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THE JOURNAL
VOLUME XXVIIINO. 84.
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An Object Lesson.
Colonel W. H. Moore, president of the
National Good Eoads association, is to
open an office in Cleveland this spring.
He states that within a year work will
be begun by the National Good Eoads
association on a great highway extend
ing across the state of Ohio, from the
Pennsylvania to the Indiana line. He
claims that, like the Appian way, it
will be built to last for all time to
come.
The road, which will be the first to be
built across a state under the auspices
of one organization tsince the old fed
eral roads, will be the equal of any road
in the United States and will cost $1,-
600,000. Of this amount Colonel
Moore says $750,000 has already been
put up by certain interests that he will
not now reveal, and the remainder will
be secured from the counties thru which
it will pass. A road like this will be
a public educator, but the public, hold
ing in mind that mile in 28 4-5 seconds,
willl look both ways before crossing it.
Senator Smoot's term has three years
to run. His case will be passed on by
the senate about 1909, ladles.
The New President of France.
Clement Armand Fallieres, the eighth
president of the third republic, will
lake over his office from President
Loubet on next Saturday. While the
president of France is not a personage
who affects much in European politics,
the succession this time is significant
because of two things. Fallieres suc
ceeds the first president who has served
his time without death or resignation
intervening. All of Loubet's predeces
sors led more or less precarious otficial
existences. Two of them died in office
Carnot, who was murdered, and
Faure, who died suddenly in the Elysee
palace. McMahon, Grevy and Perier
resigned, all three under political
pressure. Fallieres comes to an office
which his predecessor held by undis
puted possession and which he had
made popular with the people.
The other significant fact is that the
third republic seems today more like
an assured thing than it ever has in its
history. The Orleanists and Bonapart
ists never were so quiet. The political
stranglers were never quite so impo
tent since the days of the coup d'etat.
France appears to have entered upon
a period of peace, development and
security.
The republic never was so strongly
allied as it is today, having the Rus
sian alliance on one side and the close
cordial relations with England on,the
other. Her only enemy in Europe is
Germany, and Germany's main interest
is that France shall not become too
Btrong for her. Germany will never
be satisfied to see France become a
dangerous military power inv
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Watch It Grow.
is her outside relations which have
taken on a more favorable appearance.
This is due not so much to the diplo
macy of the foreign office as to the
steady conduct of the last president of
France.' Loubet kept bis hands off the
foreign affairs as long as they were
going well, but in times of stress he
always appeared as the rescuer. This
is a work for which the presidency is
well adapted, provided the occupant is
not consumed with the ambition"" to play
a role himself. President Fallieres has
an opportunity to continue the labors
of M. Loubet, who assiduously culti
vated the good opinion of those neigh
bors of France who are naturally her
friends, but who have been from time
to time estranged by the spectacular
element in French politics. He is said
to be a man of the Loubet temperament,
fitted in every way to play the some
what subordinate but yet very neces
sary part Which Loubet finally made
dignified by persistently keeping at it.
Great flocks of robins are going up
California towards Oregon. Nothing is
doing In robins In the Northwest yet.
The Lighting Contract.
Alderman Piatt Walker furnishes
The Journal today a statement of
his view of the controversy between
the mayor and the council over the
Patterson lighting contract. There are
some matters to be cleared up yet as
to the merits of the alderman's con
tention with regard to the cost of light
ing in other cities but we are inclined
to believe that Mr. Walker is mistaken
as to what expenses are included in
the statement of the cost of lighting
in Cleveland. Our understanding- of
that matter is that figures given by
the mayor do include interest and de
preciation. This is the principal gTound
of controversy and one which a little
further investigation will settle.
As to the use of governors, to which
Mr. Walker devotes considerable space,
the governor is principally for the ben
efit of the lighting company and its
use or its omission is chiefly a matter
for the lighting company to take care
of in its own interest. Furthermore,
there seems to be a community of in
terest between the gas company and
the lighting company which would
make it to the interest of both to use
the governors, so that whether the
governor is used or not is not of so
much importance to the city as to the^
lighting company. In other words, the'
governor is an attachment which the
lighting company can well afford to
provide at its own expense.
