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THE SUNDAY JOURNAL
CAPS THE CLIMAX
Vermilion (S D.) Republican.
The Minneapolis Journal management
was rather dilatory. In .starting a Sunday.
edition of .Its most excellent and. enter
prising daily, but when the mood'once
'developed Into, method, the clfrrtax was
'capped without the slightest friction.
the ^._
mission of sugar froan. the. Philippines
free of duty, or on a basis of ^25 per
cent of the Dingley rate, on the ground
that the beet--s.ugar industry ..in this
country is nqt importanL T-hg Filipi-.
no3 ought to 'ha ve free trade with the
United States, but not because the
beet-sugar industry is not important.
The beet-sugar industry has been of
I rather slow', growth, and yet it seems
destined some.day tb
One reason why %eet 'sugar fails to
command much support for its claim to
protection, even against the product^
of our island possessions, is the large
control of the industry 'by -the sugar
I trust. The consumer is slow to te-.
spond to a demand for protection for
an industry so thorely dominated, bjf
the trust as':tbe beet-sugar buji.iness is
coming to'bet A the-same'tin\e, it is,
not safe to say that is not an im-
^j portant industry, at least prospective^
ly. It has not been seriously damaged
i by the concessions granted to Cuban
fi and Porto Tticafi producers, and!
we db
fl not believe thai the reduction of,, the.
I duty on sugar from the Philippines,
or even admission free, would affect it
materially.
Nobody cares if ih"e'vMeGur'dys'-*and
Hydes did find their Christmas stockings
cut down to socks.
The announ"cfeme'nt^is ^niade^^ thSt^ .the
Pennsylvania-systeni: is
prejpanng tt Ao
epgin'fei|^^^d-.._,!to,
away with stSj^:
I is evident, Thowever, tfiat!,
''iist
electric motors thruout its extensive
'j system. This may^be^ regarded as ip^e-.
1 mature, but" there -is jno doubt .railrpadi^^
^companies are expefhaB^ting with elec
tricity as a substitute for steam. Its
adoption is meisely^a.. question of .ecpn--
omy and practicability'.':, over Jong dis
tances. The rural" ttjplleys ha ve partial
solved both^pro^ien^sV' Electric trac
tion is already in fe%e oVer
distances, .but: itt has never been applied
to the immense. 'loads"*arrie*d b.Y
bef6rie
the advent of electricity,with its^burst
of speed bee'omes praciicftl on -Americari
railroads a great -deal of preliminary
work will neecHo be done..- The cutting
away of grades and the straightening of
curves at immense expense is a neces
sary forerunner of the motor.
The discovery .of the application- of
steam power TO locomotion.and,to man
ufacturing" is clearly" related' to tfie
emergence of 'man roin
va slate -of semi-
civilization. The extensive use of the
gifts or nature was first made possible
by the application of this power." But
the substitution of something else for it
is accompanied by no sentimental
mourning .pves its departure.* Ste am was
a means jtp append.* Science does not
wear crape for^ methods* which have
found m6re serviceable successors. "If
electricity canv
do the work of steam and
can do it better,. electricity will be
hailed as ki ng and the dethronement
of *team wrll not be accompanied by any
resolutions of sympathy. Indeed the
faddists on diseases will begin immedi
ately to say that steam and his partners,,
noise and dirt, should have gone long
ago. ':y^f::"'" l^".:,:^
All that McCormick boy needs now to
become a Venezuelan revolution is a pop
gun and a proclamation.
A Dubious Recruit.,
The Kansas Oity journal, commend
ing Senator Long's speech on the rail^
road rate question, speaks particularly
of that statesman's caution as showing
that he had a full appreciation of the
intricacies of the job now before con
gress. Sow best to do it, it says, is
the question which demands' a high or
dor of statesmanship.
The point of this comment is that
the .Journal has heretofore been
counted amo ng those high orders of
st$tesmfcn whb^were s^idying^ night aafl
:dayri.vQH Wow. best not^jbb do ijt, and up.
