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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-10-27
Memoranda

Lubec, Oct 26-Sch Florida, Bunker from
Portland via Bar Harbor. got ashore In Luoec
Narrows yesterday, and when the tide went our
she fell over and filled with water. She is all
under at high water. She had a general cargo
shipped at Portland but the greater portion OF
it was discharged at Bar Harbor. Inc vessel
may be saved
Gloucester, Oct 26-Sch VIM Thomas, which
was recently lowed into Beverly with less Of
mainmast and derelict. has beeu toWed to this
port for temporary repairs and VIII pc taken 10
Calais for PERMANENT repairs. A settlement OF
savage has been effecled.
Portsmouth. Oct 25-Sch Mary E Crosby.
which recently struck on rock and sank al
Exerer. has been raised and towed into the
wharf to discharge.
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MARIN Il. NEW s
PORT OF PORTLAND.
TUESDAY. Oct. &c.

TUESDAY, Oct. 26.
Arrived.
Steamship John Englis, Bragg. New York
passengers and mdse to j B Coyle.
steamship st CroiX Pike. st John, NIB. tor
Boston.
ing.
Sch D w Hammond Mitchell. Addison.
Sch Railroad, Summons. Friendship.
Sch Lydia M Webster. Hooper. Port Clyde.
Sch Irving Leslie Churchill, Penobscot Tor
Boston,
Schs Ira Kilborn, Minetta, Edward Treyoy.
and Oceanus. fishing.
Cleared.
Steamship Manhattan, Bennett. New York
B Coyle.
Steamer Salacla. Oliver. Bath. Boothbay Har
for and Wiscasset-C II Lewis.
Sch Jacob Wlnslow, Smith, Brunswick
j S Winslow & CO.
Sch Gamecock, Small Millbridge-J II Blake.
SAILED-Barque Jas Fl Hamen; schs c
Cromwell, Lizzie E Dennison, Matte Russell,
and part OF the fleet which put in for a harbor
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MAINE STEAMSHIP co.
New York Direct Line.
LONG ISLAND SOUND BY DAYLIGHT.

FIVE TRIPS FEE w Il EkA.
Steamships Manhattan and John sEnglis
alternately leave Franklin wharf Tuesdays
York direct Returning, Eleaye Pier SO, East
River, Tuesdays Thursdays and Saturdays at
5 p. IN. The Steamship Cottage City leaves
Portland at p M Oct, 10, IS, Y and 2lth for
5 p. m Oct. Is. 20, % and 30th.
These steamers are superbly fitted and fur
nished for passenger travel and afford the most
convenient and comfortable route between
Portland and New York.
Fare. one way 81 90; round trip, $780,
Merchants and Buyers rouud trip tickets.
under regulations of Merchants Association of
N. Y, only $500.
j. f. LISCoMB. General Agent.
y. B. COYLE Treasurer. oct4df
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Boston Produce Market.
MBOSTON. Oct. 26. lS97--The following are
to-oay's quotauons of Provisions, etc.:
FLOUR.
Spring patents. s zoos IS.
spring, clear ana straight. 35t@6 Sd.
winter patents. ! 5@b rs.
winter. clear and straight, 6o@5 40
Extra and Seconds 90.
FINE and Supers-.
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Print Cloth Market.
FALL RIVER, Mass. Oct. ze, 18e7.--The
PRINT Goth market is dull at 2Hsc.
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OCEAN STEAMSHIPS.
ALLAN LINE
ROYAL MAIL STEAMERS.
Liverpool, Quebec and Montreal, Cali
ing at Londonderry.

