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When John Kedmond got up in the British house of commons yesterday and moved his amendment to the address 'in'reply to the speech from the throne fc to the effect that the present system of government of Ireland is opposed to the will of the Irish people," he no i doubt was as earnest in his belief that Ireland needed a change of governmental relations as was any Eussian student who waved a red flag and sang Marseillaise at St. Petersburg a few hours before. Kedmond gave a kind of intimation, when the Irish land act of 1903 was passed, that it would mean the "pa- i cification" of Ireland, since it established peasant proprietorship, abolished the evils of landlordism, and would stimulate all that is best in Irish manhood. Now he is leading the Irish nationalist contingent in the British com- vigorouslye arule everr isomethin rectio Irish hom so nearly resembling it that the most astute follower of the Redmonds could not tell the difference. Th difference between Irish and Russian conditions is such that, during the darkest days of the nineteenth century the struggle of Irishmen for the liberties freely accorded to Englishmen under the essential clauses of the Great Charter, there was a continual tendency to enlarge the scope of Irish liberties and bring i them under the provisions of that great fundamental law.

Th Irishman, thru legislative right, continually made voice and influence more effective until he reached the point of an obstruction, imposed upon- all legislation, i which had to be dealt with by compromise. I The Russian, limited to the minimum of local legislation and then restricted, the obtrusive scrutiny of bureaucratic interference, is practically gagged, and his autocratic government would keep him so. Th university students of St. Petersburg, in their resolutions, grandiloquently reject the czar's proposition for the convocation of the three estates in a popular assembly, which has lapsed into a mere tradition, and propose a legislative assembly summoned on the basis of a universal equal and secret ballot of male and female citizens. They would have freedom of speech and freedom of organization and striking, and would organize a "people's militia" to "fight to realize our The students propose to take the field immediately.

They represent the impractical side of the revolutionary movement. There is no evidence as yet of any serious defection in the army. There been much said about the army be'ing a hotbed of socialist radicalism and ready to revolt against the czar. I such is the fact, th ey are destitute of leadership, else th ey would ha ve been heard from before this. So long as the czar can command the army he can command Russia, and ignore students' programs of government hostile to autocracy.

I the czar and jithe army unite to make Turkey the only remaining autocracy in Europe they can do it. Russian czar more accurately unII derstood the real need of Russia than Alexander II. who declared, early in reign: "If Russia desires to maintain her position in the rank of other states if she awaits in the future greater glory, greater power and I greater happiness than she has known in the pastthese ends are to be obtained with the greatest certainty and rapidity by laying at once the solid foundation of a system of universal education of the people, and I call upon my loyal nobles to stand guard over the common I was he who stimulated the improvement of the Russian university system, enlarging t'c the scope of study and state aid and teaching ability. Thesree a TuesdayHEvening', J. S.

McLAIN, EDITOR. DfiUVEBED BY CABBIER. the di- universities, an whe the suppres of free expression of thought has the rule, ha ve proven the nursery Imbeds of hostility to the repressive au- tocratie system. I may be remarked that it is well igjJtedmon and the Irish nationalists were born under the British rather than 3K-under the Russian flag. There are about sixty Russian grand dukes and duchesses.

They draw for nothing $10,000,000 from the revenues of the country, besides the offices they man- to hold and draw salary from. All dead Waste! The thought of the entire country goes out to Dr Harpesr of Chicago sity In his hour of trial. Dr. Harper Is still a young: man, his age is 49, but he has built up a great university on substantial foundations. Whether he lives or dies his name is written into the history of this great institution and will survive as long as it does.

Washington's Farewell Address. That somewhat turgid, but always interesting document in which President Washington put himself out of the race for a third nomination, is due to be read tomorrow by many Americans. Very few will read the whole of it because it is hard reading. Th whole of it is worth reading, however. The farewell address was published Sept.

17, 1796, but it was really written four years before when Washington had it in mind to decline a second nomination. was persuaded that the time was not ripe for his retirement and postponed the publication. The history of the document is that toward the close of his first administration, Washington sent to Madison the notes of some things he wished to say, and asked him to prepare a draft, which he did. This was put away, and four years later, Washington entrusted the task to Hamilton. Th latter consulted with John Jay and they made out a new address, which they sent to Washington together with the Madison, sketch.