.tp.^w^hini.a^short time the.sector, from
Kansas was counted amo ng the most
devoted of these students. put in
monthsvof silence that could not be cut
with a corn knife, and took on a status
of evasiveness which could not be las
soed .by. the.,,most expert broncho man'
west
of-the- beloved- Missouri/ Now
that the senator has said something on
the subject tile Journal finds his cau
tion* still wort hy of -praise .and is ap
preciation of the difficulties of the
problem .almost- worshipful. Unless
something"sTiall" happen to cut the gdr
dian knot of his doubts It may tee ques-
.'tipned^..]^h
ever be able to' bind his soaring and
philosophic doubts within the confines
of a few words of law.
The senator from Kansas is now
counted among those who are with the
president, but unfortunately the count
i ng is done by those who ha ve always
been agjainst the president.
Of course your New Tear's resolutions
do not take effect until that Christmas
box of. cigars, has disappeared.
Th6 WMteJVTain's Transvaal
The first act f tbe new liberal cabi
net 'e'ime'in the fprm^ of an announce
ment from
the "premier that the impor-
tation of*coolie labor into tie Trans
vaal is prohibited. Kaffirs stocks went
down several points
temporaril(jampl&ile
declaration!
on th
of Sir
Henry
Bannerm'an antl '& direct issue" was" ih
jected into the nekt electoraliam^igMk
in England.
The labor question has been acute
in the TransVaal mines since the Hoer
war. -Indeed^ it
of the wai1.
become a very im-
portant business in this country. ^It
does not appear, however, that the ad
mission of sugar from the Philippines
at a reduced rate or free of duty would
materially increase importation. Th.e.
market for sugar from the Philippines
is in the.tprienti oa^ the.,,.Asiatic coast'
i and in Japan. I wilr command a bet
ter price there when the producers are
able to show to the consumers in China
and Japan that they, can 'snip their7
sugar, to the Unit ed States, if nec.es
sary to get a good priceT"' That's why
the Filipinos want us to stake off the
duty on their sugar not because they
expect to sell any. considerable amount
here.
was^one of the ^causes'
The mines, largely owned
and operated by English syndicates,
were being forked with niixed 'Kaffir'
and white laborj and hampered, as the
syndicate thought^ by Boer legislation,
which did. lipt take, into 'accounttha
the chief end of man :is to dig, gold f(\r
the enrichment of syndicate's. After
the war, wheu .the Transvaal became
the "territory pf Englaidy and the Boers
the sub.fe'cts "of King" Edwar d, the con
dition of the whole country as fear-
iui." TM^artfC.o^^Ihe
1
overrun, burned
Boers themselves had
had fled the cou-jitry.
Boers hid, been
an^^destroy^.ify-Th.e-
1 been'ltfflelJ1
-of
w, There was no,
labor, either for field' '6r mine, and
b&nkruptcy:: and gene jal-i abandoiament
of. enterprises was. threatened .The
corisefrvStiVe1
goVeThftient'BiftnctiOn'fed th'
importation of coolie labor for the
'mines and m$dtf 2arg& mon ey advances
.to inducei farm-, settlements.^. :.\r/
Thei Chinese have been a source of
trouble ,and vexation. Instead of indus
trial Chinese, the companies succeeded
iit-. gathering together Some tnousa&ds
of- the choicest cutthroats -of -the JoriT
ent Gradually these ha ve been weed-
ed,- largely by tjio rope, route, &p4 co%
ditions have improved. The mines be
ga n, to show resultsj but-tbe' Iarge^
I^question of whether' the'Tra'nsvaal wa^
to be a white man'sL'ieuutry be|fan ,'t&
aooni up. The liberal' par-fey in.'-"E?tg-.
land has stuck doggedly to the propo
sition .that], the., w)j,.it,e: T^n must, have
the country, whether he would take iti'
immediately or 'not/-" The premier's- ani-
nouncement issi,n,iilji.fie-,with that .pQlicy.
Don't expect a boy throbbing with plum
-pudding and loss",of sleep to be as. good
as he was.'-'just #fore "Christmas.'' i
Tle-La^m^n in the Church.
