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Lucky to Do Right
More than once during the present Chi
nese imbroglio our government has been
forced to take a position at variance with
that of the other powers represented in
Peking, and at the risk of being compelled
to break the concert of action there. But
just when the situation has appeared to be
the most critical, something has happened
which turned the tide in our favor.
This has been repeated in connection
with the proposed punitive expedition
which Yon Waldereee was preparing to
make against the new Chinese capital.
Before it could start, the Chinese gov
ernment announced its willingness to con
cede the demands which this expedition
was to enforce, and the expedition has
been abandoned.
Yon Waldersee now says that the ex
pedition talk was only bluff; that he never
intended to go at all. But not much stock
is taken in that statement, for If he had
not seriously contemplated such an expe
dition, and England, Prance and Italy had
not been Induced to unite with Germany
In it seriously, our government would
doubtless have understood the real situa
tion and would not have felt any concern
about the outcome. That there was real
concern about the outcome, and especially
over the necessity to break with the other
powers, felt at Washington, there can be
no doubt. Our government has not hesi
tated to express itself in disapproval of
the expedition, nor has it concealed its
regret at the necessity of being obliged to
discontinue co-operative effort with the
other powers to bring about a satisfactory
settlement with the Chinese government.
It appears now, however, since the expe
dition has been abandoned, that neither
France nor England were very enthusiastic
over the undertaking, and are doubtless
glad that it has been abandoned. It is
certainly greatly to our interest in that
country that such a practical declaration
of war by all the nations involved against
China has not been made, for if such a
■war were successful it must result ulti
mately in the partition of China, a thing
•which our government has endeavored to
prevent.
Our government has been right in every
Instance where it has taken issue with one
or more of the powers in the Chinese mat
ter, and it has been invariably on the
winning side In the end. Our government
must be either very far-seeing or else it
is pretty nearly time, under the rule of
persistence, to conclude Chat it is lucky
to do right.
However good Mrs. Nation's intentions
may be, her manners are very bad. Ad
dressing the court at Topeka she several
times used the expression "Tour Dis
honor." The court is in no sense to
blame for the unlicensed, prohibited sa
loon, nor for her arrest for smashing it. A
heavy fine for contempt of court might
teach her something ehe needs to learn.
Li Hung Chang has demonstrated the
fact that the Chinaman appreciates a
Joke. Dr. Ament, a missionary, having
conducted a sale of loot, crediting the
sum received against the claims for mis
sionary property destroyed, Li has pro
posed a revision of the eighth command
ment by adding to the injunction "thou
shalt not steal," the qualification "but
thou inayest loot."
The Journal's extras with the
Hamilton verdict were on the street at
least ten minutes ahead of the Tribune
yesterday. No wonder our slow-going
contemporary bragged, about its speed last
nifht. That's a way it has—the worse it
is scooped the louder the bluff.
While Russia is shutting out agricul
tural machinery from America she may be
fixing things so that the farmers cannot
successfully compete with American
wheat growers in the world's markets.
Jerry Simpson has gone into the live
■lock business in Wichita. He says he
has left politics for good. If he has left
politics at all it is for good, no doubt
But there is room for the suspicion that
Jerry has not left politics; it looks more
as if politics had left him.
The Chicago Tribune, speaking of Miss
Roosevelt, -who is to : make her \ debut fat
the inaugural \ ball,, says she "bears 1- a
striking resemblance to her distinguished
father." We have never seen the young
lady, but we feel quite sure that that is
as untrue as it is unkind.
Up to the Commercial Club
The Board of Trade, through many years
of its history, was a splendid organization,
composed of representative, public-spirit
ed, energetic business men, who, through
the agency of that organization, did great
things for Minneapolis. It has not, how
ever, of late years, attracted to it the
membership of the rising generation of
Minneapolis business men. As a result
its usefulness has declined and Its influ
ence waned.
Various efforts have been made to reor
ganize it and to restore it to the com
manding positon it once occupied in this
community; but the measure of success
attending these efforts haa not been such
as to encourage the remaining members
in further persistence in that direction at
this time.
They have noted the splendid growth
and prosperity of the Commercial Club,
founded upon the basis of a social organi
zation, rising to a membership of 700 with
a long waiting list, housed in magnificent
quarters, more attractive than those oc
cupied by any similar organization in the
west, and apparently established upon a
practical and firm financial basis, with all
obligations discharged and a handsome
surplus on hand. This organization de
sires to make itself useful to the com
munity, as well as to its members, by
adding to its functions as a social club
the discharge of such public duties as a
large representative body of that charac
ter might be expected to perform.
A special committee of the Board of
Trade having been satisfied, upon investi
gation, that the Commercial Club is dis
posed to take up the duty of serving the
public as a representative body of busi
ness men and is capable of performing
this public service efficiently, and for the
reason that all efforts of this kind
should be centralized in one body, has
recommended to the Board of Trade that
everything in the nature of what is
known as public work be turned- over,
as far as the Board of Trade is con
cerned, to the Commercial Club, and that
the Board of Trade withdraw from that
field for a year. The Board of Trade will
maintain its organization, but will be in
active, having adjourned until the second
Wednesday in January. 1902.
This arrangement having been brought
about by a conference and everything
bearing upon the situation having been
harmonious and mutually satisfactory, it
is now, in the current phrase, up to the
Commercial Club to render to the city
of Minneapolis that service as a represen
tative body of business men of which
this city is so much in need. How, that
work is to be done is not yet definitely de
cided, but we sincerely hope that the
membership of the Commercial Club will
realize the responsibility which they have
assumed, and Uiat the business men gen
erally, whether now members or not, will
give to the Commercial Club that hearty
support, personal and financial, which
they have a right to expect. We feel
quite safe in assuring the club that it
will have the enthusiastic co-operation of
the press of the city in every intelligent,
well-directed effort it may make to
promote the interests of the city, and in
organizing an agency here whioh shall be
alert to the protection of interests already
developed, and to the building up of new
ones essential to the continued growth
and prosperity of Minneapolis.
