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MVw.. 'dies crrih ifo *i*.-it s,falti' i Eir/ r-jr/i !i-. f^i Btiwt jsr ^HE^ JOURNAL ..fVOlUMS XXIXNO. I. LUCIAN SWIFT/ S. McLAIN, EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERY DAY. f-tiT .uV.r,, SVBBCBIPIIO^&ATEft BY MAIL. Dally aud Sunday, per month 40c Pally only, per month S6o Monday only, per month 15c BY OARRIEK OUTSIDE THE OITY. Dally and Sunday, one month SOc BY CARRIER IN MINNEAPOLIS AND SUBURBS. Daily and Sunday, one month..... 40c COPIES! 1 cent 2 cents 3 cents POSTAGE RATES OF SINGLE ,k Up to 18 pagea.. xl&fr'to 86,pages..- i. Wfl &n |Miper8 are contlnaea undj an explicit order .CrCM reoaUed for discontinuance and until all ar- ._ .-murage*- are paid. sASMtMiiaBWti"'' j. PUBLICATION OFFICE Minneapolis, Minn., Journal building, 47-49 Fourth street S. I .JEASJPJTO OFFICEW. TV. Jermane, chief of Washington Bureau, 901-902 Colorado bulld lng. Northwestern visitors to Washington In vited to make se of reception room, library, stationery, telephone and telegraph facilities. Central location. 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Evidence is not lacking that the Brit ish empire, hugest in extent, greatest in wealth of all the man-built empires i of history, has reached the zenith of jts .growth and is now about to enter .upon the downward path of disintegra tion. Only by laying its imperial ties most lightly on Canada and -Australia, has it been able to keep them within its domain. Each is now as nearly in dependent as it is possible to be with out attaining actual and complete in dependence.' But neither isb uite satis fied with the imperial connection which shuts them out of parliament and keeps from them control of all diplomatic questions. When questions arise be tween Great Britain and the United States which involve Canada, it usual ly happens that they are settled by Great Britain in a way to satisfy the United States, whose good will and friendship are essential. Canadian wishes are a minor consideration. The Alaskan boundary treaty was, a bitter pill for Canada, which more and more desires complete independence and con trol of her. .own relations, with other', na tions. Australia, too, is developing a desire for independence that seems likely to bear fruit soon. The federation of the /colonies has not proved successful or satisfactory, and there is a strong sen timent in the labor party, which con trols Australian politics, for cutting loose from the mother country and set ting up a strongly centralized republic on American -lines. I South Africa there is a similar tendency, now that i the Boer oligarchy has been over thrown. But it is in the subject countries like Egypt and India that there is the most serious menace to British supremacy. Xn,. India especially is there, great un rest. And the worst feature of the sit uation from a British Standpoint i3 that is is an intelligent unrest. "Ind ia for' the Hindus'' has become a shibbo leth of power. The native press speaks out plainly, at the risk of suppression for seditious utterances. .The burden of Hindu complaint is that England is exploiting, but not developing India. ,4 England throttles native industries in order that the great market for British ^products may be maintained. i. There are two native parties, both well represented in the approaching In dian congress, an unauthorized but quiet representative assembly of the raices. The moderates are loyal to Great I Britain, but desire eventual home rule and practical autonomy, such as are en joyed by other British colonies. The radicals, a growing party, demand com pL&te independence.. The aims of: both parties are looked on as visionary and impractical by Anglo-Indian publicists, but, of course, that of the radicals is openly seditious. The younger genera tion in India, according to Ernst Pi riou in his "India of Today and the National Movement,'' is imbued "with western learning and western ideas and is.4etermined to free itself from Brit ist domination.'' Statesmanship of a rare order will be required to hold the British empire tJ gether in the coming storm-and-stress period. As to resigning Piatt neither has nor is. Dangerous Methods. |rbM Tighe of St. Paul may noi "Ited speaker of the Minnesota j&jut he is doing a public. service d(5a Vor to elevate the contest. for that position above the plane of pettv politics. He makes an. earnest protest .against' the prevailing method of campaigning for speaker, in which candidates try first to round up theboth members from their own congressional districts* and then make forays into the other districts, working almost en i tirely on geographical lines. Mr. Tighe" i |^l} points out that a -man from Iisahti J", i county should not be induced to sup* .port the candidate from St, Louis eoun- -'ty, merely because they happen to have "^hV'same "congressman. flfclfetriifelthalr such a plan of :camr eoj^natjonsyrm which a candidate ^for 4f ,s'-J -JT?