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News Items, Social Items and Want Ads re solved before noon printed In same day's Journal. You CAN live without The Journal but WHY should you, when you can enjoy it every evening for onjx 8 cents a week delivered to your home in Minneapolis only 35 cents a month by mail? Call up "Main 9 and loin The Journal's great "Reading Circle." It is THE PAPER of Minneapolis and the Northwest The Alaska Telegraph System. The completion of telegraphic com munication with Nome was announced three or four days ago. This represents an undertaking of much greater magni tude and difficulty than is probably un derstood generally. The construction of the telegraph to Alaska has been a most remarkable contest between man and nature. The first telegraph line into the far northwest was constiucted by the Brit ish government, running north frtfm Ashcroft on the Canadian Pacific to At lin, thence northeast to White Horse Eapids, at the terminus of the White Pass railroad, and down the Yukon to Dawson. That line was constructed three or four years ago. A extension was made to Forty-Mile, northwest of Dawson, along the Yukon, to Fort Eg bert at Eagle City. The government also bulk a line at great expense of ef fort and money from Valdez, on the south coast, to Eagle. A line from the Eagle and Valdez wire ran down the Tanana and the Yukon to St. Michael. These, with a railroad line from White Horse to Skagway, constituted the tele graph system in Alaska and the British Yukon, when our government began this year the construction of cable lines to points on the south coast. The gov ernment at one time laid a cable be tween St. Michael and Nome, but a breakup of the ice in the spring car ried it away, and demonstrated that the cable could not be maintained under frozen seas. this combination of British and American government lines Skagway, Dawson, Eagle City, St. Michael and Valdez were kept in telegraphic com munication most of the time with the outside world, altho the difficulty at time's of maintaining these lines thru such vast stretches of uninhabited coun try was very great. During the past summer the govern ment has been engaged in laying a cable line from Seattle up the "inside passage" to Juneau, Skaguay and Sit ka, and from Sitka across the North Pacific to Valdez. This cable has just reached Valdez, connecting there with the land lines. A the same time there has been constructed at St. Michael and Nome a wireless telegraph service across Norton sound, so that now by a combination of cable, overland wire and wireless, amounting to 3,363 miles, Nome is brought into telegraphic com munication with the outside world at Seattle. The distances on these various di visions are: Seattle to Sitka, by cable, 1,070 miles Sitka to Valdez, by cable, 565 miles Valdez to St. Michael, by circuitous lines, 1,620 miles and St. Michael to Nome, 108 miles. The schedule of rates has not been annaunced, but it will probably not fall below $5 for ten words betwe en Nome and Seattle. The present rate betwe en Nome and Dawson is $6.30 for ten words and 47 cents for each additional word. A the same time the British government has been extremely liberal in the matter of press service and makes a rate to the newspapers of Daw son and to Dawson correspondents of papers in the states which makes it practicable to receive and send ne ws in considerable quantity. Our own gov ernment ought to be equally lib eral in the transmission of news be tween Valdez and Nome. The chief hardship of the winter at Nome here- 4*^iivlBaitSt!al Monday^ 'Evening', tofore has be en the complete isolation of that point, mails not being obtain able at intervals of less than a month, sometimes six weeks. It is a good deal like living on another planet to be cut off in this way from communication with the outside world from the middle of October until the 10th of June, and life will be much better worth living if the Nome newspapers are able to obtain a little ne ws occasionally from the out side world and. thus keep in touch with the rest of mankind. That corporations are not entirely soul less is shown In the case of Samuel Lane, Sr of Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Mr. Lane is now 71 years of age and is hale and vig orous. He has had in all his life but one employer, the New York Central rail road. has been in the service of the road for fifty-three years, has never cost the company a cent by reason of neglect or carelessness, and has never figured in an accident. He now enjoys the privil ege of being the first pensioner of the road under its new pension system. From now on, Mr. Lane will draw $20 a month. And why not? He has practi cally given his life to Its service. The Party of Retrogression. John Sharp Williams, in a campaign speech in Kentucky, the other day, del uged his audience with Mississippi rhe toric, showing great indignation over the charge made by somebody that'' the democratic party is a party of retrogres sion and criticism." Mr. Williams de clared that "to answer this, it is only necessary to refer to the administra tions of Jefferson and Jackson, the founder and the preserver of the princi ples we revere both of these presidents were pre-eminently of the constructive school.'' I is interesting to note the readi ness with which democratic orators re treat to the remote past to find some constructive statesmen. The democrat ic party turned against Cleveland, the only democrat who had a chance