W. W. Appleman of Clermont, lowa, a
brother-in-law of Victor Dolliver, has in
vented a. flying machine. He borrowed
his principal idea from the spider. This
is a new version of the old story of the
spider and the fly.
The London county council has put up
$25,000 to fight the plague. It couldn't
do that in Minnesota, not while Van
Sant is governor.
Living One Hundred Years
Not many of us live to be a hundred
years old, but doubtless many more of
us might if we tried. The human ma
chine is the most perfect piece of mechan
ism ever constructed, and it contains
within itself the material and the tools
for making its town repairs. The restor
ing power of nature, when this human
machine is abused and broken in any par
ticular, is wonderful^ To this we owe
the fact that the average of human life
is as long as it is.
But, just as in the case of man-made
machinery, the life of the human mechan
ism and its continued usefulness is de
pendent upon the skill and intelligence
with which it is used, and the favorable
conditions under which it is housed. Im
proved knowledge of its structure, greater
care in its use and better housing have
lengthened the average life of the hu
man machine, and, yet, the instances in
which particular specimens have been in
practical use to great age emphasize the
fact that a much longer average of use
fulness might be obtained if proper re
gard were paid to the care of this won
derful device, the human body.
This interesting subject is taken up
on this page to-day in the Current Topics
series, under the general title of "The
Art of Living a Hundred Years." It is
treated in this series not in a dry, scien
tific, technical style, but in a readable,
entertaining fashion by men eminent in
letters as well as distinguished for scien
tific knowledge. We take particular pleas
ure in calling attention to this attractive
and instructive series. It is a good thing,
well done, and we know you will enjoy it.
The national present for Queen Wil
helmina will take the form of a crown.
It's hardly an appropriate gift for such a
good-natured young woman. No cross,
no crown.
Mrs. Nation's hatchet might smash that
Nebraska ■ senatorial {deadlock. 1
Fkench Roads
In an illustrated paper ;in Outing on
"The Automobile in French Recreative
Life," Guy Carry! shows that the tre
mendous development of the automobile
business in France is due to the fact that
road improvement -in that country .has
been ■ carried ; out to such an extent that
road conditions are absolutely ideal.
,Broad macadam highways run from the
main centers out to ' all - corners of > the
land and are " perfectly; level for -' twelve
or fifteen miles' at a stretch,' and asphalt
is no . smoother or ;firmer 'Mr.- Carryl
says mud Is practically an unknown quan
tity. '.. When people • have , such =. inviting
highways leading everywhere, it is no
wonder that the . vehicular .' propensity - is
I strong. On these magnificent roads, from
THE MTSinSAPOIIB TOTmNXC.
Boulogne to Marseilles and from Belfort
to La Rocbelle, one meets automobiles
flying along from ten to twenty miles an
hour. In our own country, wherever there
Is a section blessed with unimpeachable
Toads, the automobile, and its cousin, the
bicycle, are increasingly visible.
The contrast between our road condi
tions and those of France is humiliating
for us, but in the course of the new cen
tury there is no doubt that Americans
will address themselves diligently to
the construction of good roads. It is the
lamentable condition of our roads, ex
cept in a few localities, which has made
us lag behind in*the automobile era.
„ ■ . . It is only IH9 years since
Jt iOtHZOte^vaahirgton waß born Tne
Man, llvas of three grandmothers,
tkftor Mil eacn DUt 56 years in length—
' and few grandmothers now-»
days are over that age—if placed and to end,
would reach back to the memorable dato, Feb.
22, 1782.
As a jumping on place Washington chose
the little county of Weatmorelaud in Vir
ginia. East of bis cradle was the Atlantic
ocean aud west of it an untrodden wilderness
that didn't seem to be worth anything.
Georgle Washington waa a dignified child with
a deportment admirably adapted to develop
into a set of manners fit for the father of a
rather remarkable country. No one slapped
General Washington heartily on the back aud
exclaimed joyously, "How are you, George?"
General Washington represented, the dignity
and the solidity of the new nation. Benja
min Franklin was its shrewdness aud di
plomacy. Franklin was more adaptable. It
was possible to slap blm on the back without
offense. If he had taken offense, he would
not have shown it. Some people question
now whether Frr nklin was "a gentleman."
No question of this kind is raised about
General Washington. Franklin's foibles and
faults have kept him warm in the popular
heart. But in the case of General Washing
ton, the charge was made by the late Colonel
Ingersoll that he had "become a steel en
graviug."
There was enough of truth In this charge to
arouse considerable opposition. People re-
sented the placing of the country's father in
the steel engraving class and attempts have
b&en made to humanize him by hunting up
for him faults and shortcomings of various
kinds. A book was published recently called
"The True George Washington," that has
done much to restore the Virginia gentleman
to popular favor. It Is shown that he had
a warm side for the ladies, that there was a
leaven of humor in him, that he broke loose
and swore roundly once or twice, under
tremendous stress of circumstances to be
sure—but he did it. Once, and once only, he
strained the truth a trifle. It was just the
mereßt trifle, but he did it.
The trouble with General Washington's
fame has been clearly due to his early biog
raphers. In their attempts to make him a
perfect being they refined the humanity out
of him.
When you know George thoroughly, you
will like him better. He i 3 being gradually
found out.