*-, -PJ no other reason than that he is a neighbor is standing on a narrow plat form, but he is nearer right than the man who supports a candidate because he has extorted the promise of a clerk ship for one of his friends, or a fajj committee assignment for himself. The man who places his vote on such grounds as these is debauching the of fice. The patronage scheme and the geo graphical system are both dangerous to the public welfare, because they ignore all questions of principle. .The mem ber who promises his vote on such grounds does not know, and apparently does not care, whether his candidate is a free man, or the tool of a special in terest. He does not know or care what environment or backing the man has, so long as he makes the desired distri bution of patronage. The "special in terests" are never asleep. They know their friends and their enemies, and their power is always felt. I is being felt in the present instance. If the representatives of the people fojget what they are elected for, and play for personal aggrandizement or political advantage instead of the comnipn good, the welfare of- the" peeple will suffer* and the "interests" wiH win. Peary is accused by some of .his crew of cruelty. ate' the best cuts of dpfi* High Tariff and Its Friends. The American .Economist, a weekiy paper issued by the American Pro tective Tariff league, devotes several articles and a good many columns of the current issue to discussion of the defeat pi McCleary of Minnesota, Lacey of Iowa and Landis of Indianathree noisy standpatters.'' Various reasons are assigned, for this result in the sec ond district? of: Minnesota, but Special emphasis is laid upon the assertion that the daily newspapers of the twin cities are all for tariff reduction and have de ceived the people of the northwest with regard to the tariff issue. The Economist very stupidly fails to recognize the attitude of the newspa pers of the twin cities as undoubtedly expressive of northwestern tariff senti ment. The newspapers of Minnesota could not defeat Mr. McCleary if they undertook to antagonize the* sentiment of the people of his district, and it is the refusal of the "standpatter ex pressed in the Economist, to see the change in public sentiment and the gen eral drift toward revision of the sched ules in accordance with changed condi tions which is going to produce a more radical reaction when the reaction comes than would be probable if the high protectionists were not so deter mined to resist every measure of tariff reform. If Mr. McCleary had not been so offensively radical in his own utter ances he'would hot have been defeated. The arrogance of the "standpatter" has become so objectionable that it is creating a stronger sentiment of oppo sition than would otherwise exist, and the Economist is one of the greatest offenders in 4his particular. The cause of high protection has more to fear from its friends who can't learn any- Dr. Crapsey Closes the Case. The Bev. Algernon Crapsey lias added himself to the list of modern martyrs of the church. He^has. done it in a very dignified and commendable, manner. Dr. Crapsey being an EpiBco^ pal rector might have made quite a fight on the property aspects of his case. He could, have carried it on ap peal into the civil courts and his own irial- having been irregular in some re spects he might have made a great deal of bad feeling before he was forced to let go. Dr. Crapsey has shown a spirit above this kind of bickering for a rectorship. He bows to his judges and withput criticising them quietly departs from the Episcopal ministry. Only one shot he gives in parting, but. that a telling one. He says he asked only for toler ance in the church and that could not be granted. Of course, a great deal depends upon what Dr. Crapsey meant by tolerance. The church tolerates many men who are teaching according to their own ideas rather than those of the church itself If it did not it would be in a constant turmoil of heresy trials. But it is quite apparent that if the church is to bear any semblance to an organization it must draw the line somewhere. The church, has chosen to draw it between what are known as the essentials of faith and those things .which are notinto essential. Etven this line is difficult to draw. Dr. Crapsey seems to be satis fled that the church drew the line fair ly, so far as he was concerned, and ac cepted the result. This ought to re lieve the case from any air of sensa tion. I amounts simply to this, that Dr. Crapsey and the ehurch cbuld not agree as to what, he should teach, and after a'fair statement of the position of both sides, Dr. Crapsey has agreed hot t& teach for the Episcopal church any more. There is plenty of room in the world still for Crapsey to teach. There is plenty of room in the world for thethe church to learn. They have each a mission. Their lines no longer eross, but there is no reason why they should not each learn from the other, because are professedly enlisted in the search for truth. Mr. E H. Harriman appears hot to have' learned anything from the: disas trous struggle of Mrs. Partington against the waves of the ocean nor has his. sense of humor been quickened by the failurexof King Canute to impress his imperial will upon the tide. Mr. Harriman ^s paking faces at the pep- palgn is* undignified and puerile, but! pie o. foe United States telling ihere are more seriotts .evils to be them that they mus1t"'let railroads feared than the one Mr^iTighe w^-!titin^^sM''^rJ -e-uti-'There-is the praetice of making* .