%According 'to -the,, reports sent: out.
irom.tKersynpd^ qi Chjcagp .ayefidipcese,
impcfftan-t-'-iegislatioi planned-by-Areh--
bis'^Q^ ^uigiey vnll^be passed tipon. Tie
legislktidn- fesin^the: direction o --giving:
the .iaymen-'a "greate"'s'teare"'^ power
'and'.res'p5^sib1Mtyifi the^r^ parishes... The
1
considerable
th
great freight-handling lines. Its first
application would be confined to the pas
senger trafficv^.wnerft. sidV,
vantages particularly th ose.^. spe.ed and:
cleanliness.,, .Electric, cars., ha ve ibeen
driven in Germany i a speed of 126
miles an hoiur.
latitude.'
adop^d wii\,makB, it oh
ligatory .Upon parishes to'elect trus
tees arid th'ese will have* legfal Status
instead of one dependent upon the will
af'the prjest.^. ^4
1jhe ^beralizing of the Eomanr Cath
olic church,:, in- this .^Rrectipn is jn line
wrthlhe, democratic, tendencies of all
^the churches "in the present day. .The
Congregational.church'v
gives" the inost
I -is a corporation ittWfrieb:
every contributor has a sort of stacks
^hfllder's right to be heard and to gi ve
a %6te on any important proposal.":'
The*'*Methodis church, four years
-ago/ "recognized, the iaymen by givihg
them}e(5|U?il representation' with the min
isters, in the.: generaL conference, the
higtest law-making body of the church.
HT^e Presbyterian general assembly has
been* for ya
rs' made up of ministers
and laymen, and the laymen have
ons*the.
committers,served even
most important
1
such a one as recently'took up the-task
of revising the statement of:
byterian creed.
the ..Pres-
.The demoemtie tendeacy is present in
ajl the churches. I is a recognition of
the fact that the church is not all for
providing'- a hereafter for men. The
priests could do that unaided. But it
has come to. be recopmized''that the
cburch has a mission to make life bet
ter while it is being lived. To achieve
this ob,iect, it is iiecessary that all
branches of the visible church should
be in harmonious accord. Harmonious
accofd" is not obtained by a denial of
the right* of representation. Hence we
find this attitude of denial-being grad
ually abandoned by the priesthood.^
The one defect In Castro's diplomacy is
that he is apt to hit an opponent a welt
in the eye when only sparring for points.
But he is always ready to make amends.
He-has just sent, the French agent, M.
Taigny, a large piece of raw beefsteak
in the shape of an apology.
$
,-s
Christmas in the Schiff Family.
Stories of the eccentricities of Santa
Glaus are coming in with every mail.
I New York it is charged that John
JX j&pckfeifellergfcve $5 e&ch to his"Jem-:
pioyees at Tarrytown. Hobok en comes
forward _with a marvelous tale to the
effect that Hetty Green gave a boy in
that town two candy canes,, "a "woolly
cow and a penny bank,
AnotHer sto'r that comes out': of
Gotham is more in. line with, the1
-handiwork of Miss fenid YaJidell, andv
new. state., capltpl.
ex-
pected. It relates to the treatment ac
corded Lena, a member of the Schiff
household. The relation is that Mr.
Schiff gave Lena a check for $5,000 for
a Christmas present and that Mrs.
Schiff/followed^his up with a gift to
Lena,of a -cluster diamond ring. Other
.members of the Schiff family gave Lena
a gold watch and neckchain, an ormulu
clock, a sealskin sack, an autoniobile
and a gold-framed portrait of Mr. Schiff
testifying .before the Armstroifg com
mittee.
Lena is the cook at the Schiff man
sidn.
