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B MILLER IN CHARGE Assumes Direction of Traffic Af- fairs of the Burlington. HILL-STICKNEY UNDERSTANDING It Will Prevent Rate Disturbances— System of Accounting: of ' llurliiiKtun. ;' ■. ■ : Darius Miller assumed his new posi tion as traffic director of the Burlington system yesterday. It is conceded that he is also to remain in close touch with Great. Northern affairs anfl will exercise certain influence in the traffic affairs of the Northern Pacific. Just how far his duties or influence, outside of the Bur lington, will extend is known to few peo ple except James J. Hill. It is believed that Mr. Miller's successor as traffic man ager of the Great Northern will be tither General Freight Agent Somers of the Great Northern or Traffic Manager Eden of the Eastern Minnesota. Mr. Hill spent one day in Chicago on his way wesi. He was in conference with Mr. Miller a portion of the day and spent several hours with President Harris of the Burlington. .M.\ Miller has confirmed the report that be will move to Chicago and make that i-iiy his headquarters after Jan. 1. A Complete I n«ler»tnndlnj;. The belief is general in traffic circles that there is a complete understanding' between President Hill of the Northern So'.-urii us company and President Stick ney of the Great Western regarding traffic matters hi the west. This does not mean that the Chicago Great Western has come under Mr. Hills control. Friendly rela tions have always existed between Messrs. SlI kney and Hill and both are of the opinion that the west can be better served by the railroads if they work in harmony thai: through needless rate wars. The we*tern railroads are soon to obtain new Instruction in the art of maintaining rate.* mi preventing discrimination, and Messrs. Hill. Stkkney and Miller will do most of the teaching. Hiirliiiutuit Accounting System. With the advent of Mr. Miller into Bur lington affairs some changes have al ividv been made in methods. The Chi c.igo Oi'onicle this morning says: Hereafter the Burlington system is to be operated on the principal of a department ■tare. Every representative of the company lias be^n advised that he is to be the sole manager of his department and that his profits and losses will be charged to him in ■lCad of the railroad company as a whole. Etery representative, from the smallest up to tire president, will luep a strict account of his department and submit monthly reports to Mines J. Hill. The entire amounting and bookkeeping system of the Burlington is to be revolutionized In this way in ord^r that the auditings will correspond with the system prevailing on the Great Northern road. Fn.it St. Louis Freight. The Minneapolis & St. Louis has com pleted arrangements for a fast freight service from St. Louis over a route that gives it the shortest line to that point. This has beeu made necessary owing to the fact that the Burlington, Cedar Rapid 6 & Northern, the present St. Louis con nection of the Minneapolis & St. Louia, is gradually making arrangements to en ter the twin cities. The new serice will be via the Minneapolis & St. Louis to Albert Lea, lowa Central to Albla, lowa, and The Wabash into St. Louis. Condi tions on this route are such that very fast running time can be made and the Minneapolis & St. Louis is given a big advantage. The new service will be in augurated to-morrow. The new passen ger service to St. Louis will be inaugu rated over this route as soon as the Bur lington. Cedar Rapids & Northern has en tered the twin cities. >t. & St. I . Short Lines. The Minneapolis & St. Louis is well fixed for short lines to southwestern points. It claims the distinction of being the short line to Omaha, Kansas City, St. Louis and Peoria. It is drawing a big share of the traffic in packing-house prod ucts from the southwest. The fast freight service inaugurated on these various lines has been of much assistance to Minne apolis jobbers in extending their trade into the southwest. Local traffic men say that at the recent meeting in Chicago a long step was taken toward a change in methods of handling rolling stock belonging to foreign lines. The majority of western traffic men favor a charge by the day instead of a charge by the mile as at present. This change is championed by many, for the reason that under the present system many lines ate dilatory in returning cars. Freight ar ••performance" has been much dis cussed recently. The Illinois Central leads in the new movement. Its officials show that on its own lines Illinois Cen tral cars cover an average of thirty-one miles daily, while on foreign lines its cars riiake an average of but eighteen miles. 