The people who have "known it all" in the
Hamilton case have been especially numer
ous, so much so as to recall Burdett's lines:
I love the man who knows it all.
From east to west, from north to south.
Who knows all things, both great and small,
, And tells it with his tireless mouth;
Who holds a listening world in awe
Tha while he works his iron jaw.
Ofttimes at evening's holy calm.
When twilight softenß sight and sound,
And zephyrs breathe a peaceful psalm
This fellow brings his mouth around
With its long gallop that can tire
The eight day clock's impatient ire.
Lord Roberts has been made First Baron
Roberts of Kandahar and Waterford, P. C,
K\ P., Q. C. 8., G. C. S. 1., G. C. I. E., V. C,
D. C. L., LL. D., with several other titles.
Whoever fired the gun into the alphabet umtst
have used bird shot to have brought down
such a liberal supply of letters, or did the
king stutter a little?
Politics must be on again in Maryland. A
Baltimore paper speaks deprecatingly of a
politician "whose mourn stretches across the
wide desolation of his face, the sepulcher of
the distillers' output and the geyser of false
hood."
To-morrow is the day the wolves laugh.
The local Teddy Roosevelts are going out
to shoot a few hundred, provided the var
mints are chaired in position in front of the
howitzers.
"Puck" calls for an anti-boxing law in
New York that will not prevent prize fighting.
Any old law will do if you elect the right
kind of officers.
"A beefstake dipped in liquid air becomes
as hard as stone." Well, what of that? The
beefsteak fried by "our hired girl" becomes
just like the doormat after long usage.
The New York ice trust is refusing to cut
any ice on the Maine rivers this year. The
idea is to keep the supply down and the
prices up. Oh, we are easy.
Jules Verne has refused an invitation from
the French academy. He says he has noticed
that the "Immortals" are quite mortal.
There is a report that Wu wants to borrow
$200,000,000 in America. So do we and we
were here first.
Kansas has a severe case of rheumatism.
The disease has attacked the joints.
Mr. Carnegie will be remembered longer
by his libraries than by his armor plate.
To Senator Teller it is "Cuby."
A STORY BY PIERCE
The late ex-Senator Pierce used to tell this
story, In which Colonel Plummer was the
leading figure: One day, while Plummer was
traveling from Grand Forks to Fargo, a gen
tleman somewhat active in Indiana politics
aproached him with an invitation to contrib
ute something toward building a monument,
to Thomas A. Hendrieks. The colonel
thought it an odd request, but replied very
politely:
"Nothing would give me greater pleasure,"
said he, "than to contribute to a monument
to a dead democrat, but 1 really haven't got
the money."
"Don't you think it a worthy object?"
"Certainly," responded Plummer. "When a
democratic politican has the decency to die,
everybody ought to chip in cheerfully. The
whole party would have died long ago if it
had any shame."
"I think you are pretty hard," said the so
licitor. "The democratic party has outlived
every other party, and it will live when you
are dead, and when the republican party is
dead."
"I don't doubt it," returned Plummer, in
his quiet, deliberate manner. "Many good
things have passed away. The glory of Jeru
salem has departed. The law of Moses 18 no
longer in force. Washington and Lincoln
are dead; but hell is still alive and the devil
is kicking, and until they have been de
stroyed, we may expect to find the democratic
party galloping around the country begging
for alms."
The disgusted solicitor cast one withering
glance at Plunaemr and vanished into an
other car.
A THREE-BILLION DOLLAR CITY
The assessed valuation of real estate in
New York city now exceeds $3,000,000,000. The
total valuation doesn't look bo large, however,
considering some of the eingle instances.
There is the Equitable Life building, for in
stance, which is assessed on a valuation of
|«,000,000, and the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel for
$5,000,000.
Old Book Collector Dead.
James A. H. Bell, who died in Brooklyn
Saturday, was a lifelong collector of books.
Last year he gave his collection of 10,000 vol
umes to the Brooklyn library. Many of them
are rare and valuable. Having given away
one library, he began to coliect another, and
left 2,000 volumes, which, it is understood,
will go to the Brooklyn library. Mr. Bell
waa a free thinker, and by his express wishes
no religious services were held at his funeral.
But Lean Important.
;/ This present ' speculation as •to who ■ will be
the next democratic candidate for president is
much ; like guessing : what T the • weather will •be
on the day he Is nominated.
New York Daily Letter.
BUREAU OF THE JOURNAL,
No. 21 Park Row.
HoiifttiiH of the Poor.
Feb. 21.—There is a reviewed agitation for
the rebuilding of sections of lower New York
in order to root out the present unsanitary
tenements and provide for the proper hou»-
Ing of the poor in the congested districts. It
is proposed that the model houses be built
and owned by the city. Many large taxpay
ers have become Interested in the movement,
which has gained so much headway thai au
Bast Side block is shortly to be purchased
and one of the advocated houses put up on
the ground as an experiment. Bishop Potter
is lending all possible aupport to the move
ment, being a strong advocate of rebuilding
the tenement section so that light and air
and water may be provided In healthful quan
tities. Help of soia« sort is expected from
the legislature, it being desired at any rate
that that body grant the city the power to
build the houses on the ground selected. On
this subject it la apropos to state that Liver
pool has a somewhat similar plan in force,
having 843 homes built or iv course of con
struction.
A Mounter Ferry Boat.
There has just been launched in New York
; harbor the largest ferry j boat ever construct
ed. It is the Chicago, built for the Pennsyl
vania Railroad. company's Cortlandt street
line, and; will take the place of the > boat of
1 the same ; name. that was sunk .in the ' North
river by a collision with an ocean liner. The
new Chicago was ; launched ' last; Saturday at
Port Richmond, Staten island. The, ducking
of the ferry was made'quite an occasion by
the railroad officials, and nearly, 2,000 persons i
went down to the island to see the big boat;
take to the water. Both the Philadelphia and
the New York chambers of commerce were
represented. , , .