The following declaration by Senator
George F. Hoar is to form the inscription
on hiis monument:
Will
edst-$6,000. sit Will be unveiled-"in. Louis
ville the'second -day of the home-coming
week, and will lateT b.cast in bronze and
placeds in a- prominent" position
in -ifo
Query .What will Tawney the Insur
gent -do. to1
Ta"w^ey'_.'the' ,.spei*er, wli^n
Uncle joe is' thfu? ''^Wlil he sit uppn the
throne and- lo6k:'
cbmplaeeiitly dtton upon
Tawney the insurrectionist getting in liis
work, OT win the oldAdanv begin boil
ing aroufid- 'inside of him until' he fe ^s
impelled to ndh himself from the dais
into the midsf of the trouble?*
The Philadelphia Itenpt declares that the
new city "party,*has .filled, the offices in a
^ecret'conclave -just as the old bosses .used
to do. The old,bosses thereby feel them
selves indorsed, "but wish the indprse
'merit had' 'come from th'e- people at the
election.
Congressman Landls, who" jumped 'into*
fame by calling Morgan "the international
fcte^raS-niac," has a bill to prevent the
lootingf-'of insurance companies. It reads
ifiT much like the law against grand lar
ceny under a different title.
St..Gaudens has finished a plaster model
of 'a statue of Mark Hanna for the city of
Cleveland. Mr. Hanna was a fine man,
but it is a question whether his figure
Will lend itself to the heroic.
'Admiral Rojestvensky has just arrived
at- St. Petersburg, but is b6ing overlooked
in the, excitement. ."This, is ^doubtless
pleasing to the admiral.-
ac
friends are sailing
nl
an
W-
Dowi
the-tropic seas in a yacht. .Certainly the
prophets are better fixe^ncwHhail they
were is the old days.
'As to the ballotboxes the New York
court, of appeals says-, Substantially that
the l|d once lowered can.'never be lifted,
again, '_.''_ 'X '..V""'
Senator Clark's granddaughter starts
Off with $1,000,000 in the bank. There is
something about that girl that we like!
i. It has been decided ,-to* ppsjtppne The
Hague peace conference, ..The czar was
unable to get away at this time."
The man who thfnksKthat his family
bought it all should go down and look at
the stores. _(
ASKING TOO MUCH
Washington Post.
After they get through dismissing in
surance company presidents who are
responsible for much of the scandal, it
iinigM-. help to get an insurance superin
tendent in New York who would be ac
tive enough to detect some of the frauds.
TO A N ACTRESS
Ton pass across a painted ecene.
With painted shadows by yoar aide,
e-
T'.v
f:-,"
President Corey of the'Stg'el trust shows"
Signs of being able to live without his
Actress.
TO RELIEVE THE FEROCITY
Indianapolis News:
Fcancesca Redding,
A
'-The action of the TJniyersity of Minne-'
sota in -prohibiting all betting and:' ticket
speculating in connection with, football
games may be more effective than would
appear at first glance. The general
elimination of such interests might do
a good deal to relieve the ferocity of the
contests.
WATER TO BURN
The
St. Louis Globe-Democrat.- a-*'J5.^clever
experts are .now 5 agreeing that
there will be no insuperable difficulty' in
building the Panama canal. -When the
water.is .squeezed into-the ditch.out of
the transcontinental railroad shares^ It
will float the largest ocean vesels.
i
A conscious beauty, so serene,
You seem to some great past Hilled '1
You would have stirred the Strand -& bft,"
When David Garrick was ,allve,
You would have measured wit forwit
Peg Wolflngton or Kitty Cllve,
'Tis in some old flamboyant day
Our fancy loves to picture" yon,
At Doctor Burney's drinking ''taj,'*
At Horace Walpole's playing loov j.^
nW? see you when the play Is o'er, "&/&
Swing slowly thru the foggy
vtt,?"?'1
Your link-boy running on before **A
The danoJes following your chair.
The chair is gone, the link-boy sped
Beyond the light of sun- and fctar, ti i
And in their place we :flnd instead.^
A chauffeur and .a motor car.
-A* for the dandleswell, today
They wear no ruffs of dainty lacej
...But beauty still maintains her sway
Men still jpursu* a lively .face. #&&
i Lift.
