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In January/ 1906, Ths Journal made again oyer January, 1905, as follows: 23% in Local Display 38% in Foreign Display 37% in Classified 71% in Real Estate and Land 30% in Total 31' The Journal THE JOURNAL VOLUME XXVIIINO. 72. LUCIAN SWIFT, MANAGBB. in January carried All papers are continued until aft explicit order is received for discontinuance and until all ar i earagea are paid. PUBLICATION OFFICEMinneapolis, Minn.. Journal buiiaiiig, 47-49 Fourth street S. More Advertising than any other Minneapolis or St. Paul paper, daily and Sunday combined. The Daily WASHINGTON OFFICEW W. Jermane, chief of Wafchington Bureau. 901-002 Colorado build ing. North estorn visitors to Washington in vited to make use of reception-room, library, stationery, telephone and telegraph facilities Central location, fourteenth ami streets NW. Copies of The Journal and northwestern news papers on file. HEW YOBK OFFICE, I CHICAGO OFFICE, World Building. Tribune Building, 0'MABA & 0BMSBEE, BEPBESENTATIVES. 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Up to 18 pages 1 cent to 38 puges 3 cents Up to 54 paged 3 cents 5TELEPHONEJournal has a private switchboard for both lines. Call No. 9 on either line and call for derailment you wish to speaK to. The Statehood Fight. The reason for railroading the Ari zona-New Mexico bill thru is said to be the fear that the democrats will bring them in as separate states if the repub lican's do not bring them in jointly, while they have the power. I this fear well grounded, and if so, is it immi nent enough to justify the Arizona-New Mexico bill? The democrats, in order to accomplish this coup, would have to capture both the house and senate. To capture the house might not be a long job. It fre quently flops in the middle of an ad ministration and sometimes is oppo sition to the president during his entire term. To get he house it is only nec essary to put the governing party in the hole on some spectacular issue. This the republican majority in the house is quite capable of doing. It did it once when it passed the salary grab bill. It has done it at other times and suffered the consequences. Sometimes the republican party has lost th? house thru no fault of the house, but because the house could make no headway against an unpopular senate. r" But capturing the house is not tanta mount to putting a statehood bill thru. That requires the co-operation of the senate. The senate now stands fifty six lepublicans, thirty-three democrats and one vacancy. I 1907 it will staid a little more strongly republican since there is no present prospect of losing a republican state and the repub lican's ay gain senators in Oregon, Col orado and Idaho. Tn 1909 it will still be republican with the chances favoring a slightly decreased republican major ity, assumiug that the democrats follow up their successes in Ohio and retire the delectable Foraker to the entire satis faction of the country. I 1911 the democrats would have to carry nearly all the strong republican1 northern states in order to get a majority of the senate. The peril of their doing this is not imminent. The chances of the democrats controlling the senate in the next ten years are not convincing to the democrats nor alarming to the re publican. What then is the hurry about the Ari zona bill? The suspicion abroad seems to be that the republican majority in the senate is only nominally republican* on the statehood issue. I is believed that the senate under the influence of certain great interests would consent to join with a democratic house for separ ate statehood. This was understood to be the situation when the late Matt Quay brought the statehood bill into the senate. had it all, arranged even to the names of the first senators, one of whom was his partner in railroad deals in the territory. This was a cer- tain Andrews whose borrowings from he Enterprise bank to further these f|| same railroad projectsf ruined the ban'k and contributed to republican de feat in Pennsylvania last fall. Quay met an unexpected obstacle in The Sunday$ Jdufesdil Circulation for the month was as follows: January 7 63,155 January 14 63,750 January 21 64,182 January 28 67,501 Watch It Grow. Senator Beveridge, who happened to be chairman of the committee on ter ritories. The game was partially blocked by the substitution of the joint statehood. The fact of the matter is then that the republican party is not afraid of the democratic party in the statehood fight, but is afraid of its own majority in the senate. New York, Chicago and Lincoln, Neb., arc bothering about the price of gas per thousand feet, to the amuse ment of the gas companies. They know it is the number of revolutions per sec ond of the little wheel in the meter which counts. A Broken Syndicate. The report that the American Countess Castellanc is about to leave or, has left her French fried potato of a count is nei ther surprising nor necessarily discon certing news. Nobody over here cares much about the waste of the Gould mil lions, for everybody knows that Jay Gould got them in crooked ways. His daughter took $17,000,000 abroad and Count Boni soon ran himself in debt to the extent of $7,000,000 buying material for a castle on the Bois de Boulogne. The Gould family on this side of the water interfered with the count's activities when they saw that if Boni went on in his contraction of debts there would be but one way to liquidate and that would be by throw ing several millions of Missouri Pa cific stock upon the market. This was not in accord with the plans of George Gould, and he foibade it. An arrange ment was entered into by which the principal was to remain intact and $400,000 annually were to be subtract ed from the Castellane income and ap plied to the payment of the art dealers who had worked Boni to a great Amer ican standstill. This left a paltry $200- 000 for the count on which to get drunk, run for office and make love to several other women. It was not enough, and troubles arose in the Gould Castellane syndicate. There is scarcely a more naked in stance of the marrying of money to title for the mutual accommodation of the titled prig and the untitled money bag than the Gould-Castellane match. Since their marriage neither .has con tributed anything to the good of man kind. The man is a vain, volatile, French harlequin, seeking the bubble reputation anywhere except at the can non's mouth. The countess appears to have never had or to have early lost any sentiment of delicacy. Her motive has been to be known as a great money spender, an immense and dazzling fe male Monte Cristo. Neither one having a worthy ambi tion, the partnership could have no worthy outcome. Its breaking up will be hardest on the count. cannot get along without an income, while his wife cannot be deprived of the atten tion she craves so long as she holds the purse. Lincoln J. Steffens has discovered that many of our members of congress are dummy directors and when it comes across a few pounds of thought from B. Tillman, C. Grosvenor, J. Sibley and others, the country wishes that more of them were dummies. Cleveland and the Doctors. Grover Cleveland's point with the doctors seems to be that while medical science has advanced, the doctors have made no allowance for the Advance of the patient. They still treat him as a child who is not to be told anything about his ailment, or if he must be told something, preferably he should be treated to a fairy tale. While the medical fraternity will not deny that they treat the'r patients cavalierly, they will be likely to ask, "What do patients demand?" Do they demand to be informed of all the doctor's sus picions in regard to their case? In many cases this would of itself be fatal to the doctor's plans for a recovery. The relation of the physician and his patient is one full of intricacies. It is not a relation which ay be dog matized upon by either patient or pro fessional man. The best intelligence of both is required to even approach a satisfactory solution and then the solution is so much a matter of individ ual temperament that generalizations fall far short of affording anything like a safe guide. Mr. Cleveland's idea appears to be that the patient furnish ing the working capital while the doc tor supplies the tools and skill, should be taken into an equal partnership. should be shown the books and should have all the processes of. the. business explained to him. But the clarFor knows that capital is timid and that when mmmmmm rapidly. I order to keep his working capital he must put on a confident air and see only the rosy side. If he be *gan by telling the patient that he was g&bout .to"go ini^o the hands of a re ceiver*there would be deuce to pay in the partnership immediately. Doctors will be a long time unlearn ing the idea that a patient who is really sick is really a child and must be treated as such. Cuba I doing something handsome for Miss Alice. Cuba has no coal bills. A Little Senate Graft. A interesting story is told of how the senate figured it out to pay Burton of Kansas his mileage. Burton is con structively a member of the senate, but actually he has been warned not to ap pear on the floor. just hangs about the cloakrooms and the corridors, prob ably smoking cigarets and wishing the United States courts were in Jericho. Eecently the senate mileage account came up and it became necessary for some employee of the senate to certify that he had seen the Kansas senator in the chamber. This was rather difficult, since the senate itself'has warned him to keep out. But Mr. Burton was in duced to stand in the doorway and an employee was stationed so he could see him from the floor. thereupon post ed off in haste and made affidavit that the senator from Kansas was "in at tendance. This comes under the same head as the people paying for the manicuring of senatorial nails and flesh-brushing after the senatorial bawth.'' Mr. Burton is not a member of the senate in the sense that he is doing anything for the people of his state. is, senatorially speaking, in a state of suspended ani mation. Should the court of last resort sustain his conviction he would cease immediately to be a member of the sen ate. Should his conviction be finally set aside he would be in the position of a senator who from illness or another cause had been unable to attend the session of the senate. is entitled to no mileage and