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WantedA Square Deal.
Why is it that Minneapolis nearly al
ways has to fight for a "square deal"
from the railroads and then does not
always get itt In two particulars this
city appears likely to get the worst of
the deal from the railroads this summer,
if the business men of Minneapolis do
not insist upon fair treatment.
It has been the custom for a number
of years to sell tourist tickets from Chi
cago to Minneapolis and beyond to
points where the thru rate was not over
16, and make them good for three or
four months for the return trip. Now,
as we understand it, it is proposed by
the Western Passenger association to
reduce the concession to $16 for the
round trip from Chicago to Minneapolis,
providing for no extensions beyond
Minneapolis and limiting the time to
twenty-one days. At the same time, the
lines running to Colorado will continue
:o grant tourist rates of one fare and
10 cents for the round trip from Chi
sago, covering not only Denver but all
oints in Colorado, and good till Oct. 31.
This would be rank discrimination
'igainst the northwest and ought not to
tolerated by the business men of this
Community for a minute.
In the matter of homeseekers* rates
is another evidence of disposition
the part of the railroads to diserim
nate against the northwest. Hereto
ore the homeseekers' excursions have
ee provided for as often as once a
veek during the summer season. Now,
?e are informed, it is proposed to run
hese excursions but twice a month to
he northwest, while they are to be con
inued weekly, as heretofore, to the cen
tal west, covering country tributary to
Kansas City, Omaha and Denver.
The matter is one of grave importance
this city. Upon the enjoyment of
ir and equal railroad facilities and
eatmentywith that accorded to com
eting communities and sections de
ends the prosperity of the city. Min
eapolis is growing. But Minneapolis
dU not grow when the country of
hich it is a commercial center does not
row, and that country will not fill up
ith people and money and trade as
ipidly under such adverse conditions
to railroad rates, compared with
lose granted other sections, as have
sen indicated above. Possibly the rail
ad do not Wish to grant any more
beral concessions to the south and
jntral west than they would yield to
J, but the people of Kansas City and
enver and the central westparticu
rly such centers as Kansas Cityare
isistent upon their demands. They go
rter what they want and they get it.
Ffll" Minneapolis be content with any
ting less? Shall it be said of the
isiness men of this city that they
be put off with what the business
en of Kansas City will not accept un
ar any conditions!
There isn't anything mysterious
rout the growth of Kansas* City. There
a large tributary territory, but, as
ir real estate men have testified as
a result of their recent observations,
ere is in that town a spirit of fight
Kansas City which explains in large
saeure the growth and prosperity of
at community.
We have in Minneapolis a good many
vantages over Kansas City and we
enjoy full benefit of them if we
i get busy* and see that Minneapolis
ts a "square deal." We want just
good summer tourist rates, distance
nsidered, and as liberal terms as to
ration as are accorded to any other
Ition of the country at any time of
jjtr. We are entitled to them and we
get them if we have the nerve to
after them. We are entitled to just
frequent homeseekers' excursions at
as reasonable rates, distance con
ired, as are accorded to any other
of the country, and they are
idlutely essential to comparative
sperity of the northwest. We need
He and moneys for the development
our country, but we cannot afford to
around and allow advantages, such
bave been referred to and to which
are entitled, to slip away from us
default.
recent law suit, tried in New York
shows that It is proper for a horse
have nervous prostration. The own
ias obtained a verdict of $250 against
tan whose automobile scared the horse
that he has been useless for coach
poses ever since. In the hearing it
SaturdaySEveuJng,
was brought out that the horse was not
injured in & physical sense, but that &
ease of nervous prostration was produced.
We may soon be having our horses
opened for appendicitis. v^^
i4t Wv^
Chicago's Indifference. U::o
The Chicago Journal, whioh has waged
relentless war against I. M. O., sharply
rebukes the voters of the windy city for
their neglect of duty at the recent elec
tion. The highest vote cast on any
proposition on the little ballot was 281,-
111. On the other hand there were
362,180 voters registered last month.