The whole was gone over by Washington and Mr. David C. Claypoole, editor of the Daily Advertiser of Philadelphia, in whose paper it was published. How much there is of Hamilton in the final draft it is difficult to say, since his draft is not in existence. The probability is that the address is nearly all Washington, because it has the stately heaviness of the father of his country rather than the sprightly terseness of the founder of the treasury.

The main things Washington appears to have had in mind were to warn the people against the growth of party spirit and against entangling foreign alliances. The foreign alliance question was a live one in his day, as a part of the nation was hot in sympathy with the French, then in revolution, because th ey had been our friends in the war of independence. have never departed far from Washington's advice with regard to foreign entanglements. Our country has never had a treaty of alliance such as the dreibund and the Russian-French alliance of today. TJiose countries undertake in certain contingencies to support each other in making war upon other countries.

Such a treaty has never been contemplated by the republic. So far as party spirit is concerned, we have departed far from the position of Washington. have found that it was impossible to conduct the government without parties, and, so far from frowning them down, many statesmen have believed that our government should be partially reconstructed so as to make them more responsible. There have been bills to give the cabinet members seats in congress, and other measures ha ve been proposed that would make the cabinet partly legislative, but nothing has come of them and probably never will. America has apparently settled down to the conviction that party responsibility is to be enforced by independent voting rather than by a changed constitution.

Washington said some wise things in his address. may have anticipated the good citizenship movement when he said: "It is substantially true that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular told the story of the big stick in his own way when he said: Timely disbursements to prepare for danger frequently prevent much greater disbursements to repel it." Th congress of the United States yesterday voted $99,000,000 for additions to the navy more money than Washington's administration had for all public purposes. Nullification of federal laws was known in Washington's time, evon in the north, and so he said in his farewell address: "The very idea of the power and right of the people to establish government presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established government." Th south forgot this in 1861, and it took a Lincoln to prove that Washington was not talking airy platitudes on this point. The farewell address illustrates the strong points of Washington's character. was clear-headed, patient, tenacious and optimistic.

man ever overcame more gigantic obstacles than he in the war of the revolution. president ever had a more trying time than he in the executive chair. survived all with a spirit full of kindness and generosity and with a modesty that nowhere gives a hint that he, Washington, was entitled to any special credit for the results that had been achieved. It might be interesting to know what is going on at Port Arthur just now. If it was impregnable before, what will it be when the Japanese get thru with it? The Rate War No Longer Needed.

Altho the effect of the meeting of railroad presidents, scheduled for tod ay at the Chicago office of Mr. Winchell of the Rock Island, cannot yet be known, it is to be supposed that it will result in a settlement of the rate war that has been so disturbing an influence in the west for the past thirty days. Arising from competition between Atlantic seaboard and gulf lines, this fight for business reached the stage of warfare some time ago Th rate on corn from Omaha to New Orleans, formerly 18 cents, went down to 11 cents, and from Omaha to New York it fell from to cents. The Missouri Pacific, Missouri, Kansas Texas, Rock Island, Burlington, Great Western, St. Paul and North-Western ha ve "been directly involved, and many- other roads were affected indirectly.

Latest phases of the fight, developing only yesterday and Saturday last, are the reduction, by the St. Paul road of the grain rate from central Iowa points to Chicago to 9 cents, and the localizing by the Rock 'Island' of its low rate on cera to Chicago. Out of this fight the railroads have," made no money, and as dividends follow earnings, and earnings have been affected adversely, the -wonder hlW heen that there was not enough 'of influence' from the inside, from the men whose interests as stockholders are'paramount to bring about a settlement. Apparently, however, the big men in the railroad offices have not until today made any very serious attempt at a compromise. A reason for this is now forthcoming.

I is hinted that the powers behind were willing the fight should run while, even at a loss to the roads, that a greater purpose might be served. One might think this suggestion a little far-fetched, were it not that the thought appears to have had its origin in the center of conservatism of ideas affecting railroad and other investment propertiesthe banking houses of Wall street. Had some campaign orator on the republican side or some political writer made the assertion that the roads, so far from trying to patch up a truce, really did nothing to close the breach, it might not ha ve been taken seriously, but the first thing touching upon this, as a reason for the spread of the rate cutting, is found in the Wall Street Journal. Here the hint is very broad, that the big moneyed men who rule the roads could see that the b'asis of much of the recent antirailroad legislation, and of the history-making lawsuits against combination of great properties, has been lack of competition, or the creation of a company or merger destined to kill competition finally. The Northern Securities company went down on this latter contention.