^cllakir ^rpunds'up vbtel^ in 'return for* next senator from Kentucky, Was a %JtO clerkship or a committee appointment, page in the legislature at 9 years. Athauls ll^rTEt man*VS& supports a"candidate.fort 23 he warf. speaker of the house. A ti&| Monday Evening, remngf 'V.'-' ?*L*. ,.-1" t-and /':the 3ti''''' ':'-''r rr -Cfovernor Beckham, who will be.,the riftS,".! *t* jjgH 28, when he was lieutenant-governor, the murder of Goobel made him gov ernor, and he has been elected twice since. He will entefr the senate at 34. He has done all this and carried three initials and parted his hair in the mid dle besides. Tillman is so accustomed to the free speech of the senate that he does not realize that a man may get -his block knocked off for talking that way out side. If Standard Oil stock continues to decline we may look for rises in theso? price of oil. At present John has hold of the cold end of the poker. Senator Beveridge says that no man needs a million dollars. may not need it, but.it sometimes comes handy at Christmas. landslide. slide with him. **S ffc- v?. if Having yoted McCleary out of his seat in congress the people of Mankatb are going to give him a banquet, to celebrate the fact probably. The president is said to be a belie^r in future punishment. I a speech at Panama he said that he always believed in the future of that place. thei Detroit Journal e|Olirtled|^!A^|r^?fi.^^ rmai Watson's Silly Bleat.' ",^A^%i j i_ i ^4^'' \z"%^5? Mayor-elect Thonipsdn of Detroit Jiitfi-! struek the foundation of political ipros perit.y in the epigram.-'' the less pat ronage the less trouble." 1 to letters. Even* h'a! i-^'WriwfrS iP* 4h'e Viin The Detroit News suggests that the breakdown in the transportation syV tern may be due to the weight of- capi- talization carried. T J. -n lit t.t Perhaps Mrs. Parsons can prevail upon Carnegie to set up a million-room home for the children of probationary marriages. Miss TarbelKs next effort will be to Eockefeller 4she| ta'rifc. I is a deep subject, but I:dk i^'hi"deep girl. Senator Piatt cannot add to his pop ularity? but' he might subtract from his unpopularity by quitting. Gibraltar enters a protest against be-* ing compared with Dryden's strength as a senatorial candidate. iro i xrxena wn tear any miUioh^^ %i^ in which] thing about changed political'sentimen^/^ Hi Henry Sogers is of' J^he opinion that Lawson struek his gaif-when he decided to be 4 novelists -..i--.-''-. kee ^0^' -j- Next Thursday don't*try*to make ont that the Pilgrim: fathers did .not know when they had^enough^i# th pea than from anybody else., **U^ tE!s s/toir GOAL A linguistic student living in t^onr necticut contends that Virgil was Irish, Hoot, monl a President Roosevelt's progress .along, the-.oo a '.sumpjoous* .dress, in keeping the line of the canal was ^delayed ^5? a Jwitii' th form given4the a&thdr's, eafliet carries his own land John A. Johnson is said to look upon those Texas resolutions favoring him for president as a sort of fexas steer. The Pennsylvania road has.decided not to build any more wooden cars. That's a good startoff for a new year. 1 l'~ Andrew Carnegiei^^ifeffeoltog to- give ^?p, M\W ^^"f^- PRG1T FIELD "New Tork is going fo-havera1 evening mail delivery, which means t^a* a' letter posted down town at 8 P.TO.'4AW11 be de livered in the residentia3ti?*iaJFictsiJ 'tha night. The postman is osualiy a wel come visitor, but there is such a thing ps overdoing his attentions TMn'|iCii of receiving a letter at ILake Harriet ip.m. and on opening it learh -that//" is stranded at the corner of. Third- and Hennepin and can't move untll-you "come"' down and advance $2. Wpuldn^t that' make you sit-up and cuss the postoffice? It is a fact that the Christmas shop ping casts a shadow across the Thanks giving feast. 5jjL%X Morgan post has decided "Unanimously to forego smoking in the new hali in. the. city hall court. What an example -to- the dead cigar man on the back stoop pf, the streetcar! The football teams have broken, train ing, which means they are now''free to court dyspepsia like the rest of us. The Minnesota railroads have given'the wheat problem up, but they are making a valiant effort to carry the turkeys to market.* The prohibitionist is the. onty, party in Minnesota that finds it necessary-%# hold two banquets to celebrate .the-result, of the last election: This weather is a great annoyance to the coal man. He does not know wheth er to. put out the "famine" sign or to advertise a nice line of clinkerless-goods and at cut rates. Who's who in MinneapolisMr. born in r, Feb. 29th, came'to'i Minneapolis when he got ready went' the business and prospered Interested in politics active in the cam paigns of and appointed chief of police by Mayor Haynes 1907. James, Gray. THE MAN OF NEW YORK Maxim Gorky's "iitapression^." The faces of'the men j& Co. y. -.!i,V.-^Vg ism-* CHICAGO?S LI^ENSp pEV!5^ji Chicjigo News That $3,615,500 for SaTooh licensee good until one stojps to think how 'mttof-:.tne.