to act as president since the party effaced it self under Jeff Davis' effort to test the efficacy of the particularistic principles of Thomas Jefferson, and made him the target of the most reckless abuse which can be heaped upon an American states man. Cleveland, who had some real claim to statesmanship, was repudiated, and Bryan was taken up and wor shiped as a Jeffersonian avatar altho a select few of the party were not able to see where Jefferson came into the program. Mr. Williams seems to have been ut terly unable to refute the charge that his party was one of retrogression and criticism during the last forty-four years of its existence. I has been that in the full and obvious meaning of the terms. It repudiated the most con structive thing Jefferson did, viz.: the purchase and annexation of the terri tory of Louisiana, for it denounced ex pansion as a crime. It has denounced the president as staining the nation's good name with defiling dishonor be cause he used the national right and privilege to secure honorably and legiti mately the authority to enter upon the great work of completing the Isthmian canal. It condemned as unlawful med dling with foreign affairs, the fine poli cy of our government in jjoinmg the .loint movement of the powers in 1900 to protect our official representatives and our trade interests in China. The efforts of our government to preserve the open door of trade have been suc cessful, even during the armefl. conflict in Manchuria, and the policy will be maintained under republican administra tion during at least the next four years. The Philadelphia Press in objecting to a man of Judge Parker's personality the presidency, does so on the ground that it is no reflection on one's grandmother to say that she would make a poor ad miral. We do not feel so sure of this. Grandma did well whatever she set her hand to do. What Will Oyama Do? Japan's immediate purpose in her war with Eussia should be disclosed with in the next few days if Kuropatkin pushes forward at once, as seems to be his intention. Kuropatkin declared his intention to take the offensive, and fol lowed up his declaration with action, pushing his forces southward against the Japanese center, forcing a with drawal from Ben-tsia-pu-tse, and, ac cording to some reports, retreat to Liao yang. The Japanese center seems to have offered little resistance. A the same time, General Kuroki, who has been holding a pass and other positions north of Ben-tsia-pu-tse, is not reported to have left those posi tions, and General Fushimi with a force of two divisions- is reported to be moving northward along the Liao river on the west. According to all advices, then, Kuro patkin seems to be sending his force into the point of a made up by the Japanese armies with Kuroki on the extreme right, Oku and Nodzu around the point, and Fushimi on the extreme left. Should Kuropatkin press for ward on the Japanese center, therefore, the purpose of the Japanese must quick ly become apparent. The situation suggests wo possibili ties: Either that the Japanese with drawal at their center is a feint to draw Kuropatkin southward between the wings of the Japanese armies and let the wings cut in from both east and west and catch Kuropatkin in a gigantic trap or else that the Japanese intend to fall back on the Tai-tse river, establish a line of defense and let the Eussians do the offensive fighting here after, the Japanese devoting their at tention to holding what they already have. If the situation is as outlined above from all dispatches up to today, it would look very much as tho the Jap anese were playing to cut Kuropatkin's communications and surround him. The readiness with which the Japan ese center fell back also gives color to this view. On the other hand, the tak ing of Ben-tsia-pu-tse by the Eussians would seem to indicate that Kuroki's communications might be cut. How ever, Kuroki, according to maps at hand, has a line of retreat to the southeast which would be difficult for the Eus sians to reach. Fushimi seems to be in no dagger on the west. So, in so far as'can be seen from dispatches from the front, neither plan is impossible of at tempt. The question is: "What will Oyama do? The situation is one fraught with possibilities and almost sure to bring the campaign to a crisis within a few days. Mr. Bryan is certainly Interested in the campaign, but the leading article in the last week's Commoner does not re fer to the Parker sentiment in his state and section, tho it is headed "The Won ders of the West." The Reply Confesses Judgment. A evidence of the desperation to which the managers of Mr. Du nn are aroused is shown in the publication of a new campaign document, entitled "Johnson's Falsehoods." The pam phlet declares on its titlepage "State Auditor S. G. Iverson CERTIFIES that the public examiner's reports are un- true." Passing to the inside, the con tents are not Mr. Iverson's "certified" statement at all, but some cleverly worded deductions, not certified or sworn to, and multiplying the errors in the Iverson reply. There is something left out of the pamphlet. While elaborately explain ing the irregularities in handling tim ber permits, there is not a word about the other Johnson report. His state ments about mineral leases are not re ferred to. Whi le in the denial busi ness, why didn't Mr. Dunn's apolo gists deny the mineral-lease report? They could not have forgotten it, so we must assume that they admit the truth of the statements made. In