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Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1901-02-21

Bismarck. N. D., Feb 1.-THE members
Of the legislature have accepted the in-
vitation Of General w. D. Washburn to
make an, excursion to his coal mines at
Lincoln's birthday and legal holiday
In the state.
The sna the ays
and ChafIe's bill legalixing tax levies Tile
galiy made was amended by the senate
The house occupied most OF Saturday
afternoon with q row over the appoint
ment Of additional clerks and janitors.
Several warm orations were delivered by
members against the naming Of more
employees and several. applicants being
old soldiers brought out debates pro and
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one day he brought about accidentally
such a combination of wires and batteries
that a binding light flashed upon him,
and out of the scintillating brilliancy
presently stepped a radiant being who
made himself known as the demon Of cleo
tricity. The word demon" however, was
not used in an Objectionable sense, but in
the significance Of spirit" He explained
to the surprised lad that the master key"
which until then had never been found by
any electrician. had at last been touched.
and that ne had come to obey the m
He was compelled, he said. to obey the COM
mands of anyone wise and brave enough
or fortunate and fOol-hardy enough to
touch the key. He was glad to come and
make known some of the secrets of cleo
trical power even to a boy so ignorant,
since he had been locked up for centuries
awaiting the call and had grown impatient.
Although he considered Rob ignorant, he
spoke with almost as much disrespect Of
the knowledge of the Edisons, Teslas and
others commonly considered to have a Won
derful acquaintance with the mysteries of
electricity. Each of them. he said, was
cropping about blindly and none had
grasped the real secret. He was not ready
to disclose this secret at once, for the boy
was not prepared to receive it, but as a
preliminary he would give him three gifts
for three successive weeks. The first three
consisted of a small tube which contained
forces by which he could paralyZe man or
animal tina threatened him with injury, the
paralyses, however, being but temporary
in effect and leaving no i'll consequences.
The other was a small watch-like contri-
vance which. when attached to his wrist
and the regulator adjusted permitted him
to rise into the air and float in any dlrec-
ton he chose, and to descend at will. The
third was a box of food tablets. Delighted
with his possessions the boy proceeded to
put them into use and thereupon followed
a series of marvellous adventures lasting
through the week. How far he travelled,
VIA happened to him and his conclusions
on reaching home again form a narrative
that the normally constituted child cannot
fail to find enhancing. The fairy that
danced in the forest and the slave of the
lamp are perhaps a little out of date, but
the Spirit of Electricity, with hints of won
ders that may one day really exist, is
sufficiently practical to attract even the
most matter-of-fact notwithstanding
youngster. 1t is an ingenious tale, and with
all it's long list of amazing and impossible
happenings, is suggestive of possibilities
and is likely to set young readers TO think
ing. Its publishers, the Bowen-Merri Com
pany, have heretofore paid little attention
to juvenile literature, but with this book
they have made an suspicious beginning.
1t is handsomely printed and contains num-
erous striking illustrations in color, by f.
V Cory
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THE PINE RIDGE PLANTATION.