^ i liquor will have tift, be consumed-'-to. $& the money back into tfie's^oorike^epersl' tills. *'N LEARNING HOW TO BE QUIET Washington Post. The "good government leagues" that' are being organized -in Cuba presumably have for their object the closer study of the imported variety. 1C": TANK UP THEVENG1NE,S Hanna (N. D.) Moon.' A shortage of water on this branch has paralyzed the freight service, If the Great Northern could use the toozf it for making, steam instead of fools, it"would give u,'s-a*nrst-eiass Servicer 'TO THp.lMINNfeAPOLI^ "l&tjR BOOKS By W. P. K. SPLENDID ADDITION TO HISTORI- CAL AND GENERAL LITERATURE. A new volume on Home by Rodolfo Lan-, ciani la an event of the first importance not- only to'.the'.tjlel^iof history, but inis the larger field of literature. 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Edited by Kate Douglas Wiggin and Nora Archibald Smith, edjtors of "The Posy Ring," etc. jA-book of ciassigNtales of the kind that children delight* tit' and' grown-ups like to remember having read They are such as furnish a part'?of the real joys of youth, which are carried over into mar ture years. A SENTIMENT*INVERSE FOR EVERY DAY IN THE YEAR. Compiled by Walter h. Shel don, lecturer of ttie Ethical Society of St. Louis. Philadelphia: S. Burns Weston, 1415 Locust street. SCORN OF W0M^_^[, In Three Acts. By Jacj London. New Yor3ci4Th MacMUlan company? $1.25. Held for future notice. THRU SILENCE TO REALIZATION,. or, The Human Awakening. Companion book to "Paths of Power." By Ji-loyd Bv ^Wilson. New York: R. f.-Fenno & C^|$j."l v\ The table of. contents'of this book ^ill i *4 nil** rJtp^WW- The'^ chapters^re heade&Ss follow^V Whata Thought" ^he Sflenpe .gqfe^^nhw of Light If Thine Eye Be Single Keward JVTenfel Jrnages Coloriin Ltl^ivOvercoming 'Are You, Ready? 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This is'a little book about the kind that are interesting, both to old and young readers. SHAGGYCOAT. The Biography of a Bearer. By tlarence Hawkes, author of "Master FriR- fcy," etc. Illustrated. Philadelphia: George W. Jacobs & Co. Amongj animaj- biographies this should' take high rank? The" beaver is an inter esting animal and Shaggycoat is an iri teresting beaver, so that the interest .of the tale is doubled. It is a tale that will' appeal to both old and young ha-fere' lovers.,. .:.\.wf THE STARS AND STRbEs' and Other^Si^ can Eiags By fghjg r,.Harrison *$%?$&$- flags. Boston"?i^ptM^ color Illustrations of Brown Co. $3 Bet.^ A handsomely prepared book full afi'jfe' formation about flags, including. 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These men in their dolorous blindness believe them selves to be. the masters of their des tiny, but in reality they, do not under stand that their independence'. is that of the brush in the hartds\'of the white washer of te hammer ih the hands of the smith of the bricks in- the-ria^nds of unseen builder, .whd.-rrippllhga'iwith pleasure, constructs for everyone *jh!K*n an enormous and secure prisoni -,*#^f ~-v Montferrand. Boston: 0ther8 G^Heia-tor.fntnie notice. By ^"ian- Whiting, author -THE -LAND- OF-ENOHANTMENTr From Pike's Pa P^a 'Ihotogr^phS*,. Jostont tittleit Brown &" $2.50--Uet. Hld"-*or ffiftfb Itotfee. $**%*%'-- TH E WJGAZm EftiTifa Story pf Mary Baker G. Eddy's Life and History of ChrlstiaH. ^Science.The announcement is made in" McClufe's Magazine for December that in the Janu ary number will begin a story of the life of the heaii-roX, .the Christian -Scienefir church and^ih^tory of the. churehV foui^d by-?hM^he- announcementfts- surely'eftQugh^^awaken interelt,eThe- rchurch ahd- Mrs.., Eddy-have Teo& ^ch prominenceW^ tHStthd^bllf tu- i v ^5? no _8 ^^%-'MwV4RiBi*^to s^o^Mfc^^er churcr^STedUo4 magazine, announce YfdltgpliTlys '&$& .the facts we %a% Jhaue^i thoro'i inve^ti- .gailon... N^^er.ie^ ',.of^ir|ihle^:. pHseritedi: $- t^e Amertowi^pe^feu-^ver fol'lowfed' xttore carefully preliminary work. Gebf glne Milmine, the author, spent more than two year's'of elbse'research? At ^vargms time^^ay^i^thei'.al^nbers of the McClure statt.,.have confirmed facts- or helped correlate the data.", the editors give further" assurance "that the history holds "no argjument for or a&ainst Chris tian Scienqe,!a ^d will stmr^y' 4ii expect to And a- Wstory of the tariff of the United States rather dull reading..- They will, therefore', have a pleasant sur prise, if they take up Ida M. .Tarbell's "The Tariff in Our Times," begun in The American Magazine for December. Miss Tarbell writes with a force that Jteeps t^e mind p,Jeirt and carries con-*' viction. It is at. story that everybody ought to know, that is, everybody who a good American. It is sure to at tract wide attention, for there is a good deal of human interest in itmore In terest than figures. Other special features in the number if all the features may not be called specialare "Adventures in .Content- ment," by David ,prayson "Mr. Dooley on the Christmas/ Spirit," by F. P. Dunne "Science, St. Skinflint and Santa Claus," by William Allen White, Appleton's Magazine for December is a holiday number that tempts the reader and is not disappointing, it contains a wealth of short stories arid articles of more serious nature. The feature in the way of fiction