A New Figure. , - l
James Henry Smith Is a rather unique fig-'
ure In the financial and the social.worlds of
the metropolis. For a long time.he has fig
ured in the. centers of finance, but only now
has dipped into the intricacies of the social
swim.' In the latter is Indeed welcome,'
for Mr.. Smith .rejoices- in ■ $50,000,000 and is
at . the same time a 'bachelor. He is the
wealthiest bachelor: in America, and accord
ingly when he made known to those of upper
tendom that he would like to swim In their
own particular pool they immediately started
in to gratify his wish.-. After his dinner at
Sherry's, Smith-was announced to have bro
ken the spell that caused him to be known as
"Silent Smith." His initiation, costing $50,
--000, was complete. Mr. ; Smith came into his
immense ■ fortune through f the death of an
English uncle, but before that he was a rich
man. "Silent Smith" he was known in Wall
street, because of his nature and disposition.
At Delmonico'e he was known as a guest and
not as an. entertainer. The four hundred,
now by courtesy of Harry Lehr the six hun
dred, did not know him at all. Mr. Smith
is still a young man, being about 40, and all
matrimonial nets are set.
Trade With the Argentine.
It was only five years ago that the first
steamship from the United States reached
Buenos Aires and was a curiosity. Now
there are five or six ships arriving monthly,
and business between the two republics has
been growing at a remarkable rate. Germany
appears to be the principal sufferer from this
growth of American interests, although Great
Britain is losing to some extent. All of the
banks, railroads, street railways, telegraphs
and telephones in the Argentine are con
trolled by Englishmen. Germans control the
bulk of the import and export trade>, while
Italians make up the greater part of the la
boring classes. Taxation is exceedingly
heavy, the budget for the last year footing up
$181,000,000, everything being taxed, even to
signs over stores or on lamps.
AMUSEMENTS
Mrs. Brnnr'a Theodora.
To the Editor of The Journal:
In Tuesday's Journal I notice a criti
cism of Mrs. Minnie Tittell Brune's portrayal
of Theodora, in which the critic says: "She
(Mrs. Brune) h&s the temperament, but she
is not of the heroic mold, and Theodora, the
supple tigress, is not well within her me
tier." If actresses are to be chosen for their
physical as well as mental qualifications in
the portrayal of historic characters, Mrs.
Brune would seem to be peculiarly well
adapted to the character of Theodora. For
she was not "a supple tigress," but a "wan
ton child," and Gibbon says of her (vol. 3,
page 416): "Her features were delicate and
regular; her complexion, though somewhat
pale, was tinged with a natural color; every
sensation was instantly expressed by the vi
vacity of her eyes; her easy motions dis
played the graces of a small but elegant fig
ure.'" —Laurenz R. Harris.
It is perhaps sufficient to say in answer to
Mr. Harris that the Theodora of Sardou is
not the Theodora of history, either in charac
ter or, inferentially, In physique. The his
torical Hamlet, for aught we know, may have
been an excessively fai. person with red hair.
But the Hamlet that Shakspere drew has
certain well-denned physical characteristics,
and the actor who possesses or is able to
simulate tho&e characteristics is well on the
way toward a successful Impersonation. The
Byzantine empress, as Sardou conceived her,
was a supple tigress. This he shows clearly
enough in the early scene where she fondles
and shows kinship with the, tigers. This
keynote to hej* character the dramatist strikes
with a purpose early in the action. It is at
once a reminiscence of her past and an
augury of her future. This Sardou woman is
more, much more than "a wanton child";
she is a cruel voluptuary whom her people
tear and hate. If she were really the woman
she appears to be in her love scenes with
Andreas, there would be no explanation for
his sudden revulsion of feeling in which he
denounces her in public as a courtesan, nor
for the hatred and abnorrence which animate
him to the end. It is these mental qualities
and their correlated physical qualities that
Mrs. Brune is not entirely successful in re
producing. —W. B. C.
Foyer Chat.
"Theodora" will be given by Mrs. Brune
and her capable company at the Metropolitan
the remainder of the week, including a mati
nee on Saturday.
Atmosphere and heart interest are attri
butes which tend to the success of James A.
Herne's plays. Yet while they possess local
coloring, they are characteristic not so much
of locality as they are of humanity. In
'Hearts of Oak," which Is to be seen at the
Metropolitan all of next week, the scenes are
laid along the coast of Massachusetts, but
they could have been placed anywhere else,
and still the interest would- have been main
tained. The company is said to be an excep
tionally capable one, including among its
members E. P. Sullivan, Richard Allen, Nat
D. Jones, Thomas M. Hunter, Helen Lowell,
Marie Adair, Eliot Enneking and little Mar
garet Cecil.
Of the numerous substitution acts seen at
different times in this city, none has been
more mystifying than that of the Brothers
Herne at the Bijou this week. The manner,
in which this duo rid themselves of handcuffs
and other paraphernalia is wonderful. Ful
gora's Stars offer the best vaudeville seen
here in some time. The Sldinans In their
sketch give a most artistic portrayal of
down east Yankee life. One of the most
laughable features is the sketch of Lewis and
Ryan as the Two Actors. Polk and Kollins
are most artistic banjo players, and Kara,
the juggler, captivates the audience with his
wonderful work. To-morrow, Washington's
birthday, will be celebrated by a special
matinee performance.
