Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1904-02-05

t REVIEW TABLE t
The frontispiece in Sports Afleld for
February is from q photo OF q path
leading to old Fl Smelling and is in
deed a beauty. Articles in this issue
of special note are Thunder Noun
tain Incidents by Harry B. Fedrow );
"An Afternoon at Historic Cape Henry
by Helen Gray; and "Our Winter Hunt
in Mexico" by J. U. Uhle-second part.
The February Housekeeper. is re-
markable for its large number of feat
ures appropriate to the month. The
excellently-drawn cover design por-
trays Colonial dame in charming Co.'S
! tune. A pleasing bit of Valentine
verse by Clinton Scotland is illustrated
with a full-page drawing by F. DeFor-
rest Schook, and Katherine Louise
Smith tells how the woman of the ma
ton saved historic Mt. Vernon for
posterity. *
One Of the most interesting articles
in any of the magazines for February
is that by Frederick A. Cook, NJ D., in
fHarper's Monthly on "America's.s I'M
conquered Mountain" illustrated from
; photographs by the author This is
the second paper. and takes one over
the great glacier fields of Alaska and
to the hitherto unknown region east of
Mount Mckinley. The author takes
the liberty of naming '''the Roosevelt
Ridge" and Hanna Foothills" and
writes so Interestingly about cool
| subject it makes one wish for the ex-
perience of the author. can Elephant
Drive in SIAM" by Alan H. Burgoyne,
and profusely illustrated, is another
intensely interesting article in Febru-
airy Harper's,
| The February McClure's contains a
stirring article by Ray Stannard Baker
on the labor situation in San Francisco.
Mr.. Baker has just been there, and he
finds the worst monopoly in town to be
| "A Corner in Labor" Indeed the stu
| alton described is more startling than
that of Chicago or New York, of which
Mr.. Baker has already written. Miss
| Tarbell's third chapter of her History
of the Standard Oil Company" Part
Two, is thrilling likewise. Backed by
documents, and with the unprejudiced
calmness that is her most effective
weapon, she gives an amazing account
of petty persecution The other arti-
cles are by John La Fargo, whose
splendid Interpretation of great pic
lures Of "War" is the second of his
series on Zone Hundred Masterpieces
of Painting" and Frank H. Schell. who
tells of hazardous adventures while
"Sketching Under Fire at Antietam.
The man Swho many people think
should have been poet laureate,-Wil-
liam Watson,-contrib to the Feb
ruary number of the Reader Magazine
an article on "The State Discourage
ment of Literature" Those who are
dissatisfied with the way literature is
going in England, those who think it is
in as bad way here, and those who
disagree altogether with Mr.. Watson
will all find what he says vastly inter
esting. Meanwhile two stories in this
same number, a newspaper tale by
Louise Belts Edwards and a medaeva
Spanish-Jew story by Hunter Mac
Culloch are so delightful that one car
literature. Julius Chambers contri
butes five of his Little Stories o.
Journalism, all are entertaining, bu
the one about how we gave Reed thu
title Of Gear will be the most popular
Mrs. Nina R. Allen writes divertin.
essay about the pathetic side of obesi
ty; and Sewell Ford humorous ski
on ''The Literary Homesteader."
One Of the most interesting illustrat
ed articles in the current issue o
Leslie's Weekly is captioned "Confes
sions Of an Animal Trainer" and /
explains the mysterious ability o
horses and dogs apparently to perform
mathematical calculations on tn,
stage. The frontispiece is a spirite,
picture of "rhe Cowboys Most Excit
ing Sport-Breaking a Bucking Bron
CO." The page Of People Take,
About" Is as interesting as ever. b
descriptive article with illustration
on "st. Paul, the Pride Of the BiI
Northwest" will attract much atten
ton. Few people know that the pric
Of butter. in the United States ii large