is the beginning of a serial by Maxim Gorky, which is described as a story to "show the development of a human soul from the dregs ...upward." The November Arena opens with a sketch of the life and work of the late prime minister of New Zealand, Richard Seddon, by F. O. Flower. In giving this* lifeither editor of the Arena embodies in a succinct manner a digest of the wonder ful work achieved by New Zealand under the direction of the great liberal states man, which has placed this progressive commonwealth in ithe. very van of civil ized nations. A fine portrait of Mr. Sed don, taken from his last photograph, forms the frontispiece of this number. Following this paper is a sketch of the really remarkable-co-operative and phil anthropic work being carried forward by N. O. Nelson of St. Louis, the prominent and practical social reformer who inflight building the town of Leclair has done that which Mr. Cadbury, the great Eng lish philanthropist and apostle of justice, has accomplished in the building of Bourneville but Mr. Nelson's practical work is far broader than that of, Mr. Cadbury. In addition to establishing a flourishing ^co-operative town in Leclair, he has established a'.large consumptive colony in southern California for the ben efit of poor persons who have fallen vic tims to that dread disease and in his work in Alabama he js addressing his attention to the moral and mental devel opment of the children as well as theMinnie workers in his factories. This paper by Mr. Eads is beautifully illustrated with many views and a full-page portrait of Mr. Nelson. AMUSEMENTS MetropolitanPaula Edwardes In "Prin cess Beggar." Charles B. Dillingham's threat to send us a real comic opera, instead of the or dinary vthaddlin musical comedy, has been, carried out. "Princess Beggar"1 "~6ijou"Texas." "Texas" with its brilliant splashes of local-color, its healthful and invigorating atmosphere and its stirring, ever-chang ing action is the bill at the Bijou this week, and is one that will prove pppular. "She play, is. sufficiently "high haired"- at moments' to give the gallery gods: ample opportunity to blow off steam, but is at the same time sufficiently real arid pos sible tp'please those possessed of some what tamer tastes. All in all there are few plays that more truly portray the picturesque ranch life of the southwest ?than does "Texas." .,.-\'^Cexas" is presented this year by an able Organization in .which, however, the best is -lavished on the local color. The few characters from the world outside of Te^us that Into the play ar ei'ab- fl ge^r 'th truth as that truth i& scertaihed by the use of ordinary human faculties." The December McClure's ^Va* number of lively interest, from Jts opening story by Myra Kelly, a tale of the Jewish quar ter of New York, to the ehd.^ fS^a|^ .History of the Tariff for Lay Readers. I^The "avefagref 'rhafeazirie" 'reader' *wo\ild SSIiiaieiSiSlSsfiw^ Dfectiv Pag* ati stalt and unprofitablee, but dihe' Texas characters are well and care 'funjiy handled.' Attention to details of costume, scenery, properties, and the $hjailer actions add greatly to the atmos- 4%^ and success of^the-production ^(iii^ strong1 L^Kst 1906, "i not the bfest comic opera ever written, but it is so far above the recent average that one is inclined to overlook jts faults. It was Edward Paulton, the maker of "Erminie,'^ who turned out the book in this case. There is of. course, the inevi table and impecunious king, whose trou bles makeup so large a share of the fun in the comic'.opera realm. In this case, a money king has the real royalty in the clutch of a blanket mortgage, the foreclosure of which can be prevented only by" marriage before .'a certain date. Thru the interstices of this plot exudes the fun. It is the kind of a picturesque and impossible story: that permits fre quent: musical interruptions without ing its interest. This1 is accomplishedlos- by evolving a series of situations, furmy in themselves,.-which are not 190 lofig de layed by/so-ng'-and:'Vjflbe. Thfe dialog Is not ihtrin?.lriaay',:s 'except in spots, bh'tfie.sltuatiohs'are cleverly de vised. The score, furnished by Alfred G- Robyn, fairly coruscates with brilliant numbers, ranging from ballads and topi cal songs to full-lunged choruses. That pert little minx, Paula Edwardes, is of course, the center of interest. She has a trig little .figure, & piquant face, a not unmusical if rather shrill voice, a nimble pair of heels, and, above all' a very lively sense of humor. This last is uncommon enough in women of the stage to be remarkable. Miss Edwardes' punc tures-the dialog frequently with side re marks that are both apposite and "wise.' Her best song, which is likewise the "hit Of the "piece," is "Any Time, Any Place, Any Where," but she is the central fig ure in several beautiful stage pictures and effective ensembles. She is aided and abetted in the fun-making by Eddie Garyie who makes a very smug and unctuous king, and by Edward West, who is sufficiently droll as his physician Vocally, the company is very strong: Bertram Wallis as the prince exhibits a fine.barytone and a fine stage, presence. The "Echo" song was his best bit of work. F. J. Boyle, he of the big and rumbling bass, plays the money king with distinction and wins much applause for his song of the Midas touch, "I Want It All.",.. James, G. Reaney Is the tenor and ar pleasing one, altho weak on the d^matic .side of.ihis work. His voic* bleeds 'W.elrini a ptet^ty duet at the end of the'fiEStl^act/Wtth-that.of Cecilia Rhoda, WhdS^lays^the 4hhncier daughter, and whpj'sings.'ithe: dainty..'