The discrepancy between the registra
tion and the vote was therefore in
round numbers 130,000 or about 33 per
cent of the total constituency. It seems
rather incredible that 130,000 men
should take the trouble to register in
tending to vote and then not to take the
trouble to cast their ballots, particular.
ly in view of imporance of the election.
The referendum of the people was to be
taken upon an investment ^of $75,000,-
000 and on a radical departure in the
business policy of the corporation, and
yet one-third of the stockholders de
clined to record their judgment' upon
the matters involved.
This would under any circumstances
indicate a lack of interest in the affairs
of the city truly deplorable. But un
der the present conditions in Chicago it
is amazing. The whole country has
been talking about Chicago and her ef
forts to get streetcar service.
The mayor of Chicago has been in
vited north, east, south and west to de
liver addresses on public ownership. The
Dalrymple incident had made the Chi
cago fight international in character.
The whole country has been deeply
stirred, and yet when the election is held
which is to settle the policy, the people
of Chicago exhibit a remarkable degree
of indifference to the whole issue.
One explanation offered is that the
people are deathly sick of the discussion
and no longer believe in Dunne. They
do not wish to go to the polls and vote
against him, but they have no faith in
his capacity to bring about city owner
ship. On the other hand they believe
that the city council will never let him
do anything foolish, so they let matters
drift.
Meanwhile the courts have put a
weapon in the hands of the council
which will enable it to drive a hard bar
gain with the traction companies. No
one looks for the actual issuance of
Mueller certificates as the result of the
Tuesday voting. The margin was too
small to constitute a mandate to create
such an enormous debt.
Milwaukee having plucked its Rose,
there is a remote possibility that St. Paul
may swear off the Bobsmith habit.
The Hen Wins.
The Cambridge-Oxford boatrace to
day resulted in a double victory. Not
only did Cambridge beat Oxford, but
the hen beat the steer as stimulator of
muscular activity. This is bitter news,
indeed, in a country whose roast beef
has been the special boast of centuries.
But there seems no doubt that the hen
crossed the road, or rather the line,
first. Cambridge dieted on eggs and
Oxford fed on roast beef. Result, Cam
bridge is first and wins two minutes
under last year's time.
The roast-beef people have started a
rumor that an Oxford man broke a
valve in his heart before the race and
that another had a "bum" leg which
he failed to indicate to the coach be
fore the match. These excuses, how
ever, will not down with the egg peo
ple. They declare that there was just
as much chance for a Cambridge man
to have a heart with a dent in it
or a hand-me-down leg. Why did none
of these defects show in Cambridge?
Eggs. Why did they show in Oxford.
Beef.
In 1876, just before his marriage. Gen
eral Phil Sheridan wrote a letter to
Thomas Nast, saying, "I am very happy,
but wish to see the dd thing over."
This letter brought $12.25 at auction this
week. Burn some letters before mailing.
The Way to Force Action.
The following states of the union
have presented resolutions or memorials
to congress, thru their legislatures, ask
ing for an amendment to the constitu
tion by which senators will be made
elective by popular vote:
California, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana,
Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana,
Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Oregon,
Washington, Wisconsin, Wyoming, Mon
tana, Utah, Florida, North Carolina,
North Dakota, Nevada, Pennsylvania,
Tennessee, South Dakota, Colorado,
Michigan, Nebraska, Missouri.
Twenty-eight out of forty-five states,
or very near two-thirds of the whole
number, have thus gone on record, some
of them two or three times. Congress
has turned a deaf ear to all the peti
tions and memorials, and as long as
the senate is ruled by hide-bound con
servatism, it will never volutarily sub
mit such an amendment.
There is a way to compel action, and
it is about time for a forward move
ment all along the line. If the legis
latures of two-thirds of the states re
quest it, congress is compelled to cail
a constitutional convention for the pur
pose of submitting amendments. A
number of the states in the list given,
including Minnesota, have put their
resolutions in that form, but others have
thirty of the states take extreme ac
tion, the question will no longer lie in
the discretion of congress. It will go
instead to a constitutional convention,
which may propose still other amend
ments, but will certainly submit one
for popular election of senators. The
amendment will then become operative
is sometimes *9Sf*mLjBjtoM
to show their representatives that they
mean business. fL'Wfp.*
M,.I
Governor Jeff Davis of Arkansas is
likely to go to the. United States senate.
