The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-02
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DEEP SEA vAGABoNDs. By Albert sonnicl
sen. Able Seaman. New York: Mcclure
Phillips & Co., Minneapolis: Nathaniel Nc
Carthy. Price 81 30

DEEP SEA vAGABoNDs. BY Albert sonnich-
sen. Able Seaman. New. York: Mcclure,
Phillips & Co., Minneapolis: Nathaniel Nc
Carthy. Price, $3.50.
Mr.. Sonnichsen does not give us in
this book tragical, blood curdling sea ro-
mances, but tells more about the person
atty and life of the sailor before the mast
than can be found in the popular sea
novels The book is a narrative Of actual
experience in voyages all about the world
and in the ports visited. The author ex-
plains many things about seafaring. He
shows how large numbers of German yes
sells fly the British flag for financial rea-
sons, the stockholders and directors living
in Hamburg and the crews are shipped
from that port where wages are only
half as much as in England. He tells
Of some fierce fights between officers
and crews and expresses his preference
for the better trea tment of sailors by for
eign officers as compared with the meth
DDS on American ships, altho from his
story there does not seem to be any diff
ference in the measure Of brutality Pc
culiar to all captains and mates. Mr..
Sonnichsen seems to have had enough Of
life as an liable seaman" His book about
the Philippines shows how he tried an
entire change. But the instinct for "vaga-
bond wandering is still strong within
him, and we may have another story Of
| the sea from him.
SARAH TJLDON. woman who had her way,
| by Orme Agnus, author of sLove in Our VII
| lage,' etc. Illustrated Boston: Little,
| Brown & Co.
! This is no story of the Four Hundred.
| Sarah Tuldon was an English girl of
lowly birth, who worked hard In the fields,
Ia peasant girl who saw the misery Of
her parents poverty, barely living, the
husband spending considerable percent
age of his slender earnings at a public
! house, the mother worn out with the
work and child bearing. Sarah was pretty
and blooming. She was also mentally
1 well equipped SO far as wit and good
| Judgment were concerned Chaste as a
l vestal, she fell into the snare Of the kind
1 which brings many girls to ruin. Coming
from service at a well-to-do aunt's house,
Sarah entered the disorerly home Of her
parents and proceeded to cleanse the Au-
gean stables and reform things, which she
! did with a high hand. Then hiring herself
to a bachelor farmer she went with other
4 women to work in his fields. She utilized
4 her beauty to bring a proposal Of mar
rage from David Mockell, and, after va
rious maneuvers, she agreed on condition
] that he would amply provide for her She
4 held him to the bargain, altho he repented
4 Of it and ran away to avoid her She
captured him after a hard ride and her
career as wife is detailed. Mockell was
subjugated and the girl was absolute
master and changed the whole appear rance
Of things at the farm, to Mockelrs ad-
! vantage. The details of Sarah's campaign
are intensely humorous and the girl com :
j mands the admiration and sympathy Of
the reader thruout The author promises
| a sequel to acquaint the reader with the
proceedings Of this plucky girl, after she
4 became a widow and ready to marry again
i if she was reasonably certain it would be
i a marriage with deep and genuine love on
/ both sides.
trated. New York: The Smart Set Publishing
Co. Price, 81.
Mr.. Fawcett, in this book portrays a
i family in the far west, near the Rockies,
who Were suddenly stricken with enor-
nous wealth, derived from the invest
ments by their father now deceased, which
J had been prof1tless until the hard work OF
an uncle got them out Of the clutches OF
} usurers. The windfall enables the girls
} and their brother to migrate to New
} York where they made spectacles for gods
, and men, by their conceit and yulgarity
The brother, Lee Troop, weakens in his
love for an humble western girl, and there
is love affair between him and Marion
:, Warrender. who came to live with the
girls to take the vulgarity out Of them
: The reader will hardly commend this lady
I for lying to Lee about his western love tc
) find out if he loved her. There are sons
? interesting details about the quest of the
; titled fortune hunter for the capture of the
) girls, and the interest in the story i:
pretty we'll sustained thruout.> It is a close
: presentment of the stupidity Of thu
parvenues of great wealth.