As for the alderman'B point that the
mayor is "forcing the council" into
contracts with the electric and gas
companies, there can be nothing in that,
as the mayor is not forcing the council
into any contracts with anybody. He
couldn't if he wanted to. The alder
man did not think'very long on that
proposition or he would not have in
serted it in his statement and if Mr.
Walker is so deeply concerned about
compelling the city to submit to terms
from the two monopolies referred to
electric and gasone would expect hfm
to be equally solicitous about "fastening
another one on the city, as the pending
lighting contract promises to do.
Business and society do not mix well.
A Chicago man was fined $200 for em
bracing his stenographer contra bonos
mores.
Ramsey's Ntoow Escape.
Eamsey county has escaped coming
under the Hennepin county salary laws
by the grace of a supreme court de
cision. If the court had been minded to
draw things fine, the case might as
well have gone the other way.
Eamsey has over 200,000 people, ac
cording to the state census of last year.
All special laws drawn to cover-Hen
nepin county have been made applying
to counties of over 200,000 inhabitants,
to keep up the fiction of general legis
lation. Fearing that Eamsey might get
into this division and its whole county
system be turned upside down, 'the
Eamsey delegation put an act thru
last winter, providing that in determin
ing what laws are to apply the state
census shall not count, but the popula
tion shall be figured according to the
last federal census.
The supreme court has upheld this in
genious bit of legislation with an equal
ly ingenious argument. The court finds
that a federal census is more likely to be
free from padding, and therefore more
reliable as a classification. If the state
census should be padded a county
might get into a different class, and at
the next federal census drop' back
again, causing-, great confusion. The
court does not say .in so many words
that Eamsey county's figures were
padded last year, but its line of argu
ment indicates that the judges do not ference.
feel very certain about that 206,330
people credited to the county. At any
rate, the court thinks it reasonable for
the legislature, which provides for the
state census, to ignore the state census
result in matters of this kind.
It is a narrow escape Ramsey has had.
Hennepin's county rules as to salaries
and fees were framed by the Hennepin
delegation in *the legislature, and no
St. Paul man was ever consulted. Ram
sey has had her own set of rules
framed in the same way by the local
delegation. Ramsey is safe under those
laws until the next federal census is
held, and then we must find some other
way to distinguish between the coun
ties. The incident illustrates the ab
surdity of prohibiting special legisla
tion in the constitution, and then tax
ing the ingenuity of legislatures and
courts to bring it about.
Those Cuban pearls came thru all
right In spite of the fact that Captain
Rockefeller Is sailing the, Spanish main,
yo, ho!
Mr. Boer's Divine Right Again.
There are unmistakable evidences
that Mr. Divine Right Baer needs to be
Roosevelted again. Mr. Baer was great
ly outraged in his feelings by the activ
ity of the president in settling the coal
strike two years ago. He said it was*
unconstitutional. There was no federal
warrant for the president butting in
and breaking up a fight in which the
coal operators were sure to get the best
of it. Mr. Baer is now grieved by the
attempt of the Pennsylvania legislature
to investigate his "private business."
He has advised the legislature that its
conrse is unconstitutional, and, what is
worse, displeasing to Mr. Baer.
The Philadelphia North American, not
imbued with a proper reverence for Mr.
Baer's divine mission, has been making
'''some investigations of its own. I re
ports that it is known that the anthra
cite coal which in 1899 cost the Phila
delphia householder $5.25 a ton now
costs him $6.75. Every coal dealer
testifies that his profits and his freight
remain the same. The change that has
taken place in the price of cpal is at
the mine. That cost has advanced $1.50
of which the miner may have received
HO cents. The remaining dollar must
have gone into the treasury of the com
pany which owns the mines. The Read
ing Railroad company owns them and
works them contrary to law and Mr.