William Drysdale, a writer of popular
juveniles and author of Helps for Ambi-
tious Boys" strikes a new theme in this
story. 1t treats of the trials and successes
of a young cotton planter. The hero of the
story is an underpaid and overworked
young drudge on a farm in New York, who
is not content to work aimlessly from day
to day, but who set out to make his own
living. He begins by purchasing a piece of
cheap, rundown land in the South, and by
persistent effort he converts it into a pros
porous cotton plantation. The evolution of
the patch" into the plantation is consist
emily worked out by the author and makes
instructive reading. The sharp contrasts af-
forded by the constant collision between
the young mans thrifty and progressive
Northern ideas and the old fogy ideas of
farm work prevalent in the South furnish
many interesting passages. The young
mans cotton-planting experiment is con-
Quoted in North Carolina and his expert
ences with the people down there. white as
well as black, are varied and amusing.
While his plantation is being developed
Hunt has some good times hunting and
fishing and his life is not all d~rudgery. He
becomes a successful cotton planter, a
man of mark in the community and noted
for his enterprise and liberality. Besides
being an entertaining story. pine Ridge
Plantation carries some instructive les
sons for young readers. Its Illustrations
really illustrate, some of them evidently
being photographs of Southern scenery. 1t
published by Thomas Y. Crowell & Co.,
New York.
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this class. No books for children published
since those of Miss Louise Alcott, have won
higher praise than Miss Rays Teddy: Her
Book" and phoebe: Her Profession
They were bright and wholesome stories in
which Teddy and her sister Phoebe quite
wound themselves around the hearts Of the
reader. Teddy: Her Daughter" is a con-
tinuation Of the series, a sort of sequel to
the other stories. 1t carries on the lives and
doings of the McAllisters in the same
genial style that characterized its prede-
cessors and is likely TO be received with as
great favor. 1t is a natural, wholesome and
human story. Teddy's daughter, Betty, is
the center of it and the family life at the
seashore is very ~attractively portrayed.
Teddy, which readers of the preceding
stories of the series know, is an abbrevia-
ton of Theodore. makes just such a sweet
and winning woman as a mother as her
portrayal as a girl foreshadowed. The story
has a distinct atmosphere of American
home and family life and addresses itself
especially to young readers on account OF
its genuine sympathy with boy and girl
life. There is not a sensational suggestion
nor a false note of sentiment in it.
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BOOKS FROM RussELL,s.

r. II. Russell, the New York publisher of
artistic books, sends out a batch Of at
holiday books for children First
on the list comes Memoirs of Simple ST.
mon" told in verse by d. B.. Keller and IL
Illustrated by c.. S. Vandervort. There are
other histories also beside Simple Simon.
Both parts OF the work are clearly done.
The color work is good. as may be expected
of this house and with the exception of
some of the pictures having a tendency to
brighten little anes, as that OF the alligator
nipping off a boys foot, the book is one
fairly we'll suited to the entertainment of
the youngsters.
Yankee Doodle Gander" is a jingo-jin-
gle book by Otto Won GottschaIk. who
relates various patriotic incidents in rhyme
ings which are produced in color. The
technical work of the artist is well done.
but in the designs is a suggestion Of that
peculiar style Of art found in the Sunday
supplement sheets of the yellow press.
Many persons. however, il must be ad-
mitted. enjoy that sort OF thing.
a very different sort of book is an edi-
ton of The Heroes or Greek Fairy
Tales for My Children, by Charles Kingsley
The story OF "Perseus." the story of the
"Argonauts' and the story of ''Theseus"
are bits of NEUROLOGICAL lore that should be
known TO every child. and nowhere can
they be found in more attractive form than
here. NJ. III. Squire and f. Mars have sup
plemented the text with sixty drawings
that really illustrate and that show their
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LARRY HUDsON,s AMBITION.

Mr.. James Otis's latest story for boys,
under the above title, possesses the quality
of readableness to an unusual degree. 1t is
a story Of country and city life in which
some characteristic features of both are
introduced in a natural and effective way,
sharply emphasized by contrast. and some
country and city boys play prominent
parts. While the story aims primarily at
interesting the young reader. it discloses
also a motive in d%lscouraging the COM
mon desire of country boys to exchange
the farm for city life, and in picturing the
superior comfort. happiness and independ-
ence of farm life. The story opens in the
country on Deacon Doak's well-tilled
Herdsdale farm. The deacon is a hard
working, close and somewhat exacting
man. but genuinely honest and kind. Two
cousins. Joe and Ned, are his chore boys,
but they do not like farm work and long
to go to the city. The longed-for oppor-
tunity comes when the deacon tells them
that if they work real we'll they will all go
to New York and "see the Fourth of July
he and Aunt Mercy and the boys. On this
promise they exist and work till the time
| comes, when Joe has saved 16 cents and
Ned %. They all go to the city, though it
almost breaks the deacon's heart to pay
railroad fare. When he learns that the
boys have, together, saved SO cents, he
says: Il amt goin' to say a word agin'
your spendin' the hull of it. That's what 1
gave it to you for; but at the same time
I'm cautionin' you that when it's spent
it's gone and you won't see 1t any more"
The party got into all sorts of trouble in
the city. F1eeced by restaurant keepers,
buncoed by confidence men, swindled by
street fakirs and jeered at by street arabs,
! they were nearly at their wits end when
they were rescued by a street arab a little
bigger and Drawer than any of the others,
and who proved to be their good angel.
This was Larry Hudson, the real hero of
the story. He is a city born and city bred
chap, a street gamin, who yearns for the
country. In consequence of valuable serv-
ice which he renders the deacon and his
party, rescuing them from peril and show
ing them the sights, the deacon invites him
to go home with him and try it awhile on
the Herdsdale farm. Larry is delighted and
goes. There he proves an apt pupil. adapts
himself to the situation and proves very
useful. AS a reward for valuable service in
driving some city tramps off the farm the
deacon makes him a present of five acres
Of land and with the beginning of a bank
account he is soon in a fair way to own a
farm. That is his ambition, and the story
leaves him on the point Of achieving it by
the exercise of manly qualities which one
would hardly expect to find in a street
waif from New York. The story has a
clever plot, plenty of action and incident,
a good moral and is we'll told. Boston: l.. c..
Page & Co.
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DADDY LONG-LEGs FUN SONGS.