'J'he North-Western officials are opposed to a change. Maj Mist* Kmnuiiis Entirely. An Albert Lea dispatch says that the Emraons depot case is liable to be settled in a way not previously thought of by either of the litigants. The people of Bramons, Minn., want the -Minneapolis & St. Louis to build a depot at that station, i Three-quarters of a mile away is Nor-: man. lowa, the regular station of the Minneapolis & St. Louis.. The case is now before the supreme court for decision. The Minneapolis & St.. Louis nas adopted a: general policy of straightening every i curve on its line that can be so improved. ' There are, several curves in the vicinity of .E/nmons which are included in this program, and the straightening process! will finally leave Emmons at least a mile off the regular line of road, where no depot will be necessary. X3AV OMAHA SCHEDULE It Will Be Operative on an- After , December 2i>. The detailed schedules of the new night train service to be begun Dec. 29 by the Omaha road between Minneapolis end South Dakota points is as follows- Through • sleepers will leave- Minneapolis every night at 8:10 and St. Paul 8:40, and will connect at Mankato with the westbound Chi 'ago & North-Western train, via New Ulm. Tracy, Lake Benton, Brookings and Water town, arriving atßedfield, S. D. r at 9:10 the next morning. The service toward the twin • itles provides for a sleeper leaving Redfleld at 6:45 p. m., raily, arriving at St. Paul 7-35 and Minneapolis at 8:10 a. m. Connections will be made at Brookings to and from Huron arriving t Huron at 7:30 a. m., and leaving Huron at 8:30 p. m. These trains will afford night trains between the twni cities am! South Dakota; points which have never been had before.'- ; .;> . The day train leaving Minneapolis at 7 10 a. m. and St. Paul at 7:40 a. m., will make connections at Mankato with the Chicago & North-Western, arriving at Pierre, S. D. at 11:35 p. m., returning the train will leave Pierre at 4:20 a. m. and Huron at 8 40 a m and will reach St. Paul at 7:35 p. m 'and Minneapolis 8 p. m. The train leaving Minne apolis at 4:30 p. m. and St. Paul at 4-50 p m will also have a third connection via Kasota reaching New Ulm at 8:40 p. m Leaving New Ulm at 6:05 a. m. St. Paul will be reached *t lv:05 a. m. and Minneapolis at lO:3u a. m. Marvin lluyliiii Appreciated. New -York Sun Special Service New York, Dee. 21.-H has been learned on good authority that the directors of the Cntcaso & North-Western railroad voted at a recent meeting to present to the president of the road Marvin HugWtt, $50,000 in^appre ciation, of the work he has done for the cor poration. Mr. Hughitt entered the service of the road as general superintendent in 187" He was elected president in ISB7. Homewekerc' Rate*. Hoidle«eeker»'> rates from Chicago: to the coast have been placed at $33. The Chicago f t. '' ~ '"■ : ,"7 ,-;ri >/ lines made a rate of $8 from Minneapolis to I " you are nervous <¥ dyspeptic try.Car- Ohicago, following the action of the north ter> B Little Nerve Pills. IDyspepsianiakeß coast lines In mai the fare from Mlnneap- : you nervous," and nervousness makes you Thi° r^e'fr^^hi^ ■*" m', ' dyspeptic: either one • renders you mis .Tta rate from Uuoac» to AtoaUaa com- j erable, and these little pills cure both. S rnon points and eaat will be $30, made up of a $10 rate from Chicago to Minneapolis and a $20 rate from this city into Montana; to points beyond $8 will bo added, making a $33 rate from Chicago to the coast, with the coast roads taking. $25 as their share. To Spokane, Wash., $22.50 will be charged from this, city,,with $8 for the Minneapolis-Chicago lines, making $30.50. >l. £ St. li. Change. Beginning to-morrow the Minneapolis & St. Louis road will change the time of depar ture from Minneapolis of its Omaha-Des Moines train from S:K> p. m. to 8:55 p. m. The train will arrive in Dcs Moines at 7 a. ni. and at Omaha at S:OT> the following morning. < hii ii lie on (>. R. & It. C. Rotld. Beaumont, Texas. Dec. 21.— G. R. Wans brough, general freight and passenger agent of the Gulf, Beaumont & Kansas City rail road, has tendered his resignation with that* road, to take effect Dec. 31. The resignation has been accepted and he will be succeeded by J. J. Coleran of Chicago. Klkhom Buy* Coveted Ground. Special to The Journal. Lead, S. 1)., Dec. m.— The Elkhorn Rail road company has settled With the property owners on lower. Main street, with the excep tion of Jack Daly. This'is the ground over which ttn- new line has been surveyed, the aettleiftent being; reached by condemnation proceedings. The prices have been fixed at from $3,750 to $10,000. The railroad company has ordered all the buildings torn dowa and removed, to maka^room for the new passen ger station and frcighthouse. PITHY REPORT FROM G. J. PLT SHERIFF ON SALARY BASIS That the Most Important Recom mendation—Other Pertinent Sufsfgemtlonu. Without wasting any words, the grand jury has prepared a statement of needed reforms in the manner of conducting pub lic business. Legislative action will be. required before certain reforms can be made, but the majority of recommenda tions can be put in effect by the county commissioners if they will. Th*e following is a copy of the report: We, the grand jury for the November term, 1901, submit the following report: First—We find, the city lookup in very bad condition —damp and unhealthy—and we be lieve it should be thoroughly renovated and refitted or else condemned. Second —Regarding the county jail, we find the officers directly in charge to be fully com petent and we have no criticism or recom mendation to make as to that institution. Third—As the granfl jury tor the September term made full Investigation of the county poor farm and the city workhouse, and as no complaints were presented to us of the con duct of those iustltutions, we decided to make uo investigation of them. Fourth —We further recommend: That no money be paid any county official except the treasurer. That claims for money expended on behalf of the county shall be accompanied by vouch ers. That coroner's 1 inquests shall be held only upon the written order of the county at torney. That the county auditor shall keep account of the expenses of boarding prisoners from other counties, and that the county commis sioners shall see that the claims for such services are collected. That tbe probation officer shall take all children committed to the state public school and shall be allowed actual traveling ex penses only. That no contracts aggregating more than I $iou shall be awarded except after adver tising and an opportunity for competitive bid ding. That the office of sheriff shall be placed on a salary basis. That the clerk of the court shall make a daily settlement with the county treasurer. We recommend to the county attorney and th& county commissioners of Hennepin county, that in cases where further legislation is nec essary, in order to carry out the above recom mendations', they bring the matter to the at tention of the members of the legislature from Hennepin county, that the necessary changes in the statutes be made. —Jame3 T. Wyman, Foreman. A FIRE ANDJ\ RESCUE Walter H. Thorji, the Hero, Is Slight i>- Injured. \ Fire originating from a defective stove pipe practically destroyed the story-and a-half dwelling at 817 Fourth street S, to-day at 10:30 a. m. The house was oc cupied by the families of C. Horovitch and Sophia Rosenstein. The upper part was burned away and the furniture, of which little could be carried out, was badly damaged by smoke, fire and water. The loss will be about 300. Walter H. Thorp, vice president and treasurer of the Fire Proof Door company. 529 Ninth street S, just around the cor ner from the fire, was one of the first to arrive on the scene, and while aiding one of the children to escape from the burn ing building, was quite painfully injured. Just «s he emerged from the side door with a child in his arms, he was struck on the side of the face with a ladder which firemen were carrying to the rear of the house. He was knocked off his feet but he kept the little girl from falling on the ice. The wound made by the ifon tip of the ladder bled profusely for a time, but will not be at all serious. MORE MEN OBLITERATED* liOUK Man and Short Man Rob Will iam Lewis. William Lewis of Park Rapids, Minn., who came to Minneapolis late yesterday afternoon with $20 in his pocket, had to sleep in the tramp room at the Central police station during the night, not hav ing money enough to pay for lodgings. He visited friends in Xortheast Minneapolis I during the evening and later went to I Cronin's saloon, at the corner of Four | taenth avenue and Fourth street NE. • As he left the place he was -attacked by two strange men, who struck him over the head, rendering him almost unconscious. They then rifled his pockets, taking every cent he had. He did not get a distinct view of the hold-up men, but says both were dressed in black and that one was i tall and the other short. He walked to police headquarters, where he reported his loss. He was given permission to sleep at the police station. By the time the prisoners were ar raigned in police court this morning, the charges against them had been changed J to vagrancy. To this charge Reardon and I Gorman pleaded guilty and were sentenced ! to sixty days in the workhous.e. Riven pleaded not guilty, and his trial was Set for Dec. 23. Campbell was dismissed. The "Lake Superior Limited*' on the "Duluth Short Line" Of the Northern Pacific is the NONPA REIL of Daylight trains in the Northwest. It runs daily in'both directions between St. Paul and Minneapolis and Buluth and the Superiors. It is a brand new train of four oars, hauled by Atlantic type engines, the only ones of the sort in the Northwest. It consists of a combination baggage and smoking car, flrst-clasß coacH, Parlor caT, and observation -cafe car—all electric lighted, steam heated, •. wide vestibuled, and Pullman built. The parlor car is elegantly finished in mahogany and satin wood, has finely up holstered movable wicker chairs, and the lavatory -arrangements, particularly for women, are something quite unusual. The observation