Baer dictates the policy of the Reading
Railroad company. The Reading charges
a price for carrying coal far in excess
of the tariff on the carriage of any
other crude material in bulk. To trans
port hard coal ninety miles it charges
$1.70 a ton or about 50 per cent of the
value of the coal at the mine, and four
times the average freight on material
in bulk. Besides, the Reading railroad
has bought up and put out of business
as a carrier of hard coal the Schuykill
canal, which was a competitor.
All the facts seem to show that Mr.
Baer has used his divine rights in the
matter of coal for the profit of his
stockholders and against the interests
of the public. So far as the people a,re
concerned he has been a lord who
showed his love by chastening them.
Old St. Paul must excuse the rest of the
state If we all have a smile at his ex
pense, but the efforts of the. Ramsey
county people to escape from the conse
quences of their padded census last year
certainly contain some of the elements
of a joke. St. Paul spent more than
twice the allotted time in taking her cen
sus and employed two or three different
sets of census takers In order to bring her
totals up to such a figure that that city
would not be left behind the distance flag
in the race with Minneapolis. The result
was to put Ramsey county in the Henne
pin class with respect to laws made to
govern counties of over 200,000 people.
But Ramsey doesn't want to live under
Hennepinx
bw s, and so Is forced to repu-
diate her own census.
Santos-Dumont's secession from the
ranks of the balloonist* and his conversion
to the ranks of the aeroplanists has cre
ated a sensation in Paris. He says*
"My idea is not that of the Wright
brothers. Their aeroplane glides on the
cushions of the air I am making a
heliocoptere which shall beat the air with
its propellers and fly like a bird. To
my machine. I shall attach a light motor."
Meantime the Wright brothers are saw
ing wood near Dayton, Ohio, and saying
no a word. But the fliers are not so
^numerous yet that the warships have
put on screens.
Julian Hawthorne writes that "Senator
Knox is said to have approved an amend
ment introduced by Senator Aldrich de
stroying the effect of the rate bill The
patient on the operating table may not
recover from the operation but it is a
comfort to reflect that it Is "being con
ducted on strict scientific grounds." In
other words, the operation is successful
in either event.
Rev. Dr. Riley, speaking of the higher
criticism's attempts to kill the devil,
says that it is time to begin to recognize
the devil and he proposes to hand that
Unpleasant person a warm one tomorrow
night. It will soon be open season for
Dr. Shutter.
It used to be a difficult metaphysical
feat for the old theologians to explain
the trinity in unity. But it is nothing
to the attempts of the coal barons and
the coal road barons' to explain the
duality in unity.
People who have gone out into the
sugar bush and listened carefully are
said to have heard the Bap running inside
the maple trees.
President Baer's "divine right" is
backed up by "our inflexible will" which
his good brother the czar "Sprung" the
other day.
JUST A N INNOCENT BYSTANDER
^Philadelphia Inquirer.
A belligerent exchange threatens that,
in the next .coal strike. '*the consumer Is
going-to haye something to say about the
shutting off of his coal supply." Yes, and
his remarks will have the same weight
as those of Morocco at the Algeclras con-
Saturday EVeriTng, THE MINNEAPOLIS JOURNAL. February 1% 1906.
rMinnesota
&
Politics r%
State Situation Still Very Unsettled
Democrats Accused of Manipulating
Republican SentimentP. F. Qul8t May
Enter Free-for-AII as Candidate for
Secretary of StateSenator Cole De
cides to Try for Lieutenant Governor.
The closest political observers are now
able to find public sentiment crystallizing
on any one candidate for governor. The
situation is mixed and with indica
tions to show the drift of sentiment.
As a popular choioe, Jacobson leads In
all the western and central districts of
the state, but a leading politician said
yesterday that in his observation the
men who aro for Jacobson are not the
men who usually go to conventions. The
men who lead and commonly represent
their localities In the county and state
conventions are not for him, as a rule.
Some have a definite choice, while oth
ers are still "looking around." Jacobson's
friends are working up an organization
in the sixth district which looks strong,
and is about the most definite movement
made in the Interests of any one outside
of his own locality. Block's organization*
Is spreading and working quietly to get
the men who usually come to conventions.