Davis has been mixed up In numerous
brawls, has advocated lynching and has
made race hatred a platform. But he
represents the people rather than special
privilegeend this Is something-!"
The strange values put on first edi
tions, even of modern books, is shown by
the. fact that the first edition of "Pick
wick Papers" In the original parts has
just brought 1590 at auction in London.
An attic is likely to hold something of
more value than the library.
The Michigan Federation of Labor pro
poses to raise S1S.00O with which to main
tain two of its members at Lansing as a
labor lobby during the next term of the
legtBlture
Boar
a
awfull expensive
The man who says he has gathered the
first dandelion on a south exposure is
suspected of being one of the kind which
sees the drydock Dewey proceeding up
Minnehaha creek under Its own sail.
A "former sufferer" from wakefulness
advises a people, who have a tendency
that way to "eat two Bermuda onions a
day," That will keep anybody in the
sufferer's vicinity" awake.
The Mississippi river this year seems
to be neglecting its annual stunt of
breaking the. levees and flooding 400,000
acres of valuable farm land. Perhaps It
has taken the water cure.
The governor of New Tork has signed
the bill calling for 80-cent gas for the big
city. This means that the company will
have to push a little more atmosphere
into the supply.
Dr. Dowle is said to be "the dark man
coming with a bundle." He hints darkly
of $10,000,000, but some scoundrel has
probably slipped a few ciphers on the end
of the Bum.
Florence Parker of Tucson, Ariz., after
sleeping seven weeks, has come broad
awake. She displayed great wisdom in
choosing housecleaning time for her long
repose.
Horticulturists have had a bill intro
duced In congress to enable them to copy
right new flowers. The only thing that
seems to be absolutely free, is salvation.
A woman is very proud of her husband
when he gets into a lawsuit, but the full
bench could not explain to her how he
lost the case.
At that literary summer resort hotel
in Indiana it is proposed to throw the bill
into the form of a painless poem. Can
this be done?
Some One has figured out that city hens
and eggssuffer for fresh air. The hen
would have some difficulty in escaping
fowl breath.
Kalamazoo turned down a "municipal
ownership" mayor. The people distrust
the gang that would bring it about at
present.
At the burning of the Buffalo Times
office one of the saddest losses was that
of the file of the Congressional Record.
They regulate rates in Canada, and to
day they are building railroads faster
than ever.
Even the boarders at Houston, Texas,
are rolling in strawberries.
The automobile drivers will celebrate
fast day as usual.
WHAT OTHER PEOPLE THINK
Making Mud Pies.
To the Editor of The Journal.
The street commissioner of the fourth
ward has made* on both sides of Vine
place, a row of manure heaps from one
to two feet high and about five feet
apart, that contain the accumulated filth
of the winter. It is now some three
weeks since, they were made. Skilled city
laborers with hoes, shovels and barrows
carefully attend to them every day with
more care than a farmer would his hay
crop. After a great amount of labor has
been put on them at large, cost, what does
Mr. Street Commissioner intend to do with
them except to haul them?
J. Johnson.
been content with a plain memorial. If form national marriage and divorce law
arise mainly from prejudice against the
Homestead Entry.
To tho Editor of The Journal.
Can a soldier prove up on a homestead
when his wife refuses to move, to the
claim and make it her home for a period
of eight months, providing she Is unable
to go? Old Soldier.
Charles City, Iowa.
Land office officials say a soldier can
prove up on a homestead under the cir
cumstances you name, provided he es
tablishes a residence and cultivates and
improves the land as required in the
homestead law. He must make his home
stead his "home" while acquiring his
land. The fact that his wife does not re
side on his land does not invalidate his
claim, provided other requirements are
met.
No Right of Confiscation.
To the Editor of The Journal.