Nothing is left undone in these days for
the entertainment of children. 1t is not
enough now to offer them rhymes. and
stories, and gay pictures: they must have
music with the rest. Daddy Long Legs
Fun Songs" is a book full of grotesque i'll
Illustrations accompanying songs, of which
1t nay be said that they illustrate the pic
lures as we'll as the pictures illustrate
them. The words Of the songs leave some
thing TO be desired, not being always espe-
cially refined, but, on the whole, they are
amusing and Of a sort 10 please children.
The melodies are well suited TO the text,
and the drawings. which are the work of
Edgar Keller, show an originality and merit
seldom found in a book of this class. 1t
makes a holiday book whose attraction will
not pass in a day. Published by NJ. Wit
mark & Sons, New York.
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HISTORY IN RHYMES AND JINGLEs.

The many people of practical mind who
object to putting empty rhymes and jim
giles. or nonsense literature Of any sort into
the hands OF even the smallest children,
will find much 10 approve in a book Of
rhymes prepared by Alexander Clarence
Flick. professor Of European history in
Syracuse University. in which rhymes as
light and airy, as musical and telling as
those OF Mother Goose" or other old
time nursery favOrites, are made 10 cover
bits Of instruction. A need for such a work
has been expressed by kindergarten teach
ers and mothers clubs, the wish being 10
.-onset the shallow. aimless babble with
things Of value dressed in an old and at
fractive style" Heretofore such efforts
have been in prose, but children like
rhyme and remember it where they forget
prose. They also like history if it is pre-
scented 10 them In an agreeable guise. This
Professor Flick has endeavOred to do, and
IN the main has succeeded very well. He
does not attempt, of course. TO offer a very
high grade OF verse. but 1t is at least of as
good literary quality as the ordinary ju-
venile literature Here is "A stanza from
the story Of Benedict Arnold:
Benedict Arnold was a very mean traitor,
OF his own fatherland he was surely a
hater;
By the British well paid
His trust he betrayed
This wicked man Arnold, the traitor"
Here Is another specimen rhyme:
when mighty julius went to war,
He sent a message home
To tell how he was getting on
To anxious folks in Rome.
He did not send a message long
OF words IN grand array;
Il came, 1 saw, l conquered"
Was all he had to say"
1t might be objected that children young
enough TO be entertained by nursery jim
giles will not be able to comprehend the
facts thus sugar-coated; but there is no
doubt hat the rhymes will be remembered
and be recalled afterward TO do proper
service. The author is open TO criticism
for using a phrase like that in the follow
Ing stanza:
"Caesar was a man Of Rome.
Who lOnged to rule the nation.
he formed a league and fought the world;
In short, he licked creation
Licked creation" is hardly a fit phrase
for a college professor TO put into the
mouth OF infancy. A great amount of in
formation is contained. however. in the
hundred and more rhymed stories in the
volume, and the book will undoubtedly sup
ply a real want. 1t is prOfusely illustrated
and well printed, and is made the more
useful by the addition Of brief explana-
tory footnotes. The Saaldeld Publishing
Company, Akron, o.
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A NEW ALICE IN WONDERLAND.