The same sort of work is being done in
Lord's interest. Both Block and Lord
are claimed to have St Louis county,
but other reports say that A. L. Cole is'
the favorite there. The Hennepin dele
gation seems certain to be mixed on the
governorship, whatever is done on sec
retary of state. Work is being done for
Block and Lord, and considerable talk
friendly to Jacobson is heard, but Som
erville, Eddy, Cole, Staples and others
have their advocates.
A prominent republican declares that
the democratic state machine is work
ing overtime to dictate the republican
candidate. Democratic leaders In every
section of the state are working under
instructions from headquarters, he says,
and are shaping things thru republicans
friendly to Johnson, so that some can
didate who will be a "mark" for the
present governor Is to be put up Who
that candidate is the deponent does not
profess to know at this time. He be
lieves that before the convention meets
R. C. Dunn will be a candidate for the
nomination again.
Politicians are expecting P. P. Quist
to make an early announcement of his
candidacy for secretary of state. Mr.
Quist, now and since 1901, state welgh
master at Minneapolis, is one of the best
known Swedish republicans of the state.
He was appointed from Wlnthrop, Sibley
county, and still consi4ers that place his
residence, but his official duties have
kept him in Minneapolis "for Ave years
and he has many friends in the twin
cities The fact that he has held a
lucrative position for some time is the
strongest argument that will be made
against him. If Quist, Sjoblom and
Girling enter, it will enlarge the field of
aspirants for Peter E. Hanson's place to
ten. That will be quite sufficient.
JACOB F. JACOBSON.
One of the greatest human dynamos
Minnesota has ever seen in public life is
located at Madison, Minn, where he is
trying to attcvid to his private business,
but a hundred or more letteis a day keep
him reminded that he is the choice of a'
good many republicans of the state for
governor. The man of the tempestuous
legislative career Is playing a new game
for lumthe waiting game. He believes
that the man who undertakes to defeat
Governor Johnson is entitled to an unso
licited nomination, so he Is doing noth
ing personally to urge his claims. Ho is
one- of the best-known men in the state,
and few have more powerful enemies.
J. F. Jacobson was born in Norway,
and is 56 years old He came to America
with his parents when a child, settling
first In Iowa, and coming to Minnesota In
1871. He Is a natural leader, and was
elected auditor of Lac qui Parle county
in 1873, serving till 1879. He engaged in
the agricultural implement business at
Madison, and in 1889 began his legislative
career. He was engulfed in the populist
wave of 1890, but roturned to the house
of 1893 and served continuously till the
extra session of 1902. In that year he
was a candidate for state auditor, but
was defeated in the convention by S. G.
Iverson. In January, 1904, he was ap
pointed a member of the state board of
control to succeed James A. Martin, re
signed, serving till April, 1905. He was a
delegate to the republican national con
vention in 1892. In the legislature he was
a treasury watchdog and woodchuck de
tective He fathered the 4 per cent gross
earnings bill, and after three defeats, se
cured its passage in 1901. He fought in
the extra session for the tax code, and
when it was beaten Introduced a franchise
tax bill which passed the house, but was
killed in the senate. He was one of the
champions of the board of control law.
P. G. Sjoblom of the Minneapolis Tel
egram, who is a probable candidate for
secretary of state, took a prominent part
in the state editorial meeting this week,
and he. handed all comers a "key" to his
name) which was much appreciated. It
was a very clever little conceit, consist
ing of a card in the shape of a Tale key,
with the name on one side and on the
other the key, which he spells "Sher-
blum." All who have taken liberties
with the aforesaid name are expected to
take notice.
The Redwood Gazette thinks that Gov
ernor Johnson, now that he has given the
capitol commission a "clean bill," should
approve Channlng Seabury's bill for $690,
held up last summer. The governor does
not look at It that way He has not
changed his opinion that charges in the
bill are irregular, and that bills were im
properly made out in previous years. The
Seabury bill is on file and apparently Is
going to stay there
Clarence C. Dinehart of Slayton is a
candidate for state treasurer, and the
statement in this column yesterday con
necting him with the race for secretary
of state swasa,
N home
verbal, slip-,,
Reports in this column about Senator
A. B. Cole's ambition to be lieutenant
governor are verified by dispatches from
Fergus Falls saying that the doctor is
now a receptive candidate for the place.