FirstHas a railroad company any
statute right to confiscate coal in transit
belonging to individuals, and if so, under
what head does it come?
SecondWhat are the objections ad
vanced against a uniform marriage and
divorce law enacted by congress?
Daniel Whetston.
Franklin, Minn.
Answer 1So far as we know, there Is
no statute authorizing a railway company
to take for its own use coal in transit
that belongs to others.
SecondThe objections against a uni-
overshadowing of the state authority by
the federal.
ANNIE FROZE HIM
Atchison Globe,
I
day,u
I
i -n*.i.aoA *i. i named Annie, and I know her very well,
when ratified by the legislatures of
three-fourths of the statesthirty-four
out of the present forty-five.
State legislatures have been slow to
act, and naturally. The amendment
strikes at one of the great prerogatives
of a legislature, and but for the pres
sure of public sentiment, few legisla
tures would take action at all. There is
no question about the desire of the
people for such an amendment. In or
der to get what they want, however, it
committed an indiscretion yester
aneighborhoodman Atchison today.e "Up
niium wn 1 1
mua
thersaid
iU,iiiw
to a littl girl
Yesterday I saw Annie (as I supposed)
across the street, and waved my hand at
her. But it wasn't Annie at all It was a
stranger. And how that 10-year-old girl
froze me.! A grown woman In a play
couldnt have done a better job of freez
ing. am looking for her to apologize."
A CAMILLE IDEA
Chicago News.
If Mme. Bernhardt really wishes to
thrill Texas with her tent performance
she should arrange to play Camille's
death scene on the high trapeze,
Minnesota Politics
Two Active CaadidaW* Shy Their
Headgear Into' the Gubernatorial
Ring apd "Start Something"--leg-
islative Gossip.
The ice is thoroly broken at last.
Two candidates for governor jumped in
today, and neither one said anything
about being a "receptive" candidate.
The expected awakening to follow the
state committee meeting has come, and
there will be plenty doing in repub
lican politics for the next two months.
Block and Lund are candidates. Lord,
Somerville and Diment have admitted
that they are candidate* in a recep
tive Sense. Jacobsoh is a candidate
without saying so. and A. L. Cole is
being forced his northern Minne
sota friends into the position of a can
didate. Peter E. Hanson says he is
not a candidate, but is being boomed
nevertheless. A. D. Stephens is warm
ing up. There are several dark-horse
possibilities, but the list given about
covers the names that are likely to be
presented at Duluth, June 13.
Marcus Lauritsen of Tyler has re
turned from the sottth, and has an
nounced his candidacy for the senate
in the seventeenth district. He has an
nounced a platform, and one plank of
it favors excluding members of the
legislature who come from districts
where state institutions are located,
from serving on appropriations. This,
he maintains, would bring about
greater economy. He favors further
railroad legislation, including an anti
pass bill, good roads, and a Bystem of
supervision for insurance companies
similar to that in force for national
banks. Ole Ostensoe of Canby is out
for the same nomination, and Mr.
Lauritsen has a rival in Lincoln coun
ty, Robert Faulds of Arco.
W. E. Verity has located at Shaw
nee, Okla., where he has purchased an
interest in the Shawnee Herald, a
prosperous daily, and will operate $he
business end of it. A deal he made* at
Ardmore* some time ago fell thru.
E. T. Nelson of Fergus Falls, who
was defeated for mayor there this
week, threatens to contest with Elmer
Adams for the senatorial nomination.
T. H. Horton of Cambridge has de
cided to buck the legislative combina
tion being framed for the forty-fifth
district, which includes Eric Thorn
berg as the candidate for the house
from Isanti, and will file for one of
the house nominations himself.
E. J. Herringer of Ada has refused
to make the run for the senate in the
sixty-first district, and has come out
favoring the nomination of D. C.
Lightbourn, editor of the Ada Index,
ana deputy insurance commissioner un
der Van Sant. Lightbourn may con
elude to enter, if properly encouraged
from the other counties of the district.