From From From
Liverpool Steamship Montreal. Quebec.
80 Sept. California, 16 Get. II Oct s a. m
Z Oct. Lanrentian % Oct % Oct. 8 pm
A Oct. Parlsian. 3OOct. 81 Oct. 8 a. m
IL Oct. Numidian, Nov. Z Nov. 8 am
ihe Saloons and Staterooms are in the CEN
trail part. where least motion is felt. Elec-
tricity is used for lighting the ships through
out. the lights being at tho command of the
passengers at any hour OF the night. Music
Rooms and Smoking Rooms on the promenade
deck. The Saloons and Staterooms ara heated
by steam.
Rates o. passage $3.50 to.s7o.oO. A re-
auction is made CD Round Trip Tickets.
Second Cabin-To Liverpool, London and
Londonderry, $1,000 and S36.25; return,
S6675 and $4,000.
Steerage-Io Liverpool, London. Glasgow,
Belfast or Londonderry. including every re-
Quisite for he voyage $23.50.
For tickets or fI.ther Information apply to
Z. p. MCGOWAN. 41S Congress ST., j. B.
KEATING, 5l4s Exchange 81, Fl. & A. AL
Ian, Montreal and 90 State st.. Boston.
jly31du
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DOMINION Line.

RATES OF PASSAGE.
First Cabin. $3.50 and upwards. Return
$105 and upwards according to Steamer and
accommodations.
Second Cabin. To LIVERPOOL, London. Lon
donderry and Queenstown, $34 and $685. Is.
Return. S66.75 and 500 according to Steamer
and accommodations.
Storage. To Liverpool London. London
derry. Glasgow. Queenstown and Belfast,
S22.50 and so according TO Steamer.
Apply to j. B. Heating. 81 IL Exchange
street, r. P. McGowan, 4I8 Congress street, J.
W. Peterson. Exchange street, or David Tor
rance Co.. general agents. Montreal.
dec4 Off
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Portland & Rumtord Falls R'y.
In Effect Oct. 4, 1897.

DEPARTURES.
$50 A. M. and 115 P NJ From Union Station
for Poland Mechanic Falls Buckfeld, Can
ton, Dixteld Rumford Falls, Bemis and all
stations on the r. T. & r. L. R. r.
$50 a. NJ, LIS and SIS D. M From Union
Station for Mechanic Falls and intermediate
stations.
Through Tickets on Sale.
r. c. BRADFORD, Tt atic Manager
Portland Maine.
lel8 dtf Rumford Falls Maine
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FROM OUR CORRESPONDENTS

EXCHANGE DISPATCHES.
Ar at Hiogo, JAP Oct rs. ship John Currier
Lawrence, Philadelphia.
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New vorkouoratioa. on STOCK. and Bond

ny WIKI dUIL-
Closing quotations of stocks:
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Portland & Ogd'g g6s, 1900, 1st mtglo4 II
Portland Water Co.'S IS, 1899. ....1o2 IL
Portland Water Co.'S As 1927 lol 1927
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1897-10-21

A MODERN FABLE.

A fable old for a modern rbvmo
Take OF leave, as you've wish or tine
A tender vine in a forest grew.
Putting out tendrils two by two
She crept to the oak so tall and gra.u
And sighed. May | on thy bosom Ieans
The voice that quickened the sonI :,
Said | was only part of thee.
And was never alone to stand
Or sink deep roots in the motherIand
A creature of light, of love of air
| should have no part in the rude
worlds care.
But over thy breast, austere and ola
My warmth and beauty | should .nfold
While thine to shield me from all
alarms,
And daunt the storms with thy mighty
arms"
But the oak replied; "To me, it seems
You are much inclined TO idle dreams
Folks seem to think | can work and
work
Just to let you hang around and shirk
I'll let you love me; III hear your song
But you must hustle and help along"
And the little vine replied: I'm try.n
But her leaves dropped low she had to
sigh.
And deeper, deeper, without a moan.
She braced her roots and she stood
alone.
The wind blew hard, and unhelped. at
last
She loosed her hold and she faced the
blast.
Then cried the oak: "Alack, alas,
That such a thing should come to pass,
The vine has from my shelter fed
And flaunts a wicked, saucy head"
But then, complaining soft and low,
She blushed: Il did not wish to 20.
Il stand alone, you know, | trust,
Not cause would, but cause | must"
Grace Duffie Boylan.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1897-10-21
4 BIG BUILDING