fact, they have never tried to do otherwise, and have handled that report as if it were a red-hot poker. The report as to timber permits gives some opportunity for a technical de fense. all kinds of twisting and turning of the record, Mr. Dunn's apol ogists have evolved a reply to Mr. Johnson's report. It is a reply which does not answer, but it confuses the public mind and beclouds wh at ought to be a very clear issue. The mineral-lease report cannot be handled in that way. The facts in the timber-trespass cases also stand out be yond the power of contradiction. The $34,000 suit against Congressman Buck man, which is the first fruit of the re port on timber trespass, cannot be ex plained away by Mr. Dunn's defenders. Counsel for Mr. Dunn tried to ex cuse the disregard of bark marks and the failure to record stumpage permits, but could not deny the facts. They can talk glibly and voluminously about the timber permits, and so their de fense is confined to this one subiect, and the printing presses are worked overtime. This defense has been proven ridiculous by the analysis of the pub lic examiner, but the presses are still running, and it is going broadcast over the state. A defense had to be made, and the new pamphlet is the best that can be done. The voters cannot say that the Johnson disclosures have gone without reply, but they may ask: While making a reply, why not cover the ground and explain everything? Who could blame the voter for ask ing such a question? I is perfectly natural. Foreigners who read the writings of the political reporters are likely to think that we are a violent people. The Bos ton Transcript calls attention to the fact that one paper tells us that Senator Blank is about to "flay" Senator Dash. Another startles its readers with the as sertion that Governor Soandso will "put the knife" into his competitor. Again we are told that Mayor McClellan "chopped off six heads" yesterday. Everybody is "scored" by everybody else in politics and a good many candidates are "slaugh tered" at the polls. Yet the boys who shed all this political blood are pretty good-natured fellows after all. The New York World is a strong Par ker paper, but it "has its doubts" of his election. In a recent issue that paper printed a'sensational story with big head lines, beginning "Roosevelt Rule May Strike a Snag After Election." The basis for this was a Washington dispatch to the effect that the leaders of the senate had formed a strong coalition against President Roosevelt to prevent usurpa tion of the senate's power. "The ideal Harvard student," says President Eliot, "Is gentle, quiet and se- rene." Daubing red paint on the statue of the late Mr. Harvard is neither gen tility, quietude nor serenity, but that, of course, was not the work of the "ideal Harvard student." Kansas City boasts the Epperson Meg aphone minstrelsa local amateur organ ization which built a public bathhouse with the money it made. That would be a good joke to work on this city. Who are the funny men to do it? Nothing could be more maddening than the reception given the reports of State Examiner Johnson by the people of Min nesota.Crookston Times. Just so, if we may believe grapevine reports from the Dunn headquarters. "Publicity" is very injurious to the man who puts iron in cork life preserv ers or formaldehyde in milk. In fact all businesses or records that are a little questionable are against "publicity." Sigourney, Iowa, has a city ordinance fining traveling men $1 each. Up here we are more inclined to give them 51 bonus each. Have you heard that latest story? "Seems if" the supreme court of Wis consin ought to know what is good re publicanism. General Kuropatkin announces that he is now ready to be "lured on." It looks like it. Hardly four weeks to election and very few lies nailed yet! Panama is getting uneasy, tion. for a year. No revolu* A POLITE JAP A Japanese major who was sent the other day to summon Port Arthur to sur render, apologized to the Russian officer who met him for bringing him out "in such rainy weather." This extreme and unusual courtesy is ,erhaps what made General Stoessel "cuss." Jj* THE MINNNEAPdLIS JOURNAL. THE NONPAEEJL MAN Recollections of anrOld Cattle Man Who Knew President Roosevelt When He Was on His Ranch at MedoraThe Strong Roosevelt Sentiment in the Cat tle Country. The La Moure (N. D.) Chronicle has had an interview with an "old timer," E. F. Messersmith of Dickinson, who was chaperoning a trainload of cattle to Chi cago. "Just think!" said the old man, as he brooded over a pot of boiling coffee him self had made, "It was thirty-four years ago last spring that I crossed the river where Fargo now stands, and at that time there was not so much as a shack to mark the site of the present metropo lis. I pressed on to Jamestownonly there was no Jamestown then, only what was known as the 'James River crossing.' Keeping years ahead of the Northern Pa cific extension, I went on to Bismarck, then to Dickinson^ and finally went into stockraising near Medora. The country was wild In those days." "Did you happen to know President Roosevelt when he" "Oh, Lord, yes," Messersmith broke in. "Why, our ranches were only fifteen miles apart, and you know that's not far. We visited some back and forth, and often met on the range and swapped yarns. Say, there is a man for you! Nothing 'stuck up' about Theodore. He was just one of the boys in those days, and ain't never changed any since. "Last time he was in Medora'bout a year