The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-10-08

The story is that of girl of an aristo-
cratic family which has been brought to
Strengthened circumstances, a girl some
times charming and sometimes very dis
know the exact pecuniary condition of her
father. An offer OF marriage by young
but successful man of Wall street soon
after she discovers the familys needs is
accepted, the girl being uncertain Of her
feelings toward the man.. It takes some
unpleasant experiences, including one Of
which her husbands fight against the gold
corner is a part, to discover to herself
and the man she has married the true
| state of her feelings Thru wholly tnno-
| cent relations with another man, an EN-
| ploye in her husbands office, the wife
| is suspected. This employee has oper-
ated' with the gold clique, including Jim
Fisk and Jay Gould A day or two after
| the plans for corner have been smashed
he comes to the office to make a settle
ment. The wife has entered too, un-
noticed, to clear up, if possible, an in
cident that has placed her in a false
! light. She hears the conversation be-
tween her husband and the man who has
shown himself without honor in more
ways than one. Losing control of him
| self, the husband breaks out:
| "You have acted he-in the office and out
Of it. She lied at the altar. She has lied
ever since. You are both nars-D0th!" Ill
! womans slender figure came between them
'Elinorv' ~ E.
1t was the younger man who spoke. But II
was to Richard Strong she turned. ~.
''Why are. you here?'' .--.
Meeting his look, her purpose faded from her
| mind; only his words-the words she had over.
heard-flled her brain to the exclusion Of all
| else. ~zl.F : ~ .r- -#s
More words with a strong smack OF
| the melodramatic, and Elinor leaves
| Tho more Of the scene would make the
point clearer, this seems to us enough to
show that lack Of CONTINGENCIES men.
| toned above.
| There an unknown artist, sweet and shy
Into old Natures studio day.
April was sketching there, and June and May
With careless glance they passed the stranger by
! But Nature kindly babe her come and try
Her skill among them; SO, without delay,
| She set to work; and first she sketched q
And cherries landscape, with a frowning sky;
| Then with deft brush she laid fresh colors on
T. Crimson and gold and green and russell brown
| And over all the living sunlight shone.
| WHO art thou?' cried the students looking
! Upon her work, which put their own to shame
i Blushing, she murmured Autumn is my name
Frank Roe Batchelder, in October Lippincott's.
Henry van Dykes "Music and Other Poems
| VIII be ready for publication Immediately. This
Volume (open1nS with what perhaps Is thu
| finest and most elevated of his sustained poems
| the lode to Musc,") collects the lyrical anf
/ other verse which for some years past has beer
| establishing DR.. Henry van Dykes high plac,
among the American poets.
The Uneasy Chair.
Port Argent is added to the list Of the
! thousand and one American tales OF tn
modern business man, but it differs from
! the rest, for it tells Of motives and ideal.
4 rather than achievements The author
/ Arthur Cotton, has written Of the life of :
| mushroom western town, Port Argent, O
Its pavements, its bridges, and it's mum
1 c1pal mprovements-and the municipa
juggling Of the bosses. Into this story O
practical life comes Alcott Aidee,
preacher, an idealist. He belongs to n,
4 church but attacks the conditions which
he sees around him. He /
Swallowed by a brother who car
ries his ideaEsm to nihilism an
Stays the boss Of the city, Marvin Wood
d who leaves the command of the city t
4 Dick Hennfon, engineer and contractor
who guides the city by honest courag
rather than political diplomacy
The characters in the story are dis
ttnctly drawn. but the author is Away
I looking at them, not living with then
The crisis is the final struggle betwee
d Hennion and the preacher for the han
I. OF Camilla. Champney, the only woma
In the story. The practical idealisnn 6
Eennfon wins the. victory from the I'm
anchored idealism Of Aidee, but the prIz
seems scarcely worth the effort.
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