This makes three avowed candidates for
the nomination C. Sprague of Sauk
Center. E. Hawkins of Hibbing. and A.
B, Cole of Fergus Falls
Charlesi
i T7
E SIMPJJOITY OF HENRYj
JAMES.Major John C. Hemp
hill gently chides us, in the
Charleston News and Courier, for print
ing in the North American Review Mr.
Henry James' philosophical observa
tions upon American customs and ap
pearances, says Harper's Weekly. He
regards them as too bewilderingly
shall we say bewilderingly? yes I-too
bewilderingly intricate for the average
understanding, and quotes as an ex
ample the following graphic picture of
the interior of a New York clubhouse:
This diffuse vagueness of separation
between apartments, between hall and
room, between one room and another, be
tween the one. you are in and the one
you are not In, between place of passage
and place of privacy, is a provocation to
despair which the public institution
shares Impartially with the "luxurious
To the spirit attuned to a differ
ent practice these dispositions can only
appear a strange perversity, an extrava
gant aberration of taste but I may here
touch on them scarce further than to
mark their value for the characterization
of manners.
"What in the world," asks Major
Hemphill, "does this mean?" Fio upon
him! He knows quite well what it
means. So do we. So does everybody.
It is as simple as a ctoo simple, in
point of fact. Furtive complexity is
what we expect from the master. Take
this, for example:
The Interesting point, in this connec
tion, Is moreover that this particular
effect in the scale of things fs the only
effect that, thruout the land, is not
directly adverse to Joy. Extent and re-
general, for fatigue and satiety, prompt
ing the earnest observer, overburdened
perhaps already a little by'his earnest
ness, to the reflection that the country is
too large for any human convenience,
that it can scarce in the scheme of Provi
dence have been meant to be dealt with
as we are trying, perhaps all in vain, to
deal with it, and that its very- possibilities
of population themselves cause one to
wince in the light of the question of In
tercourse and contact
Maior Hemphill may not grasp the
full significance of this delicate shading
at a glance, but a second or third read
ing will fetch out the inherent pellucid
ity in dazzling vividity. In a word, the
Hun hit the nail squarely on the head
when it remarked the other day that
every sentence from Mr. James' pen
is intelligible to those who understand
it. The sole requisite of others is en
largement of the bump of infinite com
prehension.
^Mrn'm Comment from Book-Land
LITERARY LADY OF SHALOTT.
PICTURESQUE LIFE OF RURAL
MISSOURI.J. Breckenridge Ellis has
"shown' us life in rural Missouri in
his novel Stork's Nest. We have heard
of people who were sent to Missouri
rural Missourifor bad nerves, be
cause nothing to excite one was ever
supposed to happen there, and nerves
could be forgotten. But they were sent
to southern Missouri. The scene of Mr,
Ellis' story is northern Missouri, and
that is different, at least if one may
judge from the tale in hand. In the
first chapter the "hero" encounters a
ghost in a lonely neck of woodsa
ghost that carries a pistol. In the next,
or possibly the same chapter, he en
counters a barefoot maiden oi 17 who
knows nothing of grammar, but is a
winsome lass despite that fact. Not
very much farther along there is a
flood, a rescue, and dangers endured by
the hero and his newly found maiden
friend together on a floating tree. Then
the young man reaches his destination,
the home of a war comrade of his
father's, to which the young man comes
to recuperate. This friend of his
father's the young man finds to be
an urbane miser, so miserly that his
wife tells him that she believes that
he would pull every hair out of his head
if he thought they was a 5-cent piece
at the roots of 'em." Furthermore,
there is a mystery about the housea
"snake room," occupied by the owner's
brother, who turns out to have other
occupations than farming, occupations
not approved of by the government,
and who, tho well on in middle life, is
in love with the maiden with whom
the hero has had a delectable adven
ture.
It is seen that there is material for a
story of the lively kind in the book.
