The Minneapolis journal., 1903-12-11

lie StlIe OF Tie Sea-.
:.Ihe Old Man of Sand Kew another of
the stories in the book. is the story of a
brave battle between a pelics1i5 and AM
eagle. in which the pelican at the finish
had the help of a lighthouse keeper. 1t is
told in the same spirit Of intimacy on the
part of the writer with his. hero i
= Mr.iHaines evidently knows his charac-
ters,. bet he .isa not confined to creatures
Of wing or fin. In the: Wake Of the
Weather. CLOTH is Il story of, deep, hu-
man interest. Four persons are battling
with a storm off Cape Hatteras. They
are trying to keep their tiny twenty ton
vessel away from the white reach where
no vessel that enters. comes forth again.
While the outcome is still far from GER
TAIN, "Buck tells his companion at the
wheel Of "a former fight of the same kind
thru which he had gone with others. he
alone being saved. I'm. telin' YOU fairly,
Cap,,n.' he said If it. weren't fer you an
your little ship. I'd just as soon have gone
to- leeward@ this 5mornin:';' To have gone
to O4leeWard, would. have, meant death. But
Bucks sweetheart had gone to leeward
years before in that storm from which he
had been saved =, - ..s.,..r- .-gc.
+ S. E. Kisers sout sonnets Of a stenog-
raphcr have been put into book form. The
soul of the tstenographer who did not write
lneSes s,SOnnGlS-, was set on marrying for
money. Being defeated in her hopes in
that direction, she decided to marry for
love. only to find that Ted whom she
loved, had grown tired of waiting and
wooed. Won and married another. This
filled the heart of the key -smiter with woe
WHICH is sung, for her as follows:
: The 10y that yesterday
Ismight state claimed as all my own, has fed.
/ wish that they and all of Were dead. =
Fate brings us here. not asking if she may
She grants us 10 protesting. word TO say
It's just announced that Nell has married Ted!
Whether at Naishspurs Bal:ilno~~
We leav" loose screws. they wreck the plans
~ we've made. .-.... b
They sadly err who fancy that the score,
Is ever sure before the hnnd is played;
UnhappinesS for her is still n store
| Who counts her goslings er> the eggs are laid.
! One good result of the movement for
the celebration of the centenary Of the
purchase Of Louisiana territory from the
French government is the revival of inter
est in and study of the early history Of
the United States. Mr.. Wetmore in his
! Out OF FIeur Ills, has given an adj
ialirable sketch of Louisiana territory his
tory from the discovery of the ca ST coast
of Florida by Ponce de Leon in 1872 and
the further discoveries by Narvaez and
Desoto in behalf of Spain. and by Joliet.
Marquette. L, Sale. DeTonty. i'll behalf
Inents under Iberville. Bierville and 'sau-
! wolfe in the new territory. When France
ceded it to the United States. there had
been a fierce struggle by Spain to hold it.
and by England to conquer it. Spain
traded it off to France and Napoleon find
ing that he could not afford to retain it.
Yielded to the diplomatic pressure Of
. President Jefferson and sold the whole ter
ritOry for $4,000. .0OO-a mere trif1e from
the present standpoint. but opposed By
distinguished American statesmen who
| did not know when they had a good thing.
! Mr. Wetn,ore tells the story OF the eX-
position in the form of a very rea dable ro-
niante entitled, The Swan Girl, and de-
votes some pages to biographical sketches
of the prominent person connected with
the exposition. The book contains a mar
Of the exposition grounds and buildings.
Mr.. Crotbers. in his The Understanding
Heart, argues rather brilliantly against
, stationary intellectual assent. and that i
religion is to hold its own. there must be
readlustnaent, intellectually and -spiitu
ally. Mr.. Crothers accepts. doubtless
Herbert Spencer's prostu1ate that human
life is but the continual adjustment Of in
l ternal relations to external relations. Thi:
is true in a certain sense. but it is hardly
safe. from the intellectual standpoint. t.
, follow irtlustriously and cnntinuousl!
many of the new Developments. Ger
tainly. as Mr.. Crothers says, ''There is thu
; cali for more e,thoughtfulness; but it is-no
: to be an academic exercise. buWa. serious
grappIlng with living issues. and III
:, argues well to the effect that tne upWart
, movement of the world depends upon th'
/ loyal obedience of each Individual to tn
e inner call Of duty. his effort TO utter Kind
: ness and sood will.
Between George AIDE and that bright il
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