the payment to him is a petty graft. William the Sudden of Germany is now 47 years of age, and there is much ,yet to be done in Europe. Volunteer at the Head. One of the thorns in the flesh of Gen eral Miles when he was commander-in chief of the army was the fact that he was not a West Pointer. He" entered the army in the civil war as a volunteer from Massachusetts and rose thru all the ranks to that of senior major gen eral, which gave him the command un der the old system. But he never got on well with the administration, and* when he retired as lieutenant general after the Spanish war, it was with a feeling that the West Pointers in the army had never given him very cordial support because he was not one of them. But it is a curkms fact that' the first chief of staff under the "new system, Adna B. Chaffee, was not a West Pointer either and it is further worthy of note that three of General Chaffee's successors in office, Bates, Corbin and McArthur, are not West Pointers. Two of them, Corbin and McArthur, -had difficulty in getting into the army at all, and Bates owed his appointment directly to President Lincoln, who com missioned him a second lieutenant. The others enlisted as privates. The army appears to have done well under the guidance of men who learned the art of war in the actual school of the battlefield and camp. It is a tribute to the benius of the American people and our democratic institutions that so many men have risen by the sheer force of merit to the highest rank in the army and have there acquitted themselves with credit to their country. West Point may be necessary in the long run, but it must be evident that it is not indispensable. I you want to live a hundred years, says one authority, avoid reading tales which end badly. This is effected by reading the last chapter first. It not only saves the wear and tear on nerves, but as a rule makes the reading of the other chapters unnecessary. Colonel Mann would like to edit the invitations to the White House wed ding, but perhaps it would be as well for the colonel to busy himself editing those perjury charges. The wedding will be pulled off without his assist ance. In announcing that he will be a can didate for a full term from 1907 when his present term expires Senator Mor gan shows a disposition to stay by the canal until it is finally decided which route will be used. Tn saying cities do not consist of mortar, brick, iron and stone, but of the characters of their men, Governor Folk did not materially improve Dr. Johnson's lines on "What constitutes a state?" you start a scare it seeks cover very' tocracy.'' The faculty will have to i Henry Eogers says that he is not worried over the disappearance of Rockefeller. Congress is the only thing that could worry i Henry, and Aldrich writes him that there is no occasion to worry. Ohio is preparing to put in force an anti-cigaret law similar to that enacted in Indiana. This will be a decided blow to the people who inflict their atmos pheric limburger on the defenseless. Mayor Fitzgerald of Boston has been obliged to cut out dinners and dances during, his term of office. perhaps figures that there will be dancing enough- in the next campaign. The invitations to the-White House wedding request an answer. Thosd ad dressed to the senate should contain a qualifying clause, "If not incompati ble with public interests." Two-thi*ds of the 'men arrested in New York last year were single. Had they been double ii appears they would have been less than half as many. Fig ure this out for yourself. Professor Adams of Wisconsin says that football produces "an athletic aris- start a French revolution and erect bar ricades on the gridiron. Horseback rides ay do something toward reducing Mr, Taft 's weight, but he does not put all his dependence on them. has always the Panama canal in reserve. The pure drug reform might be start ed by "firing" the clerk who cannot read the doctor's writing and so throws together something harmless. The extreme trustfulness of the pack ers when Hawksh aw Garfield was in Chicago without his disguise reminds one of the daisy. t, A Alaska glacier is moving at the rate of two inches a year, but unlike the senate it never goes backward. Ben Tillman knew nothing more about the Bermudas except that they are where the onions come from. Longworth can Stand many things, but he draws the line at parodies on Ben Bolt. The Dewey dry dock is making 111 miles a day, not counting stops for water. Of course, Jacob Riis did not under stand politics. Jake is a philanthro pist. TuesdayFair and warmer! Hope so. Minnesota Politics Diment Refuses to be an Active Candi- date for GovernorThe Hawkins Canal- dacy Takes in DuluthVasaly for Con- gress In the Sixth DistrictJudge Web- ber Won't Retire, The Owatonna Journal has been setting James M. Diment up as a candidate for governor, and now comes the Chronicle with a personal word from Mr. Diment, who deprecates any active efforts to get the nomination, believing that such efforts will cloud the situation and hamper the party's selection. So the Chronicle "takes it upon itself to notify the republicans of the state that the mention of Mr. Diment as a possible can didate has been "j