car is also finished in mahogany and satin wood, has two smok ing rooms, a fine library, desk and sta tionery free to passengers, and a large observation parlor with plate glass win dows, and atr the rear an observation platform. The <:afe serves the best of meals at very moderate prices. Try this train once and you will use no other. ■Chas. S. Fee, eOn;t. Pass. Agent, St. Paul, Minn. GLOSED FOR CHRISTMAS IXTERESTIXG SCHOOL. PROGRAMS How the Children of Blalne, Frank lin and Webster Schools Celebrated. A very charming program was given yesterday afternoon by the pupils of Blame school. The building was prettily decorated with the ordinary work of the children. A special feature of the exhi bition was illustrated compositon work on Beethoven. The pupils of the eighth grade had for a week made a study of the life ajid works of the great com poser, which was seasonable as his birth day fell on Tuesday, Dec. 17. To give a pleasing finish to the program, Beethov en's fourth sonata' was played with good expression by Edmund Eichhorn. After a miscellaneous ' program in the hall, to "A" room to enjoy a reading from lightful numbers, the guests adjourned to a "A" room to enjoy a reading from Shakspere, the trial scene from the "Merchant of Venice,' 1 given by boys and girls of "A" room. The hall was well filled with an appreciative audience of parents and friends. At Franklin School. Franklin school pupils were entertained by an illustrated talk yesterday after noon at the German Evangelical church, Sixteenth avenue N and Third street. Miss Geer, the principal, told in a very charming manner the story of the first Christmas, and how children in other lands spend the holiday. She recited in simple language the beautiful story of the star, the shepherds, and the wise men; and as each incident was touched upon, realistic views were thrown upon the screen. Views and vivid descriptions of old-world cathedrals formed a pleasing feature of the entertainment. The child ren thoroughly enjoyed the pictures; and as eacL one fell clearly before them, a chorus of long-drawn "ah's" expressed thsir delight. Miss Guth, a singer in the church choir, .gave several delightful solos. The en tertain men r, was given by the teachers to enable the children to gain more fully .the meaning of the approaching holiday. Webster School in Holiday Garb. Webster school ia holiday atttre comes as near fairyland as so prosaic a place as a school well can. The building is al ways ao cheery that pupils love it even with its working clothes on; but with the festive garb it w^ore yesterday, it at tracted so many that nearly every seat was filled and every face was wreathed in smiles. Evergreens, trimmed with pretty paper ornaments made by the children, adorned the hall. At one end there was a very realistic fireplace, with gaily-decked branches around it. Each of the primary grades had a tree dressed with glittering baubles and little colored lanterns. Naturally the tree in the baby room was the biggest and brightest, bear ing in addition to the decorations, sundry toys and a novelty in the form of a curious little string of powders called a Japanese firecracker, which threw out a tiny shower of sparks when lighted. The spirit of giving rather than of receive ing was emphasized in the children's holiday work; so every room was deco rated with little articles made by the children and intended for parents. Each tiny desk in the baby-room held a minute box of candy with a suubonnet baby on its lid. In the higher grades the gifts were principally calendars and Christmas cards showing considerable skill and tasie. , Thursday afternoon the principals and teachers of neighboring schools were in vited to inspect the building at an in formal tea. Parents and friends of the pupils were received Friday afternoon, when a Santa Claus presided at the light ing of the tree. All admired and en joyed the festivities, but none more than the children. Each room extended hearty wishes for a merry Christmas and a happy, new year; and one little fellow, thinking the scope of that not broad enough added, I "and a good time." THE CHRISTMAS BOY "Little Prince" suits, in velveteen and velvet, are what the shops are offering for Christmas boys from 6 to 10. They have, with their white cloth or canvas accessories—collar, cuffs and tie —a gala ... , air suite.d to the season, and the sim plicity of their cut makes them easy models for mothers to follow. The photograph depicts a Christmas suit in brown velveteen with white cloth trappings. A nautical cap, also in white cloth, with a scarlet band and emblem tops it nattily. POLITICS IN AUSTRALIA Uutrstion of Coolie Immigration Dis turbs'the Commonwealth. Shanghai Mercury. The question of coolie immigrants to the Australian commonwealth, particular ly Queensland, is forcing itself more to the front. The cry has gone forth for a "White Australia," and in regard to Queensland the very men who raise the cry