Now we have a president who has taken up the side of the people as against discrimination by the roads. proposes to do what he can to remedy existing evils, the nature of which every reader understands. Congress has before it, as a leading question the matter of the remedy for the ills that beset the shipper not favored by the combinations. Lack of competition is likely to remain the foundation stone for argument looking toward greater governmental supervision, and so it was a good thing from the railroad viewpoint to give the country right now an exhibition of competition general enough to knock out the main argument of the reformers, and so it was that instead of taking pains to patch up differences, the roads allowed the rate war between the Atlantic coast ports and the gulf ports to run along. More recently the tenor of the Washington news has suggested the increasing difficulty of getti ng thru any railroad legislation at this session, and with the prediction that no bill will pass the present congress comes the first serious move for a settlement of the rate war Whatever turn legislation may take, the roads npw have a competition argument ready for business when the occasion may require.

Monotombo, a volcano in Nicaragua, is shooting out flames 500 feet long. This must be where Kansas is breaking thru. Location of the Training School. The twin cities do not want the new state training school for girls at least, they are making no effort to secure it for either Minneapolis or St. Paul.

The cities have nevertheless a lively interest in the location of the new institution, and city members should bear that fact in mind. Hennepin county pays thousands of dollars every year in railroad fare of persons committed to state institutions, and of the officers who make the necessary trips as escorts. I the long run, it will make considerable difference to Hennepin county whether this new institution is located a hundred miles from Minneapolis, or only twenty-five. There are some excellent sites offered within a short distance of the cities, and these sites should be given the preference. Most of the future inmates of the institution must go thru the twin cities to reach the school, and the element of cost applies to many other counties beside Hennepin and Ramsey.

This is a minor consideration, of course, and the main thing is to get the new school. The legislature is not the place to decide on the location of the institution. A war over the location would endanger the whole proposition. I would be a wise provision, however, to direct in the bill that the school shall not be a greater distance than fifty miles from one or the other of the twin cities. Mr.

H. H. Hart, who is to speak tonight at the Plymouth church under the auspices of the Humane society, will bring valuable information with regard to the workings of the juvenile court in Chicago and the general system of laws and procedure there for the care of delinquent and dependent children. It is the desire of those interested in this matter here to organize a juvenile court in Minneapolis. Under our present arrangement the duties of the juvenile court, as properly arranged, are distributed between the municipal court, the probate court and the district court.

It is desired to have one of the district judges, the selection to be made by the judges themselves, set apart for this special duty of conducting a juvenile court. Children brought before this court will be produced on notice served upon their parents or guardians they will not be brought into court by a policeman or other officer. Sentences or judgments will be carried out mainly under the supervision of a special officer, so that a commitment to prison or other place of detention will rarely follow. The little culprits will be given to understand, however, that they are under obligations to behave themselves in the future, which is the main purpose to be served. All this fuss and racket in certain quarters abotlt whether General Miles put 'Jeff Davis in irons or not does not excite very much interest in the country at large, apparently- What if he did? Didn't the arch conspirator against the Union get off mighty easy even if he did have to wear bracelets for a few days? 'There doesn't seem to be much occasion for wasting sympathy in that quarter, nor are the southern members of congress doing much to heal the wound by opening up that old source of irritation.

Chicago talks of raising the' salary her mayor from to $12,000, but i i mi in in i i says nothing about helping: the aldermen They will probably help themselves. Bulwer says respected is to be always In earnest. Fine, but imphilosophical. Carrie Nation and John Rockefeller, are always'in earnest. General Lew Wallace wrote his novel Ben Hur after he was 50.

If some of our precocious novelists would only wait until they are 50 and then write as well! Commissioner Garfield is expected to post himself on standard Oil. Mr. Garfield should Tiave a Iheart-to-heart talk with Ida George Ade has gone to Japan for the benefit of his stomach. George acts like a man who had swallowed some of his own words. Yesterday showed symptoms of the man who will soon be denouncing the authorities for not cleaning 'the streets of slush and mud.