At the Bijou the coming week will be seen
Charles H. Hoyt's merry farce-comedy, "A
Brass Monkey." This play has not been seen
here in some time and it comes with the
promise of a splendid producing company,
headed by Mazie Trumbull and James K.
Wesley, a large chorus, bright and catchy
music, entertaining specialties and a wealth
of scenic investiture. The play is a satire
on superstition. Miss Trumbull is seen to
excellent advantage In the leading role of
Baggage, and her supporting company is most
capable.
WINS BOAT RACES AT T5
Dr. F. J. Furnivall, most illustrious of Eng
lish scholars in England, and Just ending his
seventy-fifth year, rows fifteen miles on the
Thames on Sundays, and recently *~* Dart in
a race, which h* woo,
THURSDAY EVENING, FEBBTJAKY 21, 1901.
A Woman's Unreason
BY MARTHA MCULLOCH-WILLIAMS.
Copyright, 1901, by A. S. Richardson.
Outside of strict business, the Bun bad a
choice assortment of names—he was Ralph
Montgomery, or George Warren Paget, Esq.,
or ever so many other equally well-wunding
persons, when occasion offered. In his native
village he had been known as Jack Belloo,
until he left the country, decidedly for tne
country's good.
It was his forehead, round and bulging,
that had gained him his nickname with the
gang." ' :"-•;■■ . '
All told, the gaig numbered perhaps fifty—
men and women, and a few pitiful waifs that
could not be called children, though they
were small and young. The most part en
gaged in light work—shoplifting, palming
tickers, snatching purees from timid hands,
or Jostling to their loss, the wearers of flam
boyant fobs and rcarfpins.
Since the Bun had become a leader, he
felt himself estopped from the small things,
though often his fingers itched as he let
slip an especially tempting opportunity. The
itching was p;rhaps the first root of his
grievance against Llze. Until her day, he
had been quite content to work under orders,
although he was rapacious enough to be full
of sour envy over missing a chance at the
big things. Lisee bad made leadership a con
dition precedent to herself. She was not
much to look at, but what, with wit and grtt,
and the lightest fingers In all the gaag, she
easily came to be a sort of queen in it
For three years she had been the Bun's
girl. Of course, he was masterful with her—
often to the point of brutality. But he gave
her no rivals until Long Lou came into the
gang, and openly set snares for him. She
was young, still in her 'teens, handsome and
strapping, with a level head, and a free,
peppery t#ngue. The Bun did not go wholly
over to her, but he did spend at least half
his abundant leisure, and very much more
than half his rather scanty cash, in her com
pany, and for her pleasure.
To speak truth, he was living mainly upon
hope. A big thing—the biggest in gang his
tory—was in hand, but as yet all outlay and
no return. A hundred yards tunnel is not
dug in a day, even when there is a bank
vault and a half million at the farther end
of it. The Bun was waiting upon the tun
nelers. After they were through he would go
at the chilled steel. A very prince of cracks
men, he knew he would have it open in three
hours. Then he would take all the swag
money, bonds, plate, whatever was worth
moving—home to his flat, three miles away,
Snd lie quiet tiiere, while others of the gang
scuttled off to take the hue and cry upon a
false scent.
Meantime there was spare and lenten liv
ing at the flat. Because it must be kept from
the shadow of suspicion. Lise did nothing in
the wuy of business, but stayed at home,
busying herself to make the place tidy and
homelike. She never went out, save upon
housewifely errands. Nobody same to see
her. The Bun went away regularly every
morning towards 10 o'clock. Since he wore
excellent clothes, paid his rent in advance
and had a way of scowling at all he met, the
other tenants set It down that he was either
English, and living upon his income, or else
that he belonged in Wall street. He was
careful always to be home for dinner, though
he went out again almost immediately after
ward. Inevitably Lize had much time for
brooding. She had also plenty of food for it.
The Bun came !n always smelling of tube
rose—which Long Lou had adopted as her
special perfume. Further, he made but a pre
tense of eating the poor meals Llze set before
him. Therefore, she was certain he meant to
dine later. She would not have grudged him
the daintiest fare, while she ate bread and
water, if she had thought he ate it alone,
or only in masculine company. But, where
it touches a man, women are kittle cattle,
particularly women of Lizes order. Care
fully, methodically, she laid her plans.
Long Lou was a wanton spendthrilt, always
eager to. fling away money with both hands.
Though she did not know the game that was
on, nor the Bun's part in it, she had a very
shrewd suspicion of 1c all.
Lize, indeed, was the only woman trusted
in that way. Torture would not have made
her betray the trust, nor was there enough
money in the world to have bribed her. In
the face of all that she sat through many»
nights, with her hands clenched, staring at
the light, and occasionally smiling a hard
desperate smile, and waiting for that other
night, when the Bun would bring home a
fortune.
It came at laat, rainy and cold, with a raw
east wind, and smothers of fog coming up
from the river. Lize, listening with every
nerve tense, heard footfalls, deliberate, yet
exultant. Before the door opened she knew
what she would see—the Bun, overrunning
with joyous conceit. He had the swag neatly
stowed in an immaculate and very English
suit case. As he swung it upon the bed he
called huahedly to her: "Give us a beer—
quick, old gal! I'm dry as charcoal, but
haven't dared wet my throat eince I came
out of that beastly hole."
"There is no beer," Lize said, not stirring
from her seat. The Bun almost gasped
"When I told you to have it—to have every
thing comfortable?" he snarled. "Are you
out of your mind?"
"Xo. Seems to me you've been out o'
yours this long time," Lize flung back at
him. He caught her by both shoulders and
shoot: her as a terrier shakes a rat.
