The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-10-16

heat at once of the agent who repre-
scented the owner, and how Suave the
latter was when he assured them it
would be impossible to give them any
heat until the date made by all apart
ment house agentSi Whereupon Mr.. Jar
dine replied that he and his wife would
go to a hotel and remain until heat was
given them and take the bill out of the
rent. Of course the agent smiled at
this threat, never dreaming it would be
carried out, but carried out it was, and
the Jardines went. The papers took
up the matter and the newly married
found themselves famous, and the
agent found himself infamous. Their
temerity made brave all other tenants
and the result was that heat could be
obtained in apartments whenever need
ed from that time forth. But the noise
of the city finally drove the Jardines
to the suburbs, where Mr.. J. could
write in peace, for writing was his bus
mess. Here their experiences in set
ting a new house, buying cow, rails
ing their own vegetables and becoming
countrifled are equally as entertaining
as those in the city. The coming of
Bee and the English guests, Mr.. and
Mrs. Jimmie. and other familiar friends
and the absurd things which happened
to them all make good reading of the
enjoy. One delicious incident is the
naming of Billie's pair of goats Roose-
welt and Congress- as the former was
always butting into Congress, thus
making the titles singularly fitting. 'At
Home With the Jardines" can be con-
scientiously recommended to drive dull
care away.
The First American Kins-By George
1nTr5O To- CT DIX
fishing company. For sale by ST. Paul
Book and Stationery company.
Particularly original. daring and per-
haps more than a trifle far-fetched, is
this singular recital Of what may hap
pen to us if We go on at the present
pace. The story is briefly this: In the
year 1900 Thomas Kearns and Prof
Dean, conversing with certain ply
sician who claims he can place per-
sons in state of suspended animation
and wake them up after days or years
as he pleases, allow him to try his
theories upon them for the space of six
hours. They go with him to an I'M
derground cave known only to the doc
tor and he puts them to sleep. Leaving
the two men there intending to return
soon and awaken them, the doctor is
struck by lightning on his way and
instantly killed. This is the prologue
w
have been discovered by some laborers
and they wake up. Everything is
strange and different and finally they
discover they have been asleep for
SeVenty-fiye years. The United States
has become an empire under William /.
Rockingham was his last name) and
the country is full of dukes and titled
individuals whose ancestors were the
nIiilionaires of these two mems time
OF course the whole thing is ridiculous,
but it is very ingenious and fairly log
ical. Thomas Kearns had been a re-
markedly astnte detective in his day,
and when he returns to this altered
world finds that his work has been eX-
plotted in fiction much as that of
Nidocq and Fouche, SO the king, hear
ing of their remarkable return to life
sends for the two men and puts into
the hands of Kearns the work of say
ing him from plot of the reaetionists
who are seeking to change the govern
ment back to its republican form.
There is much originality in the book
much sound reasoning and a chance
for some of the get-rich-quick schem-
ers of the present day to take long
look ahead. 1t is, after all, q study in
logical, sequences.
The Magnetic North-By Elizabeth Ro-
bins. FREDERICK a. 0toheS cOnpdEl. TOT
sale by ST. Paul Book and Stationery
company.
A rarely strong and interesting story
is this narration of life in the frozen
north and search for gold in the Klon
dixie. 1t is almost incredible that won1-
an could have written this book of men
in which there is but one woman and
she of type with which women sell
dom have to do. When the story opens
We find a small party bound for the
gold fields in 81. when the rush began
and the scenes of AZ were repeated in
Alaska. The party consisted of the
Colonel, a 1ire-eating Kentuckian: the