Evettirig, -^^i^it^igstt* THE MINNEAPO&IS^ JOURNAL.- December- 26, XQ03.gwraa*w4B'-
AMUSEMENTS
UniquePolite Vaudeville. t,
A rgood, all-around -vaudeville bill is
presented at ttfe Unifti^e theater for the
holiday week, and a $iost*or7the acts are
well-above the'averttfee. 3
Burgess, Daniel and Bur^ss have the
leading attraction with their combination
rtfusleal and acrobatic act. The act af
fords an opportunity for some good ling-
.ing,. clever acrobatic woyk and. a, number
ibfvclever dahclhg .jie$sii^8k ,i .The Ells
worths present a laughable short skit
called "The Silk Stocking," in which they
introduce some polished character woi'k
and clever dancing specialties. The Raf
fjertys, Irish comedians, have a convert
satlonal turn that is.^wjtty.and, not over^
dpne.l Their parddiift are, also well re
deive& -^'I gi-.W
$
I haye no faith in fatalism, in des
tiny, in blind force. I believe in God,
tlje living-God. I believe in the
American people, a brave and free
,people,, who,do not bow :]tb,e .ne,ck.or J,
bend the knee to any other, and who't"
desire no other to bow the neck or
bend the knee to them. I believe that
a republic is greater than an empire.
I believe finally, whatever clouds may
darken the horizon, that the world is
growing better, that today is better
than yesterday, and that tomorrow.
will be better than today.
-r-rr. S
The author of "My Old Kentucky
Home" is to have a statue, and rightly,
and it is to.be paid for by the ^Kentucky
scRoolr
children. The statue is to'be the
2 Ireiiev kittle, .^heJfchtiKti loloist who
gained so much popularity during her
stay last fall, is playing a return engage
ment, and sings the illustrated songs in
her usual attractive way. She is assisted
by,Herman.La E^eur and Harold Beckro.
Morey and Ifforey\glve several clever imi
tations-, of musical Instruments, and pre
sent -an altogether refined
ter, bits of comedy inserted just at the
Prober places, prevent Mis^ Irwlri's ad
mirers from getting too much of her 0*1
their own good. May Donahue, as a
"opok lady" goes on a strike at oppor
tune, times, and Louis Foley as a profes
sor of physical culture, Victor Casmore
as a Mexican card sharp, and John E.
Ha4?ard as an English v'alt, do slmilafe*
l^ylpe in giving the star intervals of
rest 'It is all clever fun artistic, if
broadly humorous.
Miss. Irwin is heralded as -the "gentus
of laugnt"r,'| and^is|ferlbes heOo
mcety? for she is^a-gfnlut." She has her
audience laughing with., hep, ^mthpr, than1.
at her, and she l&mm*gs-m.h
right
^^a},
i
f^*,y%-
,tnusical act.
Jini Daltbn makes a hit in'his monblog,
which Is *]1 new,--and Stan Arden, who
does lightning sketches in oilsj does some
wonderful work.
The motion pictures show the hazard
ous work of a train-wrecking band.
Metropolitan"Mrs. Black Is Back."
An old friend is here.to,spend Christ
ina week: May Irw|rt4-she of the dim
ples, infectious laugh and rotund figure.
It seems good to see her, too. Sara
Bernhardt isn't the only actress who
seems to be able to jrivo Father Time
cards and spades and .win. Miss Irwin
never looked youfiger in her life, at least
since she has been, coming, to Minneapo
lis, which dates bsick to her appearance
in- a Howard Atheneum company at the
old Grand operahouse on Sixth street.
She was never jollier, neyec *friskier, and
has her audience laughtijg with her when
ever she is oh the stage, which is fortu
nately nearly all the time, for without her
the interest flags perceptibly. Not that
she has not a suitable Vehicle In which to
display her fun-making proclivities, for
she has.- V, t..