Rojestvensky will never, never tell where he is while people are so careless with their bombs on land and sea. Does your boy in the high school belong to the Punky Pinky Phi? Advise him to cut it out. The Colorado legislature is also talking of an oil refinery. The more the merrier. Well, Russia did not know the war was going to become a local issue.

Russian advices say all the grand dukes are to be put on de bomb. NEWS OF THE BOOK WORLD Caustic Satire on Certain Phases of Modern Life the Cook and the Family Wa ted tho humorous, satire that is hard to jy beat, even if it does seem overdone in spots. It is a book that should result in a reduction in the number of incompetent and ignorant housewives (and househus- bands, too), and in the granting of reforms by tyrant cooks, and, as a conseq of these, in less business for the family hotels. The story is of a newly married couple, with minds and souls above anything so vulgar as the cuisine even of their own dainty ment. That cuisine must be left to the absolute sway of the cook, and there all their troubles begin and continue.

They end in a family hotel, at least so far as Mr. Dale's book enlightens one. It is when Mr. Dale gets to generalities that he waxes caustic. Letitia, the bride in the case, for example, is made to say: To us New Yoii seems funny, doesn't It? And the complicated relationships are so peculiar.

An old woman (I beg her pardon, I institutions, the mother-in-law, isr a lightuand he own so in objection to beinga suetdo her own daughter ffecI nby law. th It is Letitia again who makes a drive at the family hotel in this wise: These family hotels simplify things, of coarse. They do away with all fuss.and feathers A man takes an elegantly furnished suite and just asks in a wife. An old" lady engages a handsome apartment and fishes up a husband to liye in it with her. The menage starts immediately.

JSo furnishers and decorators, and upholsterers and servants are necessary. Messieur and madame are at home Instantly. In the old davs the establishment of a home meant everything. Now it Is established almost as easily as it Is broken up. This is not the simple life of which "Pastor" Wagner writes, and, for our own part, we'll none of itunless the tyrant cook drives us to it, as she has thousands of Letitias, and their husbands.

Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis. Shakspere Statue Mutilated.Vandalshave covered the Shakspere monument at Weimar with a black acid. The shaft is likely to be completely ruined. The steamer Teutonic, which sails from Liverpool for New York will have among her passengers H. Rider Haggard, the author, who has been appointed a commissioner to inquire into the conditions and character of the agricultural and industrial land settlements organized in America by the Salvation Army.

THE MAGAZINES The Refrigerator Car as a Bandit. Everybody's Magazine for March comes out with a blow at the beef trusttimed to a nicety with the recent decision of the supreme court. Charles Edward- Russell, one of the best-known and most forceful of our writers, shows, in his second installment of "The Greatest Trust in the World," the source of the trust in the refrigerator car, "The Bandit of Commerce," as he calls it. He exposes in logical, virile style the system of mileage and icing charges by which the beef trust has driven every competitor from the commercial field. Mr.

Russell's story is clear as crystal. The reader sees as thru plate glass the marvelous workings of the greedy monopoly. In the same number Thomas Law son begins his detailed story of "Amalgamated Copper." Mormon or Monthly Magazine for March contains the following from an article by W. M. Raine and A.

W. Dunn: The record of the Mormon church is its own condemnation. No other sect in America has caused the government so much trouble no other church has left a trail of blood along its pathway. No prelate is so powerful as the president the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. No people are so subservient to the will of their master as are his people.

The promises regarding polygamy have been evaded, and the practice so odious to the people of- the United States Is flaunted In their faces defended. The political power of the church and Its control of the suffrage of its followers has been demonstrated. It cannot be that a Mormon, believing in the church, obeying his superiors, casting his ballot according to their dictation, taking his orders in every walk of ljtfe from the priesthood of the Mormon church, can be a good American. QUESTIONINGS Dear little one who lies upon my breast. Does that wide look of wonder in your eyes See unknown glories to its vision rise In this fair sunshine? Did you from a rest Of sleep unconscious come? Or were you pressed Close to God's gentle bosom with his wise Sweet thoughts that glorify the happy skies To breathe, in joylight as you lay there blest? Perhaps you marvel when these arms of mine Enfold you with a mother's To see so dim a world tthput you Tet feel familiar Jove-warmth softly Upon the dimpled grace anoVrounded lute Which make so beautiful your helplessness.