Very few know il, but /. is a fact,
explained a prominent builder TO a
Washington Star reporter, that the
pension office building is the largest
brick building in the world. 1t has
been subjected 20 muck criticism, but
II can stand it,. FOR as time passes
along there are many things seen
about it that escaped notice when j;
was newer. In all there are over
l1.0t0,u 600 bricks in the building Gen.
Meiss took liberties with bricks that
no other architect had ever attempted.
He not only used bricks exclusively
for the huIlliug. but he used them in
constructing the stars throughout the
huildiug In the matter of stair build
ing bricks have often been used for the
riser, but the step has always been
az iron, wood. slate or stone. In the
pension office both riser and step are
go brick As q brick building, there
fore. pure and simple, it is unique in
construction. outside OF the fact that Il
is the largest exclusively brick build
nE in the world
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1897-10-21
THE VAMPIRE" LOCALIZED.

Rudyard Kipling's recent poem, The
Vampire, which has been widely no.
ticed and read, is thus parodied by ].
Angus Macdonald in Brains:
A fool there was and he wrote an ad
Even as you and y
To the rich and the poor, the good and
the bad,
(To tell them his store and his goods
were the fad
But this fool neither wit MOI expert
nee had
Never az you and y.
Oh the cash some waste and the space
some waste;
And the work of head and hand
Is lost because they don't know, you
know,
(And well we know they never can
know
They do not understand.
A fool there was and his goods he
spent
Never as you and y.
His coin and work and his good in
tent
(But nobody ever knew what he
meant
For a fool must follow his natural
bent,
Never as you and y.
Oh the toll he lost and the spoil he
lost
And the asinine schemes he planned.
But all in vain-fools never know why
(And well we know they'll never
know why)
They do not understand.
The fool was stripped to his foolish
hide,
Never as you and u.
From the business whirl he was cast
aside
(And nobody really cared if he died)
To advertise wisely he yairly had
tried,
Never as you and y.
And it isn't the blame and it isn't the
shame
That stings like a white-hot branu
It's coming to know that some
never know why
When in advertising they falter ana
die
Never as you and y.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1897-10-21
FOR STAMP COLLECTORS.

Afghanistan stamps are cancelled"
stamp. Incidentally a piece of enve-
lope OF letter is torn out at the same
time. From a collectors point of view
this is a ~barbarous proceeding; and
we hope that the new idea of ~cancell-
ing stamps by branding them with a
red-hot platinum wire will not be
adopted. Yet this has been suggested
in some of the German papers. If 1t
is ever adopted we shall have to col
lect unused stamps only. A German
lows. l. Beginners. 2. Average coll
lectors. 8. Serious collectors (whose
albums represent a value of 100000.
4. Important collectors collections
worth s25, 000). 5. Prominent collect
ors $3.50 ,000). 6. Great collectors who
lave spent over 800, 900 on their col
lections). The report that the govern
ment purposed to change the color of
the &c. stamp from red to green, as a
measure of economy, brought out a
use green instead of red could be car
ried out for a few months only, as all
the governments represented at the
Postal Congress will aim to bring uni
fcimity in color in stamps of different
countries of practically the same de-
nomination. Red is the color adopted
for stamps of &c. 90 centmes, etc.)-
Harper's Round Table.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1897-10-21

Milwaukee, Oct. 16.-Judge Seaman
rendered a decision in the suit of E.
A. Shores against John Garfield to
celebrated Wisconsin lumber venture
in the United States court Friday.
The result is a complete victory for
Shores. Garfield entered into an
agreement with Shores whereby the
latter was to hunt up lands and Sc
cure them while Garfield was to fur
nish the money and attend to the
rest of the work. Shores was paid q
certain salary and alleged that he
was to have one-fourth of the profits
amounting to 1925, 900.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1897-10-21

our a week, brought in a verdict at
Sparta for $4,000 damages. John
Schaidler of Norwalk, husband of the
plaintiff was driving across the track
Oct. 4, 1895, when his wagon vas
struck by a train which killed one
horse and turned the vehicle on top
of Schaidler. He got OUT and walked
home unasslsted, apparently not
greatly injured. He went TO bed and
died thirteen days later. The de-
PENDANT claimed he died from disease
and not by reason of injuries received
on the railroad.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1897-10-21
BURGLAR
He Dressed Faultlessly and Lived II
Sumptuous Apartments in Paris.