absolutely and entirely without his knowledge and encourage- ment." "Had It rested with him," says the Chronicle, "no such mention would have been made." He is grateful for the com plimentary notices that have appeared, and if nominated would accept, but is not seeking the nomination. Score another receptive candidate. The Duluth News-Tribune takes up the cause of St. Louis county's candidate In this strain: Senator Hawkins' legislative training has fitted biin to occupy, with honor, the office he seeks. His cool Judgment and conservatism are ad mirably adapted to the duties of a piesiding officer. While reticent In manner, Senator Haw kins has the faculty of making friends and com pelling respect. His standing among his col leagues has always been enviable. Knowing the north country and Its needs and conditions. Senator Hawkins would be in posi tion, as president of the senate, to see to it that this section of the state be given fair play in legislative matters. He Is a practical, suc cessful business man, one whose interests He In Minnesota, and he Is an experienced .legislator. Another consideration is 'appealing to some of the wise ones. The nomination of Hawkins would go, a long way toward solving the problem^of how to raise a campaign^ fund. -Popular subscriptions are fine tlMgs to talk about,*but astute campaign mifaaeew IJ^^hs&e a finan cier handy wheTr^thef *UJ/nXers begin 'to call for help. mjk The coming1 contest betweefi Buckman and Browar 'in the sixth district,, is' being watched ..With interest by the democratic leaders* -A^fte Buckman's successive de feats of Dr. Du Bois and Cleve Van Dyke, the democrats do not have much hope of winning the district, but they will make a sincere effort, anyway, and the man generally favored as a candidate is Charles E. "Vasaly, editor of the Little Falls Herald, and one of Governor John son's recent appointments on the state board of equalization. He is a democrat of the -Hearst school, and representee! ^Minnesota on the resolutions committee at the St. Louis convention. His loca tion Is strategic, as he lives in Congress man Buckman's town, and the demo crats of the district think he would profit by republican disaffection, whether Buckman or Brower Is successful in the primaries. The Fairmont Independent's charac terization of Jacobson as R. C. Dunn's "political twin" almost extinguished the Cannon Falls Beacon, which says that on that explanation Jacobson must be "an expurgated edition of Mr. Dunn minus the special capability which recommended Mr. Dunn for the place" The Beacon does not see why anybody should support a "colorless" candidate, a "mediocre" man. The Beacon has a well-developed sense of humor. The Sauk Centre Herald says: Sam Langum of the Preston Times thinks h has discovered a scheme to injure Senator Nel son In the advocacy of the nomination of Jacob son by overloading the ticket with Norwegians. No one ever thinks of the nationality of Nelson or Jacobson. They have both grown too big for that. Minnesota opinion favorable to the pri mary election is being collected by a rep resentative of the Sioux City Tribune, which is active in the legislative cam paign now being waged in the Hawkeye state The Sioux City Journal is opposed to the primary law. and its editor, George Perkins, is a "standpat" can didate for governor. Chisago county Is conceded the sen atorship this year in the thirty-second district, and possible candidates are Rep resentative John W. Nelson, C. M. John son of Rush City and Victor L. Johnson of Center City. Henry Rines of Mora is likely to be the Kanebec county candidate for the house, and Pine county will pre sent P. Webb of Sandstone, andv sibly others. pos- The Crookston Times is chiding the officers of the state drainage league for running off to Washington this winter, while the work is being neglected in Min nesota. It calls attention to the fact that southern Minnesota papers are stir ring up prejudice against drainage ap propriations, and that the main object of the league, to educate sentiment at home, is being lost sight of In the her culean effort to convert congress. Calculations in the ninth judicial dis trict have been upset by Judge Webber, who is well along years, and was ex pected to retire at the end of this term. Virgil Seward" of-Marshall and George W. ^omerville of Sleeky 'Eye were among the candidates for the place, and more were likeb/ to enter, but Judge Webber now says he would like a re-election. Seward .and Somerville may run anyhow, but an effort is being &ade to get Somer- Victor F. Lawson, editor of the Will mar Tribune, and,chairman of the populist state committee, Js'liljelsr to toe an inde pendent candidate for the state senate in the Kandiyohi' county district. If he runs 1- will be with both populist and prohi bitionist backing. Senator D. O. Thorpe will doubtless be the, republican nominee again, unless the state convention should take him up for promotion^. "i^t^tM^-^^i' *Charles iB._ Cheneyf By W. P. KIrkwood. CANADIAN HISTORY FROM THE CANADIAN VIEWPOINT To the peo ple of Minnesota Canadian history has an especial appeal. Partly it is because there are so many Canadians in Minne sota partly because there are so many