Cora Roche Howland. I WHAT OTHER PEOPLE THffll The Pure Water Problem. To the Editor of The Journal. In yesterday's Journal a party subscribing himself "A Physician" criticizes my position on the water question, evidently trying to place me in a false light before the public. quotes me as saying some time ago that "two things are essential to lifebread and water.

have the bread and we want the water," and says that I am now opposing' the pure water project. He misunderstands or misstates the proposition. The question before the real estate banquet was not the necessity or desirability of improving the city water, but only how and when. That when to do it should wait on how to do it is selfevident. FirstHow? A commission of experts has reported favorable to some nitration, stating, however, that mechanical filtration is equally as good as sand, save only in the item In maintenance.

"Physician" would have us accept this report of the commission as final and proceed in great haste to carry it out at an expense of upwards of a million dollarsall to be added to our bonded debt. To some of our business men it appears, on the contrary, the better way to further investigate this question and see which, in their judgment, is the more practical and business-like method to accomplish the end desiredpure and wholesome water. That reports of commissions are not infallible is evidenced by that of our code commission. The press, lawyers, business men and legislators are busy overhauling this code report, and apparently to the betterment of the public interest. A like result may follow the action- of practical men in a thoro investigation of the best method of filtering the Mississippi water.

The business sense of our business men does not respond favorably to the deep well project of our good Professor Winchell. This same business sense hesitates to branch out intot a milliowate th no na a Coo 1 ALAN DALE. Author of "Wanted: a Cook." ment, and possibly this in another year will amount, as Mayor Jones suggests, to a half millionenough to install a me chanical filtration plant without the issuing of a single bond. If, on the contrary, after these business men, who at their own expense and solely for the public good, are making a most thoro investigation of this matter, shall decide that sand nitration is the more to be desired, this will strengthen the public confidence in the report of the commission no harm in thisand we will feel sure i we are making no mistake in going ahead with this, the most expensive plan. It would seem, in view of the fact that the pumping stations at the falls, both on the East and West sides, have been dismantled, and all water is now pumped at the Northeast station, supplemented by the farther fact that we are the healthiest city in the worldmore healthy, than our good neighbor, St.

the business men might take a reasonable time to consider how, without being accused of inhumanity. SecondWhen to do it. It further appeared by the statement- of the city engineer that even with a rush order it would take not less than two years to construct the sand filtration plant. It follows necessarily that even if we adopt the sand filtration, and proceed forthwith with its construction, we must get along for two, if not three, spring seasons with our wa ter as it is now. If we are to have an epidemic of typhoid this spring, we will have itit is foreordainedit is out of our power to prevent it by any system, working night and day and Sundays.

This spring danger time is but a few weeks away. If the scourge comes this spring, the plan adopted, whichever it may be, can be rushed, tho it be at the expense of economy, and completed about as soon as tho started now. If, however, there be no epidemic and the remarkably healthy conditions of the last nine months continue, it would seem the part of wisdom, whatever system shaji be installed, to do it conservatively and economically, without the extravagance attending, a rash proposition. This condition of public health existing, and the sand system adopted, its construction could well be extended over four or even five seasons, without employing imported, labor, but insuring to our own citizens'the work, and the expense be taken out of the annual surplus of the water department. If.

while the business men are canvassing the business merits of these two filtration systems of equal as A WARNING TO REFORMERS Chicago Journal. The fate of Mr. Comerford, who was foolish enough to express his opinion of the gang in the legislature instead Of joining the gang- and sharing its fortunes, should be a lesson to reformers everywhere. February 21, 1905. and a half project, when it appears that an investment of half a million will get equally as good results, tho the cost of maintenance may be a little more and when this can be done by utilizing the funds ($250,000) credi of the Tepart- AT THE THEATERS Sho-Gun." George Ade and Gustave Luders have proved that it can be done.

Those observ ers who have watched the gradual sub mergence of the stage beneath a flood of meaningless and mirthless musical comedy and who have doubted whether the golden age of coraio opera had not departed forever, have had their doubts resolved by "The Sho-Gun." It is a return to first principles in construction. Makers of latter-day musical comedies do not bother with ideas until everything else has been providedmusic, costumes, scenery, jokes and dances. Then, at the last moment, they strive to inject enough ideas into the conglomeration to give it life. "The Sho-Gun" has a storyand a good oneto begin with. The idea is the basis on which the superstructure is raised.