Charles B. Cheney,
AMUSEMENTS
Metropolitan-"The Professor's Love
Story."
It is many years since Mr. Willard
first gave "The Professor's Love
Story" in Minneapolis, but time has
not robbed the play of any of its
whimsical charm itna, slender as the
plot is, it- is so interwoven with real
Barrie humor and amusing situations
and there is such a splendid assortment
of quaint characters that it is no won
der it has perennial life.
Mr. Willard makes of the professor
Such an absentminded, eccentric, amus
ing studentj-a bit*irascible, perhaps, as
a middle-aged student is when abruptly
called from his vast world of thought
to this minor spherebut lovable
withal. He ,is so .unconscious in his
efforts to assist the doctor discover the
malady which has interfered with his
work since the arrival of the prettv
secretary, his glances at Lucy White
are so fondly fatuous, his amazement
so real when the doctor finally diag
nosed his trouble as love that it is with
injured dignity he demands the name
of the woman, and there is even a hint
of fear in his voice as he begs to know
if it is "the little dowager." Unbe
lieving as he is, he is afraid and flies
from the scene of danger with the sec
retary under his arm.
The love which he regards as a
figment of the doctor's brain, brings
back the youth he has lost over his
studies and he romps in the wheatfield
at Tullochmain with Lucy White like
an overgrown schoolboy, and it is only
when he holds the swooning Lucy in
his arms that he realizes that the doctor
had made a correct diagnosis. His total
lack of self-consciousness thru every
emotion is one of the charms of the
character and the wholehearted joy
with which he shares his hopes with
his unsympathetic sister and the wholly
sympathetic doctor, has a simplicity
that borders almost on pathos. The
buoyancy of youth has returned only
thru his love and when Lucy refuses
him the absentminded habits of middle
age slip back one by one to be thrown
off in a transport of joy when the
tangle is unraveled. Amusing as the
character is, Mr. Willard gives it a
dignity that makes his comedy a pure
delight.
Miss Alice Lenoon is the most mis
chievous young secretary who was ever
in love with an absentminded man, but
the childish trifling gives place to real
womanliness when she puts aside her
love as unworthy after she has wakened
the professor to the truth thru a trick.
Miss Rose Beaudet -was 'the canny
housekeeper with a love story of her
own. The Henders of Ernest Stallard
and the Pete of Walter Edmunds are
drawn with a real Barrie toucht strong
ly suggestive of Thrums and Tillyloess.
Ivan F. Simpson, Misses Mabel Dubois
and Nelly Angeil, as the baronet, is
wife and the little dowager, have a
share in the comedy, especially in the
last act as they sit under the window
plamning what they will do when the
professor marries the dowager, while
above them the shadows on the window
shade tell another tale. Miss Leila
Repton as the sister and H. Cane as
Dr. Cosens round out a most efficient
cast.
The scene in the wheatfield was a
marvel of stage production when it was
first presented, and it still remains an
attractive setting with the poppies
growing among the grain. F. K. S.
THIS DATE IN HISTORY
APRIL 7
1521Magellan planted Spanish
flag on one of the Philippine Islands.
1739Dick Turpln hanged.
1784Fort Duquesne, on present
site of Pittsburg, surrendered to the
French.
3788First settlement in Ohio be
gun at Marietta by colony under Ru
fus Putnam.
1798Mississippi^ territory formed)
by act of congress,
1861Surrender of Island No. 10
by the confederate!.
1863Battle of Charleston harbor.
1876Suits begun In New York to
recover $6,000,000 from "Boss" Tweed.
1880Resignation of Prince Bis
marck, chancellor of Germany.
1889C. C. Washburn mills bought
by Washburn, Crosby A Co. for
$1,000,000.
1891P. T. Barnum, famous show
man, died at Bridgeport, Conn.