Mlnnesotans in Canada, and partly be cause Canada is such a near neighbor. Usually, however, the Canadian history Mlnnesotans and other Americans have had to read has been from the American Standpoint. This has now been most satisfactorily remedied, for the eleventh volume of The History of North America deals with Canadian and British North America. The author is W. Bennett Munro, DL.B., Ph.D., instructor in gov ernment In Harvard, formerly Instructor in history in Williams college. He is a Canadian, who, tho deeply In love with his country, Is possessed of a judicial mind and a desire to get at and give the truth. He says Mis aim has been to make his work "at once a history of the Cana dian people and a general analysis and comparison of French and British colo nial policies as exemplified in the north ern half of North America." Further more, he has not only sought to give past politics, "but a narrative as well of the social and economic life and develop ment" of the people. In compliance with his' afm. Professor Munro has first given a description of the country where England and France were to contend for the mastery theh he recounts the earliest voyages, and after that the stories of the several provinces and their welding into the Dominion. In his narrative the author has not neg lected the element of human Interest, the romantic, especially in the early chap ters of discovery and conquest. Follow ing the chapters on the conquest comes the discussion of Canadian politics. In this the author has shown himself at home and a master. Lastly the author takes up the Canadian government of today. Altogether the history is a most tempt ing one to the student of affairs, past, present and future. George Barrie & Rons, Philadelphia. THE SHADOW IN THE WEST. With sunshine on the meadows And sunshine on the hills, With sunshine In the raUeys Shedding silver on the rills Tho all the world is happy. With the prospects of the day. The bird songs sweetly floating On the atmosphere away. There is still God's master creature With his borrowed cares oppressed, Scanning close the far horizon, For a. shadow in the west. Scarcely noting his surroundings, There is little there to charm Nay, the past holds naught of pleasure, And the -future may bring harm. There's no gladness in the sunshine, What tho all the birds do sing? Soon the summer will be over. Pleasure's ever on the wing So he thinks, God's master creature, And he tnrns away in quest Of a loud that may at some time Fling its shadow from the west. Man, great manat earth's creation, Lord of all the world was he, O'er the creatures of the forest And the creatures of the sea Yet, tho highest of the eaithy. For a master's place designed, He is still a slave in serfdom To the shadows of his mind Still estranged from God and nature, I And with borrowed care oppressed, 'Man, great man, is ever searching For a shadow in the west. Floyd D. Raze. "EDENIND4A," by J. P. ArmoUr, has for its center of interest the pathetic in cident of the loss of a little child in a shipwreck. Tho known to have "been picked up by a passing vessel, neither the vessel nor the child have been heard of up to the time of the opening of the story. Edenindia is a kingdom governed toy the applied selection of all that is best in the Social systems of the world at the time of its founding. Its citizens have been kept without knowledge of any other people. The hero of the story, in the midst of his misfortune and loss of his friends is accidentally landed in the secret kingdom. He becomes associated with the chief rulers, -has many thrilling adventures and is finally restored to his friends, after hav ing escaped the secret kingdom with the princess G. W. Dillingham company. New York, !l THE MODERN READER'S BIBLE." Shortly after little Margaret, aged 4, had been taken to see "Peter Pan," in which Maude Adams plays the title role, her 6- year-old brother undertook to tell her the story of the creation, says Harper's Weekly. "And then, Margaret,," said he, "after the Lord had made all the rest of the things, he made a man and called him Adam, and by and by Adam got tired of being all alone, and the Lord took one of Adam's ribs from him when he was asleep and made a wife for him as a sur prise, and her name wasr "Oh, I know! I know'" exclaimed lit tle Margaret, quickly, "her name was Maude Adams "THE ROMANCE OF GENTLE WILL," is called "a hitherto unpublished chapter in the story of the love of the immortal '-bard." meaning, of course, Shakspere. The story involves Anne Hathaway. Queen Elizabeth, Mary Queen of Scots, Earl of Leicester and many oth ers The author. Clyde Westover. cites as his authority "the diary of Henry Wriothesley, earl of Southampton, from whose age-.worn and well nigh illegible pages the incidents were gleaned.'' The Neal Publishing company, NCw York. $1.50. THE MAGA2INES Donahoe's for February."Franklin as a Printer" is the opening article in the February number of Donahoe's Magazine. A fine portrait of Franklin appears on the cover, and there are many other illustra tions, including his house, press, the drafting of the Declaration of Indepen dence, the signing of the Declaration, and scenes at his monument in Boston