OUlllllItIo Nihi NAA'hNh -
There have been burglars in even
ing dress before, on the stage, for in
stance. but the Paris police say there
was never one with such a distin-
guished air or aristocratic residence.
He had dukes and duchesses for next
door neiEhbors.
A gentleman living in hat district
caught the burglar ransacking h
rooms. He was dressed in the most
correct evening clothes and had an air
of distinction. The gentleman no
titled the police.
They saw the burglar walk uncon-
Cernedly downstairs and carefully eX-
anime his floral decoration as he
hummed an air from an opera. When
he was arrested he gave an unpro-
nounceable Slavonic name and his adj
dress in the Avenue des Champs
Elysees.
Thither went some Of his captors,
end found that he lived in an expen-
sive bachelors fat, or c%elibate's snug
gerry, beautifully furnished.
A search was made there. and
brought to light a remarkable assort-
ment Of burglars tools, as we'll as a
list Of persons whose apartments could
easily be entered and plundered. II has
been ascertained, in fact, that the
man is a practised burglar, end that
he adopted fashionable attire in order
TO defy suspicion.
General housebreaking operations
lately effected in the Champs Elysees
and similar districts ere now put down
70 his credit, and it is probable that his
trial will lead to some curious discov-
cries.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1897-10-21

The International leprosy conference
opened in Berlin
AT ANysstnan army was annEhiIatc8
ty sowaut.as
The report o' the serious Illness Of
Ces.i Rhodes denied.
Now u "a Nicaragua and Costa
Riao that 20 70 lighting
The British fleet in the North Paci-
fe Is being largely reinforced
some Seryiau liberals we're system.
7tie1lIy murdered IT the instance Of
radicals
Mrs Jersey ST Mrs. rangtryl Mer.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1897-10-21

Your wife sir" said the doctor
peculiarly. as he hurried into the
editors scrctum has presented you
with a charming louplet."
Il regret. sir. responded the editor
absent mindedly, without ceasing his
labors. we have so many eontrlpu-
tions Of a similar nature that We coulo
not possibly make room n tbep'
as he looked up from his desk. tns
great truth dawned upon him-Up-to-
Date.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1897-10-21
FRUITS OF THE SEASON.

so young Yarow is going into the
jewelry business is he? Where dld
he ever get money enough TO start
WITH"
"Oh. his four sisters have been al
the seashore this summer, and IN
derstand that he's to sell their dia-
monds on commission Cleveland
Leader.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1897-10-21

While stopping one night at a farm
house in Missouri a traveller was
astnnished to see his hostess walk up
- her husband about every fifteen
minutes and box his ears or give his
hair a pull. In the morning the guest,
seeing the roman alone. asked an ex-
planation OF her strange conduct, and
her reply was you see, stranger.
me and the old man has been tighten
for ten years 10 see who shall boss this
ere ranch, and have jest got him
cowed. but II | should let up on him
for a day he would turn on me again.
and my work would all 80 for moth
in"
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1897-10-21

advertisement in French uewspa-
per "Fria1 y an experienced ae-
ccuutant, desires a place rs cashier.
In the interest OF the security OF pat
rons he would state that he is afflicted
with two wooden legs
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1897-10-21
PICTURES OF NJ

1t is doubtful whether pictures of
women can ever become hackneyed as
advertising illustrations. They will he
popular so long as pretty faces retain
then perennial charm for mankiIl.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1897-10-21
NEWS OF THE WORLD.
DOMESTIC.