1905Battleship Minnesota launched
at Newport News, Va,
MJ
BMtlOHARD BTJBTON'S DBA-
MA, "BAHAB."Dr. Richard
Burton's dramatization of the
story of Rahab and the fall of Jericho,
as told in the book of Joshua, has at
last been issued. It holds both pleasure
and disappointment for the reader. The
pleasure lies in the beauty of the story
that has been woven about Rahab, her
rise from a base, tho luxurious, life to
high things and a place of honor in the
history of a great people also in the
classic form and dignity of the verse
in which the story is told, and in the
rich oriental pictures sketched both in
the spoken lines and in the stage "bus
iness." In all of this the reader will
take keen delight. There will be some
disappointment, however, in the fail
ure in intensity of some of the climactic
approaches, their failure to move and
thrill, in the lack of color and strength
in some of the characters, in the ab
sence of any of that subtile but illumin
ating wit that is so great a part of the
dramatic art, and once more in a certain
seemingly unnecessary departure from
the Bible story.
The play opens with a scene in Ra
hab 's house, a house of folly, on the
wall of Jericho. The doors are draped
with rich hangings, and flanked by mar-
DR. EIOHAUD BTTBTOW,
Author of "Rahab," a Drama.
ble pillars." The floor is of marble.
Scattered about are rich rugs. Trop
ical plants, bronze ornaments, fountains,
and images of Canaanitish gods are
placed here and there. Thru a lattice
window at the back is a view of the
city of Jericho. The rising curtain dis
closes men and maidens who dance to
the music of harps and citherns, and
then one of the women sings:
Rahab is queen of lore ber dress
Betrays the beauty clasped within
Her mouth is made for tenderness
Men lose their souls, her grace to win
She stands like a pomegranate tree,
Straight, beautiful and proud to see.
The warm dusk-splendor of her eyes
Might OTec.k the councils of a kingj^
Not statelier the Jordan flies
Than uo her leet In pleasuring
She doth enthrall with magics three
With doubt, and hope, and glamory.
Then strike rich chords of pain and bliss
For Rahab, rose of Jericho
A regal flower to pluck and kiss.
And woman's bitter-sweet to knowt
In all the lists of coquetry,
None walks so wonderful as aba.
Then enters a soothsayer who fore
sees strange things for a woman of such
a house
all about her, ranged in ranks,
Throng saints and sages, and mighty ones
Whose deeds make nations and tbey hail and
bail
The woman.
The strange conduct of Bahab of late
suggests her as the woman meant, but
one of the men cries:
Rahab the wanton ranged about by saints!
Bahab enters, but the revelry dis
pleases her and she dismisses all but
her maid, to whom she tells a dream, in
which she has seen Jericho destroyed.
Soon enter two Israelitish spies who
ask refreshment. This is provided. Sal
mon, the leader of the spies, after par
taking oJ5 the food, declares the com
ing doom of the city, but, as in the
Biblical story, says Bahab and her fam
ily shall be spared for harboring Israel's
spies. At the same moment he declares
his love for the woman. The author
saves the scene from bathos and makes
it one of marked beauty and feeling.
Then come Canaanitish guards in search
of the spies who, on the approach of
the searchers, heralded by trumpets, are
successfully concealed by Rahab. The
guards finally go away, their trumpets
sounding fainter and fainter in the dis
tance, according to the parenthetical
stage directions.
The second, act is in the garden of
Bahab, Bahab waiting anxiously for
the coming of her parents and sister,
for whom she has sent in order that
they may be saved from the destruction
of the city which impends. The close of
the act is marked by a minor climax of
power, whfch shows the woman of Jer
icho to have made progress in her sep
aration from her old lire. The curtain
goes down to "the minor strain from
Rahab's song with triumph in it, yet
unrest and struggle."
The scene for the third and final act
is the same as that for the first act.
The time for the fall of the walls of
the city to the blast of the Israelitish
trumpets and the shouting of the people
is near.
The wounded in the garden lie about
In wrlthen heaps maimed by the missiles hurled
Orer the walls, they groan and sicken and die.
Rahab has succeeded in getting her
father, who is a high officer of the
Canaanite king, her mother, and her
sister, to her home. But the father likes
not his surroundings, neither the past
life of his daughter nor her treason.