during the recent celebration. "Cashel of the Kings," by Honor Walsh. "A Few Catholic Playwrights," by John Talbot Smith "Catholic Royalties," by Ben Hurst "A Phase of French Life," by Anna Seaton Schmidt, and "The Klon dikers' Friend," are other illustrated ar ticles of much interest. There is also a generous supply of fiction In the Issue. The February The Four-Track News opens with a most interesting article from the pen of Bertha H. Smith, entitled "The Knitting of the Manhattan Stock ing This is descriptive of the growth of New York city on Manhattan, from Its small beginning at Battery park until it embraced the entire island, describing how it wove into its limits the many lit tle towns that had sprung up along bofh the Ea&t and North rivers "Across the Andes" is a description of the new route from Buenos Aires to Valparaiso, told by Robert E Mansfield. United States consul at 'th latter -city F. Brown contrib utes an interesting fishing article" en titled "Angling Waters." and Thomas C Harbaugh, In a characteristically -graphic v sketch Yorktown. tells "Where It mystifying gymnastic feats and some oz Ended'fc "On the Banks of the WabatftV the iifts and hand stand^work almost ting's Chapel" "Garfield's Old surpass belief. The larger of the brothers is possessed of the strength of a giant, but does not permit the aura ence to see him make any apparent *fin fort in carrying out his program. Al Carleton's "shape^' wins for him the applause and a title of ''the skinny :pme,*" "The Upper Hudson Val orway's Demand for independ- ence,'*! and "Down the Richelieu" are other interesting /articles. O. B. Klnnard as a Frontispiece.-A magazine devoted to the interests of the National Metal Trades association and to the discussion of subjects demanding the attention of employer and employee Is The Open Shop. The November num ber's leading feature was the first install ment of Leroy Scott's "The Walking Del egate," a thoroly good labor story, full of interest and point. The frontispiece was a picture of a Minneapolis man O. B. Klnnard, a member of the National Metal Trades association's administrative council. AMUSEMENTS Metropolitan"Ihre Famllle." Wohleverdienter Belfall wurde den Mit gliedern der Deut&chen Theater Gesell schaft von St. Paul gestern Nachmittag im Metropolitan Theater gezollt. Die Auffuehrung von "Ihre Familie," Volk stueck in 4 Akten von Engel und Stinde, gab den Schauspielern reichliche Gelegen heit ihre Talente zur Geltung zu bringen. Das Resultat war elne ganz vorzuegllche Vorstellung, und es 1st zu bedauern dass das deutsche Publlkum nlcht besser ver tteten war. Die Eerwartungen des Pub likums in Anbetracht des ersten Auf treten's von Emllie Puis wurden in ausser Ordentllch angenehmer Welse erfeuellt. Emllie Puis ist eine ausgezeichnete Sou brette, ihre freundliche grazioese Er scheinlng, ihr unaufhoerllcher Humor and Ihre allerllebste ausdruckvolle Stlmme gaben dem Stueck Reiz und Leben und ihre Eerschelnung auf der Buehne Wlrkte Behr unterhaltend und erfrischend. Die tiefe Kluft zwischen dem Adelstan de und dem Buergerstande/ ist dass Fun dament der Liebesgeschichte des Grafen von Ebersburg and der Taenzerin, Clara Krueger, durch die Macht der Liebe wird die Barrier des Standesvorurteils nieder gerissen. Clara und Lily sind die Toech ter eines herabgakommen Berliner Buer gers, eln Trinker und Faulenzer. Auf der anderen Selte ist die Mutter des Graf en. eine Arlstokratin vom Scheitel bis zur Sohle. Der Graf und Clara helraten hln ter dem Ruecken der Graefin. Der Graf Is Commandeur ernes Krlegschiffes, und am Abend seiner unerwarteten Abreise nach China brlngt ein tragischer Zufall alles an den Tag. Famillen Scenen folgen. Nach elnigen Monaten kommt die Nachricht semes Todes, aber im letzten Akt (Zwei Jahre spaeter) bringt dass ploetzliche Erscbainen des Grafen alles zum gutem Ende. Emilie. Puis, als Lily, is die gute Seele durch Freud und Leid, Paul Fa soli, ihr Geliebter, spielte die Rolle des Berliner Kindes vorzueglich. Frau Clara Gefrerer als Graeftn und Oscar Hahn in der Rolle als Graf, empflngen verdienten Belfall. Der Graf von Feldern war kuen&tlerisch gespielt bel Mr. Eisenmann, und Otto Stampfer's Darstellung des ver kommenen "Vaters, war sehr gut. Clara Krueger war gut dargestellt. und es muss zum Lobe von Johanna Jansen gesagt werden dass sle die Gabe hat sich Jeder Rolle mit kuenstlerischer Natuerllchkelt anzupassen. Besonders lobenswert ist dass reine Deutsch welches die Schauspieler s^rach en und welches sich selbst unter dem Mantel" des ent&chi&denen Berliner Dia lekts geltend machte. A. von S. BiJou"A Runaway Boy." Hal Reid has surpassed all his previous efforts at play building in the "Runaway Boy," which opened at the Bijou last night. The boy should have been al lowed to run away quietly and no effort should be made to find him. All the heroes of dime novel fiction, Nick Carter, Diamond Dick, Frank Merrl weft, Fred Fearnot and the Liberty Boys are wiped off the map by the deeds of daredevil, dumfeunding and deliberate daring performed at the rate of one every minute *by the runaway boy, Joseph Skntley, the boy actor. At any sort of a game from clubs to hot air the boy wonder is a real "steeple picker." He