Ii' NANNN
huild the Fosston branch.
Exports of American ~Dreadstuhs
show a very large increase.
N~ewspapers may be used as text
hooks In Kansas City schools.
main has broken the drought III
many parts Of the south and west
The three largest vessels IN the
lakes are to be built for RocKelel'eI'
Four men were killed in a nght De-
tween settlers and sheepmen IN ldaho'
h Jury IN the case OF Mrs. GOV
Atkinson Of West Virginia disagreed
Rishop Hennessey, just back from
po,,e found the pope in good health.
baltimore wins the deciding oase
hall game with Boston for the lemple
cup. VII.
Anthony Hope sailed for New YORK
xhara no win give readings from his
books.
The schuyldI Valley, Pa, vas de-
lnqed by one OF the heaviest rains III
years. -
There Is a considerable shortage
=. ~ amount of coal on the Duluth
VI AA'
docks.
4 drop of two points in the average
condition OF corn took place u "ep-
TENDER.
Tho evidence ended and argument
hogan in the Luetgert murder tria''
Chicago.
Ell Torrance Of Minnesota was APP
pointed Judge advocate general oil 'he
G. A. r.
Leigh Hough ~confcsses having muir
dered Joseph Clark at Owatonna lot
his money. .bo
". s. Gilbert, disguised with the
london critics, says he will write no
Minnesota mmbermen will build a
canal from the Lake of the Woods 10
the Seine river.
violence is threatened by people
stranded at st. Michaels on the way
to the mines,
Iobn Armstrong Chanler, divorced
husband of Amelie Riyes, Is IN al
insane asylum,
The total available assets OF n
,rcasurv Juno 30 last amounted to
sS7f 764,S7 ~,
edward d. Adams has resigned AZ
chairman OF the board of Northern
pacific directors and the Office Is
abolished. /,
seven girls were burned 10 death IL
n fire which destroyed a cottage al
the state Industrial School, PlahK'hs'
ton. S. d,
Seth Low has taken personal charge
OF his W campaign for mayor %
greater New York,
Mr. and Mrs. f. II Throop OF
Brooklyn are organizing a pilgrimage
to the holy land.
The democrats carried the municipal
election in indianapolis, rejecting
Mayor Taggart.
The Case threshing machine plant
NJ Racine Wis, was sold to eastern
capitalists for 100000.
burglars at Camden, n. j. killed
aged Mrs. Emma Zane and her da'sh-
ter Mrs Sarah NJ Shaw.
Al Raleigh. n. c., Albert Watson,
O m,chinist. shot and killed his wife
and then killed himself.
All Ferouck hey has been appointed
Turkish minister to the United States
n succeed Mustapha Hey.
w. c. Drener OF South Carolina has
hon appointed consular agent at
A-4y
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1897-10-21
THE BIGGEST PAsSENGER-SHIP

Barring accidents, the biggest pas
senger-ship in existence will come to
New York this week. She is the new
North German Lloyd liner Kaiser Will
helm der Crosse, a marine monster, an
eighth of a mile long GAS feet, to be
accurate), sc feet wide, 43 feet deep,
end of a tonnage of IA, 900. She sailed
from Southampton on September 20,
at s p. m, and is credited with an as
piration to break the record on her
maiden voyage. All her details and
dimensions are Brobdingnagian. She
can carry 1920 passengers, besides her
crew of $50. Her engines are expected
to develop $4,000 horsepower, and her
cost is estimated to have been about
two million dollars. She is so much
bigger than the other big liners, and
has so many novelties of construction,
and such great expectations OF speed
and comfort and safety, that her first
trip across the ocean is an event, and
the reports of her behavior will be
read with almost as much interest as
one of Mr.. Kipling's mechanical
stories.-Harper's Weekly.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1897-10-21
HE WINS A FORTUNE
E. A. SHORES RECEIVERS A BIG
SUM FROM JOHN CANFIELD.
CELEBRATED LUMBER DEAL