.'Daisy" song. H^he-.itw^utoeg-- ^hrtiout are stunnmg, |h|?(^lqrjs 'and light^effects being handled mosl^actlsticallyi i.-One 'of the prettiest pff^6ts,^fa that in "the' "Raining'* number, ?v?ith its .lhhiinbus .iumbi-'ellas and inter ahitt'ent- '-showers- A-noth'er beautiful thjing isji/^The-Chimes ,of Long Ago," With its'tuned bells let dbwn from above for the chorus to -play upon. In the first 'division- of the^ cfthrtts are eight show girls, of strikiii jty'pe, tall and Gibson esque. The chords as a whole is good to look,'h.t andHsings effectively. :M 'H-W. B. Chamberlain. however, as the heavy. "Texas" will play the we and a special matinee on Thursday. The OrpheumVaudeville. Foyer Chat. Seldom has a comic opera been pro duced with so many marked #ong suc cesses as "The Girl and the Governor," by S. M. Brenner and Julian Edwards, which with ebullient Jefferson De Ange lis and a merry company of eighty will be at the Metropolitan Thursday. In all there are twenty-five, this imposing number including the daintiest of tender little love ditties, rollicking topical songs which never fail to provoke uproars of laughter, sweet ballads whose soft ca dences thrill the sympathetic auditor, and sonorous mass choruses. "The Dictator," one of the most amus ing American comedies ever written, by Richard Harding Davis, will be produced at the Lyceum" this' week, beginning to night. The author- .chose, one, of the smaller South Arnerican republics, with imaginary name and problematicai loca tion as the scene of his play. Here, by weaving In the adventures of a New York clubman with the usual revolution ary experiences, he has produced a play that is intensely funny. Tonight will be special ladies' night. The new program at the Unique thea ter will open this week with Gilbert Sar ony in the opening number. Mr. Sarony is a character comedian and is reputed a clever one in the business. The Mes senger Boy trio will be another interest ing attraction. During his many years before the pub lic, Kellar the famous jnagician, who ap pears at the Bijou, next week, has al ways striven to. present his entertain ment in so realistic a manner as to make it appear seemingly supernatural to many of his audience. In this engage ment, which will mark his last public appearance In Minneapolis, the master magician will present what he claims to be his master effort, a disappearance act called "The Golden Butterfly."'. Paul Valadon, the clever English conjurer, who, it is said, will succeed Mr. Kellar, promises a number of novelties. DANGERS OF PROPHECY New York Evening Post. usual custom in recognition of the work ot Edward Archer as Pasquale in the third act* The climax of the act 13 decid edly ''high-hair," but was well done and made far from ridiculous by Messrs. Archer and Coburn. Geography and the Speakership. 1 Homely, lovable -types are portrayed TO th* Edtfgr tf sWJptujjai. in a pleasing manner by Ernest Allen The Pioneer' Pre* *nA hA,,.^ Miss Gillette as Jennie Peppercorn, and Friday last to the- folIdVffltf^urport: the other people of the Buckhorn outfit. jQne fa the'candidates &r^ieai*akcr- Their visitors fail to impress. F. E. Duff i ship left -the Merchant^hofe^i Thurs- as Lord Angus is fairly satisfactory day afternoon with the exoresseu inten tion o"f returning to hirhome. Instead of doing this, he went somewhere else, secured the written pledge of a mem ber-elect, whose adherence had been a matter of doubt, returned to the Mer chants' hotel long enough to exhibit the writing in triumph to his crestfallen rivals, and then again started on his way, conquering and to conquer. I know the man who is credited with this "enterprise as a man of character and good standing, and f^rt this reason I do not believe the story.'' "But if it is true, it illustrates what* theVBrJevailing method of campaigning for ^fhe speak ership amounts to and lead$()to. Fo all that appears, the member-eleet. Whose vote thus corraled is regarded as a great prize, has not made hi&iiiiparaohoics investigation as to the' tive fitness of the candidates ^fifis de cision, therefore, has no sigywfleanee as indicating the drift on theisfue of merit. But it was felt of yital Impor tance that he should be in" the -crowd where he has~ landednot because he is a man of such influence and gqftd ."judg- that others will attach -weight to his opinion, but because he livis in the same congressional district as'ttie can didate who has got his vote* ,}fe fair inference from the story is-i h!rfc that was the main reason why his .v^te was so eagerly sought and the main blea on which it was secured. ~*"1 Could anything :be. sillier? Why should it be recited, in the newspapers that Mr. Hugo is strong as a candidate because he has the unanimous vote of the eighth