bulges with fat phrases and pistols and talks to old and young like a father to a sick child. On top of it all the boy actor is no longer a boy. The terrible ravages of age have left their mark. His voice Is no longer that of a child, he will soon' need to shave every day, he is large enough to wear long trousers, and probably has a "steady." This does not necessarily mean that he Is a man either. He Is just half way between. All this need not be taken to mean that the show Is not pleasing to the audience. As the hero- wades thru gore to the "tearsqueezing" final scene, leav ing the battered hulks of the emissaries of evil scattered about the stage in reck less abundance, the audience, especially the gallery, follows with bated breath and flattering interest, ever ready at each new victory to "toss up Its sweaty nightcaps and utter a deal of noisesome breath," WTille the youthful wonder retires to his dressing-room to think up more large speeches, to rest his trigger finger, and practice with the plebeian club, after which he dons his cerise, man's-size tights, the audience is afforded some pleasing relief from the terrible strain of Mr. Reid's production The "Runaway Boy" has joined a circus. The vaude ville stunts that are shown are unique and pleasing, especially the eccentric comedy acrobatic work of Scott and Wil son. The stunt is novel and clever. Mile. Zoar has a novel slack wire act. making several costume changes during her turn. The Marions do a clown turn on the aerial ladder and contortion rings George Donnelly does some comedy juggling that is really clever. A unique act introduces Van Clere and Pete, the kicking mule, in "A Negro Ad venture at the Circus." Clark's troupe of dogs and ponies under the direction of Frank Hatch do some clever stunts and perform their acts with evident pleasure. The piece will run thru the week with the regular performances. M. C. B. OrpheumModem Vaudeville. The Kloes sisters, acrobats, Freydo brothers, gymnasts, and Mile. Chester's statue dog furnish the stellar attrac tions on the Orpheum bill this week. The remainder or the bill is of ordinary interest, but 'furnishes a mild sort of entertainment for a cold day. None of the "bad" is really very bad, but as a whole the lesser acts are hardly up to the pace set by the program assembler of the Orpheum this season. The Kloes sisters are fully up to the program announcement of "muscular marvels." After the seatholder gets thru wondering why they are called the Kloes sisters, costumes considered, he awakens to tne fact that these athletic young women are performing wonderful stunts from the loops. They do not use the horizontal bar, trapeze or fly ing rings, but work altogether from the loops. The physique of the per fnrniers gives no intimation of their Wonderful strength, and as turn after turn follows in rapid succession, the audience is amazed at the Sandw-like strength of the trio. The grand finale of he act comes when one of the maidens hangs head downward, by one foot, and permits her sisters to use her extended arms for the usual bar turns. It is the greatest gymnastic act now on the vaudeville stage. The statue dog is a wonderful bit of animal training. The dog is. white and in a series of poses holds himself per fectly rigid for long periods. The noise of the applause does not affect him. The work is a distinct triumph for the man who trained the animal. Watson and Morrisey, Singers and dancers, open the bill. The dancing of the young woman is clever and ner beauty and grace rather overcome the amateurish work of her co-entertainer. Freydo brothers follow with a series of ruliancy,With uy." a monolog of ordinary Carleton wonld be the big gest sort of a hit. McCue and Cahul, billed as "The Irishmen with Italian voices," fail to live up to expectation. They sing none of the Irish airs to which their voices are adapted, but at tempt to do ragtime stunts with a grand opera demeanor. I does not go sur prisingly well. A little less self-con sciousness would improve their present offering. J. A. Murphy and Eloise Willard have a mince-pie-Welsh-rarebit sketch, a nightmare,beginning nowhere and end ing in the same spot. Murphy insists on the spotlight position far too long and while he shows flashes of fun making ability, most of his efforts ara rather wearisome. Miss Willard showed symptoms of a voice, but Murphy's rapid-fire efforts spoil all chance of Miss Willard. They possess unquestioned talent as entertainers, but some one has hooked them up with a poor act. The kinodrome closes the show with a humorous film purporting to be a dramatic critic's sufferings at a contin uous vaudeville show of the later '90'a. I is a clever conceit and well executed. A a whole the show is good, but not well balanced. The minor entertainers suffer by comparison with the power of the leaders. J. H. Foyer Chat. Assurances of houses that win break the record of the season at the Metro politan are found in the advance sale of seats for "The College Widow," the George Ade comedy, which Henry W_ Savage will offer for three nights and Saturday matinee, beginning Thursday evening The play comes under the most favorable possible conditions, advance re ports from every