The Saint Paul globe., 1904-06-05

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Pioneer Press was correct in
~ announcing, through answers to
correspondents, that Mr.. Peter Dunno,
the creator of the genial Dooley, is
dead. 1t is q pleasure to say that he
Is not dead. not even sleeping. but
very much alive and connected with
the editorial department of Golfers.
What Mr.. Dunno has been doing that
he should be killed off in this summary
manner was not stated, but 1t is pleas
ant to know that the report was great
ly exaggerated, as Mark Twain once
said when a like melancholy fate was
dealt him by a cock-sure newspaper.
Many of Mr.. Dunne's admirers would
be pleased to have Mr.. Dooley come
to life and tell us what he thinks of the
Japanese victories, the coming election
and other current affairs Of interest.
1t is suspected that Mr.. Dunno is at
WSrk on some serious literary work of
an entirely different character, but
whatever he may offer the reading
public, he cannot exceed in originality
the musings of our old friend, Dooley.
In Outing for June there is an in
teresting letter from Price Collier, to
whom the editor had written asking
him to tell how a man advancing in
years can exercise enough for his
health without becoming bored by the
labor of it. The reply Is amusing, as
the recipient Of the letter evidently
didn't realize that he was getting old
4 until he received 1t. He goes into the
matter very extensively and the result
OF his thought about 1t Is that men
oveFeXercise rather than do too little
Of 1T, and he thinks this is the case
with nine-tenths of the college and
school athletes. Bullying muscles are
not natural, he says. He seems to
think that the middIe-aged man should
provide himself with a family and
keep up his exercise by playing golf
and tennis with the girls, baseball
with the beys, and otherwise keep In
touch with what his children do and
learn. He further thinks that no civ
iliZed man lives anywhere but in the
ca-S1try where he can play the farmer,
and attend to his own plot of ground
thus obtaining the most natural kind
of exercise. Walking he especially
recommends, not an aimless wandering
but brisk walk with an object in
view that brings all the muscles into
play. In summer he says the middle
aged man ought to play golf, and to
swim if he can manage to spend some
time at lake or ocean; indeed, thisA
man believes that there should be no
age limit on the natural sports Of
young men and women, though they
become evil at any age carried to
great extremes. The writer saws:
you will notice that these sugges-
tlons as to enjoyable exercise are for
men of modest incomes. For people
of larger means, and more leisure
there is nothing like a horse. There
Is nothing so good for the inside of a
man as the outside of q horse. saws
Sidney Smith; and If you put your
brains into the matter and study the
biting and saddling, the harnessing
and feeding, of your horses, you may
have in a small stable of five or six
horses all the recreation for mind and
body you need"
Anne Warner of this city, who is
making a success with her pen. has
curious little tale in the June LIP
pincOtt, which Is entirely original If
nothing else. A woman at summer
resort is having quite a Irritation with
young man, and one day she tells
him her husband will arrive the next
evening and she wants them to meet
So the young man calls, and is intro
duced to masculine giant, who mere
iy bows and says nothing. The wom-
an gets the young man into CONVEX
sation and makes the talk so exceed
tngiy personal that the man giances
at the husband with apprehension and
is amazed at the Woman's audacitv
Finally she says things that make his
blood run cold and he gets out of the
room as best he may and makes up
his mind to leave at once. On his way
to his room he meets friend, who
speaks Of his having called on the
wife of the new arrival, and says, "Too
bad about her husband, isn't it ?"
what about him?" asks the fright
ened youth. why, he is deaf and
dumb% says his friend.
In "The Faith Of Men," his new vol
ume of short stories, Mr.. Jack London
has returned to the Klondike the field
OF his greatest successes. Before he
wrote "The Call Of the Wild" Mr.
London was known as the author of
some of the strongest short stories in
the English language, and the scenes
Of these were laid in the Klondike. Mr.
London went over the Chilcoot pass
with the first gold-seekers in the au-
tumn Of 1897, packing his own outfit:
he knows "the toll of trace and trail"
as well as any man who went through
that winter. The inspiration to write
came to him on the Klondike trail. and
most Of his best work has grown out
of his Alaskan experiences. "Jack
London" writes Mr.. George HamIfn
Fitch in the San Francisco Chronicle,
"has given the world in short stories
the best glimpses 1t is ever likely to
get Of this far northern life" In "The
Call of the Wild" continues Mr.. Fitch,
"he gave another view Of the same
world, and in the biography OF the
sledge dog he painted a series Of pic
lures of arctic life that are unapproach-
able Tor savage realism, dramatic pow
er and genuine human nature"
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An Evans OF SuffoIk-By Anna Farauhar.
L. G. Page & Co.. Boston For sale bv
st Paul Book and Stationery company.
The scene Of this story is laid in
Boston and the picturesque summer
places which lie at its door, and con-