His departure fi delayed by Rahab,
however, until the walls crumble at the
shouting and the trumpet peals of Is
rael and the motif of Rahab's song is
heard once more, this time in triumph
ant major.
The unfolding of the plot is admira
bly simple and direct. The incidents
thru which this is accomplished are
well graduated and logically arranged.
The drama has unity. But in Salmon's
love scene with Rahab, as also in the
scene when the father tries to break
away, near the major climax, to return
to the king, there is a lack of that in
tensity of feeling that one looks for
under such circumstances. Restraint in
such scenes is desirable, but restraint
may be overdone and a certain flatness
result. Somewhat of such flatness is
noticeable in both the scenes mentioned,
tho it is far better so than that passion
should have been torn to tatters.
Rahab appears as a more satisfactory
character on a second reading, yet she
still lacks fire in certain scenes. Her
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much the tender father. He appears to
the reader as a rather high-minded man,
sensitive to the sins of his beautiful
daughter. Yet if it was intended to
make him such .the characterization
should have been intensified. If it was
intended to make him the pagan offi
cer of a people steeped in immorality,
he is too tender and sensitive.
A departure from the Bible story that
seems unnecessary is that in which the
Canaanites are shown as wounded and
dying by the arrows of the Israelites.
The question suggests itself: Did the
Israelites fight at Jericho with the Can
aanites before the walls fell! Would it
not have been better to have followed
more closely the Biblical narrative,
showing the Israelites, with their priests
and ark of the covenant, marching once
each day for six days and seven times
on the seventh day about the city, but
abstaining from fighting A strange
siege that, one that must have caused
astonishment and derision among the
heathen Canaanites. Dr. Burton seems
in that not to have availed himself of
most excellent dramatic material.
A minor blemish that grates on the
reader is the search of the Canaanites
for the Israelitish spies, heralding their
movements with trumpets. The sound
ing trumpet is a desirable stage acces
sory but hardly suitable, it seems to
us, in a situation of the kind alluded to
here.
The drama has been made into a book
of attractive form from the printer's
and binder's viewpoints.
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OUT OP DATS.
("I realize that it is exceedingly late to be
writing about Mrs. ,Wharton's 'House of
Mirth.' "Correspondence New York Times.)
We may still write of "Pickwick," "Henry Es-
mond," "Ivanhoe,"
"Far from the Madding Crowd," "The Egotist,"
"Pere Gorlot,"
Of "Pride and Prejudice," and other tales of
equal worth
But it's rather late to write of Mrs. Wharton's
"House of Mirth."
We may still talk of "Middlemarch," "Salan%a-
bo," "on the Heights,"
"Jane Eyre," "Tristram Shandy," **One of
Cleopatra's Nights,"
Dumas' "Vicomte de Bragekrane," or Scott's
"Fair Maid of Perth"
But it's really getting late to talk about "Tha
House of Mirth."
Why, bless my soul! "The House of Mirth" was
published months ago
Already we remember it with last year's leaTes
and enow.
"Best Sellers" come like water and like wind
they disappear.
There is naught so soon forgotten as the books
of yesteryear.
From the Touchstone (April), published by
Sherwln Cody.
Following hard upon the announcement
that the name of A. p. Ward on the title
page of The Sage Brush Parson, a pop
ular new novel of life in a Nevada min
ing camp, stands for Alice Ward Bailey,
an Amherst, Mass., author, comes the
disclosure, that the hero of the book,
drawn *from life, is In reality George
Wharton James, known from Boston to
Los Angeles as a lecturer and writer on
"The Grand Canyon of Arizona," "The
Indians of the Painted Desert Region,"
"Indian Basketry," and "The Old Mis
sions of California."
THE ROMANCE OF A FAMOUS
POEM.Out of the sentiment and story I
of Byron's poem ending
Maid of Athens! I am gone
Think of me, sweet! when alone."
Tho I fly to Istamboul,
Athens holds my heart and soul.
Can I cease to lore thee? No!
Zoe mou, eas agapo.