source .proclaiming it the best play and company of years. The phenomenal musical hit. "Little Johnny Jones," will be the attraction at the Metropolitan for the half week open ing next Sunday evening. The tremen dous vogue obtained by "Little Johnny Jones" Is the talk of the whole coun try, and the Interest of local playgoers Is aroused to the highest pitch by the announcement of Its approaching en gagement here. The advance sale of seats for the engagement will begin Thursday. Grace George comes to the Metropoli tan the last half of next week in the dramatized version of Mrs. Humphry Ward's famous novel, "The Marriage of William Ashe Miss George brings the^ original company and the entire produc tion direct from the Garrick theater. New York, where the play enjoyed a long and successful run. "The Heart of Maryland" will have Its initial presentation at the Auditorium this evening, and with a cast that will make the performance the best the play has ever received in this city. Odette Tyler, Orrin Johnson, R. D. MacLean. John E. Kellerd and Wallace Eddinger are names to conjure with, and it i* given out that the remaining members of the big cast which Mr. Belasco brings here are no less efficient than the big quintet that heads the company. The production will be on the elaborate lines that have made Mr. Belasco famous as a producer. The engagement is for thre"e nights only, and popular prices will be the rule. The evening performances will commence at 8:15, and the matinee at 2:15. Whimsical in conception and droll in development is the theme of "In New York Town," Hurtig & Seamon's latest musical comedy, which comes to the Bijou for a week's engagement follow ing Joseph Santley in "A Runaway Boy." The action is rapid, the lines snappy, the characters clearly drawn and the construction skilful. In the inter pretation of the piece are Included CUfE Gordon, Charles Howard. Loney Haskell. Vlnnle Henshaw and Georgia Fransioli. and they will have the aid of a big and well-balanced company of sixty-five. "The Cipher Code," a powerful soci ety drama by Charles Klein, author of "The Music Master" and "The Lion and the Mouse," was presented to two im mense audiences at the Lyceum yester day. The play deals with the social and political life of Washington and contains? some excellent material. One of the sanest plots ever conceived in a drama Invests this sterling play. The Unique presents an entire new bill this week, commencing with a matinee performance today. Chief among the big list of attractions may be mentioned the Buckeye trio, three merry men from Ohio tin the comedy-acrobatic line. An nie Leslie Williams, the Tyrone warbler, and Evilla Sanford. the young lady eor netlst, are other headllners. BRING ON YOUR TWINE WAR! Nebraska State Journal. Minnesota is fixing for war in the twine business. A factory is to be in stalled by the trust for the avowed pur pose of putting the one owned by the state out of business. It is interesting to note that, according to the figures of the state board of control the Minnesota twine fac,tory located at Stillwater for the purpose of utilizing convict labor, tho not manufacturing twine enough to supply the home market, has saved the farmers In the aggregate $2,500,000. be sides saving enough from the profits or the business to increase the plant from a $150,000 concern to one valued at almost a million dollars. The twine manufac tured at this institution has been made entirelv of manila and sisal fiber, but the new concern proposes to use American hemp and put the price so low that the state institution will be forced to do business at a loss. When it finally has to shut down for goo Uncle Hiram will be confronted with fig ures that will make him pine for the good old days of binding by hand. A PRESIDENTIAL VICTORY Wall Street Journal. There is every sign that the railroad fight against President Roosevelt's pro gram of rate regulation Is collapsing. From Chicago the news comes that the leading railroad men. while still opposed to rate regulation, have practically aban doned any further contest against It, be lieving that the president will be able to put his policy thru. The news from Washington largely confirms this in formation. It is not unlikely that a bill will be reported in the senate that will represent substantially all that the presi dent has been contending for. The Wall Street Journal has always be lieved that In the end President Roose velt would win in this great fight because in its essence his contention has been right and because the main body of the^ people were behind him. The house of representatives sustained him by an over whelming vote in the last congress. The senate, however, has been steadily in, opposition. It has been believed that the* senators opposed to rate regulation would be able to keep up the contest for a long time, and perhaps throw legislation^ over until the next session. It looks, how ever, as if the senatorial opposition was weakening, just as the railroad onpo sitlon is. 'jlf thev speak 'tis to praise." Tha, friends of'Pickwi ck Bve are most lib eral in their praise. They recommend it to their acquaintances with confi dence in its absolute merit. H&Si^ A Zjgi i