agohe was rounding up the old guard and a fellow he used to know sort of hung back, thinking the president of the United States would not care spe cially to see him. Theodore caught sight of him on the outskirts of a ciowd and sung out, 'Ain't you Rowe? Come over here and shake. What's the matter with you, man?' That's Teddv, every time. Folks tell me his wife is just like himplain, sensible, with no frills and furbelows I want to tell you that Roose velt is the man for the people. His sec ond administration will be stronger than the first." Not long since W. Howells had a treatise in Harper's Magazine, on the proper method of declining a proposal of marriage. He told of a young lady who had so contrived a form of refusal that it would justly flatter the vanity of the unfortunati man in the case, console his affections and leave him grateful for hav ing been rejected The only difficulty she experienced was in the application of her formula. It happened that the very first man who offered himself was one whom she instantly accepted, without, as it were, thinking. This was considered an Instance of misspent research, especially as the lady, if she was set on rejecting a proposal, might have come at once to the point bv simply remarking "Naw" A man usually understands this at once, tho some of them do not act as if they did. A little Adrian girl, age 5, who was learning to run errands for her mother, dreaded the laughter which greeted her attempts to pronounce certain words at the store. "Vinegar" was one of the hardest for her. She never would go for it if she could help it, but the other morning It was absolutely necessary to send her. On entering the store she handed the clerk the jug and said: "Smell that jug and give me a quart." A lady in the same block was giving a soulless piano a massage treatment the other day, accompanied by a fierce yell ing, when a visitor asked: "What is that?" It was carefully explained to him that it was a case of coloratura soprano. "Collar hertura," was the reply. "Then it must be a celluloid collar." Several men have already been re claimed from prohibition by these vocal exercises. When the Soo line was sinking a well at Ogema, a station on the White Earth reservation, an immense flow of water was struck. A ten-inch pipe was used and when down about forty feet the water came out of the pipe with great pressure and was soon beyond control Two ditches have been dug, which are now carrying the water away, tho the track is being undermined. Train loads of gravel and rock are being dumped into the hole, but the supply of water seems to be unlimited. The well was found to be flowing at the rate of 40,000 gallons a minute and anybody who wants water is Invited by the Soo to help himself. If this well could be run into the train it ought to bo able to supply the small boy who makes a pilgrimage to the water tank for a drink about every fifteen min utes. A. J. R. A HOME RULE CHARTER Provisions of the Law With Regard to Amendment. The adoption of the proposed charter will place Minneapolis in line with St. Paul and Duluth as home rule cities. They adopted their own charters some years ago and are now operating there under. If amendment of their charter seems desirable such amendment is sub mitted to a vote of their own people for adoption. The people of other cities are not consulted, nor is the state legislature, composed largely of representatives from country districts, called upon to deoide whether or not the proposed changes should be adopted. The people of the city are their own masters and within the limits prescribed by the constitution and enabling act control their own mu nicipal affairs. If the new charter for Minneapolis is adopted, there will be no further need to obtain from the legislature purely local legislation under the guise of general laws, which in almost every case must be interpreted by the courts before they be come operative. The method provided for securing amendment to the home rule charter after its adoption is simple. The charter commission is composed of fifteen free holders, appointed by the district court for a term of four years. The commis sion is a permanent body, for the same appointive power, the district court, which named the present commission, is required to fill all vacancies and main tain the commission with its full com plement of fifteen members. If the proposed charter be adopted the present commission may submit amend ments thereto which will become opera tive after their adoption at a general or special election by a three-fifths vote of all qualified voters, voting at such election. These amendments are to be submitted separately so that the voter may express his approval or disapproval of each. Amendment of the charter, however, does not depend wholly upon the readi ness of the commission to submit amend ments. An initiative power is given to the people by the constitution and upbn petition of five per cent of the legal vot ers of the city, asking for the Submission of an amendment set forth in such peti tion, the commission is required to sub mit such proposed change to the people at the next election. There is one exception to the rule re quiring a three-fifths vote to adopt an amendment, and that is the special re quirement that a three-fourths vote of all voting at the election shall be neces sary in order to adopt any amendment making any change In the patrol limits. LONG PULL Atlanta Constitution. A European scientist predicts that in about 1,000,000 years hence the human race will be legless. Pulled off, doubt less^ W-* **h*t?? xLii*iitefd&^MM^%A!'