For the most part the author has made
good use of his material. The story is
one of more than common interest. The
characters are well drawn and lifelike,
and there is life and swing in their
conduct of their small but tragic af
fairs. Now and then a false note is
sounded, as where the girl whose life
has never touched the cutglass, level
says quite unexpectedly, I forgot I
was cutglass." Such inconsistencies are
not infrequent and mar the story, along
with other things of the melodramatic
kind. Indeed, the weakness of the story
is its melodramatic tone. Nevertheless,
it is interesting, and gives promise or
stronger work to come.
Moffat, Yard & Co., New York.
SI 50.
A NEW MAGAZINE OF VAST
SCOPE.Something new has. made its
entrance into the magazine worlda
magazine that proposes to print any
thing that appeals to the human bram
and the human heart. To use the words
of the proprietor, Frank A. Munsey, this
new magazine, which bears the name
B. Cheney.^ The Scrap Book, will contain "ficti#n,
By W. P. KIRKWOOD
which is the backbone of periodical
circulation biography, review, phil
osophy, science, art, poetry, wit, humor,
pathos, satire, the weird, the mystical
everything that can be classified and
everything that cannot be classifieda
paragraph, a little bit{ a saying, an edi
torial, a joke, a maxim, an epigram."
No restrictions of any kind that come
within the scope df good journalism,
says Mr. Munsey, shall limit The Scrap
Book. An average of 200 pages each
month in close but clear type is to be
given to the magazine's readers.
The first issue, it is interesting to
record, begins with a synopsis of James
J. Hill's recent address at the dinner
given in honor of Mr, Hill in St. Paul.
This is the leader under a department
headed "The Latest Viewpoints of Men
Worth While," which shows that cur
rent thought and events are to have a
place in the new magazine. Such
thoughts and events will also be cov
ered in a measure by special articles
prepared for The Scrap Book.
Of fiction the new magazine begins
at onee with four serial stories, three
of them new and the fourth by Alexan
der Dumas. There are also several short
stories by old and by modern writers.
In dealing with theatrical matters the
beginnings of several stage careers are
written up, and sidelights from stage
land are given. Poetry has a large place
and most of it is poetry that has won
title to repetition thru age, yet is ever
new and refreshing. There is much
biographical matter about men in the
public eye now and formerly and a
great deal of most readable miscellany.
I wculd be a strange taste that in
'The curse Is come upon me cried the Lady of Shalott."
duplication, the multiplication of common, such fi composite magazine would not' t6m
cognate items and the continuity of find something, or several somethings, to
motion are. elements that count there in interest it. The experiment is one that
will be watched with interest and will
be well worth watching.
FRAGRANT, VAGRANT FANCIES.
A little book of poems full of fra
grant, and, one may add, vagrant and
varied fancies, is Catherine Moriarity's
Friendship's Fragrant Fancies. By the
"Friendship" of the title, we take it,
the author meant friendship for any
person or thing that appeals to the sus
ceptible heartbirds, flowers or human
beings. Her fancies are put into truly
lyrical verses full of delightful sugges
tion and imagery. One catches a glimpse
of the poet's friendship for nature,
playfulness of fancy, and lyrical skill
in tho "Call of the Bluebirds," which
imparts a suggestion of the bluebird's
warble if it does not stick closely to
the score:
Dreamer, be gay,
Drive care away
And sorrow send a-mayingi
Is spring not here.
With blossoms dear,
In hollow nooks essaying?
Dreamer, be gay,
Tho gold or gray
The skies of grave portending:
Time with his scythe
Hurryetn by.
The darkest hour hath ending.
Dreamer, be gay
There's always May
For some heart grieveth with waiting:
If yesterday
Hope went astray,
Tomorrow 'twill be mating
With some new theme
Or old-time dream:
And, oh, the world is bringing
Its joys to you
Across the blue
Of earth and hoaxen singing.
Dodge Publishing Co., New York.
HOW HENRY HARLAND WORKED
TO GET HIS START I N LETTERS.