are the first to refuse the work they deny to others. The white man is right in refusing this tropical labor, which he is unsuited for, wrong in refusing it to others, to whom it means so much, mere ly for the sake of a taking political party cry. It is the same whether the immi grants be Indian, Chinese, Japanese or Kanakas. In regard to Chinese the law is very stringent, and even Prince Ching or Li Hung Chang could not place a foot on Australian soil without permission from the various state governments. At present there is no restriction on Japanese immigration save that imposed by the Japanese government, which is unwilling to part with any of its population, unable to wholly prevent the departure of con siderable numbers of laborers and handi craftsmen. Should the Australian labor party carry a bill in the federal parlia ment, and such a contingency is by no means unlikely, for the suppression of alien immigration, including that from Japan, the imperial government will find itself placed upon the horns of a dilemma; it will have either to veto the bill and offend the Australian labor party, or ac cept it and risk a rupture with Japan. Both Mr. Barton and Mr. Reed perceive the rocks ahead and are equally anxious THE MINNEAPOLIS JOURNAL. REV. G. L MORRILL "DOES" LONDON The Weather Is Not Much, but the Historic Associations Are Worth Millions—Concert Halls, the Tower, the Bank and the WicKed East End. Beg pardon, but don't you know the blasted English channel was as smooth as a confidence man when I crossed it. New Haven, England, loomed up with it 3 200 foot high cliffs and fortified Castle Hill all sun-kissed with glory. After the custom house officers "hands across the sea" had held me up and found nothing, I climbed the side door of a queer look ing train with a dummy looking engine that rolled as if it had wheels in its head, and everywhere else, to make the fifty-six miles to the metropolis. Bright on was only eight miles distant, the fash ionable watering place, where F. W. Robertson used to preach. Though dead, he still speaks through the many minis ters who work off his superb sermons in whole or part every Sunday. I was driven from the depot in a han som to the splendid St. Ermine's hotel. I said, with Falstaff, "Sliall I not take mine ease in mine inn?" So I rang for hot water, and when the buxom maid had left it at the door, I said, "Thanks;," and after a hasty toilet, with visions of roast beef, plum pudding and old port, I hur ried down to breakfast to learn the wide difference between French and English cooking. The weather was rainy, raw, foggy and sooty; not vernal like Palestine, or voi uptious like Italy, but like London weather itself, beastly and nasty. How ever, this was just the kind of an in-door day for sight seeing. I called a cabby, a big, fat, red-nosed man, full of ale and facts, gave him a tip and off went his mouth and horse; he discoursed on ,the city's roads, good walks, efficient police and noted objects of passing interest, all the time driving through crowds, grazing curbs, brushing wheels and popping flies from off his horse's ear in a wonderful way. I visited a number of museums, nota bly the South Kensington, with its flue building filled with articles useful and ornamental, ancient and modern, and col lection of paintings, statuary and things which make a connossieur liable to for get the commandment against covetous ness. Then came the world-famed -British Museum, England's most priceless pos session, with its manuscripts and books, prints and drawings, coins and medals, Babylonish, Egyptian, Roman and Greek antiquities. The Elgin marbles which his lordship had 'conveyed" from the Par thenon I saw in all their beauty. At Ath ens I felt outraged at Elgin's theft and that the poor Greeks had only plaster casts of the originals, but here the marbles are- safe and sound and. any Athenian may come and "frieze" himself to his heart's content. "Lost in London" I had seen In America, but it was no play joke here; I don't mean the experience I had one night at Seven | Dials, but the feeling of isolation and I desolation in a great, strange crowd. When De Quincey entered London he felt like a wave in the Atlantic or a plant in a forest; really, this "mask of maniacs and pageant of phantoms" affected me quite the same. Dear old London, older than ten thousand years, how thy eight millions pour down streets and alleys, by Charing Cross hotel, and out into the I Strand, beating against Eleanor Cross, that soot and smoke-grimed marble block, erected to the memory of Edward I.'s wife, that rare woman who possessed the un usual combination of goodness and beauty. One morning I went with my friend to Temple Bar, not so much for a drink as to follow the example of Dr. Johnson, who ! used to come here and amuse himself by ' looking at and studying the crowds of peo : pie. The bar has given way to a memorial with a statue of royalty and the devil of a dragon