&-' i%i^l ~m?f~ A .."K^p"' __^_ "_ NEWS OF THE BOOK WORLD Solace for the Man Who Can't Tell a Story Found In "Compromises," by Ag nes Reppller, and a Thrust at the Cir culating LibraryMemoirs of Mme. Du Barry Soon \o Be Published. A book to ramble in, that is, a book that does not require the arduous expen diture of brain cells and yet takes the reader far afield, is Compromises, a book of essays, by Agnes Reppller, Litt.D. It is a book whose table of contents at tracts. To begin %ith. there Is "The Luxury of Conversation." One of the gems in that for the man who cannot tell a story, Is this: Perhaps the saddest proof of intellectual iner tia of our failure to meet one another with ease and understanding, is the tendency to replace conversation by story telling. Possibly the storyteller will argue that if he has no gift of conversation, he had better tell stories. No, he had better cultivate the gift of conversation, how ever difficult the breaking of his mental prairie may prove. Surely there is enough to talk about. So that conversation Is largely a matter of keeping oneself in formed. Miss Reppller says in another essay that novelists are bad matchmakers. She chides them for marrying their characters and then turning them adrift on the world. She wonders why novelists should hang their tales almost exclusively on love and matrimony. She believes that love is not taking up enough time in the world to warrant such devotion to it as a theme in novel-making. Perhaps the an swer to her implied question may be found in the fact that love is the subject about which novelists feel most competent to write. Of that they may speak from experience, and, therefore, with some au thority, and there may be an unwilling ness to disclose the results. The circulating library comes in for comment by Miss Reppller. Or, perhaps, it is the patron of the circulating library. See this. He or she (the circulating library's patron) de. pends for intellectual sustenance upon that happy lotteiy system which has been devised by circulating librariesa system which en ables us to put in a request for Darwin's "Ori gin of Species and draw out the Rev. W Pro feit's "Creation of Matter", to put in a request foi "Lady Rose's Daughter" and draw out "The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come It is evident that reading conducted on this basis is sure a path to cultivation as a roulette table Is to wealth. This Is enough to show that Miss Rep pller's little book of essays is a good one to ramble in or, at least, that one can ramble therein. The Author of "The Real N ew York." Rupert Hughes* story, The Real New York, is said to be proving a real justifi cation of that old phrase about "filling a long-felt want." New York as it actually is, in all its colors and shadings, in all Its thousand aspects, in all its wealth of hidden tragedy and comedy, has never found any one capable of doing it justice in the pages of a book until Mr. Hughes, western-born, and Hy. Mayer, foreign born, united to produce the text and illus trations of a volume as amusing and en tertaining as it is permanently valuable. The Scribners announce theMemoIrs of Mme. Du Barry, by Noel Williams, author of "Memoirs of Mme. de Pom padour" and "Memoirs of Mme. de Montespan." The book will be uniform with those beautiful volumes and will be illustrated with sixteen photogravures. The Uneasy Chair. THE MAGAZINE SAMPLER A Japanese Points out America's Su preme Opportunity.Americans are dis posed to feel that they, better than oth ers, can see the opportunities that lie before the nation. Perhaps they can, but Hoito Ito, a Japanese, writing of "Amer ican Trade Unionism" in the Interna tional Journal of Ethics for October, has pointed out an opportunity which in many respects would be hard to overtop. This is the way he puts it: In sinking all questions of natural rights to sober consideration of what is right, in generat ing a universal sentiment for honesty, poise and sterling worth, a sentiment that shall crown these above all other distinctions, that shall put an end to a)l dishonesty, insincerity, avarice, gilded pretense or aught else that tarnishes, discourages or obscures the highest human excel lencein accomplishing this lies America's su preme opportunity Her past warrants that she will fulfil this destiny. The Handwriting of the Presidential Nominees.There is a study of the ohi rography of Mr. Roosevelt and Judge Parker in The Critic for October. But if you think it may help you to a choice, you may be mistaken. Both men are de clared by the writer of the article to be shown to be fine types of men by their letters. Altogether, however, the points seem to be in favor of Mr. Roosevelt, tho his writing is more difficult to read. When we remember Horace Greeley, the last mentioned fact above makes us ner vous, for we are for Roosevelt. Still we shall serenely await the issue. The other feature of special note in The Critic is "The Cost of Living in France." But there is a great amount of bookish reading for the lovers of books. The Most Wonderful Invention In the World.Professor W, I. Thomas in the October-December Forum, says: Modern Inventions are magnificent and seem quite to overshadow the simpler devices of prim itive times but when we consider the precedents, copies, resources and accumulated knowledge with which the modern Investigator