One of the most interesting things in
The Bookman for February, a number
containing several strong features, too,
is the "Chronicle and Comment" item
relating to Henry Harland. A part of it
runs as follows, showing how hard Har
land worked to get a footing as a
writer:
The desire to write came upon him in
1884, when he was 23 years of age. At
that time he occupied a minor position
in the surrogate's office, and his hours
were longso long, indeed, as to make it
hard for him to spare the time for liter
ary labor. Hence, he adopted a scheme
of life which practically lengthened the
ordinary day. Directly after dinner he
would retire and sleep until 1 o'clock in
the morning, when he would rise, and
after a large cup of black coffee would go
to his desk and write steadily until
breakfast time. After breakfasting, he
betook himself to his office and per
formed the day's work with apparent
zest. In this way, he completed his first
book, "As It Was Written," a fantastic
but powerful story of a Jewish musician.
THE STORY OF CHRIST TOLD FOR
BOYS.William Byron Forbush has writ
ten The Boys' Life of Christ, a book de
signed for "boys who are old enough to
be thoughtful and intelligent." The au
thor can tell better than anyone else what
the book tries to do. He says:
"It does not try to tell everything Jesus
said and did. It does not touch the the
ology of the philosophy of Jesus' life. It
does endeavor to show the manly,
heroic, chlvalrlc, intensely real and vig
orously active qualities of Jesus In a way
to appeal to boys
The book is pleasant reading ami its
tendency can only be to make the Christ
more real, more human to the young
mind It is Illustrated 'fcith halftone*.
Funk Wagnalls company, NJew York.
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THE MAGAZINES
Home Rule, Home Roin.An Irish Na-
tionalist writing for The' National Review
says that home rule for Ireland, so far
from connoting the domination of Rome,
means in sooth the downfall of Rome \a
Ireland. He adds:
All the conditions for a rerolt from Home ate
present today In Ireland. Their activity
suppressed or dlrerted by the necessity of pre
senting a, nnltad front to a common enemy,
England. Once let Ireland be free to go ber
own way, and the pent-op energies will In
stantly exert tbemselTes against ecclesiastical
domination. On the new Irish Has the triple
tiara and cross-keys will certainly not be found
quartered. And the bells which celebrate the re
opening of the old house In College Green will"
also toll the knell of the supremacy of Borne in
Ireland.
Other articles of special interest In the
same number of the magazine are "The
German Emperor's Crusade Against the
Entente Cordiale," "The Labor Party, Its
Aims and Policy." "Army ReformEns
land's L&sson from France."
A Land Without a Religion.It may b*
news to the American public that then
is a large and populous country which fs
without a religion. Even the tribes of
Africa have some form of general re
ligion, but Eleanor Franklin, the staff
correspondent of Leslie's Weekly in the
orient, tells, in the current issue, of
Korea, where the evidences of Buddhism
only are seen as relics of a religious past.
Superstition now rules and worship is a.
thing unknown. This field is the most re
markable one In the world for Christian
missions. Strange pictures accompany tha
article.
THE READER'S QUESTION BOX
S. N. G."Hoyle's Games," published
by Dick & Fitzgerald, 18 Ann street. New
York city, will probably give you the In
formation you seek in regard to the gam*
of checkers.
J. E. H., Le Roy, Minn.Varying viewa
are taken of the meaning of Poe's "Tha
Raven." Edwin Markham. In an introduc
tion to the works of Poe, published by th
Funk & Wagnalls company, speaks of the
poem as "the final threnody in memory
of his lost Lenore," Lenore being tha
namo chosen, for the purpose of tha
poem, for a departed friend. The same
writer calls the poem a "requiem of im
perial affliction." Poe himself, in speak
ing of the poem, refers to the idea of "A
lover lamenting his deceased mistress.'*
Alfred H. Welsh, In his "Development of
English Literature." says: "The -poeL.
or speaker, is represented as losing his
early love, Lenore (Innocence), and as
visited by a raven (remorse)." It seems
a natural interpretation to say that ha
sought to con\ey poetically a sense of
utterly hopeless loss, the raven symbolis
ing black despair.
NEW BOOKS EECET7ED.
