on the other side of the fire. "Mr. Jonson, I take it," said Mr. Moses with some perturbation, as he sat with one finger in the first edition of the play "Every Man in his Humor," which Ranr age of London had put into full antiqu* - calf for him a year ago. * "What's left of him," replied the Eliza* bethan, smiling. "You haven't a drop of sack in the house, have you?" "I regret to say that Mrs. Moses objects to intoxicating liquors," replied Mr. Moses meekly, "and refuses to have them in the house." The poet smiled. 'V. "Every woman in her humor as well as every man." he replied, gaily. "I waft a dusty but respectful kiss to the absen lady." "Is it a fact," inquired Mr. Moses, "speaking of intoxicating beverages, that Shakspere was thrown into a fever by , a little too much sack imbibed in your presence, Mr. Jorison?" "Will was a good deal Of a tank," re- - plied the poet, "and his t^ste for sack and his capacity therefor indicated a hollow ness of the lower limbs. Still I would pot say" The dramatist broke off. ^ i "I do not care to be quoted on Mr.'.. Shakspere's personal habits." ^-L* "Do you think there is anything in those^ rumors of Bacon or Raleigh havinger * assisted Mr. Shakspere in his great dramas?" - A look of bewilderment came over the* dramatist's face. \^ "Bacon! Do you mean Sir Francis?" V * "Yes." ^ i,\ Foyer Chat. * "Well, that's a new one to me. Bu* now you suggest it, there has certainly been something peculiar about Shakspere. His talk was certainly most commonyet no, no, not Sir Francis. Yet, he might have had help from " The dramatist dropped off in a brown'"*'' study and Mr. Moses found himself grip ping the table in his anxiety to hear Ben Jonson's conjecture on the authorship of the Shakspere plays when the voice of Mrs. Moses came hurtling down the stairs... - Ben Jonson retired suddenly to his book- case. ^-, "Mr. Moses, are you coming to bed io-night at all. or are King Henry VIII. and Anne Boleyn with you this evening?'!-, Mr. Moses made no reply to this satire, but he turned out the gas and climbed the stairs. A. J. R. ,J *sH fi. ,*i. .I,. . ,- 'Hartley-Campbell's everlasting success, "The White Slave," follows "Shore Acres" at the Bijou. J x * w M I ' -/& ?i H K: V