works, and, on the other hand the resourcefulness of primi tive man in materials, ideas and in the invent ive habit Itself, I confess that the bow and arrow seems to me the most wonderful invention in the world. The October-December number of The Forum contains six reviews of the quar ter's progress and four special articles. The special articles are "Protection Against Fires and Faulty Construction," by Louis Windmuller "Private Societies and the Enforcement of Criminal Law," by Champe S. Andrews "The Negro's Part in the Negro Problem," by Profes sor Kelly Miller, of Howard University, Washington, D. and "Is the Human Brain Stationary?" by Professor W. Thomas' of Chicago University. The Pluck of the Japanese.The Jap anese at the front are fighting under dif ficulties which would kill off most of the men in any European or American force in half the time, says William Dinwiddle, one of the special war correspondents of Harper's Weekly, in the current number of that periodical. He describes a four- October io, 1904. if- .sssrss teen-hours' march made by a Japanese regiment in the battle of Kwan-sui-ten, in which 3,500 men, with their guns and heavy knapsacks, a battery of mountain artillery, and all the necessary ammuni tion therefor on a hundred led pack horses, with sixty more led animals carry ing small-arm ammunition for the sol diers, marched Into the high-angled hills, away from all roads, and away, even, from footpaths. "It was a marvelous performance, and one which, at first blush, seems impossible, for it necessita ted traveling beiieath the crests of the mountains, in order to be screened from the enemy but they marched forward briskly and with no display of exhaustion, and were still keen to fight" A Camera In the Form of a Book.In the Scientific American for Oct. 8 appears an account of a device invented by a Frenchman. It is a camera in book form. By its use one can catch a subject in natural pose. The subject, of course, would think the person with the "book" was reading, when, in fact, he would be fixing his subject with his finder. BOOKS RECEIVED COMPROMISES. By Agnes Reppller, LItt D. Boston Houghton, Mifflin & Co. Minneapolis. Nathaniel McCarthy. Price $1 10 net. OUB. LITTLE GERMAN COUSIN. Bry Mary Hazelton Wade Illustrated by L. J. Brldg man. A story book lot little folk which ac quires a personal interest thru the character of Bertha, a very charming German cousin. Boston Page & Co Minneapolis The Powers Mercantile company. Price 60 cents. AT THE THEATERS Lyceum"Carmen." (in BIJou"Queen of the Highway." A far western melodrama, in which ap pear educated horses, a pack of "real man-eating wolves," Indians, cowboys and a bandit queen, is holding the boards and the hearts of the people at the Bijou theater this week. It is called "Queen of the Highway," and among those men tioned on the program are Leo Herten stein, "animal keeper," and George Odell, "in charge of stock." Charles A. Taylor's conception of what might have happened in the days of Cal ifornia's forty-niners is placed before an appreciative audience with a wealth of scenery, amid which a mildly competent cast comes on and goes off the stage ut tering such lines as: "Stand back'" "Remember, she is a woman'" "You lie'" brandishing the while a well assorted armament It is the sort of thing that almost drives the audience into hysteria With a Btrong cast, carefully trained and conscientiously entering into their work, "Queen of the Highway" could be made a production of greater merit than it is. For there are at least two of the seven scenes which are excellently mountedthat showing Echo canyon, where the pony express rider is rescued from the ravenous -wolves, and that pic turing Hell's Kitchen and the stage coach descending the mountain road to the scene of the fatal hold-up. George W. Park in the role of the gov ernment detective masquerading as an extreme type of British tourist, is one of the few in the cast showing evidence of histrionic ability. He knows how to read his lines, understands the value of repres sion and has an authoritative personal ity. In the stellar role Evelyn Wood in- MctdTnT..""Jrrr^^T.*"JL^' MnV*.r*" 1X^ jgressional district, where Heatwols can number vests all her energy and ability, and in spite of lack of temperament, carries hereafter supporter of A Johnson the well the better scenes. Frank Kilday Is acceptable in the role of the villainous Matt Rowley, mining expert. Having gone in so heavily for excite ment, trained animals and scenery, it would seem as if the management might have selected the others in the cast with greater care and expense. Earl C. May. Dramatized for stock company purpo ses, *that florid Andalusian love tale, "Carmen," was told to the patrons of the Lyceum theater last night by a cast al together happy in the roles assigned. The success of the opening of this rather pre tentious engagement of the Ferris Stock company was enhanced by the unusually good scenic environment Played to the accompaniment of much of the familiar music of the popular opera, made attractive by the brilliant colors and the picturesque costumes of the pe riod, the play gave Dick Ferris and Miss Grace Hayward excellent opportunity to exploit their undoubted talents. The version used is rich in strong lines and in striking situations but the most startling feature of the performance is the introduction bullfightat least, the pictures of one thrown upon a screen by a moving-picture machine. Lucas Mondez tears himself