congressional district be hind him, while Mr. JohnsOn 's candi dacy- has an element of weakness in that some members of the Hennepin county delegation do not support himf What has that got to do with the prob lem? Themis mwnsossibie reason why, if there were a candidate from' Stev ens county." a member from Yertow Med icine county, who had never seen him no* heard of him, should feel'' coerced into voting for him. simply because they hayo the same congressman. And by the sarrie' token, if the members from Duluth are for Mr. Hugo, simply be cause he lives in Duluth, every other locality should be against him and in favor of its own candidate for the same reason, and no speaker could ever be elected. I don 't know who invented this style of political partnership, but it is prob ably the asinine.product of the stupid brain of spme stupid politician of the tertiary period. No such systern ob tains anywhere else than in Minnesota as far as I know. It appears to me that the way to conduct a speakership canroaign, where all the candidates are honest men, as they are in the present instance, is for each of the candidates to spread among the members all the informa tion he can about himself, not to prom ise them patronage in exchange for support and not to undertake to pledge them, either in writing or by word of mouth. At the end, I think a ballot should be taken with the same sacred secrecy as the present election laws throw around the general elections. Every member will thus be at liberty to vote as he pleases, and as a free man, the speaker chosen will not know who are his friends and who his ene mies, committees and clerkships will be awarded for fitness and not as re wards to the victorious faction, and the legislature will be equipped to dis patch public business to the full meas ure of the ability of its members. I ask The -Journal, which stands for the better things in'public life, to co-operate in destroying the old fashioned system of selecting a speaker and in establishing one which can be defended on the score of intelligence and reason. Ambrose Tighe. St. Paul, Nov. 24, 1906. with the usual matinee As a whole the Orpheum presents a splendidly diversified bill this week. It it stronger in some spots than in others, but the general entertainment Is good. The Vassar girls gain headline distinc tion thru the novelty of the idea. It is a musical and dancing turn with the mu sical excellence in excess of the ability of the co-eds as light and fantastic trip pers. The act closes with a pleasing electrical feature and the only criticism having any real foundation is that some of the maidens of the original company have returned to their Greek and theafter "students" who have left the dear" old college walls to take up the work of ele vating the stage and their feet are not along the same lines of anatomical arch itecture demanded .by the original cos tumes' still in use. This is not apparent at all save in the pony ballet, the maid ens wearing the traditional cap andment gown in the rest of the act. A Vassar goWh, can cover, like charity, a multi tude of slims. The fiddling of Nonette Is satisfactory and the whistling of Jessica Crew adds piquancy to the offering. Patty brothers are playing a return date with their acrobatic stunt with Alexander Patty "walking" down a of stairs upon his dome of thought. He reafly "walks upon his head," and claims to be the only man in the world to perform this stunt. His splendid iso lation will remain intact until Anglo Saxon skulls grow thicker. Norton and Nicholson have a sketch burlesquing the light housekeeping of newly wedded pairs, who have braved matrimonial seas upbn a bargain counter salary. It is broad, but has a mountain of mirth concealed In line and situation. Chinko, an English juggler, works along the lines of Salerno but with a total lack or that wizard's finish and certainty. Kaufman has deserted the family of famous cyclists to shine alone, .and as she is the best trick rider in the world today, she is making a tremendous suc cess. Hayward, Conroy and Hayward present a supper turn at the opening of the bill that serves its purpose. It is not killing in its humor or brilliant in its execution. Swor brothers have a black-face act that is far better than the ordinary or the real thing, with very clever dancing as a feature. The kinodrome, with commend able up-to-dateness has an automobile film with road-burning speed. It is the one best bill of the fall. Governor John A. Johnson's remark able feat of being elected as a democrat In 1904 at the same time that.Roosevelt carried the state by over 160,000: is not likely to be repeated this year. The gov ernor's popularity among the Scandi navians is said to have- waned to such an extent that Albert L. Cole, the rewestern publican nominee, should be easily elected. The prohibitiin and public own ership nominees are not expected to figure in the result: The democrats are vigorously contesting the congressional elections, and claim the defeat of Con gressman McCleary. The legislature will probably be republican and will return Knute Nelson to the United States Senate. SMALL SHOW FOR THE MAN Milwaukee. Sentinel. "You must remernber that ours was a summer engagement." "That means if you see anyone you like better you'll break it." -VYes." "And if I see anyone I like better^-" "I shall probably sue you for breach of promise." PORTO RICAN TAMMANY New York Herald. How can one doubt that Porto Rico is "cottoning" to the process of benevolent assimilation when one hears that a haughty don yclept Patrick Mahony has been elected to the house of delegates down there 8 ^pleasin characters are in :\hands. "Freshwater: Jack as played by-MCharlee-t D. Coburn is a handsome, natural, manly fellow., fuljy capable of handling the parfwett.''