Plaintiff and Defendant Entered Into
An Agreement Whereby Shores
was to Hunt Up Land which Can
field was to Buy and Give Former
"A of Profits.
The Saint Paul globe., 1897-04-11

work OF an unknown writer-indeed
there is an abundance of internal evil
dence to prove just the contrary; the
author is not dragged down by the
weight Of years and experience, per-
haps, but the book contains no indica-
tions OF prentice hand, nor vet Of
one that has exhausted its entire store
i'll one venture. The author has more
TO say. and we shall yet hear it. From
internal evidence it is equally certain
that the author is a woman. Not that
the book lacks masculine force and
poise-the strength and humor are tru-
ly virile-but the subtle presence
of a Womans mind pervades both style
and thought.
The contention that "The Descend
ant has already aroused among
its readers is in keeping with the spirit
OF the novel itself 1t has for its mo-
t1t the eternal problem Of IshmaeI
but put before US with a new intensity.
Michael Akershem in the illegitimate
child Of a woman Of the fields who
dies at his birth. In the first fierce
bitterness of his youth he calls his
father villain and his mother a fool.
His childhood is acquainted with want
and i1ardships, scorn and taunts; the
shame of his birth is burned with red
hot words into his baby heart. He
grows up defantIy conscious Of the
atmosphere of suspicion around him
and haughtily aware that moth
ing but evil is expected of his unconse-
Grated blood. The book is not so much
study in heredity. as has been said,
as it is careful drawing of the ire
sistible, crushing pressure OF sur
roundings. 1t is true that MichaePs
dual nature. gotten from his widely
separated parents, is drawn with intui-
1--WE understanding, but It Is the inher-
hanee Of shame in the eyes of the
world. not the Inheritance of tenden-
cles' that makes his life and character
concentrated bitterness. Brilliant
rorceeul. turbulent. he threw back the
The Saint Paul globe., 1897-04-11

We are also headquarters
for designs of every desorip-
ton. Masonic, Odd Fellow
and other secret society en-
blems a speciality; made on
short notice and in a first
class manner. Send for price
list of Cut Flowers.
The Saint Paul globe., 1897-04-11
On aours Book Table

From the St. Paul Book and Stationery
company:
Harper & Brothers .Farthest North. = BY
trldtlof Nansen. SO; The Well Beloved y
Dy Thomas Hardy 81. So THE Mistress of the
Ranch, by Frederick Thickstun Clark 81 %
$.75.
G. P. Putnam's Sons-''The Revolutionary
tendencies Of the Age" 81 .25.
$3.50.
Houghton. Miflin & Ca Transatlantic
Chatelalne, by Helen Choate Prince, 81 %
Tho Spirit of an Illinois Town" by Mary
Hartwel Catherwood, $1.25; Memories OF
hawthorne, Dy Rose Hawthorne Dathrop. 81
). b. Lippircott Company-''Into an I'm
known World" by John Strange Winter, Sc
+: Tennyson Neely-" Observations of a
Bacheior by Louis Lombard
From the Publishers:
Pemberton Publishing Company-"Our Ri
val the Rascal" by Eldridge and Watts
Rand McNally & Ce.-'Lady Kirkpatrick, -
by Robert Buchanan. so cents.
The Windsor & Lewis Publishing Company
81; FauI- Iona. " by William Windsor.
Houghton, Mif1in & Co.-Riverside Literary
Series, Grimm's Fairy Tales, 60 cents Shakes
peare's Macbeth" " 25 cents: Carlyie's .'Es-
say on Burns, Is cencts; Bunyan's ''P1lgr m $
Progress - 40 cents
T. s. Denison-''The King" by Pythias
Daymon 25 cents
The Saint Paul globe., 1897-04-11

expedition to expect to gain much ad-
ditiOnal information on this line from
DR.. Nansen'S book. The interest which
1t is destined to create and satisfy is
Of different kind. The man and his
comprehensive life amid unusual en-
vironments. the hopes and fears, boy
tsh revelries and agonies of doubt, the
cool courage in the face of strange
dangers, the ingenuity equal to all
things, the personal force ana fitness
Of these observation-disclosures are the
things thatswnk attract and hold spell
bound the public.
That FridtjOf Nansen has been able
to demonstrate his scientific faith by
the results Of the three years in the
Arctic circle is a triumph in the realm
of science; that he has been able to
tell the story of these three years with
q power which gives his two bulky
volumes the precedence of all the fic-
tion Of the day is, perhaps, a greater
. triumph in the realms of art. "Ee thou
true unto DEATH" he quotes, when he
q takes his life in his hands and starts
cut on the untrOdden road which has