from Car men's arms and enters the arena amid the plaudits of the multitude. The lights in the house go out, a white drop is low ered and for five minutes the audience sees the hero making mad the bull he would fain destroy. The bullfighter's ambition realized, the drop is raised, the lights are flashed on and Lucas reap pearsvictor and triumphant lover. The interpolation may not be entirely convinc ing, but it Is something new in "Carmen." Dick Ferris does nothing better than Don Jose Miss Hayward is In her fa vorite role of the passionate but irrespon sible cigarette-maker and smuggler. Lewis Stone as the toreador is convincing Clau dia Lucas makes a wholly sweet Dolores and Leila Shaw a sufficiently revengeful Teresa. Ben Johnson's priest was a val uable "bit." As on many Lyceum first nights the ac tion was occasionally delayed by halting lines and some uncertainty as to the "business" demanded by the situations, but these faults will be remedied by re hearsal. Earl C. May. the last act of a real Foyer Chat. A delightful production is the famous Lyric theater revival of "Wang," with De Wolf Hopper in the title role, booked for a half week at the Metropolitan, open ing next Sunday evening. The attraction at the Metropolitan for the latter part of next week will be Ar thur Dunn in "The Runaways." Wilton Lackaye in William A. Brady's production of "The Pit" began an en gagement of half a week at the Metropoli tan last night, before a large and enthu siastic audience. A review of the produc tion will be given in this column tomor row. Fred Irwin's big show opened at the Dewey theater yesterday, with his array of European and American vaudeville ar tists. The feature of his company is the troupe of Austrian military girls, now seen for the first time in this country. Cy*k-*s VSJS'c BUFFALO AND MINNEAPOLIS Chicago Post. Another prosperous and progressive American city is now exposed to the world as the victim of official corruption. It is pretty widely understood and we are often enough convinced that our munici palities are suffering from unwholesome political conditions varying from the ap palling state disclosed in Minneapolis under the Ames regime to mere general civic indifference more widely prevailing. TO JUDGE BRAINS BY HAIR Schoolboys with chestnut hair, it is said, are likely to be more clever than any others and will generally be found at the head of the class, and in like manner girls with fair hair are likely tb be far more studious and bright than girls with dark hair. __, I-H___^____ *.rf .SCi ^v 1IMES0TA POLITICS jj Speaking Dates for the Rival Governor ship Candidates This WeekVacancy Created to Make Way for James A. Martin's Federal AppointmentPaper* Friendly to Heatwole Roasting Dunn Voice from the Iron Range. The republican state committee has an nounced the meetings for this week to baf addressed by R. C. Dunn, candidate for governor, and by Senators Nelson and,. Clapp. Mr. Dunn speaks tonight at Crookston, tomorrow night at Bemidji, Wednesday night at Brainerd, Thursday afternoon at Frazee, Thursday night at, Hawley, Friday night at Breckenridge,', and Saturday afternoon at Dassel. Senator Nelson spent yesterday and this morning in St, Paul, conferring with Manager Martin. Tonight he speaks at Renville, Tuesday night at Cottonwood, Wednesday night at Pipestone, Thursday night at Worthington, Friday night a( St. James and Saturday night at Man* kato. Senator Clapp speaks this evening at I Henderson, Tuesday night at Madelia, Wednesday night at Blue Earth City. Thursday night at Anoka, Friday at Hinckley and Saturday at St. Cloud. John A. Johnson's swing around th circle will take him thru southwestern Minnesota this week, covering parts of the) second and seventh districts. This af ternoon he speaks at Mountain Lake, and this evening at St James. The other dates for the week are as follows: Tuen-5 day, Oct. 11, afternoon Sherburne, evening Jackson Oct. 12, afternoon Worthington, evening, Luverne Oct. 13, afternoon Mar shall, evening Tracy, Oct, 14, forenoon Hendricks, afternoon Tyler, evening Can by Oct. 15, forenoon Clarkfleld, afternoon Dawson, evening Madlsop. The last week in October Mr. Johnson will spend in the ninth district. Dates have already been made at Hallock for Oct. 26, Fergus Falls Oct. 27 and Moor head Oct 2S. The final week of the cam paign will be spent in the twin cities. The way is clear to the appointment of James A Martin as collector of internal revenue for the district of Minnesota, At his home in Alexandria it is formally a n nounced that Major Frederick von Baum bach, the present collector, has resigned on account of ill health, to take effect Jan. 1. Senator Nelson has the naming of his successor, and it is anticipated that Mr Martin's appointment will be an nounced shortly after election, in accor dance with the agreement. Joel P. Heatwole still protests his loy alty to Dunn, and devotes most of his energy to attacks on Senator Clapp. Some of his newspaper friends are not so for bearing. The Carver County Journal, fo instance, has cut loose entirely, and altho it supported Dunn for the nomination, has bolted outright and declared for John son and F. G. Winston. It says edltorlallyt The Journal has too much faith la Mr. Heat wole to believe that he deserved such treatment at the hands of the committee. Let us ask to whom uoes Mr Dunn owe his nomination? If Heatwole was not instrumental In tendering It 1 to him we badly miss our guess Dunn has betrayed his benefactor