on top; I was a little surprised at first, but found him on top In so many other places that I thought it must be all right. Temple Bar, you know, was the dividing line between the English sover eigns' and lord mayor's domain, a kind of 1 patrol limit. The king had to ask permis sion to visit the town, after which "ma 1 lawd" mayor gave him the keys and told | him to help himself, a custom we are fa i miliar with on the occasion of Elks and other religious convocations jn our coun try. Near by I found many historical, lit erary haunts to which great and good men naturally gravitated, as the wise men of Greece did to Athens and the up-to-date i men do now from St. Paul to Minneapolis. j After a swift tramp to Fleet street, to I see Newspaper Row, a visit to the haunts j of Milton, Goldsmith, Dickens, and some of the other "litterary fellers" I wen with Irving in his sketch book to "Little Britain" where the people religiously ate pancakes on Shrove Tuesday, hot-cross buns on Good Friday, roast goose at. Mi- I chaelmas. sent love letters on St. Valen tine's day, burned the pope on November sth and kissed all the girls under the mistletoe on Christmas. I could give you a "tedious brief ac count" of the bridges across the Thames, j notably London Bridge. This bridge is j in no danger of "falling down" with the j $8,000,000 invested in its construction and sentinel lamp posts along its sides, cast from cannon captured from the French in Spain. The tide of humanity pours over it as the Thames does under it. Cock | Lane Ghosts, Dames Quickly, Boars' ! Head bums, Mother Shiptons, Punch and j Judies, Jarley figures. Billing's Gate slang-whangers, Bill Sykes bullies, frail feminines, doctor*, lawyers, merchants and thieves, walking, driving or jammed in or on busses all plastered over with ads of food, clothing, or drink so that the stranger can hardly read the name of his destination. The luaut End and the Parks. East End is London's hub of hell, a "Bridge of Sighs" over which helpless misery travels whither God only knows. I went with police escort and needed it more than in any other slumming tour I had ever made. Gin shops, girls and old women drunk, men's gambling hells and prostitutes' pandemonium! Oh the wretch edness, poverty, disease, squalor, little men and women with bouls already filled with graves from which sad skeletona rose; all those and more, not simly to wonder at and weep over but to work for as London does, giving more in charity in proportion to its population than any other city on the continent. London takes great pride in her palaces and parks; St. James' park with foliage and lake for saints and sinner; Kennsing ton gardens With plants, walks and trees, where without any prohibitory clause you may go to grass like Nebuchadnezzar; Hyde Park, best of all. with its fine gate ways and marble arch intended as a mon ument to Nelson, and grass, flowers, trees, Serpentine Lake. Rotten Row, alive with riders and walks filled with people of all climes and conditions who in fashion and beauty come in crowds. Concert Halls and Bar Maids. Here, as in Paris, you may find any kind of pleasure you please; concert halls, dance houses, circuses, chambers of hor rors, theaters of drama and farce and all kinds of variety shows far removed in spirit from the time when holy play and representations of miracles were per formed. English bar maids are greatly and grossly in evidence. London seems to have to have the unique distinction of having thousands of these girls who "make destruction please;" girls who will oggle, flirt, tell off-colored stories, drink ale familiarly and profusely with you and prove who much worse a bad woman is than a bad man because she falls from a greater height. ta avoid them. Whether they will be suc cessful in so doing remains to be seen. To such an extent has the feeling on the part of the labor party in New South Wales and Queensland against the Japan ese'been carried that Hisakichl Eitaki, the Japanese consul in the parent state, has written to one of the Sydney papers protesting against the aspersions cast upon his fellow countrymen. That an official representative should have deemed it necessary to address himself directly to The London Sunday. One of the most striking things is a London Sunday; Babel is then quiet, shops are shut, streets deserted, trains and busses run at longer intervals, most of the restaurants are closed, and your ears are not bombarded with "morning paper." The churches are full of worshipers; royalty doesn't attend church very much, and then privately, but the many go; some to Ritualistic and others to Dissent ing churches, in both of which one finds the Bpirit of reverence and obedience for law, human ami divine, we seem to lack in America. England isn'.t as much on church archi tecture as Italy; St. Paul's is imposing for strength and simplicity, but without and within it is a great disappointment The fin© dome leads you to