qChe farce,, ^Mra. 5Bla.ck,Is Bacfc" by
George V. Hobart, is admirably adapted
to the purpose. \t. jleals with a widow,
'who has had a gay 1p$st and, has settled
down by, marrying a guileless professor,
whose IPespect she wants to retain. She
has fed him to suppose that she is young
er than she. is, and that:'her son, who is
in, Europe, is a Buster Brown, instead of
a bfe college chap. It is the sudden ap
pearance on the scene -of the son-that
starts her on a career of. continuous fib
blng and leads to many ludicrous situa
tions The thread of tfbre story Is just
strong pnough to hold if., together with
something like coherency. It is the
sort.of play that enables Miss Irwin to
indulge In her coon songs without explan-
aUpn ,without which her public would be
disappointed. As usual, she hasi' a bevy
of* well-dressed, statuesque ypung wonien
about her. With the exception'of'Miss'
Jane.-JBurby, who In the role of an
austerely proper sister, is an excellent
foiUtheyjnight as well be'included in the
scenic effects of the play. .Some phar-'
th'e du-
dience at the- s^ma^nteTssems -io -enjtoy
it quite as1-
mu^l^sf'^fe'oa?"'else' ,*&
fact. T-he.IBiesidf :t^ fplayi' ftre -very
iHV^s tHe'wit^fe of't he rapid-
fir nrdeihv,u,there lis r^efilly:sometfiMg1
her
will be embraced by a great many pe'o
Pl
S. B. H.
yer Ghat
The Christmas crowds that saw the 6r~
pheum'.s.current bill at the.Seventh sfereet
Vaudeville theater yesterday enthusias
tically set their seal of approval upon
Mr^.. Stuart. Rbbson ari& company in "The*
Saving-, of Mrs. Shaw*' JEdwin LateU.-.wfth
his .decidedly original musical monologj
Miftaf v'oh Wenzl's Tyrolean warbling: the
really high^class singing- of Henry Leone
and Anna Dale the club-swinging of the
juggling Normans, and every other num
ber on the theater's holiday menu.
Andrew Mack wilf pext Sunday even
ting begin ah engagement of one week'at
the Metropolitan, appearing in his-, two.
latest success, "The Way to Kenmare,?
^.ndV-VTom Moore." The first-named-play
will be the bill for the first half of the
week, with matinee New. Tear's'Day and
"Tom Moore" "will be given the last '.half
of the engagement. The sale of seats for
this-^yent begins? Thursday morning.
*r Lottie Williams and her- capable com-:
pany, appearing in Charles E. Blaney's
hew spectacular musical comedy drama,
played to two capacity audiences at .the.
Bijou yesterday afternoon and evening.
The play is written especially to fit the
..capabilities of Miss Williams, and she
proves herself to be a comedienne of un
usual 'ability. The plot is one of suffi
cient complication to hold the attention
in the unraveling "of" the story, and still
permits room for some good comedy and
rnusical numbers and specialties. A
popular-priced matinee, will be given to
morrow at 12:30.
The New Year'j3 attraction at the Bijou
will be the new musical comedy success,
"The Errand Boy," with Billy B, Van, the'
eccentric comedian, in-the role of Patsy
Bolivar, a character creation of his own.
Mr ..Van is, surrounded by a large com
"pany of clever entertainers, and the pro
duction is said to be an4imusually
4-tious one.
THE CHICAGO t_lD
i~ Nebraska State Journal." r,
Mayor Dunne:of. Chicago admits that
he pledged, himself before-election not to
enforce the ordinance relating to Sunday
closlhgi In other words', he .pledged him^,
self in advance to disregard his oath of
office^ arid he is staridihg1
1
-pledge fW'-^mt^m
S*jf- A^WONDEHFW^I^^EMORYA,:
,v-
CitytTJournal.
-J-' Kansas
On' learning that somebody..had sectifed
^u divorce from .her. it.,took Only .a few
lmJn"utes
m^M:i^m^^
111' the above map the shaded portions
indicate the governments in which
peasant disorders have recently been
KJrepbrte&j ih cities marked with circles
i^w"
f'yrl?ere
-of'
?rratiQ- in keeping, -up.^withtf
the^pEiide^hat-the diaWg sets. -As for W
songs,--they are, just. May Irwin's SQftgsi?,.s
rid' 6tie"else dan ever sing them as she
does, and there is no need of copyright
ing,, tfiem or mentioning -their title$ 'rthey
please' to" the limit df *tle singer's willing
ness to respond to encores.