Miss Lafayette McLaws, author of
"When the Land Was" Young,'* has
woven a romance of great intensity of
interest. The author shows more than
usual power of imaginatI8h and skill as
a writer. The story is
of?Thyrza,
is pictured as a maiden"1
wh
rare charmo
and Byron's reckless woojng of the gin
amid the dangers of the sultan's court
first and in seething Qt&fce later. By
ron 's love for the girl SB" portrayed in
the grand passion'' of his life, but the
shadow of the rest of/Ms life is not
omitted. "J
Little, Brown & Co., Boston. $1.50.
The choice of F. Marlon Crawford to
write a life of Pope Leo XTIT was a wise
one, says the Critic. Mr.rCrawford was
persona grata at the Vatican, and not
only knows Italian as well as he knows
English, but he is a Roman Catholic.
NEW VOLUME OF POEMS BY
FLOYD D. RAZE.From time to time
in this column have appeared poems by
Floyd D. Raze. These have been char
acterized by an openness, a breeziness
and a musical quality often that sug
gests the prairies on which Mr. Raze
dwells in North Dakota and the wind I fref-t
voices one may hear, there.. With others
they have been gathered into an artis
tically made volume, issued under the
author's direction.
The Author, Kindred, N. D. $2.
THE MAGAZINES
The North American Review for April
contains a number of strikingly good ar
ticles. "A Jeffersonian Democrat" advo
cates the nomination of Woodrow Wilson
for president. Paul Morton, president of
the EJquitable Life Assurance society, and
Darwin P. Kingsley, vlcepresident of the
New York Life Insurance company, point
out what is to be sought and what avoid
ed in "llfe Insurance Legislation." Sen
ator A. O. Bacon defines what he believes
to be "The Senate's Share In Treaty
Making." Principal Booker T. Washing
ton contributes "Tuskegee: a Retrospect
and a Prospect." Vernon Lee suggest
ively studies "Tolstoy as Prophet." Henry
James gives his impressions of Philadel
phia. Edward Porritt describes "Can
ada's Tariff Mood Toward the United
States." Louise Collier WUlcox examines
"Recent Speculations Upon Immortality."
UptOn Sinclair, arguing from a socialistic
point of view, finds a connection between
"Markets and Misery." Ida Husted Har
per writes of "Susan B. Anthony: the
Woman and Her Work."
"American Manufacture In China."No
more Interesting phase In the progress
of civilisation is noticeable today than
that of awakening China, The traditions
of centuriesyes, of thousands of years
are falling away in the rebirth of eastern
Asia, and what will be the effect fto man
can telh It is In keeping with th& pur
pose of The World Today to reflect the
spirit of the day, therefore, that that
magazine prints an article in its April
Issue on "The American Manufacturer
In China," by Arthur D. Coulter. The
article is one to emphasize the statement
above, that China is the most interesting
study in civilisation today. It shows
graphically the speed with which China
is hastening toward a higher place- among
the nations of the.
world.4/
Has Witte's Task Broken Him?Per
ceval Gibbon, in McClure's Magazine tor
April, says Count Wltte Is face to Jaee
with a problem at which he cannot but
fall. He puts the premier's situation
He Is a diplomatist lost among
thus
father seems either too little or too facts, a trafficker in .words who Is lace] Mead & Co. sa&eti*!?
to face with the brutality of unglowed
actualities. It has broken him." One
will see in recent events, in Witte's ef
forts to meet the autocracy's demand for
repressive measures, a verification of ths
views set forth by Mr. Gibbon. Certainly
in the great movements of men today no
man holds a more, conspicuous place than
Witte, and his fate will be watehed with
keenest interest Mr. Gibbon's article
will help much to an understanding of
the man.
The April McClure's Is rich in serious
reading and In fiction.
New England Magazine.An article in"*.""
the New England Magazine for April that
will appeal to large numbers Is "The
WILLIAM ALLEH WHITE,
Country Editor.
Despotism of Combined Millions," an ac
count of the struggle, of Mutual lAte pol
icyholders to escape from the grip of thf
"system."
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