expect mar bles, mosaics, altars and windows like the cathedrals of the continent, but you see daist, fog, walls and semi-nude memorial statues of Dr. Johnson and oth er grave celebrities. I saw the fine thought and epitaph concerning the archi tect, Christopher Wren: "It you seek his monument look around you." If Wren's plans had been carried out for St. Paul's 'interior decoration, it would have been far better for him and us. I don't suppose Nelson and. the Duke of Wellington, who lie here, care very much about their aesthetic surroundings, but when it cornea to Sir Joshua Reynolds and J. M. Turner, those great artists, tt seems to me they would kick if they could. Westminster Abbey is far different, and I can't just see why Heine gave the sex ton a shilling and said he would have given him more if the collection had been more complete. Recall its age back into 1000, its splendid Gothic architecture, aisles and rose windows, its powerful memories, and would you refuse a bust there if they paid for it and insisted on your having it? It is a pile of "mourn ful magnificence," but it attracted me many times with its service, music, coro nation chair, shrines, sepulchres, efffgies, inscriptions of kings, heroes, statesmen, philanthropists and poets, including our own Longfellow. The late Dean Stanley had! reason to value the abbey and regard it as "a religious national and liberal in stitution," Such it is, and I'd like to try my hand at a worthy description of this historic pile had not Washington Irving done it "to the queen's taste " Because Mr. Wren's plans were not adopted in laying out the streets of Lon don after the big fire, they outrival Bos ton; but this makes them more interest ing in a way, for like Micawber you are always expecting something to "turn up" and you find yourself turned at the wrong VIpSS driVe * 1 Lambeth Palace, along the Victorian embankment with its walk trees, and obelisk, and by the side of the Th*™e* more significant to-day than Nile and Tiber in its wide influence 7 I si ted the houses of , parliament, a pile of fine Goth c extending 1,000 feet along the stone 8 mSSt Bright ' D^raeli! Glad stone! ,WWha t names to conjure with! Of more interest to me than the Victoria tower, through which the queen entered parliament or clock tower with its bar steel minute hand twelve feet long. or ? g thße WUh, itß rteen ton bell bang of the td r e^° f Pf lia, ment ' the declaration of the truth, not only of the divine right of kings but the right divine of the people. London Tower. One day after an underground ride in a chamber of horrors with smoke, soot and sSfion f* T d6 DaDte'3 bell a desirable station to change cars at, I visited the famous London Tower; it's the English Bastiie covers twenty-six acres and more broken hearts, and goes baok to William the Conqueror's time, 1078: its White Bloody, Middle, Bell and Bauchamp tow ers could a tale unfold" which would make you think the furnace fire had gone out in January, it is full of the story of despair and death; the names Wallace Clarence, Edward V.- and Richard, Kath anne and Raleigh stretch to the crack of doom. I entered some of these cells, read the.names, inscriptions and verses on the wall and thanked God I was a free Ameri can. The guide led me to the Traitors gate by the river with memories of Sir Thomas More and Annie Boleyn, whom Henry VIII. killed that he might marry Jane Seymore next day. Then I wan dered to the armory whioh had been a royal residence in Elizabeth's time but was now filled with arms enough to stack an army and with trophies from the world over where British valor had won; afterwards to the treasury room with crowns, jewels and royal insignia and dining-room outfits of gold. These are all guarded by the big beef eaters—they looked watchful and worshipful. The Bank: of England. The Bank of England looks like a Gib raltar, stone, massive, one-storied, win dowless, and covers four acres. It has been compared to the "central dynamo of the financial world"; that sounds well, and yet nations sometimes go down the financial toboggan slide of supremacy. American money and credit are pretty good here. We have something to say about iron, steel, tin, tools, ships and electric traction. Think of it! John Bull looking at an Elgin watch early in the morning, shaving with Yankee soap, eat ing bread made of Minneapolis flour, read ing a paper printed on an American ma chine, working before a Michigan-made desk, smoking Virginia cheroots, drinking an American cocktail, reading an Ameri can book or attending a musical concert where Nordica is the star. It is only natural that an Englishman should believe there is nothing above him and that other nations need heaven as the only thing which can console them for not being born Englishmen. This satisfied and stolid manner has led to cutting car toon and criticism. Brunetiere, the French critic, says: "The dazzling fact of America's history in the