"You get me something to eat—to drink!"
he growled. "No more fooling! I ain't in
the mind to stand it. I have got to stay here
until the usual time—by the Lord, I won't
stay hungry."
"How'll you help it?" Llze asked. "There
is not so much as a crumb, a cheese paring,
in the house "
"So! You've tricked me: You think that's
the way to keep me from another woman—
and a bettw one," the Bun «aid in a hissing
whisper. He was murderously angry.
They were in the front room, looking out
over the street. The bed, a cumbrous brass
bedizened affair, posed as a secretary
throughout the daytime. Lire had let it
down, through she stood fully dressed <n
street clothes. Th« Bun did not notice it,
but one window was half open, and a keen,
wet morning smell drifted in. Again he
caught the girl an<l shook her hard. She
looked up at him undauntedly, saying with a
hard laugh: "Why don't you hit me? Are
you afraid?"
"Not of you!" he cried, still very low.
Then he seized her, flung her prone upon the
bed and knelt with all his force upon her
chest. He heard a faint, sickening sound of
crashing ribs, but Lize did not even groan.
He sprang up and down again—again came
that sound of shattering bone. In spite of hia
rage, it almost sickened the Bun. He slid
from the bed, and stood looking at the girl,
a great fear wavering In hts eyes. She
sprang past him, clutched the window cas
ing, flung herself half through It, and ehout
ed, at first weak and hoarsely, but with the
gathering strength of mortal anguish: "Help!
Help! Help! Mur-der! Help!"
The cry paralyzed him. He knew it would
be answered. In ten minutes, In five. It
might be, people would be swarming all
about. Yet he did not. move to seize and si
lence the girl. He w*xs in the grip of a great
superstitious dread. As a lad he had heard
much of hell fire, of retribution —now, it
seemed to him, all his evil deeds were com
ing \>ack at his in concrete form.
The police were beating an the outer door.
In three minutes—he dropped to the floor and
crawled to Lize's feet. They were pretty
feet, and daintily shod in red, high-heeled
slippers. He patted them softly as he mum
bled out: "You've done fer me, Lize —but I
take that back. The—the other one ain't no
more'n the dust under your feet."
Ltze almost fell forward. She was dead
white and shaking like a leaf, yet, somehow,
cbe managed to get the Bun on his feet.
"Here, you! Quick!" ehe panted, pushing
him weakly toward the bed and down upon
it. Then, with her last remnant of vital
force, she pushed a clicking catch out of
place, and let the heavy bed snap together,
catching the Bun harmlessly, but uncomfort
ably In its grasp. When there came thunder
ous knocks upon the door of the apartment,
she crept to it. painfully, and let in the police.
A glance at the bed made explanations un
necessary.
The very next week Mr. and Mrs. Ralph
Montgomery -went traveling south for tie
lady's health. Since they did not ask to have
their lease vacated, but paid up for the fu!l
term, the landlord still regards them as hav
ing been pattern tenants. And the police who
ran down futllely several promising clues to
the biggest bank burglary of the season never
dreamed that they bad helped the burglar out
of a particularly ti*ht place.
MINNEAPOLIS JOURNAL'S CURRENT TOPICS SERIES
(Copyright, 1901, by Victor F. Lawson.)
PAPERS BY EXPERTS AND SPECIALISTS OP NATIONAL REPUTATION.
THE ART OF
LIVING A HUNDRED YEARS.
I—PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS.
(By Theodore Sutro, vice president of the
Hundred-Year Club of New York.)
Cicero in that most delightful of all bis
minor writings, "De Senectute," says:
What is there in man's life that can be
called long? • • • To my mind nothing
whatever seems of long duration in which
there is any end. For when that arrives, then
the time which has passed has flowed away;
that only remains which you have secured
by virtue and right conduct.
Eighteen hundred years later Dr. Samuel
Johnson, one of the brightest minds of Eng
land, writes:
It cannot surely be supposed that old ace,
worn with labors, harassed with anxieties,
and tortured with diseases, should have any
gladness of its own or feel any satisfaction
from the contemplation of the present. All
the comforts that can now be expected must
be recalled from the past or borrowed from
the future.
Within the half century just closed Charles
Kingsley sings:
When all the world gets old, lad, and all the
trees turn brown,
And all the jests get stale, lad, and all the
wheels run down.
Then hie back to thy name, lad —the maimed
and sick among;
Thank God if there you find one face you
loved when you were young.
And a similar strain of sadness and de
spair runs through the prose and poetry of
all times and the irinds of all men, glorify
ing youth and bewailing the advent of old
age. So universal is this sentiment that
praise of old age would almost seem to re
quire, by way of preface, an apology. If such
were needed I would present it in the master
ful essay on old age by that master mind of
America, Ralph Waldo Emerson. How true
his words, thtt "when life has been well
spent age is a loss of what it can well spare
muscular strength, organic instincts, grSaa
bulk and works that belong to these. But the
central wisdom, which wi's old age in infancy,
is young in four score years, and, dropping
off obstructions, leaves in happy subjects a
mind purified and wise."
People Are Only aa Old as They Feel.
The attainment of this wisdom should be
the aim and object, and when attained, at
the same time the glory of declining years.
Nothing Is more despicable than an old per
son parading in the garb of youth and sub
stituting the wig and cosmetics for the curls
and bloom of early days. While not admit
ting that a woman »s as old as she looks, I
firmly believe that both men and women are
only as old as they feel. As there may be
an old head on young shoulders, so also there
may be, and should be always, a young heart
under old shoulders. Not years but disposi
tion and stagnation of intellect make us old,
and also that spirit of lalsser aller which
shirks from the exertion of adapting our
physical necessities to the changed conditions
incident to thi advance of years.