Harper & Brothers. recognizing the new
er-failing interest of young and old in
Lewis CAROLS classic. THE Adventures
Of Alice in Wonderland" have had Peter
Newell TO illustrate the story, and are Of
fering for a holiday gift book a superbly
printed and bound volume that will delight
all book lovers. The combination OF Newell
as an illustrator and Carroll as a writer is
a happy one. The artist, who is given 10
making the quaintest and most original OF
drawings. seems TO fit in with the genius
Of Carroll. who. as a writer Of pure and
wholesome nonsense. has had no equal.
Their imaginations have run riOtously into
the realm OF the unreal and fanciful. but it
is all so genuinely amusing as 10 make
everybody approve their work. To present
a child with this beautiful book will be
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DENsLOw's MOTHER GOOSE.

Nothing can ever quite take the place OF
the DID,. original Mother Goose rhymes in
the mind of the normal child. Realiz-
ing this, as all do, one publisher or
another can be depended on to bring
out a new edition of the book each
season-the jingles usually remaining
the same. but the pictures varying accord
ing 10 the ideas Of the successive artists.
This time Mcclure, Phillips & Co. add such
a production 10 their holiday output. w. w.
Denslow being the illustrator. He also takes
the liberty to edit the text slightly in GER
tain places, but not 10 it's hurt. The heavy
paper on which this book is printed, the
remarkably fine color work and excellent
typographical features make this book too
good for rough handling by baby fingers.
1t deserves a permanent place upon the
library shelf.
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THE STORY OF LIVE DOLLS.

This tale is one that cannot fail to de-
light the wee little girls who love their
dolls. 1t tells how a wonderful great doll,
in a gay coach drawn by kittens, once
drove through a village where a number of
very nice little girls lived, and told the
wondering children that on a certain day
all their dolls would come alive and remain
so for a month. The little ones did not
know whether to believe her or not, but
that they might be prepared in case the
travelling stranger told the truth. they set
about putting their dolls in order, mending
broken heads and legs for it would be sad
for them to come to life and find them
selves crippled and repairing their ward
robes. Sure enough, when the day came,
the dolls began to walk and ~talk-except,
Of course, the baby dolls-to work, to play
and TO busy themselves pretty much as the
little girls themselves had been accus-
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1SpU1 Many BOOKS FOR THE YOUNG U6P =5

possession of Imagination as we'll as tech
meal skill. A number of them are full
page plates in color. The book, which is
printed on heavy paper and has an at
tractive cover design is one Of the most
pleasing and desirable of the holiday pub
LEGATIONS. since it IS of permanent value,
and not merely for temporary entertain
ment.
another volume Of a similarly dignifed
character is "Ten Boys from Dickens"
being the stories of Tiny Tim" OLIVER
Twist" Tommy Traddles." David Cop
perheld." and others, detached from the
text Of Dickens's novels and told in sep
arate form by Kate Dickinson Spencer.
Enough quotations are taken from the
original pages to keep the Dickens flavor,
and if there are young readers in these
days who have not made or do not care
to make the acquaintance with the
ten boys in the novels themselves,
they may do so here as the next best
thing. When they have once had intro
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duction to oliver and the rest, however,
it is likely that they will follow them up
and learn more of them, thereby proving
the value of such books as this. "Ten Boys
is we'll illustrated by George Alfred Will
liams. He succeeds in putting distinctive
character into the faces he portrays. The
cover is made striking with one of the
portraits.
Another book which hardly comes per-
haps, under the head of juvenile, though
it is meant for the soothing and entertain
ment of little ones, is a collection of lullaby
poems. by Mary D. Brine, issued under
the title Mother and Baby" They are
sweet and pretty songs and of a pathos
that will appeal to the mothers who read
them. Some beautiful half-tone illustra-
lions embellish the book.
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THE FOX.