Miss Irwin will be^here all the week,:
with a matinee on Saturday, and after
her -four years' absence she can be as-'
.sured, that the opportunity of seeing1,
mutinies of coldiers ot
sailprs ha ve occurred places1Tfnarled"
witlf -crosses have been the scenes i'pf
tnassacres of Jews, and towns marked
with Maltese crosses ha ve been the
.scenes of rioting between! the: populace
and troops.
The map is necessarily incomplete.
Anything like a definite story, of-what
has occurred in Eussia in the last,.six
weeks will perhaps never be wlitten,*
and certainly it will be mouthy/before
the extent ,of the outbreaks, is TitioWn
i the outside* world. The comnii^ioji'
ers 'sent frpm-liondon to investiga te
the situation pf the Jews haye already
found 'that there were masl3ae%s in
about 130 places, and the comi$k3Bion
ers have been in Eussia only a,, short
time^ ii
/'the most-. eturi
ning woman in yaudeyllle," comes to the
"Orplhfeam theater next week, with' ^her
.company^ in "Her.Friend from Texas."
Asiatic Eussia is not included-Mth
map. News from that region i^i been
even more incomplete than news' from
MXMISTOS IS
-STILL
These gladsome Christmas-'bells re
mitid nie of a Christmas when things
we re 4iot so gladsome and the only gift
.oni.ing.tO: me was unadulterated atl-1
versity," says.Edwin Latoll, the mu
sical 'mdndibgist at the Orpheum this
week., /'Times are good with me now,
biit I've eaten the husks along with
many a*placing prodigal, and each suc
ceeding Christinas makes me hark back
to 188.6 and what happened to me in
Mississippi.
"The 'Oaks Brothers' Swiss Bell
Ringers,' of which I was an 'umble
member, were touring the south, and
four days o,Ut" of New Orleans, went
broke at Vicksburg. The town Was so
bad that the river afterward left it'
.and fou nd a new place sev en miles
away.
'Some .of the brethren i a distress
found precarious employment, in a vari
ety theater called "The Comique,"
Which promptly closed its doorss, and
three of us:^Ham Atchison, the proper
mani Ifcelly'and Idecided to try for
Memphis. So dn the evening of Dec. 23
we boarded an unsuspecting freight
train, went to sleep in an empty box
car and were sidetracked at a wee sta
tion called. Cleveland, Miss.', where iire
unfeeling station agent bundled, us out
and locked the dpor of the car.
1'
preten^:
manfully by the
:m-li^- /^r
of reflecting" f6 Mme. ^Rejan'e
to fl&ureYoui tha:r"'^r mws*"
':She
:'jg
-liMr'
it
rhave
'"..hat
been he
husband. forgotten the man.
THE: '*8TRENUOl& FATHER" ^UNT
III K&nsas' City Journal. ^0m
e" puiallhg rhiri'g 'abdiit, the- report,
that a Cincinnati congressman is en
gaged to Alice Roosevelt is how he ever
Naturally ttiere was no moneyi
the party, but* a ig appetite. cuff
buttons* and a pair of scissors I had
with .me,- an. empty pocketbook belong
i ng to Kelly and a knife owned by At
chison, together with some fine talk to
an old negro mammy, got us the finest
coffee and steak I ever had or eyer
will have.
''Night found .us still in- Cleveland
with no place to sleep but in a cotton
seed shed. I well remember- covering
myself up to my eyes with cotton seed
and shivering away my Christmas eve.
W didn't dare smoke, even, because of
the dagger of fire. A 6 'clock
^Christmas morning we aw one of those
.edld'j. ^southern winter rains. ^All 'f'the
loose property we had was a silk hand
kerchief i- That got us a pot of black
iCoffee^and some skill and daring got us
.op to.the. rear a passing passenger
trafh," from which we were elected
vt^el^je JBil^s from Memphis. W fin-
.^shed. Jboe. day footi ng it into, the city,
where mon ey from home awaited me,
and the trio parted ways. I think At
..chison. is ^serving time somewhere, and
ZTcndw* Kelly went to tending bar.