nineteenth century is the continuous progress of the democratic ideal, and. this ideal is the con tradiction of the Anglo-Saxon ideal." Lawrence Sterne said that an English man did not know whether to take or re ject the sweet or sour of a compliment, while our inimitable Mr. Dooley affirms that in an American joke you laugh just after the point if at all, but in the Eng lish you laugh either before the point or after the decease of the joker. Be this and more, as it may, the Eng lish have fine traits in the fibre of their individual and national life; home Is the Englishman's castle on the husband's part, and the good wife makes it the con servatory of the beautiful. Their boys and girls are loving and obedient, and with simple food, pleasures, and exer cise, make noble men and women; their hospitality is proverbial and when you are invited to it it means much. I think it was Mr. Smelfungus who called the Pantheon a "Huge cockpit"; in no such spirit have I recorded my impres sion of London whioh I greatly admire for its government, streets, spacious parks, wonderful museums, historic, liter ary memory. We Americans have many points in common with our British rela tives in respect to business, education and religion; we look much alike, talk tne same language and sing the same national air. I have seen the Mndon John Bull in appearance he is more than a sturdy, fat fellow with round hat, leather breeches and red waistcoat; in character he is more than pipe and tankard, guineas and growls, protecting or patronizing airs; he is well compared to his old oak staff, rough outside and sound within. —Q. L. MorrllL the Australian community is a fact not wlthbut significance and probably only taken under lntsructions from, his gov ernment. NOT HER FAULT. Philadelphia Press. "What a scornful expression Miss Nu ritch has." "Yes, but she really can't help it. She has resided during the greater portion of her life near a glne factory." i SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBEE 21, 190 L ! ' L " -' 'JiapS- : OPEN EVENINGS ! . ■ l.i!a>r TILL CHRISTMAS Drapery Department—Second Floor. HAND BURNT AND PAINTED Novelties! ■ Consisting of Glove Boxes, Collar /^ f""* and Cuff Boxes, Picture Frames, Mag- /1^ azine Racks, Book Racks, Steins, / 1 Tankards, Plaques, Stamp Boxes, Amm* S etc., the balance of our stock to be fif' n[[ : closed out at. 7O ]}[[ Just the Things for Xmas Presents. SPORTS PREPARING FOR YALE , Varsity Basket Ball Team Member* to Spend Vacation Here. The university basket ball .team will remain in the city during the vacation in order to keep in trim for the game with the Yale men on the evening of Jan. 2. The easterners are making the longest trip ever made Into the west by a team of Yale athletes. They will play eight games in all before they return to New Haven on Jan. 8. A letter received from New Haven yesterday states that the Minnesota contest is considered the hard est on the list of eight games. The Yale team, it appears, is composed of men who have been heard from in other contests in which Yale has entered. Among these will be Spraker, the intercollegiate cham pion in the high and broad Jumps; Wey-f mouth, the fullback on ,the football team; Pease, the pole-vaulter, and Lockwood (captain), one of the debaters against Princeton. Between the halves of the Minnesota game there will be given an exhibition of fancy baton swinging by a man who is an adept at .the business. Tffe game will be called at 8 p. m. sharp. lowa "U» Planning for a. Gym. Special to The Journal BDri^ 0 u°lversit >- I* track and blseballtSs next falf &U exceptionally fine football team II til 10.11. <■ Coach knipe leaves early next week for the ease, where he ■goes to look at the best gym nasiums with a view to getting ideas for the pmnaslum which is expected to be built be- Knipe to do better work in his department of Physical training. Dr. Knipe will visit the Columbia diversity gymnasium, the Harvard gymnasium, and will see the University of Pennsylvania gymnasium plans. He will re turn to lowa -.City about the middle of Janu a lUbaii SLSff? trei? lae ot th& tra*k Streeter Lost on a Foul. Special to The Journal. : . Lead, 8. D., Dec. 21.—Roy Streeter, of Den ver lost to Lloyd Poindexter, of Lead on a roul, in the fourth round of what had been intended for a finish flght last night. It was conceded, that Streeter had the best of the fight. He hit Poindexter below the belt dur ins L a clinch. Streeter weighed in at 129 end Poindexter at 132 pounds. The flght was for a purse of $300. Cheater Arkell, of Dead- I wood, was the referee. THE PASSING OF A STAR. Cleveland Plain Dealer. t "Madam," said the facetious boarder, "this turkey reminds me of a steadily waning dramatic star." "Well," said the landlady,- "I suppose you want somebody to ask you .why." "Because," said the facetious boarder, "it comes on in smaller and yet smaller parts." 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