What an old man was Byron, when at the
age of 36, just prior to his death, he ex
claimed:
My days are in the yellow leaf;
The flowers and fruits of love are gone!
The worm, the canker and the grief
Are mine alone!
Contrast with this what Dr. Deems, pa«tor
of the Church of the Strangers in New York,
writes iv answer to the question. "How does
a man feel at three score years and ten?"—
One of the most relieving sensations of my
life was when 1 had passed the "three score
years and ten." and I remember the buoyancy
of feeling which cam* to me one December
morning when I arose and stretched myself
and to myself did say most cheerfully "I
am 71!" • • • Then I commenced a new
life, and so far I have no feelings different
from those which characterized my life thirty
years ago. • » • lam not conscious of
having any of those several symptoms which
have generally been supposed to indicate old
age.
John Adrms at 90, when informed of the
election of his son to the presidency, ex
claimed: "I am rejoiced because the nation
is happy!" And Cornaro. who lived to be
99, said of himself at 83: "Life at this age is
not a dead, dumpish and sour life, but cheer
ful, lively and pleasant."
Examples Taken From the Recent
Paat.
There recently died in the city of New
York within a few days of each other four
prominent men engaged in different pursuits
and past the meridian of life, all well known
to me—Judge H. .T. Beekman, one of the
brightest and most industrious members of
the supreme court Jjpnch of this city, aged
55; Charles C. Beaman, a profound and bril
liant lawyer, partner cf Joseph M. Choate,
aged 61; Oswald Ottendorfer, journalist, edi
tor of. the greatest German newspaper in the
country and multimillionaire, aged 75; Hugo
Wesendonck, prominent in business circles,
founder and president of the Oermania Life
Insurance company, at the age of 84.
Of these men. I would designate Judge
Beekman as the most learned; Mr. Beaman
as the happiest, owing to his delightful asso
ciations and the enjoyment of hig leisure
hours; Mr. Ottendorfer, while the poorest in
health, yet the most successful, as he com
bined with vast wealth great power and
high honor, and Mr. Wesendenck as the best
in health and of the most cheerful disposi
tion.
Each one of these men was a brain worker
in the best sense of that word; each had
attained a position of affluence which saved
him from the petty annoyance and worry of
struggling for a daily existence; each had
achieved the greatest success In his respec
tive calling, and neither of them appears to
have been the victim of any dire organic
disease of heredity. While, therefore, they
were so nearly on a par in the elements
which are generally supposed to tend more
especially to the prolongation of life, yet,
from my personal knowledge of them, I
would say that in fact the youngest of
them in years was the oldest, and the oldest
in years the youngest.
Judge Beekman, while a mo«t pleasant
companion, impressed me as the most inclined
to look too seriously upou the dally routine
of life's duties, while Mr. Wesendonck,
though not unmindful of these duties yet
always appeared to be In the most delightful
mood, and in the full enjoyment of the
pas&ing hour. Judge Beekman was somewhat
of a recluse. Mr. WeseDdonck was what may
be termed in the swim of life. Certainly in
the presence of these two men one was'im
pressed with the youth of the octagenariun
and the age of the man Just past 50 At
what period, then, with these men did old
age—old age in the popular acceptation of
that term—begin? Surely not with years.
At What Age Do People Become Old?
This leads me to the question: When may a
man or woman in general be considered old?
What is the line of debarkation between mid
dle and declining life? Many writers have
contended that this occurs at about the age
of 63, yet in the examples which I have
above given this certainly does not hold f-ue
Fixed limits, in fact, both as to the com
mencement of old age and as to the natural
duration of life itself (numerous writers fix
it at five times the period of growth IS to
21, or at 90 to 105 years), are in my opinion
purely theoretical, because fullness of years
does not as a rule indicate old age, nor on
the other htmd, does a life of fewer years
necessarily demonstrate premature demise
That is not to say. however, that a life long
WITH POMP AXD CEREMOXY
The formal casting of the elector vote of
California last week took place in an im
mense hall, in the presence of a vast as
semblage of spectors. including the pupils of
the public schools at the states capital. The
handsome ballot box used on the occasion
was made of native California woods, gold
mounted, with a gold shield of the state and
a gold plate for the inscription. It will bo
presented to President McKinley by the
messenger who carries California's vote to
Washington.
both creditable:
I Virginia - papers are. hopeful ■ that General
Fitzhugh ' Lee will ; soon be • retired with pay
sufficiently ; large to keep * him from want « for
the remainder of his days. One of them says:
"Hl* i poverty and f honor* reflect I credit ? upon
his state."
In years may not also be a long life without
the inroads of the infirmities and annoyances
of old age, and that is the goal which the
advocates of -longevity seek to attain—not a
long life of misery and disease, but a long
life of health and happiness.
The IJe»truetlvfue»H of Worry.
What can be done to prolong life in the
last-mentioned sense? If I were to prescribe
a program I would say: Cultivate above all
things a genial, happy disposition, which
looks upon the rosy rather than the dark !<iJe
of life, which tries to make the most of
favorable circumstances; like the man who
was blinded through the bursting of a siphon
of soda water, and Immediately put his wits
together and invented one that could not be
overcharged. A serene old age is usually
also one of the longest duration, and can
only be attained by a serene disposition. This
must, however, not be confounded with a
phlegmatic and indifferent temperament,
which is the greatest obstacle to progress.
Proper ambition and striving to improve
necessarily beget a certain restlessness with
out which mankind would run in a rut.
Stagnation is worse than death, and it is
better that our existence should run out
than rust out. The disposition of mind which
I refer to as the bane of a desirable old age
is of the fretful, worrying kind, which makes
a mountain out of a molehill and sees no
good in anything.