*That. was a long time ago, but it
made, me very thankful for every merry
Christmas I've had since then.'?.
THE CITIES OF THE PHI LIP NES
Tliere aref four towns lb'the Philippines
with a. population exceeding %,00.0 each,
and* thirty-fie witht a popuiatroh' 'ex-
ceeding 5,000. Manila is the only incor
gaged to Alic Rooseve is how he ever porated city in the islands, and its inhabi- fully twepty-Jve years.
mustered up courage to ask Her father. 7 tants number 219,928. --~**~*'*e~^
Story of Russia's Revolution Told in This Map
It Shows at a Glance Where, Military Mutinies, Peasant Outbreaks
Massacres of Jews Have Occurred.
the European portion of th.e czar's do
minionm'but japparentlx .!there*? ha ve
been anti-Jewish- excesses^in various
citieSj and mutinies are reported from
Harbin, Vladivpstip^anfl., ejseiwherie
Eact day brings word of some new
deyalppnie^ityfof. ^16,*^*^. ofr *#ys\tt ip.t
Eussia, with'its attendant letting loose'
of1
tno passions 'bF a people whom civil-
izatapj* ihas neyerr coveired with any
thing but the thinnest of veneers. The
Russian'feasant' is a adcile^ eireature ot}
rdiiiaj^^!:, .blindly revering the {Little
Father,, as contented with nis wretched
^lot a# a-"dbg." But "whe'ri*-aroused he is
.like an animal alsor-?a wild ^beast mad
for blood. Competent authorities on
.Eussia. declare that tl*9.anassacresin
the towns, appalling as they were, were
as nothing-compared-to what will hap
pen ,if, tha -peasant rising is' not r.very
soon checked. The map shows how
large" Is' thd territory" already affected,
ami .already, we, arer reading fiendish
murders and outrages perpetuated by
the mujiksV
'v4
The latest outbreak -is.in tbe Baltic
freds
rovinces, where, in additipn to the ba
engendered by the harsh treat-
-|..T"he' participants were Leroy
W^irigjvrtt Dinner
at SGl#&ion Army Headquarters
PART OF T4HE MOTLEY THRONG OUTSIDE THE OLD CITY HALL CHRIST-
MAS AFTERNOON.
Members of Welch Family at
Their Reunion on Christmas Day
One Qf the happiest Christmas parties
in all the land yesterday was-that at
'the" home of Mr. and Mrs. B. J. Welch, C. Ovorson, Portland, Ore., Mrs. Rich
2736 Clinton'avenue. It was also one
of the most unusual-gatherings, for
around the board were ten brothers and
sisters who had not been otgether for
ment of the peasants by the landlords,
there is hatred of race. The landown
ers are Germans and the peasants are
Letts. Frightful stories of the ven
geance the workers are taking are be
ginning to eome out, and apparently
Jhe gjrgat.er'park of-CQujptland and Livb
nia is being devasted by bands of in
furiated peasants.
Even the government of St. Peters
burg is the scene of agrarian disturb
ances.- The Russian" government has
many terrible .problems facing it, but
it is said that it regards none of them
with the same alarm as the outbreak
of the mujiks. I knows and it real
izes the meaning of the number of
these people. I knows that th ey can
be mown down by machine guns, but
it also knows that even the immense
army of the czar would not be large
enough to cope with them.
Already events like those due reads
of with a shudder as having occurred
in.' the French revolution are occurring
in Eussia. What the outcome will be
no. one, not a correspondent, not a
statesman, not a diplomat, has ven
tured to predict.
Wel ch of Minneapolis, Mrs. Alice D.
Kuni, Aberdeen, S. D., Mrs. Jeannette
ard Bliss, DawBon, Minn- Mrs. J. M.
Bliss, 'Princeton. Minn., H. L. Welch,
Minneapolis, William E. Welch, Minne
apolis, Mrs. Joseph Starr, Park Rapids,
Minn., Burton, J. Welch, Minneapolis
and Mrs. C. M. Childs, Mumeapolia.
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