A breezy American from Iowa goes to a Korean island in search of ancestry and title. all the latest American ideastrusts, labor unions, litigation and the like. The result of this occidental invasion of the rient is a series of events funny in themselves and not dependent for their humor upon puns, gags or other devices for fun-making. The fanciful-story is worked out cleverly and with growing interest until the final triumph of the American and his ridiculous rescue are accomplished amid gusts of laughter. As may be imagined, this sort of a yarn has afforded Mr.

Ade, master of satire that he is, many opportunities for saying smartly cynical things about the way we do things, And we all laugh consumedly when he cracks us so merrily oVer the knuckles. These outlandish Ko reans of Mr. Ade have "wise" things to say that sound very odd, coming from the lips of supposed orientals. And thus the humor of the tale gains in relish from the gorgeous incongruity of its setting. There is whimsical fun, for instance, in the idea of a Korean astrologer acting as attorney for the American, and turning things in the sedate island upside down with his injunctions and other legal moves.

Mr. Luders, for his part, has provided a musical setting that fairly coruscates with gems. They follow each other in rapid successionmostly with choral accompanimentand each is well suited to its purpose. With so many pretty and singable numbers, it is difficult to particularize, but the topical duet, "Your Honeymoon Will Last," the cornhusking song, "The Games Used to Play," with its attendant dancing, and the dashing military number, "The Jackie," seemed to win most favor. The production is put on in the most complete and resplendent manner.

The costumes are Varied and grotesque, yet in good taste and of picturesque effect. The settings are brilliantly beautiful and the changing stage pictures are full of life and color and light. The company enters into its work with great zest and an enjoyment that is contagious. John E. Henshaw plays the American in his smoothest and most as sured manner.

Always graceful and thoroly sure of himself, he fits into the part perfectly. His fun is spontaneous without being unduly hilarious, and he sings a topical song or does a bit of a dance with equal facility. The role of the "Sho- Gun," altho comparatively a "lean" one, is in the capable hands of Edward B. Martindell, while Thomas C. Leary gets much dry humor out of the astrological lawyer, with his twisted proverbs and his wise observations.

E. P. Parsons play3 a tall and fierce general with appropriate bravado. William C. Weedon has the tenor role, and he makes a handsome suitor, albeit rather throaty in his singing.

His duets with the who is none other than the petite Christie MacDonald, are charmingly done. Miss MacDonald's Scotch face is piquant and expressivebut it isn't Korean. It would be well if she would transform the impossible sandy-haired princess of Ka-Choo by the arts of her profession. Agnes Caine Brown makes an alluring young widow who sings and dances quite orientally. One could wish that she articulated more distinctly in topical songs.

A third charming principal is Charlotte as leader of the Sing-Song girls, whose innocent smile is most beguiling. May Ten Broeck plays the haughty old dowager with appreciation and Henry Taylor, as the naval ensign, leading a squad of fighting American jackies, makes a decided hit in his brief occupancy of the center of the stage. His song and the strong male chorus go dashingly. Altogether, "The Sho-Gun" Is refreshingly different. W.

B. Chamberlain. Holy City." Built as it is about the crucifixion, and being essentially a religious drama, "The Holy City" demands in its presentation all of reverence, all of dignity which the actor may summon. The least lapse might offend, even in mere reference to religion, and the portrayal of characters most closely associated with the life of Christ commands the delineator to careful, conscientious effort. Credit must be given Lewis Stone and W.

H. Murdoch for putting, forth, apparently, their best endeavors in the roles of Barabbas and Judas. And if theirs is a heavy responsibility, that of Florence Stone, who is the Mary Magdalene of the piece, is several fold greater. Her lines are those, first, of the woman of sin, then of penitence. In most moments she was convincing without giving offense.

Stone as Barabbas is consistent at all times Murdoch as Judas perhaps affords the Lyceum clientele full cognizance of his talent. Pete Raymond as the disciple Peter Charles Lindholm as Pilate Charles Burnham as Caiaphas Winona Bridges as Martha, are adequate, each to the role essayed. The production, on the whole, is creditable to the Lyceum management. It is one of the most pretentious yet attempted at the Hennepin avenue playhouse, and the scenery and stage settings show careful preparation, based on actual scenes in and about Jerusalem. The production really attains dignity it really impresses the Lyceum audiences and the fact that its merit is recognized is shown in the turning away of wouldbe patrons for last night's as well as from previous performances.