"A Don't Worry club," ■which has been
organized in New York, though amusing in
its title, is really founded upon a thorough
ly legitimate idea and unconsciously, per
haps, is working in the direction of pro
longed life and assuring a serene and happy
old age in inculcating its principles to a
far.greater degree than many soi-ieties or
ganized for the purpose of pursuing and
discussing scientific medical investigations.
Proper Food Shelter and Dkm.
Yet freedom from worry alone will Tiot
prove in itself to be the' elixir of youth.
With it a careful regard for our physical
and mental well-being in every respect is in
dispensable. Proper food. shelter and
raiment must be provided, and with respect
to all these due regard must be had for the
teachings of science as gathered from long
experience.
Food must be adapted to our constitutional
peculiarities—beat of all. under medical ad-
vice—and In drink every sacrifice should be
made in order to obtain that rarest of all
fluids, the purest kind of water.
We should seek our shelter in well-ven
tilated dwellings in healthful locatious, and
these considerations should outweigh the dic
tates of either fashion or convenience.
In raiment also we should be independent
enough to follow the prompt'ng« o-f common
sense and not torture our bodies Into disease
by the strait] acket of tight lacing, pinching
shoes, heavy headgear and all th<? other mon
strosities of our so-called modern civilization.
To these must be added, as of almost equal
importance, the necessity of allowing nature,
rather than expediency, to prescribe the hours
of sleep and rear, and under rest I include
every kind of proper recreation and diversion.
And, on the other hand again, exercise, both
physical and mental, which r^act upon each
other, must not be omitted from our program.
As health of body is essential to prolonged,
severe, successful mental effort, so also, and
even more, in my opinion, there cannot be
permanent perfect physical health without the
exerei-se of our mental faculties. The farmer,
with the sinews of Iron, but mental sloth, as
a rule dies younger than the professional man
with constant brain activity.
Keep Clean, bat Avoid Extreme*.
Careful bathing and ablution and pure air
must also receive attention, yet in noth
ing are people more apt to run to absurd ex
tremes than in these. The mania for "hard
ening" ourselves by plungtng into ice-cold
or boiling tubs of water or subjecting our
selves to the onslaught of the wintry blasts
or burning currents of our eccentric climate
without regard to our physical condition for
the time being to as illogical as it is per
nicious. Cleanllnesn and fre»h air, in the
sense of these extremities, kill* more people
than what they would probably call repre
hensible abstention from either.
Moderation in these things, aa well as in
everything that may be carried to extremes,
should be our watchword if we desire to pro
long life at the same time that we preserve
our health. There may be as much intemper
ance in exercise, the use of food and water
and every essential of existence as in the
indulgence in stimulants or tobacco. There
is nothing wonderful, therefore, in the ex
amples so often cited that ftlis individual
or that has lived to an extreme old age, al
though he daily took his dram or tobacco or
did this thing or that which, in the eyes of
the extremists, is belieevd to be sure to
kill. "In medio tutissimus ibis" I would
emblazon as the motto at the very com
mencement of my program—"The middle
course is the safest."
Intelligent Study of Health Condi
tion*.
Recently a society was started in the city
of New York to study and discuss the prob
lems and conditions conducive to longevity.
If experience has taught that in individual
cases mere fortuitous circumstances and ob
servances have led to an exceptional pro
longation of life, why should not statistical
observation in numerous cases eventually
evolve principles on which the expectation of
longer life than the traditional three score
years and ten or four score years may be
predicated? Undoubtedly such a society can
accomplish &_great deal of good by teaching
people to observe those rules of conduct
which in the great majority of rases mere
fortutlous circumstances and to abstain from
those practices which would have the op
posite effect. Such a society, in order to be
successful, should have for Its nucleus a
membership of serious professional and
scientific men, who would be able to pursue
their investigations and discuss and compare
their results intelligently. Pads, foibles and
the cranks and dreamers who possess them
should be rigidly excluded from such an
organization or it is bound to be a failure.
The trouble with nearly all movements here
tofore in that direction has been that they
have fallen into the bands of quacks nnd
dilettanti who imagine that they can dis
cover some panacea for the indefinite pro
longation of life merely by talking about It,
without the slightest regard for the teach
ings of science or experience. The problems
involved in this question are of the most
serious nature and require the profounde»t
study and consideration.
"Old Aa-e la Opportunity."
Undoubtedly the world has progressed, not
only in ameliorating the condition but in
prolonging the period of what in the ordinary
acceptation of the term is called old age, and
I have no doubt that the time will come when
the majority of men will be at their best at.
70, instead of, as is now so often the case,
at their worst at 40: when men and women
will be not only as old as they feel but as
they look, and will both feel and look aa
they should at every period of life, even at
five score or more; when youth will not
arrogate to itself the sole right of existence,
and when old age will believe that—
Age is opportunity no less
Than youth Itself, though in another dres«.
And as the evening twilight fades away.
The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
FEED FLAVORS EGGS
The North Carolina experimental station
has discovered that the flavor of eggs it
determined by the feed. After giving hens
chopped onions for two weeks the eggs be
came so disagreeable in flavor that they
could not be used. Wheat shorts, cottonseed
meal and skim milk increased the number
of eggs laid, but the eggs had a disagreeable
flavor. Cracked corn and corn dough re
sulted in fewer eggs, but larger ones and of
better flavor.
CBXTIRY RELICS
Emory P. Pendleton has two Interesting
relies at his farm in East Belfast, Me. Tbo
old well sweep in the dooryard has stood
there just 100 years, and be has a sign which
waa in use when the place was a tavern kept
by X Stephen&on in the year lam.