The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-06-03

But the same VIII that enabled Tinker to
escape troubles he had got himself into
enabled him later to turn few tricks"
which replenished his fathers exchequer
For example, he discovered a kidnapped
girl, for whom reward of $4,000 had
been offered. Again, he borrowed, with
out asking, a flying machine, and took a
millionaire across the English channel to
Paris, thereby enabling Mr. Millionaire
to ''clean up" sS7,000 a service for which
Tinker received $4,000 and an automobile.
With this and other revenues from his
wit, he and his father went to, Monte
Carlo. Oh no, they did not drop their
money there. at all. But Tinker there met
a child whose father had dropped his
wealth and gone off and left her. Tinker
took fancy to her and talked over her
future with his father. II should like to
adopt her, he said.
"Adopt her7' said Sir Tancred, with some sur
'Yes; should like to very much"
well thanks to your industry in the matter
Of flying machines and stolen children, you have
in what capacity would you adopt her-as father,
uncle, guardian or what? The formalities must
be Observed
II think brother" said Tinker. .t-
After a while Tinker set out to find
a governess for his adopted sister. At
e3o a year he secured one whose only
| references were her face and the manner
| VI q S0ALlSWOIlldIl. ono Was young ana
beautiful, and Tinker and his father be-
came convinced that she was just being
a governess for fun. Ooh, the book is
| full of WITNESSES; that's it's charm, and it
has charm If you do not take it in too
large doses) Tinker, at least, told his
father that he thought she was a govern
ess just for fun.
her references We're all right. Yes, you told me
she carried them about with her.
| We'll, she has the incest kind of face said
| Tinker and his own was out of the common
| guileless
"oh, her face was her reference, was it
said Sir Tancred quickly.
You can forge references. but you can't forge
a face" said Tinker with the air of philoso-
pher.
The father cautioned the boy as to the
unsoundness Of this philosophy, but knew
the lad had not made mistake in his
choice of his adopted sisters governess
who turned out to be an American mil
lionaire's daughter.
Now Tinker's father was young mar
yet. Tinker had been born whom his
father was much under age. So here was
a lad of IL or II upon whom devolved the
duty of looking after an affair of his
fathers heart, involving the governess
The trouble was not that he opposed it
but that he sought to encourage it, ant
was discouraged that 1t did not make
more rapid progress. What the outcome
WoSs w ~ 1toVc " ISdo the DOCK TO dis
cover; it's mo fair telling But thos,
who want to read for entertainment (ant
who does not, now and then, at least?)
will find entertainment here, entertain
, nent of a very enjoyable sort, something
out of the usual order. Of course, on,
, of the author, but, to tell the truth, h,
will not find that at all difficult.
/ Sy,oa1 Mo- or1 o. ~ 80
Mass, in conjunction with oliver & Boyt
of Edinburgh, announce for nublicatio!
: in the autumn, 1904 m-drama en-
titled ''The City, by Arthur Epson o
Minneapolis, author Of "Octaves in a,
Oxford Garden
The Count Lutzow, who writes an intro
duction for the volume, says:
The plot of Mr.. Upson's drama is both strik
ing and original, for think that the inciden
Of the embassy Of Abgar, King Of Odessa, t
; Jesus, has never been used in fiction, dramati
or otherwise. Mr.. Upson has found it in tn
; Ecclesiastical History of Eusebius. who tell
8 us that Uchomo, surnamed Abgar, King of Edes
> sa, sent a message to Jesus at Jerusalem, beg
: ging him to visit him and cure him OF his dis
. ease. The story, which belongs to what ma
. be termed the by-ways of history, is little know
: even to professed students, tho nothing could b
more interesting to the historian than the Unfit
: ence the teaching Of Jesus exercised beyond til
s limits Of Palestine during the lifetime of tn
o Savior. 1t only remains to t
. brilliant play the great pleasure that 1t ha
7 given me.
: The congregationaIists is the latest vol
est volume issued in 1.-The Stories of tn
Churches series. This volume meets ad
!. mirably the purpose Of the series wit
= regard to observation-disclosures give
brief but complete history of the churc
such as will appeal to the average churc
S member. The author is Leonard Woolse
Bacon, pastor, at Assonet. Mass, an
i author Of "a History of American Chris
70 tianity.''
IS The first volumes in the America
II Crisis Biographies George w. Jacobs
~ Coz, of which there will be about twenty
les five, giving a full and impartial history
= the civil war and the causes leading u
= to It, will appear in the autumn. The &c
~ itor, DR.. Ellis P. Oberholtzer has secure
~ the cooperation of number of compt
= tent writers for this important histories
y work. Brooks Adams will write the Iii
- Of John Quincy Adams, his grandfathe
70 Gaillard Hunt is writing the John c. Ca
houn; Professor G. H. Van Tyne. WI
lately edited a volume Of Webster letter
the Daniel Webster; Joseph M. Rogers, tt
Thomas II. Benton; Booker T. Washing
ton, the Frederick Douglass. and othe
ne Of like note will write the remaining bios
W raphies planned.
Of The first volumes to appear will be
A. compact and readable life of Abraham Lii
lg coin, by the editor, DR.. Oberholtzer, ar
the biography Of Thomas II Benton.