Harry B. Wakefield. the expert commission reports, the United' recklessness and the element of danger States government, now hard at work on thruout the act cause manv thrills for this very question, should solve the prob- the spectators. Mile. Aline has an alto- iem of a simple, effective and inexpensive' gether too short hoop-rolling act.

The method of purification of water, how' hoops and other articles used in the jug- happy we would be to think we had made' gling act are made to act like animate haste slowly. Science is pressing this objects. problem hard. Electricity and chemistry that have won so many victories of use to man, some earnestly believe, will soon, very soon, solve this water purification problem in as simple a manner as the rule of three. That a reasonable time be given those who have the highest and best interest of the city at heart, and who cheerfully bear its burdens, to determine in a practical and business manner the better system for the city to adopt, and, that decided, for the authorities to proceed in the most efficient and economical manner to Install the same.

Is, In my judgment, a proposition both "safe and sane," my friend, "A Physician," to the contrary, notwithstanding. W. H. Eustis. Minneapolis, Feb.

21. UniqueContinuous Vaudeville. The Unique theater has invaded the ranks of the headliners this week with success and one of the best bills of the season is presented. All of the acts are new and catchy. The Baader and Lavelle trio are premier bicycle equilibrists and the acrobatic feats performed by the three upon one bicycle are marvelous.

Their apparent "The Enchanted Grotto," a strange mixture of grand opera and acrobatic feats, is introduced by Cameron and Toledo. George Leslie, a blackface monoioglst, has some jokes that have stood the test of time, but he makes amends by singing several new parodies. The Holdsworths are good, entertainers in a short musical specialty. George McCauley sings his illustrated songs in his usual pleasing manner and the bill closes with moving pictures of marine scenes and the busy life in foreign cities. Foyer Chat.

The most successful play of recent years, George Ade's spectacular comedy "The County Chairman," not a musical comedy, but a comedy telling In a delightful manner a story of heart interest, comes to the Metropolitan for the last half of this week. Mrs. Charles A. Doremus, one of the authors of "The Fortunes of the King," in which James K. Hackett will appear at the Metropolitan operahouse next week, is the wife of Professor Doremus of Col- umbia university, and well known among literary people.

The puzzling illusions produced at Orpheum by Herrmann form an Interesting headline number on the curren week's bill. The disappearance of Herrmann thru a solid mirror is i latest. Hanlon "Superba," with its mys tery and romance, new music and boob is entertaining large audiences at Bijou this week. The new sensational melodrami "The Lighthouse by the Sea," comes the Bijou next week. The play deal with life in the government lighthous service.

THE KREISLER CONCERT Pritz Kreisler, the violinist, was th particular attraction at the First Ba tist church last evening, altho Mmc Etta de Montiau proved a very capabl and acceptable singer. With this en tertainment added to the Hekking eon cert of last week, the Teachers' clol has made Minneapolis deeply its debtor Kreisler was at his best and mon than did himself proud. A the of the long and trying program hi twice responded with violin encores and even then the audience was loatl to let him go. Th playing of thi wizard of the bow is characterized b1 a tone that is splendidly opulent, i technique that is amazing and a tern perament that carries the player anT his audience along in the closest sympathy. Nothing is too difficult, to tender, too passionate, too triste too grand to be adequately Tendered Undoubtedly the Paganini "Caprice with its winsome Scotch melody an its plaintive duet, proved most attrac tive to the audience, but the Sulze "Sarabande," played on the was wonderfully done.

"The Trill played con sordino, with it great demands on the technique, a also a magnificent number. Two ex quisite bits were the "Chanson Loui VIII. and a vane," by Comerin, an the "Menuetto," by Porpora, seventeenth century compositions. The Mendelssohn "Concerto" wa, Kreisler's principal contribution to thprogram, and it was simply magnificent The allegro movement, with its ex quisite arpeggi, was splendidlv playe and taken at a rapid tempo. I diree contrast was the "andante," with it especially lovely ending.