.- He-does it wlth qut overdoing. Texas is as well handled by MabeF-ODixey, whose particular type seems to fit the title role exactly.and make her.ihe natural partner of--Fresh- water, _^ Two strong" character parts are clev erly handled a,nd exceptionally wefll don*, by Louis Thlel ..as "Oaklahomey" and Charles E. Graham as "Tank."! Both are strong protrayals of "human, nature I with the bark on." For once the hys terical portion of. the audienoe that usu ally hoots and hisses the villain!'to re lieve its feelings, seemed overcome with admiration' of his work amiigave him a well-merited ovation of applause. The Sunday 'iflght audience departed "from its THIS DATE IN HISTORY I NOV. 26. I I 1731Willlam Cowper, English poet, born. Died April 25, 1800, 1822-Karl August Hardenberg, Prussian statesman who conducted successful resistance to Napoleon, Idled. Born May 31, 1750. 1869Queen Maud of Norway born, 1889-r-Flre In Lynn, Mass.,. de stroyed $4,000,000 In property. .j 1890Charles Francis Adams re-"| signed presidency of Union Pacific rallWay. 1898Marshal Blanco resigned the.j office of captain-general of Cuba. 1899British defeated Boers In bloody battle of Modder river. 1902England and Germany united to press their claims upon Venezuela. 1904President Roosevelt visited St. Louis world's fair. $ & iM frlAflfciys&tfaft'afc ^-^L^.-^^ A Correction. You printed in your edition of the 2fst Inst, the following paragraph: Congressman McCleary passed thru Minneapolis tie other day on his journey to Boston, where yesterday he addressed the Home Market elnb on the tariff and why it should never, never ba revised. McCleary Is of the old guard. Ha would rather die a thousand times than surren der a single schedule. It seems to me that Mr. McCleary is not fairly represented in the above iten. I have been of his constituency ever since his advent into public life, have read his speeches and sat upon platforms with him when he made them, andkl chal lenge the assertion that Mr. McCleary ever stated either in words or by impli cation that the tariff should never be revised. On the contrary, he has stated over and over again publicly that when ever the public would be benefited more than injured by revision he was ready to proceed to that end. Andrew C. Dunn. Winnebago, Minn. We are willing to modify the abova statement and, in the words of the "cap tain of the queen's navee," for "never, never," substitute "hardly ever." Foot-Schulze mark is on the soles of genuine Glove rubbers. Thanksgiving Day excursions. On-Nov. 28th and 29th the North Line will sell Incursion Tickets between all station's within a radius of 300 miles, at one and one third fare for the round trip. Tickets good for return until Dec. 3d, 1906. Going to California This Winter? If so, you are perhaps".-, wondering which is the best way to so. The ^Omaha Road" offers the proper solu tion of this problem with their through tourist car service by three different routes as follows: Tuesday car leaves Minneapolis 7:50 p.m. St. Paul 8:30 p.m.~ going via Omaha, Denver, D. & E. Salt Lake City and the new Salt Lake -route to Los Angeles. This route is"_through the scenic portion of the Rocky moiintains. Thursday car leaves Minneapolis 8:30 p.m. St. Paul 9:05 p.niw going via Omaha, Union Pacific and {jouthern Pa cific to San Francisco, therfee down the coast line to Los Angeles^. Saturday car leaves Minneapolis 9:10 a.m. St. Paul 9:40 a.m?, going vi Omaha, Kansas City ands! ffi ff fr tB Sant a through the Land of Sur/shine. This gives the traveler choice of three splendid routes, the best.^ through ca* service, and all at a "reasonable price. For full information Regarding rates and service to California call on or ad dress J. A O'Brien, 600 Nicollet ave nue, Minneapolis, or E. A. Whitaker, 396 Robert street (Ryan Hotel), St, Paul. Special Colonist Bates. To points in the south, southwest and southeast. Tickets on sale the first and third Tuesdays of each month. From Minneapolis to the following points: Oklahoma City, O. T., $14.15? Fort Worth, Tex., $16.35 Galveston, $20.55 San Antonio, $20: Denver.. Colorado Springs and Puebloi *$16 55 Mexico City, $43.85. Equally low rates to other points. Thru sleeping Car service to California points. For full particulars, call on Q. Rickel, C. feTv, Al, 424 NieoRet av. ThariksgivMg- Day Excursions. Pn No*. 28th and 29th the North western ,Line 'will 'sell Excursion Tickets between/an stations' within a radius of 300 miles, at' one and one third fare for the round trip. Tickets good for return until Dec.'3d,' 1904. ,%*&&