The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-07-15

The stories are merely pinned to-
gether," but the piniling is neatly done.
One of the picaroons who holds the at
tention of the reader with most ease is
| the Harvard freshman, James Wiswell
Coffin 3D. who left Harvard by request
and was cut off without remittances from
| home on that account. He decided to
take a "subgraduate course as a hobo"
Getting down to point where eating be-
came a necessity, and having decided that
family pride would r bt permit him to
beg he broke ''the ethics of his chosen
/ profession and struck out for job. He
got one as waiter in diningroom where
negro jockeys ate. He won something like
1885, 900 on a race in, which all the horses
but the one on which he bet were doc
Itored, and then suddenly departed for the
coast There he fell in with a returned
Klondiker whose story, which shows how
some returned Klondikers get rid Of their
1 money; is one of the best in the book.
This tlondiker had married an Indian
who had been the means of his finding a
fortune of 100000. The two had come
| to San Francisco to dispose Of their "med-
icine stones This is a part of what he
tells, in the language Of the United States
reasonably free from slang:
4 We drove up from the wharf in the best turn
out could find and put up at the Palace hotel
in the bridal suite. The best was none too good
for Kate and me While flush I rather
guess we broke the record for spending, the two
weeks we stayed there. 1 had three four
eases of champagne open in my room all the
time. anG the bellboys got SO they knew they
4 didn't have to be asked. but just pop the cori
and let her fzz. ! got a great big music box
thatr cost more than piano. with drums and
bells inside and we kept it a-going while we
were eating, which was most Of the time we
weren't Cut doirg the town. bowed myself
for an outfit of srarklers. which this stone here
in MY shirt front is the last sole survivor.
! bought more clothes than 1 could wear out II
ten years.
Kste went me one better. $3.50.
The twentieth century highwayman il
keeping pace with civilization. He ride
in an auto now, If fiction may be &C
) cepted as true reflection of life. A
/ least. we now have "The Motor Pirate,
i by Sidney Paternoster. The advance no
t tees do not say. whether the pirates aut
was an arnored cruiser or not. but If W.
> were going into the business our car woult
= be armored extra-heavy, and would carr.
/, battery of rapid fire guns, warranted t
+ NOW hay for a mile in all directions
t Your sheriff's posse could not get within
v reach and every hold-up would be
e Fourth of July. The new book is pub
! llished by. l.. G. Page &, Co., Boston.
The latest addition to ''The Story of Elk
iploration'' Is The Penetration of Arabia,
Irecord of the development of wester
knowledge concerning the Arabian PENN
snla by David George Hogarth, MA
g. F.RG.S., F.S.A., Fellow of Magdale
S OF Oxford, Eng. The author says yer
h frankly that he has never visited Arabic
4 but, having made study Of Arabian trav,
d for years, his book must be regarded a
II a mere essay in the polarization, apprecia
e ton and introduction to the public of othe
" mems first-hand word The volume ha
it Einterest, however. from the very fact ths
i ARABIA is still in great part withdraw
y Howe
k illustrated and contains many maps an
tcharts to aid the reader, and will prov