The "finale' was fairly electric and was played wit! great virtuosity. Beginning with sprightly movement, it was constantly accelerated until the tempo was tre mendous, but Kreisler was master, ant won new laurels by his splendit achievement. Mme. de Montjau sang two groups songs. The first, a German group, in eluded two of the most familiar of th Schubert lieder, Grieg's dramatic "Eij Traum," and Bichard Strauss' loveh "Standchen." Mme de Montjau ha' a good soprano of even register, bu.

somewhat lacking in distinctive timbre and occasionally marred by vibrate er pianissimos are especially good and her excellent rendition of the Griej song was somewhat of a surprise. Thsecond group of songs was mainl culled from French composers and werall comparatively new. Massenet' Crepuscule," with its delicacy am daintiness, was lovely, and so well wa. it sung that a richly merited encor followed. Holmes' "Belle du Koi" a another distinct success.

A encor song was given in response to the vigoi ous applause. One of the distinctive features the concert was the playing of the ac companist, Mrs. Katherine Hoffman St. Paul. With but twenty-four hour at her disposal, she so successfully pre pared the accompaniments for the solos including the orchestral parts of th Mendelssohn "Concerto." as to gi a most artistic and finished reading I was a distinct achievement, re fleets great credit at once upon he ability and her capacity.

Howa rd Boardman. STATE PRES8 AND LEGISLATURE Adrian GuardianMinnesota legislatoi have so far apparently regarded each bi tor doing away with passes as a met bluff not worthy of grave consideratioi and have quietly put it to sleep. And the members still draw free transportatio and continue with business-like regularit to put in their bills for mileage which ha cost them nothing. Now, the members as individuals ar not deserving of severe censure for cor tinulng this long-established usage. has so long obtained that unearned mfl age compensation has come to be Jooke upon as part of the pay that goes wit the office.

More blame attaches to Mir nesota voters who have for so long, witl out effective protest, permitted the abm to continue. It is a waste of voice or inr't to argue this question. From a standpoint, it has but one side. Whenevc the voters of the state agree that it mm stop, and clearly so express theroselve our lawmakers will stop it instanter. Gentlemen, are you ready for the quei tion? Sauk Center HeraldPass issuing is or of the most insidious forms of briber The bribe is not large enough to be insuli ing, but it is sufficiently valuable to exceedingly attractive, and the implle compliment in receiving one is highi prized than the monetary value.

never really thought we amounted much till we began receiving passes, the we commenced to consider ourselves or of the great and influential men of land. To say that our public men are influenced by passes is to say our publ officials are low-down penny-grabbei that will accept valuable favors withoi reciprocating if opportunity presen itself. The public pays for these pass and there is no good reason why the pul lie should pay for sending a public ficial's messages, express or his railroa fare than it should pay for his wife shoes and children's dresses. St. Peter HeraldIf the legislature is ii fiuenced by popular sentiment the ant pass bill will be adopted without a dii senting vote.

St. Hilaire SpectatorThe legislatiu seems to be in the "fool bill stage," and a kinds of measures are being many of which, thank goodness, will be dignified as laws. Faribault RepublicanIt Is becomi: evident that the new code is so fruitful 4 changes and surprises that it will be gerous for the legislature to accept without the thoro consideration that cannot receive during the limits of trl present session. The public Interests suffer less by allowing it to go over by bolting it with inconsiderate haste i order to get it out of the way. nlr BALSAM BILL AS A CRITIC Bemidjl Sentinel.

"Them legislatoor fellars of ourn," marks Balsam Bill, "ain't doln' much log this winterjess settin' 'round cam and doln' nuthin' cept waitin'. Th bunch from this end" drew their railroa fares since when we ain't seen ther name in print. Seems that the devised cone mission has some big stuff standin' the want to bank fust and the walkfa bosses and scalers ain't agreein' wuth dam. It's a mighty high rollin' camp keep in but the pay's good an' reg'Js and the gang's all stlckin'," and Bi took off his other mit and thrust his bi. paw up to the stove to take some of til chill out.

GROWN Little Boy Bine, who once blew sis bom To see that the cattle kept oat of the 4 Now runs a 'mobile, and be makes It go swlfi And be don't blow bis born till be gives yon tt lift. r-BouiM. (X nJ.