This book contains an elaborate version
In rhyme OF 'Reynard the Fox" one of the
most ancient and famous Of fables. II is
translated from the low German of the
fifteenth century, and adapted 10 modern
readers. II relates the adventures of ami
mails who are invested with human attri-
butes and at the same time retain the char
acteristics originally given them by nature.
Satire. wit and humor figure in the tale
and some will find in IL suggestions of that
curious lore which has found modern ex-
preston through Uncle Remus." II has
attractions alike for children and their
elders. II is illustrated with much clever
ness by j. j. Mora. He has the knack OF
putting much expression into animal faces
and thus portrayed they have an especial
fascination. Dana Estes & Co, Boston.
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toned to do. The difference was that in
stead of having to pretend" as before.
that the dolls heard. understood and en-
gagged in conversation, they actually did
these things. That month was a most de-
lightful time for the little girls. The dolls
had dinners and picnics and tea parties to
which the children were invited; they went
on journeys with them to the seashore, to
the dolls farm and elsewhere, and had
various pleasant and exciting adventures
and experiences. Altogether it is a charm
ing story, just the thing to please an i'm
a~ginative child, who will supply from her
own fancy any possible incidents the
chronicIer. Josephine Scribner Gates, omits.
Equally attractive with the story are the
Illustrations by Miss Virginia Keep, the
Indianapolis artist. She enters into the
spirit of the narrative. and her drawings
really illustrate. They are indeed live"
children as well as live dolls that she por-
trays on these pages. The book. which is
very handsomely printed, is one TO have
in mind when buying holiday gifts. The
Bowen-Merrill Company, publishers.
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"Jingleman Jack" was a Jack OF all
trades" and this picture book contains an
account Of his various undertakings and
curious fortunes. The Illustrations show
him at work as a sailor. an artist. a
lumberman. a brieklayer. a farmer. a
teamster and 20 on through a long list.
The drawings. which are In color. are ex-
cellent. and convey 20 a child a good idea
OF the processes OF the several handicrafts.
IL belongs, therefore. 20 the instructive or
der OF Juvenile publications. The Saalaeld
Publishing Company. Akron. q.
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KIDS OF MANY COLORS.

The Jameison-Higgins Company, Of Chi
cago, have published many pretty books
for little children. but they seem to have
capped the climax in Kids of Many Col
ors." 1t would be difficult to conceive OF
anything In the way Of a child's book
more unique, original, attractive and in
structive han this one. Guizot, in his in
PRODUCTION to his History of France
says, Youthful minds lave greater grasp
han one is disposed to give them credit
for, and perhaps men would do well to be
as earnest In their lives as children are
in their studies The author of the verses
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THE MASTER KEY.

Mr.. L. Frank Baum, has the distinction OF
having achieved something decidedly novel
and original in the line Of juvenile fiction.
He first became known to the public as the
author of several books Of rhymes and
jlngles for very little folks. but in The
Master Key" he appeals to older children
particularly TO boys. 1t is a modern fairy
story. with the demon of electricity" in
stead Of the old-time genii of lamps and
locked caskets as the cause of wonderful
happenings. Rob, the hero OF the story
Is interested in electricity. as many up-to-
cate boys are, and has a workshop fitted up
with wires, batteries, motors and other
tools and machinery pertaining to the
science. In the course of his experiments
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TEDDY. lei DAUGHTER.

Considering the important place that
Young America occupies nowadays it would
be an invidious discrimination if the multi
plcity of books sent forth by the publish
ers did not include a due proportion of
juveniles. AS a matter of fact. they do,
and young readers cannot complain that
their tastes are not specially catered to by
skilled writer's who make a study Of pleas
ing them. Some OF the oldest and best es-
tablished publishing houses give part OF
their energies TO this line OF work. Teddy:
Her Daughter" written by Anna Chaplin
Ray, and published by the well-known
Boston house. Little. Brown & Co., is Of
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Junk" IS the singular title given to a
book of rhymes and pictures intended, not
for the amusement of children, but of
their elders. Stories are told in verse and
the remarkable happenings described are
further set forth in unique illustrations.
There are twenty-five OF these stories.
pathetic and otherwise. but mostly other
wise" all OF which. with their accom-
panying pictures. will no doubt please the
class Of persons for whom they were in
tended. The drawings. which are in color,
are well executed. The book is published
BY the c. NJ. Clarke Company. Boston.