The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1899-09-15

One Is sure to tlnd m the PAGES OF the
lsACosmopo litan'' some topics of imned-
late interest, and in all the output Of the
September magazines, no article so holds
the reader as M. Saint Just's detailed de-
scription Of the organization ofthe French
Secret Service. The writer knows his
subject, as he was former Chief Of Div
ision in the intricate organization. The
reader lays the article down bewildered
at the conception of the web which has
been woven closer and closer around the
French people since the days of Napoleon.
Bryant's knowledge Of Languages
and Trees.
In his "Recollections of Bryant and
Emerson" printed i'll the September 18th
issue of The Youths Companion, Justin
Mccarthy says: MIR. Bryant was de-
lightful host and charming companion.
He was not a large and and impressive
man in figure, but he had Il superb and
Mpitcr-like head His reading was inn
me4,se and varied. He had travelled
much and remembered what he saw.
He knew several languages, and could
make all eloquent speech in French,
Italian, German or Spanish. Before GO
ing to America had the impression, got
from English writers on America, that no
American could ever learn to speak any
language but his own. Bryantimpressed
me almost terribly by his knowledge Of
trees and plants. While we were driving
together round and about his country
home he often embarrassed me by asking
whether this or that tree or plant flourish
ed in England, and if SO in what partic-
ular part of England. Well, think l
know an oak when see it, but am not
always quite sure. | know a poplar
everybody knows poplar; know
birch, and know palm, but there my
knowledge ends. With Bryant felt
nightly ashamed of my ignorance"
Ten New and Original Songs Free.
What will the great metropolitan pa
pers do next? This is the question some
one asks nearly every day. But there is
one which leads all others. Ithas gained
the sobriquet of Americas Greatest
Newspaper" by just such remarkable
pieces OF enterprise as the one which has
just now attracted the attention of the
press all over the country.
Last week the New York Sunday
Word announced that it would give
away an album of new and original mu-
sic, consisting of ten of the up-to-date
class of songs that are now so popular,
such as songs Of sentiment, coon"
songs, "cakewalks," etc. These ten
songs the Sunday World proposes to dis
tribute one each week, with every copy
of the Sunday World. When it is con.
sidered that the average price of new
music, written and composed by popular
authors, is from 80 to As cents, the UNI
paralleled enterprise of The World in
giving the song away with big Sunday
newspaper, for which only 5 cents is
chargv>., IS apparent. The World re-
quests t.lal we publish the following an
nounccAlcnt: So
A Music Album free. From Sept. to
Nov. 5, the Sunday World will issue
weekly song in sheet music form, with
handsome colored cover. The entire set
will be mailed, postage paid, for SOC. Re-
nlittances received after Sept. will get
the back numbers and each new number
issued. Besides the song, The World
will also send its colored Art Portfolio,
which is marvel ofjournalism; its Sun
day Magazine, which equals the monthly
periodicals, and its Comic Weekly, which
excels every comic weekly in the United
States except two, and in its comic scope
equals these two 10-cent publications.
Write a postal card to the Sunday
World Music Editor. Pulitzer Building,
N. Y, for a list of the songs.