and the betrayal will be keenlv felt,, 1 The Lanesboro Leader, which from tint first has fought hard for Dunn, stays la line for him, but frees its mind thus. This show of weakness on Dunn's part Is likely to cost him many votes The people love a fighter, but have generally little use for a quitter. By showing that he is ungrateful Bob Dunn has hurt his own cause The New Prague Times, heretofore & strong Dunn paper, cannot stand for the turning down of Heatwole, and says: It appears from this point of view that ths dissatisfaction in the republican ranks of thli state, as far as the state ticket is concerned, Is growing broader in place of bringing all fac tions together. It seems that the taking of Jim Martin on the state central committee and asking for the resignation of Mr Verity is a plain case of Bob throwing down his friends. Those who have fought for Dunn before ind since the con vention against the tactics of Martin and his followers, will hardly approve of the stsp. "Bird Center," the new rural comedy drama by Glen MacDonough, which is to be seen at the Metropolitan the last half of this week, takes its name from a small I seen fortunes slipDun"u thr 'their fingers reason Illinois town, where tho scenes of ac- ?_*,}*** t tion alternate between such diverse locali ties as the town*tank, the picnic grove, the photographer's gallery and the prin cipal street Frank M. Eddy is back from Alaska, and his Sauk Center Herald once mon gives evidence of the ex-congressman's versatility. His first casual remark oa the recent "wing shift" in the state com mittee is as follows: We do not know or care very much whether Mr. Heatwole has been turned down by Mr. Dunn or not but we do know, and every man with a thimbleful of gray matter in his cranium knows, that had it not been for the masterly management of Mr Heatwole Mr Dunn would never have been nominated governor of Minne sota. Referring to the mineral lease reports of Public Examiner Johnson the Hibbing Ore, republican, says: These things have been known to ransre peoptt and others Interested in mining matters thess many years, and account for the fact that leases to valuable mining lands have not been acquired by any of the common herd It is notorious on the ranges and in Duluth that in order to secure a lease to mining land that had a possibility of value the applicant must have a "pull" at the state capltol. Those who bars will rise up There was no democratic candidate for county attorney in Sibley county, but on* democrat wrote in the name of A. L. Young of Gibbon, who happened to be de feated for the republican nomination. Strange to say, the canvassing board has given Mr. Young a certificate as the democratic nominee. This* seems to b contrary to both the letter and the spirit of the primary law. It does not content* plate a candidate for nomination frott one party securing the nomination of th5 opposition. The ruling of the supreme court would not permit blank spaces on the ballots, or count any names written in such spaces. Four years ago two can didates for the legislature were placed on the democratic ballot in the forty-first district, having received one vote each. This was under the 1899 law, applying only to Minneapolis, and since amended. It was also before the supreme court de cision of 1902, which held that the pri mary election is not an election, but a party primary, and that only the names of those who have filed can be voted for. The Ada Herald puts this embarrwt ing question: Public Examiner Johnson is receiving aoiM severe chastisement at the hands of the Dunn papers merely because he did his duty as a public official. Are we to infer from this that Mr. Dunn's supporters do not expect public of ficials to do their duty? It would be interesting to see some of the Dunn papers warm over those ugly cartoons they made a few months ago, with Jim Martin for a centerpiece. s ebpeciallv in the third con- keenl felt foUowebr8a by the scoreJohn The Journal will democratic candidate Altho differing with our views politically, we believe him to be the best man of the two for the governorship. The Lester Prairie News, another act ive Dunn paper, says: Bob Dunn may have made a good political more when he threw down the men who were his strongest supporters in the late preconvention fight in favor of the very men who moved heaven and earth to defeat him but we doubt it No man was ever a success in a political way who did not stand by his friends Dunn might bet ter have gone down to ignominious defeat retain ing the friendship of the men who made him than to turn bag and baggage into the camp of the enemy for the sake of, as he thinks, assur ing his election. Many a good republican who has heretofore had unbounded faith in his fear lessness has become disgusted and disappointed thru this latest move. 1 'I anby warmly thank Mr Johnson for having probed the matter to the bottom and made public his findings Char acteristic of Mr Dunn, he rushes into print to refute the charges and indulges in a lot of bombastic rot that does not explain His expla nations made the matter the worse for the reason that there was the evidence that he was trying to hide something Mr. Dunn claims, among other things, that the Johnson report was pro duced for political effect, and whether that be the fact or not, Mr. Johnson has done the state a great service in exposing a graft that was practiced in the state auditor's department dur ing the Dunn administration. Charles B. Chentjy