Sankey's Story of The Gospel Hymns, and of
Sacred Songs and Solos. By Ira D. Senkey.
with an Introduction by Theodore L. Coyler,
Philadelphia: The Sunday School Times Co.
75 rents net. Postage. 10 cents.
Who's "Who in America, a Biographical Dic
tionary of Notable Living Men and Women of
the United States, 1908-7. Chicago: A. K.
Marquis & Co.
WHAT OTHER PEOPLE THHK
The Minnehaha Zoo.
To the Editor of The Journal.
Please permit me to make some com
ment on an article in your paper of Feb
ruary 11th. This article refers to the Zoo
in MinnehahIas Park and conveys to the
readers*ofattractividetaothat
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visitors.Zoo I Is not
intention to dispute th *duoational
a interesting qualities of a properly
equipped Zoo in connection with parks,
yet I must Insist that the location of it
is of such important consequence that It
"cannot well be overlooked. Minnehaha,
park is a far-famed scenic park, its most
attraction is the fall, glen* and gorge In
their wooded beauty. The Zoo as
present located certainly neutralizes and
conflicts with the natural beauties of the
park to an extent detrimental to its true
intent and enjoyment by the people. Tha
Zoo if it must be there, could be perhaps*
relocated on land west of the railroad*
tracks or north of the park, but whether
this is done or not 1 can not agree -with
the writer of the article that a visit to
Minnehaha park In Winter gives little
pleasurable returns, because the animals
were not there. Minnehaha's attraction
in Winter, the same as in Summer, fur
nishes innumerable pleasures, its unri
valed beauty of natural scenery impresses
the soul of visitors with its romantic pic
turesque element, either in crystallzed
waters of fairy phantoms of a frosted at
mosphere in Winter, or the magnetic falls
of sparkling- water in Summer, hastily
rolling down through the mysterious glen
over-arched by magnificent trees, who In
their glory of Summer foliage deepen its
shady grandeur to a poetic sensibility of
Its beholder. This Is one reason why
nothing artificial, neutralizing and con
flicting with its true intent should be per
mitted close to or near Minnehaha's most
valued treasure charms. Its fall, ravines
and surroundings should be kept as na
ture Intended and so emphatically
stamped upon the site "rural scenic."
Yours very truly
Fred Nussbaumer,
Supt of St. Paul Para*
St. Paul has made a serious mistake In
confining the efforts of the writer of the
above to the mere matter of superintend
ing parks, planting flowers, laying out
walks and driveways and building foun
tains. A man ^ho has such command of
the English language and can command
so much more of it than he really needs
for his own uses, ought to be made use of
in the department of literature some
where in the educational system of the
capital city. We do not recall having
read anything quite like this before.
AMUSEMENTS
Foyer Chat.
The amateur entertainment given at
the Unique last night was in many re
spacts the best of the season. Several
of the performers, who have frequently
appeared on the Unique's boards, have
developed a degree of confidence, that en
ables them to do well what they are
capable of doing, and the recent result
has been some really bright performances
on "amateur night," which occurs every'
Friday evening.
Two large audiences enjoyed the show*
last evening and voted it a huge success.
There were many volunteers, and most of
them were given a fair chance to dis
tinguish or extinguish themselves.
Harry iWlnkler, the newsboy cartoon
ist, a self-composed little gentleman, won
favor by his drawings and the aptness of
his speeches. The impersonations of
Clarence Burnett, brought up to date,
were also enjoyed.
Dean brothers, acrobats, gave a cle-ver
exhibition, and are evidently out for pro
fessional honors Those who sang were:
A. J. Smith. Amay Gray. Edward Dilon,
Helen Hadley and Maud Kouzen.
HartzelTs bag-punching stunt was -well
received, and the buck and wing danc
ing of J. A. Erickson and Louis Burke
was interesting. Martin Rotell in a mu
sical act, and Pearl Fmlayson^in a slng-^
ing bit, also met with favor.
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Those unhappy -persons who suffer^
from nervousness and dvspepsia should'
use Carter's Little Nerve Pills, which
are made expresslv for sleepless, ner
vous, dyspeptic sufferers. Price 25 cent*.
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